Crazy Socks & Writer's Block

Three hours. Just three more hours of calculators and then, weekend! And not just any weekend, but a weekend with all my family! I couldn't be more excited for them all to get here. It's going to be a fun weekend full of celebrations! Celebrating what you may ask? My sister's graduating! A year early! I'm so proud of her. I'm so grateful this moment is here and we get to celebrate it. I'm so proud of her and how strong she's been and wish her the best! Weekend here we come! I seriously can't stare at calculators for any longer. They're all I've been dreaming of lately. They're evil. How many different kinds of graphing calculators does one need?!

I went swimming on Friday and it was the best thing ever. The thought of going swimming makes me super anxious and I've been avoiding it all summer but I finally went. And had one of the most relaxing experiences ever. I'm thankful for a best friend who is patient with me and does scary things with me. And appreciates the fact that I'm always modest, even at the pool. The whole time there when ten year olds in bikinis would walk by he'd say, I'm so glad you're modest. You look so much better.

Saturdays are pretty dull at the bookstore. Make that really dull. Which is why I voluntarily spent my Saturday cleaning out the entire stockroom. We had a crap ton of batteries sitting in their batter boxes, so I decided to unbox them all. Here's the thing about batteries. They triple box them for shipping. But the packages are STILL dinged up and broken. So really, save some cardboard Duracell. It'll be alright. Once I started on the batteries I couldn't stop. So I did everything. This is what it looked like behind my counter. Not going to lie, my favorite part was tossing boxes over my shoulder and hearing the satisfying toppling over of all the other boxes.  Now, I got all the contents of those boxes, into these.  I know, amazing concept, batteries can touch each other. I was quite proud of my work. At the end of my shift, here was the beautiful stockroom See those nicely stacked calculators on the bottom shelf? Oh they make me so happy! I'm quite prou...

I love senor Sammy. Like a lot. And after a pretty yukky last few days, what did he do? He came and visited me at work and brought me homemade pancakes. The man makes pancakes! I'm seriously the luckiest girl in the world. They were freakishly delicious. I'm kind of speechless because he just treats me so well and I'm in love and yeah : ) 

This morning I was totally planning on writing a blog post about how awesome I was. Just kidding. But I was going to write one about how I'm finally getting help on overcoming my anxiety and how I've already made a little progress. And how I felt so freaking awesome and thought I already had this in the bag. And then I had a meltdown over ramen noodles. Full fledged gonna puke can't breathe senses going crazy everyone'smadatmeI'mfailing meltdown. Oh humility. It shall be slapped down upon you.

I've seen some qualities in my boss this past week that have stopped me in admiration. Yeah, sometimes he may be a bit ocd and most people in the bookstore aren't fond of him, but I have so much respect for him. Almost all of us have had some type of family emergency in the department. He has been more than understanding, has a box of tissues, and just has a knack of what to do. Saturday the iPad alarms kept going off. They were loud, obnoxious, and I couldn't figure out how to turn them off. Everyone was glaring at me in the store. I texted him asking what I should do and instead of just replying, he drove down to the store and crawled under the display for half an hour trying to fix it. We still couldn't figure it out but he was able to disconnect the noise so at least it wasn't scaring everyone half to death. He didn't have to come in, it was his day off, but he did and he didn't leave until he figured something out. When his grandma died at work, h...

Instead of staying in and being safe, I went out with my family and Sammy to Loveland to a little bbq/music fest they were having. It was such a cute little town with tons of art. It started raining as soon as we got there, and then rained off and on for the rest of the night. We had great carnival food, laughs, kisses in the rain, and heard some 80's hits. It was a great night, a great time, and we did something. : )