hurty

The sharp, pointy tooth that's been bothering me the last few years gave me the worst cut I've gotten from it. Over the last few years every time it's cut my tongue it's healed in under a day. This cut I got on Friday. And today I've been super cold and I feel kinda feverish. I bought orange juice. Because I'm trying to hold my tongue away from that tooth when I swallow my throat feels odd. Everything I find online says to go to a dentist to get it filed down. The only other suggestions are to use a nail file and I have been using the one on the end of my nail clippers. Perhaps I should get an actual nail file and see if that works. The tooth itself does not hurt. It just keeps cutting my tongue is all, which makes me talk funny. And even if I had elected to have insurance through work (which I didn't cause I don't need insurance, I never go to doctors, other than the eye doctor for my glasses) it probably wouldn't cover something like this because filing down a pointy tooth is "cosmetic". If my insurance wouldn't cover a root canal, and barely covered having teeth pulled, it certainly wouldn't cover this. Everyone boasts about how great our insurance is at work, and I don't know a lot about this sorta thing, but I look at it this way: If I pay money into something, and by the end of the year I've put a thousand dollars into it, and yet I haven't visited a doctor at all that year, I've just thrown a thousand dollars into the pockets of the insurance people. I'm healthy. But I bet if I went in right now and got a checkup they would discover I have some disease (neurosis most like) I need a handful of prescriptions for. If people would stop obsessing about how sickly we all our maybe everyone would be a lot more healthy. Sometimes it really is all in your mind.

I really should spend more time sewing. I was going to make a bunch of bags, but I've only got two that are partially constructed. Maybe tomorrow I'll have more energy. It's what I keep telling myself.

Work:
Today was a normal Sunday. People seem to be extra angry on Sundays.

I had to hang the ROP ad tags. ROP, whatever it stands for, is a special ad that starts on the Sunday before our Thanksgiving sale starts. (I believe it happens again around Easter too) It was the usual, chips, crackers, and soda.

And for our next ad holding our biggest and best sales of the year that we don't want to run out of product on they aren't in a hurry to send our ads. They're three days late and no one knows what's going on sale next week! They'd better show up tomorrow or no one will be able to order for the sales til Wednesday, and that's when our ad breaks. So if my half pint whipping creams are in it they'll have to wait till Thursday's milk load. Oh well.

I seem to remember last week or the week before some guy had asked for frozen orange juice. Well, I believe it was the same guy who asked me where it was today too. And, sure, the store has been rearranged. But the frozen section is just as obvious as ever. Even more so now that we have a whole extra aisle of it.

And, btw, for having 12 doors of pizza I still didn't see any that were just sausage. Course there might be some coming, I didn't check every price tag.

And I sure hope that's not where the chips and candy are staying. Ok, before the remodel our store was divided into non-foods being on one side of the freezers with grocery on the other. (except for soda and juice which was one aisle into the non-foods side) Now we've got soda/juice all the way down at the end of non-foods, and chips/candy in the middle of non-foods, with two aisles of non-foods on either side (or something like that).

In addition to our lovely trees they've decided to paint stalks of wheat in random places with what could either be a cloud or a bird over top of them, we couldn't decide which it was supposed to be. I mean, at least the trees are vaguely decorative and I don't have a problem with them. But stalks of wheat??? What's that about? It's over Wall Deli that I saw that, and that doesn't really make sense. If the wheat was over Bakery, that might make sense. I said that if they had put the pictures over the right departments, then the tree over mine was cause I carry orange juice, and oranges come from trees? And the tree over pharmacy is for hanging yourself after you see how much money you spent there.

A woman picked up a carton of eggs, and then decided she didn't want it. So she set it down in front of the stack she'd taken it off of, looked at me, then left. (after picking up a different brand that she had decided on instead) Just left the carton in front of the stack, didn't bother to put it on top of the stack.

I went ahead and did the markdowns today, though I don't usually do them on Sundays. Because I don't trust Dustin to do them. Last time Bonnie went on vacation I discovered he hadn't done any markdowns all week, except for milk, and I had a whole cartload of stuff to throw away.