Greetings and salutations y'all, how's the country living going? Excelleeeent.

 

I've discovered a way to pass the days now. Such a fine way in fact that I have trouble finding the time to do what little work I'm supposed to do. Ok, so that's a blatant exaggeration but nevertheless... trashy paperback thrillers. God, I love my trashy paperback thrillers. From 8 am to 5 pm I sit here virtually uninterrupted and ooh and ahh and bite my nails and wonder whodunnit. I was so engrossed yesterday that I actually stayed a little later than I had to at work to finish the book I'd started that morning. We didn't have a single guest here yesterday and no one called the whole day, until 10 minutes after I was supposed to get off. Then a family showed up and wanted me to ready a room for them. Just as well I was still here, because unbeknownst to me I've been running things solo for the past three days while the owners went on vacation. Suffice to say they were thrilled with the dedication and hard work of their loyal employee who stayed late to do work so that they wouldn't have to. I neglected to mention that in spite of having cleaned the whole place floor to seiling twice during that day, I still had only managed to do an hour of work. And when I say managed, I mean I really was trying to do some work but there was none to be done. So maybe the fact that I stayed a half hour later than I should've was no great sacrifice... especially since I did so for entirely selfish reasons.

 

Mercifully, I had my faithful trashy thriller with me. Nicci French, thou art a blessing.

 

Today was a different sorta day. Been raining like bloody murder outside all day so we have every tourist from Brooklyn to Pakistan in here now, and the ones that checked out this morning sat in the lounge and ate for 3 hours after check-out time. No one wants to be outside in this weather! I didn't say anything though, because in true Mia fashion, I plain just didn't curr.

I still have zero work left to do, so I am just sitting around reading in the trashy thriller of the day. I just have a bit more company...

 

Oh, I got paid today for the past week's worth of not working. I got a little over $500. Not bad, you could do a lot more for a lot less I suppose.  

 

Time for today's holy joke, then I must return to my reading. I am beginning to feel uncomfortably in touch with reality.