Guess what?

 I was sitting at the cold bus stop waiting for my bus and before it was ready to leave, I got a text from one of my managers. They were opening later today and that I didn’t have to come in today and I could use one of my sick days, so I don’t loose my pay. 

After all, between delays and possible injury that could befall me trying to get to work, it wasn’t worth it. Also, they needed to cut some over head due to poor sales lately. So I took a day and now I’m back fixing myself a bowl of cereal for breakfast. I just tied up some of my clothes first. 

Got more snow pics for you too.

I may post one or two over at DA later. 

My day has started

 Well, it started with my alarm an hour ago, but I didn’t get out of bed right away, which has me sitting at the bus stop instead of boarding the light rail. But I’m still early which is a good thing considering the weather I have to contend with. 

Ok, day is over now.

I got up, around noon. Officially. 

I kept waking up before to use the bathroom. I'm starting to think that laying down is what makes me want to pee so much. Once I'm up, I don't have to run to the bathroom as much. 

So I got up, made some egg salad to have with some bread. I tinkered on line for an hour or so, after I mostly emptied one box. No, two boxes. One was in the kitchen that I emptied as I looked for some pepper for my eggs. I still didn't find it. And another box that I dug out when I realized it held my cardigans for work along with my head set that I gave up looking for the day before and broke out a new set that I had found since the first night here. I'm putting it back in it's box. I wasn't suppose to use it until this one died. Which may not be much longer. It seems to be turning itself off these days and don't even bother letting me know. 

Then I went to get some hair/curl pudding. My hair was so dry, and I made my sister tag along to get her new toilet seat. I wasn't going to get it for her. I would get the one that I thought would be a good fit, and she would find something wrong with it. So, she wanted a new toilet seat, she was going to get it herself. 

I wanted to leave about 4pm to catch the bus, but she took her time and we left closer to 4:30. We then waited for the Broadway bus, and she complained the entire time. I told her I was waiting for this bus since it was going to take me right to the place that I knew I could get my hair stuff. But she was cold and I could understand that. But I told her before we left, that we would be waiting for this bus and why. 

She got a few things from the hair/beauty store herself, and some stuff from the Dollar General store that was in the same area. We then got back on the same bus to go back to the hardware store to get her seat a few more things. Then we walked down to Ave C to another bus home before her bus ticket expired. There are three buses that end at the stop by our house. 

I was then witness for about 20-30 mins as my sister took off the old seat, sanitize the toilet like three times before putting on the new seat, that was wrapped in plastic, that she also sanitized. Yeah. I just kept my mouth shut and handed her Lysol disinfectant wipes one after the other. Why was I there at all? She needed someone to be in the room with her. I told you she wasn't all there, and I meant it. I wasn't being mean or trying to make a bad joke. She knows she's off, but she would freak out doing some things if someone isn't there with her. She freaked out a little just whipping the toilet down and found small evidence that it was used before she got there. 

Now I've stayed up too late and I have to go to bed to make sure I can get up in time, to get to work on time. Just because my boss said that he won't make fuss with me for showing up late, that doesn't mean that I'm going to stop trying to get to work as on time. 

I just have snow to worry about now. Yesterday it was ice, now it's snow. 

I. Hate. Winter. 

I made it to work...

 Amazingly. 

Not only did I make it to work, but I made it there like 30 mins early. I just had to leave home like 3 hours before I had to be at work. 

So, today of all days, I woke up to a frozen rain and a 45 minutes delay alert NJ transit wide. I some how got lucky and made it all the way to Secaucus Junction just fine. Then there were no buses. I had time, like almost an hour, so I sat down and waited. 

The other two people who I found waiting for the same bus, panicked and left when it never showed. Where they went, I don't know. But I got on a bus about 10 mins later. 

I got a drink and some empanadas from the food truck and got to work with 30 minutes to spare. My store manager found out today how far and what I have to do to get to work and he said that showing up late won't be a mark against me since he now knows how far I have to come from to get to work. 

