man, look at the size of those dust bunnies!
No, really. Dust bunnies, like the ones you find under your bed. They’re just everywhere around here! (the blog, that is)
Guess that’s what happens when one doesn’t post in a while. Heee! 😛
Anyway.. Job #2 is still going well. We’re up to our eyeballs in boxes (we’re starting to groan when the UPS truck pulls up… ‘cause really, where does Mr. UPS think we’re going to put those huge boxes he has to haul in on a dolley?), and wishing the upstairs expansion would happen this week, rather than closer to December. I check in yarn, price them, and put them right back into the box they came out of since there’s really no room to put them on display to sell! Seems kind of, oh, I don’t know, pointless? At least the felting wool is in bags so we can easily pull them out if a customer comes in looking for neat-o wool to felt with. At $20 a hank (about 100 yds), mind you.
I am learning how to ring up customers’ purchases on a really basic cash register. So basic that we don’t even put in the amount received for a purchase… as soon as you hit “total” the drawer opens. If the person gives cash that isn’t exact, I have to figure out the change in my head! I’m not terrible at math, but in a pinch my brain revolts against doing subtraction without writing it out, so I cheat and use a calculator. :cheese: And then, we’re supposed to count back the change in that weird way I never did pick up on when I worked at a movie theater way back in ‘93… I think on Monday if it’s not too busy I may ask the boss lady if she can teach me how to do that. Trust me, she will need to teach me this, because I clearly remember thinking I had the hang of it when I worked the ticket window at the movie theater, but I really didn’t because I blew it big time and gave a guy like $40 in change when he really should have only gotten $20 (I think he gave me a $50 bill), trying to count change back like that. Yeah, my drawer was WAY off that day. Heh.
Other than that, despite a day or two of aching feet (on Tuesdays, the checking in of yarn is done standing, since the table with chairs is filled with the Tuesday afternoon “stitch’n'bitch” ladies), I am still enjoying working there. I got my first paycheck this week, too. A whole $150! Heh. And where’s that money going to?
Straight to my platinum credit card bill, to help pay off this:
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