Fog can freeze.

 

I was kicked out of work today

 Catchy title right? 

Well the snow store is coming so the shut down the store at 2 and we, as in all of us who take the bus, we're rushed out of the building at 10 til 2. 

I don't know if my sister is already home or what. I tried calling her at 2 but she didn't pick up. I left her a text. 

She just texted me back. It's now 3:28. Apparently, she is still working. Let's see how hard it will be for her to get home later. I’m not as freaked out about the snow as some people. But I'm sure the buses will get put away for the storm tonight, if not late this afternoon when she finishes work. 

Well, later. And yes I can see the snow starting to fall. 

Shipping...

 At a new supermarket after giving blood for test and hungry from not eating since last night.

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So I had yesterday off and I did something.

 I cleaned out the freezer. 

It was like from Overboard, but 4 feet tall. 😁

Now I'm at work from 3 pm till 11 pm. 

Having lunch now. Finished the book I was reading on my first break. 

Later. 

Hopefully that last post didn’t just pop up

 Hey.👋

I was thinking you were overdue for an update. 

I haven't typed up anything here in weeks, but when I opened up the browser, there was my last post in the editor. I’m hoping that was a glitch and that it was posted back when I wrote it. If not I’m sorry. But I really wasn't gone for that long.

Just over 2 weeks. About. 

Last week I was going in from 8 am till 4:30 for four of my five days as a filler to help stock up what was on the sales floor.

The week before was live floorset. It was suppose to be two days of 6 pm till 2 am but that got tossed the first day. The first day we finished at 1:30 am, but some, including me, we're now going in the next day. 4 till midnight. Then I didn't near about the change of hours for the third day. So I think I'm on time and everything for my boss to call to let me know that I should already be at work. 

So instead of 6 til 2 like I expected, it aw 4 til midnight. Once we went over that no one told me about the time change, everything was fine once I got to work.

Like most things, time has me getting a better grip on being a lead. But we have just tripled our staff and I suck at remembering names. So this is going to be fun. 

We have been spreading out our  ”Black Friday” at our store, but since most people don't care about their health these days, and we have had crowds, my hours for Black Friday will be 3 pm til 11 pm. 

Well, I'm on my way into work now. I’m very on time so I'm happy with myself. 

Later. I hope you guys are doing well and taking care of yourself and people around you. 

My sister...

 I was almost home when my sister called me. When I told her I was two stops away, she said ok and hung up. 

I get home and she is slightly grinning at me. I asked what was u and she said ”nothing.” before telling me something.

One, she said, after a small preamble, that she called to see if she could wait for me to come home so I could lotion her back for her, or if she had hurt her hand bending it back Ward's to don't herself. 

This is why she called me. She then tacked on something about putting fries in the oven. If I was future way she could have done it. 

Almost all my woes are travel related.

So. There is a glass of lemonade in the living room. My app said that I had to wait almost 30 mins for the bus once I was ready and I was ready before 11. So I got something to eat while I waited in the, warmer than outside, house. I am three bites in when the 20 odd mins fell to 5 mins. So I grabbed my food and ran. 

Good morning to you too

This sucks and sucks bad. 

Not only do I have to buy lunch and get a Lyft, but my 2 bus played possem with me and didn't show up for over 10 mins after its time, three mins after I stopped waiting to see if it was late or just least early.

It has been done. I was lucky one day to be waiting long before it was suppose to leave because it left 10 mons early. 

Granted, if I had gotten the bus today and not have to pay Lyft for a ride to work, I wouldn't have lunch. And would have to pay more to Uber eats to feed myself today. All because I forgot my lunch on the table this morning when leaving the house. 

At least it's not raining. I’m looking at 7.5 hours of work then 2-ish hours getting home after that. At least I can just not more tomorrow until I feel like it. 

How is your day going? 

My current spending

 So two days ago, I was on my way home and starving. So I decided to order something through Uber eats so it would get there around the time I showed up. 

I had some money so I got a plate of food from this new place. Meatloaf and crispy onions and green beans with mashed potatoes. It was $20, but I decided to give it a shot. There was this other place that gave great potions for the price and I hoped this place was the same.

Maybe it was the container they sent the food in, but I didn't think the value equaled out. But it tasted good. Not great enough to make up the difference. But good. 

Then yesterday I left the house without having to go to work. We were out of hand soap, so I tried to Newport Mall to find Bat and Body Works to get some more. They were still having the 6 for $26 so I got them and came back home. I even got a few mins to take some pics of Manhattan.

That night my sister was bellyaching that she was hungry. So I opened up Uber eats again and told her to get something. I told her I wanted Chinese food, she found an outback steakhouse. 

Her part came up to $20 and mine, burger and fries, came up to the same. Tack on all the fees and whatnots and it was over $50. So I 86’Ed my order. I couldn't afford both. 

Then wonders of wonders she canceled everything and we got Chinese food from grub hub on her phone. 

Today my first bus ghosted me so by the time I got to where I was suppose to catch my second bus, I had to call an Uber to get to work on time. That cost me about $14. 

Then at the end of my shift I got four shirts. Well, two shirts and two polos. The grand total for that was $20.40. Not bad considering how much they could have cost me. 

Now I’m on my way home and I was asked to show up early if possible. Considering I showed up an hour later than I was suppose to two days ago because I remembered my schedule incorrectly, I told her I would see. I was already thinking that I would have to make it to the bus stop earlier than I did today since I can’t keep paying Uber to get me to work. So I’ll see how early I can get there. 

Later..

Do you see that time?

 I’m just going home. 

Now I have to go home, sleep and then get up for work when the sun rises. Then work another 7 &1/2 hours. Thank goodness I have the weekend off. 

Next week is going to be busy and long. I may get overtime again. We have so much organized to do after live floorset. 

In the Uber and I’m almost home. Later.

