SARAH:  (is about five and a half hours into working seven hours on saturday of tax free weekend)

PHONE:  (vibrates in back pocket of my pants)

SARAH:  (jerks violently and makes an awkward squeaking noise)

PHONE: 1 New Message from Carlton

NEW MESSAGE FROM CARLTON:  no tax day = soul sucking vortex of doom

SARAH:  (laughs heartily only so that she does not weep at the despair that is this day)

...And scene.  Seriously, no joke.  The people at the Cookie Store that have been working there a while said that today was busier than Black Friday.  (You know, the day after Thanksgiving where most businesses make it into the black for the first time all year?  Moving on.)

From about 1 PM until I got off at 8 PM we had every employee but one working in the store.  First it was everyone except Maja, and then it was everyone except Amanda. 

That's seven or eight hot bodies crammed into a tiny store with two huge ovens burning at 400 degreees.

I only almost fainted two or three times. 

When I started getting so light headed I couldn't even add pennies... I decided to go sit in the bathroom, which was 20-30 degrees cooler than the rest of the store.

One good thing, though.  Virginia did make sure that everyone got their full break.  So that means I had half an hour to sit in ODB ("Jesus Bread" as it is known to mall employees) munching on a turkey sandwich and the world's best brownie.

After work, I hung out in ODB until they closed all the curtains.  With me still in the store, of course, because I'm that special.  I left so they could clean up and I swung in Hot Topic where my Stevie was working.  I got to chat with him about his playa-ness and I got him to hold a couple of shirts for me until I get paid on Monday.

After that was a fantabulous trip to Marble Slab with Carlton!  Peanut butter banana ice cream with vanilla wafers and banana chunks just might be the best thing in the whole wide world.  Or it would be, if you added some caramel to the mix.

We lounged around outside talking about the hilarious people we know and the hilarious things they do.  'Twas amazing.

Now, though, I am sleepy.  I think it is time for me to go beddy-bye.