like james brown.

so i took my drivers test today. and now that i know the trick i passed it!!! yay finally!1
the guy was so chill. haha he called me baby like 4672367 times and he was like 'baby were gonna take it smooth, were gonna take it slow, just like james brown. i believe in you baby. you got this girl' he was realy funny. there was a guy way across the parking lot and he was like dont hit this fool. he deserves to be hit, but not on my watch. dont hit this fool baby.
but anyways. i have to get ready for work now.
oh and to make things oh so much better, my picture is atually good!
hooray.

basically...

you can refer to me as Coordinator Aly C.
has a good ring to it, doesnt it?
i figured if i wrote this now then i wont feel so bad when everyone calls tomorrow with babycraze and finds out then.
im pretty excited. :)

the tree man.

you guys might have heard of this, or maybe you saw it on medical mysteries this week. but if not im sharing it with yoo. causei think its rediculouussss.
http://www.hemmy.net/2008/04/15/dede-koswara-the-tree-man-undergoes-treatment/

its a good thing this puppy is private

so i leave for cedar piont today! but not for a few hours. haha im just really excited, so to make the time pass by quicker i'll tell you my dramatic marshalls story that isnt going to be as good cause none of you were there to hear the tone of anyones voicces, among other things..
so im at the service desk with my friend Minnie and she was helping this big black woman who was buying a lot of that ghetto baby stuff. like baby phat, phat farm, encye, and apple bottoms. which nobody should ever put on children. dont be ghetto.
but i didnt even pay attention to her. then this older looking lady who doesnt have many teeth and is obviously really poor came thru my line to return a purse. but the problem is its a Coach purse and she doesnt have the receipt and the tags arent attached. There was a tag inside, that waas obviously for a purse, but it was a tiny bag and it said 229.99, when in reality it was probably 179.00 or less. but either way i had to call my manager, Sally, up to the front cause it would be over $100 and they have to verify that its returnable. so as im paging sally the oldish lady is telling me that she bought it for her grandkid but her grandkid didnt want it, and im like who wouldnt want a free coach purse? and the lady was like uhh well....um..shes only 11.
yeah freaking right. nobody buys an 11 year old a purse THAT expensive. thats retared, especially when you are as clearly poor as this lady was.
so i show sally, and she polietly says we cant return it since its so expensive and the lady flat out said she wasnt sure if thats the right tag.
thats when the black woman comes into the story. she didnt just randomly come in actually, she starts talking so loudly into our conversation that we all the sudden realize shes making a HUUUGGGEEE scene.
its goes like this...
we'll call her ghetto.
ghetto: they is lyin to you what ever your name is whatever your name is whatever your name is
(cause you know how when people make a scene they tend to repeat crap and just get louder andlouder) so i just stare at her andthen look back to the older lady and apologize for the inconvience and blahblalh
ghetto: you guys have done it for me before.
sally: did you have the tags?
ghetto: no. you all are just bein lazy
me: ma'am (trying to keep my cool because she is being soo loud and obnoxious that people from all over the store are staring at her and its annoying and embarassing) could we verify that we had your item in the store? because if there was another one like it then we would have no problem returning this bag. and im sure if she goes to the marshalls she bought it from they would remember the price and it would be fine.
--ghetto then gets quiet for a quarter of a second bc she knows im right, that we did have to verify whatever the smack she was returning. but that quarter of a second was only long enough for her to take in a breath to start complaining again. Keep in mind this lady had NOOOTTTHHINNNGGG to do with the other woman, she just happened to be checking out at the same time. oh and by the way, the lines are so long riht now bc she isnt moving and im still trying to talk to no-teeth. but i dontthink people cared too much cause im sure it was entertaining.
then sally obviously is frustrated so she turns to help another customer who had a question for her.
ghetto: she needs to get both ya'lls names written down. cause you little girl (pointing to me) ...you lyin! that aint right. that aint right.
so after this going on for the longest time. and no, no-teeth isnt saying anything, shes so high on whatever drug she is on that she is just staring either at us, or off at the thing shes hallucinated behind us. and this is the part where my customer service goes out of the window. becuase i had just returned so many crap items already that day that i never wanted to do a return again (i'll get to that when im done with this story)
me: okay this is so much more dramatic than it needs to be. (so now ghetto tries to talk over me and is continuing to call me a liar) so in a tone that woud normal get me in trouble at work i say...
ma'am, seriously, this has nothing to do with you and youre kind of holding up the line, so if youd like to talkto this customer when she and i are finished then thats fine. (towards the end that part got lighter but then she started cussing at me saying who knows what, its been a long time since we were in dc so i dont speak ghetto as well as i used to) so i say. "we. are not. gaining. annnyyyttthiiinnggg, by not returning this bag. infact we are potentially losing what could have come back into our store, because if this was your transaction then you would have known that it has to be store credit anyways because she doesnt have the receipt...i feel like i in the twilight zone right now, this is insane!!"
which i know is rude but whatever cause i heard sally say 'wow go aly, i didnt even think of that' to cristine haha. so they walk away and ghetto is being really rude to no-teeth, and is like girl you gots ta get that other little girls name down (pointing to sally) so you can call and complain. and i just laugh. because sally seriously does look like shes 20, cause shes like 95 lbs and 5'2. but shes second in line at the store so this time i polietly told no-teeth i could write down sallys name for her, but there is a high possibility that she will be directed back to her if she calls and asks for a manager. and then i clocked out.
oh jeez. marshalls.
oh yeah, and those returns. well people are biiig one switching tickets, so it looks like they hve the receipt for it but they are returning old walmart clothes cause you can buy the guns with those plastic tags at like staples and stuff. which i think should be like illegal or something. but a guy returned this gross red shirt, and another one with hearts all over it and i just looked at the tag to make sure it matched the receipt, and i gave him his money back cause he seemed so normal and like he had money and crap and then once he left i was hanging up the clothes, and the tag inside the heart shirt was sooo faded from washing it so many times that you couldnt read anthing and the gross red shirt had red buttons down the front, and one of them was clear, and hand sewn with navy thread. WHAT THE SMACK. i felt like the dumbest person on the planet, i mean it was kiiinda funny that he would try it, but more annoying that i fell for it. lame.
but okay ths novel is long enough, i have to go upstairs and turn off my alarm clock
adios tacos.
cross your fingers i dont pee on erica

