Almost There

Today's work shift is short, slightly less than six hours, so that means that I can get some things done this morning as well as tonight! That doesn't happen too often, especially when I have a late-start shift. Those are what I call the mid-shifts, the 11:30am to 8pm shift that's essentially covering as the Front End Manager on the main FEM's days off. Thankfully I only do one of those a week because they're exhausting -- I'm not only dealing with the lunch wave and after-school wave but also the dinner/home commute wave as well. And Monday's mid-shift was brutal. I'm assuming it was because it was the post-Thanksgiving 'oh dear our cupboards are bare' rush, but yikes it felt like the entire neighborhood came in that night!!

Anyhoo...looking forward to December, the year-end reviews and overviews, the future plans. It's been an interesting year, definitely one I hadn't planned on but one that was infinitely less stressful than years past! [Yes, working retail in a smallish neighborhood supermarket during the holiday season is indeed less stressful than dealing with Q4 banking nonsense any day. And far less rude.] The Christmas music started playing on the overhead speakers yesterday, intermingled with the regular pop tunes, and I'm cool with that. Our store was already putting up the Christmas stuff just before Halloween and the place is looking stocked to the gills but not exactly crowded or messy. I really should start with the holiday shopping too, come to think of it...I tend to do mine all at once around this time, so perhaps tomorrow when I have the day off I'll start doing so.


Hope everyone's having a good week!