August Tenth

 

Last I wrote was two weeks ago and I was grumbling about work… Amazing how much can happen in two weeks…

I wrote the last entry on a Friday and went into work that afternoon as it was my closing shift… after being off for three days for the boy’s birthdays I was busy checking email and printing out all my reports and such for July ending and August starting when I was called into the HR office…

Seems everyone was waiting for me to get back from vacation so they could make an announcement but needed to meet with me first… Seems once again Sears is making changes and I was the one being effected again… They decided to eliminate all Hardline leads since the assistant managers could take care of the departments without us, or will once they learn everything we were doing… My co lead had already been told on Tuesday…

Fortunately their were full time positions in the store available and I am now an associate in the children’s department… I originally started in the children’s department 32 years ago and about 13 years ago I was the replenishment lead for children's and my co lead worked for me as an associate then… My co lead chose to take the severance package…

Nine years ago I was the pricing lead and that position was eliminated and I ended up in shoes as an associate but lost my pay then, this time we got to keep our pay… It took me over six years to decide to be a lead again and then I even promoted to the hardware lead… only to have it taken away six months later…

But ya know, I don’t know that I liked it… cause when they told me that I had lost my position I couldn’t stop laughing… partly too cause they said there were other positions so I knew I would still be working at Sears… I’ll be there forever……………… I felt that a huge stress had been lifted off my shoulders… And it wasn’t so much the stress of being a lead it was trying to learn all the hardware/electronic merchandise… there was just so much to know…

We still had to work in our positions another week and our last day was August 3rd…

I’ve only been in kids a week and I am loving it… Well not loving the humongous mess since it is Back to School time… But loving to get to play with the merchandise and actually stock and set the floor… instead of just pushing paperwork and redoing scans every week… I still help set the ads on Friday and Sunday… But I get to go in early every day and no closing nights…

But then I fall asleep so early at night now which is why it has taken me so long to update my blog…

Hubby rearranged the plants in the front yard… We pulled out all the iris and put them out for free for the neighbors to take… I think there are two bags left that I will either take to work or just plant them in the backyard somewhere…

We also replanted some plants that were not doing well on the side of the house into this planter above… they are doing much better now…

I have been cooking this past week since I get home earlier and am able to relax on my days off and not think about work or catch up on paperwork… I have made fish, a pork roast, lasagna, pasta and meatballs… This past Friday night I fixed pizza to celebrate my being home on a Friday night… of course I fell asleep early…

On Wednesday we went to son3’s new middle school to pick up his books and schedule… He’ll have in order: PE, Pre Algebra, Home Economics, Ceramics, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies…

His new backpack he picked out…

And his new desk that son2 assembled for him…

He picked out the same one that son2 has…

He loves it… He and hubby have been moving his room around this week… I’ll have to take more pictures to share…

Time to go fix dinner now…

Back to work tomorrow and then a bit of vacation…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

We do not have to be superheroes. Give yourself permission to be who you are—an imperfect human being who needs help!

 

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

now is the right time.

You know that thing you have been putting off? Now is the right time to do it. Remember ... if you act like now is all the time you have, you will always have all the time in the world.

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

most important decisions are not to be made with the mind; they are to be made with the heart.

So when you have an important decision to make, check in with how you feel, not how you think.

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

have some patience.

Trying to force life to unfold faster than it is meant to is futile. Call forth your patience, and let it move at its own pace.

 

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

the world needs your prayers.

This world is very big and there are many, many challenges the world is grappling with. But your prayers are more powerful and strong than you realize. Bless and support the world with your prayers.

 

Today

 

Sunny 94°

Tonight

 

Clear 66°

Tomorrow

 

Sunny 97°

Happy Journaling…