Day 422

Day four hundred twenty-two

December 30, 2013: Mad Quaw, Catan, and reading was my day today.

Day 421

Day four hundred twenty-one

December 29, 2013: Something happened today which has never happened before. It was busy, on a Sunday. I’m still not over the fact. It wasn’t busy with actual shopping though, it was all returns. Yes the return saga continues. I was either stuck at the register or putting things away from the returns.

Day 420

Day four hundred twenty

December 28, 2013: More returns. That is basically my life right now. Though I also sized two tables of dress shirts. They really needed it. It’s been a while since I’ve worked in the department where the dress shirts are (kids). Even the kid’s jeans were fine, but the dress shirts were a mess. I can’t begin to count how many weren’t actually folded, but were just stuffed under other shirts, let alone sized correctly.

Day 419

Day four hundred nineteen

December 27, 2013: So many returns.

Day 417, 418, and 419

Day four hundred seventeen

December 24, 2013: I almost feel guilty having this day off. Most of my co-workers don’t, and it is a really nice day to have off. Not that I am going to do anything with this offness.

Day four hundred eighteen

December 25, 2013: Merry Christmas.

Day four hundred eighteen

December 26, 2013: I had thought of something to say, but now I can’t remember it, and it was something interesting too. Oh well. Today feels like it is a Monday.

Day 415 and 416

Day four hundred fifteen

December 22, 2013: Three/four days (depending on how you count it) till Christmas, and it was slow at work today. It does not matter what time of year, or time of day but Sunday is always remarkably slow. The only exciting thing about work today was that I have three days off after today.

Day four hundred sixteen

December 23, 2013: When you first start out it seems hopeless and dreary, and the moments and struggle seem insignificant in light of how much there is still left to go. The distance still left to cover seems too distant to take with any hope or heart. You continue on, and with each inch behind you, it only makes the inches ahead seem all the harder. You look back at the struggle behind, and wonder how you can possible go the distance left, you have barely had the strength to come as far has you have now. You will not make it, you desperately want to give up. But then, if you push yourself long and hard enough, you will reach the halfway point, and the distance you have covered becomes more than you have yet to go. With each step, what you have accomplished seems greater and the future less overwhelming. Then you see the end and you feel a rush, a strength to finish strong, and you feel you could have lasted much longer. You are strong, your endurance is great, and you do it, you accomplish it, and you realize that despite how hard it was in the beginning, all that struggle and pain was worth it……That was roughly my thought process while taking my forty minutes run this morning.

Day 414

Day four hundred fourteen

December 21, 2013: I have less than forty minutes to actually write this entry on the right day. Small group Christmas party happened tonight.

Day 413

Day four hundred thirteen

December 20, 2013: It can be a short entry again.

Day 412

Day four hundred twelve

December 19, 2013: I am sad to say that retail is making the holidays dreadful. I used to love this time of year, and think that people were actually more giving and happy. Nope, nope, nope, nope. That is what TV and songs would like you to think, but the truth is that everyone has a list and expectations extra sensitive feelings. And then the nice ones can almost be just as bad because they see the fact that you are busy so they try to put things away and fold things but they do it wrong…which just causes more than if they had not tried to help. Seriously, what am I supposed to do? I tell the customer that it is fine, but then they go on about how we have enough to do, and I have to painfully watch the customer very neatly fold the shirt into a square with the sleeves tucked under the shirt, when they are supposed to be rectangles with the sleeves folded across in front.

Day 411

Day four hundred eleven

December 18, 2013: And that is a wrap. All done with school for a month. Kind of weird for the month long break to happen now, but whatever.

Day 410

Day four hundred ten

December 17, 2013: Revolution. It was on revolution.

Day 409

Day four hundred nine

December 16, 2013: I am about due to write another long entry. Mmmmm, well, even though I doubt I’ll need it I’ve started on the sneaky/stinky Santa (I’m not sure which it is, they only said it a couple of times) gift. I should be working that night, but on the off chance that something happens and I am not working, I thought I would make it anyway. I know none of the people who will be at the party will ever see this, but on the off chance that they do I will not be saying what it is, only that it is homemade. Also, while watching Fringe on my run this morning, there was an actor I have seen in something else, but I did not even have a clue where.

Day 408

Day four hundred eight

December 15, 2013: This is pathetic. I guess I can say that I saw Frozen on Friday. I cannot think of anything.

Day 407

Day four hundred seven

December 14, 2013: The Christmas tree is up and we will be decorating it tomorrow! So much fun, and I will get to be there the entire time this year. Also, Desolation of Smaug. And oh wait, I just got a text aaaannnnd I guess I am not working tonight.

Day 406

Day four hundred six

December 13, 2013: Sleeping in tomorrow.

Day 405

Day four hundred five

December 12, 2013: Yeah! I did not forget! Oh, and my free copy of my NaNoWriMo book from CreatSpace arrived today.

Day 404

Day four hundred four

December 11, 2013: I miss reading. I used to read so much. It has been ages since I have sat down and read for a really long time. Coming up pretty soon I get a month break from school. I need to take that time to read again.

Day 403

Day four hundred three

December 10, 2013: Life is weird. It really is. It will seem normal and then you get to thinking and you realize that things are so different, yet so the same. You want what used to be, but then again not really. I’ve been in a kind of funny mood the past few days.

Day 402

Day four hundred two

December 9, 2013: If I ever organize socks again, it will be too soon. Almost two hours, I spent trying to make those socks look presentable.

Day 399, 400, and 401

Day three hundred ninety-nine

December 6, 2013: And I am done with the first stage of my Christmas wrapping. To clue you in there are three stages, but the first stage is probably as involved as the next two stages combined.

Day four hundred

December 7, 2013: So I wanted to make myself breakfast today, but the apples were moldy, and the cheese was moldy, I have expected the bread to be moldy as well.

Day four hundred one

December 8, 2013: I need to trim my fingernails, they are getting in the way of my typing again.

Day 398

Day three hundred ninety-eight

December 5, 2013: The weather here has been warm recently, as in, in the seventies. Yep, seventies in December. It’s cooling back off now but why does the weather have to be so freaky? Is it only a myth that there are places where they weather follows the weather pattern we’re taught in school?

Day 397

Day three hundred ninety-seven

December 4, 2013: I will have you know I spent most of the day without touching my laptop. Who is too reliant on technology now? Not me, I hardly even noticed it. Take that you generation of tech puritans claiming that this level of technology has hurt our ability to communicate and co-exist. That is what people once said about toasters and now we all use them don’t we? And we do not even think about the consequences.

Day 395 and 396

Day three hundred ninety-five

December 2013: Actually went to the Christmas parade this year. I was working last year.

Day three hundred ninety-six

December 3, 2013: You know what sounds really good right now? Sleep.

Day 394

Day three hundred ninety-four

December 1, 2013: Started wrapping for Christmas. I know it sounds early, but if you knew how involved I got you would understand. Plus I also need to make a white elephant/sneaky Santa gift.