Ok let me start off with halloween 2015 which was last year's halloween. I went to the puente hills mall on a whim and took pictures that I should have posted here but I didn't. I had a good time even if I didn't find any good hot wheels at toys r us. I got a phone call about 5 mins after I got home(around 2 or 3pm) from kohl's for an interview that is close to my house. This year in 2016 on halloween I went to get my hair cut then went home and got a call not from kohl's but for burlington at the puente hills mall. Funny how that works right? anyways I went to the interview and it was a group interview and it went well and I got a call back and an email that I had to fill out information and agree to a background check so this post is also an update on me
Hopefully I'll be employed by burlington soon
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Monday, October 31, 2016
I was employed by a pop up shop in oct and I did not work a single day
I won't say the name but I'm sure you can put the peanut butter and jelly together. When october started I had high hopes of getting this temp job because I liked the store and it was close to my house. In case your wondering how this happened well like any job, you would have to be scheduled and those are the days you work. The difference was I wasn't scheduled no matter how many times I called or went in person. I really think I got hired just fate and life can taunt me and because I am a joke that can be employeed at a company and not work a single day
It says a lot about that store but it's not like I sat there like a girl that got stood up for prom(I don't know what it's like as I never got asked to a school dance nor did I ask anyone) and twiddled my thumbs. I applied at places and quickly got rejected at some but I didn't give up and I'm still job hunting so hopefully something good happens soon and not fate taunting me. For example last week I ate and slept job applications(not really but you get the idea) and I expect to be bombarded with calls this week but I won't let up on the applying at places
In case your wondering, yes I really did get hired, I filled out all the forms and paperwork and w4(oe 2, the tax form in a job) and I got the employee handbook and asked what size shirt I wear and all that good stuff. I talked to the store manager and they said they would call me soon to let me know what days I would be working only that call never came. I called and would get no answer regardless of the day or times I would call, when I would go in person, the manager was never there again despite me going at random times and on random days. In fact one time I door warmed(waited for the store to open) and got dirty looks from the employees and a hmmpph face. That doesn't sound like a fun work environment if the employees are being rude to customers(I also got a oh great, not you) but I was still willing to work there. Now I have to hope and pray I get a job soon and this makes it hard to enjoy hallowen but happy halloween
It says a lot about that store but it's not like I sat there like a girl that got stood up for prom(I don't know what it's like as I never got asked to a school dance nor did I ask anyone) and twiddled my thumbs. I applied at places and quickly got rejected at some but I didn't give up and I'm still job hunting so hopefully something good happens soon and not fate taunting me. For example last week I ate and slept job applications(not really but you get the idea) and I expect to be bombarded with calls this week but I won't let up on the applying at places
In case your wondering, yes I really did get hired, I filled out all the forms and paperwork and w4(oe 2, the tax form in a job) and I got the employee handbook and asked what size shirt I wear and all that good stuff. I talked to the store manager and they said they would call me soon to let me know what days I would be working only that call never came. I called and would get no answer regardless of the day or times I would call, when I would go in person, the manager was never there again despite me going at random times and on random days. In fact one time I door warmed(waited for the store to open) and got dirty looks from the employees and a hmmpph face. That doesn't sound like a fun work environment if the employees are being rude to customers(I also got a oh great, not you) but I was still willing to work there. Now I have to hope and pray I get a job soon and this makes it hard to enjoy hallowen but happy halloween
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Retro saturdays and twisted metal 2
Twisted metal 2 is of course the sequel to twisted metal 1, if you have never played a tm game it's car combat free for all similar to a fps but in a car. At the time it was pretty innovative and fresh and helped the ps1 gain some steam. The 2nd game takes what makes everything great about tm1 and improves upon it in every which way
There are more (bigger) levels and more characters and even the final boss from tm1 is a selectable character. The plot is pretty thin but that's ok because it's all about the gameplay and that is tight. You can hit an opponent with a bomb then hide behind a building and pop out and fire a missle and it will all seem natural. I 1st played tm2 at a friend's house who was older then me and I thought it was the greatest thing ever. I could not get enough of this game and I wanted a ps1 and tm2(which I would get about a decade later. When it was released, tm2 was one of the biggest killer apps for the playstation and helped turn the tides towards sony
You should play it at least once even if the graphics are dated and minion and sweet tooth are overpowered
There are more (bigger) levels and more characters and even the final boss from tm1 is a selectable character. The plot is pretty thin but that's ok because it's all about the gameplay and that is tight. You can hit an opponent with a bomb then hide behind a building and pop out and fire a missle and it will all seem natural. I 1st played tm2 at a friend's house who was older then me and I thought it was the greatest thing ever. I could not get enough of this game and I wanted a ps1 and tm2(which I would get about a decade later. When it was released, tm2 was one of the biggest killer apps for the playstation and helped turn the tides towards sony
