I 'm home

Well I am finally in my new home. I am in a terrible mess. I have over 113 boxes crammed into this house. I can.t find anything. The moving company packed all of my things. I can't find anything. They packed my book with all of my passwords in it, so I cannot get into a lot of my web sites because I can't remember the passwords. I still haven't gotten the TV installed. (This is a major disaster, believe me) I still haven't found my toaster. Breakfasts are weird, because I usually have 4 slices of toast and a Dr Pepper for breakfast. This week I have had Mac and cheese (Frozen and zapped) , canned hash, ice cream or other odd things for breakfast. The stove is covered with boxes so I have only had the microwave to cook with. I had to go to the store and buy a toothbrush, toothpaste, garbage bags ( Twice, because I cannot find the first box of them that I bought, a can opener. I found a box of canned food I could eat, but the can opener was missing in action. The first night here I had to use my coat and bath towels for bedding because I could not find any bedding. Last week I did not go to church because they had packed all of my dresses and skirts. I have worked every day this week including Saturday. I had Monday off, but that was to see that all of the boxes were put on the truck and then see that they were all unloaded into the house. So far I have unpacked 2 boxes. Found bedding in one. The old soiled bedding, but my washing machine is working over here so it is now clean. And one box of canned food. My freezer is somewhat full of frozen entrees etc. so there is some food available to eat. I will not have another day off until Dec 24th. I have 2 pkgs in the post office waiting to be picked up. I have to find time this week to take the eye test to renew my drivers license, or I will have to take the written and driving test, So I abousouletly have to do that this next week. Or rather Monday or Tues. Even things I buy to replace things I can't find or discover that I need dissapear. I bought a short extension cord for the microwave over the stove. a nice heavy duty bright orangs one, along with that I bought some tweezers and Garbage bags. They are missing . I bought some more garbage bags. I now where where they are. When I finally get unpacked I should have three large boxes of garbage bags! Either my memory is full of holes. or I have gremlins. Tues morning I was late to work because the key to my new 2 car garage wouldn'd fit in the keyhole and I had locked it before I came in Mon. night. I couldn't find the automatic garage door opener that I had sat down inside the house somewhere and the other one was in the car which was locked in the garage, and to make matters worse, It was snowingt. I called work and the chef came and got me. He couldn't get the key yo work either, so he took me to work. Another supervisor took me home, and guess what, the key didn't work for him either. He crawled into a window that had a loose screen and opened the door from the inside, I also need a locksmith to re key the lock. I found the opener in a cupboard that I had put it in the night before. The garage is not attached to the house, but a seperat building. It has been a real comedy of errors I will tell you. A totally overwhelming comedy of errors.

HELLO

Hillbilly Sis; Did you get my e-mail? *If not, please look in it.ASAP or do I need to send another one! Yes the hospital is moving me. Yes I get to leave behind anything I do not want. Yes they are packing for me. Yes I need help next Thurs and Friday. HELP! Pleaaaaase, with suger on top and maybe even chocolate. Please read your e-mail, Then reply or call so I can figure out another solution if the one I suggested is not possible, for whatever reason. You can also call me.:-)

House pics.

There might be some confusion about the house pictures. The pictures are from the internet real estate page where I got the lead on the house. I am not in it quite yet. My furniture is not nearly as pretty. I don't have a usable chair for the living room. I have been using an ancient rocking chair the DHs mother had when he was living with her, and it was ancient then. My couch is dark blue so it will look real lovely in the room with green carpet and a slightly different green wall. I am excited to get in it. I have the move approved by the hospital so now I can sceduale the move, as soon as I can get the schedular on the phone. So far we have been playing phone tag for two days now. I will send the address to you by e-mail. How do I fix mt blog so that "spamers" don't send things. I think I already have the security word on here, What else do I need to do?

These are the pictures of the interior of the house that were in the brochere. There is not a picture ot the bedrooms. It looks like I got carried away with the uploading now that I have figured out how to do it. There are 2 pictures that I uploaded twice. I hope that I can get out of here this week or early nezt week. I need to get out of this limbo. It is taking a toll on me. I hope that you all had a Happy Thanksgiving. I really really wanted to be there. If I would have known eairlier that the moving company needed more notice that I gave them I still might have been able to come, that is if I would have been able to find a doggie hotel for Molly!

