Whew! What a week! What a summer!

In fact, where did summer go? I mean srsly? It’s already Back to School! (I capitalize it, because in my industry it’s more than period of time, it’s an event.) I have to say tho, I have been having a blast. Every weekend off Richard and I have had places to go, things to do, and met new folks all along the way. It has been the Summer of Twitter, as we have made a few Twitter friends into real friends. That’s always odd at first. Going from contacting someone online thru Twitter, to actually dialing them up on the phone and getting together for drinks or meals. Heh. I love Twitter. Anyhoo, I think my summer is coming to a bit of an early close, as my work schedule has me booked the next three weekends. I don’t socialize much on my working weekends because the hours are just to extreme, what with the 5 and 7 AM starts or the late closing shifts. After the 3 weeks of work my parents arrive. 7 days of tour guide. Wee! Then we are already into October. Bam. holiday. 2 months of loooong work days, few days off… Another year passes.

Do you see why I am always tense? The passing of time is so cruel for us career retail people! Gawd I am stressed out now. Heh.

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Awake again. I can’t even believe I was in bed before nine last night. I don’t feel like I went to bed early. Weird. Of course I was woken up twice in the night. Once by my neighbor, who was apparently having a three AM hot-tub frolic. The other time was by my own digestion! Ew, I know.

Anyways. Back at it again today. Maybe it’ll be less hectic at work than Saturday? Riiiight.

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I totally left work early today. No I didn’t sneak out, but I did leave early. A lot early. Normal people can enjoy doing that. Apparently I can’t. I knew I used to feel guilt if I left early, even if I was actually sick but I thought I might have changed. I haven’t. So when I got home and tried to take a nap (people are always talking about great naps) I of course couldn’t sleep. I have that guilty pit in my stomach. It’s really ridiculous. I should NOT feel bad. I never miss work! I have never called in sick! Ever! I am late probably more than I should be, but I stay late too… I could go on and on trying to justify this. I could. It’s the chatter in my head right now. I think I am going to let the logical side win and try to enjoy the afternoon. It’s a beautiful day. It’s so nice to be home. It’s so quiet right now. I love that, when the house is silent and the only noise is that of birds singing outside.

Now see what I did up there in that last paragraph? I went from raving-OCD-guilt-work issues right to a Mary Poppins-bird-singing thing. I love how crazy I am . Nutty as a loon, I tell you! [imagine cuckoo clock sounds now]

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Clopen (clo-pen): two consecutive work shifts, one closing followed immediately by an opening.

I haven’t complained about getting up really early in a while, so I figure today is the day… If you need something else, my Richard will be posting a TGIF hottie in a while, so you’ll be able to pop in there for some hottie goodness. In the meantime I get to bitch.

It is so way too early. Waking up at 5 in the morning. Gah! Of course this is after I closed last night. Ugh. What happened is the boss is on vacation. Usually he’d pick another manager to do the open, as I did close last night, but the other 2 are either closing tonight or on PTO themselves. So that leaves me. I was excited at first, because I am off the next 4 days, but I realize now that I’ll just want to hurry home and nap later.

Damn.

Okay, I am done. We will now return to your regularly scheduled light-hearted blogging.

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Why is it that when asked if I could go in at 6 again today I didn’t just say no? I mean, what the hell was I thinking? I had to wake up at 4 again!! Stooopid!

Well I am not leaving the house until I finish my coffee.

/bitching.

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