You remember my sister and her air filters?

 Well, she got me a little one. I’m just waiting for one to show up in the living room soon. 

Here is a pic of what she got me. I’m just opening it up. 

So. Two things, maybe three. 

1. One, there is no metal plate at the bottom of the unit.
2. Two, they sent a different screwdriver to the screws in the unit. I’ll see if it works anyway. 

It worked. Which is a good thing because the filter was sealed in a plastic bag. And that was the third thing. 

Now to put this back together and turn it on. I know. My nap time is slipping away.

Bye

The fun part of my day so far

 Yes, I have upgraded my OS and I’m using the features. 

When I saw this it didn't fully sink in until I walked outside and into the rain. It wasn’t a downpour, but I was happy I had my umbrella. 

That made me smile. 

As for the rest of my day, 😩

I dropped off my ballot. That is a win. 👍

I got to my doctor's appointment on time. Another win. 👍

Found out that I gained back more weight than I thought I did and that started the downturn of my mood. But they were nice to me.

BRB

Back. I was picking up my meds when I started to type this. Now I’m waiting for food. I followed the directions on the two signs they have out front but part of it wasn't valid anymore so I just reordered. I’m getting grilled a Salmon bento box and a veggie burger with fries for tonight. I’m like 5 blocks from the house right now. :)

Ok, back to where I left off. 

My weight gain. That was a bummer. But that made sense. Oh, slightly confirmed. My meds are part of the reason why I don't feel like doing stuff even when I want to. Like going to the park to see the river and take pics. 

I got something for my ear. The pics I took of the stuff going in there helped.

So when that was all done I went to mail the box for my friend. And this is where my day went a little dark. This is the first time this has happened to me. 

I walked in and stepped inline and kept my distance from the lady in front of me but then these two people came in and they kept leaving the line and they kept getting closer and closer to me, but the line wasn't moving because there was only 1 teller. 

Finally, I stepped to the side to keep distance between all three of us and they kept moving up. Finally she steps into my spot and I had to say something. So she goes off on me. I mean I knew that there was something a little off with her from how she was standing, wearing a dirty mask and wearing under her nose. 

All I tell her is that she was stepping into my spot and to please step back. And she said that I wasn't on line and that everyone else was in line, she asked why I wasn't in line?  I then told her that I was on line but she kept getting closer to me so I stepped out to keep distance between us and the lady in front of me. 

At this point she isn't listening to me and is insulting me by saying I have scabs and things in my hair and I need a bath and I think, I think, she said that I should take a bath and clean my vagina along with gestures. At that point I was just surprised and not knowing what was going on and I told her that I didn't understand her and that she wasn't wearing her mask correctly. At that point I was able to see her mouth going. 

I once again explained that I was trying to be nice by not saying anything and moved to the side when she got too close so I could keep the distance between me, her and the lady in front of me and to please step back because she was now fully in my spot. 

At this point a guy up front told her to shut up because she was being disrespectful. She then started to insult him and told him to keep out of it because it didn't concern him. But he kept going and I was trying to keep some kind of link with my spot, but it got too tight so I stopped fully away from them when she started talking about fighting him and going outside and stuff. 

Yes, through out this whole thing I had my head phones on. That might save me from being emotionally or mentally scared. Then the manager or someone like that, came out to sort and stop what was going on. They were loud. The guy who was next in line was telling me to get in front of him to get away from her. So the lady who couldn't keep her spot and was insulting everyone picked the time I was wedged between her and the next lady, to say that if I was trying to keep distance why was I so close to the other lady. 

I said nothing. The black guy kept talking. The lady behind us spoke up and said something and the lady was still going. The manger that came out moved me away from her and placed me at the head of the line and tried to distance everyone in the line. And the lady kept going. I'm not looking at her, I haven't said anything in minutes but she hasn't stopped. I quickly paid for the postage once it was weighed, measured and stamped and thanked the guy who let me go a head of him on my way out.

Once I was outside and grateful to be free of her and noise I had to find a pharmacy. Before the lady decided to invade my space and just rude, I had gotten a call from a pharmacy saying that my insurance was one that they worked with. I said ok. They then said that when I found someone who took my insurance, I was to have them call so the prescription could be transferred. Fine. I found a place between the post office and the doctor's office and I was ready to give him the phone number so he could talk with them, but it wasn't a number I was expecting. So I walk back to my doctor's office to have them send it to this new guy that I found. 