I finally found out how to upload photos on here.

$23.09

That is the amount of money I found in DH wallet last week. It is nice to know that he did not die pennyless. I am still hoping to come to the Valley for Thanksgiving, but it could change. I haven't found a place to board dog and cat for the holiday. My house is supposed to get the fence Mon. I still haven't found a painter. If I painted the bedroom my favorite color, it would be red, and a red bedroom in a South facing room, or any other room for that matter would be a bit over whelming. I am thinking of a nice blue green for the living room. I have found a color called lavenderbeige the is kind of pretty. It might work for the bedroom. Life for me is so overwhelming right now that it is a struggle on most days just to get out of bed and get to work. This is not the best time of year in the best of circumstances, and this year is exceptionally unbest! Being widdowed right in the middle of moving is definitly not a good time. I feel over stressed trying to move because I do not have the strenght to dig out all of the 20 years of accumalated stuff. Even worse DH lived in this house with his mother since the 1960s and they were both huge packrats. Except for the first 5 years of our marriage he lived here, in the old house I am in. After 8-9 hours on my feet at work all day, it is all I can do to feed the critters and myself. I fall asleep in the chair I sit in to watch TV and eat supper in. I then wake up around 2 or 3 in the morning. Then, after going to the bathroom, letting the dog out, and then back in again, it is almost time to get ready for work, but I take a drink and then try to get some more sleep. often I then have nightmares, and when the alarm goes off, I can't get up. akkk!

Still not in

I am still not in the new house. I did manage to get the keys. Last week one of my Realtors helpers finally crawled into the garage and got the keys out of it. When we got in the house I still needed to flip on the circuit breaker in order to get the electricity reset. It didn't work that day. I tried again last Monday and surprise, surprise it worked. I did the same thing to the breaker as I did on the Friday before. It worked that time. I have a suspicion that the electric company came over to the house before I got there and did what they should have done the first time, but didn't. I am still waiting for the fence people to put up the fence that I need before I can move in. I am supposed to meet with a painter on Thurs to get an estimate on what he will charge and when he can do it. I still haven't been able to decide what colors I want in the bedroom and the living room. still cannot get into the garage with the automatic door opener. I have tried and tried to get it to work. Finally Jay told me that it needed a new battery. Now all I have to do is find where the battery goes and replace it. Don't forget the screwdriver! It has been such a pain to get into the new house and all settled in, that I am not going to be to kean on moving for awhile. Pi.day Dave I do want yo go to the Valley for thanksgiving. It will depend on weather I can get a place to board the dog and someone to board the cat or come in and check on her. Plan on me going unless I let you know. It sounds like something I need right now.

Just a nite.

I will write more soon. I have got the house. Now all I need is the keys. We will move in within the next too weeks. As soon as hey put up a fence and I can get the bedroom and livingroom/dining areas painted different colors. Hunter Green is way too dark on the walls, and baby poop tangreenishyellow is awful for the bedroom. I think something in the pink/rose range for bedroom. For dining/livingroom I don't know yet. Suggestions anyone?

HI

Happy Birthday bro!

MORE RAIN

Well, DH has joined the ranks of the sick husbands. He was admitted to the hospital this afternoon, It is for the same ailment that he was in for the last three times. It has been 2 years since the last admission, but this means that I will be unable to come to Ls funeral tomorrow,seeing as I have to deal with DH up here. It is for a small bowel obstruction. It is a good thing I came home for a lunch break today. DH had to sign some mortgage papers etc. I called work and told them that my DH was ill and that I needed to get him to a Doctor or the emergency room and that I wouldn't be back to work today. Is this eerie or what, I got him in today and the symptoms started today, so I got him in right away. I recognize the symptoms now and get him taken care of ASAP.He almost died the first time I took him in because he had been sick for two weeks.

