Alice In Wonderland!

Yaaaay, finally get to see it tonight! And it's going to be the first time i've been to the cinema since November when New Moon came out. Should be good (hopefully) if it's not as terrible as some people say it is? It has really mixed reviews. Hmmm. Just got back from college, had a shower and going to get ready as i'm meeting Kim and Iain for a subway before the cinema. Then we're meeting Adam there, and possibly bringing Gemma along too (If she agrees to let Iain pay for her!) Cant really be bothered to write a long thing today, but the things I want to say will probably ramble on without me noticing.

I worked an insane amount of hours last weekend, and i'm doing the same this weekend! But instead of starting at 10pm on saturday, I start at half 9! But the good thing about Saturday was that they let me go home at 12 (Bit pointless me being there for two hours but still .. it's money!) And i'm working Tuesday from 9.30-12 .. meaning I have to go straight from college to do my 5-8.15 shift at Waitrose, then off to town to have some dinner then start at the Square. Meaning that I won't get home until like half 12 from college. Knackering! Can't wait to see all this money go through though :D Gahhh .. let's work it out .. This week i'll be earning .. around £130. Wooo! :D Gotta start saving that though. Right, i'm going to go .. and .. I dunno, maybe play a game on my laptop before getting ready? I'll write a review in laterrrr.

Hideousss..

Wow. Just tried on my Waitrose uniform. The trousers are fitted terribly! They're made to be high waisted, so they're up past my belly button (The top ball of my belly bar pokes out of the top :S :P) so at least the crotch is where it's supposed to be, but it makes them really short. But I don't really have any other choice because they aren't made to go down by your waist .. and even if they could fit there (Which they can't, even though they're a size 12 .. as my size 10's haven't come in yet (Don't think i'll need them though -- serious ankle swingers!!)) the crotch would be extremely low and i'd look like a plank. So basically, i'm stuck with them. They look terrible, and made me feel extremely fat. Nice one! I hate when I get in one of these moods! Been feeling like this for a while though, so i'm going to stop it before my clothes don't fit anymore. I could be exaggerating, but if I don't feel good about myself then things obviously have to change.

Had my induction today at half 9. Adam said it would only take half hour, whereas Iain said when he has his at Tesco's it took him 9 hours! They basically gave us loads of paperwork to fill out about pay and tax and stuff, then we were sat at computers (there was only two of us though thankfully, otherwise the paperwork side would have taken AGES!) and had to go through 10 different training programmes. Fire safety, how to pick up a box, till training, good customer service .. too many to name. I think i've actually blacked out and forgotten it all because it was so boring. But I did learn what fire extinguisher goes with what type of fire though! I think i'll pick it up pretty easily :) Then we had a tour round the whole building, and I was given my locker and key fob (Which you top up on a machine and use to buy lunch?! It's well cool! You can even order dinner and have a cooked breakfast and lunch and stuff!) and theres machines where you can buy microwavable dinners to cook on the counters at the back of the dining room. It took me four hours! But luckily I got paid for it, meaning I earnt £25! I was actually really shocked! They look after their employee's so well in comparison to WHSmith! It's so much more professional and everyones needs are catered for! I can't wait to start working there and earn some real money :) Sad to leave WHSmith though .. but some things have got to be done.

Not looking forward to working this weekend though.

Friday: 9-2.30am (Get home at half 3 probably!) The Square

Saturday: 8.30-1.30 - Waitrose

2-6 - WHSmith

10-2.30am (Get home at half 3!) The Square.

So basically .. i'm going to be knackered! But i'll be earning about £100 this weekend, that's without the £30 EMA i'll be getting on sunday, and the £30 pay from 2 weeks ago from the Square going in tomorrow :D But now I need to start being serious with money, and start saving! I'm actually looking forward to seeing the money in my incentive saver keep going up, and having 3% interest going in. Wow i'm sad!

Because the induction went on for longer than I expected, I didn't end up going into college. Missed media and ICT. But i'm ahead in media, and we're only doing a practise task in ICT. I know I should be there for the practise but when we do the real thing for the coursework on monday, you basically get walked through it anyway .. and i'd already lost my EMA for the week (Lucky I got paid! That makes up for it :D) Wow, i've wrote a lot today!

Just waiting for Lauren and her friend Fleur to come round, 'Britains Got Talent' audition came through the post when I got in, so I texted her and they're all excited to come home and see if they got through. If they did, they get to meet Simon Cowell! Hahaaaa! Funny. I hope they do, they're seriously talented. But to get on that show you need to either be like Mariah Carey or be hideously bad! It makes good television I suppose. I just hate seeing people disappointed! I remember when I didn't get through last year, I was a little bit upset but what was more annoyed was everyone coming up to me trying to find possible reasons for why I didn't get in. They seemed more upset than I was!! That was annoying, so I just didn't mention it :P

Right .. i'm done for now. Essayyyy! Bye :)

Cold.

