well it's been a week since the incident, and, while it is still upsetting, i have gained a better sense of humour about it all. it's an easy coping mechanism when working with living creatures.
today marya was grooming on her table [where the incident occured] and someone came in for a nail trim. i started writing up the receipt, and marya says "do you want to use this table? i can move..." i whip my head around and stare at her for a moment before erupting into a fit of giggles. the customers just looked at me, clueless, as i trimmed the nails on their terrier.
i bring walter in tomorrow for my test, and then i get to officially start training. we kind of bullshat through this first part because obviously i wouldn't be working in a grooming shop if i didn't know how to bathe a dog.
kerry asked jen and chris's husbands, "do you think a pellet gun could kill a chipmunk?"
to which jen responded "yea... i mean it'd probably just scoop it up in its beak and that'd be the end of it."
"...not a PELICAN, a PELLET GUN."
jen is no doubt the biggest ditz i've ever met. nice lady, but so stupid. and you can ask the most sarcastic, stupid question, and she will answer it completely seriously. like "do only dogs named george get demodectic mange?"
sometimes for kicks we use a random word in the wrong context all day, and she picks up on it and starts using it that way.
kerry told us how she was reading and saw the word "misled" and read it as "my-sold"... like the past tense of the word "misle", if that existed.
we think that should be the next word we "teach" jen.
we decided we shouldn't be able to use the english language anymore, since marya said so many christians are "hypothetical" instead of hypocritical, and i referred to someone as a "competitive" liar instead of compulsive.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
the dark knight.
i saw the new batman movie last night and again tonight. it is soooo good.
even if i really like a movie, i rarely see it twice in theatres, let alone on two consecutive days. this movie is great, though!
i might even see it again while it's in theatres.
i took hunnee and mousie to the dog park today. first we were in the big side and mouse whored it up. hunnee kept trying to chase the balls and frisbees people threw, but she couldn't see them after a few feet.
then i took them into the small side because mouse was being a bitch to all the big dogs. hunnee wandered away from me and then couldn't figure out where i was. she was looking around very panicky, and i started calling her name, and she still couldn't find me. it was really sad.
november should be fun. my then i will be grooming and having every other weekend off, so it is not going to be a problem getting off work. it wouldn't be a problem anyhow. as it stands, as long as no dogs are scheduled, i can ask for any day off. though i don't do that.
even if i really like a movie, i rarely see it twice in theatres, let alone on two consecutive days. this movie is great, though!
i might even see it again while it's in theatres.
i took hunnee and mousie to the dog park today. first we were in the big side and mouse whored it up. hunnee kept trying to chase the balls and frisbees people threw, but she couldn't see them after a few feet.
then i took them into the small side because mouse was being a bitch to all the big dogs. hunnee wandered away from me and then couldn't figure out where i was. she was looking around very panicky, and i started calling her name, and she still couldn't find me. it was really sad.
november should be fun. my then i will be grooming and having every other weekend off, so it is not going to be a problem getting off work. it wouldn't be a problem anyhow. as it stands, as long as no dogs are scheduled, i can ask for any day off. though i don't do that.
Monday, July 21, 2008
devegged.
i have decided might eat shellfish. after thinking for quite a while about my stance on animal rights, i do not feel as though invertebrates have the same feelings or emotions as vertebrates.
this, of course, will make me lose my title as not only vegan, but also vegetarian. but then again i was never in it for the title.
i still won't be eating any vertebrates/products from vertebrates.
seth and i got chinese food and in my fortune cookie, the "learn chinese" word was "fish", so i took it as a sign.
it will possibly make it easier to eat at fancy shmancy restaurants with you guyes, although not very much easier. it seems most shellfish dishes have cream or butter-based sauces.
this week was a little bad at work. a dog had explosive diaherrea all over my arms while i was drying him. and another dog bit my wrist today.
i am going to see the new batman movie sometime on my days off. i wanted to see it this weekend but it sold out so quickly, i couldn't.
my friend austin manages at a movie theatre and is getting me in for free, but i can't very well get in free to a movie that is sold out to paying customers.
i've lost about ten pounds since my surgery and am not at a plateau, so that is good, i guess. i could lose another five.
