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This is a day that was long. Work felt like it was forever, mainly because one of my colleagues last night, rather than call the phone numbers provided for customers who hadn't picked up their full-serve area merch opted to instead mark everything as Not Handed Out and set everything to get sent back to stock. This included a kitchen that was set on three flat carts and two pallets, approximately three hundred pieces, as well as a merged order that sat on four flat carts. The only things that could have just gone back to stock were the single piece and the wardrobe boxes that didn't have contact information, but.

So I spent a good chunk of the day dodging around all these carts before saying "fuck it" at noon and moving the six flat carts that were not kitchen stuff back to sit by the bins at least until someone who had more authority than I do arrived. Which was at 5, with me leaving at 5:30. And he was not happy, given that he'd told the aforementioned colleague to not do shit like that in case it was a situation wherein the customers had to come back later; with the kitchen, that was exactly what happened, and he said he hadn't received any calls yesterday asking so. When I left, my coworker was calling the other customer who'd left contact info to see if it was the same situation.

Then I got to brave the "wonders" of the Atlantic Station Shuttle... or not, since the fucker blew right by me when I was no more than a couple hundred feet from the stop. So I just walked to the train station instead. It took me fifteen minutes, but I did it for two reasons: one, it's good exercise and two, it was too fucking cold to sit outside and wait, not moving, for fifteen minutes to wait for the next shuttle to come by. I made it obviously, paid for the train and bus trips, and headed down just in time to get the train to Lindbergh. Got to Lindbergh, got on the Number 5, and made it to the restaurant by 7.

Once there, I helped get the catering stuff situated for tomorrow morning - I'll finish the remaining bits up tomorrow, there's no way in hell I'm making 80 Parmesan cups only to have them be gone in the morning because the to-go kid took them for his use - and then just kinda chilled until Yami was released shortly before 9. We got home in good time, and now Yami is finishing up our gumbo for dinner.

And the only writing I got done today was this post. I'm gonna just roll with this as my words for today, eat dinner, and probably crash in a bit. Later.

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So, worked on a few different stories today for my word count goals.

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Total count for the year is now standing at 8,380 words. Nice little bit of a buffer.

As for work and the weather, I didn't make it in today because the car was completely frozen up; apparently the wet froze overnight and I wasn't able to get the doors to open until 3 in the afternoon. I was supposed to be in at 1, but that's okay because the store closed at 5. Tomorrow, however, I was scheduled to be in at 9:45 to work until 4:30. I got a call around 6 saying that the store isn't opening until noon and to come in at 11:45 instead.

So, yeah. What a weekend!

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And now, the daily word count update!

January 6
Home (part of Shelter): 959 words

That puts my official count at 6,718. Not as high as I'd like it to be, but still a bit of a buffer.

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It's a day late, but I'd like to wish anyone whose still sticking around for updates a bright and happy new year.

Here's hoping that 2017 doesn't decide to outdo 2016 with high-profile deaths...

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So, anyone who follows my Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr accounts probably knows by now that I am in the process of being evicted from the apartment complex in Decatur where I live for another three days. Those folks also probably know that we have found a new place to live in Roswell, which is where we are moving in three days' time.

What you may not be aware of, however, is that we have a couple of GoFundMe sites set up to aid with moving expenses and February rent.

So please, help out by either offering a donation or boosting the signal. The initial New Home page is located here, and the Move-In Expenses site is located here.

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For those who may remember me posting a quick little, for-me-really knitting reference last year sometime, I've since completed the initial mitts. Sadly, I never did get a thumb sleeve done for them, but apollymi seems to love them anyway.

I have since knitted a pair of shorter mitts using k2p1 ribbing at top and bottom with moss stitch for the main body that are slated to go to my baby sister sooner rather than later, a pair of six-inch mitts done in mainly k1p2 ribbing with a one-inch section of seed stitch for myself, and am in the process of making a second pair of the seed stitch mitts for Yami. Mind you, I am still in the stage of making things for myself, friends, and family as I try to get not-sucky at this because I have a goal.

That goal is to set up my Etsy shop to sell hand-knitted items, and I want to not sell shoddy work.

And that, my lovelies, is my ramble for today.

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So, yeah. I'm gonna make the valid attempt to actually make some goddamn posts this year. The goal is not a daily post (because I'm too flaky for that to last for more than a month tops), but at least one weekly update. So here goes with that.

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As for other issues, I don't feel much like talking on 'em at the moment. I just needed to get some of this out, and I'm pretty okay with that.

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This one's gonna be a bit scant, as I realize that I've spent more time posting things on my Tumblr page than here on DreamWidth this year. Probably how I didn't realize my paid account had expired, too. Oops. Promise to do better next year.

Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2012. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review".

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So... that was terribly pathetic. Meaning that I'm about to do the same thing again but with my Tumblr posts!

For those unfamiliar with the formating, anything indented on the following means I reblogged from someone else; in the events where it was a long chain I'm only noting the originator of the thread.

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See, much more content!

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So, yeah, apparently I'm still breathing and all. Yay!

For those folk who have apollymi friended as well and can read her posts, you likely know that around 14 August I had a little accident at work that resulted in a broken right pinky. This left me in a splint (more like a soft cast because they wound up wrapping the pinky and ring finger and only left my thumb, index and middle fingers free) for about three weeks: an initial cast at the emergency room the night the accident happened and a new splint at the clinic for follow-up the following week. I should have had a second exam in there somewhere but my appointment was canceled the day before Dragon*con so I wound up in that second splint for two full weeks. The casts are all off now, and I had my last follow-up appointment this past Thursday. Worker's comp is covering my expenses there, and supposedly I'll be getting reimbursed for the days I missed work (a double that Friday which would have been around 8 hours, a 5 hour Saturday dinner shift, and a 4 hour Sunday brunch shift) but we'll see where that's concerned.

Mostly, I wanted to make a post today to let everyone know I'm still out there in the world.

Also, for my own reference, I'm putting notes for my current knitting project behind the cut tag.

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So, yeah. I have an idea or two for Camp this year:

Idea One: A story that follows a morally dark main character. I cannot say "protagonist" if the guy/girl/creature/whathaveyou enjoys wicked activities, right?

Idea Two: Supernatural/Teen Wolf universe fusion wherein I shuffle two story/timelines accordingly so that the Apocalypse was averted, Dean didn't know Sam was back for something like nine or ten years, and oh yeah, did I mention the part where Dean Winchester = Sheriff Stilinski and he took Claudia's name and she was already pregnant when they met? Stiles' Stilesness is all from him momma.

And... that's all I got right now. Need to start out the door to catch the bus for work.

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