OMG, yesterday was another really busy day at work, especially when you consider that it rained until after noon.  Once the rain stopped, people started pouring in like we had a sign out that said everything was free.  I’m not complaining, it sure made the afternoon go by a lot more quickly than the morning did and I got paid a bonus both days

I’m tired this morning though.  The other employee didn’t show up again yesterday.  She conveniently had a medical excuse…her blood pressure was up so she went to the emergency room.  I know that sounds a little shallow and callous, but honestly, she’s come in on days that her blood pressure was high, seriously stroke inducing high and wouldn’t go to the doctor.  To finally go and do something about it after she’s been off for four days and she picks the holiday to go…let’s just say it’s a tad suspicious looking according to my boss.

Personally I don’t even care that she wasn’t there except for the fact that it meant that I had to stay until we closed and I was suppose to get off early.  Whatever.  Maybe today she will show up and I can get off early.  If not that’s okay, that’s just the way things go.  This week has just been a long one because of the holiday.  I won’t be working nearly as many hours unless they decide to let her go. 

Time to get Elrod up and hit the ground running.  I hope all of you are having a great 4th of July weekend so far!

Thursday at work was one long ass tiring day.  The other woman called in sick again which was bad because we were both suppose to work today.  That left me to handle things mostly by myself and we did almost five times the amount of business today as we did the day before.  My ass is dragging so badly tonight that I leave ruts behind me where ever I go…lol

When we got home it was raining to beat the band.  It wasn’t storming, just raining.  I decided that I was going to take my shower and get ready for bed.  Right in the middle of washing my hair and shaving my legs the electricity went out for a few minutes because it had started storming.  It was a lot of fun shaving my legs and washing my hair in the dark let me tell ya, it’s a good thing my legs were kind of stubbly, it made shaving by braille much easier.  Lucky for me it only lasted a couple of minutes.  Being the worry wart that I am, I started thinking about getting electrocuted while in the shower from all the lightning.  I wasn’t about to get out before I was done either and went ahead and finished up.  I guess it was my lucky day because you can’t call me Sparky.

Friday I may get off early.  The owners decided that after I handled every thing like I did today and did such a good job and the fact that I worked five days in a row (don’t laugh, you try working five 11-12 hour days in a row after not working for six years), if it slows down tomorrow afternoon I’ll get to go home early.  I have mixed feelings about that.  On one hand I’d like to get off early, but on the other hand I’d like it to stay busy so that they can have another incredibly good day sales wise. 

Oh, and I almost forgot, have a very fun and safe 4th of July!

One of the funny things that happens around here when Elrod is here visiting for the summer is that the word fart gets used a lot.  We can’t get into the truck to go anywhere that fart doesn’t come up in the conversation.  Tonight on the way home Elrod said that he had to fart.  I told him that is was okay as long as it wasn’t lumpy.  He told me “that’s disgusting”, giggling while he said it.

Then later after Elrod had his bath he came out and said that he felt better.  I teased him and told him that he sure smelled better.  Then Hubby told him to come into the livingroom so that he could fart on him.  I told Elrod to tell his Pops “not if I fart on you first’.  Elrod told his Pops “not if Nanna farts on you first”.  He’s a clever little devil and knew exactly what he was saying which brought on another round of giggles from all of us.

Yes we are easily amused, but I hope when he gets grown that he remembers all the fun and laughter that happened when he would come to visit for the summer.

Are you getting tired of me talking about work?  Sorry if that’s the case but it seems to be the most eventful thing happening in my life right now and all of you that have been reading here for any time now know that my life has always been pretty mundane.

Today the woman that I fill in for on her days off asked me if I would work another day each week bring my total days per week up to three.  I told her I would be happy to take on another day.  The owners are thrilled and are actually hoping that she’ll quit so they can put me on full time.  I feel just a tad bit bad about that.  I wasn’t looking to take this woman’s job away from her.  However I do realize that if she had been doing her job like it was suppose to be done they wouldn’t be hoping that she would quit. 

My wasp sting is better today.  The big red welt is gone and now it’s just a tiny bit sore and bruised.  I think this week is just my unlucky week.  First my fall and then my wasp sting.  I hope that is the end of it though.

The only thing I dislike about my job is having to work while Elrod is here.  He’s been really good about it though.  He gets to sit inside the owners apartment and watch cartoons and play on the computer all day so he’s in hog heaven.  I’m just glad that he’s as good a kid as he is otherwise they might not want him inside if he was messing stuff up and getting into stuff. 

I better hit the hay, the alarm clock is going to go off way earlier than I’d like for it too. 

Suffice it to say, rarely does anything go as planned around here. 

I got up early yesterday morning to get things done and be ready for a busy week.  My phone rang a little after 7:30 a.m.  It was work wanting me to come in and cover for the full time person because she had called in sick again.  I wasn’t surprised in the least and in fact had already told my employer that I thought that the other person would be calling in.  That was the main reason that I was up before 4 a.m. to get things done.  It looks like I’m going to be putting in a six day week this week.

To add insult to injury for the day, just before I got off work, I was stung by a red wasp as we were unloading cantaloupes.  It hurt like you wouldn’t believe.  I don’t think I’ve ever been stung by one of those before and I hope that I never repeat the experience.  On the bright side though, at least now I know that I’m not allergic to them…lol

I didn’t get a whole new set of steps today, but I did at least get the one step repaired.  All in all it wasn’t a bad day, even with the wasp sting so it’s all good.

This should be an interesting week this week.  Today I am suppose to be getting a new set of steps built to get into the house.  I’m skeptical about whether or not it will happen.  I just know all the parties involved and if it happens today lets just say that I’ll be pleasantly surprised.  I’m hoping that it will happen,  Saturdays fall still has me sitting on a pillow because I bruised my tailbone when the step gave way.

Then starting tomorrow I have to work for the next five days.  That doesn’t sound like much until you factor in that I work 10-11 hours each day.  A five day week will have me working 50-55 hours.  I’m sure that I’ll be plumb tuckered out come next Sunday. 

Since I’ll be putting in so many hours I’ve got to make sure that by the end of the day today that I have all my laundry caught up, meals planned and all the odds and ends around here taken care of.  I could delegate some of this stuff to Hubby to handle during this next week since he isn’t working right now, but honestly if he were to do the cooking I’d have a bigger mess to clean up than if I just do it myself and men don’t sort laundry before they wash it.  All in all it is just better if I handle it all myself.  Not that I don’t appreciate the fact that he’d willingly pitch in.

Time to hit the floor running…catch ya later!

I was bored at work last Wednesday and decided to take a couple of pictures of where I work to share with y’all.  Somebody needs to remind me to never saw that I’m bored at work ever again.  It ended up being our second busiest day of the week last week sales wise.

This picture is taken looking out towards the street.

This picture is taken standing out near the street looking in.

We sell a heck of a lot of tomatoes, watermelons and cantaloupes.  My most favorite perk of this job is not only do I get my fresh produce as part of my salary but I also get to go through the produce every day and pull whatever is starting to turn and can’t be sold which I can bring home and work up and put into my new freezer.