Coming Up For Air
Ahhhhh, it feels good to breathe again! Returns are still pretty busy, but the general pace is slowing down at work. We're getting ready to give everything some spit and polish, just in time for our remodel to begin in March or so. Deciding which seasonal people stay and which ones go. Another week or so, and everyone will have spent their gift cards and Christmas cash and their credit card bills will start rolling in, so sales will plummet and we'll be able to pretty much shoot a cannon through the joint. Ahhhhh......
A day off today, so really, I do plan to start digging out here at home. During Holiday Hell, things come in the door and get dropped there. Dishes get rinsed off and sit in the sink or the dishwasher until I remember to wash them. Or until I run out of dishes! Dust collects and becomes full-grown dust bunnies. It's part of my life during the holiday shopping season, but I'm ready to start digging out here!
I'm a full five pounds lighter than I was at the beginning of the shopping season, and that's with pretty much eating and drinking as I wanted, including Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Want to lose some weight? Get you a job as a cashier supervisor and walk an average of 8,000 steps a day. Wrestle carts in from outside at least once a work day. Spend some quality time with your backroom team once or twice a week helping them backstock and/or pull merchandise, climbing up and down ladders to do so. Lift boxes of bags onto 22 checklanes at least once or twice a week and help with lifting heavy boxes of furniture, TVs and Christmas trees. You come home too tired to do much more than have a glass of eggnog and pick some meat off a rotisserie chicken before falling into a dead sleep, believe me. I am calling it The GSTL Total Holiday Fitness Plan.
Car is off being repaired and I'm driving my Dad's truck in the meantime. No lingering after effects from the fender bender, thank goodness. Now I'm off to clean SOMETHING up around here. Looking forward to a new year, too!
A day off today, so really, I do plan to start digging out here at home. During Holiday Hell, things come in the door and get dropped there. Dishes get rinsed off and sit in the sink or the dishwasher until I remember to wash them. Or until I run out of dishes! Dust collects and becomes full-grown dust bunnies. It's part of my life during the holiday shopping season, but I'm ready to start digging out here!
I'm a full five pounds lighter than I was at the beginning of the shopping season, and that's with pretty much eating and drinking as I wanted, including Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Want to lose some weight? Get you a job as a cashier supervisor and walk an average of 8,000 steps a day. Wrestle carts in from outside at least once a work day. Spend some quality time with your backroom team once or twice a week helping them backstock and/or pull merchandise, climbing up and down ladders to do so. Lift boxes of bags onto 22 checklanes at least once or twice a week and help with lifting heavy boxes of furniture, TVs and Christmas trees. You come home too tired to do much more than have a glass of eggnog and pick some meat off a rotisserie chicken before falling into a dead sleep, believe me. I am calling it The GSTL Total Holiday Fitness Plan.
Car is off being repaired and I'm driving my Dad's truck in the meantime. No lingering after effects from the fender bender, thank goodness. Now I'm off to clean SOMETHING up around here. Looking forward to a new year, too!
posted by Mel at 10:33 AM
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