not blogged in a while....bout time i did...

its august already! when did that happen? i'll have been going out with Andrea for four months tomorrow. woo! :P

McDonalds has been quite interesting recently. Wayne has been in for at least 3 of my shifts since ive been back from Stafford. Mark is the big store manager boss bloke, and Wayne is Marks boss, so hes quite scary, although i did actually see him smiling yesterday, so that may have been an imposter.

i suspect hes been around because of our last Gapbuster. no idea why its called that, but its basically a mystery shopper who comes in twice a month and rates how well we do. anyhoo, last time we only got something like 57% for quality (apparently it was only cos of the chips. it was Marks shift too, i bet he was pissed off).

now that Waynes been in a lot, instead of packing the production bin full of food and waiting to cook more when one of the burgers is running low, we just cook a handfull of each and then do another handfull when things run out.
i think its better like that, because instead of standing around being bored and pretending to clean things for most of your shift youre standing around and cooking stuff for most of your shift....at least thats how it works on quiet shifts. not looking forward to my next friday shift....

ill stop talking about McDonalds now. mainly because youre all bored and partially because i just dug out my employee handbook and the bit about non disclosure of information is a bit vague :P never mind. no one from McDs'll read this anyway.

OH! we've been giving away cars from Cars in the happy meals and theyre great! ive got the first four and im planning on getting the rest. the VW camper is the best one :D im not stealing them....its just we cant sell the ones with damaged packaging. its surprising how often you find one with a big hole in the bag....*cough*

what else have i been up to?

seen Andrea a few times. went to the beach at west wittering with her and her mum last wednesday. that was a good laugh, and the sea was surprisingly warm. just remembered i was planning to make a sand Isengard so that when the tide came in it would flood, just like in Lord of the Rings. oh well :P
went with Andrea to see Superman Returns and thought it was really good. it was made better because they carried it on from the old Christopher Reeve ones, editing in old footage of Marlong Brando as Jor-El and having Kevin Spacey, who looks scarily like Gene Hackman, as Lex Luthor, Lois Lane not being able to spell, etc.
my only problem with it was that it was set 5 years after Superman IV, and in that short time there had apparently been HUGE advances in technology, like laptops and mobile phones. especially as i think its meant to be set in the 50s... other than that, though, fantastic!

ive also been rejoicing at the wonders of free FilmFour! brilliant films, all free! ive now seen three Marx Bros films, something ive been meaning to do for years, and i think theres a Charlie Chaplin one on tonight. not as good as Buster Keaton, but still funny.

am working my way through some H. G. Wells books. just finished the Time Machine, which was brilliant and im now on the Invisible Man, which isnt quite as good as TM, but i think its just cos its a bit slow to get started.

i think thats pretty much everything for now. got a day off today, so im gonna loaf around doing bugger all.