The other day I left work early
I asked my manager if I could go home to celebrate a couple things because there weren't a lot of customers in the store
He said yes
I got home and ... well everything got canceled (to put it simply)
I was peeved
You know when you need money
But you ask to get sent home without pay
And not only do you NOT do anything
You end up spending MORE money than you would of, if you had just stayed at work....
So now
I was on the look out
To .... well .. MAKE MONEY?!
hahahahahahahha
From work - OBVIOUSLY
Not - you know ... "Hi, you wanna buy some wacky backy"
So yeh
On my way to the clocking in machine I saw that there was overtime available to help build the Christmas Shop in Area 3
PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME WHY IKEA PUTS UP THEIR CHRISTMAS SHOP IN OCTOBER .... but hey!!
The shifts were: 6pm - 2:45am AND 8pm - 4:45am
I was obvs tryna get the 6pm one.
I sent the lady - Nurcan - a memo and waited for her to get back to me.
I waited for like 5 days
Then I got a missed call from an unknown number ... "Who's calling me from an unknown numberrr - me no answer no unknown numberrrr. NA pi-kit-up if it's a private call - JEW LEE no answer no private call"
Anywho - about 3 seconds later, I got a voice message.
It was Nurcan1!
A WHOOOO HOOOOO!
She said I can have the 8pm - 4:45am shift - Dasapar.
The deePAR of it all was that I was working on that day already - 2pm - 6pm
So basically:

That's basically what was popping off.
The picture actually shows 5am .. BUT I ended up leaving there at 5:25 .. so - YEH!!
Now
Don't get me wrong
It seems like I'm moaning
But I'm NOT!
I actually LOVED IT!!
Ohhh my jinz!!
I would pick this again over Checkouts - ANYDAY?!?!
Don't tell my manager ... SHUSH!!
No stress of smiling at customers
No handling of money
No phoning departments for barcodes
Free pizza and sweets
Mininal fake convo
'Playing' with scissors and safety knives
It is SO NANG!!
And because I was born in 1988 (the generation of late night internet insomniacs) I WASN'T TIRED!!
At first I thought it was gonna be swag
Nurcan made me fold paper

I was thinking ... hmmmm - I may have to take a toilet break ............ AT HOME!
Then we started building stuff

And anyone that knows me
Knows I like to build stuff
Just call me Handy Andy-lina!
All I needed was a tool belt and Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen!
OH MY GOSH! DID I SPELL THAT RIGHT!? PLEASE SAY I DID!? I DIDN'T EVEN CHECK?!?!
YESSSSSSSS I DID?!?
I missed the 'hyphen' though - myPar
But yeh ....
Then we got to hammer stuff - this guy was going RED in the face so I took over

Can you say - ANGER MANAGEMENT!!!!
I'M NOT INCOURAGING IT - but if you ever want to relieve stress
Get a hammer
Buy a wardrobe from IKEA - the PAXXXXXXX one
And GO WILD!
After all the excitement and release
We went upstairs to BOX some dominos

What do you know about taking breaks at 10:50PM?
I didn't take a picture of the pizza because I ate it.
How come Dominos do coke but Pizza Hut does Pepsi?
What the hell is that about!?!?
LONG LIVE DOMINOS!!
After food
I went toilet
and the LIGHTS went out
THEY WENT OUT!!!
I RAN downstairs and

It was BEAUTIFUL?!?!
It was like a mystical night!
iLOVE IKEA at night time
It's SO much better than daytime.
Then as the shift drew to a close

It was all coming together and then .....
I got stuck with pricing - EVERYTHING!!

Which turned out to be amazing for my OCD issues.
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING?!!
It was so amazing
Nurcan told me I could go home ... and I stayed so I could finish.
These times I was GRINNING - BARE HAPPY?!
I remembered my Mum said I should be careful when riding at night/early morn
So I made sure all drivers could see me

and I was VERY warm.
Went outside and remembered that Venton had parked his silly bike in my space!?
YEH!?
WHAT?!
Cyclist's have parking spaces too you know!

I unlocked my bike and rode into the darkness:

Got home at

watched this:
MADNESSSS!!!
Went to bed and then got up the same day to go BACK to work at 6:30pm
I won't even tell you how many times I closed my eyes during that shift.