Book Sale, yay!!

This morning I finally remembered that since it's been cold in the mornings I should start warming up the car. So I started the car warming up then put my hair in the double braided buns. I then went to go to work but my keys were gone! I looked and looked and I couldn't find them. I woke up Victor and when he got out to the livingroom he was like, "...how are your keys missing if the car's running?" I was like, "!!! .... oh...." Oops... lol!

Once at work Zhaun gave me a bunch of stuff to do. Do his shelf review, put these five or six pallets in the container. Oh, and the schedule might be this or this or this and make sure you do this and you do that. And, ok, Zhaun, make the schedule and I'll check it later, and I know how to do my job. And we have a Key Retailing audit on Thursday. Key Retailing is stupid. I have to have a specialized sign up over each pallet space describing what's in that section. As if you couldn't tell by looking at the stacks of milk that that's where milk goes. Anyway, some of mine are wrong cause when I first did it I missed a pallet space at the very beginning so I'll have to redo all of my signs. And we're supposed to get our boards up to date, which me and Bonnie do ours daily so that part never really applies to us.

I did do Zhaun's shelf review. But I had no time to do the pallets. Oh, well. Dennis got a little mad cause they were in his school and office supplies section but oh well. Have Dustin do it. I also didn't do the scan audit so we'll hit the bad list next week. Oh, well, I don't know why that's my job anyway. I have to go out on the floor and scan 300 tags in beer/wine and 300 tags in grocery and make sure what the computer says matches what the tag says. The computer is always right. This is why it makes me twitch when people say that the computer ripped them off cause the tag says it was this price, not that price. No. If there's a price discrepancy it's because the tag is wrong. The computer is never wrong. Sure, we take the hit and the store gets shrink from selling a product at a lowered price which reflects on the store's profit which in turn affects our paychecks, schedules, and orders, which in turn affects the customer who insists on the lower price just because someone was super far behind and didn't have time to do an audit which resulted in a tag not getting pulled which ultimately is the scan coordinator's fault for not pulling the tag when the price changed anyway.

Deli/Frozen showed up at 9 and the driver told me he wasn't going to help offload because he'd just finished moving furniture. Which I don't know how he was just moving furniture if he's been on the road between here and Layton, Utah since yesterday (probably morning or noon, I know they get to the yard and spend a few hours prepping or something and then take off). So the earliest he could have done that was Wednesday. And you know, I offloaded trucks on Wednesday so by the same logic I shouldn't have had to do it again already. Anyway, before I could come up with anything to say he went out to his truck so after a bit Bonnie went to yell at him. She told him we needed the bay for vendors and he had to help. Which he did cheerfully enough and was fairly pleasant the rest of the time. A bit stupid, but for someone from Doug Andrus he wasn't so bad, really. It only took me telling him which is the meat cooler two or three times before he figured it out. Not bad. But while offloading my wrist started to really hurt and since Victor was heading out to the book sale soon I called to ask if he could bring my ace bandage.

So then about 10ish the Hutterites (not sure if they're all over the country or not, but they're a bit like Amish people) showed up for their special order of fruit snacks. Their special orders are never the same, and I've rarely seen them order the same thing twice. A pallet of tv dinners once, a pallet of cookies, a wheeler of gum... Oh, they do order a pallet of orange juice now and again. But today it was fruit snacks. And of course no one bothered to count them when they stacked them so we had to restack 134 cases. Thanks, night crew. During that Victor called with a list of books he'd picked up, cause I like going over our finds together before we buy anything. He'd gotten a few books for himself and had found a SW OT pack that I was certain I had but I don't see it on my shelf. hm. I forgot to look at the date but if my knowledge of SW collectables is correct I believe it's a 1995 release. It's the black case with the blue Vader helmet on the side.

After he was done there he came over and got my paycheck and gave me my bandage. I put it on and am still wearing it. It's helping a lot, though now it's a bit itchy so I might take it off for a time. I'm so glad I decided to forgo being shy and hiding my injury. Just lifting a gallon of milk was stressing to it. I don't think I blame anything in specific, it's been a long time in coming. It really started to kick in after I started playing first person games, but repeated stress from work didn't help either. No one asked about it, so I don't think anyone noticed it. Or if they did they didn't care a whole lot.

I don't think I have any bad customer stories about today, I was mostly in the back dealing with trucks and loading returns.

I do have one from last night I forgot to say. I was up front checking and this old guy, mid-late 60s maybe, came through my lane with some beer and subtly in a creepy old person way that I didn't quite get he hit on me. Ewww...

Anyway, after work I changed in the big bathroom and went to the mall! I wore my lovely blue with flowers danskin jacket. Anyway, I spent about two hours there. I ended up with 20 dollars worth of books. They're 1.50 an inch. I ended up with two romances (British girl captured by vikings, and ship wreck survivor washes up at a lighthouse), a few kiddie books (American Girl, a Peanuts book, three Choose Your Own Adventures, a Goosebumps Choose Your Own Adventure, two Little Critter, and a book of magic tricks), some horror books (The Shining, Firestarter, and two books about creepy kids), Dracula (yay!), and a book about Ancient Egyptian art and sculpturing. I also stumbled on a large stack of Mad Magazines that Victor priced at being worth 90 dollars, and he was ecstatic about it. Victor's books ended up being one about zombies and two or three ones I didn't read the backs of. It was kinda slow and not crowded at all, which was different.

I want to go back tomorrow and since I ended up with Sunday off I'm going back on Sunday too. Yay! My schedule next week is 6-2 on Monday, 6-2 on Wednesday, 10:30-7:00 on Thursday, 8-4 on Friday, and 10:30-7:00 on Saturday. I almost screwed myself into 6-4 on Wednesday. Dustin was scheduled 6-4 on Wednesday, but he'd requested Wednesday-Saturday. So Julie changed it and she doesn't know Joe can't work any earlier than 4 so when she saw 6-4 for Dustin and 4-10 for Joe and she was swapping Sunday and Wednesday (I was scheduled 10:30-7:00 on Sunday but Dustin has that now) she changed it to 6-2 for me and 2-10 for Joe. I had told her it was 6-4 so there wasn't a gap! But she said that would be overtime for me and I realized what I'd done and hastily agreed that it would be a lot of overtime.

We're having chicken and dumplings tonight. I just took them out of the oven a moment ago.
2 cans Cream of Chicken Soup
1 can Mixed Vegetables
1 can Chicken
Salt
Pepper
Basil
Rosemary
Thyme
You mix all that together in a casserole dish, then you make the dumplings:
1 1/2 cup Flour
3 tbsp Baking Powder
1 1/4 cup milk (more or less, depending on how runny you want them, I find it's easier to spread if they're runny, for some reason today I had to use 1 3/4 cups of milk and it still wasn't as runny as I normally make it, but maybe I had a blonde moment and did something wrong like only putting in 1/4 cups milk the first time and forgetting the 1 cup)
2 tbsp Vegetable Oil
Salt
Pepper
Mix that and dump it on top of the other stuff. 350° for 35 minutes.

Oh, perhaps I should mention that all my recipes are done at high altitude. You'll have to adjust for lower altitudes. I'm at 2,945'. 

Took my bandage off, ahh, sweet freedom. Time to go eat.