I’m sure I had something to say…

Just got caught up on reading someone I thought had dropped off the site. She’s been through so much, but stays so strong, and she doesn’t even see it in herself.

Haven’t had much contact with Nala today. We sent a few texts back and forth but the conversation kind of died. She was out shopping with a friend so she was probably busy with that. Darn real life!

Picked up my glasses, I’m still happy with the way they look. The reason I say that is I’m rarely happy with anything fashion-wise that varies from my history or habits. Since I first started wearing glasses in sixth grade I have always had HUGE face-covering frames. That’s when I wore glasses. Starting in ninth grade I switched to contacts for my primary correction and kept the glasses as back ups.

This is the very first set of frames I’ve ever owned that didn’t cover my face. I’ve got mostly rectangular (they’re slightly trapezoidal actually) lenses in metallic silver half-frames with onyx-black earpieces that only just cover my eyes and blend quite nicely with my face and hair. I’m very happy with them. Yes, Critter helped pick them out but the nice lady at the place where I bought them helped some too. I was wary at first, being a dramatic change from what I have worn in the past, but I’m more comfortable with them now. I removed my contacts for the final fitting and I’ve been wearing the glasses all day. Others have seen them and said they liked them too. That’s a good thing, I get so self-conscious about stuff like that. Yes, I know, the guy who has more than once answered the door wearing nothing but his ring gets self-conscious about things sometimes. Weird isn’t it?

Someone placed a new cross on the roadside where GR died. It has fallen over but I couldn’t get to it to fix it because of the river of run-off between it and the road. The original cross has been lovingly maintained and still looks brand new, and the flowers planted around the base have been maintained as well. I think this was just someone paying their respects on the anniversary of her death. Considering the way the runoff flows through there I have to wonder how much trouble rescuers had getting her out of the car and into the ambulance. She didn’t die immediately, you see. She made it to the ER, where I am told they used all the O neg they could get their hands on trying to save her before type-specific blood could be found and used instead. She was that badly injured internally and bleeding that much.

I guess I’m not seeing Nala this weekend unless I drive down there, and I don’t know if I can afford to do it on my own. I know Critter would loan me the money without fail, but I don’t think that would be a good way to meet face-to-face for the very first time. Perhaps her fairy godmother can still find her wand and get Nala to bibbity-bobbity-boo her way up here. Or not. She does have a life of her own to lead after all.

I’ve got to buy another battery or two and at least one more power supply for my laptop. Those are the components that failed and killed my old one since they no longer make any that fit it.

For not being sure what I wanted to say I sure did say a lot. I did make a small mistake with my schedule though, I’m in from 0900-1900 tomorrow, not 0700-1700. That’ll be my "normal" shift because I’m the one who gets to run around opening doors and answering questions and dealing with customers and generally being the PAO for my store while the other managers take care of the nitty-gritty details of running it. I’m OK with that though. I’m pretty good at it. I’ve never yet made a decision that was "wrong", just some that I was told "well, I’d have done it *this* way…"

There’s been a change made to the personnel system. I can only apply for five jobs at a time now. So it doesn’t matter if there are fifty stores that need senior managers, I can only put in for five. And once I put in for those five and the option to un-apply is gone I am trapped in those five choices until they finish their interviews and hire someone. So if I get stuck with an application that the store has put on hold while something is being re-organized I’m stuck in that slot until the position is filled or the opening is canceled. One of the stores in our district has had a senior manager slot "on hold" since October. Great. At least I’m not in that one…