finally, a long update.

Ok, i find myself with a surprising amount of time this morning, so one of the things i will do is update this. :P

Last weekend was BBQ, with it's usual mixture of fun and stress... got no sleep, got a nice sunburn... got 2 ribbons, though would have been 4, if they hadn't gotten cheap and changed the prizes to only give ribbons and money fopr the ytop spot on the side dishes, instead of the top 5. Twits. :P So we had 4th place in Vegetables, 5th in potatoes, 9th in Open ( we did stuffed portobllo mushrooms) and 6th in Pork. Which, if i think about it, means we have at least one ribbon in all of the main meat catergories, which is nice for credibility, if nothing else. ^_^
I had a bit of fun with the presentation, since it was the first year we were allowed to do ANYTHING, not just stuck with lettuce and parsley.

I was SO ready to kill for a shower by the time i got home, though. *dies*

Yesterday was my first day managing the store, and had to put up with teh DM being there ALL FREAKING DAY. she just dumped a hell of a lot of shit on me, and then we worked on the schedule for the next month - where EVERYONE has a bunch of vacation, including me, and thus now that we are down an entire full-tim eemployee, there are SERIOUS staffing problems. and of course, since they don
't have to pay me overtime anymore, it was clear i was expected to just work my ass off - at one point i was working open to close EVERY DAY between the con and laurean's wedding. Note that this is the point where i started crying. *rolls eyes* Well, from that point i think Sandie caught on to how close i was to telling her to shove this manager thing and go home, and also Joel took pity on me and shortened his vacation by a day, so have a much better schedule for that week, but it's still sucky.

The more i think about it, though, the more i'm convinced that things will get better whent he DM buggers off to harrass some other poor soul and just lets me settle down and get back to work. seriously, she was there for 7 HOURS yesterday, and she kept me in the back room looking at paper for pretty much ALL of it - so my cowroker pretty much had to run the whole store alone for the whole day, too. So i will do anything i can to get her OUT OF THERE today and back to the wicked-witch-land from which she sprang. if i have any questions about what to do that joel doesn't know the answer to, i can call naarah or gordon.

Prep for Vegas... HA! what prep for vegas???? i'm working 9 am to 8 pm every DAY between now and vegas! Shan has very kindly offered to start my laundry for me in the evening to i can finish it up after i get home and still get to bed at a decent hour. Not that it matters since i can't get to sleep unless i'm exhausted because i keep worrying about everything i have to do... :P
But since it's only 3 days prep should be fairly easy, just pack up my hot-weather clothes (pretty much all of them, i don't own much) and a few other things, and jump on the plane.

Oh yeah, i should set my bills up to get paid over the weekend, too. i can do that in my small amount of remaining free time. ^_^
i think i'll run to the store and get something for breakfast, too. there's NOTHING here because i haven't shopped, and there's no point in doing it now when i'll be gone all weekend.

ok, i feel better for ranting a bit, thanks. ^_^