As told to me by my co-worker.

Customer: Do you have a public pee-hole?
Co-worker: ...you mean a public restroom?
Customer: Oh, is that what you call them around here?

So today after work I neeeeeded gas so I could make the trip home.

And the gas station kept declining my bank card. Thankfully I had my Capital One card to save me.

But WTH.

Get home and there's a message on the voice mail saying that there was unusual activity on my card so they froze it. So I call up their number and go through this whole thing and like...

Find out there was some charge made online on my card today while I was at work, to some Mill Plain Five Inc place out in Boulder Hill, Oregon.

For $2.24.

THEY FROZE MY ACCOUNT OVER A CHARGE FOR TWO DOLLARS AND TWENTY FOUR CENTS. I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. I'm very lucky it was just a measly little charge like that, but... what the hell. I was freaking out it'd be like hundreds of dollars!

$2.24!!!!!! Out of all the online shopping I do, they pick out THAT as unusual activity. HOWWWW DID THEY KNOW??? They're like... freaking superheroes or something.

Except for that time they deemed the LIMITED EDITION ORANGE RANGE SINGLE my mom was buying me as "unusual activity" and the CD was sold out by the time we cleared it. _{I guess I didn't really need it...}

Anyway, I should be getting a new card later this week.

BANKING IS FUN.

Bank Rep: How about the charge that didn't go through at the shell station today?
Me: That was me, trying to get gas after work so I could GO HOME.

*EDIT*

The only thing that shows up when I try to google that place is this journal. And Google maps does not acknowledge a city called "Boulder Hill, Oregon". Whut whut.

Taken from buni_in_the_sky

Name:
Jamie. Call me Jam.

2. Age:
27

3. Location:
My office the basement.

4. Occupation:
Cashier, freelance artist of sorts kinda.

5. Partner:
>_>

6. Kids:
Do my gerbils count?

7. Brothers/Sisters:
NONE, HAHAHAHA

8. Pets:
Two Mongolian gerbils named Frank and Forrester. They are ADORABLE. Also, we have a golden retriever mix dog named Kona, who is adorable, but not very bright. Kona loooves sniffing the gerbils when we have them out, until he gets their whiskers in his face. He's such a wuss.

9. List 3-5 biggest things going on in your life right now:
1. Rheumatoid Arthritis
2. Paying the bills for the testing I had for Rheumatoid Arthritis
3. Doing commissions to get back on top of arting and help pay bills
4. Hating my job Aiming towards relocating to find a better job, hopefully art related
5. Um... um... HETALIA (crap, whut)

10. Parents:
I have some. =w=a

11. Who are some of your closest friends?:
pbjsammich and buni_in_the_sky

Now for more random/in-depth stuffz:
Don't use "stuffz", it just looks silly.

TV Shows:
Venture Bros, MST3K, some shows on truTV sometimes... anime-wise... currently Hetalia and Kimi ni Todoke.

Bands:
Uh... The Beatles, TV on the Radio, Orange Range, The Killers, kinda liking Miniature Tigers, Queen, IDK

Artists:
Paul McCartney, Michael Buble, Uta no Oyabun? crap... I DON'T KNOW! *sobs*

Movies:
WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES

Obsessed with:
Hetalia and Zoids mostly.

Top 10 most played songs:
Grabbing from Last.fm... if it's accurate, I dunno.

1 McVaffe – Tetris McVaffeQuasi Ultimix OC ReMix - 74 plays
2 Cesare Cremonini – Figlio di un re - 61 plays
3 ORANGE RANGE – Walk On - 51 plays
4 Nek – La Vida Es - 50 plays
5 イギリス(CV：杉山紀彰) – 絶対不敗英国紳士 - 47 plays (England's Absolutely Invincible English Gentleman)
6 ORANGE RANGE – Champione - 46 plays
6 Ricardo Autobahn – The Golden Age Of Video - 46 plays
6 AVTechNO – Luka Megurine - Sending Memories - 46 plays
9 Uta no Oyabun – Ole! - Una siesta de la pasión - 45 plays
9 Uta no Oyabun – Oyabun Tomato no Uta - 45 plays

Other News: I'm sick.

( List of Art Commissions/Donation Gifts/Etc To Do )

So yesterday was our Cashier Olympics District Competition. The theme being the 80s. We had a number of different stores over, um... about 7? Anyways, out of the three years I've attended districts, this one was the best, which is awesome since our store hosted it.

Just a note, the last two years' themes were "Hillbilly" and "Broadway". LAME.

Stuff we had:

Lots of food. There was sooo much food!! It was basically a potluck, plus a special cake. I made brownies to share. Had some fried chicken, and a cheesy broccoli casserole and it was goood! There was a green bean casserole that ended up on the floor though. orz Sad to see the food wasted, but it was funny too. =x=a

Dress up. Lots of people dressed 80s-like. Big hair and mullets and sweatbands, loud colors... I wore my hair in a high ponytail to the side, with a hot pink scrunchy and a hot pink t-shirt with a denim over-shirt, and I brought my favorite Care Bear Cousin plush from when I was little. Bright Heart Raccoon~! I'm so nerdy. orz Apparently there was a costume contest. The winner was dressed up like a member of Kiss.

