Yogurt

Today was awful. I woke up in the middle of the night for a while and then I couldn't fall back to sleep. I ended up laying there for a while knowing the alarm was going to go off the second I started to fall asleep. Then I guess I was dreaming cause I was certain the alarm clock turned (I face it to the wall at night) and I saw that it said 3:30, but it was our old alarm clock with the red numbers. This new one (not really new as it's a few months old) has green numbers. Anyway, after that I slept soundly until the alarm went off at 5. I couldn't do it so I set it to 5:30 and attempted to sleep through Victor's snoring and Atton's mews to be let outside. I did a quickie get ready for work and left my hair down. Once at work I put my little mirror up on a stack of butter and put my hair up in a clip.

I had two hours of work, in which I checked in Keebler, before Zhaun came to give me the keys to the backdoor. At that point I had decided to eat a rice candy and then run out to the bathroom. But no, I had deli/frozen out back. So I broke the seal and found the driver who told me grocery as in the dock. So I woke him up and it was a new guy. Another stupid, clueless newbie. I had one last Wednesday too. Anyway, we started offloading that. And I must say, he was the stupidest Little King driver I've encountered. Ok, first, he watched me take all the empty pallets out, not lifting a finger. Then he watched me put all the wheelers down the hallway. Didn't put the dock plate down. As I was taking the empty pallets out I discovered no one had plugged in the jack and it was almost dead... indeed it died before I was done taking the empties out. I  had to plug it in to charge and was doomed to use a manual jack. I told Zhaun who didn't think anything of it. Also, when he said it was a small load today and we only had room for maybe 13 pallets I didn't expect a 21 pallet load. He shrugged it off and told me to stack and put some here and some there, and that would bring it down to 15. He's so optimistic when he's the one who doesn't have to do the work. Finally as I started offloading he decided to ask if he could use a jack and help. So there was a pallet of motor oil we were going to put out on the floor. Our conversation went something like this:
Me, "Put that on Aisle 8."
Him, "..."
Me, "It's the first aisle right out the doors there."
Him, "Where do you want me to go?"
Me, "Aisle 8. In front of that pole with the fire sprayer on it."
Him, "...where?"
Me, "In front of the pole."
Him, "What pole?"
Me, "The one with the fire sprayer on it, right there."
Finally he figured it out.
Then we were doing returns and he kept doing it wrong. Counting wood as chep, iGPS as plastic, then he tried to tell me the four stacks of totes were all 24 high but two were obviously not the same height as the other two, so I counted them and came out with 24, 24, 20, and 25. I told him we load the trailer bale with a stack of pallets next to it, with the bale on alternating sides. (to even the weight) So he didn't and I had to fix it and then he was better about that. Then when we were doing the paperwork I discovered he had no return paperwork, just paperwork for reclamation. So I asked if he was supposed to be getting returns and he didn't know. *facepalm* I had just loaded returns with a manual jack. Hauling bales over the bump into the backroom. I was exhausted. I was not offloading that trailer for anything, even if dispatch called all upset I'd tell them too bad make him swap trailers. I never heard anything on it though so maybe he was supposed to get returns. While we were doing the paperwork I got a call so I took it and it was Pepsi who said their add was for 24 packs and they had delivered 20 packs so they had to fix that and could they deliver today. *sigh* I said yes, give me an hour to offload this other truck first.

I told Zhaun I was exhausted and he laughed. He found it funny and expressed joy in the fact that I'd be in pain later. But that's how he is. I took it in stride cause of that. He's a jerk on the surface but when he says something that really does hurt you and you let him know he will never mention it again.

So then I ran out for a bathroom break while deli/frozen was backing in. Offloaded that. Then I emptied the garbages, both of which were overflowing onto the floor. I discovered no one had crushed the garbage in the compactor so bags of it were piled up on top of each other.

I wanted to go on break as it was about 11, but I waited because Bret wanted me to check in our tortilla vendor. So I did and faxed the paperwork from the trucks and did some other stuff. And then I was going to go on break but he needed to be let out the back door so I was doing that when Pepsi showed up. I put my lunch back in the cooler and Dustin showed up. I decided whatever, and sat on a wheeler and ate my sandwiches while Pepsi offloaded. I checked him in and then got on my regular dairy stuff with. I was filling the eggs and people decided to ignore the other 5 facings of dozens and take the one I was standing in front of. I was just thinking how hellish today had been and how much I hurt, my feet especially for some reason, when Chris called me to check. lol

I did my order with the norm of having people reach around me as if I weren't there. I had one person do that who was taking yogurt wrong and I fixed it, and then she took some more, wrong again. I bit my lip so hard it nearly bled and hurt for a bit afterwards.

