I'm having time issues. Yesterday I was supposed to be at work at 11:00 p.m. For some reason I thought it was at 11:30 I was supposed to be there. I got up at 8:00 and made myself my usual toast and Dr.Pepper and a cocktail of pills. Anti depressant. antibiotic and anti acid. I sat down read the paper setting the timer (I use the oven timer for an alarm clock because it doesn't stop ringing until I get up and go into kitchen and turn it off) for 1 hour in case I drifted off to sleep! I did fall asleep, meanwhile DH got up and went to the bathroom to get himself ready for the long day of resting. I woke up at 11:15 and DH was still in bathroom doing what ever he does that takes 2 hours in the morning. I knew I was in trouble, there was no way I was going to get to work by 11:30. He finally emerged and I got ready. By 11:45 I was dressed except for my blouse. Ring ring.It was work calling to see what happened. I was supposed to be there at 11:00 not 11:30 OOPS! by the time I got there it was noon. Yesterday was the first day of the pay period so I am already 1 hour short. Now they are springing daylight @^$&*(()&^% savings time on us three weeks earlier than usual. Just what I need. I already decided last night that there was no way I was going to church today, seeing as I had to be back to work tomorrow . I am just to exhausted after 6 days of work and only one day off until the next work week. I have Wed. off and then my next day off is a week from Tues. I will have to goo shopping tomorrow after work because c'est moi forgot to check the dog food bin and it is almost empty and won't last until Wed. I read an interesting op ed the other day in the paper re: Daylight savings time. The writer was right up my ally with her opinion. She stated the obvious that no time was saved. all it did was cause inconveniences to those of us who are of the "I don't get up in the morning before the sun does" persuasion. We are just able to get up when the sun is also up and now we have to get up in the dark again, and children have to again go to school in the dark ( of course wearing dark clothes because no one would think of wearing anything but black navy or gray to school) and risk getting hit by cars because it is now dark outside and besides why would a child actually walk in a crosswalk or a car actually stop at one for that matter? So now parents have to drive their kids to school again, before they themselves go to work. All this so that when people get of work they can go play golf or something . It is a royal pain in the neck. She suggested a new nomenclature to use for the times. Since DST is now on 8 months of the year and "standard" time is now on only 4 months of the year maybe it should be standard time between March and October and daylight wasting time between Nov and Feb.That makes just as much sense as daylight saving time doesn't it? So what time is it really?
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Friday, March 09, 2007
SURPRISE, it is me
Well, I guess I will try to write a little something. I am a slacker I admit when it comes to journal writing. I do it very inconsistantly, always have. I really enjoy the other peoples blogs however. I am terrible at typing . I barely passed my high school class. I haven't improved on the computer keyboard at all as far as speed goes. plus now I have an infinite amount of ways of screwing up and pushing a wrong key that sends my entry into cyber " lost in space" never to appear again, at least not on my computer. Then I have to laboriously retype what I just wrote. This week has been the week of the Rx refills. Last Sat as I was getting ready to go grocery shopping I noticed on my list in tiny little letters a Prescription that DH needed filled. Mister silent but if I write it in tiny little illegible chicken scratches and remain mum it will magically be filled before it runs out. NOT. First he didn't call the doctor until After 5pm on Friday, I called the pharmacy, and asked if they had received it. Of course they hadn't. So he had to wait until at least Mon to get it. I called the store on Mon and of course they didn't have it in. I called the doctors office also and the Dr hadn't even looked at his messages yet. This ment that DH would have to wait until at least Tues after 9;00 p.m. to get it because I work until 8:00 or 9:00 I called store on Tues Morning. and they had it in. After said phone call and about 5 min. before leaving for DH informed me the he had called in 2 of his Rxs that morning (Mon). They were also out starting Tues. They were at a different store than the other one. I asked he what ones he needed the most because there was no way I was going to two different stores after 9 at night. Tues I picked the 2 that he had ordered Mon morning on Tues evening. On Wed after 9:00 I picked up at the other store the original I called after 5:00 on Fri pills. I got him all filled up with his pills finally. NOT. On Thurs morning as I was leaving for work DH informed me that he only had 2 pain pills
