Here it is Wednesday, and I am suppose to be off. Well, I have to go into work yet again. The store manager is off trying to get moved before she is expected to pay rent on where she lives now. I was suppose to be spending the day helping Steve get the rest of the house torn down. Now I have to spend three hours by myself at work. That is not too bad. We don't get that many customers in the store in the morning. I was there by myself yesturday morning. It was not bad.
On a happier note, I am suppose to get my house by friday. I really would like to tell them at work that I can't come in, but I like being reliable. I don't want to go back to working at the bank. As much as I liked the pay, it is just not worth, the long hours. We just need to set aside the money for the house payment, and get that a head as much as we can so that, as soon as I have a budget set up I can quit my job. We will also need to set aside the money to pay the plumber. I will not use the master bathtub in the new house. I can't even see how we would be able just to sit in it. I will be calling Samantha as soon as 11:45 rolls around. She can either be there by then or I will call Jean and leave right at 12. Sam was late yesturday. Well, Sam didn't show up on time again. She was late by about 15 minutes. I even called her house and her room mate said she was on her way. Sam showed up 30 minutes later. I am sorry it doesn't take 30 minutes to drive 10 miles.
My daughter has been suffering from bronchitis for the past week. I am now trying to get a hold of the doctor's office yet again, to see if there is anything else I can do. I really want to keep her home from school, but I can't really do that. However she does not have to get up early tomorrow. I don't have to be at work until 9, and she can sleep in. KK gets to go with grandma to the commisary, while I am at work. Steve has to work tomorrow as well. At least we have somewhere she can be while we are at work. Some times I love having my job, but at other times I really hate it. I really liked being able to stay home with her. Now I have to take her to school and then I may or may not be able to pick her up. I finally have them on the phone and they put me on hold. I am not sure what they are doing, but I really need to talk to someone. I have to figure out if there is anything I different I need to do with KK or if her bronchitis has gotten worse. I finally got an appointment, and she just doesn't seem to be getting over the cough. Dr. Capra put her on an oral steroid, and she seems to be doing better.
Today was another hard day at work. I got most of my work done though. I ran over $2100.00 all on my own. I think my manager was a bit suprised. My scanning time has come down, which is good. If I can’t get something to scan, I just use the hand scanner. Usually I can get things to scan the first time. I don’t spend a lot of time trying to get the scanner to work. The hand scanner is just as easy to use and most of the time easier. It rained most of the day. At times it rained pretty hard. I heard there was flooding in Abilene. I don’t think we had any flooding, but we sure did need the rain. There was a steady stream of people in and out of the store all day with all the rain going on. Steve went and spent some time tearing up the old house. He took out the carpet in the living room and KK’s old bedroom. Now we just have to get all of the sheet rock and ceiling tiles out that we can. It should be fun. I can use the little sledge hammer and take all the frustration I have built up being in this very cramped and bug infested and dusty little house. Which has no stove or oven that can be used right now. It doesn’t matter much when all that Rosemary and Clark use it for is office space. They could just go ahead and take the stove out and then put up some more shelf space. I think that would be a better idea. But that is just my opinion. However if we had not had to move in here, there would still be a leak under the bathtub in the master bedroom. We will have to get KK a new mattress for her bed. That way the foot board and headboard will both fit on properly. What a thought. Well, I will have to finish this tomorrow. It is way past my bed time. Steve is going to be extra tired tomorrow. He is staying up to watch Kill Bill. It will be at least until 10pm or even 11pm before it is over. Oh well, he is a big boy. I can’t make him do any thing and I really wouldn’t want to try. I love him just the way he is. Even when I want to wring his neck, or fuck his brains out. Sometimes both feelings are only seconds apart. Well, good night all. May the day shine bright and beautiful for us all.
