Extra hour of sleep tonight!

Yeah!!

Funny how changing to and from daylight savings time has never really mattered since it happens on the weekend. Well, let me tell you, this year its very important since we are working the week-end shift at Amazon. We work Friday through Monday. I will love getting that extra hour of sleep tonight.

I haven't written about some of the wonderful people we have met. I am very surprised to see so many women who are working and traveling alone. There is a woman who drives her own fifth wheel and one who drives a class b (looks a little like a van). One women who is in her 60's is driving a 30' class a with a tow dolly and car!!! There is a man working with us who is 84 years old and walks faster than I do!!!

The work here is very physical as I have said before. We start each day with a meeting and then we go through a series of stretching exercises. We also do the same after lunch. They are very safety conscious. We have to walk in what they call the 'green mile' since there are so many different motorized vehicles going around. In receiving, there are pallets of merchandise all over with 10 truck bays. Its been a long time since I visited Amazon.com. It's amazing some of the merchandise that we are seeing come through. They aren't just books and tapes any longer. Lots of toys, kitchen items, electronic items and a lot of apparel everything from underwear to coats!!

Our receiving line has 3 different conveyors. The middle is where we pull the boxes to scan into totes. The bottom is where our loaded totes are taken to someone who loads them onto pallets to be taken to the different areas for the stowers. The top one is where we put our empty boxes to go to this machine that crushes them and they come out looking like bales with wire around them. Really an amazing set up. Now that I have switched over to receiving, I'm liking it better (but not enough to do this again!!)

Happy Birthday Savannah

You're 5 years old today. Doesn't seem possible. Such a big girl now. No more Dora and Diego not its Hannah Montana and Taylor Swift. No more Mickey Mouse, now its all about the Princesses.

Nine Months

Like her mother she loves the beach!!











Her first concert experience....Taylor Swift, of course!!









Had to go back and edit...just received more pics.



















Happy Birthday Savannah!
Hope you have a great day!!
Love you Lots!!!

Tom Mix Museum

We have been working hard at Amazon.com. It is really physical work with a lot of heavy lifting. They try to keep the weight of the totes to 23 lbs but I know some of those totes loaded with books weighed more than that. I never knew Amazon.com sold so much stuff. They have a lot of apparel, toys, kitchen items and some high tech stuff. I have switched my job to receiving instead of stowing. Now I get to load the totes. But since I know how hard it is to lift some of them, I am careful not to load them to heavy!!

November 8th we start on mandatory OT working 4 - 11 hour days. We will start work from 5:00am to 4:30pm. After thanksgiving we will probably by working 5 - 11 hour days!! Hope we survive!!

Last week on our days off, we went to the Tom Mix Museum in Dewey, Oklahoma. It was very interesting. Here are some pictures.


Tom Mix was doing stunt shows when he started doing bit parts in Selig films. As his popularity grew so did the roles. He changed the image of the west by portraying a romantic figure of the mythic west. He rode Tony the Wonder Horse. Tony stood 14 hands and knew 20 different tricks and stunts.



Tom Mix was a Texas Ranger at one time and he also was the sheriff of Dewey, Oklahoma.

After all of the stunts he did over his career, Tom was killed in a car accident when driving at very high speeds, his car went into a ditch. He was killed when one of his suitcases hit him on the head and broke his neck.

Hopefully, next week it will be nice enough on our days off to go to 'Little House on the Prairie'. The homestead of Laura Ingals Wilder isn't far from Independence, Kansas.