Category Archives: Everyday Stuff

Harold spent the day working, I worked on laundry; got a few more receipts entered while we have the playoffs on.

It is has been windy as heck all day and chilly. They have been giving freeze advisories for our area. I may have to get something warmer on other then shorts and tank top…….lol It is still weird to me for this time of year not to have snow, I don’t believe I’ll ever get use to it. Of course, once I get to a more normal climate it will take me time to get use the colder weather again, but I think I can do it. =)

Yesterday at work, Cheryl and I got about 3 interviews done. They did well, now she just has to get a hold of our DM and get him down to interview them and another that we had already interviewed. We really do need to get our 4th manager.

We are suppose to get our budget for next quarter this Tuesday, hopefully we will actually get it. So we can see if they actually gave us our budget for the 4th manager and be able to hire a few folks. We are extremely stretched and when someone needs or calls off, we are screwed. And working that way gets old and is bad for morale. But it all depends on the budget. =(

I got a call from Sandy yesterday. Her sister Chrissy (who use to work for me at Fannie May Candies) had gotten an internship and was wondering if I would give her a reference. I’m like heck yeah!

I had never meet Chrissy before I had interviewed her. And, of course, hiring a relative of my best friend is a risk. But she worked out very well and I would hire her in a heart beat. Sandy gave her my info and Chrissy gave me a call. We talked for about an hour and it was great to hear from her.

I can’t believe that she’ll be graduating from Purdue-Calumet this year. Time has flown. Her internship would let her use her art and help people at the same time. She would be working with kids that have been abused and she would be helping them to express themselves through drawing. It is a great opportunity with possibility of full employment after graduation. I did tell her to prepare herself for what she’ll see and that Sandy is a great help when you need someone to talk to.

So I should be hearing from someone this week looking for a reference for her. =)

For no real reason other then to get out of the house we decided to go to a New York style pizzeria near us since we have never been there before. We go in, look at a menu and ordered at 6:14PM and grab our drinks and sit down and talk. At 6:45PM Pauline asks where our pizza is and since it’s taken so long, we need it made it to go now. At 7:10PM we see a group of people who came in at least 30 minutes after us eating a pizza, so I asked for a refund, which caused a conference of the minds of the 3 workers as they tried to figure out what went wrong.

So I had to call one over again and repeat my refund request, he then wanted to make things right which I understand and was cool with, but I had waited an hour for no reason and to make it worse Pauline had asked 30 mins later what was up, so they had 2 chances to get this right and failed both times, so we got a refund and refused their free pizza voucher.

Now what is so crappy about this is, I was not hungry and I am still not hungry. It was more of a “let’s try this” and to get out of the house more then going out due to hunger, so we just wasted an hour for no reason and now I get to cook dinner.

It has been crazy at work, busy wise. We are slowly but surely getting things done. Didn’t help that the guy that was suppose to help out today was late and then was “sick”. Supposedly he thought he was scheduled at a later time, but after a review of some of the things he said, he was full of shit……ggrrr That is okay, I wasn’t counting on him anyway.

Luckly, I had Jackie, Brooke & Kelly who I can depend on and make it pleasure to work with there today. =)

When I went in yesterday, it was really cool, they got our Action Alley done. =) Now if we can get our shipment done, it would be all good…..grin

At home, I’ve gotten some things more organized around and in my desk. Reorganized my file drawer. It is like this, everytime I have to go through my receipts for the year I start organizing for the next year and then I start looking for better ways to stay organize. I hate it when things are a mess……..drives me batty. And when I don’t have time to do it, it is even worse.

It didn’t help that I had been so busy at work that it was stressing me when it came to my stuff at home.

Like I said last time, my project for this weekend is evaluation time. So I’ll get them done, email them to Cheryl so she could go thought them and be ready to send them to our DM.

Here is a story that was sent to me: Funeral protests prompt legislation
**I can’t believe the dispect that those “christians” showed!!! They aught to be feed to the lions!! I love how self declared “christians” can be so thoughtless and self absorded…….gggrrr

Time for Lost! I’ve been waiting for this show for too long.

Hot damn!! I have gotten all the reciepts entered, filed away, backed up and my folders are ready for 2006! Thankfully it is over with…..at least that part. Just need my end of the year documents from work and I can start on our taxes. I just hope that they are better then last year…..keep your fingers crossed.

We also took the front wheel of my bike in. When we were riding home from my work yesterday I hit a bump of a curve and just about lost control. We thought I had broken my axle, but found out it was the bearings there were bad. It’ll be fixed by Friday so I can start back on riding.

So I’m pretty happy with what I got done today.

Yesterday was okay at work. I got some things done, but not as much as I would’ve liked. I needed to build some end caps, but by the time I could get to them I had to break people down and start cleaning. I also didn’t really feel like doing them, since I keep getting called away and most of what I need is in the shipment. It is frustrating not to have the product that I need, spend time hunting for substitutes when I’m going to have to rework them once we get through shipment. I’m hoping that a small dent was made on shipment so I can blow right through them. I did get a majority of them stripped down. Which is a big thing in of itself, since putting the old product away is what can take up the bulk of your time. I’m working days the next 4 days so hopefully, I can actually get something accomplished.

I have 8 folks that I need to get evalues done for at work. So that’ll be one of my next time consuming project. =)