Ok, there is this little thing (or big thing) called REDBOX, I love this thing, movies for $1.08. As a result I have not been to the movie theater since Shrek 3. How long, we forget...
I am so, to use from my day, SAD, because there is only 2 movies I want to see this year at the theater, HSM3 and TWILIGHT. WHAT!!!!???? THESE ARE TWEEN AND TEEN (sorry young adult) movies. Heck no, kids can be barfing out there ears, Mommy will see you in a couple of hours. I actually have been looking forward to them(and already got the tix for HSM3 a week ago). My sister was laughing at one of my nieces friends who was counting down the days till HSM2, sadly now it's me for part 3. No I'm not doing the midnight thing, 5:15pm is fine, but I am so looking forward to going!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
All around town
The other day I was getting Con's OJ out of Lesley's frig. I noticed a new kind of salsa. It was green and black olive salsa. I am a salty kind of girl, so I inquired about it, it looked really good. She said she had gotten it at Costco.
We have a Costco about 4 miles away, so today, decide to go get some. Turns out ours doesn't carry it. Ok, fine. There is another Costco about 4 miles away from that one, so I'll just pop over there. So I pull in to the parking lot, the gas station is open, but Costco is closed???????
Called Jeff to bitch. His response, "oh yeah, forgot to tell you, they had a fire". You would have thought the "I'm going to Costco"would have trigged the memory of the newspaper article he had read the day before, nope.
So I ended up at Lesley's Costco, which is about 19 miles from my house (went the long way and on the way home accidently got on the highway going north instead of south and was too lazy to try and turn around). At least they had the salsa, and yes, it's really good!
We have a Costco about 4 miles away, so today, decide to go get some. Turns out ours doesn't carry it. Ok, fine. There is another Costco about 4 miles away from that one, so I'll just pop over there. So I pull in to the parking lot, the gas station is open, but Costco is closed???????
Called Jeff to bitch. His response, "oh yeah, forgot to tell you, they had a fire". You would have thought the "I'm going to Costco"would have trigged the memory of the newspaper article he had read the day before, nope.
So I ended up at Lesley's Costco, which is about 19 miles from my house (went the long way and on the way home accidently got on the highway going north instead of south and was too lazy to try and turn around). At least they had the salsa, and yes, it's really good!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
More time, less done?
This morning, Jeff was able to take Katie, meaning I had more time to get everything ready. So then why did it take me 1 hr and 15 mins, what usually takes me 30? And I didn't get everything done.
Typical morning:
get up
get Allys clothing set out
put her breakfast out
shower
make Katie's lunch, Ally's snack or lunch
get Katie's allergy med (I know she should do the last 2, but she is such a slug in the am)
get dressed
check email
check Ally homework is in order
tell Ally to get dressed, brush teeth, etc
check cat food
check to make sure the litter can wait till I get home
trip over a cat, who is telling me they need more food
let the cat (Isabelle) banging on the sliding door in, she's heard the food being dished out
glance at the hamster to make sure he's alive
get Ally's socks and shoe.
tell Katie to hurry up
brush Ally's hair
update Jeff on what's been done for Ally. He will either take her to school or I will return since her school starts at 8:45 (4 miles away)and Katie's starts at 8 (about 3 miles away, more on that later).
grab Katie's breakfast
head for the high school...time 7:25am
This morning I did everything but the critters and I didn't leave till 8:05?
I didn't feel like I was being lazy, but guess I was....
Typical morning:
get up
get Allys clothing set out
put her breakfast out
shower
make Katie's lunch, Ally's snack or lunch
get Katie's allergy med (I know she should do the last 2, but she is such a slug in the am)
get dressed
check email
check Ally homework is in order
tell Ally to get dressed, brush teeth, etc
check cat food
check to make sure the litter can wait till I get home
trip over a cat, who is telling me they need more food
let the cat (Isabelle) banging on the sliding door in, she's heard the food being dished out
glance at the hamster to make sure he's alive
get Ally's socks and shoe.
tell Katie to hurry up
brush Ally's hair
update Jeff on what's been done for Ally. He will either take her to school or I will return since her school starts at 8:45 (4 miles away)and Katie's starts at 8 (about 3 miles away, more on that later).
grab Katie's breakfast
head for the high school...time 7:25am
This morning I did everything but the critters and I didn't leave till 8:05?
