A New Day

Well, I've been kvetching about work quite a bit lately. Finally had the chance to talk with my boss, and, surprise, surprise! She actually anticipated every one of my current concerns and addressed them before I even had a chance to start in. My schedule is not changing a whit in the next couple of weeks, there are lots of potential new hires coming in to interview next week (with the goal being to make offers to two so that we have at least one for sure--the other person can most likely be sent to another store if need be), and there are people coming from other stores to cover any open shifts. Of course, they are coming from much lower volume stores, so we may kill them at our store with our volume. Heck, even a slow Monday or Tuesday is probably more volume than the store these people are coming from do on a weekend! Oh well. Guess they'll see how people at the busy stores live. They might even be bored where they are and want the challenge. At any rate, I am not covering these shifts and I am getting my scheduled time off, so all is right with my world again.

I shared some of my homemade granola with one of my co-workers, and she was impressed. It is always amazing what impresses people that don't cook. Anyhow, she even said she's consider making it. She figured she could just come over to make the granola and we could drink beer. I said that would be a good idea if we ever get the same time off. I think she'd actually like the recipe and get lots of use out of it once she saw how easy it was to make.

I did make some baked ravioli yesterday. I jazzed up some frozen cheese ravioli by tossing them with a sauce I made by browning an onion and some hot Italian turkey sausage and then adding a can of drained, diced Italian tomatoes and a can of garlic-herb marinara sauce. Topped it all with a sprinkle of Parmesan and baked it for about 30 min., or until it was nice and bubbly. It will make something good to tote for lunches next week.

Going to have a bit more coffee and see if I can't get the dishwasher unloaded and reloaded and the clean clothes put away before heading off to work today. Yesterday was, as is usual for a Saturday, ungodly busy at work with messy people who have apparently never seen spring clothing or Easter stuff. They left it all over the place! I thought we'd never recover, especially since all the sales floor folks were up on registers most of the evening. Hopefully, tonight will be a typical Sunday, though. That will mean we are fairly busy from about 1-7:30 or 8, which gives us some time to start pulling things back together before we close at 9 so that we are assured of getting out by 10. Earlier if we really go dead.

Sunny and COLD here today. Brrrrr.......I'm staying inside until I have to go out.