until next time....
this, of course, will make me lose my title as not only vegan, but also vegetarian. but then again i was never in it for the title.
i still won't be eating any vertebrates/products from vertebrates.
seth and i got chinese food and in my fortune cookie, the "learn chinese" word was "fish", so i took it as a sign.
it will possibly make it easier to eat at fancy shmancy restaurants with you guyes, although not very much easier. it seems most shellfish dishes have cream or butter-based sauces.
this week was a little bad at work. a dog had explosive diaherrea all over my arms while i was drying him. and another dog bit my wrist today.
i am going to see the new batman movie sometime on my days off. i wanted to see it this weekend but it sold out so quickly, i couldn't.
my friend austin manages at a movie theatre and is getting me in for free, but i can't very well get in free to a movie that is sold out to paying customers.
i've lost about ten pounds since my surgery and am not at a plateau, so that is good, i guess. i could lose another five.
until next time....
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
sorry, here i am!!!
jb is back in town so he came over yesterday to clean my gutters [that is not a euphamism] and fix my garage door.
the ladder was not tall enough so at one point he tried to climb out my upstairs window thinking perhaps he could walk across the roof, though it was too steep so he didn't. while he was climbing out the window, i said "you know... the retarded people in the house behind me are probably watching you and saying 'wow, what a retard!'"
he then went to his sister's house [she lives on the other side of crystal] and borrowed a ladder. i almost pissed myself when he got to the window walter was near. i have never heard walter panic more than that. he had been barking while we were standing in the yard, but to have a guy with his face right next to the upstairs window... he flipped shit. it was really funny though.
the dogs are very happy that they are able to stay outside all the time now. i just open the door and let them out. on mondays and tuesdays they're just outside allll day long. i only make them come inside if jasper starts barking too much.
here is something i posted in my other blog.
so a few months back when i was relatively new to petco, i had a customer named molly armstrong.
she is a sweet, well-behaved, rather overweight chocolate lab. one of the best-behaved dogs i've ever had the pleasure of grooming. she stands quietly for the entire process, isn't afraid of the dryer, doesn't give trouble for nails, jumps into the tub willingly, and is just a sweet girl.
unfortunately, her owners were known to be complete assholes. they would routinely come in unannounced insisting they had an appointment when they didn't, complain about everything under the sun [shampoo not being rinsed out, etc.], always try to get a discount about things, and were just generally unpleasant bastards.
i was told that if i was given any trouble this time around, i could suggest that he find another place to get his dog groomed, as we obviously weren't meeting his expectations.
knowing this, when i was writing up the receipt for mr. armstrong, i made sure to go over the price very carefully with him before he signed and left.
i offered him the milk works, which costs $17 in addition to the $31.99 for the regular bath, brush, nails, and ears. i explained that it was milk bath, a cream rinse conditioner, and tooth brushing. he accepted and additionally repeated the prices back to me, read the receipt, and said them again before signing.
he left and i groomed sweet molly rather easily, called him, and he came to pick her up.
he took his receipt [the one we went over in detail before he left], and before he brought it up front, this exchange happened.
him: did you have a price increase?
me: not recently, but i've only been here a few months, so it may have been a few dollars cheaper last time you were here, depending on when you came.
him: the milk works was only five dollars last time i was here.
me: ::looks at card:: oh, no, last time you just got milk bath in addtion to the regular grooming. that's five dollars. this time you got milk works, which has the conditioner and toothbrushing too.
him: oh, i didn't want all that. i didn't know it would cost this much.
me: well, i made sure to go over the receipt with you before you left.
him: ::getting angry:: you didn't tell me how much it would be.
me: yes, i did. you repeated it back to me. my manager was standing right next to me.
him: i wouldn't have agreed if i knew how much it would be.
me: i'm sorry, but we did go over this before you left.
him: this is ridiculous!!
me: well, maybe you need to go elsewhere since we aren't meeting your needs.
him: EXCUSE ME??
me: there seems to be a problem every time you are here. we obviously aren't doing a satisfactory job. you need to go elsewhere. that's your receipt, you can take it up front and i'll get molly ready.
