Woke up Monday morning to find four inches of snow had fallen! The yard and street looked utterly magical and sparkly, as I headed out to work. My first day back since I took my mental health break from work, and it felt good to get back to the place. And I dove in at the deep end, as it were: everyone who'd likely gone north for the long weekend ( Read more... )

Work today, and I found myself doing things I usually don't do. For instance, restocking the candy racks in the front end, which I haven't done in years, but which I enjoy doing, since it's fairly low-impact stuff, like doing overstock (which I did a fair amount of as well). Fairly quiet day, but we kept having rushes of people to the registers ( Read more... )

I went looking for my several sets of colored pencils, in order to start coloring ye grown-up coloring book, but in so doing, I got into a patch of dust, which meant I took some Zyrtec to clear my head. Only problem is, it also knocked me out, which certainly helped me sleep good, but then the next morning, today (Sept. 17th), I ended up sleeping ( Read more... )

Two day entry: I had every intention of posting Monday night, but I ran out of spoons ( Read more... )

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Cute Kid of the Day at Work: this five year old boy comes through my lane, whistling this soft, just audible whistle, and proclaiming with pride to anyone who would listen that he had just learned how to whistle. "I'm five, and my brother is *twelve*, but *he* can't whistle!" So adorable. I shared with him my own little whistling trick, that I can ( Read more... )

Busy day at work, and rather surprising for a Tuesday, which I found puzzling. Also, I think the good will from the recent return following the labor protest/boycott has started to wear off: I got my first grumper. Who told me not once, not twice, not thrice, but *seven* times, not to make her bags heavy. I was careful to put about two or three ( Read more... )

Pumpkins showed up in the produce department! A sure sign of autumn; we got the chrysanthemum plants in the morning after The Deal went through, but the pumpkins turned up yesterday when I had a day off. Also, I got to do overstock, aka "unshopping" as my dad calls it, for the first time since... probably around Memorial Day. First time that a ( Read more... )

Icon is very relevant: I almost feel like this is a dream and I'm bound to wake up from it, but at the same time, I know better than that ( Read more... )

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