70 degrees?

 We have been freezing our asses off for two to three days and today it’s 70 degrees out?

It just occurred to me that you might be wondering why I’m just leaving my house. I have night shift today and tomorrow. 6 pm till 2 am. I am not going to be left to fend for myself on how I’m getting home. They are paying for an Uber or will pay me back for the Uber I will have to call to get my butt home. They have done it both ways.

So why the overnight? Live floor set. Yes. We did do this a few weeks/ a month ago. And now we are doing it again. I thought this whole thing was going to go digital, but apparently, they can’t afford that level of tech yet. 

Anyway. It's now three to nine days out of our lives that we do this. Overnight is only 2 days. But my store started to prep for this since last week and it won’t be done until this Friday.

I want to get a salad to take to work with me. Yes. I do like salads. Good salads. But like this whole week, so far, which started on Sunday for me, I won’t jeopardize getting to work on time for it. I’ll just order Uber eats. 

Well later.  

Lunch upgrade

 I tried to leave home at a certain time so I would have time to buy lunch, but that didn't work out. By the time I got to the bus station, I had ten minutes until it left and I wasn't going to miss it by getting something to eat.

So my $5 sandwich has just turned into a $15 meal on Uber eats. 

Other than that I think I’m getting use to my new duties. Still, practice is needed. 

Yesterday I was off so I stayed in bed reading until I dragged myself to the computer to do something with my current story. But on Friday we had an interesting closing. There were a few insufficient funds issues. A misunderstanding of a coupon and a family wondering around the store after hours like they rented the store out for themselves and leaving a mess behind.

But this is all normal for me you say. And yes. But it was all one group /family that did this. By the time they left, I think they had 100 pieces and it was 15 past 7. 

Luckily, I wasn't the one ringing them up but I had other things to keep myself busy. 

I did learn one interesting thing on the way home. I got a lift to jfk and 5th and learned that I was a short block from Summit ave. 

I thought it was much further a way. The times I have stood and 5th when I could have gotten another bus was shocking. At least now I know. 

Later.

YEAH!

 I can power walk again. By the skin of my own breath I caught the bus just now. 

I was late by 20 mins yesterday. I am not repeating that today. 

I was trying to only take an hour to get ready but I can't do it. I need to go to sleep earlier so I can have an hour and a half to wake up and get ready. 

Yesterday my bus came early and I missed it. Today I was tired and kept falling back asleep. 

Part of the reason I didn't fall asleep closer to the time I wanted was because Wendy’s texted me back last night at 11:30 to resolve an issue with an order I placed. 

Darn! I forgot to pocket a receipt on my way out the door. That is for another payment issue that happened the same day.  

Ok. Bye.

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.

Not home yet

 So, there are two reasons why I’m not home yet and both are my fault.

One, I was told to recover (clean) kids at closing. For most of the day I’ve been at checkout, and someone tore their way through the boys section, but honestly I’ve seen and fixed worst. My problem was that I had less than 45 mins to make it right. So when I was asked about what time my bus was to show, I had two things go through my mind. 

One, I wanted to stay for the little extra in my pay for a full 30 mins. The next thing being, I needed to stay to clean up kids like I was asked. 

So by the time we all left the store I of course had missed the last bus that would take me to journal square. So I had to take a detour and take two buses to get me there to get my last bus to take me home. Fine. I caught them back to back.

I get to journal square and I see that have 15 mins until my bus leaves. I want to get a drink to take to work for lunch and I decided to get some chicken from this new place to go with the rest of my lunch and to have some for dinner. 

So on my way to catch my bus that is leaving in 3 mins I was stopped. Not once but twice. I couldn’t believe my luck. So I got to my ‘terminal’ in time to have it roll by me.

Now I have to wait 20 mins for the next one. And that is where you find me today.

Other than work that I have been waking up at 5:30 am for, I guess I’m doing ok.

I got some new fractals made. I impressed myself with the last bit of writing I posted yesterday. It was my day off so I got to polish it up to my liking. 

Yesterday my sister also had PSE&G come by to look at our heating system. Well she thought that they were coming to inspect our heating system. They checked our boiler and its  connection to our floor. Nothing outside of the basement was looked at. 

He said he did something to make sure the heat wasn’t blocked from reaching all the rooms. We shall see. In Newark I got the heat and she didn’t. The next place she had a radiator in her room, I didn’t. And this time she seems to be getting most of the heat again. Her room was a sauna and I had to employ my comforter to get not cold at the start of the year.

I’m on the bus now. About 30 mins from now I will be hobbling my way down the block to my house. 

Take care people.

Later.

Who’s at fault?

 My bus app said that I had over 10 mins until the bus showed up so I took my time walking to the bus stop and paused to take a photo. Just one, even though the scene changed as I continued to walk towards it.

Do I back up 10 paces to try for what I really wanted? No. I had a bus to catch. I had less than half a block to go. Heck I was one house away from the corner. 

And as I get to the corner there is the bus breezing past me, beating the stop light with no one on it. 

So I’m waiting for the next bus. When ever that may be. 

Later

The day went quickly

 Even though I’ve been at work since 9am today and awake since 5:30 they day went by quickly for me and I wasn’t the one one that said so. 

I guess when you have something g to really do and not a lot of customers to worry about it speeds along your day. 

Now to do it all back over again. 

So...

 The day went very quickly for me. 

A higher up showed up at the store and walked around the store talking to a display person on the phone. My manager thought it was for one, but it turned out to be stuff that they wanted done today. So there went our plans for the day. 

On the upside, the store looks a little better and we discovered some marked down items on the women's side. But a bunch of stuff was moved around and filled. 

I was on register today, which wasn’t working since it was just me and one manager on the women’s side of the store. So we got Bruce somehow. He does not like working in women's at all, but I think he also took over register duty for me also until he left at 5. After my break I wasn't called to ring out anyone. I just realized that.

