It's Wang-tastic!

Lol, hey guys, long time no post huh?

Here's the beef. Mom bought a new anti-virus thing, and aparantly, going on the computer is a cause for it to stop me doing anything... let me explain.

This new software is the first step towards the matrix. It not only wants to control what i do on the internet, but also when i do it.

It's been set to something like "adult" and yet things like msn messenger, and hotmail are blocked.

I tested an old one once, bob the builder.com was blocked. Go figure.

Anyhoo, i have had words with the female parental unit, and things look to be going ok.

For now.


Anyways, back to my life.

Things HAVE happened since i last posted, but i dont feel like talking about them. Nothing bad, i'm just lazy.

But today was sweet-as.

It started last night really, at about 11pm. I was just playing on the computer, trying to make it like me again, when someone knocked at the door.

Turns out Daz was "Bored" and he bought 2 bottles of whats known as "green shit". It's like a sour shot drink, apple flavoured.

But there's a twist...

tense huh?

He bought 2 new flavours! One blueberry one (Yuck) and one Raspberry one (yeah man!).
So we stayed up well into the morning drinking this sours and playing super smash bros melee and watching futureama.

It was a good night.

Daz stayed the night, and we got up at about 10am (with the clocks turned back). I say "got up" but really i was woken up.... to the sound of two pans being knocked together. Above my head. Hard.

I havent been woken up like that since Daz threw his shoes at me during "Boneless" (www.boneless.freewebtools.com). It brought back fond memories once i knew what was going on...

So we went skating. We knocked for stratton unannounced, which is always fun. You never know what people will be doing...

He was only doing washing... (laundry)

but still.... he could have been doing something bad...

So we got kyle as well, and went skating.

We went to this small park near colchester, and it rocked! It was soo small and should have been crap, but we had a real blast. I was trying to pull hand-plants out of the quaterpipes, daz was pulling transfers from ramp to ramp and stratton was clearing any gap he could find, including the spine.

We were the best ones there! It was soo much fun!

After a while we got bored, and moved on to Ipswich, a concrete park about 40 miles away from where we live.

It's a great park, except everyone is so good! We really looked crap. But we did manage to pull some volcano transfers out of our asses, untill the BMXer's got in our way. Those things take up way too much room.

We soon got bored of gettin in the way of all the good people and so we moved on...

Until it started raining.

Rain is very bad for us "gnarly sk8er bois." Not only does it ruin the bearings (the small rings in the wheel that make us go very very fast) but it also makes us more likely to "Slam, faceplant or even eat shit".

So we called it a night.

I went back to daz's after we dropped the other guys off, 'cause i had some cd's to make and copy (and this computer thinks it's funny to get to 80% and then say "whoops sorry! not this time! Why not try again?!"

And we ended up playing pool in the bar at the bottom of his garden (him and his dad built it, looks cool!) for about 3 hours. We had a few drinks, and a about 18 games of pool. we drew 8-8 (we had two 1/2's potting the black and the white at the same time.)

Then literally just as i got home, Katie called! we chatted for a bit but her phone card ran out. But i went online sometime after, so we got to talk again.

Y'know, it's days like today that make me not want to go back to America, but i have been doing this kind of thing for the past what? 9 weeks? and i have to say, it's starting to become boring again. I had a blast at daz's, thats not what i'm talking about. Its the general life here. It's monotomous. On camp, you never know whats coming, and its like being in some kind of t.v. show. (i think they could make some money! Camp copneconic - big brother style)

Also, i miss people. Specifically (sp?) my Yank.

All in all, i do love chelmsford. Its where my home is. But i am looking forewards to going to america again a million times more.

Ah well, keep it safe guys.

Jamie
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"-Fast food
basically the staff's refusal to serve you without asking at least one question. Regardless of how specific you are. Proved at las visit to the King" - Cap'n B at http://spaces.msn.com/members/captainb/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c=

I guess more people read than i thought.

But then again, i commented on Cap'n B's one... and paul always has nothing better to do than read "Jamie's pussy web diary".... so i shouldnt be suprised.

ah well, more readers is a good thing!

also, you're all dorks for knowing that. Cap'n B and paul, are you guys doing chem at uni? 'cause i dont remember learning that, ever. And we went to the same school.

(also, in numerous chem tests in 6th form i scored less than 1.)

think about it.

