I'm so tired and hurting a lot. I got up this morning before 4. It's no use lying there, I'll never get to sleep again.
I'm trying to do some work on my store but I'm finding the hardest thing is making a decision. Once I could ever do that I could proceed. There are so many items I need to list online for sale; I'm frustrated with eBay. The store aspect just doesn't show my items very good. Auctions get first place. But the fees are so much higher with auctions at 75¢ vs. 6¢. I've been looking at free stores and am scared that doing all the work necessary to load the items will be a waste of time since ebay gets all the traffic. What's a gal to do? I'm spending a lot of time researching what other people are going through, that's what. Finding out what works and what doesn't.
I enjoy my ecrater store and other than having to load photos one at a time it's pretty easy to work with. The photos take the longest - you don't have enough time to go do something else while they load so you pretty much sit here and wait. I usually have 4-6 photos on each listing.
Work at church yesterday was intense towards the last part of the day. Lately I've had to do some Bible verse research, which I like doing. But yesterday I had to go online and look up about 15 different sections (I'm talking multiple verses for each entry). And I had to get multiple interpretations for each one. Then put them into a document with space between each section for comments and discussion notes.
When I finally got done with that I had to copy 2 entire 90 page sections from a huge book and then turn the single sided copies into a set of double sided copy, making multiple copies for several users. Twice. Boy was I tired from standing at the copy machine. My back was hurting so much I had to sit a couple of times and this is all in the front office. Bummer.
THEN I had to run around like a chicken looking for tableclothes. No one is organized around there and everything is just crammed into whatever space you can find. I told my boss I was going to go buy tableclothes, round and rectangle, place settings for 12, cups, napkins, bowls (which we never did find) etc. and keep it all in my office for church use and forget hunting for stuff in the school.
I didn't leave work until around 6pm. I went straight to bed (which may account for me getting up so early any more).
This week I also went to see Dr. Barr. I'm scheduled for an MRI on the 22nd. She wants me to do the prolotherapy. She'll give the expensive, uninsured set of proceedures in exchange for a cookbook of her mother and grandmother's recipes which have been entrusted into my care. Can't wait for this one to start - it's an irritant injected to make your own body try to heal itself from the inside. And I've been warned it will be uncomfortable for several days each time. Great for my work, since I don't get 2 days off in a row any time.
This last set of cookbooks has been a bear to have done. So far we've driven about 150 miles just going back and forth. We took them in, we went back to pick them up. We took them back because they had been screwed up with no page numbers and messed up margins that threw everything off. Then we went back this week to get them again and guess what!? They were screwed up again! This time the page numbers were in there but when was the last time 2 followed 9? There was another customer there who was trying to get a screwup fixed as well so it's not just us. The girl was making all kinds of excuses for not proofing the books. We ended up calling the original office we'd used for the first 50 books and if the books aren't right this time we'll have to go to Pembroke and get them done once more. In the meantime we've gotten orders for more books.
The highlight of my week was the fact that Dr. Barr gave the ok for me to do the Contours Express exercises. I went there Thursday on my day off and signed up. I am so excited and looking forward to going there. I met a lady there the other day who "guaranteed" that she was the oldest one there. She thot so - She's only 54! We'll they all exclaimed how I don't look my age and Claire learned not to be so quick to think of herself as an old lady. Claire tries to go everyday and has lost a lot of weight, starting out at 5'2" and about 225 lbs. She said she's in size 12 jeans now. She was very encouraging to say the least!
I consider going there to be like medicine to get well. I have to get this extra weight off my joints before I don't have any joints left to worry about.
We'll get 'em sooner or later. And sooner or later I'll go take a nap, and sooner or later I won't be worried about a store or work. I'm gonna be on Danny's boat that he's always talking about.
