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I'll be keeping my mini shop items here.

Rory Fluffinstuff: My lion plushie from Plush.
Edison Sparks: My mini squiddle from Adopt-A-Squiddle.
Pinky McTart: My pink lemonade bunny bite from The Nightmare Cafe.
Chesterton McGee: My cheshire cat bunny bite from The Nightmare Cafe.
Jervis Hattington: My evil hatter bunny bite from The Nightmare Cafe.
Whizzer: My buckle blade from Wright Turn Studios.
Night's Light: My star ring from Wright Turn Studios.

I'll be keeping my breedables/changeables here.

Charlie: My Elle from Elegante Sogno Pets. Here's his egg stage.

I've discovered the wonders of the Breedables/Changeables forum, but don't have anywhere near enough gold to start collecting. For now, I'll keep a list of shop threads here that have peaked my interest. Maybe someday I'll have enough gold to start up a big collection.

Petable Pixels
Espresso Kittens
Surlaterre
Bun'bii Gardens
Elegante Sogno Pets - I just bought a custom Elle, w00t!!! His name's Charlie, and he'll be my very first b/c!
Lost Marbles
Gui Xing
The Firebird's Lair
The Art Studio
Blobbles
Lil' Wings
Wish Upon A Wabbit

I've also discovered the wonders of the mini shop forum. I'll keep a list of shop threads here that have peaked my interest.

The Nightmare Cafe
Plush
Adopt-A-Squiddle
Hell Hurts Hospital
Wright Turn Studios

I talked to one of my friends last night that works at the McDonalds mentioned in my last entry. Turns out the manager yelling is kind of like a trickle-down effect. See, the store owner comes in almost every day and screams at the general manager, who in turn screams at the shift managers, who in turn end up screaming at the wage slaves.

He said the general manager wasn't always like this, but the owners came close to failing three inspections in a row (which would have meant the owners lose their stores), so now the owners go way overboard on everything, and yell when the tiniest thing seems out of place. They had their entire night crew walk out last weekend, and the day shift is talking about doing the same thing because of all the stress. Damn, you gotta be doing something wrong when your whole shift walks out on you. eek

I'm gonna start dropping by there more often when my friend gets off his shift- that store has gossip like woah. For instance, one of the shift managers is dating one of the 16 year old employees, and is now getting pushed into a shotgun wedding because her father found out. Two of the female managers that used to work there got caught making out in the cooler, and one of the wage slave couples got caught having sex by the security cameras. At least no one has been caught getting frisky on the food prep tables yet- that would be kinda... yeah. I don't think I'd want to eat there anymore. gonk

So, this is my first post to my brand new Gaia journal. I'm watching Mythbusters at the moment, the one with the helium-filled footballs and catching bullets with your teeth experiments. I watched the exploding pants episode right before this one, which was really funny. I'm such a fangirl for Jamie Hyneman and his jaunty beret. :B

Anyway~ I was at McDonalds yesterday, and the manager was screaming at an employee in the back office, and he was so damned loud, I could easily hear every word at the front counter. I felt sorry for whoever he was yelling at, the staff looked kinda used to it and just rolled their eyes and went on working. Even if it's just a fast food place, damn that's unprofessional! If you have to yell at your employees all the time to get anything done, your management technique is full of fail, seriously. scream Those workers deserve a major raise for having to put up with such a jerk.