Anyhoo, this is a blog, and i guess you guys wanna know whats going on in the life of Jamie.

Answer - Boredom.... lol as always.

There is nothing interesting about my job (except some idiot bought the bucket with the dancing pumpkins and the tamboreen- playing cat.... damn whoever they may be. They just made the guys who make them more inclined to do so, 'cause it sold....)

next year everything will have some form of instrument playing cat on it... but then again, they might branch out seeing the success of the cat.

Halloween Inc will be everywhere.

Who knows, the cat might even get it's own T.V. show.... with a talking Lama, voiced by Adam Sandler.

Hallie Berry can write the theme song, and put her name in the middle of it.

Toys would sell, they'd be as popular as those clapping monkey cymball things Cap'n B loves so much.

Pretty soon they'd up the price, as everyone wants one...

Before you know it, people are saving all their shineys for the Cat toy, and no-one has any shineys for food.

Society collapses, people have to steal to survive and the world comes to an end.

All the while some Donald Trump style guy is sitting on a big ol' throne of money, shaking hands with the devil and smoking some cigar the size of wales....

But i have seen it coming.

Please, heed my obvious and not at all space filling prediction, and never buy anything with a cat playing any kind of instrument. Y'know what, stay away from any cat who does more than sleep, eat and stick his claws in you for fun, to watch you jump.

Yeah, well...... thats the kinda thing i'm thinking, 'cause it's been an.... odd day. I spent a long time in the car traveling, and i'm glad i did, but it was a sad trip.

anyhoo, love hugs and everything fluffy to you all

Jamie
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"Hey, dont write yourself off yet, it's only in your head you feel left out, and looked down on...." - Jimmy eat world - The middle.

I hurt in my everywhere...

Evening all.

As my title may imply, i hurt. And it's everywhere. I have this dull ache that's taking up most of my muscles, and i'm not too sure why. I haven't done anything particularly strenuous. Prehaps i'm tired, i mean as i write this, i have been awake for **checks watch** 14 hours now. And sleep will be soon-coming and sweet.

So, in other news from the world of me, They have started playing christmas songs at work now. They tried to be sneaky about it, only playing one every 4 or so songs, but dammit i have nothing more interesting to do at work than think, and they interrupt that, so i notice. Theres a few things i find annoying about this though, apart from the songs themselves.

Firstly, Most people didnt care when i ran around telling everyone that they were playing the songs, they had accepted it. People, we still have like 2 months of this. You will know all the words by christmas eve.

B, They're not even playing good christmas songs, such as Rocking robbin, and I wish it could be christmas. They have left out all those classic (and frankly, bearable) songs in favour of Destinys child.

which brings me to my next point, The manner in which said songs are sung. Speaking is'nt singing. We know this from everyday life. But aparantly, talking a lot, and having someone go "ooooooooh" harmoniously over the back of the song is a basis for a record. Rapping is not singing. Not even if you're destiny's child. (who actually mention the ghetto (no, not grotto) in their song)

Also, since when did it become a good idea to "Re-mix" a song? It seems like they're just getting lazy now. I heard one such "Re-mix" that just said "Frosty the snowman" over and over, for about 2 min. That counts as a song?! and then there is the other one i heard, which played the rudolf the red nosed reindeer tune only. And then for some reason someone suddenly says "Hallie berry" near the end. One can assume it is hallie herself, but is this really something to be proud of?

"Look at me world! Not only did i manage to take out all of that annoying singing about a reindeer with an inflamed schnozz, but i also managed to put my name in! How cool am i!?"

Gahh,

ah well, rant over, for now.

I'm sure you'll get more festiveness as the weeks wear on. (but please know, i am a festive bastard, i just have the repeating christmas songs)

Anyhoo, tonight i'm going to leave you with a thinker. I asked my chem teacher this in year ten and nearly got detention for being a smart-ass.

When you freeze water, the water molicules get closer together, more tightly packed. Thats why water goes solid.

So why does water expand when it's frozen?

lol, keep it safe guys

Jamie
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"Guns dont kill people, 24/7 christmas jingles do" - www.ctrlaltdel-online.com

This is the picture i took on the day the bombs went off in london. The guys at camp asked if anyone had a flag they could raise at half mast, next to the Amercain one. I thought it was an extremely cool gesture, and to be honest, makes an amazing picture.

This is a perfect example of how a picture can say a thousand words. Ignoring the obvious, like the sunny day, nice trees and such, It shows more.

