I worked Thursday night into the wee hours of the morning on Friday. We had several trucks making deliveries earlier in the evening so there was a lot of work to do. Upon arriving, there were skids that Clay had already pushed out onto the store floor and waiting in the back section of shipping and receiving sat 4 skids requiring pre-sorting onto 4 wheeled carts for each aisle of the store. Brian, Kelly, and I sorted them and finished up by 1:15 a.m. prior to hitting the aisles.
I worked houseware aisle, quickly attacking two and half skids of merchandise, before I hit a snag. New products! and a skid of Arm & Hammer laundry detergent that was previously on an endcap I'd set earlier in the week, that had been changed over by who knows who. Anyways, I called Clay over to scan the new items and we chatted about an incident I had in Aisle 5 earlier in the week which involved another co-worker not placing items in the right spots on the plan-o-grammed shelves and not backstocking overstock, cramming it in when that doesn't work. Anyways, Clay assured me he'd talked to the co-worker and was hoping things had been rectified there.
Upon finishing housewares, I begin in the Cereal, Coffee, Breakfast snacks, and PopTarts aisles finishing up yet another 2 skids and a few stray boxes; restocked another two endcaps: one of Coffee and another of PopTarts I'd set earlier in the week as well. Afterwards, I tackled my backstock and trash from the two previously done. By this time, we're close to opening at 6 a.m. and I really do not like to have skids still on the sales floor although some nights it can't be avoided. So, I took all the empty skids, stacked them, and pulled them back to the stockroom. With Kelly's assistance, we managed to set a display skid of water in another aisle before I went to help assist her finishing up in aisle 2. We managed to finish her other 4 wheeled cart just prior to leaving at 8 a.m. All in all, it was a good night, lots of work done and completed, all without incident or injury!
Don arrived shortly at 8 a.m. and being payday we went to Perkin's for breakfast prior to returning to the store to pick up my paycheck at 9 a.m. There was a lot of buzz about being under a winter weather watch, which was originally expected to dump 4-8" of the fluffy, white stuff on us beginning today around noon. The recent update is a Winter Weather Warning, total accumulation of up to 10"!!!!! Guess, I may get my studio re-organized yet, LOL!
After arriving home, I watched some TV for a bit before heading to bed around noon. Don spent his first day back at the store after Shawn called asking him to come in while he created some transfers onto some shirts in the back.
Thursday evening prior to going into work, Don & I got to discussing some mutual friends of ours.... wondering how they were, plans to contact them for a get together. It is so uncanny how that seems to work for us, whenever we think about Dennis & Sheila, it usually isn't long before they're contacting us. Yesterday was no exception. Upon getting up from sleeping around 3:30 p.m. Don said Sheila had telephoned, desiring us to come over for Lasagna, Salad, and Garlic bread for dinner and that she'd call back about 4 p.m. Sure enough and right on time, Sheila telephoned and we made our plans to go over. Around 6:30 p.m., we left to ride over, stopping along the way to pick up some wine coolers. We arrived at Sheila's around 7; had a great dinner, sat and chatted, catching up with one another busy lives until a little after midnight before coming home. The evening seemed to whiz by........ Our drive home was a bit of an adventure as it was foggier than all get out in spots and various other traveler's had their high beams on. Why do people do that? It makes the fog so much worse to drive in, but then, I suppose some people have problems with night vision and driving. Anyways, we arrived home safely around 12:3o a.m. and shortly thereafter retired ourselves.
I couldn't get over seeing Shadow again. Shadow is Dennis and Sheila's black lab, who is Chaos' father. I still cannot get over the similarities of the two dogs.... like Father like Son, LOL! I noticed alot about their markings, their mannerisms, etc. If Chaos turns out to be half as well-behaved as Shadow is we got it made! Chaos is approaching the 6 month mark, is due for a heartworm treatment, and an appointment for his rabies vaccine. Lately, he has been a "little" burger butt. Into everything... just like a little kid...... curious by nature, very playful yet loving when need be. He is such a hoot! One of his newest games is to bat around his food on the wood flooring in the kitchen, chasing after it, growling, barking and attacking it before he finally eats it and begins pawing at another piece in a cat-like fashion. It is so comical to watch as he tries to stop suddenly, often sliding into the cabinets and any other fixture in the kitchen. I guess it's hard to stop 55 lbs. going 50 miles an hours. He reminds me of the Cottonelle commercial where the yellow lab puppy goes slidding in, LOL! God love him.
Today's plan is to do some household chores, give Chaos a much needed bath, and maybe make it out to the studio for some re-organizing efforts. I'd love to start on getting something accomplished for the Music of the heArt swap and the two Art Idea journals, instead of simply talking about doing them. Hopefully, the incoming storm will provide me with some time to accomplish something!
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