I'll Tumble For Ya.

Tuesday was a bad day. Lots of stuff went wrong, but luckily all turned out well in the end, thank goodness! One of the things that happened was a slip and fall at work.

We have a hand sink behind our serving line and the soap dispenser leaked out liquid soap on the floor. I was carrying an empty sheet pan, didn't see the spill and I went flying! I landing exactly like this graphic, but still holding the pan in my hand. Luckily my head did not hit the floor, but I was pretty stunned. I dropped my head back, and just laid there for a minute. I looked up and saw two teachers looking down at me from the other side of the serving line. One of them called the nurse who was busy with another issue, so the principal and assistant principal came to check on me. By the time they got to the cafeteria, I had gotten up and I assured them that I was feeling fine, but they told me to fill out an accident report at the end of the day, just to be safe. Even though there is no worker's compensation where I work, they would grant me time off if I needed to be out because of an injury on the job. I carry short term disability for that reason.

My manager had me sit down and take a small break and then I went back to work on the serving line. People kept asking me if I was okay and telling me I'd probably feel sore in the morning. I was getting so paranoid that I started to wonder about every little twitch I was feeling. I was concerned mostly about my eyes. I had a slip and fall in the grass over the summer which caused me to get a big floater in my eye almost immediately. It drives me nuts, especially when I'm driving and I worried that something like that might happen again, either that or a detached retina. But I woke up the next day and felt fine. I did have some shoulder pain, but that was more likely due to me stirring at the tilt skillet the day before.

This event had me realizing how easy it is to get hurt unexpectedly. Had I been carrying a tray of hot food or something with hot liquid, I could have been badly burned. Had I hit my head on the sink or doorway, I could have had a head trauma or worse. Luckily my butt and the floor are only a couple feet apart, lol, so I didn't have far to fall, but still, it could have been a major injury to my body such as a break or a fracture which could have put me out of commission for weeks. I've been taking vitamin D3 for about a year after a bone scan showed some bone loss in my hip, so again, very lucky.

Just a reminder to be careful hanging those holiday decorations, walking in the snow or on the ice.

Whimsical Christmas trees painted on rocks.

First Week of School Down And Some Rocks.

Although I've been back at work since August 7th, this past week was the first one with students. They started on Monday, the day of the eclipse. Turkey sandwiches were on the menu, so we didn't have to cook, which was great. We originally planned for the kids to have sack lunches to take outside for the big event, but they ended up eating inside and going out afterwards. 

We spent a lot of time the two weeks prior cleaning and decorating the cafeteria. My manager had some tension style curtain rods and we made up paper banners to hang in the windows. I created the one above. Our new assistant manager made this school bus banner below. She is crafty too.

Our theme this year was emojis, so we each made one with our likenesses. lol. 

And we put more around the cafeteria for fun.

So being back at work means less time for painting rocks. I have 7 weekends until the fall pop up market to get more inventory made. I have about 35 rocks so far, but I'd like to have 50. Yesterday I put on Pandora and got busy. I made one rock for inventory and also got some done for hiding. It's been a long time since I hid any rocks. My hubby even got into the action. Here are some we made and placed around town yesterday.

Some simple love rocks made using Frog tape and assorted glitter nail polish.

These are strawberries I had started a long time ago, but never got around to
putting the seeds on. I used paint pens instead of a brush which worked out better.

These are hubby's rocks. He really got into making and also hiding them.
I even added him as a member of our rock group.

And this is the rock I made for my fall market inventory. I love how it came out.

Punkins!

I made this gator last weekend. He's pretty cool.

And this is a book of spells I made two weekends ago. Yes, it's a rock. I found it in a pile of
dirt that was being dug up for a drainage project in our local park. It's really bumpy on the back, but
the shape just screamed out "I'm a book!"

So that's what's been going on in my world lately. I have some Furry Friday catching up to do, so maybe I'll do a pet post soon. Have a great Sunday!