Oh. Lunch was microwave popcorn. Kettle Corn maybe. I can't have any butter or dairy-based things. It was a big enough bag that I'm not starving. 

I ended up leaving half an hour after I was suppose to. Everyone is used to me closing down the store, even me, that it was odd that I left so early. But I’ll be there for closing for the next two days. 

Overall it was a good day despite my second bus being 12 mins late this morning. What is 12 mins you ask me? It's me getting to work 4 mins late. I hope it was only 4. My first bus was late too, or I would have caught an earlier second bus. But I got what I got. Now I’m heading home. 

I feel like throwing money at someone for some fried chicken. I haven't had any in weeks. Over a month for sure. 

Later.

I don't think the food traveled well.

 Some of it seemed to have spoiled by the time I was home and ready to eat it. 

I got home before 7, and the only thing I did that took up any time before eating was taking a bath. I had to pee since halfway through my trip to Brooklyn. 

When I got there she didn't let me sit, I didn’t even think to ask her to use the bathroom. She’s 88 after all. I expect her to die soon, but I won't be the one to kill her. 

So when I got to lower Manhattan on my way back, I thought that perhaps I could use the bathroom at my sister’s office. But when I called her she said that she had just gotten on the bus. So I just missed seeing her by 5 mins. 

So the second I got in the apt I’m running for the bathroom and was only half successful. Which is why I washed my skirt in the bathroom sink and took a bath. 

Anyway, the food. At first, I thought that they had put lime on the food but by the time I packed everything up after my sister got around to eating, something else didn't smell right. I packed up the bits that I thought was still good and even sectioned out some to take to work. But I couldn't pack it with me this morning. 

I’m hours away from Aunt Flo showing up. That’s one of the reasons I felt like throwing up yesterday and this morning. I’m not adding food poisoning to my worries while at work. 

I was so happy when I got the food, now I feel like I wasted my money. 

I was wrong.

 It’s $4.50 for the bus.

Boy did I get food.

 They were open, but they had a capacity restriction of 6 people at a time. 

So, what was wrong with her phone? It was set to vibrate and I don't know if she remembers how to make a call on the iPhone. But nothing was wrong with it. 

She then said that I never told her about vibrate. On her older phone it was called silent. And I showed it to her. 

I have to spend a lot of time on a few things everytime I see her and sometimes it's rehashing what I showed and told and wrote down last time. 

If she doesn't stop to ask me about something, I may never get around to it. She is almost afraid to just use her phone and keep track of what she did and what happened when she did that. 

I spent years getting her to understand how to use an Android phone, so she is now telling me she doesn't understand how to new this iphone. But since I gave it to her like a week before all this year got turned on its head and she hasn't seen us since and didn't look up how to use it, like I showed her on YouTube, it has stayed over her head. 

What I forgot and don't like about Android platforms is that the OS version that they come with are mostly baked in there and don't update like windows or iPhone, so it says it's up to date when it's years old and shows it. 

Oh, and the odd issue she had abiut the contacts was that she hadn’t entered in any. I shieed her how to add contacts, and she was suppose to add the rest. I did reenter what was on ber old phone for her, but the numbers she had writen down who knows where were what she had left to enter. I knkw i showed her. She makes a fuss about me doing anything and not showing her what I’m doing. 

So I'm heading back home now. If I get to lower Manhattan in time, to catch the 120, I can skip a bus and the path, even if it costs me $6.

Bye

Well, (to give you something different)

 I am currently sitting in a powerless subway train in Brooklyn at Borough Hall. 

I work up at 7:30 this morning ready to get this trip over with but I had such a sour stomach and nausea that I honestly thought that I was going to throw up until I was able to fall asleep again. Oh and every time I stood up I felt like I had to use the bathroom 

I don't hate my cousin enough to make myself sick. 

So after I woke up about two hours later I just laid there until I believed that I could leave the house. I didn't even take my med until noon. I also had a yogurt hoping that might help if not come back up on me. It's been at least three hours and that funny feeling is starting to come back at the back of my throat. Great.

I caught the 10 bus to the path train. Took that over to world trade center and then made my way to the 4 train to get me to crown heights where I will change trains again to go to New Lots. 

See why I didn't want to do this? 

Ok. Power is back and we are moving. 

I don't know if I’ll feel up to taking any pics today. Oh and it's a rainy day to boot. 

Later.

So... (yes I say that a lot)

 I got to the bus stop at the top of the hour like I keep telling myself to do and today it showed up 3 mins early. So yeah for me. 

What is not ”Yeah for me” is that I have to go to Brooklyn tomorrow. I don't think it's really the fact of just leaving my house, but that is a big part of it. I had writing time set up so I could make progress. The other part is who I’m going to see. 

If you have a family member that you don't get along with but they need you for something? That is what this is. She doesn't hate me. She considers me a disappointment and the huge age gap isn't helping.

Then the trip is hours both ways. 

Since I woke up this morning I’ve managed to find two upsides. One, the Spanish restaurant around from her, if they are even open. And two, I can detour on the way home to take some photos. 

If I manage to get home before 5 pm I might be able to write something. 

Here’s to hoping. 

Later.

So...

 I checked the weather this morning before I was 'running' out the door to catch my bus this morning so I would know what shoes to wear. 

I saw that it was going to rain when it would be time for me to go home. So my new weather boots. They aren't feeling as bad as they did the first time I wore them. :shrug:

But I'm home now and it just started raining. About an hour after I got home. Oh well. I saw the clouds on the way home so I'm grateful to have been speared the public bath, even if I had my shoes and umbrella. 

