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?