between vacations

So we went on vacation to Coralla North Carolina and we had such a wonderful time. We ate great food. We swam in the pool. We visited the beach. We shopped. We went to a wine tasting. We drove on the beach with the 4-wheel drive jeeps. We played some Corn Hole. Now we go again in a little over 4 weeks. May life is good. I have alot of work to do at work in the next few weeks. Today I moved Back to School so I could set Halloween Candy. I was supposed to work straight through til September 11 when we go home for Shelby's birthday but I will be off this Sunday so that is nice, I don't know what we will do, the weather is supposed to be nice but we have a Hurricane coming up the coast that may change that.

Getting close

So we go on vacation in a couple of weeks and I can't wait. This week is a long one, I have off today and its the first day off in the middle of the week in a long time. Tomorrow and Saturday I work open to close and Friday til 6pm. Sunday I'm off and Johns daughter and our grandchildren are supposed to be coming for a visit. Today I'm supposed to finish up cleaning the spare bedrooms and the bathroom. We can actually see the hall going up to the attic, thanks to John. I want John to put shelves in the bathroom closet so I can store the blankets and sheets better. I'm going to catch up on my soap opera for an hour and then its back to work upstairs. The property manager is here finishing painting the front door and that will finish the front porch yay. I want to buy rocking chairs to put out there. So last night I booked our vacation house for our October vacation. We got the same house we had last year. I'm so sad because my parents won't be joining us this year, it isn't going to be the same. But Annie and BJ will be coming this year, they missed last year. Elizabeths boyfriend Jessie will be coming also this year. And Johns mother said her sister and nephew may come down for the weekend and get a hotel room. So back to the cleaning, I promised John I won't let the house get all cluttered up again. I hope I can keep my promise.

last day of vacation

Well my vacation was pretty boring. I did get home for the weekend, which was nice but short. Monday I went to work to write the schedule and Tuesday we went to see John's doctor. Wednesday I went and got my nails done and had a pedicure. Thursday I went to work to wrap my pallets to go on the truck Friday. And then Friday I went to work at 5:30am to unload the truck but I left at 8am and came home and waited for my friend Anne Marie to call me to go to lunch. So I met her and her children for lunch at Old Country Buffet. Then came home and waited for John to come home from work and then we went to dinner but I was still full from lunch since we didn't eat until 2pm. Saturday we got up and I made dip and cleaned and cut up vegatables to take to Annie's for a get together. We got to Annies and went to Nicholas' baseball game which was so nice to watch. Then we came back to Annies and Addrienne and Pat and David and Christopher were there so we checked out Chris' new Mercedeze Benz. Cool car. Its a convertable. NICE. Steve and Vicky got there and then Renee and Shawn and then the party began. We sat out on the deck, which is my favorite place in the Summer, I wish we had one. I like to sit outside in the sun.

Nice weather and Easter

Today is Easter and I had to work til 11:30am this morning and then I went to the grocery store because I fell asleep last night and didn't get to go work out and I was supposed to go to the grocery store while I was there. So when I got home I didn't want to stay inside I wanted to be outside in the warm sun and warm weather. I took the dogs out and trained them somemore on the dog fence. Aptiva got shocked and she cried out and then Pika got shocked on the next trip out and he cried out. Hopefully they won't get shocked anymore, but it does work well. So our riding lawnmower isn't working, I think it is the battery but John won't go buy one. I cut some of the grass with the push mower and boy is that a workout. John's mother is making Easter dinner and it smells so good, I'm so hungry. We are having turkey breast, stuffing, sucatash, sweet potatoe pudding, cranberry sauce and hopefully some rolls. Annie, Andrew and Maddie stopped by this afternoon for a short while, it was good to see them. I guess we are going to work out tonight, we have already missed Friday and Saturday so we need to go tonight.

Fitness Club

So Sunday when we went down to Delaware to get the wireless dog fence I saw that there was a new fitness center that has opened in the shopping center that our grocery store is at. So I looked it up on the internet and went to tour it today and joined and then tonight me and John went or an orientation and a program for us to work on. We were there for 1 1/2 hours learning about the equipment and taking a fitness test and getting our blood pressure taken and weight all that other stuff. We had to do sit ups for 1 minute to see how many we could do, I did 29 and then we had to measure how far we could reach past our toes and we walked on the tread mill and recorded our heart rate. I didn't even get a chance to tan. So tomorrow will be our first day of a real work out. We are going to do resistance training everyother day and cardio everyday. I'm hoping to loose 30 lbs in 5 months and 4 dress sizes. Wish me luck.

