peace at last

I bought Chloe a halloween costume today, with Chad's blessing. She's gonna be the cutest strawberry in town! Rush is now mostly behind me. Tomorrow will probably be a bit busy but for the most part it's done. I had some really great temps and the whole week went pretty smoothly with a few small snags, but those are always to be expected. I held up a lot longer than normal. I lost my will to go on midday Friday. I had so much stress built up in my back that me and the girls went for massages. I had a full hour of deep tissue and when it was done I told her where it was painful (my fatty part just below my thumbs) and my masseuse said that I was having problems in my kidneys. We went for lunch and then to a purse party and I bought yet another Coach wallet. I am not sure where my obsession with Coach bags started but luckily there are enough inexpensive knock-offs out there to support a girls habit. It was a nice day not thinking about work and not worring about making others happy. Today Chad and I went over to the new Best Buy that just opened up by our house and it was customer service overload. Chad got angry cause he hates service and with 3 employess to every customer it was inevitable that we'd get asked "can I help you guys find something?" over 20 times....I'm not exaggerating. By the end Chad was cutting them off before they could finish their sentences and I turned in to the smiley happy girlfriend saying "no thanks" over his "NO!" Once again I forgot all the great blog ideas I had this week, whether it was about stupid students or unreasonable customers or just about how old I am getting and can't handle working 60 hours in one week. Yes, 60 hours doesn't isn't the end of the world but it's non-stop 13 hours a day of running, rushing, unloading, putting out fire after fire after fire cause when you're in charge everyone leaves the fires for you to extinguish all while you smile and give the excellant customer service that my company insists we cram down everyone's throats. Luckily it's only 2 weeks out of every year. Monday I didn't get to eat lunch until 3:30. I got there at 7:00a.m. and didn't leave until 8:00p.m. We cleared $98K that day. I know boo-hoo. But I'm exhausted, so give me a break. Fine, no more talk about work, I like it better that way. On a sad note, 2 of our hermit crabs died this week. Not sure why but last time we lost 2 small pets in one week we had a mouse in the house. I don't think we have mice cause I haven't seen any signes of them but I can't figure out why these "perfect" pets would both crawl out of their shells and croak. We've had Gaston for almost 2 years. The biggest crab, Bowser, is still kicking but we're watching him closely. wE wanted to pick out some new crabs today but once again there were way too many employees at Petsmart having a pow wow in front of the crab tank and Chad didn't want to deal with it. He's my shy little cranky old man.