Getting ready for the Crab Carnival

Well Its 10am and I've been up for an hour and I need to be sewing today. I'm getting everything in place, the ironing board, the sewing machine, the music, the room temperature. The last is very important, If I get too hot I won't do any sewing and with the iron on all day it will be pretty warm. I have the dogs running around me wondering why I'm home and upstairs with them today. I've also started setting things aside for packing for the beach. The house provides linens and I think towels, I have to check again, but I'm taking some incase there isn't enough. Sometimes I might take a shower in the morning and go shopping or something and then get in the ocean or pool and take another shower later in the day, so I will need more towels. Also If they only provide one per person that just won't be enough, we do have two sets of washing machines and dryers though but who wants to be washing towels all the time. Ok so I must sew now.

Long Day

So I got up this morning at 2:30am and got to work at 3:50am and the truck wasn't there yet, which is not a good sign. So I went in the store and at 4am the phone rang and it was the warehouse saying the truck driver was going to be 2 hours late. Good grief I was pissed. What the hell am I going to do for 2 hours. So I did the deposit and hung some signs from the ceiling for a program that starts tomorrow. And then it was 5:40am and the truck was pulling up. So I opened the stockroom door and had the driver pull out all my pallets to the parking lot so I could wrap them. So before I could get any pallets seperated Judy was coming in. So I had her work on a stack of totes until I could get more on the salesfloor, then Deb came in and they worked on putting out the merchandise while I seperated the 9 pallets we received. We got it all put away except the food by 2:30pm and I bought some papertowels to take to the beach and some hand soap for the bathrooms for the beach. And then I drove to West Chester to get my car emissions rechecked because it failed the other day and today it passed. I drove home went upstairs and climbed into bed. I slept for a while and John woke me up and we went to dinner. Tomorrow I'm off and John is going fishing with his friend so I don't know what I will do. I'm so tired I will probably sleep.

Saturday Truck

So I was off Tuesday and I went to the bank to get a cashiers check to send to the realitor for the beach house and I went to get my car inspected. Wednesday and Thursday I worked from 7:30am to 10:30pm and today I worked from 7:30 to 5:30 and I have to be back there at 4am to unload my truck. We had to send back all of the summer stuff so I had to put the pallets close together in the stockroom in order to fit them in there and I have to get the driver to pull them out into the parking lot tomorrow morning and I will have to wrap them. I don't have a pallet jack so I can't move the pallets around after I fill them. I'm off on Sunday but John has already made plans with his fishing friend, so I don't know what I will do on Sunday. I have to go to bed now to get up at 2:30am.

Holiday weekend.

Friday night I got home from work and cleaned the spare bedrooms to get ready for Steve and Vicky to come for a visit. John was outside finishing up his boat trolling motor installation so he could go out Saturday morning. So I was exhausted and went to bed, got up Saturday morning and John had slept in the chair in his computer room, so he didn't go fishing. I went to work and he went grocery shopping and cut the grass. Steve, Vicky, Andrea and David got her about 3:30 and we caught up and had Spaghetti for dinner and then went for a walk at the school track, where they all said how quiet it was out there. Then we all went for ice cream. Sunday morning we got up and everyone got ready and went to the lake, John took the boat and him and Steve and David went out on it and us girls sat around visiting with Annie and Maddie that came to join us. It was a beautiful day. So then everyone was getting hungry so we left and came home for some sandwiches. I cracked open the pickles that my brother gave me when I was home, they are his cucumbers and someone pickled them for him, they were so good. After dinner me and John went to the track to walk. The rest of the night was watching tv and I went to bed because I had to get up to go to work Monday (Labor Day) So this morning I got up went to work and was there by myself until 10 when the pharmacy opened. I didn't have a customer until 9am, an hour after we opened. Our freezers broke so we lost all of our ice cream, frozen foods and Ice. It always happens on a holiday. I got off work at 1:30 and came home and me and John went out on the boat. We had a wonderful time, we fished, I napped, I woke up and had to use the bathroom, so John drove me over to the porta potty and then we fished some more. When we were leaving and getting the boat secure, John opened a soda and handed it to me, I was thinking he was sharing but no I was supposed to be a can holder, because I put it down on the precious boat and he said I could of done that, so I thought to myself, yes you could and I got in the truck. Well we will see If I go out on the boat anymore.

Getting closer to the beach

So I'm off today, I haven't had a day off since last Wednesday when I had to go back for more mammograms, which came out ok and I'm good for another year. Thank goodness. I also went out to lunch with my friend Anne Marie and her daughter Christina, we went to Olive Garden. It was delicious. When I got home John was home and his new trolling motor had arrived. He was cutting the grass. Then we went to dinner at Chili's. I can't remember if we walked that night. We walked last night and Saturday night. It is alot cooler today and yesterday. Nice walking weather. Today I need to do some laundry today. I have some clothes in the dryer that I keep turning the drier on to get the wrinkles out and I forget to get them out. Yesterday after I got out of the shower the water pressure dropped alot. I didn't know what had happened so I texted John. Well when John got home the basement was filled with 3 inches of water. The hose going outside had broken and water was pouring out. We have a well so I'm glad it didn't go dry. Also my hairdryer broke yesterday morning. So after our walk we went to Walmart to get John some boots since his were soaking wet and I got a hairdryer. The Walmart was packed with parents and students getting what they needed for school, since it started yesterday up here. Today I need to cut the grass for John so he can work on putting the new trolling motor on the boat when he is home. Hopefully we will go out on Sunday. So after this week my truck day moves to Saturday, I asked my boss to change it but I haven't heard anything. So this means I can't go home for Shelby's birthday party and I may not be able to do my Crab Carnival. I'm going to ask my assistants if It would be ok if I miss 2 truck days but I'm going to have to assess the next few truck days to make my dicision. I have to go to my store today to approve the cigarette count, which is good because John's mother has called for the Rover bus to pick her up and the passengers get upset when the bus picks up people with cars in the driveway. She has to go get her glasses fixed, Maddie tried to get them and they got bent. I work open to close tomorrow so I better enjoy today huh.