God gave me lotion??

So today was a wonderful day. It was long and busy. Just like yesterday woke up at 5 and got home at 8. These long work days are going to catch up to me soon I can feel it. Today was a little bit different though. Yesterday was a little bit tough. It was my first day on the job and a little overwhelming. I was not necessarily prepared for the huge workload in front of me. But I know that I will be able to make a big difference in this store and that excites me like crazy. :) Well today I actually got to work the floor... yesterday I was stuffed in my office trying to get ahold of the task that lies before me. Today I was out on the floor making changes... stocking... talking with customers. It was great. I decided that I was going to do everything that I could to keep our customers happy cause after all these are the men and women that are sacrificing their Christmas to keep our families safe.

Well when I decided that I was going to do everything to keep them satisfied I didn't realize that that would mean running back and forth from our sales floor to the back "stock room" throughout the ENTIRE day. When I say stock room I mean a HUGE yard of more than 150 18 wheeler containers... all numbered and full of merchandise. Needless to say it was a daunting task going to the back to verify whether or not we had the item that our customers were looking for. But you know what... half of the guys never get to go to a big store becuase they are out in the middle of nowhere fighting and on patrol. So I figure I might as well pick up my lazy butt adn run back to make VERY sure that we don't have something... especially if this may be their last chance to get this items for months to come.

Well get this... I'll take you back to yesterday...I was leaving our store and I kept passing our endcap of Victoria's Secret body lotions and sprays and kept wanting to buy some. Well something in me kept saying... no don't buy it... if you still want it tomorrow then yeah you can start looking and pick one out.

Flash forward to today. Well I was talking to my assistant in her trailer and just happened to look at the desk by her which had a pile of random merchandise on it. It looked like it was all random stuff that had been left around the store and someone had picked up and put in a big pile on a random desk. Well I mentally took inventory of the merchandise... I don't know why.... but I did. Later that day I was running around the clothes area when a soldier stopped me and asked me if we had any fleece skull caps in the camo green color. I knew that we had knit so I steered him in that direction. I was feeling lazy so I was going to just leave him there when something inside of me told me to go and check if we had any fleece cause I knew I was just giving him the alternate out of my own laziness. So I asked him to wait and ran to the back I couldn't find any of my stockers or sales associates so I stood there staring at the hundreds of containers wondering where to start.. then I remembered. The random pile of stuff...there was a camo green fleece cap. (I come to find out it was THE last one in the store) I run to the desk and get it... It was ecstatic!! I run out to the sales floor and look for him in my area but he is gone. I try hard to think of what he looked like and couldn't and wandered around a little more helping customers with the cap still in hand. I was going to just set it back in the back when I got the feeling that I should go look for him around the store and hope that I would recognize him and be able to pick him out of the other 80 guys in uniforms. Well I go over to the electronics and see a guy and walk up to him and he says "hey did you find it"... you have no idea how excited I was to find him. I don't know why but I felt like I needed to get this guy this cap and was really excited about having found it for him. Well I give him the cap, he says thank you, I go back to working with a happy heart.

About 15 minutes pass...

I am there in my area rearranging some fixtures when I get a tap on my shoulder. It is the soldier holding a wrapped up shopping bag. He quickly places it in my hand and says "Sorry I didn't have time to wrap it but I wanted to say thank you." He rushes off. I stand there stunned with a wrapped up shopping bag in my hand.

I open it up and what is inside??

Victoria's Secret Love Spell Body Lotion!!!

Wow God...seriously??? Ha Ha I have no idea why this excites me sooo much but it does... I feel like God was talking to me little by little today and he totally got me that lotion. Today has been amazing... There are so many other things today that I am grateful for and that I could sing praises about... I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings... :)