I didn't feel like I was being lazy, but guess I was....
Friday, October 3, 2008
Soup
So the weather is supposed to be cloudy, and a little rain later on. So the perfect time to make one of my favorite soups, broccoli and barley.
So I start making the soup, it takes a while to make. The I realized, there are no children in the house?! WHAT! I CAN COOK ON THE FRONT BURNER? This is a very rare event in our house.
Well, my excitement was short lived, we have and electric stove. So when it was time for the soup to simmer for 45 mins while the barley cooks, decided to move it back to the back burner, so I could clean up some. And yes, you probably guessed, while cleaning up, forgot about the front burner had been on and burned myself. That will teach me to stray from the norm.
So I start making the soup, it takes a while to make. The I realized, there are no children in the house?! WHAT! I CAN COOK ON THE FRONT BURNER? This is a very rare event in our house.
Well, my excitement was short lived, we have and electric stove. So when it was time for the soup to simmer for 45 mins while the barley cooks, decided to move it back to the back burner, so I could clean up some. And yes, you probably guessed, while cleaning up, forgot about the front burner had been on and burned myself. That will teach me to stray from the norm.
Friday, September 12, 2008
and her cover is blown!!!
Today, Katie came out fighting the tears...seems in math class they had a sub. The sub said, oh I recognize most of you, lets see we have 20 jrs, 19 sophmores, OH LOOK WE HAVE ONE FRESHMEN!!!! (she is in Algebra 2, which for a freshman, you have to pass with a A or a B in Geometry, in the 8th grade, she also got high school credit for it). Katie started to cringe in her seat, everyone was trying to figure out who is the freshman. She was almost in the clear, BUT NO, THE SUB DECIDES TO APPROACH HER AND SAY " I DON'T RECONGNIZE YOU? ARE YOU THE FRESHMAN?" Of course everyone looks at her.
She's worried they will do something to her. Dad has told her horror stories about what they do to freshman. I said did anyone treat you differently? She said except for saying " you're only a freshman?", no. I said then don't cry be proud.
The week went really smoothly, I will keep Steph, until I get the approve or the disapproval. I have filed all the paperwork. I always worry someone is using my id and claiming to be me, but except for a very recent "california" stop ticket(my first, I almost made it 20 years, without a ticket, I was like a week short)I've never even made it into the court room for jury duty.
Steph is fitting in really well, and I'm enjoying spending time with her and I get to see Lisa and crew a lot more often. Oh and Lisa turned 40 on 9-9:).
And for me, I have realized, I'm waiting around more, which turns out to be good! I finally took Katie up on reading the TWILIGHT SERIES. I just finished Twilight, I loved it. Just starting New Moon. I'm now excited to see the Twilight movie this winter, which was her reason for trying to get me to read, since we rarely go to the movies.
Mary
She's worried they will do something to her. Dad has told her horror stories about what they do to freshman. I said did anyone treat you differently? She said except for saying " you're only a freshman?", no. I said then don't cry be proud.
The week went really smoothly, I will keep Steph, until I get the approve or the disapproval. I have filed all the paperwork. I always worry someone is using my id and claiming to be me, but except for a very recent "california" stop ticket(my first, I almost made it 20 years, without a ticket, I was like a week short)I've never even made it into the court room for jury duty.
Steph is fitting in really well, and I'm enjoying spending time with her and I get to see Lisa and crew a lot more often. Oh and Lisa turned 40 on 9-9:).