INFO

Hi! I am still in my old house. We have not jumped through enough hoops yet to get the HUD loan. We still have the final hoops to jump through. This is extremely difficult for us to do since we both have arthritis in our knees and can barely walk, let alone JUMP. The final process is set to take place at 9:00 a.m. Wed. Hopefully we can then get on the road to closing this deal. I called Mom last night and she has the address of the new house. The zip will be the same and so will the phone number. I can e-mail the address to some of you, but I do not have every ones e-mail addresses. Wyo sis and Pi day Dave I have not been able to find your addresses, also Hillbilly sis I am not sure if I have yours. The house is a 3 bedroom, two bathroom rambler. It has been completely gutted and has new custom made kitchen cabinets, granite counters. It has air conditioning and a new roof. It has sprinklers for the lawn. Two huge trees in the front yard, they are either chestnut or black walnut trees. I am not sure which one. It has round smooth nuts( the outer coverings are smooth green coverings). There are grape vines on the fence and a few smaller trees in the back yard. There is also a covered back patio area just out the back door. It has a 2 car garage with a garage door opener. It also has a workshop. There is a 60 square foot basement storage area. sort of like a root cellar. The present owners are going to fence the backyard and put in two gates. They have already cut down the dead tree that was in the yard and trimmed away the branches that were on the roof. It is wired with fiber optics throughout the house. It has a really nice master bedroom with CLOSET SPACE.The outside of the house is aluminium siding. It has a front porch. The siding is a sort of yellowish tan color. Not my favorite, but I can live with it. It is on the corner of a cul-de-sac. It has double pane windows with blinds (I think the blinds are inside the windows, but I can't remember for sure) that is they are between the two panes of glass. I hope we can get into it by the end of September.

PLESENTRY

I wanted to title this "outing" but then I realized it has at least one meaning that is NOT what I meant, so I changed the title. Yesterday I took DH out to eat. We went to Mimi's which is one of out favorite places, They always treat use kindly and the food is yummy. I decided to get one of the specials that I had not eaten before, mainly because it featured Asparagus as the veggie, and it is, hands down, my favorite. It also featured a chicken breast and mushrooms. I should have chosen the other special, beef pot roast, and asked for a side of asparagus. There pot roast is out of this world. The chicken was overcooked and dry, the sauce was not so much, It was some kind of sauce made with Dijon mustard, and weird spices. The sauce was alright, but too vinegary, much too strong a taste for chicken. I like their food because it has a down home taste that I like. Not that dish. It is getting harder and harder to find "farm food" nowadays. Chefs are destroying food a lot of times by tinkering with a good thing to make a nasty thing that is way worse than the original. I really do not like hot spices or vinegary things. Phoooy! At work they use Bullseye BBQ sauce. I detest it! We have a signature sauce that we make called "Rocky Mountain BBQ Sauce". It is much better because it is sweeter and not as spicy. When we make it though is make me cough, because of the vinegar in it. We make it once or twice a week. It starts with 75# of brown sugar, then catsup, celery seed, chili powder and a few other things, (I can't remember them all). We also stopped by to visit with Otto and Florence. Otto is getting hospice care and is in a hospital bed in their TV room. They have gotten him an electric schooter and a walker, so he can sometimes get around a little. It was nice to visit with them for awhile. I did not get to the grocery store, so we are out of milk, Alka Seltzer, (my before bed drink, I love it, always have) Kitty Litter, and hard candies. At the present time I am craving Skittles, a chewy candy, I cannot find Jaw Breakers anywhere, except for Atomic Fireballs which are not what I want, The ones I like are made by the same company that makes the fire balls, but I can't find them anywhere. Anyway It was a pleasant outing. I haven't been out to do even that much for months. I need to get a life! It is scarey and exciting to be moving. The new house should be ready in 2 or 3 weeks. My spell check is doing funny things tonight so please excuse the spelling,

HOUSE

WE GOT IT!

