Hobbit-ish Potpurri: Friday Night Lite

Good evening Humble Readers...

I hope you are all well, and for those in the know, I hope you are having a great ICLW! Tonight's post is just a bit of hobbit-ish randomness.

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I am on CD 17, and 3 dpo. Trying to keep myself distracted as we head into the tww. I am going to do my best this month to not test before AF is due. I'll try...

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Ever since our vacation, I have become obsessed with movies set in New York. I even love to watch old 80s movies, just so I can see things that I recognize. And don't even get me started on Law & Order... I love it! I have to go back!

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While it is only October, the holiday season is in full swing at work. We are already running out of overstock room, I am in the midst of doing my seasonal hiring, and in just over a week we do our full Christmas set up. I can't believe this is going to be my third Christmas at this store. Time sure flies! I will admit, I love the season tho! It's fun, energizing, and completely exhausting all at once.

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Lameness Award for the week: One of the other managers and I have had to talk to the same customer twice this week (two days in a row), about not leaving her two year old daughter alone in our kid's section while she stands in line at Sta.rbu.cks. Twice the little one has been wandering around alone, and twice we talked to the mom. I know we are a relatively small city, but there are creepy people everywhere. The thing that really bothered me most, was that the mom actually had the audacity to look put out/annoyed when we asked her to keep her daughter with her.

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Does craving strawberries mean anything? Not ttc-wise... just in any way? I have been craving strawberries for more than a week. I must be missing something in my diet, but where's a girl to get decent strawberries in October on the flatland?

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On the menu this evening: Another experimental meal. Chicken breasts stuffed with spinach and feta, with a mushroom cream and white wine sauce. Served with mashed potatoes. It turned out pretty good, but I need to work on my cream sauces. They never seem to work out just right. Any suggestions?

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Am I the only Canadian who's glad that the loonie dropped in value against the US dollar today? I can't be. A loonie at par or higher is bad news for retail and manufacturers generally. I don't want a repeat of the holiday shopping season we had two years ago, where we had customers cussing out our staff and throwing product at cashiers because of the difference between US and Canadian pricing.

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I think that's about it for tonight. I'm going to head over to the ICLW list and checkout a few new blogs.

Have a great weekend everyone!