slow and steady wins the race...right?

so i was talking with some friends the other night about how i have a most inconvenient definciency called s-s-s-l-l-l-o-o-o-w-w-w-w. seriously folks, i don't know if i have ever met anyone that has slowness mastered quite like i do. actually it was the one thing my old manager consistently critiqued me on. sad, i know, but true. so last night as i was lying awake in bed i wondered, "am i slow at everything or am i just a slow worker?" then i persisted to compile a list of all my slow ways and a few non slow ways...yes there are a few...a very small few. here they are:

1. any kind of cleaning: slow...actually i think this one could be labled as superslow, which is why i avoid it as much as possible.

2. thinking: sad to say slow... or maybe it's just that i talk abnormally fast so my brain can't keep up...mmm...no, i don't think so.

3. typing: this i'm actually decently quick at... maybe i should turn to secretarial work for my profession...hmmm...yuck! no offense to any secretaries out there. it's just not my cup of tea.

4. falling asleep: anyone who knows me could say slow with conviction. again, which is why i tend to avoid it as much as possible.

5. reading: i don't know if i've ever met anyone slower! when i was in jr. high i road the bus home from school and on some days i sat next to a high school student named susie. (this is not a sign of any kind of popularity. she wasn't exactly the cream of the crop, if you know what i mean...ooh was that bad of me? sorry susie.) anyhow, one day she had me read this note, because a friend sent it to her and it was mean and i happened to be the lucky one to bare her sorrows. to this day i still do not know what that note said because after i got about halfway through the note she ripped it away from me and said, "aren't you done with it yet?" to which i promptly replied, "Oh, yeah. that's too bad." it tramatized me for life.

6. anything that requires concentration: SLOW! i think i get distracted too easily. i once told a girl that i think i have ADD and she said, "yeah, i noticed you can't sit still so that makes sense." sadly i was never diagnosed so i've never had any help with this problem. my poor mother! (just for the record, the diagnose thing was a joke. i think way too many kids are overdiagnosed when really they suffer from two simple things i like to call 1. too much tv and 2. too little discipline. so that means in reality my mother is to blame! poor me!...big joke, mom)

7. driving: FAST!!! amanda likes to say she's stunt driver mcgee and i'm her sidekick, but really it's the other way around.

well there you have it. i could go on, but i'm starting to get bored (ADD). so i think it has been determined that i am a creature intended for a lifetime of slow. maybe i should move to europe. they take things slow there. or the south...hmmm....europe.

good news, bad news

hey remember on animaniacs when they would do good idea bad idea with that one skeleton looking dude? i loved that cartoon! well this doesn't really have anything to do with it other than it's a positive and a negative, but it made me think of it. and now to the main attraction

good news: we finally got a soundDock for the fired up i-pod so we can play the music of my choice. no more coming into work only to find that the radio station has been changed to coutnry! gag!

bad news: i don't know how to put my ipod on random because i'm extremely technologically challenged so i have to listen to a whole cd's worth of jars of clay (which is not a bad option) and then a whole cd's worth of mates of state(again not a bad option) so the poor customers who have not been coming in have to listen to one band at a time, meaning they will probably only hear one band total...maybe two.

good news: i got new fun work out clothes yeh. if there was ever a way to make exercising fun, new clothes is it!

bad news: thanks to my little shopping spree i am not allowed to buy anything ever again! okay that might be a slight exageration, but i have to fast from shopping until march...so it might as well be forever!

good news: i got the best pair of jeans i've ever owned in my young life!

bad news: did i mention the not shopping ever again thing?! agony!

good news: we're having our grand opening for the shop in a couple weeks which means that all those little things that have been annoying me because their not done will finally get done. joy!

bad news: i only have a couple weeks to get done all those little things that have been annoying me but i never seem to have time to do! help!

good news: i finally brought my lunch to work today which means that i don't have to spend my money on delivery that will just end up making me feel broke and fat.

bad news: somewhere between the box, the microwave, and my mouth my lunch lost all sense of taste. i can now say i understand the appeal little children see in eating paste...nothing!

enough!

so i've had some criticism on my lack of posts, and i thought maybe if i defeat all odds and post twice in one day (who knows maybe i'll even post more!) should get me off the hook.
i've been flip-flopping back and forth all day with figuring out orders for work(ugh!) and putting together my new slab roller(joy!). now i am taking a break from both.
the great thing about putting together a slab roller is that it's assembling something, which i happend to be a gigantic fan of assembling things, plus it means that slab rolling will soon follow. yippy skippy! the bad thing about putting together a slab roller is that sometimes people come into the shop expecting to see a nice person sitting at the desk waiting for their arrival and instead are greated by me lying on my back or in some obscure position under the slab roller, to which hearing door open i'd pop my head out all flustered with my hair in my face. the poor creatures. those of you who know the power off my hair when it is unkempt know just how scared these people must have been. for those of you who don't know, i'll just say amanda has been known to call me mick jagger on occasion.

i'm copying tam, i know, but i really think they look alike

okay, tam, is it me or does paige resemble the lovely alexis bledel? maybe it's just wishful thinking that i could have a neice who looks like a gilmore girl, but i've always thought this. more than anything i think they have the same expressions when they pout or look really confused.