There was some mix up, but we got it sorted and I walked back outside and into the rain. I walked back to the pharmacy and while I was waiting saw the weather thing and started this post. 

I'm now home. I had my bento box lunch. The amount of fish they show you in the menu isn't what you get, but it all tasted great. The student doctor told me to eat more fish and veggies and to avoid fried foods. 

Can I laugh? I do eat my veggies. How much I eat of  them changes through out the year. I just have to eat them more constantly, which I'm already working on. The same with fish. But now that I know I have that much more weight to loose, will try a little harder and fight the side affects of my meds to get out more. Once I'm out I'm ok with it, it's getting there that is the problem. Along with how tired work makes me and my feet.  

The post office was a small part of my day, but it seemed to have held all the 'excitement'. 

My sister is going to make chicken pot pie. She called to have me take the chicken out of the freezer. It's already ground up. I've been sucked back into watching silent Koran cooking videos on YouTube, but I'm also fighting sleep. I think I'll go have a nap. It's still early enough to do that.  

Right?

Later. 

Once again...

 No salad joy. 

I got my wallet. I even remembered to add my card info to the app before I got off the bus. 

But Wendy's isn't open. I guess they don't open up until 9 since I know they have breaking food. 

So I went to the bank and got a twenty to get something from the food truck instead. 

Why won't the world let me have a salad?!

In other news. I was able to get my primary changed on my insurance so I can finally see a doctor. Not that want to see anyone, I just need my meds refulled. 

If They, the doctor’s office, had done it for me like I asked, I wouldn’t be out of my blood pressure meds right now. But they insisted that do it after I tried a few times and failed. But now I have and I’m hoping that the day I have off this upcoming week, is a time I can see the doc to get a prescription. I would like to know why I don't just have a standing prescription. It’s high blood pressure meds. It's something that is needed. 

And no, I have not seen what day that is yet. I should find out either today or tomorrow. 

My sister has decided to get three air filters. A really tiny  one for the fridge. Another one about the size of a cookie jar for the bathroom and another for her room, twice the size of the bathroom one. 

I’m on my second bus now and I’m warmer than I expected to be. 

Later.

Laugh with me...

 I forgot my wallet at home so I don't have my bank card to get cash or pay outright for a meal.

So I think this is the perfect time to get the Wendy’s app and order up my salad. Yea, I like one of their salads. But just like  the store I can't use Apple pay in the app. Or PayPal. 

The app is on my iPhone in the year 2020 and after entering my apple ID and passwords like 5 times, it wants me to have a card in front of me to give it the information that is already on my phone. 

So. I’m going by Wallgren to get some Snapples and eat the muffin I have at work. Or, I could get that chicken sandwich from that other place. They take apple pay too. 

But I was set on getting a salad today. I got one the other day and was reminded how good they were or at least the one I got was. 

Later.

A little catching up

 So late Friday if not Saturday, my cycle started. Que headaches and cramps and a general imbalance of some of my hormones making me wrong in a lot of ways. 

Then, Friday night, my sister demanded that I empty the dryer so she can do her wash. Not dry her wash, but start her wash. She didn't start until Sunday afternoon.

Saturday night, if not Sunday morning, I was informed that I’m going to Brooklyn again. Now it's something with her laptop, and my only clue is that something told her it was expiring. 

She's running Windows 8.1 maybe .2. So that is on its way out. It has one more year before it is no longer supported. So what she saw could just be the OS telling her that the clocking is ticking until then. If that is the case, there is nothing for me to do and I wasted my day off again. 

So I’m going to try and salvage the day by turning it into a photo taking day in the city. 

Yesterday the cold attacked me when I left for work. I knew it was going to cool and I reluctantly pulled on my head and took my jean jacket, but it wasn't enough. It didn't help that I missed one bus, was ghosted by a second, and rode the late one to journal square. Yeah, all that on my first bus. 

Luckily for me, I packed lunch. So I got some Snapples and ordered a Lyft to work. 

