Better

[aesmael]

Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.

First day back again, feeling almost no longer sick. Just an easily irritated cough and an annoyingly cloggy nose. Wasn't sure whether the toy library would be running this week, hadn't got a response back from my email and didn't see anything that felt definitive on the website, so I called and left an enquiring message with my name and phone number. Felt proud about that because I usually stumble and mishandle these phone things.

At the charity shop today the first hour was occupied relieving one of the senior staff at the till, until another volunteer wanted to take over. Then I tended to the books for sale for the remaining two hours. First priority was restocking fiction and non-fiction from the staff area at back, to fill in the gaps that had accumulated over a week of custom. Seems like the new arrangement is doing pretty well. Lots of Stephen King and religious books gone.

Once I had those shelves restocked I moved to the back of the shop, staff area where items are kept for sorting and pricing. To make future restocking easier I reorganised the books back there into stacks as fiction, non-fiction and children's.

Feeling a lot better flow and camaradarie there lately, getting to do some cooperative work that is actually useful. Still hoping I don't run out of things to do before I run out of time there. Would hate to return to the original situation. Dreary.

Shortly before I was finished with the charity shop for the day, got a call confirming the toy library is not on this week, nor for the rest of the school holidays, so ended up coming home early. This would mean I need to do extra hours at the charity shop to make up the total required of me by Centrelink, but I have fortunately been putting in about 2 hours extra each week, which means the two hours I spend on Tuesday mornings cleaning returned toys for the library keeps me at the required amount of volunteer work to not be censured.