My first day as a grocery clerk went well. It's pretty fun scanning the food. It's pretty easy taking money and doing the credit card thingy. Checks are a little more time consuming though. First you have to make sure the check number isn't under 500. Then you have to see where the check is from. If it is from close, then you just put it in the drawer. If it is from far away you have to put their license number down. Then there is a list of people who have had bad checks. You have to make sure the check isn't from one of them. The most confusing thing though is the vegetables. There is a certain code you use that will either automatically weigh them or automatically ring up the price. (i.e. for bananas, you put them on the scale and type 4011 and hit enter. It automatically weighs them and puts the price in. But for cucumbers, you don't have to weigh them so you just type in... I think it is 55 but Im not sure.) So that is confusing. Then I actually have to use the loud speaker. I hate doing that. The girl who trained me was really nice and patient, although I thought I learned pretty fast. I mean for my first day (4 hours) I was scanning the groceries, taking the money, bagging, and I think that was all after my first hour. I feel stupid looking for the little skew thingy, but I think after a while I'll get it. The lady who hired me said that I won't have that many hours. Just like two days a week until two of the other girls quit. But the good thing is I get paid every week. At McDonald's I was paid every other week. That sucked. I should have a halfway decent check next Thursday. I'll have about 22 hours in at $5.50 an hour. Now, the downfall is my sister-in-law isn't sure she will be able to take that class she was going to have for 5 weeks straight that would have given me another $100 a week from babysitting. So I might have to look for another job. Hmm... maybe I'll try working at Subway in St. Charles. I'll work in the mornings and have most nights off. I dunno yet. Or maybe I'll see if I can be a cashier at the store next to my house. That way I won't have to use gas up. But first I will have to wait until Kristy finds out whether or not she can take that class. Well Im going to go now. I have to start getting stuff out of my room so I can paint it. Hey Kadie, are you up to painting on Friday perhaps? If not, that's alright. Well, bye for now.