Merry Christmas!!!

It's now Christmas Eve and I feel like I can relax, just have a few things to wrap. Last night I decorated 7 Gingerbread houses to give as gifts. Had baked them on Monday at Mum's house as our stove wasn't working. Our new oven was delivered on the weekend but not put in yet, it was done on Tuesday so my first baking experience in it was to refresh the gingerbread last night. I have a mud cake in at the moment, for my SIL's birthday tomorrow.

Had to work today, the store was pretty quiet but we still did very well budget wise, apparently sewing machines are high on the gift giving list this year. I am not looking forward to working boxing day at our city branch, there's a 30% off sale. The centre my store is in isn't open on Boxing Day, everyone but me will be enjoying a day off. I wasn't impressed to be told today that we had to put up all the sale signs and banners, they didn't want us to start until 4 pm and we were told we weren't going home until it was completely done! ON CHRISTMAS EVE!!! They had plastic banners they wanted all the windows completely covered in, we have about 20 large plate glass windows, it would have taken us hours to do. I came up with a plan to cut the strips, roll them up so the details couldn't be seen, tape the rolls to the windows, adding other signs to a few of the other windows. In the store I put up other signs, covered them with back to front out of date signs so the details couldn't be seen by customers. My boss was amazed with my idea, we started before 3 and it still took until just after closing to complete. I drove out of there at 6pm, dropped another staff member home and was home by 7, there was no traffic, usually it takes me over an hour and a half to get home. The run in this morning was fantastic too, I always leave home 2 hours early, ended up being an hour and a quarter early for work. It often takes me the whole 2 hours to get in.