Slowly going crazy...

So today and yesterday I spent my time at work doing the one thing I hate the most as a cabinet finisher: Glaze. For those of you not in the high end kitchen cabinetry know, a glazed door looks like this:

See all those dark lines in all the recesses of the door's profile... yeah, that's all done by hand. The whole door gets covered with the glaze then someone painstakingly wipes off all the excess leaving pinstripe lines in all the crannies. For two days. Needless to say I am seeing lines now in my sleep. It drives me nuts. It also stresses me out because it's so easy to mess up a line and you get to start all over. I start to wish I could just take a sharpie and draw the lines in there instead.

On days like today I just have to remind myself that the level of stress is nothing compared to that of working layaway at Christmas, or returns after Christmas, or trying to manage a staff of 15 people more intent on singing nursery rhymes over the intercom than helping you serve customers. Heck, all retail sucks, as does the general shopping public. OK, bring on the glaze lines!

It snowed today, and for a first snow of the year it was a bit overdone. We had to brush a few centimeter's of the stuff of the vehicles this morning. It stayed on the ground all day despite some afternoon sun. The only place it's not is on the roads and in the driveway. Otherwise I would have had to say mother nature had gone too far. As it is now, I can just say that it was a good reminder that it's October and I can probably safely put away my sandals. I should probably dig out some mittens. I let Niko run out the back door to see her reaction when her beloved grass was covered in white, priceless! Nothing is better than throwing a cat in a snowbank.