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

Well July has gone. We are now on the downhill side of summer and winter will be here in about 3 months! We only have one more week of EFY to cook for. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I would like to take some vacation time, but I ran out of vacation and sick time sometime last fall or winter. I get about 3-4 hours of both every 2 weeks. I have had a lot of business to do lately and some illness also.
Each time I have to take a long lunch break or see the Doctor,or take DH to same,or run out of work before the time does I have to take some Vacation time or sick time. I seem to always use it lately. This is something that plagues me every week and often daily. I always seem to get to work later than I plan to. So I go to work upset at my self for not getting to work when I plan on it. I really prefer to work a later shift because the morning is so crowded with students and full time people that it isn't long before I am screaming in my mind for relief. I do not do well in crowded places. Noise bothers me also. And the heat, in a kitchen full of steam, ovens, steamers etc that the air conditioning, if it exists, is useless, When it is 100 degrees outside. don.t even try to guess the temp in the kitchen. Look at Marbles blog to get an update on the house hunting, or maybe it is in one of the other blogs. I have had one of my light bulbs flashing at me. It is one of those curly Q florescent bulbs that is supposed to last up tp ten years and save multi millions of dollars over the lifetime of the things. The only thing "green" about those light bulbs is that that is what color they make my skin! It is not a flattering color for skin.

STRESS AND HOW

Well, you have probably all heard by now, but the hospital has bought our house( eminent domain) so we now have to find a new place to live. This is NOT something I need right now. Sat. we looked at a few places. There was one large modular home that was a one story rambler that had 3 bedrooms, two baths and allowed us to have pets. I liked the look of it in the photos and the price was good. There was only one huge disadvantage to it, it was in a neighborhood called "Leisure Village". When we got there we discovered that "Leisure Village" was a trailer park. No deal, we didn't even get out to look at it. This particular house was the largest of all the ones we looked at, and definitely not a mobile home. It was brand new also. But as I say, "trailer park ". We looked at some town homes also. The first one was locked, but the Realtor the was helping us had some kind of skeleton key that he retrieved from a box. As he opened the door he said "Now I know why there are so many "For Sale" signs in this complex" there were 32 carpeted stairs to climb before you got to the house. That was a no go. There is no way that DH can climb 32 stairs, or the dog, an it isn't all that easy for me either. The nest house was a 2car garage 3bedroom 1 bath room free standing house. It didn't have a fenced yard and the one bathroom thing was a definite no go. DH and I have so many conflicts with the bathroom. He seems to always have to use it just when I am trying to get ready for work, especially if I am running late. I am almost always late for church. Its at 1:00 and I still am late. I told him today, for example, that I would need it at noon so to please plan the use of it accordingly. At 12:00 on the dot he got up and went into the bathroom and didn't come out for a half hour. I liked the last house we visited. It was a 2 story town house with 3 bed rooms and 21/2 bathrooms. It even had a fireplace, I loved it, but unfortunately Raymond could not get up the stairs. He did get up the stairs and down again from the inside, but the outside stairs were without railing and quite steep even though there were only 2 stairs. I thought DH was going to have a heart attack before he got off of those 2 outdoor steps. He even screamed in fear. That was the first time I have ever heard him manifest that much emotion since I have known him. Our Realtor said we could put in a wheel chair ramp (he isn't in one but they are always a good idea in my opinion).We could also get a chair that fits on the stair rail an you can sit in it and push a button and will take you up the stairs or down them. I think I would like that too,seeing that my knees are creaky also. It looks like we will have to keep looking. We can stay here for at least a year so we will be in a home until we find a new home that will suit us. Of course mom has got her self involved in looking for a home in Afton, But I told her that I didn't want to come live there. at least not now. Then other members got involved, I suspect that mom was involved in that also. Bless her heart she means well, but I am approaching 60 years old. I think I can do something on my own now. Please don't tell her what I have just written, I don't want to upset or insult her, but I do wish that she would recognize that I am a grown up now. I appreciate everyone who has offered advice and help, but we have a Realtor who is helping use find a a house and help with the money situation, so that we can get a nice place to live in and it will be ours until w die, that is unless some other entity pulls another "eminent domain" on us where we finally settle in. This area is growing so fast that I don't know if we can find somewhere to live that won't be in danger of being in the way of progress at some future time.

Called To Serve...