Interesting thing when I got off my bus at my job this morning. There were all these people walking across the street into our parking lot. It took me a second to realize that they were coming from The Real Real across from us. Ok. But I still didn't have a clue why they all left their building. There were no alarms that I could hear and I didn't smell any smoke or see flames. A drill? Well I had about 25 mins to get to the food van, order, have them cook it and then make my way to work before the that 25 mins ran out so I could clock-in on time. 

While I was waiting for my garlic chicken sandwich platter, I saw and heard three fire engines as they showed up to see what was going on. I think it was three. So I don't believe it was a drill. I heard something about a skunk. But a skunk wouldn't need three fire engines and the redirecting of traffic. 

We felt a little light on staff today after having more manning the shop yesterday. Two people are on vacation. We lost some people from when we closed and at the end of the day I found out that someone who was suppose to come in today, got in an accident so someone who was suppose to close today, had to come in early to cover that shift. So only three of us were there at closing today. Oh, and we seem to only have weekend workers too. That would explain the extra hours I have this week. I haven't worked that many days since live floorset. I won't explain what that is, unless you ask, because we aren't doing them anymore. 

Three of us to close and recover a whole store. Lucky us, we didn't have many people after the other 2 people, left. So it wasn't a hot of mess as it was earlier in the day. 

Later. 

Got My First Look...

 At my worksheet for next week. I expected to work tomorrow, so that wasn't a surprise. Having to work on Tuesday was. Then I get one day off then I’m back at it again for three more days.

At least I get Sunday off. I hate catching the buses on Sunday.

I got my buses home back to back tonight. So that was  nice. I got home before it was pitch black.

I had leftovers for dinner, and they weren’t even mine. my sister had pizza in the fridge that she clearly didn't go back for so I asked and got it. I don't like her pizzas because she has bbq sauce on it instead of tomato sauce. 

We got the new Altice package from Optimum yesterday and we are already missing our clocks. We have a tv in every room and they each had a cable box that showed us the time. Those boxes were switched out for these new smaller boxes. But they do not show the time.

We have to get clocks now. 

Did you hear? They are planning on rebooting ”The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”? Will Smith is helping them out and it’s going to be a drama. Yep. 

What to say?

 I made all my buses. 

My sister bought 'expensive' healthy food for me yesterday, so I took that with me to work. 

Time was a little slow in passing, but I was there from 10 til 5. I think I was being talked up by a lesbian while I waited for my #2 to show up when I was going home. I was flattered, in a odd way. 

When I got to Journal Square I had 20 mins to wait for my next bus. Then the 30 Shopper Bus pulled in so I went over to ask him if he went by ShopRite. 

But he wouldn't even look at me when you left the bus and when he came back. So I just got on my normal one when it showed up. I went beyond my house by two stops then then walked up the block to the supermarket. 

I went for milk and I got milk. Along with ice-cream for my sister. She wanted rum and raisins. I also got two yogurts, a can of vegetarian beans, grated nutmeg, dried parsley, some veggies and tortilla chips.

I then walked home and hoped that the weather forecast wasn't lying to me and that I wasn't going to get drenched on my way home like the dark clouds over head were threatening to do. I got home dry. I found a ... I don't want to say what it wanted to be, because it didn't get there, along with some fries and a dirty rice from Popeye's to eat for my dinner. 

Now I'm watching Star Trek 4 - The Voyage Home. My sister was watching it this morning, or last night, but I couldn't watch it in my room since I no longer had the Roku tv in my room with the Roku app installed. But as I type this, I realize that I could just install the app on my new tv. There's something. Either way, when the movie is done, I'm going to bed. My shift tomorrow is a little shorter. It's 12 til 6. I'll see if I have work on Monday when get to work tomorrow. I was suppose to check during my break, but I forgot to look up. 

I didn't get a register today, but I should be getting one tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll also see if I can fill in some of the underwear in the men's department. I was in women's/kid's department today. 

I might be able to start it and have someone else finish while I'm on the register. Normally one person finishes what they start, but if I ask someone who has time, it won't be a problem. 

So I'm going to have some icecream in bed.Maybe read a book that I got from Barns & Nobel to help me fall asleep. 

Later. 

Made it!

 Yesterday I missed the bus causing me to wait 30+ minutes for the next one. Which lead me to missing my #2 bus to work. I had to order a Lyft to get to work on time. 

When I left the house today, I checked my bus app and it said that it was going to be here in 1 min. I’m hustling trying to catch it, but at one min I knew I was going to see it sail past me and I would have to spend another $12 to get to work again. 

But no. I get to the top of the street and I don't see it. So I push the button for the crosswalk and walk towards the bus stop until I could cross the street. There was a person at the bus stop I was walking away from and a guy at the stop I was walking towards. So I was pretty sure it didn't come by yet. 

And within a min of me getting to the bus stop I saw it coming towards us. Yeah!

Hey

I was doing well, for me, for the day. I even got out and did my wash. 

I came home, did something on line. I don't even know what. Maybe I worked a little on my current story. 

I then made dinner, and ate it before calling my sister to find out if she was still alive. She was, and on the light rail home. 

She then had me bake a cake while she tired to change the colour of chocolate and the heat got into the fridge from it opening and not fully closing one time on this very hot day. So her chocolate covered strawberries sweated and didn't go back to how they where before once we stayed away from the fridge for a while. 

She also lost the battle with the some chocolate covered pretzles. She's rightly upset that things weren't working out for her, but tack on the heat wave without AC and she's just in a mood. At least she understood that she needed to calm down and went in her room. 

I think I watched a 5 sad moments list on Youtube from the channel "Now This, and it just soured my mood too. I think one of them got to me more than I expected. It was about how this lady, who may have been a lawyer, or a reporter, I'm not sure which, went to a detention center and found it full of sick and dying kids who were sleeping on concrete floors. At least three of the five on the list were about places like that. 

Yeah, I'm ready for bed. 

