OMG. genius idea. i will get to that in a minute.
today's post is more of an up to date thing, with more pictures of my adventures last month, including virginia beach and the pokeball cake. oh, and my fantastically colored spoopy cupcakes. because star sprinkles! also, little bits here and there about all things involving me. ☺
such spoopiness! i love complimentary colors together like this. it is the essence of halloween! these were just my basic chocolate cupcakes, but with peanut butter chips added! oh, and white whole wheat flour.
aside from going away for a week, work has of course been getting busier with the holidays approaching. after next week, though, i won't have to deal with much of it until december, most likely.... :o
that's right! it has finally happened!! november 12th will be my last day at gameshop! they are opening a THINKGEEK in carousel mall, and i will be taking over there as assistant manager! with any luck, aside from the higher volume of people that hang around at the mall, it should be less stressful....no numbers to worry about other than reserving stuff, and item demo-ing the shit out of all the neat things we will sell!!
which brings me back to my most excellent idea.....
POKEMON! GOTTA CATCH EM ALL!
i was thinking of the gingerbread thing....i for one, plan to use my ninjabread cutters to make ninjabread men, buuuut....i also just thought of making a gingerbread house. but instead of a house, i could attempt to re-create the storefront for the new store! this is all just a thought, of course, as i have no idea what the store will turn out to look like. we only have a spot claimed for now. we will be training for a few weeks at a local gameshop, and then we have to put the store together.
it's going to be busy even without customers! the grand opening is december 16th!
i forgot, i also "taught" a painting class. it was one of those wine and paint things! i think it went pretty well! i am waiting to hear when the next one will be!
so yeah. mini vacation, new job, a few cakes and a painting class later.....i am down to my final days at the company i have given my life to for 9 years. although, thinkgeek is still owned in part by gamestop, so i guess i am still donating my life away, just for a better cause.
did i mention we were part of hurricane matthew while we were away?
the upper end of the storm reached virginia, we didn't have power for almost a day. it was pretty windy, gusts up to 60 miles an hour...but it was pretty cool. a lot of things were closed, but we managed to find a diner that was open and got breakfast. i cooked in the crock pot the other couple of days, and we rode our bikes a whole bunch. we got a bike rack for the car and brought ours down with us, considering it was at least $30 for a session of a couple hours. i went running up the boardwalk one day, we went to the local museum, and just kind of relaxed for a bit. i read 3/4 of the fifth harry potter book, mostly due to the power being out and ron napping. it was a good few days overall.
next adventure will probably be the return to the outer banks next summer, unless i take any more time before then. my paid time off transfers, so i still have a bit to use! ☺
there is still plenty of time until next september, though!
these last two are from halloween! with all the pokemon hype going around, and my "sister" coming in as pikachu, i grabbed my lab coat shirt and went as professor oak. i was also rainbow dash on saturday the 30th.
the numbers is a report from our computer. cuz that new call of duty and all.....except you know you have a problem when pokemon is outselling call of duty. XD aaahhh they just dont make em like they used to! but honestly, with all the hype, i am considering picking up one of the new pokemon games. have you seen rowlet? he is essentially a bird ball, the most adorable thing ever, and you know how i am about birds. not to mention, he evolves into a ghost bird type, and haunter was my original favorite ghost!
SO. with all that being said, my days are numbered, leading to a fantastical new job, pokemon is coming soon, and it was all preceded by me hurting myself getting out of bed monday morning. i'll try to come up with some new stuff, i can't let everyone down in my final days!
have a good week! thanks for reading! ☺♥☺