...lunch that is. I had just finished my own lunch when I got a phone call from work. Like a idiot I answered it instead of pretending that I wasn't home. It was a case of someone not downloading the update of Sat, Take out orders. (We do them a day ahead of time, at least the veggie trays etc. the hot foods are done the day of). Well there were 4 meat and cheese trays and some veggie trays and fruit trays that we hadn't done, so I was asked to come in and help the new supervisor do them. I wasn't even dressed yet, in spite of it being after 12:00 noon. Any way I managed to get there about 12:45. It took a little over 2 hours to get them done, that was with 2 people doing them. If I would have done them it would have taken about 4 hours to do them. As it was, Alan was able to fold all the meat and place it on the trays in the time it took me just to weigh the cheese for the meat and cheese trays. We have to weigh out the cheese slices, then take out the individual papers that are between each slice of cheese, and then slice the stack of cheese diagonally so that we have two stacks of triangle shaped cheese slices. There are 3 different cheese varieties on each tray. We then have too arrange the cheese slices on the trays between the stacks of cold cuts. Since this was right in the middle of the day it kind of ruined the rest of the day for me. I didn't get to bed until 5:30 a. m. this morning and the dog woke me up at 9:00 to take her potty. I spent most of the rest of the afternoon and evening sleeping and eating a fish TV dinner. Why, you might ask, did I not get to bed until 5:30 a. m. This is a good question. The answer is I have no idea but it is not uncommon for me to not go to bed until 3 or 4 in the morning. I do sleep sometimes in the chair in front of the telly, but not always, Sometimes I am simply not sleepy. In fact I am more often NOT sleepy at that time of the day than at any other time. When I get up in the the morning I most assuredly sleepy. What do I do?

SNARF

After cooking all day,making dinner for several hundred EFI (Especially for Youth) conference goers, It disappeared in 30 min! This was for 700 participants. There are actually 1000 of the rambunctious youths in the group, but only 700 came to dinner. After tomorrow, we will have only 9 more weeks of the little darlings! Todays dinner was actually the easiest, because it is roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy and green beans. It is the only day of the three where we do not have to use the fryers to cook the main entree. When we use the fryers, we are cooking as they come for an hour and a half. It is too hot to do that.

Dredded Gumboo

Well. I have been sick with an awful intestinal something. I stayed home today. I lost 8# from noon yesterday until noon today! I definitely have less water in my system. I went to the Dr. today and my blood pressure was 110/70 definitely not high blood pressure, but probably a little dehydrated. I guess I will survive, I had a fever of 101%

OH ME---OH MY

Well! it has been a week and one day instead of one day since I wrote. Work is getting crazier and crazier. It will take to long to explain right now, but the gist of it is----The new Cannon center will be opening in June. The problem is, It doesn't have a real kitchen in it. It will be sort of a glorified food court with most of the food cooked fresh as the clients watch it. Most of the food will thus be cooked ahead in a Central Production Kitchen. The CPK just got approved a few weeks ago. Construction starts on it in the next few weeks, For now we (The Morris Support Kitchen) will be the food prep people. The departments where the new CPK will be have been kicked out so they can demolish the original Creamery and start the CPK. The dairy has been making ice cream for the last six months or so in order to have a years supply of ice cream made and in storage. The Takeout department has joined us in the Morris center kitchen. The bakery for Cannon and the MTC etc will be with us also. We start feeding EFY kids the week of memorial day, We will be doing this for 11 weeks this summer. You should see how we are all crammed into that kitchen. We (the takeout and EFY and Cannon center salad prep area have moved from the front of the kitchen to the back where we will share space with all of the ovens and food warmers, right in time for the summer heat. I am already sweltering in there! All I can say is that perhaps thry should have built the CPK before they built the new Cannon center. Talk about getting the cart before the horse!