him: I WANT MY DOG NOW!
me: you need to pay, first.
him: GIVE ME MY DOG!
at this point the other bather [no longer with us], who is well known for being a pushover and a moron when it comes to customers chimes in with "he can take his dog with him to pay!" which is probably the dumbest thing i've ever heard. you don't give someone their dog if they're arguing about the price.
at any rate, he went to the manager, she agreed with me, he ended up paying, he requested that i NEVER do his dog again and thus only bree was allowed to bathe her from then on, and that was the end of it.
fast forward to sunday. i was looking at my monday appointments and who was my 4:00? molly armstrong. after discussing with leeann my options, i called mr. armstrong [pretending not to be me, of course] and this is how it went.
me: hello, mr. armstrong. i'm calling from petco grooming. we saw that molly has an appointment with us tomorrow, but we checked your card and saw that you only want bree to groom her. unfortunately bree is no longer with us, so i was calling to give you the number to another petco grooming salon.
him: well, i need her bathed tomorrow. she's going to be in a wedding.
me: i'm sure another salon would be willing and able to take you tomorrow if you call them today.
him: well i would be fine with someone else doing her, as long as it isn't the girl that did her last time.
me: according to our records, elyse did her last time, and at this point she is our only bather, so she would be doing her, and it seems you adamently insisted that she doesn't touch your dog again.
him: she can do her as long as someone watches her to make sure she isn't rough with her again.
me: we would have to ask and see if she is willing to groom molly again.
him: just give me the number to the maple grove store.
rough with her? i'm not rough with any dog, let alone a sweetie like molly.
monday night rolls around and we get a call from maple grove to get molly's rabies records. we ask them to call us back after mr. armstrong leaves so that we can warn them about his shenanigans.
the groomer calls back and i talk to her, reading all the commentary on the card from molly's past visits. i tell her molly is a fantastic dog, but the guy is a fucking psycho, and i suggested he find another grooming shop.
then she says "yeah, he seemed very strange. then he said he wasn't going back to your shop because the last person who groomed her beat her with a brush."
BEAT HER WITH A BRUSH.
THAT'S ME, I BEAT DOGS WITH BRUSHES.
i find it funny that he says he refused to go back to our salon when he actually made an appointment with us first and would have continued to come back had i not told him to go elsewhere.
but the rest of it just pisses me off. i get told all the time i'm not firm enough with the dogs. except of course when i beat the hell out of them with brushes.
i have his address and am half-tempted to take out some vigelante justice on him, but that would certainly cut short my grooming career.
now whenever a dog is misbehaving, the girls say "elyse, can you come here and beat this dog with a brush?" ohhh that guy is such a douchebag. he looks like the principal in "ferris bueller's day off", only fatter. and he talks like an exaggerated version of richard dreyfuss.
fucking jerk.
the ladder was not tall enough so at one point he tried to climb out my upstairs window thinking perhaps he could walk across the roof, though it was too steep so he didn't. while he was climbing out the window, i said "you know... the retarded people in the house behind me are probably watching you and saying 'wow, what a retard!'"
he then went to his sister's house [she lives on the other side of crystal] and borrowed a ladder. i almost pissed myself when he got to the window walter was near. i have never heard walter panic more than that. he had been barking while we were standing in the yard, but to have a guy with his face right next to the upstairs window... he flipped shit. it was really funny though.
the dogs are very happy that they are able to stay outside all the time now. i just open the door and let them out. on mondays and tuesdays they're just outside allll day long. i only make them come inside if jasper starts barking too much.
here is something i posted in my other blog.
so a few months back when i was relatively new to petco, i had a customer named molly armstrong.
she is a sweet, well-behaved, rather overweight chocolate lab. one of the best-behaved dogs i've ever had the pleasure of grooming. she stands quietly for the entire process, isn't afraid of the dryer, doesn't give trouble for nails, jumps into the tub willingly, and is just a sweet girl.
unfortunately, her owners were known to be complete assholes. they would routinely come in unannounced insisting they had an appointment when they didn't, complain about everything under the sun [shampoo not being rinsed out, etc.], always try to get a discount about things, and were just generally unpleasant bastards.
