Kmart is a jerk.

This week Kmarts in Kansas City are doubling coupons! Yay!

Really I hate it. We're not doing it in town, but we'll still do it if you ask. Basically, we have to ring everything up like normal, scan all the coupons then type in the amount for each one, again. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Also, there were rules this time. You couldn't have any more than 4 of any item, no more than 10 coupons per person per day, and you were also supposed to have at least $25 worth of pantry items.
At 2:00 a lady decided to check out with her daughters and friend. I told her the rules and naturally they didn't like that. Their way around it was to have her daughters and sons all do separate transactions so all of the transactions would be coming from her. Okay, fine, I did it with a tiny bit of resistance. We have 3 registers are the service desk. One that runs like all of the other registers in the store and two that are programed for returns. Naturally the one I choose to run on is the normal one. It froze 3 times when I was trying to double the coupons. I had to redo 3 separate transactions on the refund register (which is especially annoying because you have to press 'sale' each time you want to scan something that isn't a return...and it moves too slow).
Okay, let's get this straight. I have no problem if someone wants to double coupons for a couple of things they need and they aren't ridiculous about it. When you buy 20 things of Visine, 8 containers of carpet cleaner, 8 of the same deodorant, etc. that's just a little dumb. Especially since these people get so angry when something isn't aloud. It's like, hey, don't get mad at me that all of your stuff isn't free! They buy like $200 worth of stuff and end up paying $5 of it. Oh I hate double coupon time.

Tomorrow night I work 6-10:15, so it should be okay.
Friday and Saturday I'm working 7:45 to 3. It better not be as stupid as today. I just don't like Kmart. I think I'm just getting sick of working there...for good reason.

I really should be trying to sleep right now. It's almost 12:30 and I need to wake up at 6 tomorrow. I'm working 7:45 to 12. I'm stoked because I thought I was working until 3, but that's not until Tuesday. I'm open tomorrow, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. Wednesday I'm closing and I have Thursday off. I really hate working 7:45 to 3, but I'm sure I'll survive.

I don't know if my 6 seniors will pull through. 4/6 are supposed to be definites, but who knows? I'm feeling a bit of cancellation going on. Oy vey. I'd just really like to be able to leave Kmart at some point.

I don't really have anything else to talk about, so I guess I'll just upload some pictures!

Designs 'N' Things

I got the copyright release for the wedding pictures!

I think tomorrow I am going to get some photos printed. That should be a pretty mediocre time.

That is my new photography logo. I initially was trying to make a sunburst to use as a background for this blog. Then for some reason I made it a logo. I like it better than the old one.

Also, I have designed a thank you card thingy for the wedding.

I do think that I'd like to design some wedding invitations. Maybe I should start designing some random things and put that on my Facebook site thing. Maybe.

Anyway, I'm slowly trying to get my stuff put away. I still have boxes and bags of things that need a home in our apartment. I just have to take everything out of our storage closet and restack it. I don't want it to be too hard for me to get to my craft things.

I received my external flash yesterday! Woo! The problem is that it requires 4 AA batteries and guess how many I have around here that aren't being used? 2! That's not enough! So, tonight I am going to buy a small pack of batteries so I can actually try it out.

Oh, also photo related. I have some people lined up for senior photos!
Jay (Probably)
Katie (if we can ever find a time)
Audrey
Caleb
Leeanne (my distant cousin's sister-in-law)
Danielle (if her parents agree on it)

I'm stoked! The bad thing is that Kmart has been giving me way more hours that I want. Sure, it helps monetarily, but not when I'm trying to take pictures of people and can't find a time since I'm working all the time. Oy vey.

I guess I shall return to my putting away things then get ready for work.

G'day.

Reading blogs, watching vlogs, and things of the like make me want to type. The thing is that I always think that I have something to say, then I start typing and realize it's not interesting.

I think I am relatively close to finishing editing these engagement pictures...! Woot! I do think I can finish them tonight. Miles is sleeping currently because he has to work tomorrow from noon to 6 (when he usually works from midnight to 7am) so his hours are going to be thrown all off. If he wakes up I probably won't be able to finish them tonight because he'll probably be bored and distract me. But, the whole point to this is that eventually I might post a few (I really don't know why, anyone who reads this would also see them on Facebook...).

