November Ninth

 

I was going to make fish for dinner, but today has just got away from me… So I have some cornbread in the oven and we will heat up some soup…

Hubby should be home from work any time now…

Son2 is still dog sitting for son1…

Son3 is having computer  game time because he worked on his cell model today…

Hopefully tomorrow hubby can help him make a stand for it…

I was not very productive today… Especially with this whole footwear thing hanging over my head… I was awake at 4:20 this morning because that is what time I am trained to get up now with hours in kids… Tomorrow I will be up at 3:20am as it is ad day… I forced myself to stay in bed til 6am though but I was  wide awake and my brain kept thinking about shoes…

Last night hubby and I both fell asleep before ten in the middle of watching Ghost Adventures… I LOVE that hubby is working but we went from spending all our time together to working and sleeping and hardly seeing each other… We are never going to get to watch all our shows…

So I got hubby off to work this morning… Son3 was up early at 9am… For a Saturday… We had breakfast… I spent some time on the laptop but got bored… I helped son3 put the labels on his cell… I sorted all the lemons from the branches still in the backyard and put the lemons and branches into the totes… Still more to go but the totes are full for now… Son3 and I had lunch… I messaged one of my friends in footwear who is on vacation…

I text with my friend/co lead who used to be the lead of footwear before me to find out how the visit went… She said it went good for the whole store… She finally got confirmation and starting tomorrow she will be the temporary appliance lead through Christmas…

Of course I asked her what was the word on footwear… She said that the store manager said if I wanted the position I could have it and he wouldn’t even post it… Of course he was standing near by so I told her to tell him that yes I would take it… I have had a headache all day… lol… Actually I just noticed it has finally gone away… Probably because I have not had to think about making a decision and I can relax now… Of course I’m sure some feathers will be ruffled as I heard of several people that were going to post for the position… However since I was a recent lead who lost her position then it is feasible for me to step into the vacant position… Especially since I was doing the job less then a year ago…

I then text with hubby on his lunch letting him know that I accepted the position… He had told me that he felt I should take it… He said we may not be the top management of the store because we like being the generals in the trenches getting dirty along side of our team… It sounded much better when he said it and I was like yes, exactly, why hadn’t you said that in years past… He said because maybe I didn’t need to hear it til now… Wow…

Then I tried to do a little paperwork… Watch the Haunted Hub channel on cable… Bring son2 home for a bit so he could have some dinner and then take him back to son1’s house… Watch Glee…

And here we are waiting for hubby and the cornbread…

Holly is here sitting with me… She has been banned to the garage for a week as she got in a fight and had an infection in her eye, all swollen and oozy…She’s better now, it’s all scabbed over and her eye is open now… Since she is white she looks like she has a black eye from a distant…

Hubby came home on time today… We have been talking for about 40 minutes… So now I’ll post this so we can fix dinner and watch one of those shows before it’s bed time…

 

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

Give us each day our daily bread. Luke 11:3

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

nothing costs as little and is worth as much as a smile.

Relax, let yourself smile, and see the light come back to you tenfold.

 

Today

 

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Clear 48°

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Sunny 79°

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November Eighth

 

Too soon for snowmen… Nah…

It was chilly this morning, hubby had to turn on the heater…

I am making Pumpkin Pie Bars…

I don’t think we have tried these before, so we will see…

Son2 and I have a day off today…

Son3 is at school… He had a math and science test today…

Hubby is at work.. And he will be home soon… I am running out of day…

I have been straightening up the house, laundry, vacuuming, emailing, going through a paper pile and putting on the flannel sheets…

When the pumpkin pie bars are done I will put some chicken, rice, carrots, onions in the oven and see what comes out…

Hubby and son2 finally finished cutting away all the lemon tree that had fallen into the neighbors yard…

Now I can get back to my plan of cutting back all the rose bushes and raking up all the leaves… I want to get the yard all ready for the winter so in the spring we can enjoy it and not have to clean up from the winter/fall…

Work Drama…

First hubby’s work drama… Office Max and Office Depot have now officially merged together… So of course they will be closing some stores to clean house… Of course hubby is worried what if his store closes… I’m not worried… Sears closes stores all the time… Hubby has brought sales up since he has been there… God has a plan or he wouldn’t have led hubby to work there…

