Oh it's been a long time and oh so much has changed in ten days. Andy has moved on to his round the 'merica trip with lots of friends and family. Miles P. is with his mom. Ayano is officially off my radar screen. I'm deploying. FNNR is going to be leaving for a month back to the states.
I'll spare the details of Andy leaving. Well, maybe not. His leaving wasn't anything remarkable; he flew out on an airplane like the rest of us. I think, though, he flew out of some smog cloud of doubt, hassle, worry, and uncertainty and he is flying into a brand new clean clear white future. Here's to Andy creating the future he wants~
FNNR is dealing with the possible oncoming death of a loved one. She's not the most responsible person in the world and it's becoming evident in creating of travel plans. I only mention that because it's taking a toll on me. I'll spare the details of that too. Sometimes being empathic is A*W*E*S*O*M*E!
Miles P. came by to see me today. He's healthy and doing good. What more could one Aunt B want? Oh yeah, to go see the Muppets with him this weekend! Yeah!! Whenever he comes to see me at work I usually drop down to one knee to be at his level so we can talk boy to aunt. Today he drops down to one knee with me so we can have some serious talking over why the bouncy castle outside the BX costs money to get in and how he didn't save any of his Christmas money to get in. It was serious business. I'm smitten.
Oh yeah, and I'm going to Afghanistan leaving sometime in the middle to mid-March. The time is certain, but the final location is not. It's 98% sure. This is a voluntary choice of mine and I'm very excited to go. I will be working with an old boss of mine and am looking forward to that immensely. From what Ty was telling me when he was there the base is relatively safe and "modernized." I'll be the judge of that when I get there. The "trip" conveniently falls in between classes so I'm still on track with school.
Which is funny because I'm severely behind on where I should be with this paper. I should be well into designing a research design and have most of my research done. I have SOME research done but haven't really read it to know how useable it is to my thesis. I'm a good researcher (right Mom?) but I'm just not into it.
AND it's inventory time at the BX so guess what all my spare time has been devoted to? Does everything have tags? Is everything scanning? Don't move fixtures, don't have empty fixtures, don't put stuff there, keep that here... and then customers who are asking when we are going to have an additional clearance sale when the majority of my clothing is already marked down 75%... Seriously, how cheap can you be?
And let me just say this to those with children - if you're reading this then you're my friend and by that fact alone you wouldn't do this but pass it on - just because you can deal/tolerate/have gotten used to your child's fits/tantrums/crying/whining doesn't mean the rest of the public has. Nothing in the ladies department is more important than taking your child home for a nap or food. Shopping with an unruly child cannot be pleasant, so why make EVERYONE suffer? And don't let your kids play in the fixtures. It's dangerous, tags fall off clothes, and then the clothes fall to the ground. How many kids have picked up after themselves? None. And so help me if your kid is the one that said to me "We're not playing" after I told him and his friend to stop playing around after I caught them low-crawling and pretending to be army guys. I had to restrain myself from slapping this kid.
I'm going to bed. I have to be up early. Like 7 o'clock early. Gross.
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