And for me, I have realized, I'm waiting around more, which turns out to be good! I finally took Katie up on reading the TWILIGHT SERIES. I just finished Twilight, I loved it. Just starting New Moon. I'm now excited to see the Twilight movie this winter, which was her reason for trying to get me to read, since we rarely go to the movies.
Mary
Sunday, September 7, 2008
OSH
Sunday is my day at OSH. For those of you not from California, it's a chain of 70+ hardware stores...
Business has been really down, so they have been cutting hours. Since I only work on Sunday's and I'm the senior cashier that day (been there 5 years), they haven't touched my 8 hours. I also am the only one that has remained a consistant schedule, knock on wood. I get priority on the 8-5 shift, since there are no full timers on Sunday's, I'm reliable, rarely call in sick, and only ask for 4-5 Sunday's off a year. That is the opening shift, usually in the tool corral, which is very limited in space. The next cashier doesn't come on till 9 or 10, so it's just me, usually I average about 30-40 customers an hour.
The hours of 2-5pm are our busiest hours. It is when we have cashiers/department closers are at lunch and break and people are out of church, breakfast, etc during that time. Normally we will have 8 cashiers, 5-8 hour shifts and 3-4 part time shifts plus people in the departments who are working mid day shifts. Today, there were no mid day people in the departments and a total of 5 cashiers, 3-8 hour shifts and 2 pt shifts. It was a reduction of 21 hours in just the cashiering dept alone. So at 4pm there were only 6 of us running the entire store(not counting the guy in pick up). 1 assistant, who was covering 3 depts, the paint guy also covering 3 and electrical covering 4 depts. Only me and the cashier in tool corral on the registers and one customer service rep. So needless to say a very rough afternoon. We were short other times, but that was the worst time!
Thank goodness no one called in sick!!!! I can hope next Sunday will be better, however, with the midnight madness sale the night before, some how don't think so, at least the day goes faster!
Business has been really down, so they have been cutting hours. Since I only work on Sunday's and I'm the senior cashier that day (been there 5 years), they haven't touched my 8 hours. I also am the only one that has remained a consistant schedule, knock on wood. I get priority on the 8-5 shift, since there are no full timers on Sunday's, I'm reliable, rarely call in sick, and only ask for 4-5 Sunday's off a year. That is the opening shift, usually in the tool corral, which is very limited in space. The next cashier doesn't come on till 9 or 10, so it's just me, usually I average about 30-40 customers an hour.
The hours of 2-5pm are our busiest hours. It is when we have cashiers/department closers are at lunch and break and people are out of church, breakfast, etc during that time. Normally we will have 8 cashiers, 5-8 hour shifts and 3-4 part time shifts plus people in the departments who are working mid day shifts. Today, there were no mid day people in the departments and a total of 5 cashiers, 3-8 hour shifts and 2 pt shifts. It was a reduction of 21 hours in just the cashiering dept alone. So at 4pm there were only 6 of us running the entire store(not counting the guy in pick up). 1 assistant, who was covering 3 depts, the paint guy also covering 3 and electrical covering 4 depts. Only me and the cashier in tool corral on the registers and one customer service rep. So needless to say a very rough afternoon. We were short other times, but that was the worst time!
Thank goodness no one called in sick!!!! I can hope next Sunday will be better, however, with the midnight madness sale the night before, some how don't think so, at least the day goes faster!
Friday, September 5, 2008
thursday
Everything seemed to go well at the social workers office. I have to turn in a stack of paperwork to the social worker and then get fingerprints done and clear the background check. I asked how long that usually took, she said it really varies on if they are short handed or have a lot of background checks. She has heard of cases taking 2 mos to clear or as fast as a couple of days. When I did it for the school district it only took 2 days so I'm hoping it will be fast, so we can get the offical approval.
I really don't understand why they don't share the fingerprint information(I've done them for my old daycare job, and girls scouts as well as the school district). I would think that would help prevent things from slipping thru the cracks. Of course that might be too easy.