I woke up early this morning and now I feel like I am running late. I think I need to get KK up about 6:30 in the morning instead of 7. That way she has at least an hour of TV before going to school. Today I have to leave work at least 10-15 minutes early so that I can get KK from school and take her to the doctor. I may see if Grandma can grab her about 2:45 himself and then pick her up here so that I can change clothes before going to the doctor's office. I am not wearing my work clothes all afternoon. I have already asked Daddy and he won't have time. I think some of that is just because he wants some time to rest before having to meet us for dinner in town. I have to do some shopping. I need to get some coffee creamer and things from the store when I get KK's prescription. We need some more orange juice as well, I guess the shopping will have to wait until we get done with art walk. I can send Steve and KK home and then go grocery shopping.
Well, it is now after 8pm and I am finally home. Steve had Bathe KK once again. Oh well, I think he likes letting her play in the tub. Tomorrow I will take a shower with her. She really likes that, I do as well. The last time we took a shower together she used my stomach to make that bwa-bwa sound. It was funny for the first 5 minutes but after that it was not as funny any more. We didn't have any problems getting her hair washed and rinsed that night though.
Today was another long day. I was putting up Halloween candy. This stuff was so heavy it made my shoulder start hurting. That is not good at all, because I have already had surgery on that shoulder. I don't want anything to happen to that shoulder again. I will talk to faye and let her know. I also have to see about getting off work about 10 minutes early tomorrow so that I can take KK to the doctor. She can't breathe through her nose. We may end up having to take her to an allergist and find out exactly what she is allergic to. That I think would help a lot. Not to mention not having long stands of cat hair tickling her nose every day. I would like to not be breathing in long haired cat as well. That is the only thing about coming over to Steve's parents house, there is cat hair every where and it takes a couple of washes to get all the hair out of our clothes. Right now I can't get the hair out of our clothes. I am suprized I don't have cat hair on my shirt everyday when I go to work. I think it is about that time of the month and the cramps are severe right now. I really hate that. However being back at work I am loosing weight again. Steve said driving the Suburban to town is not a bad thing since gas has gone down quite a bit. Which is wonderful.
Faye, Dollar General's Manager, is still wishing she had made me third key. I am still learning what to do, but it is fun. I go through the stuff she leaves on the Breakroom table and was able to find some of the sticker tags we needed to put out. I was happy to find them. The prices on most everything has gone up and the register rings is up at the right price, but the product still has the old price on it. Now though, we don't have to have the manager on duty to come and do a price change. Faye was happy when I told her. She likes that I have initative. I don't see why Samantha who is the assistant manger doesn't show more initative. Who knows if Sam, doesn't get her act together, she may be demoted and me put in a place of importance. I would like that I like being the Assistant Manager. I just don't like having all the work of the manager piled on me when the manager could stay a bit later and get it done herself. managers are generally salaried personal anyway. Well, it is time to go to work. I will probably come home with some more gripes about the day.
Today is Sunday, I go to work at 8 this morning. I work 7 hours yesturday and will work another7 today. The assistant manager is sick. So that leaves only one stocker, and three cashier/stockers. That being the Manager, Jean, and myself. Hopefully on Monday the manager will find out if the other two applicants have been hired. If so then she can go back to working one shift instead of two. I don't think the assistant manager is going to last much longer. I like her personally, but I think she is taking her frustration out on the manager. I have to admit the manager is a flake, but I have learned to work around her. There is one ex-employee who keeps coming into the store, and making rude comments to me as well as the manager. Yesturday she asked if there was ever a day that that B***h was not at the store. I just shrugged and kept on working. She then said I just don't like her, but I see you do. I said I had no problem with the manager. Today I am just going to tell her that Faye would like a word, and let it go from there. I wonder if we can refuse to take checks from her? I almost didn't take one from her yesturday. Well, it is almost time for me to leave for work. I really don't want to go. I do need to talk with Faye though.
I talk with Faye and worked until 5:15. I was really tired when I got off. Just a few minutes after I left our mystery shopper showed up. She happened to be the same lady who orders our track phones for us. If I had been there I would have gotten us a perfect score on the cashier portion of the score sheet. Faye was even lamenting that I hadn't been there when she came in. I just kind of laughed. I don't think Jean is really cut out for being Third Key, but that is because she doesn't remember what all to do all of the time. Maybe being young has a lot to do with remembering every thing. Who knows. I have a really good memory anyway.
