Ugh, Mac!!

ND rant away. I’m very impressed you’ve managed to not utterly fall apart and hope you get to take a good vacation sometime once that’s possible rather than just having to double down and go harder.

My puppy got groomed today for the first time—he’s been before but more for a wash and blow dry than an actual trim. And he is soooooo soft now!! I just want to loooooove him

I'm sorry, Laura. And I'm sorry, msbelle.

I'm sorry for your loss Laura. Lots of ~ma to your families sj and msbelle (including to Mac and college).

ND I can't imagine the stress this year has been as a business owner but you've done so much for your employees it's really amazing.

I have nothing going on in my life much except work, coming home, catching up on FB and here and sometimes twitter, Second Life, and rereading fanfic. I want to start crocheting again but my hands are really rough from dealing with boxes all day and my shoulders are often sore and this current job in fulfillment is physically exhausting - from the actual packing, moving boxes around, the walking around to get items, and the hours-this week I've worked shifts that were 7 am 3:30, 2:30 to 11, 9 to 5:30, tomorrow is 6 am -2:30 and then had over time thrown in for a few 10 hour days and only a half hour break. BUT it's not emotionally draining like working on the sales floor (especially this year).

I really really want to keep doing this after the holidays. I love the whole process, the managers can see how we are doing in real time and make adjustments accordingly. It stresses some people out to get hourly updates of how we are doing and how much we need to process in order to catch up or get ahead or whatever but I like knowing where we are and what we need to do because it's very controllable. According to my manager all the other managers have noticed how well I've been doign and how much I've taken to it. And that same manager asked me to train a new person and said "you may not realize but you are a really good trainer". Which I've gotten that feedback before, but then we got behind so he did some of the training but I still coached the person along.

Oh, askye, that makes me so happy! Not the exhaustion, but the strong positive feedback. It makes a world of difference to have managers who notice and appreciate your strengths.

askye, that's terrific (the parts JZ noted). I hope you can keep doing what you're doing after the holidays.

Quiet weekend here so far, and I don't see that changing, which works for me. I even did some light chores this morning. Now I'm "updating" my personal address database, which is actually a chain of e-mails that I think I've turned into a database every year when I start looking for it... and realize it's still just a chain of emails. THIS year, I'm making the database. Also, it's from 2012, so about 1/3 outdated. Eh, it's a start, anyway.

Ugh. I got LDBed by Leslie Jordan on his IG this morning.

eta: LDBed. He was not wearing a dress. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Timelies all!

I gave myself a haircut last night. It's probably uneven, and it's definitely shorter than usual(though still past my shoulders), but it needed to be done.

It has been POURING here all day, and will turn to snow at some point. I have not left the house. I have done some puzzle with my mother and started a couple of baking projects, but have mostly sat around.

Jesse, it turned to snow here at 8:30 AM and was pouring before that.

Just checked and it has turned to sloppy snow here, though not much of it. Good howling wind, though.