ME-O, MY-O

Hi!I am here. Life is interesting. I love your blogs. Will write tomorrow ( I hope)

RANDOM STUFF

Well conference has come and gone. I really enjoyed it, as usual, especially Pres Monsons talk. I can't quite remember the gist of the talk, but I sure do remember the power with which he spoke. It was truly amazing. The weather is still nasty, not as nasty as it is there, but it is nasty. Last Fri I came in, just to see that Flip Flop Woman had redone every thing I had done the night before. She had not looked in the locker where it was ready to go to Take out, she just did them again. Two of the 4 Meat and trays that needed to be done were finished and 2 needed cheese which was measured and ready to be arranged on the trays. The other 2 were marked off in yellow highlighter as being done. The standard is that when we are completely finished with the item we mark it off, but NOT UNTIL IT IS FINISHED. She is apparently not willing to do it that way even though every on else in the kitchen knows this is the standard, Just as often as not she marks them off before she even starts them. This has been a sore point with me, because she often forgets what she is doing, and or leaves before she is finished with it, I have been ready to leave on more than one occasion when Take Out calls and asks for such and such and she has marked it off, but hasn't done it. Anyway I was furious. She had even gone to the manager and said that I hadn't done anything the days before. Fortunately for me my work area is opposite his office which has a big uncovered window in it and he can see what I do all afternoon, so he knew that I had done them. If she would have looked in the locker that all of the other TO items were in she would have seen them. She did see the unfinished ones and finished them. I saw later however that she had measured out more cheese to finish them, because the one I had measured out were still in the locker I put them in. Her excuse was that I had marked off two of them, but 2 were NOT marked off, so she redid them. I said that the ones I marked off were the ones in the TO locker and the ones that were not marked off were the ones that needed to be finished. By the way I was the one that was going to finish them when I got in, they weren't due until 4:00 P. M. Anyway I explained that I only mark them off when they are COMPLETELY finished. That is why we have the rule to mark them off only when they are completed. Anyway she ended up buying one for her family and the other lady bought one for herself. They cost $80.00 apiece. These are the kind of things that drive me nuts. Sigh.

HELLO

I am still here plugging away I will try to get a new more extensive and perhaps interesting blog post on here in the next few days. Don't forget to watch conference this weekend. That is why we have had such temperamental weather these last few days. Love you all.

Birthdays

Happy Birthday Wyo Sis and Happy Birthday Spring!

MISMATCHED

Dig this. At Work we have 3 different size takeout trays, Large (18"), Med(16") and Small(12"). These trays are black plastic and we send out various items to takeout on them such as fruit trays etc. They are covered with clear plastic lids that snap onto them to cover the food inside. Several weeks ago the powers that be decided to order them in in 25 count "combo packs" containing 25 tops and 25 bottoms because they were cheaper than ordering boxes of 50 count bottoms or fifty count tops separately. Well you can probably guess what happened, but I'll tell you anyway. We now have 9 cases of 16" tops and 9 cases of 18" bottoms. Now everything is coming in in combo packs, but we now have 450 18" bottoms, and 450 16" tops. It seems to me that this does not add up to "saving money " in my book. It adds up to having 500 now useless items. That's bean counters for you! This is just one of the many things I have to put up with at work. Sigh!

4 X 4

Well here is my four x four list:
4 Jobs I have had
Dishwasher in school cafeteria
Seamstress, Every thing from Stage curtains to baby clothes for preemies
Newspaper reader for a newspaper clippings retrieval company
Cook for College dorms

4 movies I would watch over and over again
Gone with the Wind
7 Brides for 7 Brothers
South Pacific
Fantasia

4 Places I have lived
Afton, Wyo.
Crow Creek, Idaho
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Provo, Utah

4 TV shows I love to watch
Old Westerns, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Little house on the Prairie
The Amazing Race
Survivor
Project Runway

4 Places I have been
Hawaii
Presque Isle, Maine
Navoo, Ill
Washington D C

4 Favorite foods
Red Meat especially, Hamburger, Rib Eye Steak, Ham, and Pork Roast
Veggies
Potatoes
Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream Frosting

4 Places I'd rather be
Somewhere warm and snowless in the winter
At the ranch
In bed
Somewhere people are not

4 people who I get e-mail from
SPAMMERS
Spammers
Spammers
Spammers

4things I like to do for R&R
Sleep
Eat
Hot Baths
Read, Crochet, Sew, Watch TV

4 Things I try to avoid doing
House cleaning
Ironing
Yard Work
Going to the Dr or Dentist

4 Things I would like to do this year( If I actually get to do even one I'll consider myself happy)
Take a vacation
Finally get my new sewing machine set up so I can sew on it ( I've had it 3 years)
Get a new dishwasher (And maybe a house to go with it!)
Start a new hobby, Quilting

Well now you know some of my secrets!

