This week has been good. I actually had an almost real work week since I worked 4 days...granted the shifts weren't full shifts but still. Saturday, however, my boss made a scheduling mistake and needed someone to partner up with the ASM so he wouldn't be handling the store on his own, on a Sat night. I had been working since 10:30am and quickly volunteered for the hours, giving me a double shift. As tiring as it was I actually enjoyed myself and I actually kept up to speed with my ASM in how many customers I got to reserve something or subscribe to our discount card. Go me! The icing on the cake was when I overheard the ASM tell the boss this on the phone and hearing his response...
I actually thought Friday would be my toughest day, but it turned out to be really nice. The 25th of Feb is my mother-in-law's birthday. Unfortunately though, this Feb 25th marked the 10yr anniversary of her eldest son's murder (Hubby's older brother). I never had the pleasure of meeting him but everything I hear from anyone seems to be nothing short of awesome. I've never experienced something so horrible but it always angers me to hear of such amazing lives being taken from this world by such senseless acts.
It truly was a situation of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and since knowing Hubby and his parents I try hard each year to help them achieve more happiness than the year prior, because I know it's still very painful at times.
This year, since I knew it was slightly more important, I decided to get a really nice bouquet of flowers that were chosen specifically by me instead of a florist. I know flowers aren't always the most thoughtful of gifts but it happens to be one of the things my mother-in-law doesn't ever seem to receive much. It took me several days to find a florist I liked and then it took me about 40min of comparing flowers up against each other to see if the colors were what I wanted. I finally opted for some peachy-yellow roses with some dark pink carnations and some small white flowers and greenery. It looked perfect.
And the best part was, my mother-in-law loved them too. :) I'm happy I was able to bring her some small happiness on such a painful day.
If it wasn't already obvious I've been experimenting with coloring some of my work. Not sure if it will end up being a permanent thing with all doodles or just something I do for ones I deem more important. Probably the latter for now. It started earlier this week when I had begun working on another drawing in class (after the above one) and decided it and it's previous doodle would need to be colored. The proportions aren't perfect, but I was doing it from memory so can you blame it? I'm pretty happy with it's turnout though, and glad that after so many years of my graduation from art school that I'm still able to draw more realistic cartoons pretty well.
Sorry this week wasn't more exciting. Next weekend will be fun though so I'll save it that for next weekend's post. :)
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