The monthly donut shop gauntlet was just a little bit more interesting this morning. Went by the bank, then as I'm sitting there waiting to get back around the corner to the donut shop to pick up the monthly safety meeting donuts for the guys, mayhem was unleashed. Two older guys had a little oopsie. In other words, one old guy in a Ford Ranger "T" boned another old guy in a Chevy pickup. Both trucks looked to my untrained eye to be totalled. Both guys were ok, or so it seemed. They were both walking around their vehicles with a "What the fuck just happened" look on their faces.
Yet another example of why I pound into my Papooses heads that just because your light is green, that doesn't mean you go ahead and take off without checking the traffic all around you first. Too many assholes run lights nowadays, whether because they think they are above the rules and are in that big of a hurry, or because they aren't paying attention. I don't care why, it happens, way too often.
Just like if I'm waiting to pull onto a road and someone is coming towards me with their blinker on, I NEVER trust that they are really going to turn until they actually do. My mother was hit by someone that didn't end up turning even though their blinker was on, totalled her car.
Is it wrong of me to get my feelings hurt and get pissy when I don't hear from The Real Deal every so often? Yeah, I think it's wrong of me too. Dang it.
Papoose #1 will not be coming home this week to visit after all. She applied for, and got a job that will pay her $15.00 an hour and she can bring her homework with her and get her studies done. It's a win win for her, and there is no way I could begrudge her starting her new job instead of coming home. There will be other days she will be able to come visit, I'm sure. I intend to take some time off and go visit her as well. Papoose #2 and I surely do miss that girl......
Moses and Gracie come home today!!!!!! They are finally old enough. They are such healthy chubby little thingies!!!!!! I sure wish Peanut would be here to play with them, poor little fella. I still miss that little guy. I've decided to keep them in the master bathroom for the first couple of weeks, since there's nothing in there they can tear up, pee on or get hurt with. My laundry room is way too small, and they need to be kept somewhere for a little while so they realize that the kitty box is the only acceptable place to do their business. Then little by little I'll let them have more freedom. In the meantime, if they aren't being played with or held, they will have a safe room to go to. So excited to have babies in the house again!!!!
Snuck by the work in progress second store Saturday in between rushes at Job #2. They are already kicking ass in there. We look to be on schedule for a fourth of July week opening still, good Lord willing and the creek don't rise!!!!!!! Fingers crossed, my peeps. That store getting up and running is the key to me being able to breath easier and stop being bare assed broke anymore. Come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Grapevine!!!!!!!!!
Sure do hope those two old dudes had their Depends on this morning........................
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
So Lonely
It seems that a lot of people are having trouble leaving comments on my blog. I am not having blog issues other than that, that I know of, and I don't know what, if anything, I can do to correct whatever it is that's keeping you all from leaving comments.
Sorry about that, all.
Sorry about that, all.
Keeping My Eyes On The Horizon
Man, this is absolutely adorable. Good find Keith.
I can't decide if this medicine is actually working, or if I'm just making the normal cycle out of the dark place. Either way, it's good to be feeling a little bit better.
Since moving to Texas, I've made more dear friends that feel like family to me than I have ever known in my life. I am very blessed in that respect. You can't choose your family, but you damn sure can choose which friends become your family. I also still have daily contact with my bestie from junior high and high school. So grateful and blessed that we reconnected as well.
I am also eternally grateful to all of you out there that tolerate my sudden and unexplained quiet times, times when I don't reach out and hold up my end of the friendship string. Then we pick right back up where we left off, no questions or hurt feelings or anything. You know who you are, thank you. It's a good feeling to have that security that you have people in your life, some you've not even met in person, or have only met a few times, others you've known forever, but people that will welcome you with open arms when you can swim to the surface.
Papoose #1 is coming home Sunday and staying till Friday. That was an awesome surprise for a Squaw and a Papoose #2 that miss their Papoose #1 so much. I will be taking a couple of early afternoons off to spend some extra time with her while she is here. Not going to bother taking whole days off, considering the talent the Poose has for sleeping in. She's exhausted from taking on WAY too much this past year, and will desperately need some well earned rest.
I am feeling froggy and am going to look up some parts online today, see about trying to repair some of the stuff that needs done on the jalopy myself. This could get interesting. Sure do wish MW hadn't blown the Explorer up, so I'd have a spare go faster in case I jack this little project up. Ah well, who needs a safety net??? I'm gonna give it hell.
Where the hell has Jar been lately??? I guess I need to post some Garth Brooks for him on here.
Or maybe a cat dressed up in baby clothes, he loves that.
Ok, I'm going to get to work on this stuff over here. Chat later, all.
I can't decide if this medicine is actually working, or if I'm just making the normal cycle out of the dark place. Either way, it's good to be feeling a little bit better.
