4 posts tagged “starbucks”
My boyfriend got up this morning and went to go work out with his brother. I only work Saturday afternoons, but they do their work out in the mornings and then sit around and play whatever new board games his brother has purchased in the afternoon.
Honestly, I know it's all of the time he's been spending over their with his new nephew, Liam, that makes him suddenly decide he'll want kids in the future - not just one, and no adopting (he doesn't like the idea?!), but two kids that he expects me to pop out, UGH.
Anyway, right after he left my house he called me and insisted that I go for a drive toward his parents' neighborhood. He said the clouds in the sky were covering everything expect for a few small peep-holes, where the sun shown through on to a vast, misty fog that covered our little out-of-town valley. He said it was gorgeous. He knows that I love sunshine through the fog, so he called to let me know. I grabbed my camera, barely fixed anything about myself - I'd just gotten out of bed - and drove out that direction.
I got just a few snapshots, which I haven't uploaded to my computer yet, but by the time I got to the neighborhood, the fog had slipped away up on to the hills. :-( It still made for a gorgeous, refreshing morning drive, and I figured that since I was already out..... I needed to get Starbucks!
The only reason why I bother getting Starbucks while I'm not working (I work..at Starbucks!) is because I bought one of their awesome new Starbucks(red) cards. If you use it between the beginning and end of this year, Starbucks will donate $.05 for every purchase made with the card to Product(RED). It's an awesome donation to helping AIDs in Africa. I plan on recharging this card with my tip money in a few months (when I can afford not to use my tips for bills), and just using my card every single time I want to buy something. Check out the website for more Product(RED) information!! There are many ways to get involved!!
I digress...
I got my coffee - a Half-caff, venti, soy, extra-hot/extra-sprinkles/no-whip, sugar free cinnamon dolce latte (yes, it's a mouthful, but it's how I like it and I'm HOOKED) - and started back home. Soon after I started drinking my coffee, I got his strange, yet familiar, uncomfortable feeling in my stomach.
My damn period is starting soon.
My cramps totally stole my coffee's thunder. Boo. Oh well, it still tasted pretty darn yummy :-D
I'd appreciate it if you'd never visit me again! Especially when we have a line of about 8 customers and all I can do is jump around in a circle, and then hop back on to my register.
Damn you, Scuba Steve!
Sooooo not excited for tomorrow!
Cappuccino, you will be the death of me!
I sprained my wrist apparently. I was driving, turned the wheel, got my hand stuck in it in some funky way and somehow sprained the damn thing.
It hurts and it's swollen. This is my left hand, btw. I'm so weirded out - it's odd not having two fully functional hands for me. :-( I can't imagine how hard making coffee and espresso is going to be tomorrow...or how much they're all going to make fun of me!
I'm having a lot of fun with my team at Starbucks. I'm so happy to be working with all of them..they're all really fun. Our manager is pretty neat, too. It just seems like a really awesome group!
The weather in Reno has been pretty cold lately. I love it!! The skies are gray and cloudy, and the mountains are constantly hiding beneath low clouds. You can totally tell it's snowing like crazy up there... I really want to go snowboarding, but none of my shit fits me anymore. I guess if I bought some new pants and wore REALLY thin socks in my boots, then I might be able to go snowboarding a few times.
...but if I'm spraining my damn wrist DRIVING, seriously, how much must God NOT WANT ME on a mountain? lmao
The extra tall guy is Nick - he's 6'5!! The guy with the lid full of whipped cream is Zack; he wanted some of our vanilla whipped cream, so our trainer put it in a lid and put the mocha sauce on top.... it proceeded to dribble out of the lid and all over his pants, so we told him to shove it in his face, and he did. It was funny. Everyone else is JUST as fun and funny, and I'm soooo totally loving it.
Also, anyone that rags on Starbucks needs to be educated - I'm learning things I didn't know! Starbucks tries to help independently owned coffee farms, and the expensive water that we sell (ethos) actually helps to provide fresh water for villages and areas all over the world that would otherwise just drink/bathe/laundry/pee in the same rivers/streams. Pretty damn important!
I bought this scarf earlier this past week. I love it. Lorean is also telling me that I look like I'm losing VISIBLE weight. I've lost weight this year, but he said this is visible... my face, stomach, and legs look much slimmer - or so he says. I dunno. It could be the fact that I'm drinking so much damn coffee that I don't even have an appetite for food anymore. This will wear off once we stop 'coffee tasting' (like wine tastings!) at work. :-D
Lastly, it was my mom's birthday yesterday. I spent quite a bit of money on her. She got an awesome car oil burner - you plug it in and you can actually change oil scents by changing the little insert thingie. It's super neat - I bought her this at The Body Shop, and got two scents for her: Vanilla Spice, and Tobacco Flower.
BTW, Tobacco Flower smells NOTHING like tobacco. It actually smells divine.
She also got her favorite college football team (Ugh, the huskers/NE) on a Santa hat, and some really good chocolate truffles. :-D AND a pop-up card with kittens crawling around through sewing boxes and string. Too cute.
Then we all went to Red Robin, got burgers, and I made this embarassing balloon for her. I also snuck off to the bathroom and told a waitress to sing happy birthday and embarass her before she decided to get up and make us all leave. :-D They sang the "sound off (happy) sound off (birthday)" version, which includes a line "I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'VE BEEN TOLD (repeat) SOMEONE HERE IS GETTING OLD (repeat)".
Anyway..time to run off and go to church. :-D