So, I have work tomorrow and everyday through Sunday. So back to wearing the mask for almost 12 hours a day each day. I have that soup waiting for me at work, and as I thought about it, I started to crave some fruit. Oh well. I'll see. 

At lest most of my job has AC. 

I'm going now. Later. 

PS, don't be surprised if you don't hear anything from me tomorrow. Or the day after. Or until Tuesday really. I haven't a clue what my hours or days will be after Sunday yet. 

Day went well.

 I got projects done even though there weren't that many of us. 

We have new little duffel bags. We also got new watches and sunglasses. Some new men caps showed up, but I didn't get to put those out. One of my managers did. 

I was on register also, so the little projects took longer to get done because I kept stopping to ring people up. 

I only had one hiccup there, and that was not on me. I did everything right. 

...

Wow...

I thought I posted this already. Ok.

So that was Sunday. 

Monday is just about over. It just turned 8pm and I've just eaten dinner. It came out well. 

The day wasn't as hot as I expected it to be until around 6pm.

Most of my day was spent in bed with the electro-massage thing attached to my knee for about 2 hours once I woke up. 

So. Later. 👋

Breakfast accomplished

 Deli plus was open for business and I got a veggie egg platter. I get more for a dollar less at the food truck, but I can't choose today. 

Five more mins for the buss. With luck I get to work on time. Well, I’ll get there when I get there, but depending on how fast the driver is and the number of stops we make, I can get to work between 5 til and 5 past. 

Since I don't know what the grace period is, I rather not be past anything. 

Ok. Bus is here. 

Later. 

UPDATE

I had something to eat, but the one I get from the food truck tastes better. There, I've given my vote for the Black Food Truck. 

Yes!

 I won't miss my bus to work after all. It leaves at 10:20 instead of 10. So I can downstairs and see if there is something I can get down there for lunch. 

The soup is a backup. 

Missed my bus...

 By 30 seconds. I was four feet from the designated ”bus stop” when I tried to wave down the bus, it kept going. 

So now it's 9:20 and I’m waiting for a bus that may show up in 4 mins. Any longer and I’m paying Uber to get me to work from journal square. 

I want to say something about Monday's, but this is an everyday thing for me. 

Some buses completely ghost me and things go out the window. I grabbed a can of soup for lunch in case I don't get to work early enough to buy lunch at the food truck. 

I got penciled in to work tomorrow.

 I don't remember asking or being asked to work that day. I don't even know why I looked at the schedule for next week on my break, but I did. It's a good thing too. I would have been sleeping when they call me from work to ask why I’m not at work. 

Oh well. 

My day started out rather well too. Oh, I’m on the #2 bus on my way from work now. A very long time ago I use to blog from my phone, so I decided to try today. It's different, but it works so far. 

So this morning I woke up early and took it easy and almost missed my first bus even though I had ”enough” time. My bus app told me I had 18 mins so I told myself that I would leave at 10 mins. I turned to do something. I didn’t go walking off or anything. I turned my body and when I looked down at my phone again it said I had 5 mins. 

I didn't think I would make it, but I did and without deodorant too. That left me with an hour to wait for my second bus. So I got the eggplants. I also got some Basil seed drinks for myself for work. 

I’ve eaten all the food I cooked a few days ago. I’ve had it for lunch for the past 3 days.

Guess it’s time to break out the cans of soup. 

So I work tomorrow, then I’m off for 2 days then I work the rest of the week. At least this week and next week will be good pay checks. I have to pay for my camera amount my other bills that I didn’t realize wasn’t billing me/us until last month.

I’m now on my second bus. So I’ll be home in about  30 mins. 

Later. 

One More To Go

 It's wasn't that bad.

My first bus decided to show up almost twenty minutes late, but I still got to work 'on time'. I clocked in one past ten. 

We had a lot of people in on staff come noon, but we had enough customers for me to spend most of the day at register. 

I want to try to get some writing done before I called it a night around 11:30. I need to get some sleep as close to midnight as possible. 

More pizza for dinner, but I am not complaining. I'll pick up some more egg plants tomorrow on the way home. I thing I ended up making with what I had before was rather good. 

Later.

Working Three Days Straight

So most of our stock room looks like a warehouse. 

So I was asked to come in tomorrow to help with processing. Then before I decided to say yes, the manager realized that there weren't any cashiers. So I'll be on cashier duty instead.

I got home after 9 and in the rain. Lucky me, my sister ordered Domino's. I have work from 10 til 6:30 then I go back on Sunday to work 11 til 6:30 again. I don't mind working, it's just the pain I'm not happy about. 

My feet hurt now. I hope I don't have to wear my new rain booths tomorrow. They are not kind on my feet after I've been on them all shift. 

So later. And not tomorrow later either. You may not hear back from me until Monday. 

I found one of the remotes.

Do you remember when I said that I seemed to have lost two of my tv remotes during the move here? Well one turned up last night when my sister got the ok to use our portable washer and dryer. Along with a new fee of $30 a month tacked on our rent. 

The remote was in a bag, that was with other things, and in her room all this time. Of course I had just ordered two replacement remotes by that time. I ordered the remotes Sunday night I think. 

Today at work was ok. I was busy and it messed with my wacked out knee. I think I'm going to end up in a brace soon. 

I missed my first bus, so when I got to Journal Square I had to order an Uber to get to work on time. There went $13. For the first time I asked my driver to drop me off at the food truck so I could get lunch, just to find out that, Oh yeah, they're on vacation this week. Great. The guy was good about it and took me to the store. So I was looking at popcorn for lunch. 

A few hours later my managers were ordering lunch and I made a joke about what I wanted too. When I told them that I was joking and that I was broke, one of them treated me. So kind. So I got cookies for everyone as a thank you. I just have to bag them at home before I take them to work. It's those crumbly coconut cookies that I mentioned a few days ago. 