You should play it at least once even if the graphics are dated and minion and sweet tooth are overpowered
Retro saturdays and goosebumps tv show: piano lessons can be murder
It's been years since I seen these goosebumps episodes so a lot of these posts are based off my memory and not me watching the episode while taking notes. Piano lessons can be murder is one such episode but it does have a stand out scene that has stayed stuck with me ever since I saw it. I'm not sure if the family gets haunted by a piano that most likely the dad bought or the house they moved in was already haunted by a ghost that likes to play the piano. The important thing is that there is a ghost that plays a piano. Jerry the main character goes to piano lessons that seems to take place at a sketchy former warehouse. I'm not sure why his mom drops him off everyday in the ford taurus but I assume it's because she has a drinking problem and this is a way to hide her shame from her son
Picture a warehouse that manufacturers car engines, now picture that building abandoned for years. That is similar to where jerry is going for his piano lessons, I understand pianos are big but you don't need a shopping mall building to tutor kids in piano. That should have set off a lot of red flags but it's the 90's and jerry's mom doesn't care. Of course something is up with the building and jerry's teacher and he runs into a robot that isn't explained but in goosebumps world it makes sense. There is a sequence where jerry runs away from practice then comes back the next day and so on. I don't remember much of this episode because the plot is as thin as low calorie oreo crackers
Also because one scene in particular, Jerry is exploring or running away from his teacher when he runs into a big room with floating hands playing pianos. It's not just 2 hands but many, around 20 all playing pianos like some sort of slave hands. The song they are all playing is beethoven's moonlight sonata which makes it really kreepy as it has stayed in my mind all these years. Just listen to the song, something about it makes it seem like a horror song even if it's not intended
Here's the link to the episode if you want to watch it and now I remember that the kreepy possibly pedo teacher wanted jerry's hands. Yeah that makes him seem normal right, that also explains why he has so much floating hands as he takes them from students and forces them to play
Picture a warehouse that manufacturers car engines, now picture that building abandoned for years. That is similar to where jerry is going for his piano lessons, I understand pianos are big but you don't need a shopping mall building to tutor kids in piano. That should have set off a lot of red flags but it's the 90's and jerry's mom doesn't care. Of course something is up with the building and jerry's teacher and he runs into a robot that isn't explained but in goosebumps world it makes sense. There is a sequence where jerry runs away from practice then comes back the next day and so on. I don't remember much of this episode because the plot is as thin as low calorie oreo crackers
Also because one scene in particular, Jerry is exploring or running away from his teacher when he runs into a big room with floating hands playing pianos. It's not just 2 hands but many, around 20 all playing pianos like some sort of slave hands. The song they are all playing is beethoven's moonlight sonata which makes it really kreepy as it has stayed in my mind all these years. Just listen to the song, something about it makes it seem like a horror song even if it's not intended
Here's the link to the episode if you want to watch it and now I remember that the kreepy possibly pedo teacher wanted jerry's hands. Yeah that makes him seem normal right, that also explains why he has so much floating hands as he takes them from students and forces them to play
Retro saturdays and goosebumps the tv show: the headless ghost
The title is pretty self explanatory, the episode is about a headless ghost. If you have seen the cover of the book then you know it's kreepy, well this episode is pretty scary for a kid even one that thinks he was pretty tough. It starts off in 1700's time with a boy that is dressed like george washington, he lives in a lighthouse according to the shots establishing the scene. Anyways he is looking for a ghost that is missing his head because tv wasn't invented and he is bored so the scene flashes forward to the present where a boy and a girl are in a house that is supposedly haunted, they are on a tour of the house by a chubby older guy with wicked mutton chop sideburns. Because they are tweens in the 90's of course they sneak off to find the head of the missing ghost which doesn't make sense. If it was a ghost head then wouldn't it just vanish or be at the lighthouse? yes they got caught then kicked out and I believe banned from the house
I should mention that this house is a mansion well a square 2 story mansion that is the size of a small super market to make you mentally picture it. A strange guy chats up duane and stephanie and again because it's the 90's, he's not a pedo or a kidnapper, instead he asks them if they want to see a real ghost instead of something else. So the trio sneaks back into the mansion into off limits rooms that duane and stephanie haven't been to which she explains "I never been here before" rather then touch them inappropriately or murder them, the strange guy(seth I believe) tells them a story of a boy who used to live in the mansion, the story also takes place in the 1700's or the 1800's, the boy only wanted to eat strawberry ice cream. It was his favorite food and he couldn't get enough of it, his family was rich as he has a maid/slave who caters to his every whim and he has a dumbwaiter system between the 1st and 2nd floor. One day the dumbwaiter gets stuck going up to the boy so he leans in and falls in and somehow gets torn to shreds beyond recognition as it's explained by seth that it was hard to tell what was strawberry ice cream