Music. Yesss, people brought 80s music~! I brought my old boom box with a CD with random songs. We had three spots with music playing.

Float contest. Each store made a float on a cart to bring. There were some really fun ones, one had a bunch of Barbie dolls on it in workout clothing. The one that won first place was a sculpture of the MTV logo with the astronaut. It was pretty sweet. 2nd place was decorated with vinyl record album covers of 80s musicians and had music playing. Our store won 3rd place, with a Rubik's Cube thing. I helped design it kinda, but my supervisor took all the credit. =x=;

We didn't place at all in the olympics, but there was some other district competition going on testing cashiers in the district stores and secret shopping to see how well we perform. Our store won 1st place for that, so we'll be moving up to the REGIONAL level, which will mean... More random testing and secret shoppers. Yay?

Overall I had fun, but they took forever tallying the results to give out prizes, so I got really impatient... then my supervisor acting like the float was all her thing... I kinda left on a down note. But whatever. There was so much leftover food, I got to eat GOOD FOOD during my break today in stead of vending machine crap. Must get that broccoli cheese casserole recipe...

So yesterday Sam went to my HFA site only for Avast! to pop up saying there was... a TROJAN VIRUS. She fixed this, but with some more searching we found a NUMBER of our index files, not just .php ones, but .html too, had been infected with this trojan script. Not only that, but we discovered a previous issue we had on the ZE forum, which we thought we had fixed, had spread throughout every single page on Zoids Evolution.

We spent like FOUR FREAKING HOURS trying to pull all that junk out the files (ZE itself is HUGE and gave me a headache).

And today we poke back and Sam finds her oekaki board is infected. FFFFFF So we don't know how the hell this thing got in or is spreading between our domains and just... AUGH.

We're working to fix it, but srsly... what a freaking headache.

Anyways, yeah... gonna suggest to everyone to run an anti-virus scan on their computers if they visited our sites yesterday. To steal from Sam's entry, that's:

tristrum.com (Including hetakaki)
horror-vacui.net (Including the Hetalia File Archive)
jamsammich.net
zoidsevolution.net

Stole from buni_in_the_sky

Name 5 favorite shows, fill out the questions, blah blah...

( Cut cut cut. )

Twitter + Pixiv = Drawtwit

http://drawtwit.com/jammerlea/

I now have a new reason to actually bother with twitter. XD

Ordered 3 copic multiliner pens. Not that I want to spend money, but I NEED them for commissions. o_o;

My LCD monitor is having ISSUES. Either it is REALLY BRIGHT and I have trouble reading colored text because the colors are so light, OR the colors are normal, but the screen is flickering. The monitor is only a couple years old, so... meh. I can't afford to get a new one at the moment... shall poke around for tech support (Sam gave me a lead).

And life goes on.

Felt like rambling on this... pbjsammich and I decided to pull out of the Hetalia RP we were in. I have mixed feelings on this, because... I really had fun with it sometimes and I really loved my characters. But... we were really spending too much time on it and not getting anything productive done. It's fine for the other RPers who are in school and don't have as much to worry about (and people like nike2422 who can seem to work AND get tons of other stuff done and still be able to RP (how do you do it, Nike?? HOWWWW)), but we tended to shirk off more important things for it.

I haven't done a decent piece of artwork since September 3rd. That's over a month ago! I haven't made an art dump on hetalia in even longer... Nevermind website and commission work... orz orz

Part of me is really going to miss that RP. I'll miss the fun people and the playfulness and the weird bits of RP-canon that came about. I'll miss Sam and myself referring to ourselves as Toni and Lovi, because it made our OOC comments seem IC. XD

I'm glad I was part of it for a while. I hope we will be remembered. XD Going to try to keep in contact with everyone through LJ... I'm missing a few people though (Francis, Toris, Ivan). Wah.. x_x;;

Anyway, closing that chapter for now.

Tonight is Cashier Olympics. I am really not excited. And I still need to decorate my apron. orz orz I need some sleep.

Kinda forgot about this. D:

You comment to the person doing the meme, and they give you five subjects to talk about. And then people comment on your entry, and you give them five subjects.
These promts were given by [info]buni_in_the_sky

Comment if you'd like some prompts.

( Stuff behind cut. )

Was this okay?? orz orz orz

Srsly, I keep playing them over and over. You can check my last.fm account.

( Cut for youtube embeds. )

HMM. When will I get sick of these?

Spain? Why would you think I like Spain??

