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... )

 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... )

 I was going to write today. I really was. Had a story picked out and the characters named and everything.(and I discovered the first summary of it that I assumed I hadn't written because I couldn't find it.)  But the neighbors above me put their dog out on their porch this morning and it's still whining (now down to about ten seconds out of every ( Read more... )

I had a weird experience around Christmas (besides the hours-long panic attack I've started taking medicine for). When I work Floral, I'm always moving around (according to the fitbit I got for Christmas about 6 miles a day). A few years ago they put a bank in my grocery store. The head person on the bank stands in front, greeting all the customers ( 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 had a should-less day today, which meant I only did what I wanted to (I did get up before I wanted to, but time runs differently laying down and I didn't want to miss out on enjoying not getting anything done). I washed the dishes because I wanted to, but didn't do the laundry and I'm not going to feel guilty about it.

It wasn't an entirely ( Read more... )

 I've been saving up a lot of stuff to post, not being in the mood to do anything when I wasn't working, but on the way to the store today to buy new work shoes because my old ones ripped out yesterday (the uppers are no longer completely attached to the soles), my car died. A thump was followed by a grindy noise and the power steering and power ( Read more... )

If you chose to lance your blisters (less painful than trying to walk on an full one), always make sure you clean the needle right before you use it and don't try to guess which one you'd cleaned the night before. Instead of being healed, my little toe still hurts. No weird lines or pink or swelling, so I guess it's on the mend, but it still hurts ( Read more... )

My mother called me yesterday in tears. She'd just talked to my sister, wanting her to think about the possibility of writing one of those 'coupons' kids sometimes do for their parents. Mom wanted my sister to promise at some point to have a meal at Mom's house with me, my sister, and brother. I have no idea why this is important to her, especially ( Read more... )

Lately, I've stopped doing things I find fun. It just hasn't been worth the bother (like I didn't walk the few hundred steps out the front door to glimpse the lunar eclipse). So today I'm going to do them, rather than take the easy way out by reading or lying in bed, thinking up stories. I've got no gumption. Maybe writing this, and a new short ( Read more... )