rallying

the holidays are finally over and there was a intermediate lull in my busy schedule. last weekend off allowed me time to rest and recover from long stretches at work, angry and impatient customers, and the increasingly negative vibe of my work peers. a beautiful weekend- lunch and cell phone shopping with Q2, some quality V time, and a nice night in with the boy.

now, it's back to the grind- double time due to inventory. it's a tremendously arduous, tedious process that requires meticulous planning and preparation. for the past couple weeks, i've been slowly but surely prepping my areas and before i knew it stockroom inventory had begun.

teaming up with MM and over the course of 8 hours of nonstop work- we made our way through one of the most difficult stockrooms, mostly because it was filled with thousands of pieces of small merchandise, much of which was without tickets or possibly discontinued. working like a team twice our size- we made sure that everything was labelled and accounted for.

i had started the morning with a mug of coffee and two energy drinks but still started to lag by early afternoon. a break with sher and tinyD helped was much needed relief before making a final push in the afternoon. around 7, MM and i surveyed our progress and left work, proud of our accomplishments for the day but exhausted.

with only 5 hours of sleep, i'm relying of caffeine to get me through another day of inventory.