In case you don't, here is a slight break down. 

So I live within two blocks of last stop for the 81 bus. I take that to the first or last stop of the light rail at 8th street. I take the light rail up to Hoboken. I then take a train from Hoboken to Secaucus Junction. From there I get one of three buses to the same stop about two blocks from my new store. 

Oh, I mentioned the freezing rain right? When I left the house today, my steps were covered in ice and I almost fell because ice covered the railing too. It wasn't raining that much, but by the time I was waiting for the bus in Secaucus, it was a down pour. I was a wet, and slightly cold mess when I walked into work today. I was more wet than cold. At least I wasn't soaked.

Cold as heck was all of Monday. Cold was last night. Tonight was, dare I say, pleasant. Granted, I've been wearing two pairs of pants, my winter coat for the week so far, and today my top was a sweater. So there is that. 

Well, I have tomorrow off. Who knows when I'll go to bed? Who knows when I'll wake up? :D

Later.

And yes, I messed with the look of my blogs again. I fingered it was time.

A little jump in time

Hey. 

In my defense I was busy. And tacked on that I'm no longer use to blogging constantly, gaps are bound to happen. 

So the year has started. This is the 4th day in, and so much has changed. 

One, we have moved again. I'm on the border of Bayonne, looking across a body of water at Staten Island. 

Two, I'm trying to understand how to get to work now. Monday, my first day back after the week I took off to move, I got to work rather well. Just 4 mins late. Not bad at all. Today, not so much. It was so hard to drag myself out of bed, and even though I thought that I was getting back the ground I lost, I just started to miss connection after connection until had to jump off the light rail and order an Uber so I would get to work at a decent time. I was 5 mins late today, but it feels worst since I had to get an Uber. I will do better tomorrow. The third time I will get it right. 

Three, I have a new work place. My store, #17 has closed. We weren't fired, our building was sold and we spent just over 2 weeks transferring all our stuff to other stories. I was there helping for 2 weeks, then I switched to my new store. The clearance store. It's in the area, but a longer walk from the bus stop. Some people are still finding where they fit, while mangers didn't really have a choice I think, other than quitting, and a few people, mangers and associates, did I think. 

Four, I'm leaking money like a sieve and I need to stop. But other than my lunch I ordered from Uber today, for today and tomorrow, it has been needed. We had to buy floor lamps because none of the bedrooms had light fixtures in them. I didn't realize that this was done in 1980 homes. So we got them on Saturday, and it was during the rain and late, and I ended up spending $68 to get home because there was no other way for us to get home. The next day I bought a microwave. We didn't have one and it's not all the practical to turn on the oven to heat up everything we want to eat. 

The microwave has it's own story. 

I went online to BestBuy to get it since I have their card and I can pay it off later, after I get paid a few times, and I forgot to change my shipping address, or thought that I already did. It was said to be shipped the next day, and the next day I went to see when it was going to show up so my sister, who was home, could make her plans for the day. That is when I saw that I hadn't changed the address. So I tried to see if I could change it, and they said that I could once it was picked up, but it wasn't picked up until the next day. I wasn't able to change the address for the delivery, even though I tried like three times. One person said that they did. It didn't happen. Someone told me that they changed my address on my account. I checked tonight. They didn't. Also, since they weren't able to deliver the microwave the next day like they said they would, they gave me $20... somewhere. Yeah, I haven't seen it, nor have I gone looking for it. 

So, my sister went to get the microwave from our old address and pick up a poster that she left on cabinets in the kitchen. I don't know why she bothered, but she wanted it and she got it. Anyway, the microwave is 1.6 cf I think. I was told to get a decent sized one, I thought this was decent sized. It was just bigger in person than we both thought. But it's good. It's family sized and we will take it with us when we move for the last time. :) 

It's almost carved in stone now. We have now both agreed that the next time we move, we are buying our own house. 4-5 years out from now. 

I think that's enough for now. Tomorrow I'll tell how my travels went and tell you tales of how we ended up in this apt.

Night.