comfort in the midst of screaming saws

This past week in pictures:

I'm going to call the person I work with "J" just to make things easier.  J and I have been trying to figure out how to categorize, describe, and list products and customers in Quickbooks.  It's a surprising amount of brain work.  

Margo has it much tougher though.  She's still trying to figure out which bed she wants to have at work.  

Margo is definitely a distraction, but whatever stress I feel just falls away anytime I look at her.

Both Margo and Josie are much more content now that they go their separate ways to do their important jobs every day.  They come home very tired and barely have time to do their important home jobs of providing comfort to their stuffies before falling asleep.  

While talking to my dad the other night I told him I felt like my life had come full circle.  First, I took things apart in his junkyards, and now I'm putting things together.  I've been learning the fine art of trophy construction, which is really just keeping your effing hands away from the saw and screwing shiny things together.  

When a customer came in and asked how to remove a placard from something, I said (very authoritatively) you need a pancake screwdriver.  He nearly fell over laughing when I brought out a cake spatula (which is its real name).  As you can tell I don't spend a lot of time making cakes either.

I really have no idea what things are called or what I'm doing, but oh the mirth this brings.  It helps that I work with someone who is incredibly capable in this business and who also has a lot of patience.

The first time I saw the backrooms of the shop and the 50 old coffee cans with all the doodads (bolts? Lugnuts? Hoopty Hoos? Screws?) and the various screwdrivers and tools I had a small chuckle, because it felt like I was back in the junkyard.  

It's been snowy and chilly here, so eating cold salads almost makes me cry right now.  Not sure who else out there likes to roast vegetables, but I've been eating a lot of roasted tomatoes.  They are the best thing to eat on a cold night and you don't need a cake spatula to make them.