I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE

I have been thinking about the subject of gossip lately. Just exactly what is gossip anyway? I have an acquaintance at work that is running off of the mouth constantly. She says so and so did this, and such and such did that. She says things, that are not necessarily mean or hurtful but are none of anybody else's business. I have said things to her that were only about myself and my troubles and soon I hear, that other people have been discussing my troubles with others. She tells me herself what they said about the problem, even though I was just saying how I felt about something that I was having trouble with. It kind of bothered me, it was not a big deal and didn't come to anything but it got me to thinking. There is someone else at work that also runs off of the mouth, and is always talking about someone or another. She has disrespectful nicknames for her fellow co-workers and even management and uses them often. I have always had a hard time in social situations because of my loathing of people who run on and on about people, and they problems. These seem to be the kind of people that have a good time and enjoy others. Why is it that I do not like or trust them at all. The first afore mentioned coworker said when I objected to what she leaked out of her mouth to someone else who quickly discussed it with another person, that it wasn't gossip she was "just talking". Well I wonder what gossip is. because "just talking" in my book is for the most part gossiping. How does one carry on conversations and not say either untrue or private things about others weather they are true or not. Most of the things I hear comings out of those two peoples mouthes are what I would classify as gossip. She says that she likes to keep informed about what is going on in the neighborhood, that a good citizen needs to be informed. How does one carry on conversations without offending? I guess that is why I more often than not keep quiet and think to myself the things I do . Any answers or suggestions?

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

I am sick and tired of snow! There has been snow every day since Sunday. I grit my teeth in fear every time I get in my car. I rejoice every time I make it to my destination in one piece, and I manage to get into work, home or church in one piece!. Will write more on the weekend.

HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Well, it has been about two week into January now and I don't seem to be acting any better than last year. Right now I am having real problems getting out of bed in the mornings. I have had problems for a couple of years now, but it is getting worse. I am supposed to be at work by 8:00 but I am lucky if I make it by a quarter after. I am trying to get there by 7:30 so I can make it by 8:00 but I still can't get there. By the time I get to work I am already beating up on myself and wondering when the ball will drop and I will either be fired or demoted to part time. I am alright as long as I work 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week, but it is sooooo slooooow right now. We often don't have any orders for Mondays or Tuesdays and 3 people in the salad takeout prep area working. I help in the sandwich kitchen on Mon and Tues afternoon, because they are really busy those days. I can use vacation hours to cover the hours, that I am short, but I am in the minus hours category right now because I used hours over the Christmas break that I didn't have. There was no way I was going to come to work on days when everyone else was gone, especially since I don't have a key to the place and there was no work anyway. We are supposedly salaried according to our annual pay raises. They always refer to it as a salary but we punch the time clock and get overtime. This the first weekend without a snow storm since Nov30. I might get out and be able to actually shop for some eyeglasses and some garment bottoms, both of which I need desperately. No one has said anything about me not making hours, by the way, but I worry about it just the same. Does any body know if SV will be in the new Rexburg temple district or stay in the Idaho Falls one. Is anybody going to the open house and /or dedication? One of our workers was going to go last week, but we got a huge snowstorm on Wed. of this week and she decided to go next week. It was the biggest one this season and the first one on my weather bug that did not have a Winter or Heavy snow warning posted. It took me over 30min to drive to work, which usually takes about ten. Arrrg! How do you get into Library Ninjas blog now. Does anybody know how? Please send me the secret if you know how. I enjoy reading everyones blogs. I have to come to know whats going on in the family and oddly enough I have come to know the family as adults and who they are and not just as I remember how we were in childhood. Boy have I been out of touch! Let us all continue with this OK.