A Different Kind of a Routine Week

As this late evening wraps up the first full week of July, I have been engaged in getting moved into my new home and getting re-acquainted with personal property that I have not seen in many, many months. My strategy is to get the bedroom then the bathroom then the kitchen done largely with some overlap before starting on the office and the living room.

As I post tonight, strides have been made in the bedroom and bathroom and on Sunday my focus will extend to the kitchen with cookware, utensils, silver, dishes, and supplies to be located in the boxes or crates they are stored in, cleaned up, and appropriated storage identified. I will get the microwave and its cart brought up and cleaned. Cleaning supplies will be stored. And I will continue to work on the bedroom and bathroom as property is located that will be placed in those rooms. I project I can get most everything brought up and put into an appropriate place by July 15. I get Tuesday the 10th off this week so its another day early in the week to make progress although I need to locate a laundry so I can do the wash before the good socks inventory runs out.

I have come across clothing that I had forgotten about including shirts and pants. I still need to locate a box that has more of my shirts stored in it. After the 15th I can probably start to think about hanging pictures and decorating and getting my A-V center fully organized and arranged.
I have several pairs of jeans that I need to make a determination about as they are either way too big (some are sizes 44 and 46 waists and I am able to get into a 40 although its tight so a 42 is still best though they sag easily at the waist with any activity). I need to donate those unwanted pants along with socks and underwear to a charity in the coming months.

After I get settled in and as organized as possible, I will take some photos of the place and include them in this blog for my readers to be able to see. I will try to have enough so that one can get an idea about my new home and its size, layout, and colors (white walls, brown carpet, brown kitchen cabinets, and brownish yellow linoleum in the bathroom and kitchen. I would estimate the square footage at about 800 to 900 not including the garage below and the patio deck outside the front door. As expected, it is stuffy in the afternoons with the summer heat but open windows and deployment of fans provide relief and by sunset it is comfortable and then cool by morning. My front door faces south with windows in the bedroom and kitchen on the north and a window in the living room on the east. Thank goodness there are no west windows.

Work is busy as massive quantities of inventory of all kinds are arriving in preparation for Frontier Days which commences on 20 July and runs through 30 July. With the store's location right where many visitors will be, huge crowds and tremendous sales are certain. There will be some days where the store does over $75K in sales with total sales for the 10 days to be around $600-650K. I have never worked in a business where that much revenue was made in a month let alone in just a few days so this should be an interesting and exciting experience.

I look forward to meeting a lot more people from all over the planet as I already have. I have met people from every state except Delaware so far in the 100 days I have worked there and many nations in Europe such as Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Italy, Poland, Estonia, Spain, Luxembourg, Holland, Portugal, Greece, Croatia, Switzerland, and Russia. Other nations include South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, India, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Its been very interesting to have been able to meet such a wide diversity of people from around the planet and have an ever so brief conversation with some of them.

I will probably get to work extra starting after the next ten days through the end of the month so some extra money can be made which will be welcome. But blogging may not occur as often as I will be busy and when not working greatly fatigued and nonfocused.