i was told that if i was given any trouble this time around, i could suggest that he find another place to get his dog groomed, as we obviously weren't meeting his expectations.
knowing this, when i was writing up the receipt for mr. armstrong, i made sure to go over the price very carefully with him before he signed and left.
i offered him the milk works, which costs $17 in addition to the $31.99 for the regular bath, brush, nails, and ears. i explained that it was milk bath, a cream rinse conditioner, and tooth brushing. he accepted and additionally repeated the prices back to me, read the receipt, and said them again before signing.
he left and i groomed sweet molly rather easily, called him, and he came to pick her up.
he took his receipt [the one we went over in detail before he left], and before he brought it up front, this exchange happened.
him: did you have a price increase?
me: not recently, but i've only been here a few months, so it may have been a few dollars cheaper last time you were here, depending on when you came.
him: the milk works was only five dollars last time i was here.
me: ::looks at card:: oh, no, last time you just got milk bath in addtion to the regular grooming. that's five dollars. this time you got milk works, which has the conditioner and toothbrushing too.
him: oh, i didn't want all that. i didn't know it would cost this much.
me: well, i made sure to go over the receipt with you before you left.
him: ::getting angry:: you didn't tell me how much it would be.
me: yes, i did. you repeated it back to me. my manager was standing right next to me.
him: i wouldn't have agreed if i knew how much it would be.
me: i'm sorry, but we did go over this before you left.
him: this is ridiculous!!
me: well, maybe you need to go elsewhere since we aren't meeting your needs.
him: EXCUSE ME??
me: there seems to be a problem every time you are here. we obviously aren't doing a satisfactory job. you need to go elsewhere. that's your receipt, you can take it up front and i'll get molly ready.
him: I WANT MY DOG NOW!
me: you need to pay, first.
him: GIVE ME MY DOG!
at this point the other bather [no longer with us], who is well known for being a pushover and a moron when it comes to customers chimes in with "he can take his dog with him to pay!" which is probably the dumbest thing i've ever heard. you don't give someone their dog if they're arguing about the price.
at any rate, he went to the manager, she agreed with me, he ended up paying, he requested that i NEVER do his dog again and thus only bree was allowed to bathe her from then on, and that was the end of it.
fast forward to sunday. i was looking at my monday appointments and who was my 4:00? molly armstrong. after discussing with leeann my options, i called mr. armstrong [pretending not to be me, of course] and this is how it went.
me: hello, mr. armstrong. i'm calling from petco grooming. we saw that molly has an appointment with us tomorrow, but we checked your card and saw that you only want bree to groom her. unfortunately bree is no longer with us, so i was calling to give you the number to another petco grooming salon.
him: well, i need her bathed tomorrow. she's going to be in a wedding.
me: i'm sure another salon would be willing and able to take you tomorrow if you call them today.
him: well i would be fine with someone else doing her, as long as it isn't the girl that did her last time.
me: according to our records, elyse did her last time, and at this point she is our only bather, so she would be doing her, and it seems you adamently insisted that she doesn't touch your dog again.
him: she can do her as long as someone watches her to make sure she isn't rough with her again.
me: we would have to ask and see if she is willing to groom molly again.
him: just give me the number to the maple grove store.
rough with her? i'm not rough with any dog, let alone a sweetie like molly.
monday night rolls around and we get a call from maple grove to get molly's rabies records. we ask them to call us back after mr. armstrong leaves so that we can warn them about his shenanigans.
the groomer calls back and i talk to her, reading all the commentary on the card from molly's past visits. i tell her molly is a fantastic dog, but the guy is a fucking psycho, and i suggested he find another grooming shop.
then she says "yeah, he seemed very strange. then he said he wasn't going back to your shop because the last person who groomed her beat her with a brush."
BEAT HER WITH A BRUSH.
