Monday, May 4, 2020
I have managed to stretch out my great Friday to four days of journal entries. I would not have believed it possible if I had not just done it. Honestly, Friday evening might spill into tomorrow because I may rant a little today about a Friday afternoon issue that threatened to ruin my great day. I am getting ahead of myself, so I will step back. I usually get up and open a nearly blank journal entry page for the day. My fresh pages include the date and the words “My piece of advice to you is to”
My journal pages since Friday, have not been fresh. When I stopped writing Friday evening, I opened Saturday’s file and wrote several short notes about Friday I wanted to expand more. This morning, I still have four thoughts from that original note staring at me on this page. Those notes have been joined by a sentence about Friday night, two thoughts from Saturday and a few thoughts from yesterday. As I finish writing about a thought, I erase that part of my note and move to the next thought.
Now that I have more than ten thoughts on my page, I cannot possibly fit them into one journal post. When my lowest notes start dropping to the bottom of the page, I open the next day’s file and use my favorite feature in Word, cut, copy, and paste. This procedure is why, at this point, I am certain my Friday evening thought will be pushed to tomorrow. I will be moving my Sunday thoughts after I write this sentence.
Back to my great Friday. When I was in Target, I rolled past the school/office supply section to see if they had a shredder so I could keep my outing to one store. Target only had one high-end model in stock, and I do not need all the bells and whistles. The Target clerk did help me with my credit card since the credit card reader privacy shields make the keypad inaccessible for me, so I was still happy. I rolled on to OfficeMax.
OfficeMax had signs posted on their doors and windows stating there was a limit of 10 customers allowed in their store at once. My local OfficeMax is large, so I was surprised the number was so low. The people I saw in OfficeMax were wearing masks, but I did not notice a sign requiring them. With a mostly empty store to shop in, I felt OfficeMax cared about my health. I rolled around the store, looking for the shredders, and had almost given up looking to search for a clerk when I spied the shredders!
I rolled over to the shredders to look for a low-cost personal shredder. I was in luck, there was an acceptable shredder on sale for 15 dollars off! My day was getting better.by the minute. Unfortunately, I did not see any boxes under the display model. Fortunately, I could hear a clerk talking to a customer a few aisles away, so I rolled to the aisle and waited several feet away for my turn. The clerk came with me to check for more shredders in stock.
We struck out. My local store did not have any in stock. The clerk told me another store in town had three in stock. I told the clerk I did not drive and asked if I could purchase the shredder on the website. The clerk told me yes and told me to take a picture of the card to make it easy to find on their website. I explained I do not use a smart phone because I do not have any fine motor skills, so the clerk wrote down the information. I was thrilled with the great customer service even though I was disappointed I would need to order the shredder online and could not buy it in the store to support my local employees.
My piece of advice to you is to be willing to rethink your instincts. On my way out of OfficeMax, I saw a 10-cent basket full of valentine cards and photo prop masks. I was not going to look and rolled out of the store. Ten feet later, I turned around and went back in. I thought the valentine messages were too grown up for my seven-year-old, Mika, to use next year, but I did spend 22 cents for two packs of photo prop masks for Mika and her friends to play with. I left with a deal and a smile.
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.
I have managed to stretch out my great Friday to four days of journal entries. I would not have believed it possible if I had not just done it. Honestly, Friday evening might spill into tomorrow because I may rant a little today about a Friday afternoon issue that threatened to ruin my great day. I am getting ahead of myself, so I will step back. I usually get up and open a nearly blank journal entry page for the day. My fresh pages include the date and the words “My piece of advice to you is to”
My journal pages since Friday, have not been fresh. When I stopped writing Friday evening, I opened Saturday’s file and wrote several short notes about Friday I wanted to expand more. This morning, I still have four thoughts from that original note staring at me on this page. Those notes have been joined by a sentence about Friday night, two thoughts from Saturday and a few thoughts from yesterday. As I finish writing about a thought, I erase that part of my note and move to the next thought.
Now that I have more than ten thoughts on my page, I cannot possibly fit them into one journal post. When my lowest notes start dropping to the bottom of the page, I open the next day’s file and use my favorite feature in Word, cut, copy, and paste. This procedure is why, at this point, I am certain my Friday evening thought will be pushed to tomorrow. I will be moving my Sunday thoughts after I write this sentence.
Back to my great Friday. When I was in Target, I rolled past the school/office supply section to see if they had a shredder so I could keep my outing to one store. Target only had one high-end model in stock, and I do not need all the bells and whistles. The Target clerk did help me with my credit card since the credit card reader privacy shields make the keypad inaccessible for me, so I was still happy. I rolled on to OfficeMax.
OfficeMax had signs posted on their doors and windows stating there was a limit of 10 customers allowed in their store at once. My local OfficeMax is large, so I was surprised the number was so low. The people I saw in OfficeMax were wearing masks, but I did not notice a sign requiring them. With a mostly empty store to shop in, I felt OfficeMax cared about my health. I rolled around the store, looking for the shredders, and had almost given up looking to search for a clerk when I spied the shredders!
I rolled over to the shredders to look for a low-cost personal shredder. I was in luck, there was an acceptable shredder on sale for 15 dollars off! My day was getting better.by the minute. Unfortunately, I did not see any boxes under the display model. Fortunately, I could hear a clerk talking to a customer a few aisles away, so I rolled to the aisle and waited several feet away for my turn. The clerk came with me to check for more shredders in stock.
We struck out. My local store did not have any in stock. The clerk told me another store in town had three in stock. I told the clerk I did not drive and asked if I could purchase the shredder on the website. The clerk told me yes and told me to take a picture of the card to make it easy to find on their website. I explained I do not use a smart phone because I do not have any fine motor skills, so the clerk wrote down the information. I was thrilled with the great customer service even though I was disappointed I would need to order the shredder online and could not buy it in the store to support my local employees.
My piece of advice to you is to be willing to rethink your instincts. On my way out of OfficeMax, I saw a 10-cent basket full of valentine cards and photo prop masks. I was not going to look and rolled out of the store. Ten feet later, I turned around and went back in. I thought the valentine messages were too grown up for my seven-year-old, Mika, to use next year, but I did spend 22 cents for two packs of photo prop masks for Mika and her friends to play with. I left with a deal and a smile.
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.