This weekend is tax free weekend in Missouri. Awesome! Not really! So it's awesome for those people who are buying clothes and school supplies, but what about us retail workers?! What about us?! It was super busy at Kmart and people get angry fast. Customers think this whole no-tax thing should roll over to layaway, but it doesn't, which made one lady very angry. She really tried to offend me, I think, and make me angry. She failed!
Anyway, I worked from 3-10:15 today. The whole day I just felt irritable. I didn't want to answer the phone, do returns, ring people up, do overrides for the cashiers. All of those things are my job. I don't know what was wrong with me, but everything was just making me angry. Then I ate my lunch. Miles had made me a lunch since I make him a lunch every night before he goes to work. It was nice. I felt better after that, but it was still busy.

Okay, I've given in.


There are many more that I've edited, but I don't want to go through them now. Maybe I'll post more later, or maybe I won't. Probably the latter, but I will upload them to my photography Facebook page. (Look at Steven's shadow in that last one! I love it!)

Now I should return to editing if I plan on finishing them tonight.

To Do

-Finish Rebekah and Steven's engagement pictures
-Design Thank You cards for the wedding (they are already so very late)
-Make a doctors appointment

I think that's it. In my mind it seemed like so much more that I had to do...oy.

Well, today I have much more to do than that. I just got out of the shower and I need to:
-Get ready for the day
-Make a lunch
-Work from 3 to 10:15
-Edit some pictures

This whole Kmart thing is just getting in my way.

The Different Reasons

There are different reasons that I like to write blogs.

1. There's something I really want to talk about and even if I talk to many-a-people about it, I just like to type it out.

2. I want to complain but not out loud.

3. I can talk about absolutely nothing and it's okay because no one is forced to read it.

4. I just want to type.

Tonight I just want to type.

The bad thing about the internet is that it completely diminishes the need for real letters. I just want to type a real letter on a typewriter and mail it to someone. I always liked typing on typewriters because of the noise that the keys made...but I never liked it because I constantly messed up so nothing was legible. Oh well.

I took pictures of Rebekah and Steven yesterday. We went to Easton Road and downtown. It was an alright time. The pictures will be okay.
The bad news: STUPID ISO.
I shot everything in auto since it was bright enough there really wasn't anything to worry about with light and whatnot. BUT, for some reason I had previously decided to adjust the ISO on the auto setting to HI .3 (or something like that) for some crazy reason. Basically, the film that Jeanie made us buy for photography class was 400 because it was good in pretty basic lighting. I'm sure using like 100 or 200 would be just fine for the kind of day it was yesterday. HI .3 is higher than 1600! The pixels are enormous and therefore the photos are grainy. Luckily they aren't horribly terrible, just grainy.
The only good thing that comes from this is that I know I will never do it again...and I will no longer change the ISO on the automatic setting. It's just a bad idea all together.

I have to work 5 days this week. That's 7 hours for 3 days, 5 hours for 1 day and 4 hours for 1 day. Okay, so really it's not that bad. But what is that bad is that I'm closing everyone of those days. That means I get home around 10:30. Now we all know that Miles goes to work around midnight. He sleeps during the day, when I'm awake, or is at work for the other part of the day that I'm awake. I'm working when he's awake. This just won't work!
There are 3 older ladies that work at the service desk. We're all supposed to only have to close a couple of days a week...not 5! But, honestly, I'd rather close than open. I just can't get to sleep early and I like the people that work at night more than the day people (not necessarily the whole group, but it's more part time people at night).

I think that's all for now. I would really like to get back to editing pictures so I can sleep soon.

Two in one day, within a few hours of each other? Have I gone mad?!

Today I was supposed to make my way to my parents' house to collect things from my previous bedroom so my brother can move in because his bedroom is about the size of a large closet...seriously. Well, that has yet to happen. Now it's 5:45 and I just got out of the shower a little bit ago. I assume Miles will be waking up in the next couple of hours, so I'm hesitant to leave home now.

I keep thinking of this. During the school year I was talking to people at school and I mentioned how whenever I like some, i.e. a band, tv show, etc. I have to know everything about it. For some reason, just liking it has never been enough for me. I think it started with Leonardo DiCaprio, but of course I was in 5th grade when I liked him, and the internet wasn't so popular then. Then it moved onto Nsync. I learned way too much about those guys and sadly I still remember probably 80% of it. Then Incubus! I don't remember as much of that as I do the Nsync information (strangely enough). These days I still do it. How sad. Now it's NCIS. Why do I do this?

Another time waster that I'm totally guilty of taking part in is watching YouTube videos. Videos about absolutely nothing. There are people that 'vlog' (web+log=blog video+blog=vlog) and I just keep watching them. Really, they're not very entertaining and they don't really have anything meaningful to really say.

Okay. Now I think that's really it for the day.