Trash and Books

This song is the one stuck in my head lately. It's amazing.

I recently found my Fashion Bug credit card, so I bought a new outfit for work. Really needed new work clothes. Nice black pants, kind of dressy shirt with large black buttons and a sort of pocket in front. Very chic. A little see through, so I wore a red tank top under it. But the red tank showed above the neckline of the shirt a bit. Just great. But then I looked in the mirror and decided the hint of red above all the black looked nice. I pulled half my hair back into a clip, keeping it parted on the right like it usually is, and I put on my large red earrings. I have to admit, it looked all looked pretty good. I hardly ever wear make-up, and when I do it's only some mascara and lip gloss. So I put some on.
I was sitting there yesterday at the morning meeting feeling kind of awkward. The sleeves of the new shirt are shorter than I feel comfortable wearing. I am going to fix that, though. Get some material from a fabric store and add longer sleeves. I love altering clothes. Anyway, at the meeting I felt everyone kept staring. After the meeting, a couple emplyees came up for their usual morning scones and drinks.
"What are you all dolled up for?" Knez asked me.
"You look really nice," Matt told me.
"I like your earrings," said Christina.
Wow, I didn't want all this attention, I'm just tired of wearing plain t'shirts and polos. . .
And, by now, I should expect things like this, but nobody has been putting trash liners in the large bins at work. At the bottom of the bins was about two inches of soupy gunk. Gross, smelly, awful. I scrubbed them out one at a time. Christina, bless her heart, ran cafe so I could scrub them in the kitchen. A few blogs ago I posted a picture of the kitchen at work, and there is a gray trash can in it. I scrubbed two of those. In my new outfit. Two bins more than half my height. They were heavy. I couldn't reach the bottom without sticking half my body in them. So, to save my new shirt, I put on my hoodie and wore a trash bag over it. Christina helped me. I cut a hole for my head, too big. I put it on, she cut out arm holes and used a Horton Hears A Who button to pin it behind my neck cause it was too big. I put my hood on to protect my hair, and scrubbed. It was not fun. Half my body in a smelly trash bin, it was hot, awkward, and I wanted to vomit from the stench. I left a note for all to see:

Attention All:

I just cleaned the gray trash bins as best as I could.

Please don't forget to put trash liners in them!

I think the next person to forget should scrub them

with toothbrushes. Lol. Thanks!

Hopefully they all read it!

When Kori got there at four, she wasn't feeling well. She called around, trying to find someone who could come in to cover her shift, but couldn't get anyone to. Though I was more than ready to go home and put on pajamas, I told her if she couldn't find anyone to cover I could come back in after I run home and eat some dinner. When I open cafe, I usually don't eat much. I'm not a morning person, so I'm never hungry for breakfast. By time my shift is over, I'm hungry. She said she'd let me know, and I head home. Fifteen minutes into my drive she texts me and asks if I can come back. I told her I would be there soon as I could. I grabbed a sandwich and went right back to work. I opened and closed. I was very tired.

But it was worth it. Randy, the store manager, came over and gave me a ten dollar gift card. A customer bought a book with an amazing cover that caught my eye, and she said it was a great series. The book was ten dollars, and I decided I would read some of it and buy it if it was good. With my employee discount it was only $7.49. I like the book so much, I also bought the second in the series. Blue is for Nightmares and White is for Magic by Laurie Faria Stolarz. I'm really looking forward to reading them. Along with the zillion other books I am in the process of reading.

Books I'm Currantly Reading:

Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz

A Hopeless Romantic by Harriet Evans

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin

Eldest by Christopher Paolini

The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

Living Dead In Dallas by Charlaine Harris

Bag of Bones by Stephan King

The Count Of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

The Shack by William P. Young

The Accidental Demon Slayer by Angie Fox

Stephen King: On Writing by (Duh) Stephan King

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

And I am more than certain I left something out. Maybe I should be reading instead of blogging. I need to finish at least two books before I pick up another one. It's sick how much I love to read.