store inventory, writing progress report, restaurants, weather, etc.

So, on Monday we did the biannual inventory for the Ithaca store, and then yesterday PM took MS and me off to the Arnot mall (which is in the middle of nowhere between Elmira and Corning) and we did the biannual inventory for that store branch. This involves counting every single item on sale, and breaking them down into columns by price.

I think my brain is still recovering from being dissolved into oatmeal.

On the bright side, when we finished at the mall, I got about half an hour of free time to look around, and I bought new sneakers! I needed them because my old sneakers had sprung a leak in the right sole, and leaky shoes + Ithaca weather = BAD. My new ones are white, because I am a boring person and I like simple things, and they only cost me $25.99 after tax. I love Payless Shoes. :-)

After that, PM, MS, and I had lunch at Ruby Tuesday, where I was thrilled beyond words to discover that they have three different types of bacon cheeseburger! I eventually settled on the Jack cheese version, which was quite tasty, and I was hungrier than I'd thought I was and ended up actually finishing the whole thing, which never happens with huge restaurant hamburgers.

I even ate the tomatoes. Over the years, I have become acclimated to tomatoes on sandwiches, provided there's a lot of other stuff to mix with their distinctive flavor.

(I still pick out raw onions, though. I loathe those giant rings of raw whitish-purple onion.)

In writing news, I've been editing away at "Finding Marea," which at the moment essentially means writing a couple filler scenes because at two points I completely neglected to explain important character developments and blithely jumped from point C to point W without so much as touching down on the rest of the alphabet. Er. That's a metaphor, btw.

I have also been writing chapter 6 of "Guardian," and after a couple days of beating my head against a wall to find the right tone for the third scene, I think I've solved that problem.

Am now heading off to work. I hope it doesn't rain like yesterday -- on the drive back from the mall, it was like the wrath of God cracked open the sky and pounded down for nearly half an hour straight. That sort of thing is not fun to look forward to when you have to walk home at night.

store inventory, writing progress report, restaurants, weather, etc.

So, on Monday we did the biannual inventory for the Ithaca store, and then yesterday PM took MS and me off to the Arnot mall (which is in the middle of nowhere between Elmira and Corning) and we did the biannual inventory for that store branch. This involves counting every single item on sale, and breaking them down into columns by price.

I think my brain is still recovering from being dissolved into oatmeal.

On the bright side, when we finished at the mall, I got about half an hour of free time to look around, and I bought new sneakers! I needed them because my old sneakers had sprung a leak in the right sole, and leaky shoes + Ithaca weather = BAD. My new ones are white, because I am a boring person and I like simple things, and they only cost me $25.99 after tax. I love Payless Shoes. :-)

After that, PM, MS, and I had lunch at Ruby Tuesday, where I was thrilled beyond words to discover that they have three different types of bacon cheeseburger! I eventually settled on the Jack cheese version, which was quite tasty, and I was hungrier than I'd thought I was and ended up actually finishing the whole thing, which never happens with huge restaurant hamburgers.

I even ate the tomatoes. Over the years, I have become acclimated to tomatoes on sandwiches, provided there's a lot of other stuff to mix with their distinctive flavor.

(I still pick out raw onions, though. I loathe those giant rings of raw whitish-purple onion.)

In writing news, I've been editing away at "Finding Marea," which at the moment essentially means writing a couple filler scenes because at two points I completely neglected to explain important character developments and blithely jumped from point C to point W without so much as touching down on the rest of the alphabet. Er. That's a metaphor, btw.

I have also been writing chapter 6 of "Guardian," and after a couple days of beating my head against a wall to find the right tone for the third scene, I think I've solved that problem.

Am now heading off to work. I hope it doesn't rain like yesterday -- on the drive back from the mall, it was like the wrath of God cracked open the sky and pounded down for nearly half an hour straight. That sort of thing is not fun to look forward to when you have to walk home at night.