First Thoughts on a Fourth First Day

Today was my fourth first day of work.

First first day off the Front.

Second first day I wasn't a bag of nerves.

Third first day in a different uniform.

Fourth first day with the same company.

I'm such a winner.

Fourth first day was a smash hit I'd like to think. I'm enjoying the department so far and time flies by as opposed to drags by like it did on the Front. I'm finally learning something new which makes my brain happy. It's a bit of a new challenge, I'm not doing something I've done for 8 years. I've stocked before but never perishable.

Some general first impressions of the new store are: Holy shit are there a TON of adorable old men who work there I just want to give a hug to. The break room smells of cats. The cooler is HUGE! The bailer is super quite compared to all the others I've used. I'm a bit of an idiot when it comes to the product since I don't eat any of it.

Also a plus for the day? I got to partially check something off my grocery store bucket list. I finally got to (help) make a cardboard bail. It was everything I hoped it would be which was really nothing special but still oddly fun.

Yeah, I do have a little bucket list for the store. They mainly are weird little things like mastering the power pallet jack, shrink wrapping a a pallet of milk crates or something similar by running full speed around it and the piece de resistance: tackling a shoplifter to the ground and then standing up and yell "Dat's what you GET!" while pointing at the thief. If I could tackle a shoplifter I could tooootally call it quits. I think that's what I'm waiting for. I want to take a stealer down.

It's only been the one day at the new store and already I know it's lacking something. Something important: someone to creep on. My days are going to be a lot more boring if I don't have that it add variety to my day. And also Tech Man will no longer show up in my department. Damnit, what am I to do without the eye candy? Or just candy in general? I miss the candy bowl! I need cannnnndy!

Shoot. Now I miss old store a whole lot.

Must think happy thoughts. Can't get sad now. It's too late for that!

In other news...nope there isn't any. I could go on about Addisyn a little bit but I'll refrain.

Oh wait what's that? You want to hear my proud auntie gushing? Oh, you convinced me.

I know I always say it but goodness is she getting smart.

I'd hope so since, you know, she's growing and getting smarter is important but it's just so fascinating to see the changes.

I love how you can reason with her now and while it may come across more as bribery at times, it shows that she can comprehend a request or demand and understand the consequnces.

Take the other day for example she was playing on the swing set and decided to take her shoes off. I told her no, no. If you want to play on the swing set you have to keep the shoes on. She went ahead and took them off, ran away from to the back of it and started to climb up so I pulled her down and told her nope. No shoes no swing set. She looked at me, looked down and asked "Where my shoooes go?!" and then proceeded to run to where she ditched them when I told her she knew exactly where they were. She's so silly sometimes.

I have also trained her, I should probably say taught her, that if she wants something and I say "pay the toll!" she has to give me a kiss. Yup. I will trick her into giving me baby kisses.

She likes to play puppy and sometimes she'll hold on to something in her mouth like a dog and bark while you try to yank it out. Sometimes she decides to put something not safe in her mouth and if a few "puppy drop it! puppy let go!" doesn't get it out I'll give her a "puppy want a time out?" and then she'll drop it. It probably isn't the best thing to threaten but eh. It gets the job done.

It's sad. It's 9 and I need to go to bed soon since I have to get up at a god awful time. Ok 530 isn't terrible. I'm just a complainer.