Jul 31 2006
Fastest Shower in the West
Ok, I may not have set any world records, but I have so got to stop oversleeping. I have 2 clocks set up - one next to my bed and one in the bathroom, the second one with the idea that the first thing I do is get up and pee. But lately I’ve been turning off both alarms and resetting the 1st one to a later time, then when that goes off turning it off again until I finally wake up 1/2 hour before I’m due at work, yelling “Shit!” then rush around getting ready in a half asleep stupor, forgetting half the things I’m supposed to do or meant to bring to work. So that’s my next goal - to have a little self-discipline when I get up in the morning. I’m getting a handle on the financial stuff, so now to work on the time stuff.
Yesterday was super busy at the store. Besides a boatload of shipment that we were trying to work, we did double what our sales plan was for the day, and that was with a selection of shoes at 80% off. I picked up an extra half hour just to help clean up because the store was trashed way more than usual (I think it was slob shopping day) plus we have corporate visitors in this week. There was still more that I wanted to get done but Shoe Boss threw me out. I hope she didn’t stay too late, because she’s well known for being there 2 hours after closing.
I also had a nice little suprise at work yesterday. In June we had a sales contest to see who could have the highest percentage of handbag sales. I won! It was effortless, really - I worked Memorial Day weekend when we had a great selection of 80% off handbags, so they sold themselves, really. Then I followed up the month of June with weeknights when I didn’t sell much of anything at all, so my win was all based on those 2 days when I would rather have been unpacking, since, if you remember, I had just moved. Anyhoo, I won $20 and it finally appeared in my locker yesterday. It came in pretty handy too, because I forgot to bring work snacks with me yesterday (yes, I overslept). It will also come in handy today because I never got around to making my salad for the week, therefore I have no lunch today.
So here’s the spending breakdown for yesterday:
$15 - offering at church
$3.60 - lunch
$20 GAINED!
$4.49 - mall snacks (mall food not cheap!)
Today it’s just me and Time-Flying Dudette in the office, since Mad Scientist is on a church mission trip, Colorful Texan is on vacation, and Pretty Lady Dammit has a monster migraine. Fun day today, hopefully I’ll be able to get a nap in.
Well, I think that’s great that you won, but I think that you should try going to bed earlier, if not try a nice Frappichino in the morning -Every once in a while- not every day. Then you just rely on the coffee. If you have the two alarms, try setting them earlier, so when you do finally wake up from them, it’s actually still kind of early. Or maybe you can change the time on them ahead 30 minutes or so. So when your ‘30 minutes till work starts’ your actually one hour from work. IDK this is just previous recommended stuff I know. Good luck!
-Tiger
P.S. Again - great job on winning that.
Um, thanks for visiting, Tiger. I was surprised to see a non-spam comment from a post I wrote 18 months ago. And thanks for the tips on how to wake up. Unfortunately, I sleep like the dead and am too clever to trick myself with the clock like that, so I just need to have more willpower. And I hate coffee, so that doesn’t work either.