Since moving to Texas, I've made more dear friends that feel like family to me than I have ever known in my life. I am very blessed in that respect. You can't choose your family, but you damn sure can choose which friends become your family. I also still have daily contact with my bestie from junior high and high school. So grateful and blessed that we reconnected as well.
I am also eternally grateful to all of you out there that tolerate my sudden and unexplained quiet times, times when I don't reach out and hold up my end of the friendship string. Then we pick right back up where we left off, no questions or hurt feelings or anything. You know who you are, thank you. It's a good feeling to have that security that you have people in your life, some you've not even met in person, or have only met a few times, others you've known forever, but people that will welcome you with open arms when you can swim to the surface.
Papoose #1 is coming home Sunday and staying till Friday. That was an awesome surprise for a Squaw and a Papoose #2 that miss their Papoose #1 so much. I will be taking a couple of early afternoons off to spend some extra time with her while she is here. Not going to bother taking whole days off, considering the talent the Poose has for sleeping in. She's exhausted from taking on WAY too much this past year, and will desperately need some well earned rest.
I am feeling froggy and am going to look up some parts online today, see about trying to repair some of the stuff that needs done on the jalopy myself. This could get interesting. Sure do wish MW hadn't blown the Explorer up, so I'd have a spare go faster in case I jack this little project up. Ah well, who needs a safety net??? I'm gonna give it hell.
Where the hell has Jar been lately??? I guess I need to post some Garth Brooks for him on here.
Or maybe a cat dressed up in baby clothes, he loves that.
Ok, I'm going to get to work on this stuff over here. Chat later, all.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Fortune Cookies and the $*&%^%$^# Government
Since the great transformer outage in Boyd precluded any in town food run today, I decided to make a banzai run to Saginaw for some Panda Express. Another gal from the office thought that was a fine idea and placed her order. Then the idea spread like wildfire and we ended up bringing food back for 7 people!! This whole place screeched to a complete halt while everyone strapped on the feed bag. It was really nice!!!
Tomorrow I'm making breakfast and bringing it in for everyone. That's always a nice time too. I enjoy that, and really like how everyone takes a little time to just eat and chat. Totally worth cooking for.
Just got an IM from Papoose #1. She is going to be home from Sunday through Friday!!!!!! Happy mommy, happy happy happy mommy!!!
AND she found out that one of the guys she works with is a mechanic and has owned Volkswagons since he was a kid, and was able to tell her that he's 99.9% sure he knows what is causing her car to do what it keeps doing. The part is only like 15.00 and he said he'd replace it for her. Said that if that's not the problem, he's positive he can fix whatever it is for her, but that just from her description of the issue, he knows it's something he's seen in VW's a thousand times. Yay again!!!
So, things have been a little sticky around the office of Job #1 these past couple weeks. We had a DOT audit and things have gone downhill from there. It's not that we've done anything wrong, per se, but there was one test that we do differently than the DOT wants it done, so we're having major fallout from that in the form of the DOT sending threatening letters out to all of our customers that fall under that test category and putting the fear of God into them, which in turn leads to rather heated phone calls in to our office because of it. It's been a beating, and will get worse before it gets better, unfortunately. Not fun, not fun at all.
My fortune cookie fortune read: THE PROJECT YOU HAVE IN MIND WILL SOON GAIN MOMENTUM. Heck yeah, man!!!!! COME ON JOB #2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tomorrow I'm making breakfast and bringing it in for everyone. That's always a nice time too. I enjoy that, and really like how everyone takes a little time to just eat and chat. Totally worth cooking for.
Just got an IM from Papoose #1. She is going to be home from Sunday through Friday!!!!!! Happy mommy, happy happy happy mommy!!!
AND she found out that one of the guys she works with is a mechanic and has owned Volkswagons since he was a kid, and was able to tell her that he's 99.9% sure he knows what is causing her car to do what it keeps doing. The part is only like 15.00 and he said he'd replace it for her. Said that if that's not the problem, he's positive he can fix whatever it is for her, but that just from her description of the issue, he knows it's something he's seen in VW's a thousand times. Yay again!!!
So, things have been a little sticky around the office of Job #1 these past couple weeks. We had a DOT audit and things have gone downhill from there. It's not that we've done anything wrong, per se, but there was one test that we do differently than the DOT wants it done, so we're having major fallout from that in the form of the DOT sending threatening letters out to all of our customers that fall under that test category and putting the fear of God into them, which in turn leads to rather heated phone calls in to our office because of it. It's been a beating, and will get worse before it gets better, unfortunately. Not fun, not fun at all.
My fortune cookie fortune read: THE PROJECT YOU HAVE IN MIND WILL SOON GAIN MOMENTUM. Heck yeah, man!!!!! COME ON JOB #2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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