Today is different. I got a slightly earlier bus than normal. I have an extra jacket on and I’m looking forward to getting a nice lunch from the food truck with time to spear before work. 

Later.

I made a good impression???

 Apparently, my delivery of the hourly sale reports impressed a few people. 

"I didn't know you had all that in you," is what my head manger told me. At first I didn't understand what she was talking back, but when a new manger, who got promoted from lead like two weeks ago said something similar, I realized they were talking about how I said the information. 

I told her that if I could give a tour of a computer lab to the Prime Minister of my country, I could say a few numbers. :) 

I honestly don't remember how I ended up with that job. I may be in here some where. Way back at the turn of the century, 2003 or so. What I told her, about how I ended up giving the tour, was a mash up of what I did remember from about that time. I'm sure there are some important bits that I didn't remember. 

I was having tummy troubles all day, but I lived through the day. Yeah. I don't know if I should have taken another pill after I had the cake samples from LadyM that my sister brought home last night, or if someone at the factory spiked my raisin bran crunch with whey, because milk was not listed. 

Then tonight for the last two, if not three, hours has had me fighting with my computer and my wireless printer. I finally got it work. I think its own software was a little corrupted and there were other things I needed to uninstall. I'm just happy it's working now. Let's see how long that lasts. Because I'm sure I fixed a few months back.

A week or so ago I tried to update my address at the DVC (DMV) and I did, I just forgot part of my new address and didn't realize until I was calling the maker of my new tv to get a replacement because I've been having problems with it. I do not recommend that you get it. I has features that sound like a great idea, but what good are they if the tv doesn't even want to turn on until you unplug it and plug it back in? Every 6 hours of it not being used?

So yesterday I was able to change it and to make sure that my voter's registration matched. I had already forgotten that I had updated that when I moved through the post office. Back before the the world got turned on its side. So, since I messed it up the first time, I had to fix it. This Wednesday I have the day off and I'm going to send out my request to vote by mail and send an early Christmas box to my friend over in PA. I'm going to put a big sign on it to not open until Christmas, and that will keep me from buying anything until next year. Hopefully. :) I hope she really does like what I'm getting her. 

Now I'm late with my post for DA. Oh well. 

Later. 

PS 

This is what I've been playing for the past hour or so. 

So it's official

 I am a lead. She informed me today. I also get a pay increase of $1.50. It feels a little odd to have responsibilities again. 

I want to think I mentally handled it better when I was younger, not that it was smooth sailing. 

So I have some leaning to do now. Mostly how to fill out end of day reports and helping to count the money at night. Which is a lot more involved than you think from the name. 

I think we should get a bit more than $1.50 for the responsibilities we are now given, but it's better than nothing. 

Back at my other branch, one guy quit because they didn't give him a pay increase when he was made a lead. 

Well, I’m on my way home now. Going to see if I can get some personal paperwork done then it's back to my story. 

Later.

Hey

 Small update. 

I was told about a week ago, if not ten days, that I was being suggested for a promotion. This was near the start of my nine day stint. Then she was off for a while, and today, I think, she told me I got it. I might be wrong. She might have just said that she brought the matter back up again. 

Either which way, I have been shown how to do a few more things lately. And I think I have been given a bit more latitude to do a few things that I see that need doing. And, one of the biggest things is that I'm now full time. So I'm getting no less than 30 hours now. So I'm working the whole week again, but I have the weekend off. This week. 

It's not set hours. No one has set hours, other than Antony, but he's a special case.  

So that is one of the reason why I had to be at work for 9am today. And since I did everything that I normally do to get to work, I ended up getting to work almost an hour early. So I'm going to take my time tomorrow. The great thing about starting at 9 is that I get to go home early and the day just goes by quickly since I'm use to not leaving until 6 or 7 and today I got to leave at 4 and tomorrow it will 3. 

So I went to Shoprite by going two stops past my house on my last bus. My poor shoulder, but I got a bus back and it was a better walk home than if I had missed it. 

So I'm off to try and type something before going to bed. I don't know what is going on with my breakfast but I made something for lunch yesterday and I'm going to have some again tomorrow. 

Later. 

Didn’t realize the date until I heard the news.

9/11 

I’m on time. Really.

