Role Reversals

It is strange that I am working and Dennis is not. I'm not sure if he likes it but he has been great about doing "house" stuff. He has been doing all the dishes and most of the house work and laundry while I go off to my job. Yesterday he went to Home Depot and bought sand bags to weight down the van for winter driving. He also came back with a cute Christmas rug for the front door and some Christmas lights which he hung on our patio. The lights look so great because you can see them as you drive down 17th which is the main drag behind our house and across the lake.
The job at Target is going well. It's amazing how fast 8 hours goes by now that I am more familiar with what I am doing. I mostly do "pulls" which involves pulling flats around the store and stocking the items on the shelves. I carry a PDA so I can scan things and find out exactly where they are located. I also have been cashiering more. The policy at Target is that there should only be one guest waiting while another is being rang up. So all the time they call for extra help at the registers. It is hard to stop what you are doing and go to the front especially since I am still nervous about cashiering. I do fairly well but sometimes I get stuck and have to ask for help. My hours have been mostly the "mid-shift" which is noon to 8:30pm and I have been getting 35-40 hours a week. I would like the job a lot more if it paid better but I guess beggars can't be choosers. I will be starting my new job on December 15th and the learning curve will begin all over again --oh Lord, give me wisdom to retain all this new information!
Dennis has not had any luck on the job front. He looked into a seasonal job with FedEx but you had to have driving experience in the last 3 years. Crazy to think he drove trucks all those years and now someone won't even consider him. He also called about a job driving for a medical supply company and they may call when they have an opening. In the mean time he is still doing research about a drug-testing franchise company. Neither one of us is too excited about it but are trying to keep open-minded about the idea as it could be a good opportunity.