I found my boyfriend!

So with Jim working the night shift (11:30pm - 8am) and me working the morning shift (6am-noon) we never see each other. I'm usually going to bed when he's waking up and when I leave for work in the morning, he's not even awake yet. And when I do get home from work, he's already asleep. So for the past week it was like the other one didn't exist. I finally was able to stay up long enough last night when he got up so that we could spend time together. Albeit it was only for an hour but time nonetheless. And the great thing about being used to getting up at 4:30am every morning is that I can't sleep in past 6am on my days off. Which is what happened today. I got up and had breakfast ready when he walked in the door and we got to spend three whole hours together before he went to bed. Awesome, awesome, awesome.

There's at least one new year's resolution that I've been trying to stick to and that is going back to the gym. I found out last week that since March '04 I've lost 11 lbs. Now I know that's not alot but since I usually gain 10 lbs a year, I'm ecstatic. Which makes me even more determined to keep going to the gym so that I can lose the next 15 lbs that I want to lose. I want to lose more than that in the long run but I have to do baby steps or else I get frustrated and overwhelmed (like last time) and I stop going. Go Me!

So at work I've been thrown in to taking over clothing. yeah me. Some days I like, most days I absolutely can't stand it. On Monday, there were 4 pallets of clothes when I got in plus 2 more in the cage. Now, we have been having a real mild winter here in upstate NY and therefore, no one is buying anything winter related. And that's all we have in the clothing section right now is winter stuff. Nothing is moving and all the buyers keep doing is sending us more of the same stuff that isn't selling. And we aren't allowed to put anything in the clothing cage which is about the length of two hatchback cars (if even that) and we aren't allowed to put anything in shrink wrap and put it up on C tier. Which leaves me in a conundrum on where to put everything so that it doesn't all fall over as soon as someone touches it. After 3 hours of getting through 3 of the 6 pallets I had, I freaked out. It was too much. I felt so overwhelmed that I couldn't think straight. It didn't help that my manager told me to get everything that was in the cage (more boxes of stuff we already had) out on to the sales floor. I lost it. I went to my personel manager's office and had a 2o minute anxiety attack. I've started to notice that I only have anxiety attacks at work. The last 5 have been at work. Interesting.

My dad is going to be coming up finally on the 21st. Should be a fun weekend. I have off Saturday and Sunday of that weekend. Go Me! Which should be great so that when I go back to work on Monday I'll have 6 pallets of clothes waiting for me. Can't wait.

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