If I may just take this opportunity to vent, please and thank you...
This has been one shitty-ass and busy as hell week!!!

Basically, the last 7 or 8 days for me have been just one long

popcorn moment.
At my store, we've dealt with everything from no-call/no-shows on Labor Day weekend (with yours truly having to cover the shifts) to one of our girls having a miscarriage

(I feel so bad for her, bless her heart) to the girl who is my alternate on the graveyard shift being out with severe gallstones.

My boss is going through her own hard times with her parents, so I feel bad for her. One of the girls had found out that a physically-distant-but-emotionally-close relative of theirs just got diagnosed with cancer, and it may or may not be operable. The more I think of it, about half our staff is going through some sort of personal drama, at the moment. When it rains, it pours!
Speaking of rain, the weather here in North Texas has been flat out dangerous! Over a half-dozen tornados hit the immediate Dallas-Fort Worth area on both Tuesday, and Wednesday combined - including one that hit the western and northern parts of immediate downtown Dallas.
Here's a pic of the one that hit Dallas on Wednesday, courtesy of WFAA-TV:
Thankfully, I don't think anyone got seriously injured in the about 7 or 8 twisters between the two days. But there were thankfully no deaths, I don't think.
Here's WFAA's coverage from the late news, Wednesday night.
Yesterday, this video clip made the news: it was security camera footage from a business's parking lot. It showed this car, just normally backing up out of a parking space, and slowly driving away, as the tornado pictured above was literally just 50 or 75 yards behind them, in the 7:00 position. And they're just slowly driving off, just as calm as you please. While ALL HELL is literally breaking loose right behind them. In-freakin'-credible! They did escape unharmed.
Hopefully this next week, we can go up from here. Puh-leeze!!!
