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These are all the hair things I got on markdown. All but three of them were 49 cents. Two of them were about 70 cents, and one (the brush) was 1.19 or something.

Victor's snoring was keeping me up so I slept on the couch last night. That's why our big blanket is on the couch. He didn't kick me out, I left on my own.

Work:
Yesterday I went ahead and talked with Zhaun and he said he'd give me the day after Thanksgiving off. It means I might work Saturday but that's fine. And I don't mind working on Thanksgiving, in fact I prefer it due to holiday pay. And I don't go anywhere for Thanksgiving, and with it being just me and Victor we can have dinner anytime. We're usually open till 6:00 on Thanksgiving, so I'll probably work a 10-6 or something, which is fine, because I can come home and we'll have a nice little dinner. Last year's was really good, I made just about everything, and the right amounts of it! I made the mashed potatoes, we had a little turkey (I believe it was a tiny hormel pre-packaged in gravy and in a dish you just take the top off and throw it in the oven), stuffing, I think I even opened a can of cranberry sauce.

Anyway, we had a pallet come off the grocery load that was a half pallet of cans on top of a half pallet of pastas. Good job, guys! I filled out a report and faxed it in. Like it'll do any good.

Apparently corporate's coming in again on Monday. Bonnie starts vacation next week, so I get to be ICM during the visit. I've done that before, when it was Renee who was in charge. Now that Brian is our main guy I don't know how that'll go over. I still see Renee sometimes, and she likes me. She was very pleased when she found out was the backup ICM. Which Bonnie says is a good thing because if she ever quit and Bret tried to push in Patty (his live-in GF who can work at work because they don't have the same last name, she was an ICM at some other store when they met) I'd have Renee on my side.

Dee and Deana were whining about losing their office up front so Bonnie's worried while she's gone they'll steal her office. She told me not to put up a fight because I don't need to be involved in that, that she'll deal with it when she gets back. And if it happens I hope I'm there to see it!

I got into it with Mike a little yesterday, the CSM. He brought back a cart of broken dog food and set them around Bonnie's desk.
Mike, "Bret wants me to empty carts so the customers can use them."
Me, "They have to go over in the reclamation cart, they can't stay there."
Mike, "Well I don't have time."
When I started to sputter at him he said, "I know where it goes."
Well, fine. I immediately went and told on him. I told Bonnie, who got upset too, but didn't do anything about it except tell me to scan it out and throw it away. She was already pretty frazzled from trying to keep the remodel team in control. We were both yelling at them all day not to go out the little door with wheelers, and they're such pigs out behind the store. Later on Mike apologized saying that Bret was really getting on him. Well, yeah, I can understand that. I told him thanks for letting me know though.

What made it all worse for Bonnie, though, is that Bret came back around 9 and told her that they were resetting pizza in a few hours and can she have the guys bring in larger orders. Well, by 9 both our pizza vendors had already been in. Not only that, but they probably didn't have the right stuff sitting around, and because of needing to order stuff in they won't have the product till Monday or Tuesday, and even then some of it is stuff they don't even carry up here and will have to special order in from other states. Around 2:00 one of our pizza guys showed up and of course Bonnie was gone by then and her desk was locked so I had to scan it in under Vendor Scan instead of Dexing and everyone is different when it comes to Vendor Scan so I had to play with it until I got it right. And then only two items were authorized, the rest were discontinued, so to follow policy I had to call Bret up to ask him if I can bring them in anyway, knowing full well he'll tell me yes. (So I told the pizza guy to go ahead and stock while I took care of the paperwork and stuff) And Bret's tone of voice said I was an idiot, so I told him I had to verify, you know, CYA, and his tone changed to understanding. So I had to do a Total's Correction invoice to bring in the discontinued items. And by time all this was done it was 2:30.

On remodel stuff, they have started to paint cream colored trees on the walls. There's one above dairy, there's one between where the yellow walls meet the blue walls down by pharmacy, and I presume there'll be more up when I go in tomorrow.

And speaking of which I work six days next week. Dairy tomorrow and then ICM the rest of the week. So that's 7-3 tomorrow and 5-1 the rest of the week.

And since ads didn't come in yesterday I'll have to call Paula and see about getting stuff added to my milk order for Tuesday. I know there'll be half pint whipping creams in the ad, there always are, but I didn't want to order my customary 30 cases until I knew for sure. Because my luck they won't be in the ad this year and I'd have ordered 30 cases of something I'd then sell 2 cases of. But I'm pretty sure they'll be in the ad, since they've been in our 2-week Thanksgiving sale the last four years I've done this.

Food:
Victor loves oatmeal cookies. He loves egg nog cookies. But the only oatmeal-egg nog cookie recipes I could find had ingredients I don't have. Such as molasses or butterscotch chips. So I looked for plain oatmeal cookie recipes and didn't see any I particularly liked. So I decided since I had vanilla pudding and I've heard pudding cookies are good, and I could sub egg nog for milk I looked for pudding cookie recipes. And I found one for oatmeal pudding cookies. So... I went from there and got this: (picture taken after we'd eaten several)

2 Sticks of Butter (1 cup)

3/4 Cups Brown Sugar

1/4 Cup White Sugar

1 (3.5oz) Package Pudding (I only had a 5ozer and used most of it, next time I'll use an actual 3.5 one)

1 tsp Nutmeg

1/2 tsp Cinnamon Powder

1 tsp Vanilla

2 Eggs

1 1/4 Cup Flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Salt
3 1/2 Cups Oats
1 Cup Chips (optional)

Make the pudding and wait for it to harden while mixing the butter and sugars till creamy. Add the nutmeg, cinnamon, and vanilla to pudding and mix into sugars. Add eggs and mix till what the original recipe calls "fluffy", but I dunno, I never got it to look fluffy, it just looked kinda creamy and lumpy, probably should have used the electric mixer. Mix the flour and baking soda then add to mixture. Add salt. And now a lot of people were complaining that there's too many oats and to reduce to 2 1/2 cups, but I used 3 cups and it seemed a little light so I think the original 3 1/2 sounds about right. Then I put in chips, and I don't know if I should have left them out entirely or if I should have used more. Either way, it's 350° for 8-12 minutes (I went with 11 minutes).

Victor really, really, really loves them. I think they're pretty good, but I'm not a real big fan of oatmeal cookies.

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