What with inventory and drama and a combination of hurty elbow and mild urinary tract infection I've been in a wretched mood for the past several days, but today was great. For one, we'd gotten an unusually small order AND someone else had already put away the buttons and other small, irritating crap so today I got to satisfy my obsessive compulsive desires and cleaned the stockroom, putting everything the iventory people had messed up back where they were supposed to be - which isn't just me being a freak, if things are in order we can find them when a customer asks! - and put together all the furniture that's been sitting around in boxes for ages. I looooove putting together furniture, for some silly reason it's very satisfying. The best thing of all today was getting to make displays.

See, corporate wants the stores to look like a "boutique", which means instead of lining items up on the shelf, for example, we have to arrange them all artsy, which I've been doing, and the furniture has to be put into what basically amounts to a tiny little set with matching pillows, rug, lamps, knick-knacks and so on. Needless to say I am ALL OVER THIS, and the last one I made came together so well we ended up selling the chair and table involved. I made four little displays each with a different color scheme and accessories. When my manager strolled by I had a little story for each one, for example the front display when you walk into the store is "grandma's sitting room" complete with a sewing basket and some scraps of material in it, and I draped fabric over the back to be "wallpaper". Basically today I got paid to play with a giant dollhouse for six hours. It was glorious. Also we were throwing out fake ferns and I snagged me one - free fern!

Also, don't know if it is because I'm in a spectacularly good mood or what, but I could not stop laughing at this: http://youtu.be/O2RqVUjwxdM


And dunno if you guys care ("No! Shut up and draw wolf boobies!") but here's an interview with my best guy's band: http://www.miroviamag.com/post/5632793809