December 14, 2006

• Crazy week

  It has been a crazy, crazy week already. Too many things keep popping up to rob me of my time. I went and did a little Christmas shopping tonight, finishing up for the family and a couple of friends, as well as buying a few gifts for the residents at the county-run nursing home. There are a few of us that are going together to buy gifts. I've asked for donations at church but so far haven't seen anyone donate except the lady that I drive to church from time to time. The others who are giving do not go to our church. Three of us have baked cookies (some diabetic) to take out there and one lady bought some soda. The residents really like it when they get soda. Usually we sing a lot of hymns, someone gives a short simple message, we sing some more hymns and then we eat treats brought by this one lady. She normally doesn't let anyone else help her with the treats. It's like her mission. She brought little 6 or 8 oz. cans of soda one month and we had so many people come out the next it wasn't funny. It's a way to get them up to the cafeteria where we can share the message of God's love with them.

  Anyway, lots of junk going on at work. It's a really busy time, and then our point-of-sale software company decided to force everyone into an update on Monday, only we went in really early (6 a.m. for me and John was 15-20 minutes earlier than me) to get caught up on some stuff, but couldn't because the program wouldn't let us in. The tech support guys didn't come in until 7 a.m. Arizona time, which was 8 our time, and we spent until nearly 10 getting everyone back up online so we could sell stuff. Then on Tuesday the power was out for about a 12 block stretch. We were told today that someone took out a utility pole on a street several blocks down from us. When you are a computer business and everything is basically on the computer or on the Internet, having no power pretty much shuts you down.

  Being short-handed isn't helping. Today I spent at least half my day up front doing sales when I have more than 2 days work non-stop to be doing in the back.

  I need to go to bed and try to get in a little early tomorrow morning. Both John and I were wiped out the past couple of days so we slept in this morning and let the employees open up. I left at 7:30 tonight and John didn't get home until after 10 p.m. He made sure to IM one of the employee's machines (one who was razzing us today about coming in at 9 when we open at 7:30) so he could see how late we stay there at night sometimes.

  I need to get my house cleaned up before Christmas, too. We are having the family Christmas dinner here. Only two of us have homes big enough to host it and the other person had Thanksgiving at there house, so it's my turn. I haven't decorated at all yet, unless you count the red and green basket I bought today at the Dollar Tree to put my Christmas cards in. One of the cats is already trying to chew it up. John thinks she'll have it eaten by morning.

  • 12:27 am
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