*peeks in*

I might actually have bell peppers this year! (In other words I have a couple of seedlings.) I'll probably take pictures again soon.

Back home from our Easter visits, which were fun, but I'm tired now. And I don't really want to go to work again tomorrow. Can't I have an extra day to go on a forest hike? (Yeah, I know, it's not that late yet, and it's sunny, I could still go today, but ... meh. I'm just too tired.)

I have only myself to blame for eating so much cake and candy I felt kind of sick when I came home - we didn't visit my mother's family this year, so no Grandma offering cake at every opportunity (and no too-sweet chocolate bunnies, yay!) The only one who tried to feed me chocolate was the two-year-old daughter of the friends we spent last night with - she wandered around the kitchen most of the evening, offering us pieces of chocolate eggs... or spoons. We ended up with about a dozen spoons on the table that nobody even needed, just because it's apparently so much fun to take them out of the drawer.

I always have to grin when I think about that girl, or rather her name... both her parents are Austrian, but she has an Indian first and middle name and a Japanese last name - that's going to take some explaining when she starts school!

I've been telling my family not to give me Milka chocolate for years - it's much too sweet for me, and I just can't eat it. And I still get it, every Easter, every Christmas...
I don't usually buy sweets, but mostly because I'd rather save the money (and because I find thinking about all the additives and artificial crap in them kind of disgusting) and most of the time, I don't miss them, but once I start eating sweet things, I start wanting more and more and more... I was just getting over the cake from my cousin's wedding, and now it'll probably start all over again. Ah well, at least I don't need to worry about my weight.

There's no way I could ever cut back on fruit!
But then again, there's a lot of stuff I'd have a really hard time giving up, so I suppose I should be really grateful to my job for burning a lot of calories.

I'm going to ask this because I really don't know... Do seeds keep well? Like if you bought them now, would you be able to use them next year? I suppose it might depend on the plant. If they do keep, buy some now so you have them ready and planned in for next year!

Ad1tu wrote:

I'm going to ask this because I really don't know... Do seeds keep well? Like if you bought them now, would you be able to use them next year? I suppose it might depend on the plant. If they do keep, buy some now so you have them ready and planned in for next year!

They'd probably keep, but I don't think I'll have space for them next year, either - not until I run out of some varieties of morning glories (or move to somewhere with a bigger balcony/garden), and that'll take years.
Ah well. I'll just have to start another wishlist so I'll remember all the crazy stuff I'll have to buy when I have more space...

My work day was not very exhausting or interesting in any way, but very long - my regular eight hours, and then three hours of pruning in a customer's garden. Extra money is nice, but I won't take any more of these jobs in spring - there is just so much else to do at home, I simply do not have enough time.

*pops in*

Maen Mint!

I know we need rain, and it's useful and all, but why does it have to be so cold and wet?

One of my plants fell off the windowsill last night. Didn't even have time to clean it up until just now!

Well. I'd better get back to doing useful stuff. Tomorrow is medieval dance (yay!), so no time to do anything at all in the evening, and on Friday, probably more garden work for that customer. I don't think I'll do much more of it, I just don't have the time. Maybe one more day next week, depending on the weather... but then, pretty soon, I'll start working overtime at the nursery again, and then I'll definitely have no more time for anything else!

Oof.  Immediate boss is not here today, which is a mixed blessing. It's nice because she talks to herself a LOT while she works, not as much as coworker B (who is also out today yayyyy!) but enough to get irritating. She also doesn't know how to or can't talk quietly, so she'll tell the same story of what happened yesterday or something to 2, 3, 4 or more different people, and we alllll get to hear it repeated. It's bad because I actually have questions for her that need answers! One of which is regarding an employee's status which impacts whether or not he, you know, gets paid next week. Totally not important.

So immediate boss tried to do me a favor and remote in to her work computer from home to print off some invoices for me to bill before I got in so I would have something to do. Well, I can't find the invoices. So 1 of 3 things happened: (1) They didn't really print because of some bizarre networking issue, (2) She printed them to the printer that is out of toner, or (3) Someone stole them. Since they aren't trapped in the print queue for the printer that's out of toner, and nobody admits to seeing my invoices, and our IT guy says "Unless she did something wrong, they would've printed just fine", that means someone, somewhere, is lying. ... This is what really annoys me about this place, there is such a lack of willingness to take responsibility for screw-ups. I don't care if you took my invoices and cut them up into scrap paper or threw them in the recycle, but tell me! I don't care if you had a stupid morning brain and sent them to the wrong printer, but admit it could've happened! *sigh* Am I wrong to think this is what people should be doing? Or is the world really just a giant blame-game?

Immediate boss out again today. Apparently her cat is old and sick, and they have to put him down today. Sad. He was a nice cat, I met him once.

Waiting for them to reboot our inventory system so I can continue billing. I wish people would stop breaking things that work before they touch them...

*waves*

Just back from shopping. Three tshirts, a cardigan, a pair of shoes and a game have come back with me.

I just love having bosses who realize that the customer is not always right.
Today, we had one particularly annoying customer who first did not want to talk to me, only to the boss, because apparently anyone else is too stupid or something. A little insulting, but then, from what I overheard, I realized how stuck-up and fussy she was so I was quite glad I didn't have to talk to her. When she was gone, the boss came back into the greenhouse and told us, "You can't take her seriously - you'd just be grumpy all day." Made me laugh - what would Mrs Haughty say if she knew how we talk about her?
I always say, if some people knew how we talk about them when they're gone, they'd never dare to be go shopping again! For me, it's a big motivation to always be a polite and cheerful customer, even when I'd rather be impatient and grumpy.

And I was super-clumsy yesterday and hurt my thumb while plugging in my vacuum cleaner - my fingers slipped on the plug, and my thumb slammed against the socket so hard that it actually bled,  how silly is that? And it still hurts today, making it kind of hard to pick up small things or to write (because I can't hold a pen properly).