Perpetual Ruminations

Saturday

I read a bit more on groups, but I'm not sure yet how to add items and do more in the group. I'm not sure what all I want to do yet, but I do have a couple of ideas to try out.

1) Writing prompts.
         Make a numbered list of writing ideas. Use the virtual dice to select an idea at random, and use it for an assignment in writing.

2) Transfer my blog

Another may be something to log my goal progress.

I'm not sure on any of these, but I will look into it more when I have more time. Today, time is the enemy, so not much will get done.

Not that it is a bad day, it's actually looking to be a pretty good one. The sun is shining, it's sunny, and I won't have to wait around after work. My mind is still geared towards the past system of Weekend madness. When Rhonda worked at Target, they always messed up the weekends I worked by having her go in later and get done later.

It would start most often on Friday. Actually it would begin on Wednesday, but that would tend to be pretty close. We would go in about the same time and get done about the same time. Then, Thursday she would go in about an hour earlier than me and get done about a half hour after me. I would end up waiting for work, then waiting for her. Friday would just be more of the same, but even earlier, so an hour and a half to two hours before my shift would be spent waiting around. After, I would wait about an hour for her to get done.

Then Saturday it would hit, full madness. She would not have to be there till about four-thirty or five, but now I need to be there at one. She drips me off, I work till nine and then wait for her to get done, sometime between eleven and midnight. Sunday I have to be back at two, she at three or four, and again, I get done at eight, she at about nine thirty. It seemed like I spent as much time waiting around as I did working.

But, not today. Today she is off work, and for that matter, does not work at Target at all anymore. My mind still anticipates this, and it creates mild stress. But I focus and look at the facts, I work from one till nine and will be done around nine-thirty, then drive home. Also, this weekend I do not have to work on Sunday.

I'm also going to be making a few changes in the schedule so that I do not have to work till closing every other weekend. All is looking up, if things progress the way they should. Of course, I have no control over that, and things may change before then. We will wait and see. But for now, I will take it one day at a time and try and have some contingency plans available for unseen events.

It's time to eat, then get ready for work. I won't be home till about ten, so probably won't get in here again.

I do have progress in my story goals. I have a week to develop the story, and have it about half done already. Since I do not have the group set up to record this yet, I'll post it here.

"Reading soothes the soul, writing sets it free."