I got them on the way home today along with some little eggplants. I think I'm going to oven roast them and mix them with pesto and some fresh pasta that is in the fridge. I have to use that up before it goes bad. I didn't know how quickly you had to use those kinds of pasta until my sister got some last year. 

Oh, I finished that book. 

You don't see the cover this large when you go to page to read about the book or buy it. Or I would not have missed "Time Amazon Book One". This one is still free from B&N and Amazon. 

So, my reviews are still pending, but in 3 days, if not 2, they should be posted to Goodreads and B&N. Actually, my Goodreads one might already be up. 

Later. 

What Could Go Wrong?

I kinda felt like I asked that yesterday when I woke up to a storm today.

Said storm lasted until about 2-ish. I'm not really sure. I just know that there was rain and strong wind gusts for a long time.

So now it's been quiet for a while and I'm thinking great. It may be or may not be drizzling, but it's calmed down a lot and I can go do my wash and there shouldn't be that many people there.

Well, I was right as in it had calmed down. The sky is clear and blue. Nothing is falling, and there weren't many people at the laundromat. There was no one at the laundromat. Not even the owner. It was closed.

A laundromat in Brooklyn would have been open. (grumbling)

As I was leaving the house, the lady next door saw me coming down my steps with everything slowly and decided to let me know that she believed that it was closed. She saw someone else trying to get in and the door was closed. So she offered to look after my stuff while I went to check.

None of the signs said anything about being closed that day, but the door was locked and the inside was dark. Just great. I'm very happy that I have something I can wear to work tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow, my package might be delayed into arriving tomorrow also. They said the same thing about the TV, so I'm waiting to see if it shows up tonight anyway. They did give themselves a wide window up until 9 pm for delivery today originally.

If not, I'll just have to remind myself to leave the front door to the building open.

Wasn't all this rain suppose to happen tomorrow? I was expecting to actually put on my new rain boots to go to work.

Oh well. 

I got out, didn't get everything I wanted done, but I got out.

I got up and had simple breakfast.

I got dressed and tied up the trash.

I went out, taking the trash to drop off in the bin outside before walking up the street.

I took the same route that I do to take the bus to work, but when I got the bus stop I kept walking.

My first stop was the Walgreens. I hoped to find the same drinks that I saw on sale at the other Walgreens about 60 blocks, if not, more away. They didn't, so I was on to my next stop. An ATM from by bank. That turned out to be inside a CVS. I've never been in one before believe it or not. If I did, I don't remember.

Then I walked across the street to ShopRite. Yeah. It only took me what? A month? It was weird. I haven't had to doge so many people in a while. This one lady was nice. She wanted to know about something she saw me pick up, but ended up showing some something that saved me a dollar on something that I was trying out for the first time. We both learned something.

I didn't get my apple sauce. I finished off the chips last night, so nothing to dip into it. Not that I don't eat the applesauce by itself, but I didn't feel it at the moment. At least not with everything else I was bringing back with me.

I got my big container of oats. I got restock of two spices. I got some tuna because I saw some quick tuna Asian recipes. There was ice cream on sale, so I got one for me and one for my sister. Oh, and I got some tomatoes and cucumbers. :) And the sausages. I was just under $30. And then there was the $20 I took out of the ATM to do my laundry.

Laundry that I had planed on doing today until I started to walk home in the heat that had me sweating so much. My poor shoulder. When I was nearing home, I realized that I could just do my wash tomorrow. I didn't have to do it today.

Dinner was lamb chops with french fries. Dispite my sister saying she didn't like french fries, she's been eating her share since she got me the bag.

I was asked if I could come into work today, but by the time I work up to read the text, it wasn't in a position to show up on time or anytime soon. Then at 10 pm some one texted to ask if I could cover them on Wednesday. I said sure. Now I'm up to three days of work this week. If I was asked on Sunday to some in today, I would have had 4. Oh well.

So,... I think I'll go taste my ice cream. I didn't open it or anything. I got home and it went right into the freezer. It's not as warm as it was earlier. Around 11 pm I think, a nice little thunder storm broke out and lasted for about two-ish hours. I had to close my windows when it got really heavy.

I got slightly side tracked with my photo post over at DA. So that went up at midnight EST. But it was a nice clean shot from my new cam.

Ok. It's 2:43 am. I'm turning in now. I'm still getting the ice cream. Just a little.

Later. 

Near Perfect Day

I've got so much energy compared to how I normally feel. I'm playing music on YouTube and dancing in my chair. Reminds me of when I use to go out dancing.

I got to work 5 mins late, but that was out of my control and I'm normally on time and I let them know that I was running late so it was ok.

We had a new guy today and we were rather well staffed so I was stuck in kids and I got to take my time organizing and refolding the polos in women. I helped customers, I kept kids good and even wondered a bit more into women's when I thought I was keeping myself too isolated in the back.

I covered the register for one person so they could go on break. Come closing, we all got to leave at 6. We kept the store in order and no last minutes shoppers to not care and toss things around.

I came straight home. Well, until I was a block away. When I got off the last bus I got click happy and took a bunch of photos. I even took a block detour to see something different and see if that street got closer to the water than my street did.

Ok. I got home with only one mosquito bite and now I have a pasta bowl from my sister for dinner.

Later.

Oh... if you like Daft Punk you may like this. :wave:

True To My Word.

I did next to nothing today. 

So much nothing, that I haven't anything to write. Sure I ate something. Made fries in the oven. Got some chili from my sister. Watched news and other things on youtube. played my dragon merge game and I read a lot of stuff on line. 

And that is it. And I ate some more of those coconut cookies. I think I'll buy another set and put two in a little snack ziplocks for work. My boss would welcome them even though she keeps saying she wants to loose weight. She's already small. She can have two little cookies.

Since I have work tomorrow, I have to get my DA post up then make my way back to bed. 

