Hey, Hey, Hey! It’s
been a few days since I blogged because I’ve been working my not so
little bootay off! I’m telling you, working in retail is harder than you’d ever
believe. An 8-hour workday is what all of my young professional friends who
have real jobs (ahem Mary Todd) work on a daily basis so I shouldn’t complain,
but this girl is going to complain for a second. Standing for 8 hours at a time
is really hard!!! Usually I enjoy my shifts but yesterday left me in a really
bad mood and in a lot of pain. People keep saying the pain in my feet and back
will go away but I’ve been doing this long-shift thing for a month now and am
in just as much pain. Any suggestions??? Hopefully tomorrow will be better (and
the head honcho who is visiting our store will be nice, leave, and all of the
managers will calm down a bit) and I’ll remember why I like working there.
In other news, this
weekend Mr. Dt was nice enough to accompany me to a “stock the bar” engagement
party for one of my friends. The friend who the party was for was one of the
girls in my cohort in graduate school. Our cohort was very unique in the fact
that we took all of the same classes together every day (sometimes for 6 hours
a day) for two years straight, then would hang out in a group after class. We
got to know each other very well and at times it was a little overbearing but
after graduation we weren’t forced to see each other every day so it became harder
and harder to stay as close as we were. Luckily, we enjoy a good party now and
then and we can get together, catch up, and talk about our favorite subject,
COUNSELING! While we enjoy these encounters, they can be a little difficult for
our lovely significant others who are forced to come along and listen to all of
our ridic counseling stories. Sometimes Dt hangs out with my good friend
Jennie’s bf but they weren’t there on Saturday so he was forced to listen to
the girls gossip and catch up (sorry honey, but I’m glad you came!) I’m glad I
got to stop by even if it was for a short amount of time (I had worked all day
and had to work the next morning so getting drunk was not an option despite
what my lovely friends tried to convince me of) and I loved getting to see some
of the girls I miss hanging out with. I also bought them a cool drink shaker
and strainer from good ole’ Williams-Sonoma, holla holla!
And last but not
least, has anyone else realized that Christmas is like two weeks away?!? When
did that happen? I mean, the store I work at has been thoroughly decked out in
xmas stuff for weeks but my house, embarrassingly enough, has really been
lacking in decorations. See, I have this thing, where I’m broke… so all of the
pretty Christmas decorations that I want for our apt are usually out of my
budget. Over the years, I’ve accumulated some decorations but nothing close to
what I want to have and I haven’t put any of them out! I know, I know, what is
wrong with me? I love the holidays and I’m all about getting into the spirit
but I’ve just whiffed this year. One last confession… we don’t even have our
tree yet. For shame! I know! But I work late almost every night so when Dt is
available to buy it, I’m working and vice versa so we are still tree-less. The problem
now is that I can’t decide if we should even get one at this point. I’m
currently enjoying my only day off this week and don’t know if I’ll have
another one between now and Christmas where I’ll have the energy to decorate
the tree. I know this makes me seem like a Grinch but when I think about
dancing around our tree in the corner with Christmas lights 62 times (because I
like a lot of lights and I want it done my way which means Dt can’t do it much
to his dismay) I get overwhelmed. And finally, this year Dt got his way and
opened his Christmas present weeks ago (a story I will address in my next post),
which means we don’t even have anything to really put under our tree! Sadsies.
So, I’m torn. To tree or not to tree? We shall see…
Love, Em
