It all starts with a phone call early this morning.
last night around three I finally try to get some sleep.
My insomnia hit with a vengeance.

So I wake up almost time to go to work, joy has the kids for me, taking them to school. she was off this week end and supposed to be off today, so she asked to keep the kiddies.

I agree, and right as I'm in the shower , getting ready for work, she comes up all ranting and such.

Some one called out sick at the last minute so they took her day off away, and I had to take the kids to school. They were already late and she had to hurry, so i told her to call in for me so Floyd would know I'd be late.

I finished getting ready, and took the kiddies to school, and the secretary in the office told my son not to be late this week since they were doing some kind of testing this week.

I'm thinking " Geeeez, the kid is ten. he isn't driving I am. why tell him not to be late??"

so I finally make it to work a little after 9 am.
Floyd is standing on his head, we have to pallet up a load of stuff for Dewayne, his largest buyer to be delivered somehow the same day.
So Floyd and i start on it, and after about ten pallets i get called to the front, to load up a table set by myself.
I go load it, and the two guys keep talking to each other about how they couldn't believe the way I was handling the cement like it was nothing.

i get them loaded and start back to help Floyd.
WRONG
Another wholesaler pulls up in a fifty foot long box truck. At the same time, tony, floyd's oldest son pulls up and he ans I start palleting up the new wholesalers order so we could load him.
I worked on the first load from 9 till 11 30, then started right on the other guy from 1130 till 2.
Right as we started stacking the stuff on the pallets, Tony asks me to go up front and get a pad to write down everything.
On my way up there, Christie calls Barry over the pa system to go to the office.
I pass him and Dwayne riding on one of the forklifts, and over hear Barry smart off " They should call Ben!!"

I think to myself " Yea like Ben's the only one not doing anything here today!!"
Here I am working two wholesaler loads, waiting on regular customers and what else needs doing, and he wants to smart off where he thinks I can't hear.

He ends up waiting on the customer when he realizes she's a pretty lady that needs help.

No biggie. I have more to worry about than him tho.

Tony and I had loaded and wrapped 12 pallets of stuff for the latest buyer, and he was loaded and ready to go before i went to lunch at 2:30

I ate and went back to work after stopping by the hardware store to get paint for the shop.


When I get back from lunch, unload the eight cases of paint, and start back to work, Floyd hands me a new order and tells me to start getting it up and pelleting it.

So i start on this new order, and another buyer calls raising cain over his load. He has to have it Wednesday,
Thursday at the latest.
So Floyd fusses at his boys and asks them can they work late tonight to load up this guys stuff so he can get it by wed.
They fuss and raise hell to me about how they don't want to work late.
they stay anyways tho.

Tony makes the mistake of asking me could I work late tonight. I already told Floyd i would, but he had told me not to plan on it just yet, cause the Bobsey twins may not work tonight.

tony calls me to the office, and asks me can I work late?
I have a house payment among other bills so i jump at each opportunity for extra cash " yea no problem"
Christie laughs and tells me Tony was hoping I'd say no.

I also find out tomorrow tony and I have to load the two ton flatbed with all those life sized statues from the other week, plus two more, including a huge dinosaur and a lion that weighs 4000 pounds to be added to the other huge stuff.

Seems i get to go with Tony on this load tomorrow to help deliver and set the statues up.

I tell Tony at least he'll have some good help tomorrow and he laughs and says " that's true"



so here it is after 6 this evening and tony, Dwayne , floyd and myself are loading up most of the guy's stuff for Wed.

I can tell Floyd is hot and tuckered out and he tells us he's quitting for the veening. tony asks can I stay longer. He wants to laod up two more pallets, so I agree. Less work for tomorrow :P

We start packing the pieces to a three tier foubntain inside the biggest bowl to it, and I show tony the bowl is hanging off the edge of the pallet by almost a foot.

" Can you move it?"
To which I reply
" It's not ' can i move it, 'Tony, But more like ' How far do you want it to go?"

I pick up the side of the loaded bowl and easily set it up farther on the pallet.

He looks at me and busts out laughing.

So now we have most of that load ready and will try to finish it tomorrow evening.
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My new molds made it in today safely, and incident free.
They're actually larger than I had thought, judging by the pictures i had seen when I purchased them.

So now i can start with my own line of stuff to add with what I already have in stock, including my clay pots, which i now also have 10, 12, and 14 inch sizes :P woo hoo!

the bad part of today? After spending the whole day running full blast, nearly non stop?
I get home and still am not tired yet
I feel another sleepless night brewing for me sigggghhhh...

I did try self hypnosis once for it.
I ended up for a week, barking like a dog every time i heard a bell ring. Somehow i think I did something wrong