Many years ago, my ‘mother-in-law’ had a drawer in her kitchen where she’d keep treats such as chocolate, crisps, and suchlike. She used to call it her goody draw, though I used to think of it as the bad draw due to the calorific nature of said goods. I don’t have room in my kitchen for such a draw, so I started placing similar items into the foot stool. This is quite large and has a hinged lid that could easily trap unwittingly fingers that aren’t fast enough. It was the one item of furniture that the dog was allowed on (it was covered in a blanket) and as such, there was often very little in it in case of ‘accidents.’ This no longer applies, so now it’s become the bad footstool lol.

Work was okay last week with a mere one hours’ overtime, though I did work overtime on bank holiday Monday for more than 5 hours, so that’s good. I’m now off for 8 days. Fantastic!

The Monday was okay, not too busy, though at one point I had to leave the shop floor as I was close to tears. No, customers had been good, though I managed to catch my trolley on an end of aisle bollard, and the jarring of that, caused pain to shoot up my bad arm. OMG it hurt! I had to compose myself out the back, rub my arm, and wipe my moist eyes. A colleague offered to complete my pick which was nice of her, but I still had an hour to go so I manfully carried on once I’d composed myself. Afterwards, it didn’t hurt so I guess the pain meds I’m on did something. Mostly, I’m only taking one before work, and one at bedtime, though Monday I did take a second one. My sleep has been better which is good and in work I’m managing to get a better pick rate. I’d been picked up on it recently, and the one day I had a really good pick, I was in the Blue, and showed it to the supervisor and jokingly said: In your face, LMAO. She encouraged me and stated they don’t expect me to make the pick rate, though any improvement is good. To be honest, I was getting fed up with the small picks, and I find you walk more doing them as you’re back and forth too often.

During my time off, I had toyed with going down to South Wales though I doubt I will. Last time I visited, the house that’s available was grubby and I doubt that’s changed. The drive is arduous, especially with the pain in my shoulder and wrist, and don’t even get me started on the price of petrol! No, I shall just hang out at home, get some R&R, and maybe pop to the next town over to see if I can buy some new clothes. Our town is sparse where clothes shops are concerned.

After a real dearth of donuts, this week we were left donuts not once, but twice. I was bad and had one each time lol. Not much else going on. We’re going to treat ourselves to a takeaway curry during my time off – I have a mild one, and we have the makings of a cocktail to go with it. Nice!

Take care, be safe, and somebody please bring back the sunshine!