During my order my left leg really started hurting. My back was hurting, my legs were a tad unsteady, and my arms and wrist were acting up. The left side of my neck down through my shoulder was also hurting. But somehow I dragged myself through it. I even spent my last 20 minutes (plus 10 more) filling holes.

I know why we were so dead last week. Everyone was waiting to go shopping until this week. We're going to be out of milk by the end of today. It seems to be a running trend these past few months that people buy two-four gallons at a time on the last week before the end of the month and the first week of the month and then hardly touch it the rest of the time. I'm not quite sure how that works out. I tend to buy milk about every four-six days. Isn't that about the normal amount of days between when regular people go shopping? About once a week or less? That's another reason I don't understand people buying three or four cases of yogurt at a time, especially regular customers. They'll be back in a few days wanting more. I had a lady order two cases of key lime weight watchers every Tuesday. Yes, folks, she went through 24 cups of yogurt in 7 days. She did this for a few months before health problems took over her. Gee, I wonder where these health problems stemmed from. Like the crawfish lady, I don't know her name but something about her makes me think of craw fishes. She buys a variety of quart sized coffee-mate, altogether something like 15, and she does it every other week or so. Or at least she used to, I don't see her often anymore. And then there's the amaretto coffee-mate guy who buys a case a week of the pint sized. And then there's the carb masters yogurt people. I understand the point of the yogurt, it's a diet food meant to help you lose weight. However, I see fat people buying them by the cases. And I just want to say to them, "Carb Masters won't make you lose weight if you eat five or six a day." Yogurt people in general astound me. They buy enough to feed a small army, and it makes me wonder if they ever eat anything more. Sometimes I want to post signs saying, "Yogurt has an expiration date and I promise you'll be back to this store at some point in the next month." I mean, if it's on sale I can sorta see it. But not if it's at regular price. And they commit the worst acts of wrong-doing out of any other form of customer I have ever encountered. They knock it over and don't pick it up, they rearrange the shelf (worse than simply putting blue with red, I've watched people actively take whole sections and move them), they take wrong (I'll explain that at some point, I really will, I just need to set it up with my camera for picture taking), ooh, it's the taking wrong that really makes me mad, almost as much as when they knock it over and leave it. And for some reason they like to stack five or six in one arm before they return to their cart (which for some reason is usually parked behind and to the left), and yogurt is the most breakable item in dairy besides eggs. Actually sometimes it's random, I've seen yogurt fall from the top shelf unscathed, but I've also seen it roll off the bottom shelf and splatter. The funnest, I think, was when it landed right side up but the bottom came out in a perfect circle. And of course once they break yogurt they leave it with the broken side down so it drips all over. Or like one person did, they got yogurt on the floor and covered it with an add! Yes, I saw an add on the floor and picked it up to find it had glued to the floor from the yogurt under it! Oh, I could go on and on and on about yogurt and the people who buy it. I don't mean to say I hate yogurt or the people who buy it, I just mean that about 8/10 times the person taking yogurt does something bad. Personally I love the 32oz Mountain High Low Fat Vanilla. Timmy prefers the 32oz Yoplait Creamy Vanilla. I do occasionally buy the little cups too, but since yoplait discontinued the banana in original I really only sometimes buy french vanilla or mixed berry for myself. Victor likes the weird flavors like cherry pomegranate. The kroger yogurts don't have a whole lot of variety for regular, blueberry's the only one I like. All the good flavors are lite. Oh, and, btw, it's amazing how many people buy lite yogurt for their kids. And people say how healthy yogurt is, and I guess compared to other snacks, yeah, but yogurt has a ton of calories and a lot of sugar. I would never use it specifically as a diet food. In the last few months I have switched it for less healthy foods such as ice cream. But I guiltily admit to adding sugar to my low fat vanilla which I guess defeats the purpose... Now the yogurt that's really good is the 3 Gods Greek yogurt I carry, in honey vanilla. Unfortunately it's, like, 3.49 for a 24oz. So I've only gotten it twice when I've had dented in ones that I marked down. I sell lots though, it's my  best selling large size yogurt, I sell roughly 30 a week. (the only other one I sell nearly that much of is the mountain high low fat vanilla, which is why I tried it, can't go wrong with a best seller) I once had a woman complain that the adult yogurts were higher up and the kid yogurts were down below. I believe this is so the kids, who are shorter than adults, see the yogurt, grab the yogurt, and make their parents dish out insane amounts of money for a tiny little product that they're only interested in cause it has Spongebob or Dora on it. I wish the Danoninos had caught on. Their mascot is a dinosaur. But no one wants them. If they weren't expensive I would almost want to buy them for their cuteness. But they're these tiny, tiny little cups of raspberry and vanilla strawberry and peach. ick to all but the vanilla. And of course our only good GoGurt was discontinued, the cotton candy/mixed berry flavored. Now we're stuck with two different packagings, upcs, and wordings for strawberry/blueberry. One is regular, and the other is something like strawberry riptide blueberry bash and has Spongebob on it. Horrible show, it's mind-rotting and kids should not be allowed to see it. Anyway, I don't think much of the other things we have like the Activia. People go crazy over the Activia, but it has bacteria in it! Mold! If you read the warnings (yes they have warnings on them) people with allergies to penicillin can't eat Activia. As we found out with the kroger active lifestyle Activia alternative. We were going to get some cause of the less amount of sugar (about 6 or 8 grams vs the 30-something in regular yogurt), but Victor can't have penicillin due to the mold part of it.

