More progress!

Ok, I now have in my possession two money orders: one for rent and one for security deposit. Yay me!

Finally got the online app at USPS.com to believe I’m me, which was way harder than it should have been.

Going to start going through everything at the apartment and playing "lifeboat". Hopefully that will cut down on the number of boxes/crates I have to move. I’ve done some figuring in my head and I’m looking at a minimum of five trips for furniture unless I rent a trailer. I’ve never driven with a trailer before and mountain roads are probably not the beat place to learn. Even with a trailer I’ll probably need two trips.

I’m really tired from work today; there were just two of us there, everybody in the county got paid today, and it’s the first of the month (WIC, EBT, Social Security, etc all drop). Add to all that joy it being the last payday before Easter and fun fun fun. Retail occasionally blows, but we’re having a good year so far, considering we just closed out our second month with a sales increase over last year *and* we beat projections. Yay!

Our bonus is determined by performance against projection, not prior year, that way we can take into account new stores opening in the area, rennovations, and planned down time and still have a chance to bonus. The three big catagories are sales, profit, and customer satisfaction. At my store as long as we are making sales it’s nearly impossible for us to mess up profit, it’s totally weird. We missed sales last year by $100k, and still had enough "extra" profit above the projection we could have bought the store another lift truck and still maxed out that part of the bonus. A smallish lift truck mind you, but still… I think we’ve just managed to hit a golden ratio of high-margin/fast selling merchandise to low-margin staples like toothpaste and toilet paper. Yeah, almost no one but convenience stores makes money on toothpaste. I think ours averages a -2% margin, which means for every dollar we spend to buy it, we only charge ninety-eight cents to sell it, but it gets people in the door. While they’re there they normally see something else they needed but forgot about and more money is spent. Cool.

I have to call my current landlord in the morning and officially let him know I’m moving. I plan to have an overlap, so I’ll have both places until the thirtieth. It will give him less reason to be nit-picky when doing my move-out inspection and plenty of time to get an ad in the paper.

I am so tired…

Good night!