My work drama… We have worked very hard all this week to get ready for the Christmas visit… I don’t know how it went as I left right after they arrived… But that’s not the drama… I still don’t know exactly what happened but when I got to work yesterday there was a message for me to work in shoes… I had found out the day before that they were having not only the Christmas visit in the afternoon but their own shoe audit from the little orange man in the morning… So at first I protested as I still had to set the ad and get ready for my own little part of the visit… So first I walked through shoes to see what was left to do, spent about an hour in kids and then went back to shoes… Which is when I found out why I was needed in shoes, including the lead before me… The lead who had replaced us this year had not come in on Wednesday or Thursday and she was having two visits… We were all perplexed… Was she ok… Was she upset about all the visits as her last visit she did not do very well… She had also recently asked to step down… I don’t know the details but I do know that she has since contacted management and she no longer works there…

Which leads to who will be the new lead again… Meaning the store manager was joking but serious if I wanted to go back… We never talked about it as we still had all the visits to get ready for and then I am off today and tomorrow… I did have a missed call from this morning but I am not ready to answer yet although probably it was just a work related question to annoy me as it is my day off… I haven’t really seen hubby since Tuesday so I haven’t had a chance to talk things out with him, although he will support me in whatever I decide…

I really liked being back and having a team to give direction to… I haven’t had anyone to boss around all year… lol… In hardware we didn’t have hours to give the team and in kids, I am the day person and then the night person comes in… I don’t think I will mind going back to 8-5 instead of 6-2 as I have been so tired and I can’t stay awake past 9pm… Last night I fell asleep at 7:30pm and woke up automatically at 4:20am… I won’t see hubby any more or less now that he is working too… I won’t see son3 any less as I’ll get home right after him and he doesn’t start homework til then anyway… I’ll have to go back to Friday night, but hubby works in the day on Friday so he’ll be home with the boys… And I’ll lose my Saturday off and my early Sunday… So no Zoo lights this year…

I just can’t decide… I like working in kids and just stocking… But then I can’t not hear all the manager pages… Even when I was just an associate in  shoes all those years I still knew everything that was going on… I don’t know if maybe I’ll be offered a penny or two raise to go back… I still have the money I got from going to hardware, so a little bit more on that would make being back in shoes all worth while… Even with hubby back to work he’s not making the full time supervisor money he was making… I don’t know… I want to but then what am I forgetting about why I wanted out of shoes… I think I felt I was stuck and being ignored… But since going out and being in other departments, every one is just doing the same thing day after day…

I know I have gained weight since being out of shoes… lol… It was my gym… And being the manager on duty I was all over the store… Being in kids I’m still getting more exercise then when I was in hardware but I think the early hours I am getting home is allowing me more time to sit at the computer and eat… Hubby has lost weight since being back at work… Especially from around his waist from when he had his cancer surgery…

I know the one thing I don’t like about being a lead is how everything is a priority… But I didn’t really have that in shoes… I always felt like shoes was always forgotten… But maybe now that is a good thing… I was really stressed in hardware/electronics…

I do remember the mutiny from the associates when I left but they have yet to get along with the new supervisor or get what they wanted from the mutiny this past year… So maybe they have suffered long enough to appreciate me this time and not take advantage of me again…

Well if you think of anything that I may have mentioned in the past about shoes or think that maybe I shouldn’t have left in the first place… Let me know… Meanwhile I’m listening for what God has to say… and waiting til Sunday when I go back to work for all the drama to die down and see who else applied for the position…

Son3 is home and I just remembered they have a three day weekend for Veteran’s Day…

The chicken is in the oven… Hubby should be on his way home… Maybe we can stay awake long enough to watch a couple of our shows tonight…

Meanwhile I have laundry to put away…

Joyce Meyer Ministries

God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love and a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

sometimes a break from your routine is the very thing you need.

Try something new. Do something fun. Be adventurous. These breaks can bring renewed energy into your work and your life.

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Tonight

 

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Tomorrow

 

Sunny 78°

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November Sixth

 

Here’s the Plank Challenge I mentioned that I still haven’t started…

The 30 Day Plank Challenge will send your core strength through the roof!
Day 1 - 20 seconds
Day 2 - 20 seconds
Day 3 - 30 seconds
Day 4 - 30 seconds
Day 5 - 40 seconds
Day 6 - REST
Day 7 - 45 seconds
Day 8 - 45 seconds
Day 9 - 60 seconds
Day 10 - 60 seconds
Day 11 - 60 seconds
Day 12 - 90 seconds
Day 13 - REST
Day 14 - 90 seconds
Day 15 - 90 seconds
Day 16 - 120 seconds
Day 17 - 120 seconds
Day 18 - 150 seconds
Day 19 - REST
Day 20 - 150 seconds
Day 21 - 150 seconds
Day 22 - 180 seconds
Day 23 - 180 seconds
Day 24 - 210 seconds
Day 25 - 210 seconds
Day 26 - REST
Day 27 - 240 seconds
Day 28 - 240 seconds
Day 29 - 270 seconds
Day 30 - PLANK FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE!!