Day off

So I'm surfing the internet and I want to make some Oatmeal, maybe I will go in the kitchen and make some. I would have to empty the dishwasher in order to put my dirty dishes in it. I just don't have the energy. I think today we are taking the boat to get the gas motor fixed so we can put the boat in the Sesquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay. John wants to pull the boat with my truck, Well the ball is not on the hitch so I don't know if that will happen or not. So yesterday I went to work and there was still ad signs that hadn't been put up for the Sale that started Sunday. I was not happy at all. So I ran around and put them up. I'm so tired of doing stuff that was supposed to be done the day before. So I'm off today so we will see what gets done today. I saw signs of some animal that has been in the yard, I wonder what it is? The weather has been so nice the last couple of days. I should wash my truck.

disappointing news

Hello all, I know it has been a while since I have blogged. I have been excited about a friend of mine coming back to work for the company and working for me at my store to help me get the store running without me there all the time so I can get promoted to a District Manager or at least keep moving up to get there eventually. I may have to run a more profitable bigger store before I can be a District Manager. So my friend interviewed with my boss on Friday and he offered her a store, which is great for her and I'm happy for her but I don't know what this means for me. I don't know if he will give me another assistant and send my assistant I have now to another store or if he will just keep it the way it is now. Whatever happens I will make the best of it. I'm just feeling a little down right now that what I had planned won't happen now. I don't know if he doesn't want to help me move up, which will only look good on his review if he gets a manager promoted to a District Manager. I will keep you up dated.

Day Off

Well I haven't had a day off since last Tuesday before the big snow store, where we ran around and go the oil changed and tried to get the snow blower fixed. I also too John down to Delaware to get cigarettes because I knew he would be snowed in for a while. I had to work Sunday which was supposed to be my day off because the truck didn't come on Friday because of the snow. John was mad because we had to go to work but they couldn't get the trucks to us. So today I have to go to the dentist. I haven't been to the dentist in a long long time, even though I have very good insurance. I hate the dentist. I'm getting a cleaning and hopefully they won't find any cavities. I would like to do something else today but I don't know what that is. Maybe I will play some Wii. Shawn posted on his facebook that he goes to Las Vagas in 12 days, boy I wish I told them I would go with them. I'm tired of the cold and snow.

another snow storm barreling down

So I got up this morning, had a cup of coffee and got in the shower to get this day underway. I had a list of things to do and get at the store. I lost one of my gloves in the last snow storm so I needed to go to Kohls to get another pair, so we started out getting gas and I found my lost glove in my purse so I didn't need to go to Kohls so we went to the Walmart right there by the gas station and I got my Oil changed and new windshield wipers put on and we got milk and OJ and coffee creamer. I also got my car washed on the way home to get some of the salt off before more gets layered on. We also went by the mechanic on the way home to see if they could fix our snow blower. Then we drove down to Delaware to get a carton of cigarettes for John since he will be stuck in the house for a while. I also got a bottle of wine to enjoy tonight. I was going to go to work tonight and spend the night there instead of driving in the morning, but John said I will do fine in the morning, so I hope he is right. I got a text from my assistant manager telling me that my favorite District Manager got fired today. He was a great guy but I guess the managers that like to slack didn't like him too much. We are waiting for the shop to call us to pick up the snow blower I hope they got it working, we went by there on the way back from Delaware and he got it started but it wouldn't stay running. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

