I don’t normally do recap posts but I did want to talk about my weekend. It’s the first time that I had to do closing for our PS store and I had to do it for two days in a row (Friday and Saturday). So yeah, I was so nervous when I got to work on Friday.

Turns out… I’m really not good at pushing people stuff. I don’t like pushy salespeople so I only recommend things I think the customer wants and I never ever disturb them if they don’t want it (assuming I’m reading body language correctly). Luckily, sales were still okay.

I did make two mistakes though, one after another. My face turned red but I’m telling myself that it was a lesson. It did make me a lot more careful, so I consider that lesson well-learnt (although still, I should have been careful from the start).

I was so tired though. I wish I had some time on Saturday, but it happened to be the Dayre Tea ParTea on Saturday so I woke up early and headed to Serangoon (which is as ulu as it gets for a westie like me). I was in charge of the snacks so in a nod to the Advent season, I got Panettone and some other stuff:

To be very honest, the turn out for this wasn’t very good. We had to change the date so the number of people who could make it shrank, and out of those people, several didn’t turn up. A few did message me to let me know, but there were a few who just ghosted, which was kind of sad. We were hoping that more new people could come and feel welcomed, but now… it was just a catch up session with friends. That was fun, but we didn’t need to rent a function room for that.

But that’s another lesson so… live and learn!

We managed to try the Ghibli teas and some of the Kittea teas, so I’ll be reviewing them here soon! Two other teas we tried were:

Honey Orchid Oolong (from Parchmen): This was a very sweet oolong, totally deserving of its name. I think if you’re looking to get into straight teas and want something flavourful to start with, this is a good tea to try.

Kitticorn (from Kittea): This tastes exactly like it smells. But for some reason, there’s a bit of a sour note after you swallow the tea. I think it’d work for people who like tisanes that pack a punch, but I’m not sure if this is for me (the can is incredibly cute though)

Sadly, I had to leave the parTEA early because that was my second day of closing. Thankfully, one of our lovely interns came down to help and thanks to her, things went better than they did on Saturday.

Today was basically my only day to rest. I always feel like I need to get at least two consecutive days of rest to be able to function completely, so we’ll see how this week goes. But I did manage to walk for half an hour (figured out a route around the neighbourhood) and that really helped. I had a mild headache, which looking back was probably stress-related, but it went away after the walk so there’s that.

I don’t know, sometimes I feel like screaming (especially the past two days, where I didn’t have time to even fit in a nice long walk) and sometimes, I feel like I can still handle things. Even so, I want some proper rest. Although a part of me wonders if I am getting enough rest, and if I’m just lazy for wanting more.

Sometimes I wonder if writing about this helps me to process it or if I’m just being whiny with zero self-awareness. I’m going to go with the former for now because I do feel slightly better having written everything out and seeing that I didn’t do as badly as I thought.