And FYI, I've been out of my bed since like noon. 

Only God Knows Why I'm still Up

Hey, (typing with my eyes half open)

I got home just before 10 pm even though I left work at 7. Granted, my bus didn't show up for about 20 mins, but that is normal.

I took three buses home today and I did what I wanted to do yesterday. One, I got off in what I'm calling 'little India' to go to that supermarket. They didn't really have what I wanted. But I got three things for stopping by. If my arms weren't going to take revenge on me, I would have gotten a box of mangoes. Instead, I have a container of coconut cookies. A bag of sweet thai chili photo chips and some garlic. I've been feeling odd just sprinkling the powered stuff when I'm cooking.

I then walked down to Journal Square and into Walgreens to see if they had any apple sauce to go with my chips. Yes, I dip my chips in apple sauce. Unsweetened or Cinnamon. The normal kind comes off too sweet to me.

Then I walked towards the buses to just watch mine ride away without me. So I decided to take the 80 again and this time get some lamb over rice for dinner while I waited for the 10 or the 119 to show up. And that worked out very well. That guy does business. At 9:30 at night people were pulling up in cars to get food. I guess it helped that most other places had already closed. But I'm sure a few of them normally came there anyway.

Oh. There was no apple sauce, at least not the jar. Just those cups and I think for the price they were asking I would just wait until I dragged my ass to ShopRite next week. I'm going to sleep most of tomorrow away then go to work on Sunday. Then I will be free for a few days unless someone calls for me to cover their shift. Which I will do since I only have two days of work this week. But I hope they won't call for me to cover a Monday shift.

So I'm nearing my house and I see that there is a notice up from the police department saying that no one can park around this tree because it's suppose to be trimmed. I kinda feel like that should be its own agency or the department of parks should expand to cover that. Just at first glance it doesn't seem like something the police should be doing. Oh well.

So I'm home with my warm drink and even hotter food. It tasted good. The cucumber was nice. I miss eating cucumbers. I ate a lot of them growing up and only when I taste it unexpectedly do I remember how much I like it.

After I ate that, I tried the coconut short bread type cookies. Good. I didn't expect them to crumble as much as they did. Then I tried a chip or two. Literally. They had the texture of crisps. Then I found the ice cream in the bag that I got from Walgreens. I had only been home an hour, but the travel time wasn't kind. I guess the hot food didn't help either. It was too soft for me to eat. It was completely melted all the way through. I was over charged for that, but I didn't notice until I was waiting for the bus and I didn't think going back there to make a fuss was worth $2.

So It's been two hours since I've placed it in the freezer. So I'll go see if I can eat it now.

Oh, I'm also rendering out a fractal as I type. I posted a very old one that I made and tagged back in 2017. Yeah. I was holding on to that one longer than I thought.

Oh. One last thing. I took a pic of my lunch. It's the same as the one I got yesterday.

Guess I should have opened the wrapper. Oh well.

Later.

Almost Turned In Early.

Hello there.

I closed windows, turned off lights and I was heading to bed when I remembered that not only did I have this to write up, I had a photo to post over at DA.

So, some of my good luck lasted until today. I feel good when I catch my buses and get to work a little early. If I miss my first bus, then I end up paying Uber to get to work, and lately it's anywhere between $15 and $38. I get paid $11.04 an hour. You do the math.

So yeah. I got my buses and was happy about it. Speaking of buses, I was checking the calendar and realized that to go to work on Sunday I'll have to buy a new monthly pass. That will set me back $78. 

So work. I got off the bus with almost 30 minutes left until I had to clock in. I walked down to the food truck and ordered something for lunch. I ended up getting a platter. I haven't gotten that in a while. It just means that I got a closed container for my egg sandwich with fries and I get some macaroni salad as a side. 

I was hoping to get somewhere with a project that no one really cares about because they have bigger things to deal with. So I tried to put out some pants to the men's department, but like always, I was constantly called to register. Before this whole outbreak, we had walkies that had ear pieces so the whole store wouldn't hear us calling across the store for the register to be maned when someone was ready to pay among other things. 

But when we came back, the ear pieces were out. Considering the masks. But we still tried to use the walkies, but now everyone can hear. But slowly more and more of them became broken or weren't being charged or that was the part that was broken. So today, everyone was calling out loud for me to come to register. I'm amazed that I was able to put away the one table of pants that I was given when I first came onto the floor at the start of my shift. I was there for 7 hours. Well, 6 1/2. I had half and hour for lunch. 

So, day was busy, got some stuff done in the end and I actually touched the underwear in the men's department. I'm kinda, loosely, 'in charge' of that. Well all of accessories really. But I haven't been given rank or anything on paper either. I was just told that they wanted me to take care of it last year. In passing. 

So during the last hour of the day, as I was getting some shorts up on hooks, my boss asked if I needed or wanted more hours. Now that answer to that is always yes. The reason I stood that thinking about it long enough for her to ask the other girl, had the other girl say yes and then come back to me is every ache and pain that owned my body. 

I was already looking forward to not waking up, early, tomorrow, so I had to mentally work myself up, and prepare myself to come into work along with the aches I was going to get. But honestly, I need the money. All $70 and I could have gone to the DMV or Costco/ShopRite to spend money I don't really have since I had to give almost all of it to help with rent. I'm very, very grateful that I get paid Friday night. 

So the end of the day comes and for once, once, we aren't attacked by a small mob 30 minutes before closing and upturning everything we have fixed. Because no showed up, I was able to, as I said before, I got to touch the underwear in the men's department. I was able to sort everything back to the way it was before and pull out the few that clearance. Maybe tomorrow, I'll be able to fill the discounted set.

Since we weren't stormed, two of us got to leave a little early since we caught the bus to get home. As I neared my transfer point I realized that I should have gotten out earlier to get some stuff from the open supermarket. So now I'm trying to see about getting to another one before arriving home. 