left. Well that did it. He now has no pain pills (Tylenol) left because I didn't go get any. I asked him why he didn't tell me sooner. "I didn't notice until now." Well he can wait until tomorrow after work which is after 7:00.Arrgh! Yesterday we had this huge dinner which took hours of preparation. It was the finale of our week emphasizing "healthy" food choices .It included fancy Asian foods such as sushi, hot and sour soup, cobia, a fish that I had never heard of on potato pancakes and topped with vegetable slaw, Tri tip steak with veggie salsa. and the piece d'resistance RAW tuna. The desserts were whimpy angel food cakes or merangues toped with fruit. (I hate fruit fillings or fruit topped cakes or cookies). Fill them with frosting or custard. If you must have fruit desserts. Make them cobblers or pies. Lots and lots of chopping etc. I really like veggies and stir fries so that was good. I like some Asian soups also. This soup had no "and sour" It was just plain hot & hotter. The steak was good. The sushi ICK. The Raw Tuna NO WAY JOSE. will I ever eat raw fish. I don't particularily like cooked fish. I like canned tuna, fried or boiled shrimp, crab and lobster, Cod nuggets and citrus salmon (which we make on our menu). That is it. After the meal was over and we were cleaned up and ready to leave, the FIRE alarm went off. We had to leave the building immediately. So there we are waiting for the firemen to come check things out , a doz or so tired souls waiting outside their place of work for clearance so they could hurry up and get their work finished and go home. Some of us were sitting on the edge of the receiving dock waiting for clearance to enter the building so they could get their things and leave. If there had been a real fire we could have burned up because the dock is the building. After about 15 min all was cleared and we were allowed to go back in. I got 15 more min. on the clock than I would have otherwise. I got home about 9:45p.m.I can relate to being a dabbler in the crafts. I often "get the urge" to try something new like knit a sweater or something. I often start something, but don't finish it, at least while it is still "in style" sigh It has taken me 2 hours to write this blog. I really will try harder to update this more often Hip Hip Hooray to Lil bro and the new baby coming.
left. Well that did it. He now has no pain pills (Tylenol) left because I didn't go get any. I asked him why he didn't tell me sooner. "I didn't notice until now." Well he can wait until tomorrow after work which is after 7:00.Arrgh! Yesterday we had this huge dinner which took hours of preparation. It was the finale of our week emphasizing "healthy" food choices .It included fancy Asian foods such as sushi, hot and sour soup, cobia, a fish that I had never heard of on potato pancakes and topped with vegetable slaw, Tri tip steak with veggie salsa. and the piece d'resistance RAW tuna. The desserts were whimpy angel food cakes or merangues toped with fruit. (I hate fruit fillings or fruit topped cakes or cookies). Fill them with frosting or custard. If you must have fruit desserts. Make them cobblers or pies. Lots and lots of chopping etc. I really like veggies and stir fries so that was good. I like some Asian soups also. This soup had no "and sour" It was just plain hot & hotter. The steak was good. The sushi ICK. The Raw Tuna NO WAY JOSE. will I ever eat raw fish. I don't particularily like cooked fish. I like canned tuna, fried or boiled shrimp, crab and lobster, Cod nuggets and citrus salmon (which we make on our menu). That is it. After the meal was over and we were cleaned up and ready to leave, the FIRE alarm went off. We had to leave the building immediately. So there we are waiting for the firemen to come check things out , a doz or so tired souls waiting outside their place of work for clearance so they could hurry up and get their work finished and go home. Some of us were sitting on the edge of the receiving dock waiting for clearance to enter the building so they could get their things and leave. If there had been a real fire we could have burned up because the dock is the building. After about 15 min all was cleared and we were allowed to go back in. I got 15 more min. on the clock than I would have otherwise. I got home about 9:45p.m.I can relate to being a dabbler in the crafts. I often "get the urge" to try something new like knit a sweater or something. I often start something, but don't finish it, at least while it is still "in style" sigh It has taken me 2 hours to write this blog. I really will try harder to update this more often Hip Hip Hooray to Lil bro and the new baby coming.
Friday, February 09, 2007
TV ADDICTS> UNITE!