Still busy at work getting ready for the visitors this week…

The bad news is they are now coming on Thursday instead of Friday…

The good news is I’ll be leaving when they are arriving…

Then I’ll be off Friday and Saturday…

I noticed hubby’s schedule next week he’ll be working afternoons instead of nights…

Not sure if that is just temporary for the week or his new schedule…

We’ll get settled into a routine eventually…

Tonight son2 got caught up on his shows on the DVR… Son3 had Algebra, English and Science homework… We had leftovers for dinner… I cleaned up the kitchen, put some Halloween away, put away the laundry and read some blogs…

Last night hubby was home… We had breakfast for dinner and watched some shows after son3 finished his homework…

Right now son3 is not getting in the shower because he is watching TV with son2 so I keep calling the house phone as the caller’s name shows up on the TV to remind him that I know he is not in the shower even though I am in my room… Lazy or Inventive…

This morning when I was driving to work there was the usual ones who are in a hurry and must get in front of you so they’ll get to the red light first… I was talking with God as I usually do on the way to work and I was saying that now God is going to have us stop at every red light since the guy in front of me was in such a big hurry as that is what happens when you’re in a hurry right… Then we come upon a railroad crossing and I said now we are going to have to wait for a train but no train was coming so the guy in front of me kept going and I said that is God giving you grace to get to work on time, but just as the guy went across the train track the red lights starting flashing so I had to stop for the train and I told God he had such a sense of humor…

Almost time for hubby to be home… I’ll be sleeping soon as I have to get very early… I’m watching the second episode of the new Once Upon a Time in Wonderland… I don’t think I’m going to like it… I didn’t like Once Upon a Time with Snow White… I haven’t watched the Once Upon a Time now that they are doing Peter Pan…

With hubby working nights and Halloween, we are three to six weeks behind in our shows…

I’m hungry… Should I have a snack… and then to sleep… I’m tired…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

We may not always get what we want, but God will always provide what we need. –Joyce

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

you can't rid the world of sorrow, but you can choose to live in joy.

Sorrow is with us not because we are bad at stopping it, but simply because it's part of being human. What matters is not whether good or bad things happen - both will, but your relationship to them. Just think back over the last 24 hours, - what had you taken hard that you could have taken lightly?

 

Tonight

 

Mostly Cloudy 49°

Tomorrow

 

Partly Cloudy 78°

Tomorrow night

 

Clear 46°

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November Fourth

November Fourth already… Wasn’t it just Halloween…

Me and the boys said we were going to start the planking challenge…

Four days in and we haven’t started yet…

Others are being so good and posting their daily thankfuls….

I haven’t filled the blessing jar for two months…

I’ve kept track on the calendar though…

I was cleaning the yard…

Then Halloween got in the way…

But that’s ok…

Hubby should be done putting Halloween away tomorrow as he has the day off…

I’ve been back to work two days now…

I’ve been running in circles getting nothing done…

Getting ready for the Big Christmas visit on Friday…

I have to have all the fancy dresses, winter coats and pajamas ready… Plus signing and every little thing… but then those pesky customers keep messing everything up… Kids dept. gets just as messy as shoes…

The Christmas music has begun at work… Half Christmas/Half Regular…

Maple and Indy are sleeping next to me…

I’m watching How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls and Mike & Molly while waiting for hubby to get home from work…

My co-lead who got let go when I did from being leads in hardware but chose to leave then take another position came back to work last week… She changed her mind and realized something was better then nothing while looking for work elsewhere…

I got behind on the kitchen with all the Halloween and going back to work, so I got all the dishes caught up tonight…

Trying to get the boys motivated with school lately but they are too distracted with technology… Their grades are not the best this semester… Son2 and Son3…

Speaking of son3, his Halloween candy bowl is calling me… He said I could have some… He likes the bubble gum the best…

I hear hubby home now…

And I have to get up early tomorrow…

Joyce Meyer Ministries

God is working more than you think! So many little things in life that we think are coincidences are actually God ordained.

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

your friends are one of your greatest blessings.

Take time to spend time with them. Nurture them. Friends enrich your life immeasurably. They make good times better and hard times easier. Be good to your friends and love them well.

 

Tonight

 

Clear 42°

Tomorrow

 

Sunny 70°

Tomorrow night

 

Clear 44°

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