The Big One

So it started snowing on Friday afternoon about 4pm. You could here the wind howling all night long and when I got up at 5:30am to get ready for work, I looked out and couldn't see much of anything but snow. So at 6:30 I went out to clean off the car but it was pretty much cleaned off because of the wind. There were some spots in the yard that had no snow and then other spots that had 3 feet of snow. So I went back inside to warm up and get my coffee ready for the trip. Well I went out with my coffee, bag with shoes for work and other essentials for work and my purse. I put the car in 4 wheel drive and started out and got about a car length and got stuck. So I got the shovel and started to dig out, then John came out to help and he shoveled and I tried to go back and forth with the car but no luck. Then coming down the road is a tow truck with a plow on the front and we asked him how much to plow the driveway and he said $75, we thought that was a good price for our long drive way so I ran inside to get the checkbook. So the man cleared the drive and got my car out from being stuck. So then off I go again and I got out on Rt 10 which is right in front of the house and got about 50 yards and then I was stuck again. So I asked the tow truck driver if he would pull me out, so he put chains on his tires and pulled me out, while I waited for him to pull me out a tractor trailor tow truck came down the road and one of the guys jumped out and started yelling at me asking where was I going and I said to work and he said where do you work, I told him a Pharmacy and he said go back in the house and stay there. Well this guy isn't my boss, which expected me to be at work at 8am, and now its is 7:34am and I wasn't going to make it in by 8am. So I called my boss and told him I wouldn't be there to open at 8 and I couldn't leave until a plow truck when down the road. He said just get there as soon as you can. Oh it also cost me another $40 for the guy to pull me out of the road. So I went in the house and waited til a plow truck went by. We watched truck after truck get stuck in front of the house. Finally at about 10am a road grader with a huge plow on the front went by so I said ok I'm trying again. So I suited up and started out, I saw 2 more cars stuck and a car abandoned that has slid off the road into some trees. I followed the grader plow up to almost rt 30. So I took my time and got to work at 11am and we actually had customers as soon as I opened the doors. A guy that was walking bought some chips, a soda and some cigarettes. Another guy that was driving came in for a greeting card. Then a bunch of guys with a woman came in and she got a prescription and the guys bought soda's and one bought a movie. A guy came in for diapers, another for gloves, a bunch of guys came in for snacks and cigars, a woman came in for a prescription and a paper. I was there as a cashier until 2 when Dave came in and then I could get some work done and at 3:15 my boss called and said we could close at 4pm. We hadn't had a customer in about 30 minutes. at about 3:30 a 93 year old man came in to get his prescription, I said he doesn't need to be out in this mess he could fall and break hip. The car he was driving looked like he had hit something, the passengers side headlight had a big black skid mark on it like he him a tire or something. Then at 3:55 a woman called to see if her doctor called in a prescription and he had it was on the message machine so the pharmacist filled it and I asked her "so you will pick this up tomorrow because we are closing at 4pm" and she said no I'll be there before 4. So then she called back and said she would be there in 1o to 15 minutes. We waited until 4:30 and she didn't show and we didn't have a phone number for her to call to see if she was coming so we left at it was now 4:40 and I was cleaning off my car and she pulled up into the parking lot, I'm sure we will have a complaint called in on us for not waiting for her. Oh well If we waited anymore she probably wouldn't have come. The company wanted us home before it got dark and the roads froze over. I got home fine, the roads still had snow on them and in someplaces the snow was still drifting on the road. I was glad to get home. It was a tiring day.

frustrated.....

Ok, I'm frustrated at work, I'm frustrated at home. Serenity now. Lets start with work, I'm training a girl to be a shift supervisor, and I've taught her stuff over and over again and she looks at me today like shes never seen the stuff she is doing. OMG She wrote some stuff down and did have some stuff written down. I was only supposed to work until she got there this morning at 11:15 but I stayed until she completed the deposit and paperwork. Now for home. I look at the computer room and it is a mess, stuff just piled up and new stuff still in the box never opened. I asked John to throw out 1 thing a day. I don't think that is hard to ask since there is broken stuff and empty boxes and stuff he hasn't touch since we moved into this house in 1998. Then I look at the porch and there is stuff boxed up sitting there since we moved his mother in 2 1/2 years ago. Not to mention the attic and the hall to the attic. Wow this is alot of work. I also want to pain the computer room and redecorate it. John has been out of work since Sepetember and the computer room looks worse than ever. He's going to have to start getting rid of some stuff and cleaning up. He is also smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day. This is awful, so any encouragement from anyone to get him to quit will be greatly appreciated. I bought him a boat 4 years ago and he was supposed to quit but it didn't happen. Now that he has time on his hands maybe he will go see a doctor about it. I would like to have him around for a long long time.

Wonderful Trip

Hello all, It has been a long time since I've written. Christmas was great, my boss gave me off the weekend after so we got to stay in West Point until Sunday. Then we went to Annies the weekend after for Maddys birthday party. And I believe I had one other day off since then. I had inventory on Monday January 18th so I worked very hard and long hours to get the work done. Inventory went well and my figures came out pretty good. So the weekend after inventory me, Amy, Jennifer and Momma went to New York for a day of Crafting with Charlotte Lyons. We made tote bags out of old wool sweaters that had been felted. Mine turned out nice but pretty plain compared to the others which were lacy and flowery. They looked great too but its just not me. I brought home the pattern to make slippers. I should really make them before I forget how to. When I got home I bought both of Charlottes books. There are some wonderful projects in the one I have received all ready and I'm waitng on the other one. I hope to go back one day and get her to sign the books for me. She is such a nice lady. She picked us up at the train station. She was a wonderful teacher on Saturday. Oh yeah and she gave us a great tour of Irvington New York where we were. She went to dinner with us on Saturday and took my sister and Mom to church on Saturday and then drove us to our hotel on Saturday after dinner and picked us up and took us to Penn Station in New York City on Sunday Morning very early. She is an awsome friend. Suzanne made our lunch on Saturday and we got to see her beautiful Victorian house which was decorated so wonderfully. So today I'm off and I don't know what to do. I should clean the house. I really don't like to waste my days off staying at home. I do have to take John's mom to Walmart sometime today and John needs to take his glasses back because they aren't right. Yes John got glasses and his teeth fixed, he is a new man. My friends said I need to becareful or someone might scoop him away from me, getting him all done up.

