I had a customer walk up to me on Sunday as I arranged flowers, stop in front of the kiosk, turn to me and say "Watermelon ( Read more... )

 I worked Monday (10 hours), Tuesday (11.5 hours), Wednesday (10 hrs), Thursday (11.25 hr), Friday (11.25 hr), Saturday (10.5 hrs) and Sunday (8.5 hrs). That's just so hard on me. Along with the scrapes and bruises from working, my body was so stressed that I got sores in my mouth and two weird rashes (the very itchy one on my finger is, I think, a ( Read more... )

I was almost late for work yesterday because when the person on the radio said "the president" and my sleepy brain knew that meant Trump, I turned the alarm off rather than snoozing it, like I was unconsciously hoping if I went back to sleep, I'd find it had been a dream ( Read more... )

 Is either my first Tuesday or third Monday  - or just day three of nine at work. Let's see if I survive it.

 Yikes, it's been a month since I posted. I think of something nearly every day to post, but never end up doing it.

The Floral manager is back for 6 weeks, so I'm only getting one day in Floral (the lady being trained to be manager is getting 3 or 4 and the manager said she was going down to 4 and using vacation days, but she hasn't done that yet ( Read more... )

 Our company was bought by another grocery store about a year ago and since then the companies have been merging. Our ordering system, their delivery system, our in house products, etc. Well, one of the things their company has that ours didn't was a good relationship with the union. Ours gave us extras to keep us from joining: health insurance ( Read more... )

 Living through a holiday is like cramming a month worth of stuff into a week. Last week, the one leading to Mother's Day, all our help was taken (to replace people on vacation or injured or out sick or on family medical leave for a sick relative), so there were only four of us all week (and one of those could only work 5 hours in the evening for ( Read more... )

Google gave me a birthday doodle yesterday and I gave myself a day off, but that means that I didn't get any of the prerequisites to today's cooking done yesterday. My kitchen is too much of a mess to make anything, let along Angel Food Cake, cheesecake pudding (I'm modifying a vanilla pudding recipe), and triangle chimichangas.  But I picked my ( Read more... )

I just found out I might be having to take control of Floral for almost half of next year for a month at a time. Scary and stressful, but better than my manager having to go out for surgery and if she's in the building, she's going to keep doing things that hurt her (like lifting things or holding her arms up). This info lead to an almost sleepless ( Read more... )

 Last night I heard a falling water sound as I sat in bed, but no one was in the bathroom. (I could see in.) Besides it didn't sound like water on a hard surface or water on water, so I concentrated on what my daughter was saying. Then she turned to the bathroom and said that water was dripping from my closet. We keep a bucket for handwashing in ( Read more... )