As the laundry piles up Wow, I need to read the news more often! I checked thestar.com this morning, and see that there’s been riots in Paris France since October 27th, and that’s the first I’d heard of it! I just don’t have time to read newspapers since I started working, and I don’t listen to the radio when I’m driving to work, because the reception is very poor and all staticky, I usually listen to CDs. So Paris has been burning for 11 days, and I didn’t even know about it. Weird.

I just checked my month end statement for Watkins, I should be receiving my check from them this week, for $104 :-) Not bad for just a couple hours of work. Most of that is my downline bonus actually. It’ll come in handy for Christmas gift shopping that’s for sure! Hopefully my November will do just as well or better!

Last night at work, our district manager called to tell me that she’s transferring me to the Morganton studio, and I will be working next week Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Mon, Tues! Sunday off because we had been planning for months and months to go to Renn Faire, and Sunday is the last day. Should be a nice paycheck at least, all that overtime. Then I have Wednesdays and Thursdays off, rather than Mondays and Tuesdays. I’m sad to leave Jane at the Conover studio, she’s very easy to work with, and we got on well and were becoming friends. I only hope I get on as well with Dawn. The only thing a bit nerve wracking, is that I will be working alone on Mondays and Tuesdays now, which means I will be both photographer and sales person! I’ve had all of maybe 3 hours of training on the camera so far, and 2 hours of that was just playing with stuffed animals and toy dolls! I sure hope Dawn has time to train me some more before they leave me to my own devices!

At least I won’t be using over $60 worth of gas per week anymore, the Morganton studio is only 5 minutes away, rather than 30 miles!

I really have to wonder how this company has stayed in business as long as they have, if my experience with them is any indication of how the business is run! It may just be this district of course, but holy cats! One good thing tho is that other than daily browbeating voice messages from management, we’re pretty much left alone in the studios. Both a good and bad thing. Ah well, we all have our faults I guess eh?

James and I are taking the dogs to Jane to have our pictures done on Wednesday 16th. We’re taking them to PetSmart for grooming first tho, they’re both filthy from being outside all the time now. And George has turned orange. The perils of living in North Carolina with the red clay dirt! Not only the dogs turn orange, but so to socks, because no matter how often I vacuum, the floors and rugs are still stained with it. I think I will just go get some new area rugs. Brown or orange, so the dirt doesn’t show. And dye all our socks Carolina dirt colour. ;-)

I’m sitting here rather impatiently for my Watkins order. They had a clearance sale last week and I bought up a bunch of stuff. Most of it is discontinued items that they still had in stock, and some is stuff that the labels have changed so they’re selling the old stuff. I’m looking forward to the warm ginger bath set, the chocolate chai, and the cinnamon cocoa :-) It should be here today I hope, but the FedEx tracker says its still in Charlotte. Its been there for 3 days now :-p

Only 46 shopping days left til Christmas, can you believe it? Where has this year gone? Most everyone will be getting pictures, in case you’re wondering ;-) My Mum keeps bugging me to keep sending pictures, and I figured since I have a 50% discount at Olan Mills, I might as well have some made. Which reminds me, I should see what their on-line coupon is this week and print that. I need a bunch of pictures! I figure Mum will want a big one for home, a small one for her desk at work, and one for her wallet. Sister dear will get one, plus a couple of wallets, one to stick on her fridge so AJ can play with it with his other magnets, and Aunts, and friends and Grandmother, and that’s not even counting the American family here in Morganton yet! Who probably don’t care one way or the other about pictures, but that’s what they’re getting anyway :-p And yes, I know they’re all reading this and now they know what they’re getting for Christmas, but that’s ok. I will also send some other things that they won’t know until they open it! Mum will probably do the same as she did last year, and open it as soon as its delivered. Which I think was 2 weeks before the holiday. You’d think she was 2! LOL!

Ugh…I have so much household stuff to do and catch up on. This working for a living really sucks ya know! Especially those 10 hour days when I get home and can’t do anything but flop! Saturdays and Sundays are particularly busy, with non-stop stream of people, and barely even a chance to breathe, let alone go pee! It’s a bit much, but it’s a paycheck, and will all slow down in January. When I’ll probably be laid off because there’s not enough work to keep us all busy. *groan*

Well, back to doing laundry!  ¶ 12:01 PM