Oh god, I just spent practically my whole day working on my Hetalia File Archive site. FFFFFF

I hadn't updated the last couple days, so I had to catch up adding new communities and teasers and France's CD lyrics... Then I decided I wanted to archive news and official blog posts, so THEN I made an LJ community (hetarchive) for the archive so I wouldn't clutter up html on the website. And then I went through 654536543 LJ themes for the site and had to change the colors 765654654 times and then moved over my help post and created posts for the news and blog posts. And THEN I started going through the LJ comm's posts to look for those posts and went through June of 2008 to January of 2009 (and dear lord I want to beat everyone who DOES NOT TITLE their posts)!!!

And then I realized I forgot to go through December of 2008.

So then I finished the updates and went on to make a 200x40 link banner.

Like so:

Then I emailed Hetalia Indexes asking if they'd like to affiliate.

Then I took a break.

Then I checked the aph_request and found someone asking for a good image of the DVD volume 4 cover and so I went to Amazon Japan and pieced the picture together for the archive to share.

I also took note I can do the same for Germany's CD cover so I SHALL DO THAT TOMORROW LATER TODAY.

WHERE THE HELL DID MY LIFE GO?!?

( EXTRA: We win so hard. (Or is that fail?) )

But for now I MUST MOURN A SOURCE OF CHILDHOOD ENTERTAINMENT.

Oh woe, Deer Forest, you did not sell, but your old jingle will be stuck somewhere in my head until the day I die.

Rest in... pieces. No really.

So some random stuff...

Haven't gone any farther with the write-up thing, but apparently there's gonna be an apron design contest for the cashiers and people are expecting me to win. Ha?

ALSO: What do the 80s make you think of? I don't care if you weren't alive then, I'm just looking for ideas for the float.

Got in an early visit to the rheumatologist since the Naproxen was becoming less effective. The doctor is nice (and embarrassingly wanted to see my sketchbook). He gave me a new prescription, that should hopefully work better when it starts taking effect. I took one look at the prescription form and thought, "Prednisone.........isn't this what my dog takes?" It is. orz orz

My mom said she's had it before and it made her very hyper. So... we'll see how things go. In the meantime... still very sore.

The Molga is taking its sweet time to get here. D: Come on USPS, I've gotten packages from Texas faster... The molga's only in PA. I could've driven there by now I bet. D:

ALSO: more coasters! Spain and Romano! DO WANT.

Somehow my bonus from work has ended up going to the purchase of a "Crystal" Molga. Have wanted one since I got one for Sammich. Eee...

A co-worker thinks I'm trust worthy enough to do a 150 word essay on healthy eating for a project of hers for a class. 150 words... no problem. Healthy eating... BUH. Should be fun!

My anti-inflammatory medicine is suddenly less effective, which is making me want to do NOTHING, cuz PAIN, hurrrr. It makes me tired, but sleeping hurts so much I'm all tossing and turning all night. FML.

( Otherwise, I've gotten into a Hetalia RP... )

(3:26:43 PM) mechasammich: happen to have a Hetalia Fantasia ref pic?
(3:26:44 PM) mechasammich: :B
(3:26:54 PM) mechasammich: *relies on you for everything*
(3:26:54 PM) Jammer Lea: iie
(3:27:08 PM) mechasammich: como que no?!
(3:28:06 PM) Jammer Lea: nn, eine minuten bitte
(3:28:12 PM) mechasammich: ok
(3:28:26 PM) Jammer Lea: (how many languages can we use?!)
(3:28:30 PM) mechasammich: IDK

I wonder if my supervisor got to talk to the assistant manager about THINGS today? =x=a

( Because Sam made me. )
And I like doing surveys anyways. XD

I'm in DETROIT at the airport, using their internet. It seems to be free. This airport kinda sucks. All the good stuff is in Concourse A and I'm waaay at the end of Concourse C. I came allll the way down to C and then went allll the way back to A to go to Starbucks for a mocha frappuccino. (This is my second time getting anything from Starbucks ever. Amazing.)

I'm amused though, all the signs only have English and Japanese one them. So it's all ターミナル　and such. I'm surprised there's no Spanish. The time zone announcements are all in English/Japanese/Chinese too.

So soon I get to board the plane to South Bend. It's only about an hour flight, then another hour drive home.

I am so not looking forward to going back to work. ALSO: doctor appointments. Wah.

I'll try to post the rest of my San Antonio photos soon.

There's so much on my mind right now concerning the future. I hope everything works out for the best.

San Japan 2 was fun for pbjsammich and me! Here's some pictures concerning our artwork.

( Click for report! )

Sorry, not a report of my weekend, but a photo dump of Hetalia cosplay photos, since no one has posted any on the community yet. Thought I'd share what I got. Will thumbnail some of these for quicker loading. Hopefully someone else will share some better images as I'm not very pushy, so I've got some bad angles on some shots. Otherwise, enjoy!

( Srsly, I have like 50 pictures. )

Next time I'll post a review with some ART.