Wednesday, Febuary 9, 2011 AM

Wow!  I've been busy!
Day before yesterday, I stayed at the Family Dollar almost all day.
Joan had heavily complimented all of us who worked so hard while she was on a week of vacation, but we don't want to seem like we're 'slacking' now.
We're re-vamping many of our products and shelving positions, and it's a real mess.  We have to take all the products off the shelves, clean the shelves, hang a paper with the plans of what goes where, and put really long hanging racks onto the peg board behind the paper.  Then, we have to put all the products back onto the long hooks and shelves.  We're putting almost all of the stuff right back into the same places, but Joan says it has to be done.
Well,
I don't know who makes up these plans, but they don't really have much appeal to me.  I figure that if something's not broken, don't go about fixing it.
Right in the middle of all this mess and useless confusion, Joan told Elaine and me that she was going to have to cut her employee's hours.
I thought Elaine was going to throttle her.
No employee even gets 40 hours now, and, with Alyson gone, we're down to 4 employees and Joan.  I'm not anything...I just work there.
I don't know how Family Dollar expects the store to function.
After Joan left that evening, I took the leaf blower outside and blew off the parking lot.  Customers were tracking in all kinds of trash and litter on their feet, as it had started to sleet and lightly rain.  After a few minutes, Beth came out with an unbrella and made me come inside.
She's a really nice lady.  I've come to enjoy her company a lot.
She's got these really cute little boys, and they think I'm so festive.  One, Logan, blushes furiously every time I talk to him.  He's so shy.  I think he's about 6-7.
I scrubbed the floor where the buggies are usually parked that night, and Logan said "Whew!" when I mopped up the dirty water.  There was a huge difference, to be sure.
Yesterday, I took my carpet shampooer up to the store to loan it to Beth.  She was wanting to clean her carpets while she is off for a couple of days.  She is such a worker!
I then went to help Barbara move back into her house in Blaine.  I dread moving furniture.  It hardly ever goes like you plan.
Things went fairly well, though.
She had everything all packed up and boxed.  All the dust we stirred up gave me a terrible sinus headache, though.  I don't think Barbara does much dusting.
She loved her new carpets and vinyl floors.  I made her wait out in the yard until I got inside her house, then let her come in.  I wanted to see the look of surprise and delight on her face when she saw the floors.  I was not disapointed.  She's so happy to be 'home'.
I told her to not trash her house.  I think she's wanting to get Amy to clean for her.  Amy cleans like a demon!  Her house is spotless all the time.
I was going to give Barbara a refrigerator that has been out in Steve's garage, but when we went to get it, all the other junk in the way just looked like too much to move.  Barbara said she'd just rather spend some money and get another one.  I was pretty happy with that, as I didn't want to be moving all that stuff, either.  I was pretty tired.
We started to Blaine, and thought we'd stop at a used furniture store down near Blaine to see if the fellow had a refrigerator that Barbara might want.  He did, but Rodney Atkins was there, and the man said he thought Rodney might be wanting to buy it.  Rodney stalled around for about 45 minutes, and finally we just left.  We were both pretty tired, and we didn't have the patience to play waiting games with the likes of Rodney Atkins, the slum lord of Grainger County.
I took Barbara home, then drove up to the Family Dollar.  There wasn't much to do, and not too many customers.  Wilma Johnson came in, and she, Joan, and I talked a while.
She wants a ramp built for her mobile home, and I suggested Bobby Curl.  She scoffed at that.
Well, let her pay some other man way more to do it.
I got several boxes of peal and stick floor tile at clearance price.  It's a beautiful blue and white pattern.  Beth had got some the other day for her rear entrance floor.  I suggested that she might stick some on the panels on her door as an accent.  She thinks I'm such a Drama Queen.  I think she might be onto something.
I came home and got ready and went to bed.
I was whipped!
It's a beautiful day, and the sunshine makes me want to be outside.
Happiness is seeing a beautiful day and knowing who to thank.