A Day Off
Oh, it's sooo nice to have a day off and have the energy to actually DO things other than try to recuperate from running around like a chicken with its head cut off at work every day. Mind you, I'm still VERY good at goofing off, but at least in between bouts of goofing off I can actually accomplish some household chores. I've dusted, I've vacuumed, I've cleaned the bathroom, I've unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, washed up the dishes in the sink that can't or won't go in the dishwasher and made two kinds of chicken (there was a sale on ginormous packages of chicken thighs at the store this week; more about what I did with them later.).
Things have definitely slowed at work. I closed last night and pretty much sent my cashiers home after we got the all clear of customers. I was out by 10:30, along with pretty much everyone else that wasn't part of the overnight stocking team. And we left it looking pretty darn good for the morning crew. It's nice to leave things nice for a change. That tends to not happen during the holidays. There are nights when you leave carts of merchandise that people abandoned that have to be put back on the shelves. There are nights when what passes for a good zone is "at least it's not on the floor." So it's very nice to leave early knowing that the morning crew won't be cleaning up a mess and can get to the things they need to get done.
It's also nice to have extra days off because you can use vacation or personal time to free up actual payroll hours for the good people we kept after the holidays who've gone from getting nearly full-time hours to getting half that or less. Happens every year at this time in most of the retail world, too, just in case anyone thinks this is unnatural.
I'm off today, and will go to work tomorrow, then I get a three day weekend. Woohoo! I'm taking a personal holiday on Friday, with my immediate supervisor's blessing, and this weekend is my usually scheduled weekend off. So on Friday I can tackle the laundry without feeling like I'm letting other things slide, and then on Saturday I'll head up to visit with Dad and Dogzilla. The only thing I'll have to do on my return is unpack.
After sorting through the kitchen a bit, I've decided that, except for some milk, I don't need to go to the grocery store. At all. Seriously. I'll have plenty of cooked chicken. I made up half the chicken I bought by marinating it in a mix of green onions, garlic, fresh ginger, soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, sriracha chili sauce and honey. It will bake for about 40-50 minutes in a 375 degree oven. The other half of the chicken thighs got marinated in a mixture of salt, cumin, coriander, smoked paprika, lime zest, lime juice and olive oil. It's baking on a rack in the 375 degree oven along with the other chicken. I can have it as is, but with my completely and fully stocked pantry, refrigerator and freezer, it can also turn into soups, salads and all kinds of other dishes besides what is essentially baked chicken.
Ahhh, it's nice to have a little down time. Did I say that enough?
Things have definitely slowed at work. I closed last night and pretty much sent my cashiers home after we got the all clear of customers. I was out by 10:30, along with pretty much everyone else that wasn't part of the overnight stocking team. And we left it looking pretty darn good for the morning crew. It's nice to leave things nice for a change. That tends to not happen during the holidays. There are nights when you leave carts of merchandise that people abandoned that have to be put back on the shelves. There are nights when what passes for a good zone is "at least it's not on the floor." So it's very nice to leave early knowing that the morning crew won't be cleaning up a mess and can get to the things they need to get done.
It's also nice to have extra days off because you can use vacation or personal time to free up actual payroll hours for the good people we kept after the holidays who've gone from getting nearly full-time hours to getting half that or less. Happens every year at this time in most of the retail world, too, just in case anyone thinks this is unnatural.
I'm off today, and will go to work tomorrow, then I get a three day weekend. Woohoo! I'm taking a personal holiday on Friday, with my immediate supervisor's blessing, and this weekend is my usually scheduled weekend off. So on Friday I can tackle the laundry without feeling like I'm letting other things slide, and then on Saturday I'll head up to visit with Dad and Dogzilla. The only thing I'll have to do on my return is unpack.
After sorting through the kitchen a bit, I've decided that, except for some milk, I don't need to go to the grocery store. At all. Seriously. I'll have plenty of cooked chicken. I made up half the chicken I bought by marinating it in a mix of green onions, garlic, fresh ginger, soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, sriracha chili sauce and honey. It will bake for about 40-50 minutes in a 375 degree oven. The other half of the chicken thighs got marinated in a mixture of salt, cumin, coriander, smoked paprika, lime zest, lime juice and olive oil. It's baking on a rack in the 375 degree oven along with the other chicken. I can have it as is, but with my completely and fully stocked pantry, refrigerator and freezer, it can also turn into soups, salads and all kinds of other dishes besides what is essentially baked chicken.
Ahhh, it's nice to have a little down time. Did I say that enough?
posted by Mel at 4:30 PM
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