Memorial Day weekend Sunday

I just finished watching youtube. The semifinals of Britains Got Talent was on and I just had to watch Susan Boyle. If this isn't a hoax, she is wonderful. Not to say it is a hoax, but she is just wonderful. She might look like an ordinary everday Scotswoman, but inside--Supervoice. She inspires just by being herself. Nothing flashy, just a beautiful voice. Of course, she did happen to sing 2 of my favorite songs, so I admit I'm a little prejudiced.

It just goes to show you--all of us have hidden talents (or maybe, not so hidden) and when we take advantage of those talents, good things come of them. Or, at least good things should come of them.

Today, I got a lot done at home. I mowed my lawn, weeded, played a little bit with my granddaughters and made dinner. I used the rhubarb growing in my own backyard and made rhubarb crunch. It's so good fresh. Also, fixed the rest of the fresh asparagus from my daughter Vicki's house and Spanish Rice with hamburger. Yum!

Food Inspector

Just thought--I forgot to add the picture of my daughter Vicki's "Food Inspector". She was making chili sauce for her hotdogs yesterday. Dinner for under $10. Yippee!

Finally--customers

Yesterday was looking to be another boring day w/few customers. Suddenly, around 7:00 p.m. or so, people started coming in. Until about 9:00 p.m. when everything came to a standstill again. Actually, I think it may have started a little earlier, around 6:00 or so. I couldn't believe it and neither could Jan. I made my sales goal by about 500 dollars. No credit apps, though.

I should stop for now. My shoulder is killing me!

Boring day, boring job

I swear, if things get any slower at work I will just go nuts. The thing about retail work is that if you don't have any customers (or very few), no stock to put out and nothing to clean up, there really is nothing to do. Our sales goals were way too high for today. There is no real sale going on, no coupon, nothing. Therefore, the amount of customers goes down considerably. One of our managers said (LOUDLY) "Why don't we try selling something today?" when he saw us standing together. Debbie, our bridal consultant, said (just as LOUDLY) "Why don't you get some customers in here?" Good thing the manager was Chris. I think he was just being facetious--he sometimes does that. O.K.--he always does that.

Too many people were just looking for bargains. Unfortunately, there were none to be had today. The minute they found out nothing was really on sale, they left.

The one good thing was that most people who did buy were really, really, nice today. Must be the good weather.

Also, tomorrow is a co-worker's birthday, so we got her a card and I baked an Italian Cream Cake (one of my mother's recipes) At least we had cake. Yum!

Bills,Bills, bills

I've got to try to find a new job that pays better than this one. The trouble is, I'm not actually good at much. I've worked retail for so long, don't want to spend the money to go back to school and learn something else (can't afford it anyway), and don't know what to do. I just got my heating and gas bill for the past 2 months and it is RIDICULOUS! What I don't understand is that I was supposedly on the "budget plan" which is supposed to be cheaper and easier to do. Then, the 'budget amount' went up for a couple of months (when it was SUPPOSEDLY GOING TO STAY THE SAME FOR AT LEAST A YEAR!!) and everything went nuts! Now, the amount is almost twice what I originally owed. WHY?. We are being held hostage by NIPSCO because, there is no other company to buy our natural gas from. What a ripoff!

At least I still have a job! What do people who are out of a job do? Any suggestions out there? I am beginning to wonder where this is all going to end. Too bad we can't live without our utilities. I would so love to try not using heat or electricity from these companies for a month, just to see what would happen to the bill.

There--I feel better. Sorry to rant so much.

When I think about it, it seems like the only 2 good things I have right now are my kids and my workplace (due to friends there--not working per se). Lately work is my social life. Since Tuesday is Sherry's birthday, I think I will make something special on Monday and take it in (She won't be there Tuesday and neither will I). On Saturday next week, I will definitely go to Meredith's graduation party. These 2 events amongst all the other funny, crazy stuff we do to keep our spirits up. We have the most FUN group at Macy's. Luv them all!

First post in awhile

Gee-- it's been awhile since my last blog. Sorry about that. I really didn't mean to take so long, it's just that I've been kinda tired lately. Work is really really slow and that seems to take more out of me than being really busy, like, at Christmastime. We aren't even what I would refer to as "steady". Today, I'm taking the day off (since it really is a day off). No kids, no yardwork (except for a slight trip to plant flowers at the cemetary). I'm going to the library, the cemetary, take my granddaughter to school and possibly visit my cousin Shelly in Michigan.

Last week, I had my youngest granddaughter's birthday, my daughter's anniversary, Mother's Day (I did yardwork and shopping w/daughter). I decided to make this my unofficial "Mother's Day" for me. In a few minutes, I will take my granddaughter to school and then I'm free to do what I want. Oh--I forgot, I did get to see the new Star Trek movie. I also spent Mother's Day watching old science fiction movies, something my husband likes to do. :(.

Today's my day! Yippee!

Wish it Was Thursday

Not too much today. I have to start getting ready for work in a minute or so. I sure wish it was tomorrow, since I'm off then. I'm going to try to make some changes to this blog, i.e. layout, title, adding followers.

Yesterday was just a slow day, but we did get our department at work ready for today's visit. Hopefully everything turns out o.k. Lately, these corporate people are in our store more often than I am! I am soooo tempted to say, look--this is actually not the way it looks here normally. If you want the store to be so perfect, you do it! I'm way too tired at the end of the day to be trying to constantly clean. Last night, some idiot and his mother came at the last 5 minutes (literally--8:55 p.m) with a huge stack of towels. Thankfully, they didn't unfold stacks and stacks to get what they wanted. He complained about the price the whole time--I had half a notion to tell him to leave and go to K-mart or the dollar store. It's cheap, but so are the towels!

I never go into a store just before closing. It messes everything up for the people who work there. I realize it's our job to take care of the customer and I don't mind it, but people who are rude on top of extremely late really bother me.

Sorry--just taking time to vent.

Today is my youngest Granddaughter Paige's 4th birthday. Yesterday, the rest of the family got to celebrate it while I had to work :( Oh well, the pictures look so cute, I had to share some with everyone.

Today, she and sort of celebrated on our own. I made some cupcakes, she made the frosting and now we are cleaning up. In a few minutes, we will go get her older sister from school and probably have a couple of cupcakes. Then I will take them home and finish cleaning up and making dinner.

It seems like time just goes by so darn fast. I was telling Paige how she was in the hospital four years ago today. She said "Yep--I came out of my Mommy's tummy!" I told her I will show her some pictures later from that day. There is one of Steven holding her and saying "You want to come to Papa's house, don't you?" These days, she always wants to come to Papa and Nana's house, and so does her sister. Yesterday, I got a phone call from them at 8:30 a.m. asking is someone here could make them pancakes. Naturally, Steven got up when he heard the phone ring and, about a half hour later, they were all in the kitchen making pancakes.