 Yesterday I was asked if I could come in earlier since I started at 12 instead of the 11 I’ve been coming in for the past week. I said no, but I did half try to show up for 11 but my body just wasn’t on board other than waking up at 7:30 this morning. 

But I am feeling good. 

On my first bus now. Later.

What is today...?

I thought I knew when I woke up today, but it didn't really hit me until I was on my first break and talking to one of my managers. 

Then it hit me that tomorrow is my last day before I get my two days off. I don't know what next week looks yet. I almost don't care. 

I missed the two buses to get to me work early enough to buy my lunch from the FoodTruck so I got another chicken sandwich from Jubilee. The upside, I like (really like) their Garlic Aioli sauce. I won't lie, the rest of it is good too, juicy chicken, nice bun and there is a whole piece of lettuce in there. 

I thought my day was doing well, even if I had to change just about every sign in the Men's department and it ended up taking a long time because I was also on register and the price scanner was slow. It's a great day when you don't have enough time to count to twenty between scanning something and the machine telling you what it's currently selling for. 

I heard that Century 21 was closing down. We have one of their distribution centers down the street. Now my manager knows why this one lady came by two days in a row to ask about a job. 

So the day was winding down and I'm counting the hours until I get to leave, rain or not. I had my umbrella, rain coat and new weather boots with me since it was raining when I left this morning. Then the music is turned off, and they start to count out the registers. Then I'm called up to cash rep to find out I'm short $20. By the time we left, after 8 pm, we believe that we figured out what happened to the twenty. Some how, I don't know how, but some how, I counted wrong three times, and gave and extra $20 back to a customer when she gave me too much money to start with. We checked the cams.

It's the first time I've messed up on the till since I started working there, so no one is really worried about it and it was an honest mistake, that as a human I'm allowed if not expected, to have. 

Since we left so late and it was pouring out, I got a lift to my second bus. My second bus flew down JFK and despite my app saying that it would take 28 mins to get home, we made it in like 20. Then my sister fed me soup that had lime in it. LIME! 🤢 Don't put lime in goat soup. Just don't. 

What is left to talk about? 

Oh, we are having something of mini live floor set. It started yesterday and I don't know if it will end on Friday. 

I will not talk about Trump. Don't expect me to. 

Later. 

I didn’t know what on earth I was doing.

 Hint, I’m the only black person there. I even put on pants/jeans for this. They annoyed me for the whole day.

Later. At work now. I was just sent the file.

Day 6, and I’m ok.

 Missed the ‘r’ bus by 2 mins, but I wasn’t trying to catch it. But as I was walking across the street I realized that I was traveling rather light. Then remembered my jean jacket. Once the buses don’t try to freeze me, I’m fine with leaving it at work. I don’t wear it anywhere else. I bought it for work. They have this layering rule for wearing tee once it’s not summertime. 

Which for us started today. 

I was talking to my manager and we were talking about how I was just going to sleep for most of Saturday, but she said that I shouldn’t do that. She made a good case that had me thinking of going to the big park about 6 blocks from my new place so I use my new cam and justify the money I’m spending for it. I think it goes all the way down to the shoreline, so there is that. 

But I can feel that I won’t be able to actually just sleep the day away, but I may not have the drive to leave my house. 

When our state went into lockdown I didn’t start to think that I should get out for at least a walk for a month. 

Anyway. I did pay her back for my shirts and the link for the tic tok thing is on its way. 

I’m going to try to show up early tomorrow so I can lunch from the food truck. I miss their food. I thought that I was getting some today, but I forgot sound 10 is when the buses change from like 3 per hour to 2 per hour and not met the 1 per hour that I was expecting, which started at 11. 

Oh well.

The store felt so empty today. I had three days of at least 7 people up to 9 I think, to just 6 with only five of us on the floor. It felt like less and then I was mostly on register. It was odd. We were busy but it was a different kind of busy than what we had for the past three days. 

The mannequins have been stripped so we are updating the look and prop for the store this week. I did not request or was assigned to the over night shift who will setting all that up. I just realized I will have to stash my on hold items somewhere else than where I left them tonight. I left a hold tag with them. But they are not in an ideal place. I’m not buying them until I get paid on Friday. I only grabbed them because my manager was transferring them to the clearance store. 