THAT'S ME, I BEAT DOGS WITH BRUSHES.
i find it funny that he says he refused to go back to our salon when he actually made an appointment with us first and would have continued to come back had i not told him to go elsewhere.
but the rest of it just pisses me off. i get told all the time i'm not firm enough with the dogs. except of course when i beat the hell out of them with brushes.
i have his address and am half-tempted to take out some vigelante justice on him, but that would certainly cut short my grooming career.
now whenever a dog is misbehaving, the girls say "elyse, can you come here and beat this dog with a brush?" ohhh that guy is such a douchebag. he looks like the principal in "ferris bueller's day off", only fatter. and he talks like an exaggerated version of richard dreyfuss.
fucking jerk.
Monday, July 7, 2008
texting.
one of marya's online photo album contains these pictures:
at work.
at the cc club.
outside the cc club.
7th street entry.
another view at 7th street.
in front of first ave. purposely in front of the pixies' star.
at marya's house before we chaperoned her kids to a goth show.
the triple rock.
on kerry and tory's deck.
and this is only the beginning.
at work.
at the cc club.
outside the cc club.
7th street entry.
another view at 7th street.
in front of first ave. purposely in front of the pixies' star.
at marya's house before we chaperoned her kids to a goth show.
the triple rock.
on kerry and tory's deck.
and this is only the beginning.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
production.
so today was my first day off since i got back to minnesota. i didn't get home on friday until about 10am due to my commute via light rail and bus. then i worked at 1:00.
saturday, sunday, and monday i worked 11:00-7:00. didn't do anything at night except sunday i went to the triple rock with seth for my birthday and he gave me an "avenging narwhal" set. which is a narwhal with four different detachable horns and a little seal, koala, and penguin it can impale.
however instead of bumming around all day i beautified my yard and cleaned my house. well, my basement and the first level. the second level is tomorrow.
yes... i mowed both my front lawn and my back law ALL BY MYSELF. without losing any limbs or passing out in the heat [yes, the HEAT, it was 87 degrees today].
i also got a hanging geranium plant that i put on my tree out front, and a pot of dahlias.
the dogs love that i can leave the door open for them now and let them run around out back without having to sit there, get tired of sitting outside, and call them back in.
hunnee came to the front when i mowed the lawn and of course enjoyed that immensely.
i bought three stepping stones to decorate, too. i'm going to put the paw prints of everyone and then my hand prints on one of them.
my period is not as light as i had hoped, but it is 80% or so lighter than it was, mostly due to the lack of gigantic fist-sized chunks of uterus coming out all day for three days. sorry, that was gross...
my training days for the first part of my apprenticeship are going to be on thursdays. i have to spend a month officially "training" as a bather before i start actually grooming anything.
tomorrow i may go bike shopping with jonah or seth, though i might wait until next week, depending on what i do tomorrow. there's a vegan dine-in a pizza luce uptown that i'm going to with seth. there should be a lot of people there.
ps: your comments on my last entry made my brain hurt.
saturday, sunday, and monday i worked 11:00-7:00. didn't do anything at night except sunday i went to the triple rock with seth for my birthday and he gave me an "avenging narwhal" set. which is a narwhal with four different detachable horns and a little seal, koala, and penguin it can impale.
however instead of bumming around all day i beautified my yard and cleaned my house. well, my basement and the first level. the second level is tomorrow.
yes... i mowed both my front lawn and my back law ALL BY MYSELF. without losing any limbs or passing out in the heat [yes, the HEAT, it was 87 degrees today].
i also got a hanging geranium plant that i put on my tree out front, and a pot of dahlias.
the dogs love that i can leave the door open for them now and let them run around out back without having to sit there, get tired of sitting outside, and call them back in.
hunnee came to the front when i mowed the lawn and of course enjoyed that immensely.
i bought three stepping stones to decorate, too. i'm going to put the paw prints of everyone and then my hand prints on one of them.
my period is not as light as i had hoped, but it is 80% or so lighter than it was, mostly due to the lack of gigantic fist-sized chunks of uterus coming out all day for three days. sorry, that was gross...
my training days for the first part of my apprenticeship are going to be on thursdays. i have to spend a month officially "training" as a bather before i start actually grooming anything.
tomorrow i may go bike shopping with jonah or seth, though i might wait until next week, depending on what i do tomorrow. there's a vegan dine-in a pizza luce uptown that i'm going to with seth. there should be a lot of people there.
ps: your comments on my last entry made my brain hurt.
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