JUST STUFF

I had a pretty uneventful week this week. I did go and get a flu shot on Thurs, alone with my fellow salad area workers BYU offers them free to all facility and staff so we all went over to the health center and got one. The next day I called in sick because I felt hot and nauseous. Unfortunately K had already called in sick and A was leaving for vacation that day. So I became unsick. I told the manager that we had all gotten flu shots the day before. When I came into work, A said that K was sick, and that she was really tempted to call in sick, but didn't because she thought that she might get in trouble for calling in sick the day before a vacation (She almost always does call in sick the day before a vacation or when a family member is doing something special, She is Polynesian so any body is related.) Anyway we had a good laugh when I told her I called in sick also, but when I found out that K was sick, I came in (I really was sick and spent my time on several bathroom visits) although I never threw up or other unpleasant things, I just felt like I was going to! Today I woke up at 7:30 A.M. and wasn't the least bit sleepy. Wouldn't you know it. I can sleep in but what do I do I wake up before dawn, in a bright eyed bushy tailed state. I had an appointment with the eye Dr. at 10:15 A.M. and when I got there, and in his office he asked me what he was seeing me for today. I just laughed and told me the he was doing a certain eye test and asked him if he forgot what it was for. He admitted that he had, and that was why he had asked me the question. Thank heavens other people are as absent minded as I am. Tonight the weather man on TV reminded us twice that we were going off of Daylight savings time tonight. The only thing wrong with that is we are not going off of it until next Sat. It will be interesting to see of he retracts that instruction on tonights 10:00 news. I went into the grocery store at noon and left at 2:30. How that happened is a mystery. Maby we did go off of daylight savings time after all, but it was at noon and not at midnight.

WHAT THE.......

The other day DH really sent me for a loop and scratching my head. It was late evening and I was really thirsty. He had the kitchen blocked off so he could put away the dishes in the dishwasher and put in new ones. He used a small portable shelf thingy on wheels to move it across the entryway to keep the dog out. Don't ask I don't know why either. I handed him the dog dish, asked him where my drinking glass was(in the dishwasher) and asked him to get me some ice water. About a half hour later he came into the living room bearing the used dog dish in his hands filled with ice water. I couldn't believe my eyes! I asked why he was bringing me a drink of ice water in the dog dish for crying out loud. He says "You handed me the dog dish and asked for some ice water". By then I was so thirsty my tongue was dragging but there was no way I was going to drink ice water out of a used dog dish. I explained that I was the one who wanted the drink. I finally went through the barrier and got my own. That man really thinks in odd ways, to say the least, or I am too obtuse to realize he was implying that I was a female dog.

WHATS GOING ON HERE?

I can't figure out what is going on here. Yesterday I was expecting the heating cooling company to come and service the furnace and put the cooler to bed. Nobody showed up, or even called. I called them up when I got home,(after DH informed me that they neither called or showed up). The receptionist informed me I didn't have an appointment with them to come and service it. Now I don't know about you, but I don't just pick a date out of the air and write down on the calendar that I have a repairmen or service person coming sometime between 12:00 and 2:00 for the he!l of it. I didn't make it up for Pete's sake. Usually an appointment for a repairman type will require a day off to be home that day because they never give you a specific time. If DH wasn't home or I was a single person I would have had to take a vacation day. They scheduled a new appointment for this Sat between 10:00 and 12:00. The explanation I got today from the person calling to confirm the appointment was that they had had a temporary person at that time and that she had recorded the appointments in the book but had not put them in the computer. DUH! I wonder if she was originally hired on as a temp or if she quickly became one because of the improper recording of appointments. This is the same company that several years ago sent a service man to set up my cooler, which is on the roof, and he was in the crawl space working on the furnace instead, and when I came home I opened the door to come into the house, took one step and fell into the crawl space through the open trap door! Today I came home and called my eye doctor to see if my new contact lenses had come in. They were supposed to be in sometime last week. The desk person went to look up to see if they were there, Surprise surprise, they weren't. He said he would call the company that they were ordered from and find out if they had sent them. Well they hadn't sent them because, for some reason the fax didn't go through, so now it will be next week before they come,that is if the fax went through this time. Aaaaaargh!

I WOULD HAVE ENOUGH MONEY IF..........

I didn't have to eat, get medications, drive a car, stay warm in the house, see, walk without pain, clothe ourselves, and keep all the taxes paid!!!! I just got back from the grocery store and it cost me $168.00 and this is for 2 people. I knew I was in trouble when I had 3 items in my cart and already had $30.00 worth of groceries in my cart. I had one bottle of generic Tylenol (500 count), one bottle of contact lens solution and one package of dental floss. By the time I had added bread, butter, milk, juice, pop, one pkg of meat. several pkg of frozen veggies, ten TV dinners ($1.00 each) ,laundry stuff, dish washing stuff,windshield washer fluid, a little bit of candy and cakes, 4 potatoes, some canned veggies, some cheese and a few misc things there I was, well at the above mentioned amount. I have car registration taxes in Nov (I hope no repairs to go with that), property taxes, I still owe around $900 for my tooth bridge repair, I am getting a new pair of contact lenses and glasses, Molly (the dog) needs her teeth cleaned and a medical test to see if she has a certain medical condition, I haven't paid for Rays oxygen service yet this year, and the list goes on. It is a constant struggle (nightmare). We never go out, hardly buy new duds or shoes. Maybe, once in a Blue Moon we go to McDonald's or Mimi's, to eat . Thats the extent of our entertainment. As you can tell I am just a wee bit frustrated. I have been really tired this week, I am going into hibernation mode, So everything is twice as hard to cope with, especially getting up in the morning. Well I sure hope we see that baby soon. hope all goes well with everyone.

