Tis The Season....

Busy day for me today. Worked from 8am to 1PM...then off to WalMart to buy buy buy! Got all the gift cards for the families in CA. I'm got a little gift bag for each grandchild and will put the gift card plus some "goodies" from Grandma. I got some candy, lip gloss for the girls, chap stick for the boys and will bake cookies on Monday to add to them. I will make two large cookies for each of them. They all miss my baking for them at Christmas, so I thought that might be a nice little added surprise. Each one has a favorite so I'll be making 4 different kinds, the extra's I'll make some cookie gift plates for some friends here in Tennessee.
I got a few little "extras" for Stef. She is missing me so much this year, first Christmas we've ever been apart. Even the first year I moved to California, Frank and I flew her and the kids down so they could spend Christmas with us.
I'm feeling it too...she loves Christmas like I do and we usually did some baking together and always shared some special times. She is my baby and it's hard not having her and the kids here. Stef and her children will be driving to Washington for Christmas to spend it with her ex hubby and his family. (say a little prayer that they will travel safely if you would)


We had some snow flurries yesterday, hoping it's a preview of a snowy Christmas...keeping my fingers crossed! It is nippy outside... about 36 outside...brrrrrrr.

Work has kept me very busy over the past two weeks. I'm really enjoying it, even though it's hard work.
The store will open up this Thursday. I've hung clothes, stocked shelves, priced so many things that I actually dreamed about pricing stuff in my sleep a few nights ago! lol

I finally found out exactly what I'll be doing. I'm going to be a processer, that means I will work in the back unloading the gaylords (those big boxes) and pricing just about everything that comes in, except clothing, that comes to us already processed and priced. I was really very happy to be a processor because I had workd a couple of days on the cash register and did'nt enjoy it much. I get bored to easily I guess... I like to be moving around.
Imagine getting a huge box full of stuff all wraped up in paper....so you don't know what it is. You will have to unwrap it all... it's like Christmas all day, opening up gifts! lol I've found some great things that were worth some $$$ too! Goodwill actually sells on ebay (don't know what they sell under yet, but will find out) and if we find something that we think will sell we send it downtown (Nashville) and they put it on ebay. Once it sells, my manager will get a commission off of it. I don't think I get anything, but I'm sure my manager will be gratefull and will compensate me in some way. When I find something I think is old or worth more than we could sell it for in the store, I check it on ebay when I get home. My manager is going to work on getting me a computer in the processing area so I can do it there. I will be the only processer that has a computer! Don't I feel special? you bet I do!!