: shopping

So today I got up took a shower, waited for John to get back from Physical therapy and then we went shopping, we started at Walmart and we got alot done there. We got all of the children done except Davian done there. We also bought a new trash can by simple human it is a nice stainless steel one. Then we went to Target but they didn't have what I was looking for so we went to Best Buy and got Davians gift and then to Radio Shack and go another gift and then to the Amish Stuff store and got another gift. So wala I'm done. I went to my work and made gift tags on the photo kisok and they are so cute. I took the picture of Daddy dressed as Santa holding Aptiva and Pika and put it on these gift tags and put To: and From: they turned out so good. I will make the rest when I'm at work on Saturday. So I'm supposed to be off tomorrow but if my assistants daughter has her baby then I will have to go in and open. Tomorrow is my last day off before Christmas. I have asked off for the weekend after Christmas but my boss didn't answer me via email so I guess he is going to tell me in person which means he might say yes. If he was going to say no he would say it in the email. He can't say yes via email cuz then he is probably afraid I will tell everyone and he will have to give everyone off. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I picked my sister in-laws name for Christmas and I got her one thing and I'm going to get a visa giftcard for the rest, that way she can get whatever she wants. I'm also going to get Annies two boys visa giftcards so they can use it anywhere.

It's almost Christmas

So its the 9th of December. I work tonight and I have alot of work to do because I'm off the next 2 days and I would really like to take them off since I only have 1 day off next week. I have to finish my shopping this week, because the next week is Christmas and I only have Christmas day off. I'm going to ask my boss if I can have off the Saturday after but I don't think he is going to say yes. But I can ask right? I'm trying to get John to help me pick out Christmas presents for his grandchildren. I ordered a book from amazon and I haven't gotten it yet. Its for a Christmas present and if I don't get it I have to get something else to replace it. I think I scared the heck out of John the other night. I told him he needed to record the book for his grandchildren that I bought from Hallmark. He even mailed it yesterday. I work Saturday night and Sunday night and Wednesday night and Thursday night next week. Man who the heck is the boss here.

trying not to be mad

So after John had his accident he told me he would never tell me no again. Well he tells me no all the time. He must of wanted to look good to someone when he said this. I ask him to go with me places and he says no. I say lets go somewhere for dinner, he says no. I ask if I can have Sandras dog cuz she has to give it away and he says no. No NO NO thats all I hear. Well we bought a Christmas tree. It is thin and 5 foot tall, and I got some cute garland and little mittens to put on it. I tryed to put light around the trunk but it didn't work like I wanted. Today I have to work tonight and I'm going to get my nails done. Tomorrow I'm off and it is John's birthday so we are going to meet Annie in King of Prussia for lunch and maybe some shopping. We found these cool trash cans last night at Reading China and Glass and John really liked them. I'm having some craziness at work. My District manager is giving me an assistant and I can't afford anyone else, so I had to cut to the bare bottom and add her to the schedule. I'm supposed to be promoting Rose from the pharmacy and he told me to put her on hold. I talked to her about it and she wasn't happy, which I don't blame her but I have a chance to get someone that knows what to do already instead of having to train someone. Also I have an assistant that wants to get transfered to another store. She had offended some of my associates and my District manager had to come and talk to her and now she said she isn't comfortable working here anymore. I'm also open 10 extra hours the week of 12-13 to 12-19 and I only got 8 extra hours to run the store. We are going to be open till 11pm and the pharmacy closes at 10 and I have to have at least 2 people in the store because it is too dangerous to only have 1 person by themselves.

November all ready

Ok I'm not going to bore you with the hospital story, It was a while ago and John is doing very well. Next week he will be driving himself to his doctor appointments. So a little over a week ago we bought a 50 inch tv and rearranged the entire living room. I still need a home for all of my gnomes. I think we need a new receiver for the surround sound. We are thinking about buying one that is a receiver/blue ray player. Its sounds really good when I play my guitar hero. I want to have a guitar hero party, doesn't that sound fun. We got our Holiday season hours for the store today. Listen to this crap. Thanksgiving 9-5 pharmacy 9-3. The day after Thanksgiving 7am to 10pm pharmacy 8-10. December 13-23 8am to 11pm even Sundays. Pharmacy regular hours. Christmas eve 7am to 9pm. New Years Eve and Day regular hours. By the way Pharmacy is the normal hours except New years Eve and Day but I'm sure that will change. So I'm off the next two days, I will probably regret it but I like spending time with John. Tomorrow my car is getting breaks and tires. I need to go pick up my diamond tomorrow or Wednesday, I must of hit it on something because the prongs were bent and the lady at the jewelry store said it was loose.

