Tag: work

The people like, “Damn! That’s a cold ass honkey.”

Posted on by Shawshank

I woke up at 6:15. In my mind that was ok, only 15 minutes before my alarm goes off. Wrong. While I was lying there, waiting for the alarm to go off, I remembered that the alarm is set to go off at 7. Well, shit. I managed to fall back into a lightish sleep until the alarm went off.

Now, we’re all awake, and the coffee is brewing. There should be enough to get a couple of cups while it’s still brewing.

We didn’t do too much of anything yesterday. After Crystal got ready, we drove to SlightlyBiggerTown and grabbed some groceries, some of which are outside, as the freezer is full. Thankfully, it’s 10° out there, so they’re safely frozen out there. Most of the food is for tonight – we’re going to have appetizers for dinner tonight. A whole bunch of everything.

After the groceries were put away, we had lunch, and then I settled down to play some video games. We had a couple of hours to kill, before popping over to Shady Acres. I just wanted to go over and give my parents their Christmas gifts that arrived on Wednesday. I think they liked them. I didn’t stay long. Crystal didn’t go, because she was napping.

I got home, and played some more video games. I was playing No Man’s Sky. I was heading to an objective, and it decided to crash, so I tried the demo of Dave the Diver, which is a cute little game. I played that for a while. Then it was time for dinner.

I can’t really remember what we did after dinner. I think I played some more No Man’s Sky. I played that for about an hour or so, then it was time to start the winding down process, and slowly start to get ready for bed.

I gotta work in a few hours, so I’m pushing all chores until tomorrow. Hopefully, now that I’ve lived through Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve will hopefully go smoother. Either way, I’ll make it through it. I’m working with a different person today. It might go a little smoother.

See all y’all next year! No cap!

Though my mind could think, I still was a mad man

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Good morning! Happy Tuesday, my friends. It’s o’dark thirty. And lemme tell you it’s dark outside. TinyTown is slowly waking up. The coffee has been brewed and I’m dressed, but I’m not ready to greet the day. Yet.

Yesterday was a good sloth day. Neither of us got dressed, but we did get the Florida package packed up and ready to be shipped out this morning.

Speaking of this morning. Today will be a busy day. I got into work, just to make sure there’s nothing pressing, and then I’ll be loading up the Hot Mess Express, because I’m doing a delivery to the next province over. Then back to TinyTown. Today is the day my grandmother is going into long term care. Mom says she doesn’t need us, but we’ll be ready if they need us.

It’ll still be a busy day. But it’s a day that I’ll be working, but out of the office. And Crystal gets to hang out with me while I work.

Ok, time to mainline some coffee, and get my eyes to focus. Let’s go Tuesday!

I guess all his money, well, it isn’t enough

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Picture this – I’m up to my neck organizing and inventorying our warehouse, listening to CNN, when I hear:

Excuse me? Can you do me a favour? Random person walking by. Can you go into the other room, and fix the blinds? They’re crooked, and it’s really annoying to me when I walk by.

What? Oh god, let me stop what I’m doing to fix blinds in a basically condemned building, because the crooked blinds annoy you whilst you walk by.

It’s totally at the top of my Action Item List.

Here I go again on my own

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It’s kind of quiet here today. Yesterday, we (mostly me) moved a lot of furniture around and refreshed the art on the walls. I don’t know if NewGirl knows what to do if there’s no customer orders or anything like that. For the last two days all she’s done is follow me around.

I told her this morning that I wasn’t going to talk to her for an hour so she could make the phone calls she was supposed to do yesterday. But she was busy following me around. So I sat down to pull some discontinued fabrics. After an hour, I was just about done. She came and stood over me as I was working.

I finished as fast as I could and got out of there. If you don’t know what to do, find something to do. There’s a lot of shit in here that needs to be priced. Something, anything. Please just stop watching what I’m doing!

I’m still getting used to working with people. My last job it was me. I was responsible for pulling and getting special orders for stores. In a certain time limit. I still struggle with actually communicating in this job. But I’ll get better at it. I hope. I struggle with communication in general.

But I am trying.

Anyways, here’s what I styled and put together yesterday. Mostly with minimal help from NewGirl.

Behold, my excellence. I should be on HGTV or something!

Thanks for letting me vent. I feel a little better now. Sometimes working with others steals most of my spoons.

Also, no letter from the consulate today. Maybe tomorrow.