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edenfallingStuff done Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday:
1. Worked more shifts at the church recycling sale: 9am-12pm on Sunday, and 10am-2pm on Monday. The sale runs three days, usually: Saturday is full price (subject to occasional negotiation), Sunday is half price, and Monday is bag day. This used to mean that every item was knocked down to 10 cents, but that proved inefficient for many reasons so a couple years ago we switched to a new policy: everything is 'free,' but please make a donation at the door as you leave. This both saves time and, somewhat ironically, earns us more money. :)
What staff do on Monday is sort of float around the various departments to help people find boxes and packing material, help them carry heavy loads to the door/their cars, and move things up from the floor to the display tables as items disappear. Then around 1pm, we start breaking down the tables and moving all unclaimed items down to the parlor for various disposal methods. Fabric scraps, for example, go to Sew Green. I believe books get passed on to the Friends of the Library Book Sale. Some things may go to the Salvation Army store. And a bunch just goes straight to the dump, because the cycle of reuse is not eternal.
Anyway, I floated mostly in housewares and the holiday/crafts room, I dismantled several plastic display tables and moved them to basement storage, and I helped pack and move stuff from both linens and holiday/crafts to the parlor. I also made off with the following items: two decorative cushions for my sofa and armchair, a short glass tumbler to replace the one I dropped on my kitchen floor last year, a backup Corningware grab-it bowl lid, a set of magnetic plastic clothespins for use in my kitchen, and a cheap-ass tiny electric sewing machine, complete with instruction manual. It only has the two bobbins and one needle currently attached (because somebody nabbed the box of spares that were meant to go with it), but I get really annoyed at hand-stitching hems and it's hard to argue with 'free' as an asking price. (I donated $5 for the lot.)
2. Paid my credit card and rent bills for the month.
3. Switched my Netflix subscription to streaming-only, which will save me about three bucks a month even after the price increase to their streaming services.
4. Officially applied to Not the IRS for the 2017 tax season. There aren't any obvious reasons they shouldn't take me back -- the other people at the hill office liked me and I do good work within my level of training; I am also a damn good receptionist when the district won't authorize enough official receptionist hours but somebody still needs to staff the front desk -- but central headquarters reorganized the local districts over the summer plus the mall office may be closed for good, and I'm not sure what that will do to hiring requirements.
5. Did my first regular job application for the week. I hate job-hunting. I hate it passionately. If there were a logistically effective way to have somebody else apply to jobs for me, I would totally pay someone to do that. *sigh* Two more to go this week.
6. Submitted my unemployment compensation claim for last week.
7. Texted Landlord Dude to remind him that the porch light had been out for over a week, and would he please come fix it. (He did.)
8. Photographed my peppers for my weekly pepper blog post. ♥
9. Vacuumed my apartment. You do not want to know how much gunk I pulled out of the filter when I was done. *makes face*
10. Did the intro mini-course for Not the IRS's new online learning program. It's a lot less opaque than the old program, but man, instructional videos get grating really fast. *sigh* I also paid the annual fee for use of online training materials. I didn't have to do that last year because I had no continuing education requirements, and I was able to take the 60-hour intro tax course for free because I'd worked for Not the IRS as a receptionist the prior year, but tax preparers have to prove we're keeping our skills current each year, and in the particular case of Not the IRS, that means at least 18 hours (more like credit-hours, really) of courses plus some other stuff. I've signed up for a 3-hour course which I will probably attempt to complete on Thursday, after which I will evaluate my further options.
11. Bought groceries.
12. Changed my linens.
13. Watered my houseplants.
14. Lugged the compost bin out to the street for Cayuga Compost to pick up tomorrow. It is a shared bin for the four apartments in my house and the duplex next door (also owned by Landlord Dude and Landlady), but I seem to be the only person who thinks to move it before it gets so heavy you practically need a team of horses to pull it more than two inches. (I do this in self-preservation, because I have moved that thing when it's nearly full to the brim and jesus god I do not ever want to do that again.)