Day two in the hospital

I got up really early and got to the hospital so I could see John before he went for his CT scan but we were not able to be in his room until 12:30. Amy called me and asked if they should come to visit and I said that is a long way to come and she said they wanted to come. So they made the long drive up Amy, Rich and Alfredo. It was so nice of them to do that for me. I would have gone insane if I didn't have them and Johns sister there with me. They didn't feed John until 4pm because they had to make sure he didn't need surgury. We left him at 8:30 when we got kicked out of his room because visiting hours were over and they were moving him into the step down unit. We came back at 11am on Thursday because that is visiting hours and he was sitting up in a chair. It was a wonderful site to see him sitting not laying flat in a bed. He walked the halls and sat in a waiting room visiting with my parents and Jennifer and Billy that drove 5 hours to get there. It was so nice of them to come. It made me feel good to have family around. Annie came for a few hours also and brought John some candy. Momma brought him cookies. We got him coffee when we could. We left at 8pm and I put him to bed. I told him I was going to work for a while on Friday since I couldn't see him until 11am. So he texted me on Friday morning and said he was being released at 9am. I found him in the cafeteria. I was not pleased that they let a head injury patient leave the hospital all by themselves. More to come

Its been a long time

So I know its been a long time since I posted but alot has happened. The last time I posted I got a call from the hospital saying that John was in the hospital and he was going to be staying there overnight. So after I stopped hyperventalating me and Johns mother went to the hospital. I got to the ER and asked a lady that worked there to take me to my husband so she helped me find him. Before I was able to see him a nurse gave me some info, she told me that John had a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain. I broke down crying and then she told me I needed to calm down so I could go in to see him. She said he was cracking jokes and was doing ok. So we went into the glassed in respiratory room where he was lying on a table with his arm over his eyes. His head hurt so bad and they hadn't given him anything for the pain or it wasn't working. They took him up to the Shock Trauma Intensive Care unit of the hospital and we were able to come along with him up to his room. The nurse asked him and me alot of questions about his health. John started to get tired so I needed to decide if I was going to spend the night or not. I asked his nurse if I could stay the night and he said not in his room only in the waiting room. So I asked if I could check on him during the night and the nurse said just pick up the phone at the door. So it was getting late and John was going to sleep and I made the decision to go home and come back in the morning.

Getting ready for the Crab Carnival

Well Its 10am and I've been up for an hour and I need to be sewing today. I'm getting everything in place, the ironing board, the sewing machine, the music, the room temperature. The last is very important, If I get too hot I won't do any sewing and with the iron on all day it will be pretty warm. I have the dogs running around me wondering why I'm home and upstairs with them today. I've also started setting things aside for packing for the beach. The house provides linens and I think towels, I have to check again, but I'm taking some incase there isn't enough. Sometimes I might take a shower in the morning and go shopping or something and then get in the ocean or pool and take another shower later in the day, so I will need more towels. Also If they only provide one per person that just won't be enough, we do have two sets of washing machines and dryers though but who wants to be washing towels all the time. Ok so I must sew now.

Long Day

So I got up this morning at 2:30am and got to work at 3:50am and the truck wasn't there yet, which is not a good sign. So I went in the store and at 4am the phone rang and it was the warehouse saying the truck driver was going to be 2 hours late. Good grief I was pissed. What the hell am I going to do for 2 hours. So I did the deposit and hung some signs from the ceiling for a program that starts tomorrow. And then it was 5:40am and the truck was pulling up. So I opened the stockroom door and had the driver pull out all my pallets to the parking lot so I could wrap them. So before I could get any pallets seperated Judy was coming in. So I had her work on a stack of totes until I could get more on the salesfloor, then Deb came in and they worked on putting out the merchandise while I seperated the 9 pallets we received. We got it all put away except the food by 2:30pm and I bought some papertowels to take to the beach and some hand soap for the bathrooms for the beach. And then I drove to West Chester to get my car emissions rechecked because it failed the other day and today it passed. I drove home went upstairs and climbed into bed. I slept for a while and John woke me up and we went to dinner. Tomorrow I'm off and John is going fishing with his friend so I don't know what I will do. I'm so tired I will probably sleep.