So instead of getting on the 2 or 119 bus, I waited for the 33, but ended up getting on the 80 since I didn't think the 33 was still running. When I got off, I ended up going into a Walgreens. Where I didn't want to go, but didn't have a choice anymore. I was hoping to find so deal in there, and I kinda did. Then I walked out and got my home. 

And now I'm here telling you. I have about 30 mins left to now post my photo and get back into bed. I need a bit more sleep then I've gotten for the last two days. 

So, see you later. Oh, I don't have time to proof read this, so forgive my mistakes. :) I'll read this over later.   

Let's Make This Quick

This will be short.

Hi. :)

Well, keeping my fingers crossed seemed to have helped. I just, just, got to my first bus to get to work today. The second bus speeded along nicely. I didn't have to rush when I got there. I was one of two cashiers for most of the shift/day. They got to leave an hour before we closed, but he was there an hour before me. So it was even time.

We didn't have many customers, which I was grateful for. It helped with keeping the sales floor in a less chaotic state than it can normally be found in, which was a good thing since I was mostly at the register.

I got a little lift to the other bus stop since I missed my bus by the time we left the store. I was the only there to put right what was upturned by customers, so I couldn't leave a little early to catch my bus at the stop across the street.

But it was no long wait. Just 9 or so minutes. I read most of the way home. I'm reading a time traveling drama. When I'm done, I'll tell you what it is and point you in the direction of it and my review.

I try to leave reviews for most of the books I've read.

So on my way down the block, as I slowly walked home, if not stopping outright to take pics with my new cam. The sun was setting so I got maybe two shots of houses splashed with orange light.

I tried to repeat some of the close up shots I tried to take before on my phone. The menu for the Canon cams has really changed. I'm going to actually have to read the manual. Oh well.

So now I'm home. I'm going to steal some of my sister's pizza since she didn't buy me anything to eat and I tried to get something for both of us before I came home. The only bad luck of the day. The corner store was closed.

Now I'm going to work on a story and that may take a while, so I came here to post this first.

Later people. 

TV

I got up. I took a bath. Made a real breakfast of eggs with onions and mushrooms, and I still didn't go anywhere.

My laundry is going to start hating me soon. I thought about going to the DMV also, but they closed too early once I was awake and did everything else. I still think that the place will be crowded for what number is now considered crowded for them. And I still won't get my ID and I would have been waiting for 4ish hours.

So that left me with time to pull my new tv inside. Sweep the floor around my computer desk, part of the living room and in front of the table in the dinning room. We had a sudden downpour that last for about five minutes before the world acted like it didn't happen. And because of the heat, I didn't even see wet pavement outside a few hours later. 

So I worked on a different story. I finished watching Canon Buster before watching things on YouTube. I came across that lady who is somehow a doctor that thinks a lot of a insane things. Alien DNA. Demons having sex with you while you sleep and that Hydroxychloroquine is a cure for COVID-19 and that you don't need to wear a mask. That was all kinds of wack.

So my tv. It's 50 inches. It's what I switched shifts for so I would be here for it's delivery in case the front door was locked when they came to drop it off. But it wasn't. Oh well. here is a shot of it boxed.

Until now, all our tvs were the Sharp+Roku hybrids. But these guys bought out, took over, or merged with Sharp and parted from Roku in the process. 

My sister called me to find out if it came and if I was going to unbox it myself. I said I was going to wait for her to get home before touching it outside of dragging the box inside. I don't want it braking on me and I was in no rush to set it up. 

So, some how, I, as far as my sister is concerned, lost two remotes during the move here. The one for my room, which was kind broken, and the one for either the tv in the living room or the kitchen. They all look the same. So I've been using one remote for all three. Now that I'm getting a new tv, I have to get a replacement remote. I might as well get two while I'm at it. But since the person won't be coming by for my old tv for about a month, I have time to put that charge off until next month. I'm trying to keep my amazon purchases below my monthly payment to them.

So my sister gets here and once she took out the recycling that I already had tied up for her to take out, she had box cutter in hand and unboxing my tv before I could stand to help her move it to my room. If you have ever set up one of these things you know you need to lay it down on a flat surface. Either a towel over a table or a bed. 

So here is my old tv set up in my room for the last time. 

I'm going to miss that screen. 

While we were setting up the new tv, we found a slight problem. 

The legs were further apart than my old tv, which made my table too small for this tv. So my sister displaced her stuff off the side table she had in her bedroom and took the printer off the matching side table in the living room so my tv can stand on its own two feet. 

We both agree that it looks smaller than the old tv for some reason, but they are suppose to be the same size.

Once we were done setting it up and learned a few things, and I figured out how to mirror my phone so I can read in bed, I went to cook the lamp chops. I started later than I wanted, but I was hungry and figured that I could take it to work also.

They were on the thick side compared to the ones I watched being cook, and since we don't eat raw meat, they also had a small stint in the oven to make sure they were cooked through.

I had fries with one of them and packed the other up with cauliflower rice for lunch.

I don't think I really tasted the balsamic vinegar reduction, but everything tasted great to me. I only did four in case I messed up this time, so when I cook the other four, I think I got it.

My sister thought that the one she ate was a little salty. I told her that there was a mix of how I applied the seasoning to the chops. I guess she got one that was a little more salted than mine. But she really like the reduction. The thing I couldn't really taste. But it smelled great when I was making it. That last chop, which is her's is hanging out in the fridge in a ziplock bag.

Either way.

I've posted my photo for the day over at DA. I've got my lunch in the fridge for tomorrow. I have a new tv to go mess with before I have to be asleep in two hours and I'm feeling good. I kept my left knee bent under me for a bit today to stretch out my ligaments and I think it helped.

So I'm thinking good thoughts for tomorrow. Good thoughts.

Later.