I decided to list my favorite TV Shows for each day of the week. I just seem to really enjoy the TV. It is almost a necessity for me. I grew up in the same TVless household as sagehen and the rest of the people that read my blog. I so love to read, but not as advidly as Wyo SIS was. I think a DVR would really be a good idea for me. MON..................................Wife Swap, Supernanny TUES.................................House THURS...............................Survivor FRI....................................Nanny 911, Trading Spouses
Sat...................................................Bonanza (from 3:00-8:00) SUN..................................................The Amazing Race, The Apprentice,Without a Trace Wed.................................................No favorites here I also have others I choose from when my favorites are preempted for such things as some awards show or another. FOOTBALL,a "NEWS Special, or the dreaded reruns or "ON HIATUS". I Like a lot of shows on BRAVO, TLC, USA (MONK), DIS HEALTH, TVLAND, COURT TV, GAMESHOW NETWORK, etc. I tried to make columns in this posting, but I must have hit a wrong key or something, because I couldn't get the!@#$%^&*computer to type it that way no matter what I did. So this posting will stand as written. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY YOU ALL!! :-) Wed.................................................No particular favorite
Sat...................................................Bonanza (from 3:00-8:00) SUN..................................................The Amazing Race, The Apprentice,Without a Trace Wed.................................................No favorites here I also have others I choose from when my favorites are preempted for such things as some awards show or another. FOOTBALL,a "NEWS Special, or the dreaded reruns or "ON HIATUS". I Like a lot of shows on BRAVO, TLC, USA (MONK), DIS HEALTH, TVLAND, COURT TV, GAMESHOW NETWORK, etc. I tried to make columns in this posting, but I must have hit a wrong key or something, because I couldn't get the!@#$%^&*computer to type it that way no matter what I did. So this posting will stand as written. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY YOU ALL!! :-) Wed.................................................No particular favorite
Friday, January 26, 2007
TAG TAG YOUR IT
Well, I guess I have to list 6 things about me that are weird. This will give me a chance to write about something other than work. Thanks Sagehen. I really can't play the game because as far as I know only three people read my blog and I am supposed to tag 6 people who read my blog and invite them to enter the game.
1. I am weird in the fact that I think it is the "normal" people are the weird ones.
2. I, like sagehen, spend most of my time in my mind and it truly is full of interesting thoughts and ideas. for example the Utah legislature is again proposing that the speed limit on I15 be raised; to 80mph on the "less inhabited" areas of the freeway. My thinking is it was only a few years ago that they raised it to 70mph because "most people drive that speed anyway". At that time it was 55 mph hour. Now, of course, everyone is driving 85mph. The next story on the news was about two accidents in Ogden Canyon that shut the road down this evening for a few hours. The announcer then said We will tell your the cause of the accident next. I said to DH they were caused by excessive speed of course. I was right. We are socked in with very heavy fog at night from the Idaho border to Southern Utah County because we have had an extremely strong high pressure that has blocked any storms for the last two weeks trapping all the gunk in the valleys. People are weird.
3. I can't decide on a favorite color. As a teen it was green, in college it changed to red I also lean strongly toward lavender and/or purple. I am now leaning toward green again and tan is creeping up. I guess my favorite color is regrevenderan.
4. I am also a strange combination of OCD and sloppy because I love to have my towels and washrags etc organized a particular way, and many other things I am particular about. So particular that if DH moves something, even from a seamingly disorganized pile I can tell immediately that it was moved. i ask him how come it was moved and if we had a visitor while I was at work etc. It must bug him a lot that I quiz him whenever He moves things.
