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.