Well, anyway, as I said, I could talk for hours about yogurt. But my wrist is starting to hurt a little, I still haven't read the daily comics, and Victor's in the other room playing Dead Rising and I said I'd join him "in a little bit" so I need to get on that!

btw, lately I've replaced my ill-fated Plants vs Zombies with Zuma's Revenge.

Also, I took a much-needed bath after work

Oh, and the semi-annual used book sale starts at 10 on Friday. :( I hate when that happens. I'll be stuck at work till 2. Zhaun did say to try and get out early sometime later in the week if I can, maybe I'll do so on Friday and head out around 1 or 1:30. I have some overtime to kill anyway. Sometimes the sale starts at 3. I'm beginning to see the pattern as the Spring sale starts at 3 and the Fall sale starts at 10. I love the book sales. I love the anticipation, tables covered with sheets, people gathered in their spots at whichever of the tables most holds their interest, I usually start out over by SciFi or Crafts. The crowds, which normally make me a little anxious and sometimes cause fleeting panic, don't bother me at all during the book sales. I usually spend about three hours there just pouring over the tables and tables of books, going back to look again, sitting on the floor to the side with Victor as we go through our bags and compare our finds and decide if we really want this one or that one. And it's only a 1.50 an inch. I love books. I love the smell of the paper, especially older books. The sound a page makes as you turn it. The yellow tint older books gets. The feel of a book in your hand. I love you you can get so into it you don't realize you're turning the pages. I would never switch to an ereader of any sort. I had to read Dracula in pdf format. Firstly, I had to change the color scheme to something not so eye straining. Second, I couldn't read it anywhere I wanted, which I suppose with a ereader it wouldn't matter. But it was hard to concentrate on the store when I had to keep watching the screen scroll up and I would get lost and have to find my place again. Very annoying. I did sorta get used to it with page down, but it was still not excellent. Plus the light from the screen would be bad for eyes eventually, and the screen would keep you up, whereas a real book stands a better chance of putting you to sleep, granted it doesn't keep you up all night entranced in a story, which has happened to me many, many times. I love books and would love to have a full library room, complete with things like a fireplace, perhaps a second story, a circular staircase, large armchairs, telescope, plush carpeting or perhaps wood floors with a big rug in front of the fireplace. Either a coffee table or end tables to place things like hot chocolate. Snuggies for everyone. Oh, I love my snuggie!!! It was my Valentine's gift from Victor this year and I love it very much. A good book, my snuggie, and some hot chocolate, in front of the woodstove. There's an image that will blow away memories of my work day. And so, with that I will head on out to read the comics and then I'll go to join my dashing husband in the livingroom.