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so basically i clock into work today and darla (manager) comes thru my line with her kid and said "i talked to gerry (store owner) and told him you should become part time coordinator, and he said if you can get your credit card apps up then he thinks that would be a good idea too."
after that i asked evvveerrry single person that came thru my line. not even kidding. usually, when someones total is less than 50 i dont ask cause who wants the opportunity to save $4? but a guy came thru my line with 2.99 socks and i asked him. and he laughed at me so i told him that 30 cents he would have saved could have been a parking meter money or something..
i only got one today, but i havent had any in forever. and i know it doesnt seem like a huge deal, but it is because our district has this new rule where you have to be 20 years old or older to become a coordinator, aand if you want someone younger than that you have to ask for special permission and a test has to be taken to prove that the person you want isnt retarded.
i havent been out in the clothes in for-ev-er. im always at service desk so i might as well be making more money while im doing it.
oh and marcie what sizeish are you in american eagle hoodies do you think? i could pick you out a cute one if you want.
and same for fayfay (even though you are soo much pickier) if you dont have hoodies, or whatever..
alright cubscouts. i gotta be back at marshalls tomorrow morning for more credit card questions so im sleeeping yo.

chicka chicka boom boom will there be enough room?

so basically i cant wash for my hair for 3 days and since its so smooth and shiny and healthy feeling i keep running my fingers thru it. Now im scared it will get greasy so im trying to text and type as much as possible to distract my hands from making their way up to my not-so-lion-looking hair.
i could fill you guys in with some more good finds.
we are doing an american eagle and express print ad so we are saving everything from those brands that we get in and keeping them in the back so in two weeks when we put the stuff out there willl be a TON of it. did i mention that they are fall clothes? hellllloooo we look good in fall clothes! and ive never bought anythng from express because they are soo expensive, but they make really good sweaters and we are selling them for 12.99 so im thinkng about scooping one of those up. but seriously the american eagle section = heaven. i dont need anymore hoodies, but you have no idea how tempting it is when they are only 14.99. which means theyll only be 12 with my discount. holy smokes. but im practicing self control in the hoodie department becuase we got in an american eagle pea coat thats like a dark gray color, and its only going to be $16.00 for me cause of our 20% off day. seriously, it would be like 70-100 in the store. annndd im getting one of those huge poofy winter coats for only 16.00 also.
its amazing.
oh and those booties i bought everyone were only 99 CENTS. probably like 6 or 8.50 at american eagle.
marshalls is where its at, yo.

i feel like a straight person.

BEFORE:

soo heres my story of the day. next to marshalls there is this hair school like merrell in jeff. so i called there to see if they do hair relaxers (yeah go ahead and roll your eyes and start preaching about how i'll regret it.) and the girl says yes and blahblah so today is my only day off and im sooo tired of straightening my hair for an hour and a half everyday, especially since its summer and humid and too short to be curly.

so i decide to go there. and i walk up to the front desk where two of the most stereotypical hair dressers are and i tellt hem i want to getmy hair relaxed, and one girl actually starts laughing. so i automatically tell her my hair was straightened at the time cause i know you arent supposed to wash it for at least 24 hours before. then she calls her mentor person over (who is white) and is like oh no. we cant do a relaxer on you because you are caucasian. and i just look at her. are you freaking kidding me????? isnt that like reverse discriminatoin?? this is 2008. and she is like how curly is your hair and i tell her its like having black girl hair. and she is like yeah i think we have the same texture. no. we. dont. so i tell her that because now she is being annoying. her hair was like.....well i cant think of someone we all lknow but its the kind hair that its only curly if they use a ton of hairspray and then its all crispy and gross. so then she tells me again that they dont do it on white people so i leave.

thats the readers digest version cause trust me it was a too long conversation.

so i go and complain to my friends at work and then they are like why dont you go to Fiesta? and by now im desparate cuase im going to an amusement park where my hair will get wet and i dont want it to be ridiculous. so i call the girl and explain to her that i AM white, but still want a relaxer and shes like um yeah why wouldnt we do it? so then i go in and tell my long dramatic stoy to the Fiesta manager and she freaks out about how stupid that is and blahblahblah. so they decide to do some other thing to my hair, instead of relaxing it. i cant remember what its called, but it does the same thing, only it repairs past damage at the same time. i was there from 1-630. seriously.

buuuuut i LOOOVVEEE it. its soo freaking soft and shiney. and wonderful. haha. when it was finished i was like whoaa i feel like a straight person now!!! except i meant a person with straight hair. ha i got some strange looks for that one.

here are weird pictures.

oh and did i mention this isnt even with a hot iron? just a quick blow dry? my life rocks.