Not much to report today i'm afraid, except for the fact that my wrists are cold against this laptop! Stupid recycled aluminium :P Just kidding. I lovessss it. Got a fair bit of work done today, and hopefully by this friday i'll have all of my English coursework finished (Which my teacher said is an A in his eyes, which is great but he's a bit scatty and always changes his mind so I wouldn't hope for too much!) Just thinking that i'm going to need to plan some more work experience for next year during my gap year, so that I keep in touch with all things Journalistic .. but whether or not i'll do that is another thing :P

Going to Pizza Express with Adam tonight, yaaaay. Exciting. Might actually dress up and make an effort tonight. Ha! Let myself go, much? :D

:(

I had the most horrible dream last night :( I woke up in tears. I had a dream my mum died. It was horrible. But she was still around talking to me, but she said she was dead (And in dreams you know when someones telling the truth and when someones lying .. well I do anyway!) but she was leaving on Sunday, but wouldn't tell me where because she didn't know. We saw all of her family in The Square, playing Bingo .. and I was like "Have you told them you're dead?" and she was like "Nope.", and she told me that I had to sort out Lauren because she's swearing and now my mums dead she can't do anything about it. I kept on and off crying throughout the dream. I had a dream that Vinnie and Jordan were still going to live there, and that for some reason we weren't going to live with my dad, and Adam was driving me home, and I just kept crying. Then Adam was crying .. and when I asked why he said: "You're making me think .. it's horrible that we have to go through this throughout our lives." Which is completely true. So when my mum left this morning I made sure she gave me a hug. I feel kind of weird now, but it was just a dream..

New Job!

Wooo, just been offered a position at Waitrose! Better hours, better pay, better benefits :D Hopefully there's nice people there because i'm going to miss everyone there :( But to be honest, Beckie is leaving soon and Charlene is in her third year at university so she'll be leaving soon. Just wrote my letter of resignation, and I need to hand it in as soon as possible. Adam said to hand it in on Saturday, but my teacher and Charley said I should hand it in tonight?! Because apparently i'll get taxed so much because technically I have three jobs now?!?!

When I told my mum she said congratulations and asked if i'd be leaving The Square? She doesn't like it because I have to get a taxi home .. but I don't want to leave yet. I know it's minimum wage and stuff but I think it's good experience, and to be honest, what else am I going to be doing? Sleeping? Not important :D

So i'm walking to Waitrose once i'm ready and get my welcome pack .. and then Adam's picking me up :) Luckily TGI Friday's rejected me, otherwise i'd be in a bit of a dilemma! Hehe. I'm nervous, because i'd hate for it to be horrible and then miss WHSmith, but the guys I met at the group interview seemed perfectly nice.. let's see how long that lasts once I see who actually got the job? LOL. Right, I'm going to be getting ready now.

Gemma and Kim's play tonight -- exciting stuff! :D

Lazy Thursdayyyys

I love thursdays :) Don't have to get out of bed until about 10, when I can take my time to get in the shower and then get to college for ICT catch up at 12 :) Good times! But I have work tonight at half 11, and currently don't have any money to get home. It would be alot easier if my mum said I could ride my bike home, but she's like "You NEED to get a taxi!". What she doesn't understand is that I can't afford to get a taxi home twice a week! So unless she wants me to walk or get a ride home with a stranger, I don't really have any choice? To be honest, I shouldn't have spent all my money, because I was trying to save it. But i've set up an Incentive Saver account and it currently has £10 in it! Wooo. Basically, if I don't touch it I get 3% interest on it a month .. so that's like an extra £3 at the moment! And it should only go up from there, because i'm not planning on touching it! Also, my mum did say to me that she'd pay for my lunches at the moment seeing as i'm still in fulltime education .. which i've paid for because I don't like asking her for money. That is resulting in me having zero funds at the moment :) Funtimes. And also, I was meant to get paid from The Square on friday, but my manager only told me on monday (Because I texted him first asking when the payday was!) that he's messed up my bank details so there's a cheque for me on his desk. So I could have had money .. so it's kind of not my fault! LOL! Funny way of looking at it. But i'm still stuck with the dilemma of how i'm planning to get home tonight. My mum was like: "Sort it out!" My parents won't let me get the night bus home, or ride my bike .. so they choose the most expensive form of transport. Great one. Not my choice .. it's theirs. So really .. i'm a student, I can't afford taxis everywhere! Jeeeeeeeez. Right, I think i'm going to go have a shower in a minute so I can avoid using the hairdryer.

I had my interview at Waitrose on Monday (Which I was unsure about .. because I came across a bit try-hard I think!), but then they rang me on Tuesday morning and asked me back for a second interview! It's on Friday at 6PM. I'm going to be riding my bike there (Whether my parents like it or not!), because it's in Portswood and if you want to take a bus you have to bus to town first and then switch, which is completely pointless and time consuming. So yeah .. bike riiiiide. Woo! Let's hope I get it, because I think it's over a pound more than i'm on at my other job! :) It's not like I want to leave WHSmith but they won't offer me fulltime work when I finish college so I don't really have a choice! I've also applied for TGI Friday's, and they sent me an email on the 25th of Feb (a week ago now!) and said they'd recieved my application, and they'll inform me about the next steps in the application process .. but mehh. Taking too long! I would love a job there though, it would be so much fun!

Adam's offering to pay for my taxi home tonight. That's sweet of him, because he doesn't want me riding my bike home at 3 in the morning. That's fair enough, but it's annoying that i'm restricted because they encouraged me to get the job so that I can earn more money, and it's being blown on taxi's? I'm working on Saturday and there's a night bus I can get for like £2, but my mum won't let me take it so i'm going to have to get a taxi which is going to cost 5 times that amount? How is that fair? I know they're looking out for my safety but I don't really have a choice! Right, i'm going to check where the night bus goes from on Saturdays .. I wonder if there's a bus running at 3AM tomorrow morning? I'll check.. Cya!