Minor Detail:

At my work we get a lot of people who only remember snippets of what they want. Sometimes it's just the color of the cover, sometimes it's something *close* to the author's or artist's name but not quite (like instead of John Williams they might say Will Johnson or something), sometimes it's a first name with a vague concept of the book, and sometimes it is wonderfully the full title with the correct author name and product number included (those are the best!).

Honestly, as long as the person is nice about it I don't mind the seemingly impossible task presented before me. A lesson in retail! Being nice makes EVERYONE happy! As a visual brain person I am more likely to remember what a cover looks like than remember the artist or author so I can relate to people asking questions only having random details. My method of figuring out music is paying attention to what is being sung around me, and jotting down the lyric. Basically, google is my friend.

Now usually when you get someone with very vague information trying to find a very specific item it takes forever to find or you don't find it at all (unless it's super popular). It's even harder when the very vague information is incorrect! Tonight though Google was shining down on me and I was able to find a CD for a very kind man with only knowing:

The wrong name of the album
the radio station that was mentioned the singer sometime in the not-so-distant past
a tour date
the artist had a rockabilly sound.

It was like the happiest thing EVER. And we had it IN STOCK. All the music stars were aligned oh so wonderfully.

Hurray!

Other great things have happened since my "gack! what do I do with my life?!" update and other freak outs have happened too, but overall everything is oh so happy. Especially with wonderful, amazing events to look forward to happening this weekend!!  Ahhhh!

 I am unbelievably excited for Friday and Saturday to an extreme extent. Hurray life!

Little Things

Today I got to glimpse at this book:  

 

It is the coolest thing ever, and I want to read it. It's two stories set 50 years apart intertwined with each other. The boy's story is told in words, while the girl's story is told in pictures and both of them  wish their lives were different in some form. It looks fantastic. It comes out September 13th.

The other book that I've decided I REALLY WANT TO READ is this book:

 

It's about this woman who has amnesia and can't remember her past or make new memories. Every night her memory erases. She's trying to figure out who she is and how this happened to her, and one morning one of the notes is something along the lines of "Don't trust your husband." A bunch of my co-workers have read it and they've said that it has a really good twist at the end. It sounds so INTENSE.

Today has been exhausting for some reason, but super fantastic. I've been actively trying to reign myself in from stressing over life and the future, but I'm pretty sure at least one of my feet is still stepping in the peace zone.

Highlights: 

-Lunch with Kathy at a small cafe. The staff is incredibly friendly, and the menu is good and well-priced. It was also good to finally hang out with her!

-Work was enjoyable, although at one point in the night all I wanted to do was take a nap in one of the comfy chairs (I didn't:P). Everyone was really nice today, and I was kept pretty busy. Also, I got there 45 minutes early and so I had a chance to just hang out with people and read.

-Iced Salted Carmel Mocha! It is so unbelievably good.

-I got The Applause of Heaven by Max Lucado for free as an e-book. I have yet to read a book by Max Lucado, so we'll see how it goes!