Oh my, it’s been such a long time since I posted anything. It’s been a month since I’ve been on this
computer. I finally was able to get on
here today and clear out some of the 5500+ emails. It’s definitely time for an update. I hope you’re well and doing great.
I’ve had my share of trials lately. It’s far too much for one post, but let me
say I had some eye surgery so was down quite a while from that. I took a total of twelve days off work when I
was intending to take four. Things ended
up being a much bigger ordeal than I was anticipating. I’ve spent hours and hours icing my
face. For the first two weeks all I did
was ice twelve hours a day. You can only
imagine how old that can get. Now its been
a month and I still have swelling and some bruises remaining, so I got permission
to wear sunglasses to work until that subsides.
At least the original goal of fixing my runny eyes was
accomplished. I don’t know when things
will really be back to normal in that whole eye department. My eyes are so sore and somewhat numb in
places. I’ll fill you in with more details
in a separate post later.
My hubby caught the worst cold at work, or so we thought. He brought it home to me. I wasn’t at work two days when I was home
again, this time with the flu and pneumonia.
After another week off I’m finally back at work again. Hopefully, this is the last pitfall for a
while. I’m so tired of being sick. But so many people are out with this and some
have ended up in the hospital, so thankfully that didn’t happen to me.
I’m thankful that our new boss is working with me and all my
problems. Yes, we got a new boss while I
was out having my eye surgery. Everything
at work has changed and not necessarily for the better. But as we all know,
change is difficult when things have been done certain ways for years. Apparently, the old way was the wrong way to
do it. Everyone is going through a
learning curve. Plus, we have to get to
know the new boss and she has to get to know us.
It’s so good to be back at work, even with all the changes and
things we must learn a new way. At least
I’ve been able to stay out of the coolers and deli area at work, which I’m very
thankful for. I always strive to do the
best job I can do with whatever my demo happens to be for the day, but I was
totally beside myself with the one I had yesterday. I had never done it before, but that’s okay
because it’s fun to do something new once in a while. However, I was having anything but fun with
this one. Number one, I’m not a very
good pancake maker but it’s a real challenge to make them in a dry pan with no
oil. Several of our workers tried to
help me out, but the pancakes also stuck for them. I found out it wasn’t just me. I almost made myself sick over this ordeal because
presentation means a lot to me.
I finally closed down my demo and put everything under my
cart and turned it to the display rack because I needed to go back to the
office to see if I could please get some oil for my pan. Of course the answer was no. “It’s a non-stick pan so you don’t need any
oil,” I was told. So I was left with two
choices – bring my cart to the back and check out and go home – or figure out
how to make it work with no oil. To say
I was angry wouldn’t even express my feelings.
Why didn’t she just throw me in the dungeon and beat me with
chains?
But this is one of the instances when my stubbornness pays
off because I rarely let anything get the best of me, no matter how difficult
and “hair pulling” the situation is. I
could have had a good blood-curdling scream, though that wasn’t an option. I took some deep breaths, boiled out my pan,
which had pancake goo all over it. These
things didn’t look like pancakes, but by the time I cut them up and put them in
sample cups and put on some syrup people seemed to like it. And they didn’t look nearly as bad as the heaps
in the pan. I was afraid I would pull
the handle right off that skillet before the day was out. I had to scrape it hard to get those pancakes
turned over. Eventually, I calmed down
when I realized I just had to stop giving a damn about how they looked and keep
on cooking and scraping the pan until the torture of that day was behind me.
I needed today off to cool off and be ready for whatever bombshell
awaits me tomorrow. I really hope my
name is way down the list for those pancakes.
I’m going in full of optimism like I try to do every day, but I long for
the old days when we could find out what our demo for the next day was. You know sometimes it’s helpful if I find it’s
something new and I want to google some ideas, or history on the product ahead
of time. But that probably won’t be happening
much, if any, in the future. I think the
new boss likes to surprise us.