1. Worked more shifts at the church recycling sale: 9am-12pm on Sunday, and 10am-2pm on Monday. The sale runs three days, usually: Saturday is full price (subject to occasional negotiation), Sunday is half price, and Monday is bag day. This used to mean that every item was knocked down to 10 cents, but that proved inefficient for many reasons so a couple years ago we switched to a new policy: everything is 'free,' but please make a donation at the door as you leave. This both saves time and, somewhat ironically, earns us more money. :)
What staff do on Monday is sort of float around the various departments to help people find boxes and packing material, help them carry heavy loads to the door/their cars, and move things up from the floor to the display tables as items disappear. Then around 1pm, we start breaking down the tables and moving all unclaimed items down to the parlor for various disposal methods. Fabric scraps, for example, go to Sew Green. I believe books get passed on to the Friends of the Library Book Sale. Some things may go to the Salvation Army store. And a bunch just goes straight to the dump, because the cycle of reuse is not eternal.
Anyway, I floated mostly in housewares and the holiday/crafts room, I dismantled several plastic display tables and moved them to basement storage, and I helped pack and move stuff from both linens and holiday/crafts to the parlor. I also made off with the following items: two decorative cushions for my sofa and armchair, a short glass tumbler to replace the one I dropped on my kitchen floor last year, a backup Corningware grab-it bowl lid, a set of magnetic plastic clothespins for use in my kitchen, and a cheap-ass tiny electric sewing machine, complete with instruction manual. It only has the two bobbins and one needle currently attached (because somebody nabbed the box of spares that were meant to go with it), but I get really annoyed at hand-stitching hems and it's hard to argue with 'free' as an asking price. (I donated $5 for the lot.)
2. Paid my credit card and rent bills for the month.
3. Switched my Netflix subscription to streaming-only, which will save me about three bucks a month even after the price increase to their streaming services.
4. Officially applied to Not the IRS for the 2017 tax season. There aren't any obvious reasons they shouldn't take me back -- the other people at the hill office liked me and I do good work within my level of training; I am also a damn good receptionist when the district won't authorize enough official receptionist hours but somebody still needs to staff the front desk -- but central headquarters reorganized the local districts over the summer plus the mall office may be closed for good, and I'm not sure what that will do to hiring requirements.
5. Did my first regular job application for the week. I hate job-hunting. I hate it passionately. If there were a logistically effective way to have somebody else apply to jobs for me, I would totally pay someone to do that. *sigh* Two more to go this week.
6. Submitted my unemployment compensation claim for last week.
7. Texted Landlord Dude to remind him that the porch light had been out for over a week, and would he please come fix it. (He did.)
8. Photographed my peppers for my weekly pepper blog post. ♥
9. Vacuumed my apartment. You do not want to know how much gunk I pulled out of the filter when I was done. *makes face*
10. Did the intro mini-course for Not the IRS's new online learning program. It's a lot less opaque than the old program, but man, instructional videos get grating really fast. *sigh* I also paid the annual fee for use of online training materials. I didn't have to do that last year because I had no continuing education requirements, and I was able to take the 60-hour intro tax course for free because I'd worked for Not the IRS as a receptionist the prior year, but tax preparers have to prove we're keeping our skills current each year, and in the particular case of Not the IRS, that means at least 18 hours (more like credit-hours, really) of courses plus some other stuff. I've signed up for a 3-hour course which I will probably attempt to complete on Thursday, after which I will evaluate my further options.
11. Bought groceries.
12. Changed my linens.
13. Watered my houseplants.
14. Lugged the compost bin out to the street for Cayuga Compost to pick up tomorrow. It is a shared bin for the four apartments in my house and the duplex next door (also owned by Landlord Dude and Landlady), but I seem to be the only person who thinks to move it before it gets so heavy you practically need a team of horses to pull it more than two inches. (I do this in self-preservation, because I have moved that thing when it's nearly full to the brim and jesus god I do not ever want to do that again.)
