stephanie is: 
tired but good…
woo! I get the day off tomorrow! then i work sunday – wednesday and friday. i go my paycheck for the first two weeks i worked, yey! but since the checks come every other friday instead of at certain points during the month, i’ll only have the one at bill paying time.
i ran some errands straight after work and got the check deposited. the nice bank people always remember my name and they said they missed me. aw.
at whole foods (getting shampoo, sprouts, and a bottled tazo tea so i wouldn’t waste money at star$$$) one of the employees (a cheerful man with dreads) told me my braids were “tight” (only some are literally tight since i just started to redo them, heh). he made me do a jive handshake thing in appreciation of them. (useless fact about me… don’t ever ask me to high-five you… i’d probably end up giving you the stink-eye instead. i don’t know why but i can’t stand high-fives. *shudder*).
i stopped at the craft store and bought 50¢ black ribbon for my halloween costume. they had a table of craft books by the door and i found a nice hard back crochet pattern book that has a lot of cute doggie and kitty patterns in it for $5.
i don’t know that i will be doing anything terribly exciting on my day off. i have to sew my poodle skirt in time for a 7pm halloween party saturday night. i’d like to do a lot of braiding, preferably upstairs so i can try to watch some of the bazillion hours of tivo that danny has already watched and saved for me. but whenever i have time for tv, he is up there asleep. doh.
work is still fun, still a lot of cleaning, still very physical… that part is a nice change though and i am getting really nice muscle tone already. 3 weeks of standing 8 hours straight, mopping every few minutes, lots of sweeping, pulling, dragging, carrying… i have been trying to pack big lunches with more calories cause i’ve been burning through them so fast. plus i wake up at 5:30, get to work at 6:45, and don’t eat until 13:00 or so.
random facts:
- one of my favorite work chores if bathing the doogies.
- i have not had a dream since i started working at the dog day care in which there weren’t at least 10 dogs sitting around – no matter what the dream’s subject is.
- i miss being on a computer all day, but i only have time to think about it when i am doing boring mopping chores during nap time.
- i am going to do a photoshoot with azcra and photo_obscura sometime in nov or so, woo!
- it is annoying not knowing what days i’m going to have off until the beginning of that week.
- i have a bazillion pictures to add to stvlive.com and have been sorting through them steadily during my sparse computer time.
- i bought india a new collar with my discount at work.
- india likes day care but only if i am in the room with her – and i can’t be the whole time.
- random photo:
- i am dressing up in a red poodle skirt (not yet made) for the halloween party i am going to tomorrow
- it has been hard finding time for chores while working full time and freelance and my web sites. to battle the constant pile of laundry (due to dog slobber and hair and mop water) i make myself do one load per day before bed. i keep staying up too late doing little cleaning tasks that build up like putting dishes away
- i haven’t gotten any pen pal snail mail
- i shower in the evenings now because i feel filthy after work.
- i finally got to have dinner with danny last night so i took him out to eat. he had pasta and i had cheese-less pizza. we started with salads and ended with tiramisu and coffee/tea. i was so nice to catch up with him.
- i am craving going out to eat again tonight because i don’t want to cook or clean dishes. i think we are going to make mexican food though, because the guacamole is on the counter thawing.
- danny is still asleep and goes to work tonight. he will be asleep during my day off. i will go back to work when his two days off start.
- i am hungry. i want nachos. or a garden burger and french fries. and a cook to make it all for me. *thud*
i am going to go shower as soon as i can convince my body to stand up again. i am standing all day and it is cold in the playrooms to me (60°) so that can lead to me feeling stiff later. i need lots of polar fleece pullovers/jackets. donations gladly accepted! fleece seems to be the best thing to wear there. i had to scape frost off my windows this morning which sucked a lot. it was 29° out at 6am! brr. i need to try to pull my car into the garage after danny leaves for work and it is going to be cold… but he leaves around 10:30pm and i really should already be getting in bed then. suck. i’ll either figure something out or deal with the scraping i guess.
i’ll stop rambling now.how was your day?