Anyway, on my way home and amazingly my knee has started to feel normal again. I noticed it yesterday when I actually walked down the steps like a normal human being. So of course I have a new ache to take its place. But I’m dealing with it. My hand going numb on me is more of a pain right now. 

Well, later. 

Tic Tok is now entering my life

 Tomorrow we, as in our own individual store, are going to do a tic tok  video and we have to wear a certain shirt that is a certain color. I knew what shirt, but I just found out about the color. White of course. An of course I don’t own one, because it’s white. 

So I had to get one at closing today. And since I was buying something I got a yellow one of the same kind of shirt. Then for some reason my boss paid for me. Granted something else was going on, but I didn’t think she was going to pay for my shirts too. Cool.

Then I ran out to catch the bus, and I’m still waiting. What gives? It said I had 6 mins to get here and nothing. 

I’ll see if I can post the video. It’s some silly thing where I shake a leg while holding my other knee??? I don’t know but everyone cracks up when telling me about it. 

Later. 

So the sandwich wasn’t bad

 I think that yesterday and some of today is going to be marked by something that will just have me sweating into my mask.

Two hours before my shift ended yesterday, these two guys showed up and just left product holes in both departments. For my side, women’s, it was stuff that we didn’t have more of, of course. We are going to have to now pull the 40% off products to the floor to fill these holes.

I think I have some 50% off chinos to help with the one table.  Maybe. Others were already pulled out and I may be thinking what I saw was something else.  

If you are thinking of shopping anywhere check for coupons and free memberships to make some deals a little better because the bulk buyers have already beaten you to most of the stores and your selection isn’t as great as it would have been yesterday never mind Friday. 

Take care out there and your mask should be covering your nose as well as your mouth. It’s how we breath. It’s how the virus gets into the body. 

Later. 

Made it!

 I was able to wave to the drive and he delayed leaving for the time it took me round the corner.

Just as my first bus pulled up in one lane my second bus pulled into its lane. 

Man, timing. 

Now to arrive at work. 

My poor knee. I just pushed it a bit. I even jumped a few steps to make sure I caught the bus. 

Uber or not to Uber

 It’s a toss up as to whether or not I will be paying an Uber to get me to work from journal square today. All because I had to use the bathroom before leaving the house. So I missed the bus I wanted to catch. And since I missed that and I saw that the ‘corner’ store was open, I stopped to buy a sandwich for lunch. 

That took more time than I expected. I don’t remember it taking anyone else at any other place that long. The man was not in a rush at all and I walked in with him making a sandwich for someone else. 

Then when he’s ready to make my sandwich I had to pick the bread for him to use and give it to him before he says he doesn’t have any tuna like I first asked for. So now I have a turkey sandwich that I’m not excited about and I’m hoping to catch my second bus. 

And it’s just 9 am. 

8 days

 I am working from this past Thursday until next Friday. Eight days straight. Lovely. 

I have a lot of reasons to be unhappy about this. But one of them is on me. 

I’m suppose to be sleeping

 But yesterday someone asked me to cover their shift for today. 10 til 5. 

So I just, just caught the bus. 

Yesterday I took the Arnicare tablets and used their cream on my knee and surrounding muscles to get a grip on this pain and stiffness. Until the kid texted me I thought I would have three days of self therapy. I already started to look at knee braces but I’m going to see if the doctors can come up with something else. Like a really good and targeted muscle relaxer. 

Other than that, I forgot to post something over at DA for two days. I remembered in time last night to post something before another day slipped by.

Then, since I had the day off from work I believed that I would be able to write a whole part to my story and as I sat in front of the computer I didn’t have a clue of what to write next and flitted around the net until I opened the program and stared it down until something came to me. 

I finished the whole part at midnight. I would like to point out that I wasn’t on the computer all day and that I stopped to make dinner so I would have lunch for today. I also made myself write over 1000 words so tonight I can just read it over before posting. 

My hand has started to act up again. So I’m typing with one hand almost half the time and at this moment. If I use my other hand for too long it has this painful numb feeling. And I have to lower my hand to get it to start feeling Better. Normal will take a while. 

Ok. That’s it so far. 

Later.