Those two flags show the feelings of two nations, Their fears, worries and hopes, all in two flags. It shows the connection our two countries have, and the sympathy we both have for the respective terrorist attacks. I'm not much of a political man, but this picture says a lot for me. And the fact that i took it makes me feel good, 'cause thats my flag up there, and it's sending out a great message of compassion, understanding and unionship.

I love this picture.

Keep it safe

Jamie
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Banana

"Regrets, i've had a few, but then again, too few to mention."

Fuck, Shit, Cock, Ass, Silly Boner, Bitch, Mother Pussy, Jarred Butthole, Barbera Streisand.

Yeah, bad night..... lol

It started promisingly, with pool at daz's. It then deteriorated to the most stressful night i can remember for a long time.

Now, you guys that know me will know a few things. I am at my best come about 8pm at night. On nights out i am very rarely the guy who says "lets call it a night". This swings the other way to show that i am very bad at mornings... I enjoy sleep.

Also, i am very rarely stressed. I just dont get worked up easily. That's me...

Not tonight.

For some reason, as soon as i left daz's for work (which was supposed to only be for 4 hours) it started to go downhill.

I arrived at work, optimistic as always, and was told that the whole of womens had to be scamped. (scamping is the process of reducing stock, using small red labels) which is normally not a problem, and won't take 4 people 4 hours to do.

Things were looking good....

But i must have done some very very wrong things in a past life... because after the managers had left me in charge and gone home, all the bastard machines we were using to reduce the stuff decided to break... and not fix for about half an hour.

This put a big damper on everything. Morale was low.

I had the job of not only fixing the machines, but also putting out the reduced stock we had and reflowing coats while reflowing clearance.

I started to get a wee bit stressed.

Then once the machines started working again, everything was funky-dory.

...

Untill we realised that about 70% of the stock was getting reduced.

And that we had about 12 racks to scan.

And only 3 of clearance room.

Now, it dosent take a math whiz to realise that 3 is very much not 70% of 12. It's somewhere closer to 25%.

There is 45% of the t.k.maxx womenswear sitting on the shop floor on rails.

I am in the shizle.... fo' sho'.....

Anyways, as this was all getting reduced, i was getting more and more stressed out. I have been on the constant verge of tears for the best part of the night. Crap.

But, i did all i could. We were walking zombies (not the cool kind, the boring stand still kind) for a lot of the night, due to fatigue. and so i thought "fudge it, 1am is late enough.

...

Oh, sorry did i forget to mention i have worked 7 hours (out of what was supposed to be a 4 hour shift) without a break of any kind?

Gahh....

Now, that's not all.....

I am going to bed shortly. As i said before, i enjoy my lie-ins.

Unfortunutly, my main weekend companions, Daz and Stratton, do not know how to lie-in, and nor do they respect another mans lie in.

They want me to go skate tomorrow. I know they will both call me, one after the other, asking what time i will be out. This is why the team nearly fell apart when i was away. For some reason, i am social glue....

But anyway, they will both call me, at approximatly..... 9:30am

They will ask "Are you up?"

I will reply "No, i worked late, i'm sleeping"

They will say "Thats stupid, come and skate, that'll wake you up"
(because, of course, using more energy when i'm tired will help....)
I will say "No, I'm tired, call me later in the day"

This part of the conversation will repeat a few times.

They will then go "I just called *the other one*, and we're coming over."

I will say "I'm naked and i'm not answering the door."

They will come over anyways.

They will knock very hard on the door.

I will answer it fully clothed, ready to skate. I have accepted it as an inebitibilty.

Now, i could always not answer the phone in the first place... But then they ring the house phone, which mum brings to me.... while i'm trying to sleep.

Now, the 'rents are not home this weekend, and so the house phone will ring untill they get bored. Advantage me? I think not.

They will skip the phone call and jump straight to the third part of the morning. They will come over, knock very hard untill i get up and make me skate.

Now, i love these guys. I really do. Daz is my best friend. Stratton a very close second. But they need to learn to sleep. Or accept the fact that i dnot want to go skate the same place we skate every weekend and let me sleep for once. Or at least untill midday...

but no

I will skate, and fall, due to fatigue.

Look out for an injury report tomorrow sometime.... heh.

Ah well, keep it cool guys....

