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Thursday January 31:

So, yeah, has anyone noticed this? I sure as heck have. As you all know, where I work, well, we get seasonal stuff in. The horrible, sheer mass of Christmas merchandise still dance in my nightmares at night. It didn't help, that two days after Christmas had ended, that I opened one of my first boxes from that week's shipment.

Valentine candy. Greaaaaaat. rolleyes

Stores have a habit of rushing the seasons, don't they? Each holiday seems to blend into each other, melting, the true time of celebrating a certain one shifting between the hazy lines of the next approaching one. The shipment of Valentine goodies woke me up to the realization that, economically, we're screwing ourselves over by this constant rush and influx of money towards these holidays without a moment's grace to recover.

....Boy. I sound just like my half-brother, Bill. He hates holidays for that reason, for the economy. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love some of the holidays! It's just that we're pouring all this money into them, rushing them one after another... Sooner or later, in a week or so, I'm going to go to some store, waltz down a random isle and see Halloween costumes right next to Thanksgiving turkey statues!

Anyway, yeah, so we have had our Valentine candy for a short while now, and it's finally selling. It's like our customers don't realize we have these candy hearts and lollipop roses all over the shelves, and they're just now noticing them and buying the sweet treats by the basket full. I'm happy it's going. However, we got our shipment of store goods, like every Tuesday or so, and I almost cried (from my slowly cracking sanity, I assure you).

EASTER CANDY. Dear god, is there no end to this?! Valentine's Day hasn't even come yet, and I'm already seeing the pastel peeps and evil bunny candies that stare endearingly back at you from unseeing chocolate candy eyes.

A costumer bought twenty-four bags of Easter white-chocolate dipped pretzels. Thing is, we only HAD twenty-four to start with!

I think I need an aspirin....

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