Journal -snow today

It snowed overnight - not much, just a coating on the driveway, but this is the first time I'll be driving into work on snow; and the first time the question arose whether we'd have to shovel the drive before either of us can get out.

Last week I worked 3 hours less, it's very obvious on the paycheck.

One of the problems I have with some Portuguese is that I live in Massachusetts where final "-r" is usually left unpronounced. So I have difficulty distinguishing between "-ar" and "-a", especially, but also occasionally "-er" and "-e" and "-ir" and "-i"

journal - an unexpected gift

I work as a cashier in a small neighbourhood grocery store. I enjoy the work, I enjoy treating with customers and bagging. I consider customer satisfaction to be a major part of the job for which I was hired.

Today a customer gifted me with a lace cloth embroidered with the words "Silent Night" - because she said I had helped her so much. I feel humbled and dumbfounded; flabbergasted even. I don't understand why she would feel that way. It is a beautiful piece of work.


In other news, the rosemary plant I snuck into the house before Thanksgiving is still alive and that amazes me also because it had started drooping. My experience is that once a rosemary plant begins drooping at the ends, that's all she wrote and it's a long slow decline into death. But this time, the droop reversed and it's alive for another week. I have this plant inside a couple of very large (empty) pretzel barrels. I'm hoping that a terrarium effect might help so ... maybe it is? Maybe it is.

In other news, the orange tree has a LOT of small branches just starting out on it now. I think it was jealous of all the praise I was lavishing on the coffee plant for its one.