Jamie
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p.s. i will NOT be answering the phone to tkmaxx tomorrow, at least untill midday....

bleh

"Somewhere, beyond the sea, she's there watching for me, if i could fly like birds on high, and straight to her arms, i'd go sailing." - Robbie williams, beyond the sea.

(i know robbie didnt sing it first, his is just the version i have.)

Oh yeah.....

If you like nintendo at all, you should watch The Nintendo Choir

They rock my socks, but then again

I'm a dork!

:D

Evening all

You may (or may not... deep huh?!) have noticed that all those random comments advertising their own sites in MY comments section. Damn them! Well, i Managed to persuade them to stop, with some help from my friends at ninjaburger.com(dont call them, they'll call you) and so they shouldnt bother us anymore....

Anyhoo, back to my day, Today i was woken up at 9:30 am.... Now that may seem like a lie in to a lot of you, but i can assure you, thats like my 5am...

I had to get up 'cause the new couch was being delivered today and the 'rents had to work and drop the kids off at school.

The guy didnt come till mom was back, so i was woken up for nothing. And y'know what it's like trying to go back to sleep after being up and doing stuff for a while... so i didnt. And i've been up ever since.... Heh

Work today was naff, i actually did nothing for the 2 hours early i came in. I spent the first hour seeing what stock we could do that night, and what room there was. All the while just chatting to everyone! I then had my lunch break at 7pm... i know, go figure,
Anyhoo, once i'd come back it was 8pm and the shop was closing. This ment my (super?)team of workers came bursting out of the associate lounge ready for a night's work!

(actually, they walked out, asking what they were doing that night...)

Anyways, As we were starting our shift, i managed to get beaten up... embarrisingly...

Now i know what you guys are thinking, "a girl beat him up!!!",

well you are very VERY wrong. (And shame on you for thinking such things about me... i'm hard... really...)

What beat me up was actually an inaimate object, one that normally delivers smiles and treats, rather than cuts and bleeding...

I was beaten up.... by a cookie jar!

Oh the shame!

What happened was as i picked it up, the lid came off in my hand. "no problem" i thought, unawares of the cookie jar's evil plot that was slowly unfurling, "I'll just reach down and grab the actual jar, re-attatch the lid and everything will be right with the world"

But as i grabbed said jar, i slipped. Now i'm not saying that the cookie jar has psychic powers and made me slip, but i'm very rarely wrong...

anyhoo, i "slipped" and grazed my finger, along the knuckle! This cut was as if done by paper! It was like 1mm deep and about a centimeter across! (i dont know what you yanks measure in, like, how many drops of fat can fit in it?) but all you guys need to know is that i bled for hours! It stopped about an hour ago... i lost a lot of blood i think.... all from that sadistic cookie jar.

All that thing has to look forewards to now is a shallow grave in the company skip, and then some good ol' crushing at the dump! Heh, advantage - Jamie

anyhoo, not a lot more to talk about, except that my family drinks 6 pints of milk a day.... lots huh? But there is 6 of us....

Keep it safe guys!

Jamie
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"And you know and you know, 'cause my lifes a mess, and i'm trying to grow, so before i'm old i confess,

You think that i'm strong, you're wrong, you're wrong." - Robbie Williams, Strong

Oh yeah... this too

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Hey guys,

ok, sorry about yesterday, i was feeling hella crap. But today is a new (slightly less crap-tacular) day and i actually have something to talk about!

Think about this for a second. We at T.K.Maxx have a whole ton of halloween (nothing looks right for that...) stuff in... and it got me thinking....

Who buys this crap?!

We have Snowglobes (like it's gonna snow on a ghost...), Model witches and the two things that really annoyed me... A bucket and spade.

Not as a set mind.

The bucket was about a foot and a half across and about a foot deep. It had a witch Dancing on the front, whilst playing air guitar on her broom... It also featured two pumpkins that had aparantly been enchanted or something to play macaraneas. Go figure. I thought that was where the madness ended.... but then i saw the cat....

This small black cat was standing on one of the pumpkins, and was happily playing a tamborine. Ok, lets pretend that the cat does want to play in this band, rather than lick himself and sleep all day (and who wouldn't?!), and that he has somehow sorted out the claws ripping the skin of the instrument problem. Lets pretend those problems dont exist. All i have to say is that;

A. Cats can't stand on their hind legs! They will fall down! Especially if put onto something as unstable as a pumpkin, and especially not a dancing one!