Friday:
I'm really tired this week, the heat is really bugging me, we do not have A/C. However, I'm pretty sure it's the having to leave the house and hour earlier then last year... Homework has just started, Katie has more homework, she also switched instruments, so that means extra practicing. Then there is the normal stuff that needs slipped in, showers, laundry, dinner, etc. Jeff is helping where he can. We just need to get a routine down. The afternoons tend to be smoother. Ally gets out 15 mins before Katie, it takes us about 7-10 mins to get to the car and get everyone buckled, but it takes Katie about 15 mins to come out, as she has to get her instrument out of the lockers. She is only 1.5 miles away from Ally, so we have easily been able to go and grab Katie.
Last night was another adventure. We have a night light that is having issues and likes to pop on for about 30 mins then go out for 40 mins. Well at 1:16am it went off and even though Ally has a night light in her room, she noticed. So into our bed she crawled, but then she realized our room is even darker then her room with it off (since we have no night light). So 30 mins later she wanted back in her bed. Meaning of course, I had to get up and tuck her back in.
Fast forward to 3am. Jeff hears a noise outside. So he flips on the outside light, which then shines into our room and both girls rooms. See's nothing. Then 5 mins later he's back looking outside with the light off...the kiddie pool is moving but there is no wind. Lights go back on, he sees a tail. 10 mins later he sees a raccoon. Then about 10 mins after we now have 3 raccoons in our backyard.
Jeff, of course, thinks this is cool. Me, not so much, and I'm pissed that he keeps putting the light on. It brings me back about 5 years and the reason we no longer have the cat/dog door open. One night we awoke to growling and our then 3 cats surrounding a raccoon in our livingroom, he wanted their cat food. Again Jeff thought this was totally cool. Me, I was getting ready to call animal control.
Hopefully tonight will be quieter,
Mary
I really don't understand why they don't share the fingerprint information(I've done them for my old daycare job, and girls scouts as well as the school district). I would think that would help prevent things from slipping thru the cracks. Of course that might be too easy.
Friday:
I'm really tired this week, the heat is really bugging me, we do not have A/C. However, I'm pretty sure it's the having to leave the house and hour earlier then last year... Homework has just started, Katie has more homework, she also switched instruments, so that means extra practicing. Then there is the normal stuff that needs slipped in, showers, laundry, dinner, etc. Jeff is helping where he can. We just need to get a routine down. The afternoons tend to be smoother. Ally gets out 15 mins before Katie, it takes us about 7-10 mins to get to the car and get everyone buckled, but it takes Katie about 15 mins to come out, as she has to get her instrument out of the lockers. She is only 1.5 miles away from Ally, so we have easily been able to go and grab Katie.
Last night was another adventure. We have a night light that is having issues and likes to pop on for about 30 mins then go out for 40 mins. Well at 1:16am it went off and even though Ally has a night light in her room, she noticed. So into our bed she crawled, but then she realized our room is even darker then her room with it off (since we have no night light). So 30 mins later she wanted back in her bed. Meaning of course, I had to get up and tuck her back in.
Fast forward to 3am. Jeff hears a noise outside. So he flips on the outside light, which then shines into our room and both girls rooms. See's nothing. Then 5 mins later he's back looking outside with the light off...the kiddie pool is moving but there is no wind. Lights go back on, he sees a tail. 10 mins later he sees a raccoon. Then about 10 mins after we now have 3 raccoons in our backyard.
Jeff, of course, thinks this is cool. Me, not so much, and I'm pissed that he keeps putting the light on. It brings me back about 5 years and the reason we no longer have the cat/dog door open. One night we awoke to growling and our then 3 cats surrounding a raccoon in our livingroom, he wanted their cat food. Again Jeff thought this was totally cool. Me, I was getting ready to call animal control.
Hopefully tonight will be quieter,
Mary
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