Best of luck!

No time to go shopping sadly. But still had a good day.

We're having cold and wet weather as well - but we do need the rain, too, it has been pretty dry lately.

Pretty windy, too. Yesterday, I came to work to find my boss without his usual cap, which looked just odd - later, my colleague told me it got blown away by the wind and he wasn't able to find it again.
A couple of hours later, the ladyboss (his wife) came into the shop carrying the cap. "What's [the boss]'s cap doing on the compost heap?" she asked me, and I told her it had gotten blown away. "Oh," she said, "and I was wondering why he'd throw it away on the compost heap."
I still crack up every time I think about that!

Hm, maybe I should really start writing down these little anectotes. I often have one or two in a day (sometimes funny, sometimes frustrating). Sometimes I remember to post them here (or on my blog), but I probably forget a lot of them.

Oh, remembered another moment when the ladyboss made me laugh:
We'd been talking to the Whistler, one of our regulars, an older guy I really dislike because he apparently can't say what he wants without putting his arm around me. So now I always keep a distance of a couple of steps. Anyway, I don't even remember what we were talking about, but he was as annoyingly chummy as usual. Then he left, and as soon as he was out the door, the ladyboss muttered, "Jerk."
Ah, I love having bosses who know the customer is not always right.

To be honest, I like the Whistler less than Mr Moustache, because I don't have to worry about seeing the Whistler anywhere other than at work.
(And have I ever mentioned that I love giving nicknames to my customers? They're so much easier to deal with if you're silently calling them things like Mrs Rude, Mrs Whine and Mrs Haggle!)

Sister lives in CA, she always has very tasty chilled teas in her fridge. I'll ask her which brands they are ... Be back on that tomorrow.

Sorry, I won't take that bet!

There I thought my morning sucked because I was late again (20 min this time)... and then I got to work to find two police cars there - the nursery was broken into last night. Luckily, they didn't take anything (there was only the change drawer, and apparently that was not enough money to bother taking), but they broke every single lock and cut plastic foil of one of the greenhouse side vents - it's like they had a race to see who could get in first.

Ad1tu, I think it's easier to kill a cactus by forgetting to water it than something that needs to be watered often - a cactus needs water so infrequently that you never get into the habit of watering it, while with something that needs water more often, you get used to having to check on it (although it helps to have it in a prominent location, and use a plant that looks very dramatically wilted when it gets too dry). For me, checking on my balcony is as much part of my morning routine as brushing my teeth.
But then, as I said, I'm an obsessed gardener. ;) I don't mean to push you to start growing your own herbs... just saying that killing or not killing plants isn't a matter of talent so much as of habit.

Egads! Glad everyone is ok and that the break-in happened at night. Stuff like that is scary.

I feel like I would enjoy landscaping a house (if I ever own one). Taking care of shrubbery, planting new flowers each spring, seeing daffodils come up year after year, mulching. So I can't say as I'd be totally opposed to "gardening" but rather I can't do it with our current set up. Maybe someday!
But for now, the stores shall profit from me visiting the produce section and the tea and spice aisles... :)

Edited for poor grammar :(

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Oh, I lied, that conversation didn't happen. I just had people walk over, talk stuff off my desk, and put it back in a different spot. Without saying a word to me. While I was sitting here. ... I'm not sure which would be worse...

Also, apparently it Grumpy / Complainy Wednesday. Why am I surrounded by these people...

So what happened was: Our small business uses Quickbooks for it's accounting software, but in the past year or two, we've really grown beyond it's capacities. We just do a lot of transactions, hundreds a day. Quickbooks recommends that your company file be no bigger than 300MB. Our file is over 750MB. This makes the system incredibly slow, which in itself is not a huge issue (for everyone except my one coworker...) however we may or may not have obtained the incorrect version a number of years ago, thus causing corrupt data issues when we got an updated version a couple years ago, and still causing issues today. Because we keep everything ever. So my manager decided last night, after everyone left, to try and run some kind of condense, to make the company file smaller and hopefully alleviate some issues. This did not work, as apparently there is a box that pops up asking you for a response and you must click a button, otherwise it does not continue. She is trying to run it again, and hopefully it will work, but there's no guarentees. Worst case scenario: We build a new company file from the ground up. This would be an immense project, as we have thousands of customers and thousands of vendors. Coworker B basically told manager "Well you have fun with that, staying all night to enter data, I'm not doing that." To which manager replied, "If it happens, which I'm not sure yet if we will need to do that or not, it is mandatory." Coworker B said, "Well isn't that what we have IT people for?" Really? You're expecting someone in a completely different department to do YOUR job because YOU don't want to? You are the person who gets grumpy when someone else even hints at potentially doing 1 invoice (her job) but now you're too good for re-entry? (She has also complained, as I type this, that oh noes, she got 6 emails at once! It's the end of the world!!! Please... you're surrounded by people who get dozes of email an hour, shut up about your freaking 6.)

Now I'm grumpy! Thanks guys! Gah...

Oh, and people who want me to do some garden-care work for them should give me a number where I can actually reach them, instead of just getting a "sorry, we're on holiday" message. *shrug* Well, she has my number, so she can call me, and if not, well, not my fault.

Eep, I think I forgot to label the flat of seeds I sowed at work yesterday - I hope I'll remember to check tomorrow, and label it before I forget what it was!

I hope it won't rain tomorrow afternoon - got the chance to earn some extra money by doing some garden-care work for a customer, and rain would make that rather unpleasant.
Then again, I don't really want to work at all right now... I'd rather stay home and read.

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