B. Cats have no thumbs... He has no way to hold on to the tamboreen without dropping it! It's absolute madness!

But all that really pales in comparison to the other item i found afterwards. It was a spade. A Halloween spade.

It had all kinds of ivy wrapped around it, and moons and stars on the handle, and a nice picture of a few pumpkins on the head bit.

Now, its not the fact that people may buy this kind of thing that bugs me... It's the fact that there was someone who made this. Probably a factory. In my head it's a big grey building with a huge sign on the side saying "Halloween Spades".
And it got me wondering, what do those factorys do during the other 3 seasons? I assume they make them sometime during summer and ship them out sometime during autumn.... so what else do they do? It would be a huge job to change the factory floor around 4 times a year, to compensate for the changing demands of the retail industry. So what do they make?

Unless....

Unless they change whats sprayed on them... Halloween ones made during summer, Christmas ones made during Autumn, Easter spades made during winter, and..... Normal spades made in spring?

who knows, and y'know what? Reading over all that i realise that i dont care.... And shame on you for reading all this and wasting so much time...

But please, come back tomorrow!

anyhoo, all i did today was work, but tomorrow looks to be filled with car washing, (if it dosent rain) and cookie/brownie baking... Yum!

Catch y'all on the flipside!

Jamie
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"F*** it, shut up and listen" - Eminem at the start of "Whatever you say i am"

Gahh,

Blerg,

Spew,

Crap,

Just a few words to describe how i'm feeling right now. I'm feeling bad.

I don't really know whats brought this on.... Nothing unusual has happened today...

Prehaps its the fact that i am just killing time untill my next adventure. Compare it to the compulsory level on ALL videogames where you have to learn the controls and stockpile items. You end up doing the same thing 50 times over, and you just get frustrated. Thats how i'm feeling now.

I'm working, eating and sleeping..... that about covers it.

I am having less and less of a social life due to constant fatigue and lack of shineys. (money to you non-geeks)

Thats about it really.... nothing thought provoking, nothing emotionally moving, hell, nothing INTERESTING really.

Ah well,

hope for something better next time kiddies.

Jamie
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Banana

"Its just one of those days when you dont wanna wake up, everything is f***ed, everybody sucks, you dont really know why, but you wanna justify, ripping someones head off." - Limp Bizkit, Break stuff.

Evening all,

This is kind of related to my very first post, about the small choices we have every day, that fill up the big picture.

I have been working at TKMaxx now for two years. Thats right, Year S , as in plural. (scary thought huh?)

That was just supposed to be a job while i was at 6th form.

I guess i'm telling you guys this because i wondered where i would have been now if i decided to work at the other place that offered me a job. Comet.

Comet is a gadget and electronics shop. Really, i should have worked there... I know something about what we'd be selling and i could use the discount even more than i use my Maxx one. But i decided to do something random. I decided to go and work for TKMaxx, because i didnt know what it was! I had never been into one before, and i had no idea what they sold. Not even the interview was specific.

While i was at Tkmaxx, i was also at school, doing chemistry, biology, media studies and general studies. Now i totally flunked my first year, and i put it down to a few things.
1. Irish joe. I met irish joe while i was at 6th form and we became like best friends very quickly. He had a great sense of humour and he seemed to enjoy all the same kinda stuff that i did. T'was great. But we spent so much time messing around, that we never got any work done. We set up a skatepark in the common room, we stole from the vending machines (mental note: tell the current guys HOW to steal from the machines) and we took trips to the shops to buy pepsi and kindereggs. Oh and a curry a few times! :)

but we never did work (or homework)

2. We discovered drinking. The first year of 6th form was the time we all experimented with different pubs and bars, trying to get served. Me and joe quickly found the Fleece. A great pub that didnt id us, 'cause they knew us!

But drinking took up a lot of money, and soo

3. I worked more at TKMaxx. Whenever any overtime was available, i'd work it to get some money. (also to suck up to the big bosses, make sure i got a job after my christmas temp contract ended)
I remember one week i was at school from 8-4, and working every night from 5-9. That left no time for homework or studying.

Looking back, i think that prehaps things might have been different if i had gone to college, or worked at comet. Less hours?

now i'm not trying to say that i blame all my failures at school on those things above. They contributed sure, but i know it all falls down on me.

Either way, i think i have a good life now. I may still go to college or uni, who knows. For now, i'm happy with the way the next two years of my life looks. After that, who knows.

