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like, wtf. what is this cosmic amount of awesome?

best friend jess works at kfc. she knows of (and fully supports/enables) my fandom tendencies. Last night during supper rush, my other best friend/co-worker Sarah was there visiting me, with her boyfriend & brother. I was chatting to them for a bit, then they'd see I was busy so they'd go back into the lobby, etc.

So I'm in the middle of an order, and

jess: tonya, you should come over here~
me: kinda busy~
jess: you're gonna wanna come over here~
me: /looks over. ...YOU. YOU GOT ME A CAKE. I WANNA SE- CRAP. I HAVE ORDERS. GIVE ME A MINUTE, I'LL BE OVER.
jess: i think you still wanna come over~
me: /starts walking over. what is it, Arashi or som- it is... OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG ARASHI ON A CAKE! ARASHI CAKE! THIS IS, OMG, YOU GUY- HOLY SHIT THEY'RE WEARING KFC HATS.

and then I bounced/jumped around for a minute or two, went back to making orders, came back to look at it some more and huggle people, then went & made more orders. It was extremely bad timing on their part but lmao in their defense, it wasn't busy when they went to get the cake :3

BEHOLD.


I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO WRITE HERE, JUST, ALSKDJFHDJKSLKDJHFJSKDJFHDJKXSDJGV!!1!!!1!!!1!!!1!

( PHOTOS, RAMBLINGS, LOVE. LOTS OF LOVE IN HERE ♥♥♥ )


twitter update: i'm home, mom transported me. back still hurts, but isn't as bad. mom gave me a muscle relaxer, i think, so i should pass out relatively soon. i plan on breathing through my nose sometime next week. muffin has yet to be finished ♥

Trying to get into the habit of downloading weekly raws of AniS, VSA & HnA like I used to D: The preview for next week's VSA with Oguri Shun as the Plus One Guest & Ogura-san as leader of the other team HOMGHOMGHOMG HAD ME SQUIRMING UNDER MY COVERS LIKE A WORM ON A DRY SLAB OF CONCRETE. Also looking forward to watching Matsu-nii on Anis, which I'll watch later on tonight.

Here are three fics that I requested from the arashi_on fundraiser:
Woke Up New by sunscribble
we could pretend (that it's nothing) by honeyporridge
In a Glass Box by rikke_leonhart

All of them are so fab it hurts and if you haven't seen them floating through stormwriters or whatever fic comm you frequent, you should.

I ALSO RECEIVED MY COOKIES FROM flange5 !!1!

( three photos under a cut, cause I'm polite like that ♥ )

She also attached a short letter, thanking me for the purchase, and I thought it was such a great touch. It's something physically permanent I got from the fundraiser (even though I think I'm supposed to eat the cookies but... damn no I cannot bare to do that) and Imma hold onto it c8

I bought Jun for my sister & Aiba for dad, both of whom thought the cookies were a cute idea. But. I don't want to give them away. No. I do not.

Today was also Election Day in Canada, the first Election Day where I was legal to vote~! I was so ~excited~ even though I'm fully aware that my one vote won't change the outcome. But I did my part, and that's very important to me.

I asked to get off work an hour early (fuck knows it was dead dead dead and I cleaned that store spotless to cure my utter boredom) so I'd be able to catch the voting polls and staff was pretty much all WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO VOTE. WHY. IDGI. and being completely legit. One of them (grown man) got into a mini hissyfit, saying THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING FOR ME SO I'M NOT GONNA DO ANYTHING FOR THEM *slams cabinet doors*

Yes, because parliament has NOTHING better to do than call you up and ask how you're doing.

I like the Kylie Minogue/Verbal collab for the Tohoku earthquake. A lot. I want to look for more of Verbal because DAYUM his English is divine and turns me on like no other :Dv

Been going through a phase in which I've become ob.sessed. with mainstream radio/dance songs. Since I went downtown for my 19th birthday, I just love love love to dance (even though I suck and even though I've only gone downtown three times) and can't resist tossing some Ke$ha onto my itunes and breaking loose in my bedroom. Yesterday I had a dance playlist on while I was in the shower, and for On The Floor & Who's That Chick I full on stopped showering and just ~broke it down~. So addicting. Good lord.

I have been eating so much Easter chocolate/chocolate in general today. I bought a bag of chocolate covered pretzels and TWAS NOT A GOOD IDEA. Oof.

Yesterday was my boss' surprise retirement party. We got another location's staff to work the store in the night, and we all drove up to Char's house to see her one last time. We thought she'd figured it out, but she had no idea.

She cried a bit when we showed up, and she told me after that she wanted to leave it the way it was on Friday; that was her last day. She got off her shift, gave hugs goodbye, and didn't cry until Sarah did, then a few others followed suit. She told me last night that she had said to her husband, I'm so glad Tonya wasn't there... because I would've torn her heart to shreds.

I'm the most sentimental one on staff. Sue me.

So, a little bit into the party, Monica gives Char the scrapbook she made. Oh. My. Jesus. It's gorgeous. She has photos of all the staff, with messages we all wrote to her, and all our little catch phrases, photos of Char from over 20 years ago, KFC everything (some things Monica had kept for years) and just, she did such a good job. I started to cry.

Few minutes later, I'm in the dining room where most everyone is, and I start crying more. Give me two minutes, and Sarah has to hide my face in her chest, trying to rock me and my makeup is all cried off, and I'm just wailing and wailing and wailing. It just hit me, all of a sudden. At that point, Tina decided to have a toast to Char, and I started crying harder, if possible.

Anyway, after that I stopped crying in front of people and went outside for a smoke alone. And cried. Came in and sat in one of the living rooms. And cried. Then Sarah & Marianne found me and brought me vodka jello shots to make me stop crying.

And they worked.

I didn't cry the rest of the night, but everyone kept cuddling with me and asking if I was better now, and I told them yes, because I was. Even by the end of the night, when everyone was having their final goodbyes, I couldn't cry anymore. I even said out loud that I feel bad that I cried at the wrong time, and everyone laughed at me.

Throughout the entire night, whenever I'd latch onto Char and just cuddle her (it happened a lot) she kept telling me that I know where she lives, I have her number, all I have to do is give her a call and she'll make me eggs and bacon and hash browns and listen to me talk about any and everything. That we would have a "Mommy Day".

When I was finally leaving, Char pulled me aside again, and told me I was going places, and she wished I would stay at KFC even after she left, and that she was always, always, always there for me. Anytime.

Char is just such a beautiful person, the best second mother anyone can ask for, and I know she means what she says.

I'm going to miss having her around the store to pick on me, and ask me how school's doing, and be the one sane person in the building.