Stephanie has to play the jerk teenager and says that's not scary so seth says that boy in the story was him and he needs duane's head and now he becomes kreepy. The house tour guide bursts in and tells duane it'll be alright and he sends them off on their way except he traps stephanie in a room(now he's a pedo too) as duane didn't realize he was alone until he was already outside. He rushes back in to see the tour guide painting stephanie while she slowly vanishes and seth is just watching everything. The headless ghost appears out of nowhere. This is how I picture an actual ghost looking like, it was semi solid and it's legs were almost vanishing
Then he finds his head close by and it was the boy from the 1st story and through all this, the tour guide is still painting away so duane throws paint/some type of acid onto the painting and it starts melting. The tour guide does a weird shout/scream while the friends run and he turns into a ghost and they escape. The next day it is revealed that the tour guide is still giving tours meaning the house is still haunted by a ghost and 2/3 of the characters were ghosts(yes my math is off)
I should mention that this house is a mansion well a square 2 story mansion that is the size of a small super market to make you mentally picture it. A strange guy chats up duane and stephanie and again because it's the 90's, he's not a pedo or a kidnapper, instead he asks them if they want to see a real ghost instead of something else. So the trio sneaks back into the mansion into off limits rooms that duane and stephanie haven't been to which she explains "I never been here before" rather then touch them inappropriately or murder them, the strange guy(seth I believe) tells them a story of a boy who used to live in the mansion, the story also takes place in the 1700's or the 1800's, the boy only wanted to eat strawberry ice cream. It was his favorite food and he couldn't get enough of it, his family was rich as he has a maid/slave who caters to his every whim and he has a dumbwaiter system between the 1st and 2nd floor. One day the dumbwaiter gets stuck going up to the boy so he leans in and falls in and somehow gets torn to shreds beyond recognition as it's explained by seth that it was hard to tell what was strawberry ice cream
Stephanie has to play the jerk teenager and says that's not scary so seth says that boy in the story was him and he needs duane's head and now he becomes kreepy. The house tour guide bursts in and tells duane it'll be alright and he sends them off on their way except he traps stephanie in a room(now he's a pedo too) as duane didn't realize he was alone until he was already outside. He rushes back in to see the tour guide painting stephanie while she slowly vanishes and seth is just watching everything. The headless ghost appears out of nowhere. This is how I picture an actual ghost looking like, it was semi solid and it's legs were almost vanishing
Then he finds his head close by and it was the boy from the 1st story and through all this, the tour guide is still painting away so duane throws paint/some type of acid onto the painting and it starts melting. The tour guide does a weird shout/scream while the friends run and he turns into a ghost and they escape. The next day it is revealed that the tour guide is still giving tours meaning the house is still haunted by a ghost and 2/3 of the characters were ghosts(yes my math is off)
Friday, October 28, 2016
Look at this picture of bradlees
Besides the fact that bradlees doesn't exist anymore and had it's hey day in the 90's, what you should look at is a little to the left. See that? all the payphones, that used to be incredibly common in the 90's but now it's rare to even find 1 payphone. I know where a few are around my house so I'll take pictures of them before they are gone but for now, enjoy this picture of payphones
Retro fridays and goosebumps tv episode: go eat worms!
Yes the thought of eating worms is pretty gross so this book and episode appeals to elementary school boys. Main character todd is an elementary school boy who likes worms, perhaps a little too much as his room is plastered with pictures and jars and models and posters of worms, as if that isn't enough, he uses the basement as a worm farm. Said worm farm is just a big long fish tank with dirt and possibly hundreds of worms. It is gross when you think about it but anyways onto the episode. Todd uses the worms to play pranks on his sister such as stuffing a whole bunch in the mouth of a pinata like bird so when the sister picks it up a whole bunch fall out. She swears revenge on todd but the worms help her cause
One example is them sneaking into todd's sandwhich that he avoids eating by trading it with his best friend. The best friend thinks todd put the worms their on purpose and hence why he wanted to trade lunches. One night todd goes to bed and finds his bed filled with worms and his sister can't be blamed as she's sleeping over at a friend's house. Despite this, todd blames his sister using little kid logic that makes no sense because that's how kids are. I'm not sure where or how it happens but todd is out in the forest doing weirdo kid stuff when he falls into a huge hole. He gets scared and possibly strangled by a giant worm that's the mother worm of all the worms todd has been a jerk to. Nothing happens to him because this is a kid's show but todd does learn his lesson and gets rid of his worms but develops a new hobby of fishing
Yes real worms are used and this episode grossed me out when I was little and it's still gross so don't watch it on an empty stomach
One example is them sneaking into todd's sandwhich that he avoids eating by trading it with his best friend. The best friend thinks todd put the worms their on purpose and hence why he wanted to trade lunches. One night todd goes to bed and finds his bed filled with worms and his sister can't be blamed as she's sleeping over at a friend's house. Despite this, todd blames his sister using little kid logic that makes no sense because that's how kids are. I'm not sure where or how it happens but todd is out in the forest doing weirdo kid stuff when he falls into a huge hole. He gets scared and possibly strangled by a giant worm that's the mother worm of all the worms todd has been a jerk to. Nothing happens to him because this is a kid's show but todd does learn his lesson and gets rid of his worms but develops a new hobby of fishing
Yes real worms are used and this episode grossed me out when I was little and it's still gross so don't watch it on an empty stomach
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