(I have never known what my life will be doing, and i know that some people will see that as mad, but i dont mind really.)

well..... random post huh? Ah well. Have a fun week kids.

Jamie
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Banana

"Everything everything will be just fine, everything everything will be all right all right." - Jimmy eat world, The middle.

Hey guys,

Not going to have a lot to say tonight, as its currently..... **checks clock** 1:03 am and i start work in roughly 9 hours,..... smooth huh.?

I'm covering my younger brother (yeah i know, we both work at the same place.... lame huh?) 'cause it's his best friends birthday tomorrow, and they want to play golf.....

so i have to sleep less..

anyhoo, i'll post some more either later today, or more likely, sunday night.

Toodle-oo

Jamie
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Banana

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trait snapshot:

messy, disorganized, social, tough, outgoing, rarely worries, self revealing, open, risk taker, likes the unknown, likes large parties, makes friends easily, likes to stand out, likes to make fun of people, reckless, optimistic, positive, strong, does not like to be alone, ambivalent about chaos, abstract, impractical, not good at saving money, fearless, trusting, thrill seeker, not rule conscious, enjoys leadership, strange, loves food, abstract, rarely irritated, anti-authority, attracted to the counter culture

Happiness.

Happiness is different things to different people. For one person it might be as simple as turning up to work on time. Some people like being with their friends. To some people, being happy is being Blindfolded, tied up and tickled by a guy named "Big John".

But lets not go there.

For me, there are a few different kinds of happiness. Theres the simple happiness you get from skating home from work late at night, The "I am everyones best friend" happiness that comes from one too many shots and then there's that "Everything is perfect.....I dont want this moment to end" Happiness.

I have had a couple of those moments. Times when if the world ended right there, you wouldn't care, 'cause everything seems right.

I'm talking about this 'cause recently i have been a bit nostalgic. I've been looking back as far as America, 6th form, High school and even Junior school. And i've realised something. No matter how perfect things were for me, I've always been looking back.

Now, i'm looking back at America and thinking, damn i wasted some time....

At the start of my trip to America, i was looking back at 6th form, and thinking how good i once had it.

When i was in 6th form, i looked at the days when ALL my friends came to the same school... and thinking how we should have hung out more.

When i was in High school, i looked back on Junior school, and thought how much easier life seemed then.

What i've learned from this, (and i learned it during the summer, as i have mentioned) Is that to really be happy, just enjoy each and every moment. DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY. Then when you look back it'll be great still, but then you can turn around (metaphorically) and look forewards. And see that whats coming will be just as good. Or even better.

I'm going from working nights to working in America. I dont think i'll be looking at this period of my life right now and be saying "Damn, i wish i was back there...".

Keep it safe.

Jamie
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"Said woman take it slow, it'll work itself out fine,
all we need is just a little paitence..." - Guns and Roses, Paitence

An open letter to all customers at T.K.Maxx.

Hello there,
You may not recognise my name, or even my face when you pass me for the 30th time in one night as you wander around the store, but please, have some commen decency. Now i know that a lot of you are from Berkley drive, and therefore are lower than lower class, but please. Those things walking around in the red polo shirts, Yeah we're people too believe it or not! Please treat us as such. when we tell you that something is, say, £14.99, we're not lying or making it up, and we ARE NOT going to change our mind about it. No matter how much you umm, ahh, and wander around the tills looking at every last inch of the fabric. See the thing is, we dont care wether or not you buy it. Honestly, we dont. We still get paid at the end of the month, which kinda makes the old "We pay your wages" excuse seem to carry less weight huh? (Oh, and just so you know, being nasty to us isn't going to make us want to give you that measly TEN PERCENT discount SOME of us are allowed to give if there is GENUINLY something wrong with the item.

Now, being invisible to you on the shop floor (unless you need us to fetch something for you, or do a price check for you, or dance for you, or rub your feet) is bad enough... but then there's customer services to deal with.

