December 1, 2011

Can you believe it is already December…we will be saying good-bye to 2011 and hello to 2012 very shortly.   Hope you have all been making your Christmas lists and checking them twice for Santa…you gotta believe.  And what about black Friday and cyber Monday?  Did everyone get the bargains they were looking for?  We decided that until the retailers starting including diesel, food and insurance in their holiday sales there was not one thing we needed.  Flying J, Kroger, AARP…do you hear me???????

We have started the push at Amazon.com…we have started working 11 hour days, rather nights, and have also added one more day to the work week so we are putting in 60 hours a week…well, I am trying.  We are “scheduled” (this is Amazon.com speak for mandatory) to work 50 hours this week with another 10 hours optional.  Also Amazon.com won’t let us work more than 6 days in a row…isn’t that special.  I wish you could see the Amazon.com distribution center that we work at…they have one million square feet…the original building belonged to Golden Books.  I will certainly be glad when December 24 rolls around and we exit the building for the last time but there are things we will miss.  Our little group that sits together for breaks and lunch is so much fun…we do laugh a lot.  We are all pickers and love to find out what interesting items we have each picked for customer orders…believe me you can get ANYTHING at Amazon.com…ANYTHING.  So much for work.

We had a great Thanksgiving…we actually caught a break and did not have to go in to work until 10:30 pm.  That gave us enough time to have a lovely Thanksgiving dinner with friends Dan and Rita.  Rita brought the turkey and pumpkin pie and I provided the rest.  Everything was so good…especially being able to enjoy our time with good friends…we met Rita and Dan at Adventureland in 2005 and have seen each other at least once a year since then.  Last year we had Thanksgiving dinner at their place…I think it is a great tradition.

 

Weather has turned cold at night…Bob has had to scrape ice from our windshield when we got off of work at 4:30 am a couple of times…lowest has been 18 degrees one night but the days are just beautiful.

Moving on.