Monthly Archives: January 2006

Yesterday was grandma Schinkel’s birthday. It is hard to believe that she has been gone for 7yrs. I miss her.

I’ve just been working. We did try to go out for dinner last night………but of course with it being Friday….lets just say we ended up with sandwiches when we aiming for steak….lol

I had one customer that put a crimp in my day today………the jerk…I may go into if I get the time.

I have to be at work very early tomorrow.

I did take a few pictures of the newly painted bedroom tonight. I’ll see about posting them tomorrow.

I’m not going to really get into it cuz I’ll start bawling, but it looks as if Aurora may be going through her final stage of life. She is giving all the same signs that Randi did before we had to have her put to sleep. I’m trying not to focus on it for obvious reasons and I keep hoping that we are wrong about…..but I’m not holding my breathe. So right now, I’m just trying to enjoy my time that I have left with her. =( I will say that working helps to keep me from losing it.

It was my day off today. We had decided last weekend that we would be painting the master bedroom. We also put up a new ceiling fan. The old one made lots of noise, didn’t always worked and some of the light sockets didn’t work on it. The new one has 4 working lights and we are trying out some “sunlight” bulbs. They are bright, doesn’t have the yellow of the others and they take a lot less power then regular bulbs.

So we first we got everything out of the room, broomed the very dusty ceiling, Harold fought with the fan for over an hour and then we started on the painting. It is looking good.

Once we get it back together I’ll take some pictures & get them posted. It probably won’t be until tomorrow night since I have to work early in the morning.

We are finally done with the seasonal crowds at work. It feels both good and weird…..when you don’t have to kill yourself to get something done.

I got a really sweet surprise the other day at work. Jackie gave me a certificate for where I get my nails done for my birthday. She had actually gotten me a candle holder with a cat on it, but (very appropriately) her cats broke it and they threw up on my card. I just think that is so funny, since we are both cat people and we both are so use to our cats doing something funky in our lives. =)

We have already made plans for my next day off. I have 2 days off together and we planning on heading down to Ft. Lauderdale to spend it with friends. We are looking forward to getting out of here even if only for a day or two. =)

I’m going need to head to bed soon & I want to do a little surfing…….so I’ll chat with you later.

Well, it sucks……..I have to head back to work today. It wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t know that we have a ton to do without enough folks get it done and I haven’t had a fully weekend off since before Thanksgiving…..which gets old. But I did enjoy this weekend, even though the Colts lost. =(

I got all but one of the evaluations done, since his isn’t under the deadline. I really didn’t feel like doing them. A few that I had to do were on some of our best employees, those were hard in that you can’t just give them a perfect score, there is always room for improvement as a basic part of being human. So net picking is involved. A few were on those that can do a good job but are so inconsistent and depends on their “moods” that I don’t feel that they have earned a raise. These evaluations are based on what I see, Cheryl needs to go over them and change what she sees as the general manager and then send them to our DM.

We are going to start prepping the master bedroom this week, so on my next day off we can be ready to attack with the paint brushes. =) We are tired of the white. Unfortunately, prepping is not as easy since I have a lot knick-knacks on my hutch that I need to take down so we can move it.

I did get some reorganizing done on some of my cat pictures that we have take over the years. So the cat page is done! Didn’t take me a long as I thought it would, so that was cool.

Mom called yesterday. Sounds like Heather really enjoyed the books we sent. =) Told mom that our idea for the summer was for them to come down about a week before their anniversary, visit for a few days and then leave us the kids for a few weeks. This would be great for them not having to worry about the kids for their day. =)

Well, unfortunately I need to finish this up and get off to work. My bike wheel is fixed so I’m going to ride in and get some cardio in.

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. =)