5. I am left handed, but also use my right hand to do things. I can hand sew with a needle and thread using either my right hand or my left. I cut with a knife with either hand, if I use a paring knife, it is right handed, carve meat left handed. Use scissors, right handed. Write or eat left handed . Crochet left handed . Throw a ball, neither hand works. Use a ladle, left handed,But I always spill because the pour spout is on top. Scoop ice cream left handed, but awkwardly ( the pushbutton part is always in the ice cream). Mugs always have the writing on the wrong side. I embroidery right handed. All sewing machine attachments are for right handed people but I can manage to use most of them. Pancake turners left handed. Hand held can openers right handed. Potato peelers left handed. Weird
6. I am always beating up on myself because I never seem to accomplish anything "fun" or relaxing because I have to get all the work done first before i can allow myself do the fun stuff. since I almost never get the "Chores" done the fun things fall by the wayside. Even when I was a young girl I would make myself do the ironing or the dishes etc. before I could sew or embroider, thus I never got much "fun" stuff done. Even today I have to force myself to "have fun" and then feel guilty, because there was something else that should have been done first. Often I procrastinate for months and even years. beating up on myself all the way, but not changing the way I think or do things. WEIRD
7. I hate working with background music of any kind, I absoulutly hate noise of any kind, the louder the noise level the more stressed I get. I can actually feel the stress the louder it gets. QUIET PLEASE! Music is just another sound to add noise to the mix.
As you cansee I am one mixed up crazy woman.
1. I am weird in the fact that I think it is the "normal" people are the weird ones.
2. I, like sagehen, spend most of my time in my mind and it truly is full of interesting thoughts and ideas. for example the Utah legislature is again proposing that the speed limit on I15 be raised; to 80mph on the "less inhabited" areas of the freeway. My thinking is it was only a few years ago that they raised it to 70mph because "most people drive that speed anyway". At that time it was 55 mph hour. Now, of course, everyone is driving 85mph. The next story on the news was about two accidents in Ogden Canyon that shut the road down this evening for a few hours. The announcer then said We will tell your the cause of the accident next. I said to DH they were caused by excessive speed of course. I was right. We are socked in with very heavy fog at night from the Idaho border to Southern Utah County because we have had an extremely strong high pressure that has blocked any storms for the last two weeks trapping all the gunk in the valleys. People are weird.
3. I can't decide on a favorite color. As a teen it was green, in college it changed to red I also lean strongly toward lavender and/or purple. I am now leaning toward green again and tan is creeping up. I guess my favorite color is regrevenderan.
4. I am also a strange combination of OCD and sloppy because I love to have my towels and washrags etc organized a particular way, and many other things I am particular about. So particular that if DH moves something, even from a seamingly disorganized pile I can tell immediately that it was moved. i ask him how come it was moved and if we had a visitor while I was at work etc. It must bug him a lot that I quiz him whenever He moves things.
5. I am left handed, but also use my right hand to do things. I can hand sew with a needle and thread using either my right hand or my left. I cut with a knife with either hand, if I use a paring knife, it is right handed, carve meat left handed. Use scissors, right handed. Write or eat left handed . Crochet left handed . Throw a ball, neither hand works. Use a ladle, left handed,But I always spill because the pour spout is on top. Scoop ice cream left handed, but awkwardly ( the pushbutton part is always in the ice cream). Mugs always have the writing on the wrong side. I embroidery right handed. All sewing machine attachments are for right handed people but I can manage to use most of them. Pancake turners left handed. Hand held can openers right handed. Potato peelers left handed. Weird
6. I am always beating up on myself because I never seem to accomplish anything "fun" or relaxing because I have to get all the work done first before i can allow myself do the fun stuff. since I almost never get the "Chores" done the fun things fall by the wayside. Even when I was a young girl I would make myself do the ironing or the dishes etc. before I could sew or embroider, thus I never got much "fun" stuff done. Even today I have to force myself to "have fun" and then feel guilty, because there was something else that should have been done first. Often I procrastinate for months and even years. beating up on myself all the way, but not changing the way I think or do things. WEIRD
7. I hate working with background music of any kind, I absoulutly hate noise of any kind, the louder the noise level the more stressed I get. I can actually feel the stress the louder it gets. QUIET PLEASE! Music is just another sound to add noise to the mix.
