Well i've worked everyday - except christmas day of course - since 15th Dec and will be working rite up until the 30th Dec. Good, coz i'm earning money. Bad, coz I'm always so tired and miss out on social outings. My body clock is really stuffed up. I sleep during the day, work at night and then can't sleep after I finish work. So I stay up pretty late, then sleep in in the mornings. And then repeat the whole process. So as most people know, I'm an early bird, always waking up early like 6:30am. Well, as you can tell, that hasn't been the case.

Work is really good. I'm really enjoying it, as I have mentioned before. And I have a feeling that my manager is gonna keep me on as a permenant casual. There have been good signs pointing that way. So everyone cross your fingers for me! hehe I was meant to have a day off on Boxing Day but they were so busy that my manager called me in to work in the evening. Did anyone go to the Boxing Day sales? Im sure a lot of you did. Well I managed to go as well and it was so crazy! There were people everywhere! Especially in Myer. My brothers bought heaps of stuff... t-shirts, polos, pants, shoes... and me? yes, typical me, didn't buy anything. lolz. Though I nearly bought a really nice blue and white dress from... erm.. can't remember the shop name. It was a sweet looking dress, a long one with flowers on it. And I was about to buy it when I saw a tear in the sleeve part. So yes, that put me off it, even though it was only a little tear that probably could have been fixed easily. Oh wellz, I'm not paying good money (though it wasn't that expensive) for something that has a tear in it. So that was as close as I got to to buying anything.

So then I took a trip to my store just to see how things were going. And there were so busy! My manager came up to me and goes "I should have had you working today." And all I could say was "oh really?" I kinda didn't want to work that day because 1) I was shopping 2) it was my day off and 3) i didn't wanna get caught up in the pushing, pulling, poking of the customers. lolz. So anyways, I didn't say much and quickly walked outta the store before she could say anything more to me. hehe. But then around 1ish I got a call from her asking whether I could work in the evening 5-9pm. And being the nice employee I said yes. hehe. It shouldn't be too bad at nite right? People would have had enough shopping for the day. My manager said she thought it would still be as busy at night which is why she was putting me on. But it turned out that not many people realised that the shops were open till 9pm on a Monday. And by 6ish... the center was dead. Like really really dead. We had three people on that evening and it was so dead that we had to send one person home. The other girl who had been working decided to go home coz she had been there longer. So from 7ish till 9pm we didn't have any sales (maybe one, i can't remember) and the rest of the time we just talked. haha. Getting paid time and a half just to talk. That's the way to go. hehe. So yeah, it was quite an uneventful evening on Boxing Day.

But then I worked today in the afternoon and that made up for the night. It was so busy! Like flat out. Its like people had rested their feet and were out again the next day. Crazy shoppers! lolz

my thoughts @ 5:19 PM

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