Good luck with the decision making, Gud.

I'm not a fan of mac and cheese, but Mac being cheesy is adorable.

Keeping any sort of regular schedule has been a challenge for me mostly due to migraines. I've either had two this week, or one that ebbed a bit while it switched sides of my head.

I never paid much attention before, but I now realize that my "normal" temperature is 97 to 97.5. Does that make me cool?

My Aunt Carol died last night.

She had been in the hospital with COVID and was released to a care facility. She was testing clear and getting stronger. Then last night she had a hemorrhage. The rushed her to the hospital, got the bleeding under control, sedated her, intubated her, were talking about various means of investigating the bleeding, other things started going wrong... and then she died.

My mother is shattered. She was supposed to visit her big sister in the end of March but the trip was cancelled. She was afraid they'd never see each other again and she was correct.

I went to work today because if I can't be on my way to my mother I might as well keep myself distracted and I knew today's sorting four months of mail project wouldn't take much brane.

Friends of mine are having a small outdoor wedding on Monday which I'm making myself go to. The carefully distanced pre-wedding events I'll play by ear. Again... if I can't be with my Mom...

We're not saying anything on social media yet because there are still relatives to reach.

It's a big family, it was almost impossible we would get through this unscathed.

I'm so sorry, Trudy

I'm so sorry, Trudy.

Oh, Trudy. I'm sorry.

Trudy, I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry, Trudy. Awful.

I don't think Tim's family is being reasonable sorry you are dealing with that.

My grandmother turner 100 yesterday and instead of a party with the whole family and friends it's going to be my dad and is siblings and my uncle's ex wife (they only divorced after they retired and so she is still part of the family).

They have all been staying away from people up until this point so this is the safest it's going to be.

In work news turns out the fufillment orders drying up weren't a decrease in sales the company has been doing Stress Tests on stores. I think they have been shifting orders to those stores to see how they handle the volume, speed and accuracy.

I thought I hadn't done great with fufillment but they asked me to be a part of this so I'll be working 7-3 for 3 days. I was going to be off that week but my days off got shifted.

I had a mini panic moment when I got paged Hy the HR manager and when I called he asked me to come to his office. And then he was in the store managers office and I had a brief second of "oh shit".

In other news possibly related to production issues (I don't know) Nike has not renewed their contract with our company so at some point this year we will stop carrying all Nike products . And we won't be selling formal dresses any more or at least for the time being. We have the spring prom and Easter dresses in storage and I guess we will sell them next spring ....you know if there are proms...but other than that no formal wear. Which I guess makes sense it isn't a big seller and takes up a lot of space.

And we aren't going to be carrying as much stuff this fall/winter as we normally do. I guess because of production and distribution but also because people aren't buying as much of certain things.

And a co worker is friends with someone who does real estate or is associated with the mall...and the rumor is Amazon is looking to take over the Sears store as a distribution warehouse.

And Furman University, which I drive by every day, has suspended a fraternity for partying after a lot of the students attending the parties tested positive and they are doing mandatory school wide testing.

{{{Trudy}}}. I'm so sorry.