Survived the Hols.. hooray for me!
So here it as after the first of the year and I have survived the hoidays. For anyone who has never worked retail the weeks leading up to Xmas/New Year are extremely stressing. As stated before I work for the Evil Empire. Even they are feeling the crunch of this horrible economy. So in an effort to cut costs they upped our workload but reduced manhours. Yeah we're all pretty pissed off and overworked. So when I was offered the opportunity to jump ship from Stocker Girl to Cashier Girl I jumped on it with both feet. Of course the Boyscout Bossman (man will ask you do 5 different things and then do 3 of them himself because you're not going fast enough) was dumb enough to ask me about switching on a night we're I had to but away half of grocery by myself. Needless to say, I couldn't say yes fast enough; especially when I was told I'd get to cover electronics on the regular woman's nights off. I'm bucking for that department when the current lady is ready to leave. Not only is it a fairly cookie job but it's also two pay grades higher.
Speaking of money, the DH found out that he's going to get a very small COL raise because the Evil Empire did him out of 90-day raise. Plus I'm not going to lose any money for switching job positions so yeah me!
Got a new Computer for Xmas. Gramps sent us a lovely check so we decided that we needed a new family computer. Got a very nice eMachine at work for under $400 because the box was damanged. Not a piece of it was touched but there was a big hole in the box so they dropped the price an extra $50 bucks. It's got a huge screen but Vista is taking a while to get used too. When the Bested Buddy moves in next door she's going to let us mooch off of her highspeed. *drools*
I've been sucked into RedBox. If you don't know what that is, it's video rental box that rents dvds by the day for a $1.00. It's been a great way to test drive movies before we buy them.
I am major tired but I have to wait up and go over the girls' hair again. Found head lice Saturday so I've spent hours going through hair. Neither me or the DH have it but Princess had it really really bad so she's had to have had it for well over a week. Even Imp had some but neither one had an itchy head. Go figure.
Going to go play with the layouts now. I've had a plain purple one since I started. Going to go see what else is offered. Ta for now.