Copying my cousin Amber

My cousin Amber did this so I thought it would be a fun thing to do since I'm trying to procrastinate until John gets home this evening

My day (well yesterday)

7:30 am: Alarm goes off, reset it for 8 am.

7:45 Johns alarm goes off, I forgot he had a late start at work.

8:15 Am, Pound on bathroom door. John has been in there since 7:50am. He thought I had the day off. I really gotta potty.

8:45 Am: both of us out the door to work.

9:05 am: Arrive at work. Lots of traffic today

9:08am: Walk into break room, get apron out of locker, set out my drinks for the day, talk to several other associates and cashiers, talk to fellow Head Cashier about coverage (or lack there of)

9:25am: clock in and walk to the front end. Great customers on the way. Stop at warboard to find out what im covering. Get Till, do two manager approvals, sign 5 pk and sign off on a strip

9:37: head to the returns desk

9:40: tell Choua she can count out her till and go home. Jot down notes on things she thinks we all need to discuss at cashier meeting on Sunday. Grant 4 returns, Log attempt 2 returns, RTV 26 items and get Choua out the door before her 5th hour.

10:45: Pull everything out of the drawers and off the shelves and clean the ENTIRE returns desk. By 11 the knees of my pants, both my hands and a good portion of my face is completly black.

11:30: Fellow HC Maryann comes to give me a break, says we have a call out, and tells me she is already 3 breaks behind. Leave for break, call John to see how his day is going, Call mom to see how her day is going, Call John's mom to see how her day is going.

11:43. Return from break

12:15: Michael our lot associate comes to me to let me know that he found a dead snake in the parking lot and to find out if he should throw it in the compactor or if we need to do something else with it. Call MOD Hannah to find out what to do with dead snake. She says to make sure it is dead first and if it is to throw it in the compactor. If not, call animal control.

12:20: walk with Michael out to the parking lot to see if snake is really dead. It is, so Michael takes care of it while I go to special services to do an approval and a markdown

1:10: Maryann comes to tell me that her and I are both schedualed for lunch at the same time. We have to have one HC on the floor at all times so one of us is going to have to go to lunch a little early and one of us will go a little later. I go to lunch

1:47: Return to returns from lunch. Maryann goes to lunch.

2:05: Its slow, so I stand and great customers, make a list of things I want discussed at our meeting and joke around with people from other departments that walk by.

3pm Everyone and their brother shows up to return stuff

4:45: Rush is over, Returns desk is a mess, begin pussing back go backs, sweeping, whipe down counters and go to last break

6pm: head home

6:10: walk in and say hi to john help him with dinner and start playing the wii

6:30 stop playing wii so we can eat dinner. Relax and talk to John. Watch a little tv and catch up on e-mail.

10:15: shower

11:30 bed time!!!!

Two weeks!

As of today John and I have been married for two weeks! We're both still so excited and happy! It makes me laugh because when you have a birthday everyone asks if you feel older, and the answer is always no. But when people have asked me if I feel different now that Im married, I have to say yes! Its a wonderful feeling going from "girlfriend" and "fiance' " to Wife. I never could have imagined that I would be this happy, and I feel like I have coat hanger stuck in my mouth from smiling so much lol.

We're doing great. We've started looking for a bigger apartment since we got home. I came to the realization while unloading our gifts (which I still havent finished doing because I'm a slacker) that we have no room to put anything! We will probably stay in the apartment that we are in for at least 6 more months, but its fun to look anyways!

At the moment Im lying in bed while John and our two cats slowly take it back over. This is a common occurance around here lol.

The calm after the storm

Just a quick update for everyone. Were back in Fresno, the wedding rocked, the honeymoon= not so much, but I'll go in to more details later. As soon as I have some good pictures to put up I'll bore you all to death lol. Thanks to all the family and friends who were able to show up! We loved having you there and we both wish we would have gotten just a little more time with each of you. Hopefully pictures will be up in the next week or so. If you would like to see a sneak peek, head on over to to our photographer's website by clicking here. Come on! I know you want to. Just click on the link for her blog and start scrolling down. You cant miss us. Hope you all enjoy and I'll yack at you again soon!

Mrs. Thornton