Drunken Owls and Other Delights

The head bookkeeper has taken an extended weekend to house sit (somewhere in the mountains, so I've been told) which means I've been doing 5:30 opens for the last couple of days. Surprisingly I'm not exhausted, but merely sleepy. Even yesterday, when I pulled a very heavy u-boat of bag bundles across the entire store to the front then emptied a full pallet of bagged ice in the walk-in freezer soon after? I wasn't all that tired. A good sign that I'm in much better shape than I thought, I guess? Either way, I have one more open and then a midshift, and then I have Wednesday off. Hopefully I won't be too drained by then. I'm thinking I should get back to doing the outside breaks again. I stopped last week due to the bad air quality (smoke from Oregon and far north CA), but it's gotten a little better again, so there's no reason not to. As long as the weather is with me!

Having good vibes about the work I'm doing on Queen Ophelia's War, even if it has been just a few paragraphs and sentences here and there. I know I have a few rough spots that are going to need a hell of a lot of work, but I'm not going to worry about it because once I get past those two or three problem scenes the rest is relatively smooth sailing. I'd also like to get back to MU4 as well, but one thing at a time for the moment.

Not much else to report, considering it's been a work-home-write-sleep cycle for the last several days. Looking forward to the next few days off, where I may do something crazy like laundry or grocery shopping! Heh.