As you cansee I am one mixed up crazy woman.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
More of the same
Well I am back from work. Out of the 4 Sunday meals on the menu. the one we had today I like the best because it is the easiest to do. Roast Turkey ,Ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes & gravy, green bean casserole and carrots. FYI Wyo Sis et all I cook as much as possible ahead, which means that between 11:00 and 4:30 I have to cook 2 complete Dinners (They always get 2 choices of entrees and fixings,per meal). Last Tues was a nightmare because the two entrees were breaded pork chops and chicken royale, both of which require grilling. Plus the chicken requires a sauce which is a cream sauce with mushrooms and green onions. Also mashed potatoes and gravy, rice pilaf, stuffing and veggies. We also have to worry about cooking a hot food bar that consists of some kind of starch, usually a pasta and sauce choice, a rice choice and or a potato choice, 2 veggie choices and a protein choice (usually a meat choice, a lot of times we can use leftovers from lunch or the day before but we don't always have any). Most of the time we don't have 2 choices that require grilling which makes the dinner easier to prepare. However the fact that there are no students signed up as kitchen help for dinner shift on the TTHS shift at all it puts just a bit of pressure on
me to get it out on time. If the breakfast, lunch cooks ( notice the s in cookS plural, not singular) help me out some by cooking as many of the things that they can for me ahead a time it helps. Sometimes they have takeout to do so they can't help as much, but sometimes I have takeout to do also. Last Tues they had no takeout to do and an easy menu but they didn't cook one thing ahead for me, not even a pot of boiling water to make the potatoes with (they are instant ones). I made it, but I ended up using a receiver to grill the chicken and "pan up" the potatoes and gravy. receivers are the people who work on the dock "receiving" orders etc. taking the takeout food to the takeout building, fetching and carrying etc. Anyway I hope we get some help soon. I guess the young people of today do not want to work at hard phtsical lobor and for less money than a test monitor who gets more money and can pretty much sit down and get paid to do homework while "working". I can't say I blame them.
me to get it out on time. If the breakfast, lunch cooks ( notice the s in cookS plural, not singular) help me out some by cooking as many of the things that they can for me ahead a time it helps. Sometimes they have takeout to do so they can't help as much, but sometimes I have takeout to do also. Last Tues they had no takeout to do and an easy menu but they didn't cook one thing ahead for me, not even a pot of boiling water to make the potatoes with (they are instant ones). I made it, but I ended up using a receiver to grill the chicken and "pan up" the potatoes and gravy. receivers are the people who work on the dock "receiving" orders etc. taking the takeout food to the takeout building, fetching and carrying etc. Anyway I hope we get some help soon. I guess the young people of today do not want to work at hard phtsical lobor and for less money than a test monitor who gets more money and can pretty much sit down and get paid to do homework while "working". I can't say I blame them.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
They are BACK!
I have been really busy at work. I have been the one and only cook for the last week! no students have signed up to help. Well the same group of MWF students have signed up except for the one who worked from 10:00 to 2:00. So I have no help for most of te day. TTHS has no takers so far. Flip Flop lady is still out. So I have been really under pressure (of my own making). Thats all for now.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
It is the new year again. It always surprises me that the years go so fast, yet so slow. Well I am another year older and closer to retirement. Although in my case retirement will literally mean RETIRE A MOMENT IF AT ALL. I will probably have to work at least part time until I die. Wyo sis, I am glad you finally found my blog. I did not know if you would like the fruit or not. I love pears, but DH doesn't. I am glad that they got there and that I guessed right. I myself love to get nice yummy edibible things for gifts. I never have to worry about where to put them. I have already started out the new year with a mess up. I didn't go to work until 11:00 because that was when my schedule said I was supposed to. Imagine my surprise when I got there and all the help was eating lunch and there were no students in the cafeteria because We don't open until tomorrow and I was supposed to come in at 7:00 a. m. at the latest! OPPS! All we were doing was cleaning ICKKY! I got to clean the grills, but at least I wasn't stuck with the ovens WHEW! That is all we have been doing for the last 2 weeks. Since I work till close already I get my fill of kitchen cleaning. CRAP! I hit a wrong key somewhere and lost the rest of what had typed. (This is the third time I am telling this) My special part time person quite today. I am really not surprised since he is one of those people that thinks he knows everything, has no patience, or work ethic or sense. He wants to be paid a lot, run his own business and not have to work up because he already knows it all NOT! That leaves me as the only cook for dinner, since flip flop lady will be out for at least three more weeks. Conrad the chef said When I am there I work and get it done. but he has no one to work for me when I have a day off. I guess I am doing a good job after all :-). anyway this is my entry for today. The first one was the best but I got tired after three tries.
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