The Guidelines for Ordering a Pizza.
02.07.01
E17:01
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Music o' the Entry: Project Majestic Mix: A Tribute to Nobuo Uematsu (Gold Edition)
Yes, it finally came in, and I am here to tell you that I'm quite pleased with my product, as I had hoped I'd be (especially since I donated to it). I haven't finished listening to it all yet (I'm currently on the second disc), but I enjoy it and look forward to hearing the future products from KFSS Studios and the folks over there. Whoa, that's weird, I had no clue that that one song off the Final Fantasy: Pray album was actually a vocal of "Elia, Maiden of Water" from FFIII...how spiffy. Hooray for game music bliss? Indeed, my current love (before this showed up in my mailbox this day) is "The Ancient Planet", from the Gradius Suite Fantasia, a distractingly excellent piece of music that I dig mightily.
But yes, anyway, on a non-musical note, I HAD been planning to write much, but then Matt came down with a disturbingly atrocious case of strep throat (according to doctors and my own observations, given my having such a nastich little illness a couple of times), so he took up residence on my couch for a couple of days, whilst I tried my damndest to be a good nurse, housekeeper, and pizza place girl simultaneously (seeing as I do have a relatively random neat-freak streak), which I believe I succeeded at. No, I didn't do too much to help him, other than supply him with a seemingly ceaseless amount of those generic popsicles that are sugary juice in plastic casing that one chucks in the freezer and proceeds to consume later and allow him to enjoy the resources of my home, such as cleanliness (I'm not saying one should eat off of and/or perform surgery on the floor of my house, I'm making a frank comparison between our dwellings that's unfortunately quite truthful), cooler temperature, humidifiers, throat-deadener spray, and Tylenol PM. Still, he does better now, for which I'm glad...and holy CRAP ON A STICK, the orchestral version of Shadow's Theme just audio-assaulted me and tears welled up in my eyes because I have obscene emotional connections to music and certain powerful chords/melodies will just make my Musicometer go batty, such as this. Oh, plus I dig Shadow's theme, it was actually the first piece of video game music I transposed to piano in the days before I could get my grimy mitts of game music piano books (although possibly after "Wind Scene", the AD 600 music from ChronoTrigger). But anyway, so that was the past four days for me. Which weren't bad by any means, I love spending time with Matt even when he is deathly (though I prefer him otherwise) and I surely begrudge him not.
Alrighty, as I've mentioned before, I'm a pizza girl (though not of the delivery sort, driving and I are the worst combination ever, I construct them at times). And because of this, I present to y'all a list of suggestions to those of you ordering pizzas to make our and your lives easier, and all of us happier and less stressed. Guidelines For Those Who Order Pizza
1. First off, make sure if you're calling for delivery that the store you're calling is actually in your area, not 40 miles in any direction. If it's not, then please DO call the correct one.
2. If we're having a two-topping/item special, please be aware that two means TWO. 2. 1+1. It does not equal three (3) or four (4). It doesn't matter if there are two things on one side and two different ones on the other, there's still four ingredients on the damn pizza and I have to charge you accordingly if that's what you want.
3. When one orders five or six drinks, getting them in perhaps three varieties at the most is permissible. Not five or six. YOU DON'T NEED TO SAMPLE EVERY BLOODY BEVERAGE WE OFFER JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN. There's not terribly much room inside those little boxes on the order form to write down and it overcomplicates things.
4. When stating one's address and phone number, please don't mumble and/or speak at the speed of light. I AM attempting to write your ramblings down and if you'd do it concisely it'd make everything go much faster.
5. Please have a VAGUE clue of what you're ordering when you do, changing your order 70 times throughout the phone conversation tends to make things such as what you actually wanted difficult to read on the order sheet. Also, don't ask me to pick things for you because you're too lazy to-we DO have anchovies.
6. For the love of crap make sure you can PAY for your products.
7. If you're in your backyard, please know that we cannot legally enter your home to give you pizza, even if you tell us to.
8. When ordering for delivery, please have a physical address to give us. No, seriously.
9. If you're using a coupon, let me know BEFORE I total your order; it's just moronic to get all self-righteous about your price being too high due to the coupon when you failed to tell me you were using one. And speaking of coupons, please give me the details on it and READ it before ordering; some are carryout only.
10. And finally, which should cover everything: just don't be stupid. Thank you.
And this can kind of basically summarize work. No, it's not awful, and I seem to get along with my coworkers decently, it's just some of our customers are tards of the highest caliber. It's gotten less stressful as I continue, surprisingly, since I have an irrational dread of speaking to folk on the phone at home (particularly businesses, I have no idea). Yesterday was humorous to me, we had some folk call to ask if we served seafood pizzas, particularly with squid atop them, and I had to inform them that such a commodity is not terribly present in the United States (it turns out that they're visiting from Europe), that the best we could do was anchovies and shrimp.
The other day Matt and I rented Guilty Gear X for my shiny PS2 (hush you, I still dig it mightily, despite owning a grand total of one game) and I must say, it's quite the spiffy game. The characters are weird as hell, which is pretty usual for Japanese fighting games, and disturbingly paficist at times (not that pacifism is disturbing, but the sheer number of characters of such mindsets in a fighting game strikes me as unusual). The final boss is apparently this spiffy green-haired girl named Dizzy who fights with her wings. Sure, we can't beat her, but it's still fun. Yes, hooray for pretty pretty 2D fighters, in my mind they shall always own 3D because despite my political screaming-leftishness, I can be QUITE conservative in other, less expected, matters.
Bloody hell, why must Chinese food always be so pricey?
Ah well, I've things to do, perhaps more later. Off to rent Harvest Moon for PS2~
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