Being on customer services is a great honour! It shows that you are among the select few who are so good at being trodden on by the customers that you get to deal with the worst of them, for your whole shift! And boy do we love serving you guys! Some of you guys have found it in your hearts to become regular customer services visitors. And dont think for a minuite that we dont appreciate every last threatening, smelly, drunk and downright bastardly one of you.
Now, i know you guys come in here a lot, and so i feel it is my duty to inform you guys about how things work at the registers. When you are queueing up, and there happens to be a line, please dont stare at every guy in a red polo shirt that walks past. If we didnt have something more important (like putting out the stock you're trying to buy) we would be there, serving with a fake-britney-spears-smile. If for some reason, we come back to our register and there is a line, we will most likely call out "who's next please?" This does not mean "Who's fastest to my register?" It means we want the next person in line to come on down. Please don't bum rush the small desk i have to hide behind.

Speaking of serving customers, Customer services can sell you guys stuff. Can. That dosen't mean that you can automatically invite yourself over once the last person returning stuff (yeah, thats what we're there for) has gone and demand that i put your £616.65 transaction through. (happened tonight, took 15 min.) Thats the kind of thing that will make me want to come in with some form of firearms insted of my standard-issue name badge.

Wow, we covered a lot of ground today huh? I just hope that for your sakes, you chavvie scumbags of the earth, scrounging of everyone else just so you can wear that goddawful burburry and smoke your cheap Mayfair fags (that you've been buying since you were 8) you learned something.

Have fun and who knows, prehaps we'll meet on the other side of the desk one day. We can only hope. :)

Lots of love

Jamie
Veg
Banana

"Customer services is like chewing on broken glass. Only 100 times less fun." - Lucas, from www.ctrlaltdel-online.com

Articulus ibidem occasio

No, its not some spell from Harry Potter, although it is latin. The sharper people amongst you might realise that it is my screename on MSN Messenger at the moment. Those of you that have noticed this will know what the English translation is. The rest of you people who have lives outside this grey-and-black prison will not.

It means "Live for the moment" (or so i'm told.) and i think this is a great phrase, especially when coupled with my current favourite phrase "Do what makes you happy".

Do you guys want me to explain the sayings?

Tough, it's my blog and i'll type what i want to! If you want something interesting to do, go plant a tree or something.....

"Do what makes you happy" - Pretty self explanatory huh? It all came about over the summer, i was just thinking about stuff and it seemed like, working on the camp, i was a million times happyer than i was back home. Now i love my family and friends, and life without them was harsh.... but i dont miss the dead end job and the lack of anything fun or new to do. Like i had said before, we were going to the same bars, seeing the same people drinking the same drinks and even wearing the same clothes. It seemed to me that if being on the camp and working there made me happy, but being at home in the monotomy of chelmsford life made me..... grey (that was how i described how i was feeling for like a year, about 8 months ago), then there was an obvious choice right? Be happy and have fun!

"Live for the moment" - This is a good one, its kinda like Carpe diem but insted of siezing the day, you live each moment of that day as if it could be your last. For example, i was setting off home tonight, and i noticed the calm. It was about 12:15 and there was not a sound to be heard. I started skating and it was just me and my board, carving a path home down the middle of the tarmaced road. It was smooth, quiet and peaceful. The wind in my face, the slight vibrations of the board running over small cracks.

Now i appreaciated that moment fully. 'cause it dosent happen very often... A perfect moment. It was just the right temperature, no one bothered me, no cars no people, just me and my board, working together, riding the concrete wave home.

I have to admit, i consider myself to be quite a spiritual person. Now i'm not about to go shave my head and start practising thai-chi, but i do enjoy nature, peace and tranquility. I enjoy a nice sunset, climbing to the peaks of hills. The little physical challanges that present themselves. It's nice, and i think thats why i like to live by those two sayings.

(Of course, living for the moment dosent always work, i mean you need to have some savings and have some morals and such, but i find it a good general saying)

Try them out sometimes, see if they work for you too...

Todays quote is from a conversation i had with Sarah, Over msn;


"Stevie - Dat veniam corvis, vextat censura columbas. ...This Is Not a Love Song... says:
i hav a problem

Jamie - Articulus ibidem occasio - Live for the moment says:
whats that?

Stevie - Dat veniam corvis, vextat censura columbas. ...This Is Not a Love Song... says:
well, im comin home for xmas yer, but like, does santa know that??"

Keep it safe,

Jamie
Veg
Banana

Hey guys,
Thats right! Jamie is posting again! Exactly 24 hours after the last one! Miricle!

heh, see what i've been doing tonight (apart from working) is reading back over my old Blogs. (i'm a seasoned veteran when it comes to these things!).
One is at http://twinking.blogspot.com
and the other is http://twinking.crimsonblog.com - this one is the older one, it dates back to yesteryear! (or, y'know, 2003)

Anyways, this isn't some nostalgic, rose-tinted episode of the cosbys! You guys want up to date news on what is happening in my life recently!