YOU KNOW IT IS BAD KARMA WHEN..........

You get to work and find that you have your pants on backwards. That was the first sign that yesterday was not going to be a good day. We had a huge Fridays orders were three pages long, That meant that we needed to start them Thurs in order to get every thing finished by Fri. Well I started making Acini de Pepe salad (Frog Eye Salad). We needed to make 13 5# salads. That equals 65# of salad. I cooked the acini de pepe (pasta), made the sauce and prepared the rest of the ingredients. I put the sauce into the locker to cool and went to lunch. When I came back I made a shrimp dip. I needed 4 pints, the recipe was for 1 pint so I 4x the recipe, panned it up and it only made 3 pints. Fiddlesticks!. I had to make another pint. By then the salad was ready to put together so as I was whipping the whipped topping (fake whipping cream) as I put all the ingredients together. All 3 &1/2 cans of mandarin oranges and 3&1/2 cans of pineapple tidbits, the pasta, 4# of mini marshmallows, and the sauce. "Hey that sauce looks funny, how come there is all that sugar in the bottom of the pan,it should have dissolved". I tasted it. Yikes! It was SALT. That wouldn't be to bad if I hadn't mixed it in with the fruits,marshmallows, and pasta already. The whipped topping was still whipping. I was really p!$sed off with myself. I had to throw out all of the 65# of ingredients, except for the whipped topping. Just then the chef and manager came back from lunch, and when I told them what I had done, they weren't too upset, in fact the chef apologized for not telling me that he had moved the sugar bin to the pantry, and replaced it with rice. Anyway he helped me redo the the salad. I didn't get out until after 6:00P.M. When I checked out I discovered that I hadn't checked back in after lunch and had worked the whole afternoon for free. I really didn't work for free, but I had to write down a time clock correction in the black book. I was almost afraid to drive home for fear I might get in an accident on the way home. So always check to see if you have your pants on front in front. sigh!

Opps!

I don't know what happened to the last post. It got big somehow. That is not how it looked in the draft. Hope you can read it.

EYE,EYE,EYE AND THERE SHE BLOWS!

Last night I woke up around 10.P M. and my left eye was watering and stinging like mad, and I couldn't see hardly at all. It was like I had Vaseline over my eye. I immediately panicked, as per normal. The next morning (today), I called my eye doctor and came in to see him. As I suspected I had scratched my cornea. Don't ask how or when because I don't know the answer. I am now wearing a "patch" on my eye until tomorrow evening. I don't get the fun of looking like a pirate for two days, thank goodness, because the "patch" consists of a soft contact lens put in my eye until tomorrow evening. The Dr. put in an antibiotic eye drop, put in the contact lens, than another eye drop. It still hurts though.
I can relate to the meltdown problem myself. I have had several in the last several weeks. The best was about 2 weeks ago, when a smart a$s on call woman and her crony the head cook in the kitchen confiscated our recipe book from the Cannon center that Karen and I had copied for the take out salad recipes. We have both been in the salad area, and in charge of that area. The on call lady and the snoopervisor (her own word for herself) had come in at 4:30 one morning and cleaned our the salad area drawers. including the above named recipes which were in a binder and in plastic sheet covers. When we needed one of the recipes to make something the had been ordered, the binder was gone. I asked them outright if they had seen it, and course they denied it. I went in the back room, where they were cleaning, and took out every book and binder that they had so neatly put in boxes. I then went through all of the papers that they had neatly put in boxes. I didn't put them back neatly either. in fact they were all over the room! I finally found the recipes in THE TRASH CAN, STILL IN THEIR PLASTIC SHEET COVERS, BUT NOT IN THE BINDER, IT WAS EMPTY! Gotcha!! I got talked to, but they got caught in a lie and stealing besides. They can neither one (not even the head cook) tell us how to do our work. They didn't no how to do it anyway. Miss on call had been in salad area last year in the Morris center, but quit . She kept harping on how we did our veggie trays. We didn't soak the baby carrots in water, we didn't put all the broccoli and cauliflower in the tray with the buds up (no tails showing,like who notices!) all of the celery sticks were not the same size and some of the ends had a shredded looking cut. The cucumbers were not thick enough or too thin. THEY LOOKED LIKE CRAP. I couldn't take it anymore. Finally they got a clue and told Miss on call to stay out of the salad area, and the snoopervisor was told she could only work in hot foods. I however do not have to stay out of hot food (darn). Last Monday the chef took the day off and the snoopervisor also had the day off. So I got the job. All went well and all the food went out hot, done on time, and as the customer wanted. In fact the only food that has come back from the customer was some Alfredo sauce made by above named snoopervisor. She thought she would take a "short cut" and make the Alfredo sauce with a chicken gravy mix and yellow cheese. When the food came back the Chef, who helped her make it, said, "I don't know what that is, but it is not Alfredo sauce" For those of you who don't know what Alfredo sauce is, it is a white cheese sauce made with butter, flour, milk,sour cream, cream, swiss cheese and Parmesan cheese. No chicken and No yellow cheese. I stand vindicated!