8:57 p.m. - May 29, 2004
Camping, comments, and no sleep
Yesterday was the start of my week long vacation. However, it was not the way I wanted to 'start' a vacation.
Once a month, my store does a cator for a local engerinering lab and we make something like 400-500 market fresh sandwiches. This is commonly known as SEL. Since lunch for the lab is somewhere between 12 and 1, we need to have the food made and set up before then, not to mention take care of all the opening prep work for the store itself by 10:30.
To make time for all of this activity, during the school year, we start cranking out sandwiches at 6 am and work until the magic number of food has been met, clean up and head off to class. During the summer as a 'treat' we don't start until 7 am. HOWEVER, we started at 6 am on Friday.
This would have not been a big deal for me if I had managed to get the six hours of sleep I wanted Thrusday night that didn't happen. It was not until 4:30-5 that I finally started to drift off to sleep just in time to wake up, get dress and head off to work.
After SEL I did manage to work in a few hours of sleep and find some much needed caffeine to get me home to see the family. Which is what brings me todays entry. Yes, all of that for today.
My cousine Karri is in town camping with her family and brought her two kids ages six and three. I don't have the patents for small children and today was kind of pushing the envalop. Anyway, Tori (the 6 year old) was telling me that Uncle Mike (my cousine)does not have a 'Marry' or a girl to marry yet. She's six and sounded very sad about that. What surprised me the most, it was just some random comment. Oh well. Then later, she went on a bike ride with my mom and me. She asked me to push her on the swing and I did.
I told her I'm not very good at pushing people on swings and her reply, "You better get use to it." What?
She's very smart for her age and I can see her being one of those girls who has to know what is going on with everyone around her as she gets older. I will say this about the comments she made about both me and mike, she's very observant.
I have another day (I think?) to restrain myself from doing any harm to any small children. I think I have to make it to Monday, but we'll see.
Have I told you how much I don't care for camping? Well, I don't like camping. Probably would not bother me if we didn't tent camp and had not been flooded out a time or two (or ten) and I liked fishing, boating, being one with nature and the bugs/misquotos, but i don't care for any of it! So I spent the day, sitting at the camp site where my cousine and her family are staying at, freezing and trying to recover from the lack of sleep I missed on Friday and last night I might add.
I wish I was at my little apartment right now or could find a blank disk. I have this start of story going through my head and I want to write it down before I forget it. I take tha back, it would be more of a middle part, but something to build around.
Well, that's about all I have for today. I'll write more when I have something to say.
~*~Dream Dancer~*~
