After 6 straight days of work

I am finally FREEEEEE. For a day. Then I'm right back to work. Six days doesn't sound like a lot to you normal jobbers but for a massage therapist working 4-6 hours (about) daily is SO MUCH. It's pretty much like working for 3 weeks straight somewhere else. My muscles and body and spirit are just plain tiiiiired. I wanna do something fun, and relax, and laugh and BE THE ONE TOUCHED not the one touching.
I had a few creepies, but mostly I had REALLY hot guys this week. A lot of them. In succession. The others were jealous. I was like 'WOOOOW!' and just grinned it up. We've all taken to making faces at each other while working just to get the awkward 'Oops, I was looking at you, but not seeing you' thing out of the way.
Heheh. Hubby looks over when he hears things clattering, and I said 'I did it' with a grin. He just grunted and turned back. Heh. Then Maya knocked something off. He turned and I said 'She did it' and smiled. He just grunted and turned back. I think he might've also said 'Demon kitty'. I like how he just accepts us.
We did laundry yesterday. Hubby cleaned a white shirt for his interview next week. I bought him a pretty red short sleeve button down shirt too. Now I kind of want to play dress-up with him and make him try on all sorts of shirts while I try on pics. In fact, I'll probably see if I can't convince him to do that. It'll be fun and his family would probably like to see them. Teehee~!
Hubby tried to make dinner the other day, and some of the veggies were rotten and molding, and the potatoes had maggots in them. I thought they smelled funny when we brought them home, so I just put them away and didn't try to use them for a while (I didn't think it was maggots, just some rotten or something) because the smell bothered me. But we just bought them last week. *sigh* No more trusting Walmart, man.
Oh yeah, there's a new girl at work and she seems very sweet, but she also is very nervous and unsure of herself. Her hands are also a little more violent and punishing than I think she should be. I think she realizes that, so she's trying to practice a lot on us before she has to do clients. I'm going into work early on Tuesday so she practice on me. I'm nervous about it, but confident that I'll speak up if she's hurting me, so it won't be too bad.
But anyway, the girl's pay is different from ours!! She's our 'shift cover' worker so I guess it makes sense, but she's seriously getting gypped compared to us. Admittedly, it might be our fault the owner's trying to change the pay plan (being able to plan to get the highest percentage possible at all times could be annoying her) but I don't know about her new plan. It seems a quick way to lose any really good therapists that need a decent income. I mean, thanks to the hours and the system, I'm generally making enough to live on. Just with this job, working four days a week (22-24 hours a week). Most therapists work two jobs, AND run a side business making housecalls. I've been considering taking on a job where I visit a business once a week for a full day to do employees, but I'm not sure how to set that up to my advantage, so I haven't pursued it yet. I can definitely take 5 days of massage a week, but I have learned 6 is just painful and annoying.
Hubby and I have gotten even more childish lately. The other day, he proudly proclaimed "I'm a cute buster!" and I honestly never thought he would EVER say something like that. It was incredibly adorable though, so I'm not complaining. I just wanna know why he likes it when I call him a buster.....
I made brownies last night. I blended a LOT of chocolate chips and sliced almonds and made a crust with them. I also blended in crushed chocolate chips into the dough. It was reeaaaaally good. Heheh. Not as good as those black bean brownies, but still really good.
This week I'm making strawberry shortcake for the 4th of July. It's a Friday so I'm working, but that just means I can take some to work with me.
I still like my job, but I'm finding coworkers I wish I didn't have to work with. Like, I like THEM, just not their work ethic. One feels they're cheating the client if they only do the time the client paid for. So like, they got a 40 minute massage: She'll keep going for 50 minutes so they get their money's worth. It makes working in tandem with her REALLY frustrating. She's cheating everyone else when she does that. They are only paying for x amount of time. Giving them more gives them a false sense of how long they're paying for (and they probably have something planned after and now she's screwed that up), makes our correctly timed massages feel shorter (even though it's the right amount), she pays more of her body than she has to (and might hurt herself giving so much for so little), and gets us backed up when we're waiting for her to finish someone so we can go get a group and work on them together. Sometimes she gets a client while working on a client, so she doesn't know that she's booked right after, and that means her clients are waiting for a while.
Basically, I feel like she's cheating us, her clients, and even herself. She's not paid for those extra ten minutes. Except maybe in tips. But you can get decent tips without that. Maybe in repeat clientele, but if you need to give them extra time for them to want you again, you end up losing. In four 40 minute massages that way, you've given your client a free 40 minute massage. It's just not logical to me.
And one co-worker loses track of time and just KEEPS going. Have a client after? Oh well, guess you're gonna be late. OR you could end on time and have your completed client feeling more and more cheated because the other party member got a longer massage even if they weren't supposed to. There goes your tip. It's a little frustrating. Easy enough to manage though, just remind them when to end..... multiple times. I think that co-worker is starting to dislike me, but I'd rather be disliked than have to do more work than I'm paid for. Or lose clients because co-worker wants to zone out.
And one receptionist is driving me crazy. She keeps messing with my schedule, not blocking me out when I ask, misplacing my clients or their paperwork, and not answering my questions before I have to take my clients in the back (where I can't get my answer until its too late). It's been decided that she needs extra training, so hopefully this will get cleared up fairly quickly.
And that, my dears, is me playing 'Catch-up'. Court is this Wednesday. I'm so nervous that I have to keep super busy to try not to get really bad insomnia. Wish me luck! Comment! TALK TO MEEEEE....... *cries pitifully*