I Enjoy Being a Girl Vol 2! — Page 173

Happy X-Mas and(upcoming) Boxing Day to you Weez!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Mine was wonderful! I received a VHS of Anastasia and a copy of the old version of Zoo Tycoon from my little sister and brother (because my previous versions of both of those broke YEARS AND YEARS ago), and I got some funky jewelry and a cute sweater from my grandma, and best of all, some iTunes cash, a new mattress, foofooberry soda (don't ask), and the book "SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS" from my parents!

It is probably one of the awesomest books I have ever read (yeah, I finished the whole thing today... I'm such a geek). It's basically Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, but with all of these crazy nautical beasts shoehorned in, as well as subplots about sea witches. Plus, Colonel Brandon has a Davy Jones squidface.

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^ That one I've heard of, but never read.

As far as books, Santa brought me a lovely collector's set of the Harry Potter books & A Series of Unfortunate Events; but nothing on zombies or sea monsters.

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danmag, that's how New Year's (and the new year in general) should be! Sounds excellent.

Speaking of excellence...oh my god, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. I've heard of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Natalie Portman's doing a movie adaptation), but never the former. I was in S&S, so it has a very special place in my heart. And sea monsters just seem so completely, weirdly necessary.

Christmas Day at the movie theatre door. O' where to begin?

You know it is a special day when a panhandler is going around the cafe tables asking people for money with such persistence that he gets kicked out not once, but twice and there is a call to the cops. I never saw this guy before ever. His hair was unkempt he had a tattoo on his forehead that only Weezy could love and he wore a parka that I thought was only commissioned to Sir Edmund Hillary. Plus he had the built of a Warren Sapp. He was never seen again but I am not quite sure if he was nabbed.

I am still at the door when a woman informs me that there was a soda spill at the Sherlock Holmes theatre. I thought, 'Alright, nothing to it. It can't be that bad', so I just say take all the napkins she needs up there, I'll even give her paper towels to wipe it down herself. She then informs me it is a big spill. What is a big spill? Apparently it is from a large (1 1/2 liters) of soda that goes two rows and ten seats of space. We're gonna need a bigger boat. Thank God this happened so early. I had to call in reinforcements as I go back to my post to deal with a newly sold out Sherlock Holmes premiere that will likely give some audience members a sticky texture on the sole's of their shoes. It was still there today.

Now everybody's in the theatre until I see this gray forty-something guy all of the sudden going from the Up In The Air theatre to The Princess & The Frog. This seemed all kinds of unusual and I don't remember taking this guy's tickets as we had two sold out shows which got me in a blur. If he didn't seem so suspicious I thought he just went into the wrong theatre but it just seemed like this guy wanted a little more freedom by way of his ticket stub. I check the theatre and he is just looking at the screen. What is he doing? I basically could just kick him out right there but I need to see a ticket stub and one pretty good explanation. I ask this guy for his ticket stub and he gives me 'the dog ate my homework' type of excuse. Yes, sir, you do have a lot of pockets but I'm not blind and I do have a good BS-monitor. This was a red flag. He then quickly tells me he is hear to 'check on his kid'. Dude, you do realize I stared in at you not moving a muscle while you watched the screen for a good 10 seconds. You don't have to be Usain Bolt to take that little time to 'check on your kid'. Not to mention just because you have a stub to another film does not mean you can go to any of the movies except the one on your stub. If you cared so much about your kid, don't leave her alone in a movie theatre. I told him there are no exceptions but he wasn't listening and went up to his kid (who turned out to be a real thing) and I just left completely frustrated. This guy is twice my age and even I know the rules of engagement better at a theatre than he does. He gets back out in a minutes time (I had my co-worker do theatre check to see if he was disruptive. Negative.) I tell him to not do it again and gave him a warning. He scoffed at me in such a patronizing way. My blood was boiling at this point. I should have asked for his ticket stub then but I didn't want him in my sight for another second. When he and his kid left the theatre he made Don Draper look like Father of The Year material, and I did not know whether to revel or just pity the kid. I was told by two different co-workers that they never had to deal with that type of person before. I would never wish such a thing on anybody.

And this all just happened in my shift's first hour.

It got better or at least not as dramatic. There was this cute little kid that went up to me asking with phonetic pronunciation, 'Where's the bath'oom?' I told him and he started skipping all the way over to the men's room and back. I wanted to adopt that kid if only because he put a smile on my face.

The next round of movies was this little kid with his mom and sister waiting for Sherlock Holmes. He was scared to death of The Wolfman poster and he started hitting imaginary with a piece of paper. He nailed me in the back to get a 'spider' but I was okay with that. He told me about his pet fishes and sharks because he got a bigger fish tank for Christmas and I was just wishing I had an ounce of his energy. I would adopt too with the skipping kid but his mom was just so cool (the only way I could describe her was if Thandie Newton was in a motorcycle gang) that I wanted her to be me BFF.

When I went back to just doing concessions. In the back whilst sweeping the floor somebody left the stainless steel microwave door open while I was trying to get crumbs from under the table where the microwave was. I then get up and 'BAM!', I hit the back of my head against the microwave door. It hurt for about ten seconds and I was fine but it sounded far worse with the sound so for a few minutes everybody was asking me if I was okay. Seriously people, if I was in the slightest bit of hurt I would totally ask out of work that very moment because really it sounded like the sound effects from a Tom & Jerry cartoon. I'm truly fine, btw.

Merry Belated Christmas everyone!
Glad to see everyone is doing well.

and, Weez! Let me know how the uke is going! I TOTALLY want to learn. VERY jealous of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And Maisie, you gettin' a tan? :P

Hope all is well :)

That's hysterical Schmergie!

Note to all girls:
We now have scientific proof that Schmerg is beautiful.

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Note to all girls:
We now have scientific proof that Schmerg is beautiful

Well seeing as how Schmerg is still young enough to be a little sister, I won't comment on such things but that video was awesome .

I'm glad you all had a nice holiday and I hope you get properly effed up for New Year's.....I know I will.

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Um, Jazzy, that extremely blurry security-camera quality video proved nothing except for the fact that I have fluffy hair, two eyes, and I get way too into singing. BTW, I was with all the boys not only because of my radiant aura of pure sex but also because I was singing tenor for two of the other songs, alto for that song, and soprano for another, so it made sense to put me in the middle.

Just got back from seeing SHERLOCK HOLMES with my five best friends... including one who moved to Iowa two years ago and who I haven't seen since. I don't know if it was the company, the movie, or both, but I haven't had that much fun in ages.

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I bet you're trying though, Maisie!

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I had a night at the movies too Maisie.
We ended up seeing Sherlock Holmes. It was Fabulous!

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