Timelies all!

Gary has taken Mr. S to the pool today.

My goal is a Labor Day-ish gathering over here. There, I said it. Now it's official.

It's in the Calendar now! You can't back out!

msbelle-it's not after hours, the merch team does some of that from 6-2 or 6-3 depending. So the processing team deals with the truck and getting stuff off boxes, and sensored and on racks to go out, and then the merch team puts things out. They also do mark downs, floor moves, etc. There is always a lot for merchandising to do.

I was looking around on the work website and found there is a lead position open at the Brevard store I worked at so it got me thinking about different things. I did talk to my direct manager about this, I said I knew they probably had people in mind for the open lead position but I'd like take on more responsibility and work in that direction.

And then today was a tough day in terms of finding stuff for orders and it started to get me down and frustrated but I tried to stop and reframe my thinking.

So we will see what happens.

It's in the Calendar now! You can't back out!

Me and my big ideas!

Good going bringing up your desire to grow there, askye.

The surgeon reports that the surgery went well and they didn't find any unexpected tumors or masses. But I won't get the biopsy report back before Friday...

Don't let your pet get sick on a holiday weekend, folks! it'll cost 3x as much as it should.

I’m glad the surgery went well, Consuela.

Oof, on the cost, 'suela! Continuing Dog~ma

Shooting for team lead sounds like a good idea, askye. I'm glad you spoke to a manager so they can be thinking about how to help you get there, too.

I had a dream last night in which I was at some kind of corporate team building camp that involved a polar bear, and at no time during the dr4eam did I think OMGWTFBBQPOLARBEAR and now I am disappointed in my subconscious.

Unexpectedly had some alone time in the office. Summer intern (I’m supervising) was not clear on start date and time. And co-worker took today as vacation. So, I’ve gone through emails, am doing required security online trying, scheduled hair appointment, and ordered dog food delivery. I need to get mac’s new car registered with insurance, but I left the paperwork with the VIN at home, so I guess I do that tonight.

Friday the office closed early, so I made a quick trip to the grocery and drug store before going home. Once home, my back was hurting, so I lay down for a while; the clock read 4:30 the last time I checked. I fell asleep and woke up with the sun streaming in, feeling rested and the clock read 6:30. So I decided I must have slept through the night (14 hours!) and had to hustle to do laundry (I do it early Saturday morning to avoid the crowd and get done before the laundry room gets hot). So I did my laundry - was surprised to see someone else had their laundry in the dryer - and was pretty much on schedule. Once done, I sat down to some breakfast - coffee, a pastry and my morning meds. Then I noticed it was dark outside and thought that we'd be getting a serious storm, since it was so dark. But it didn't rain, it didn't get lighter and the TV shows were not what I expected on a Saturday morning. Yup ... it was Friday evening (and I'd greeted some neighbors with a cheery "morning!" ... they must have thought I was nuts). So I had my usual Saturday morning chore done, so I could sleep late, have a leisurely second breakfast and run some errands. I was kind of disoriented for the rest of the weekend, time-wise.

In regard to the Naomi Novik/astolat/asshat confusion, I recently saw a little meme. Shows an adorable duckling with the note, "Dear Autocorrect - it's never duck".

I like to think that in the future 'duck' has become a swear word.