Firstly, you might be noticing the times i post my....posts....

Kinda late huh? Most of you kiddes will be reading this a day after i post it. Now that is no accident, nor have i set the time wrong on this wagon computer... I post when it says i post.

This is due to 2 things really.

Firstly, I havent really recovered from America time. If i were to go back tomorrow (i wish... heh) then i would have no problem slipping back into the timing of it all. Now i know jet-lag lasts like what? 3 days? But i have kept this time frame for another reason..... and that reason is;

Secondly, I am now working nights at T.K.Maxx. Yeah i know, nights. Bleh huh?
Actually, it's not as bad as you might think, I have no customers to deal with, and therefore about 80% less stress! cool huh? No price checks, no can-you-just-fetch-me-a-trolly-from-all-the-way-downstairs-'cause-i-forgot-one, and no one telling me what to do!

"what?!" i hear you scream!

Don't worry, the people working during the night shift are supervised..... BY ME!!!

Thats right baby! I'm in charge of two different people! I have keys to the store, and we work till midnight mon-fri just putting stock out and singing to the radio! Yeah!

Its cool, 'cause i normally stay up this late anyways (it's like the only time i get a go on this computer....) and i get to sleep in till whenever i wake up! I havent got up in single digits (like before 10am) since before i can remember! I dont wake up to an alarm, i wake up to sunshine on my face... and i can ignore that much easyer than an alarom clock buzzing through my skull like a pneumatic drill at 6am..... i dont need that.... lol

this is making me happy again. Work started to suck before i went to America, now its merely bareable.

hmm.... i think thats it.

Apart from the tradtion i am going to carry on from my old blogs, putting a quote at the end of all my posts. If i can find a relevant one from the day, i will. Otherwise you get some crap that i make up, or a quote from T.V.

"c'mon let me hold you, feel you, touch you, always....." Blink 182 - always.

Keep it safe guys,

Jamie
Veg
Banana

.....that affect the big things we see now

Everyone knows that its the big things that really shape the world. Thats the stuff that people remember. But have you ever thought about the chain of events that set off the big event? The small things that work together to make the world what it is today?

I have an example for you.

You guys might know that i plan on going to live and work in America, sometime in march 2006 (and if you didn't, suprise!). Now this is not a random thing, there is a huge chain of events that has lead up to me going out there. It goes all the way back to when i was about 9 or 10..... Lets take that trip shall we?

Ok, i'm going out to america because my parents bought me the Sega megadrive (or the sega genisis for you yanks) when i was about 9 or 10, it was my christmas present. Seems completely unrelated huh? but it's true.

Me getting the Megadrive set off a love affair with videogames (yeah i know, i'm a dork. Thats why i enjoyed the video games rock opera kessel too me to see) which continued over the years, going through the nintendo 64, my next console, untill i was about 15 or so. Thats when i bought the Nintendo Gamecube. And packaged with the gamecube came Tony Hawks pro skater.

Guess what inspired me and Daz to start skateing?!

This has lead to a much better life for me than i think i would have had, had i not started skateing. It has allowed me to meet a huge number of cool people. People like Brad....

I met Brad when it was the day of the chelmsford skate compitition. It was the first year i wasn't on holiday so i wanted to enter! Turns out the comp was a bit of a bust, i didnt place or anything, but i did get talking to this one guy, Brad, who was about 21 at the time, and he had just got back from this trip to America, where he worked on a summer camp. He said how much fun it was and to be honest, i've always wanted to go to America, and i love kids, so this seemed like the perfect thing to do!

So i applied to Camp America, and chose the camp "Camp Copneconic" in fenton, Michigan. And i have to say, i had the summer of my life. Honestly this was so much fun. I dont even have words to descirbe this experience. Anyone with a slight interest in kids should try it. You'll love it.

On camp i met a girl. Her name is Katie, and i have to say, i think we hit it off quite well.... lol.

So back to the present day, and Katie is coming over here for new years, and I plan on going back to Michigan in march, to work out there for 18 months.

Hey, thank god for the little things huh?

Be careful boys and girls, who knows what chain of events you might be starting, just by reading this......

Jamie
Veg
Banana