Gi-Gi Roxx - The Ravings of a Lunatic

When I pulled onto the lot of the retailer I am working at currently on Thanksgiving night I felt my blood begin to race through my veins and panic start to set in.  It was 45 minutes before we were set to open the doors for "Black Friday" and there was a line of people that wrapped all the way around to the back of the building.  There were cop cars and fire trucks parking randomly along the expanse of the parking lot, keeping the peace I presumed.  And I was starting to feel a bit of a panic attack coming on.  I cranked up the heater in my car as I set there, trying in vain to mentally prepare myself for the night head.  My heart was beating out of my chest as I realized that I was going to have to walk towards the front of the line of people to gain entry into the building to get clocked in for my shift.  I was so afraid of causing a mini riot, people might assume I was out to cut line... oh crap! I shut off my engine, put my keys into my purse, open...

I'm another week away from my next check-up and things have been going pretty well since my last one.  My baby (and belly) are growing rapidly now.  I feel like every day it gets harder and harder to reach my feet to put on my socks.  I get short of breath pretty easily now too and find that my meals are getting harder and harder to consume in one sitting.  Small frequent meals are a necessity.  I love love love feeling my little ninja girl wriggling around in there though.  She kicks and stretches and nudges me off and on all day long.  I think about four days ago she turned so that she is facing my spine so I feel less of the arm and leg flailing, but I think that opened me up to feeling her random bouts of the hiccups.  One thing I'm afraid will continue in March when she is born is the schedule she's becoming accustomed to because of my own work schedule.  She knows it's time for mama to get up between midnight and one in the morning ...

So working retail during the Holiday season really wasn't my best career decision.  Actually up until today, even doing retail while pregnant wasn't THAT bad.  I love the girls I work with in my department, the whole night crew is really awesome, and even getting up at the ungodly hours I do to work isn't too hateful.  But today, even after just a five and a half hour shift, I am regretting my decision to work at all this time of year.  The retail store I work for, just like pretty much every other retail store in the country, is gearing up for Black Friday sales.  We had two delivery trucks to unload and unpack and stock this morning.  Since I started we have only had one truck at a time, with a piece count of roughly 2000.  Which is peachy, we work hard, and get that done most days right on schedule.  But today, with two trucks of nearly 2000 pieces each, we didn't get anywhere near done before the store opened this morning and will just be ...

Okay, so it's been precipitating in one form or another here in town for 4 days straight.  I'm over it.  Allegedly the sun is gonna peek out later, I'm not holding my breath.  I have some errands to run today and will just bundle up since it seems like it's probably still cold out and for right now it's still quite wet. Hurricane Sandy dumped on much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States.  I looked through a slide show of over two hundred pictures on the Weather Channe l website yesterday, just amazed at what happened in places like New York City and the Jersey Shore.  Complete devastation.  Here in West Virginia we mostly got rain and snow.  Some parts of the state (thankfully not my part) got over two feet of snow. No thanks, you can keep it.  Here in the city we got a wet dusting of an inch or two which melted off pretty quickly.  That is one of the nice things about living in the city, all of the concrete and close knit co...