Markers and sick days

Hee, so we get 3 pay cheques in July, which means one is "free" (meaning we don't have to pay rent from it) and since it also sort of corresponds to the inventory sale at my job at Opus, it was a perfect opportunity to spend tons of money on markers. I have 44 Copic Markers on hold! Hee! I also have a cutting mat which we badly needed, a smaller drawing board (my big one has resin all over it, and cuts because we always cut on it, hence...cutting mat.. LOL) I got a couple Art Stix in white and black to do details on my markers, and ... what else....oh 3 Copic various inks, some colour Eno replacement leads, a couple Golden Fluid acrylics for painting stuff for the Convention ...and ... golly that must be it?...haha! Obviously the markers are my highlight. I haven't added them to my copic list yet, because I don't actually own them yet, but I'm going to list here what I have on hold :>

C0, C2, C4 - cool greys
W5, W3, W1 - Warm Greys
N5, N7 - Neutral greys
YR24, YR23, YR07, YR15
Y32
YG01,YG67, YG95, YG93, YG13
RV34, RV11, RV19, RV09
B00, B14, B06, B23, B34
BV23, BV31
R12
G02, G28
BG000, BG45, BG15, BG10, BG11, BG49, BG32, BG02
E02, E49, E21, E97

Phew~  I needed a lot of the BG colours because I only had a couple. I think I have almost all the ones we actually stock at my location right now.
That will bring me up to 133 markers! Long way to go, but you know.. It's a growing thing!

Yesterday at our staff meeting we got our choice of some free (slightly irregular or damaged) stuff that was in the store that we wanted cleared out before the inventory count. I managed to snag a big roll of Aquabee Super Deluxe paper, which is the same paper in my sketchbook that I love! I also got a couple sheets of Hahnemule 300lb printing paper that has a few creases in it, but can be easily cut out. I was excited about that too, since its pricey paper I wouldn't normally buy, but it was nice. I also got a bottle of Fluid acrylic that was half empty cuz it got squeezed by some idiots unattended child... Love my job! Lots of the other staff got some really nice frames and stuff as well! I pulled aside a frame for Maria that I thought she'd like too. I hope she does :) (Maria's away, so she didn't attend).
I woke up today with a migraine, but my Advil was at work. Not being the type to call in sick, I cried through my shower (making it worse) and got to work, and pretty much barfed my morning away.
So it took a long while to get Advil to stay down. I did manage to get a lot of section work done through the barfing though, and good thing I didn't even try to call in sick (not that I would have) because I wouldn't have been able to - someone else did. My only hope was to go home a wee bit early and sleep it off, but those hopes were dashed. Ann was pretty sick too but we all toughed it out through the day. We're troopers. I eventually got my migraine (which was more nausea and blurry/double vision and light sensitivity than pain this time, thank god.) to a bearable pain level and I sort of enjoyed the rest of the day. Thank goodness most of my morning is me being there alone before the store opens, so I can keep all the lights off. That helped I'm sure.
Also a good thing Ann anticipated that the other person would call in sick; She came in early, (her and Jeri were going to come in late, because they have to stay late to put up the sale signs for inventory sale). Without her there, It would have been just me and Reetta to open the store (Chelsey phoned to say she slept in but she got there before we opened anyway, so we were lucky about that.) Long day for Ann though.

I'm hungry now. I put off eating all day because of the barforama morning, but now I'm all starved, and Jeri won't be coming home 'til later. Tomorrow is the first day of the huge inventory sale at work as I mentioned before, so we have 3 days of massive crowds of people clearing out our stock at Opus! I'm pretty glad for the break in doing stock transfers, that's for sure. I'm excited to be doing Data entry instead of counting this year. It sounds boring I know, but it's nice to do something slightly different. ROFL. Hope I don't make too many mistakes.

Mama bear Absorbing sunshine

My mamabear (Viddies, my cat) is being super cute right now, sitting in my lap bunking the top of her head on my chin and looking up at me. I always love when animals come and deliberately seek your attention without wanting food or water or something. I know she's only here for the cuddles. There is something awesome abut having a connection like that with a different species. Kisses for Mama Bear <3