Bra Fits, Packets, and Birthdays

This week at work I finally finished the 25 bra fits required for my work certification.  I am now an official 'fitter' and am past my probational period.  I've been working at LHB for four months now and there is very little to complain about, in fact, I really enjoy this job.  It has a few things going for it that my previous jobs didn't.  Firstly, it's a part-time schedule that changes slightly from week to week allowing for flexibility in when I work.  Secondly, it's a tiny group of employees - there are only six of us and we all get along.  Thirdly, it's low stress and while it does have some dragging moments, it's never really boring.  On the days when we have few customers we pass the time with restocking pegs, catching up on each others' lives, drinking coffee, or talking about food, family, significant others, and soap operas.  We have had a few shoplifting cases lately and so we've had to be extra on the lookout when we have several customers in the store, but aside from that, it's been just great.

Now, if only my homework was going as smoothly.  I've tackled the creative portion of the writing and have two lengthy and (I think) nicely composed chapters.  My mentor's past comments were tremendously helpful in restructuring and expanding certain scenes and I think that this packet's creative work will be very well received.  It's the critical stuff I'm having an issue with.  I know what I'm going to write, now I just need to do it.  Today was set aside for homework and I woke with the vigor of a student ready to tackle the world!  But then my period happened.  It's been one of the worst ones I've had in a while and I've been in so much pain all day and so drugged up on pain killers that my head's been in a fog and I haven't gotten a damn thing done.  I'm finally clearing up a little - which means I probably need another round of Ibuprofen.  I need to write at least one paper tonight, but even just writing this blog post has been a challenge to me.  My eyes keep trying to close and my head starts to nod forward.  I'm thinking of taking a nap and then waking up sometime in the wee hours of the morning.

I do have until the sixth to submit the packet and typically the craft analyses don't take more than a few hours to write out and proofread.  Once I get started on them, I crank them out pretty efficiently.  But it's Hannah's birthday on the fifth and we are leaving on Monday to spend two nights in Bonner's Ferry at the casino with my aunt and mother.  We'll have our own room and hopefully my period will be over by then as I reckon there'll be some loving to be had.  There should also be time at the casino to read, write, edit, and work on homework but it would be nice to be completely done with everything before we left.