Bored

It has been a boring few weeks. I took a week off the week before last. I spent most of the time sleeping. I think I got, at the most, three more boxes unpacked. It is the calm before the storm. The day after Memorial day we start EFY groups. I AM SOOOOOO EXCITED. not! At the end we are supposed to be in the central Support Center (the behind the scenes food and veggie and salad and sandwich prep people) I am glad that I will be there, because I would much rather be there than display cooking at the new Cannon center. I certainly do not want to do the MTC over the Christmas holidays again. I do not think I will take anymore Vacation days until then. By then I should have about 2 weeks vacation time. While I was on vacation, I picked out a headstone for DH and I. They sent me a draft and I promptly sent it back with the notation that they had my name spelled wrong. They had better spell it right. I told them and wrote out how it should spelled. If they screw it up it will be their fault. They had better not A unwelcome thought came to me today. Do you realize that just a few days after a month from now that it will be the "longest day of the year" and then we will be on the downhill side again!!! This is indeed a scary thought. I am well, but bored and somewhat lonely right now. I will be alright but I sure miss going out to dinner, and also have lost all intrest in making dinners from scratch, or at least from fresh meat and canned or frozen veggies. I have entertained the thought of learing how to make bread from scratch, Maybe I will give it a try sometime soon. I think I will need either a bosh mixer, grinder or a Kitchen Aid Mixer. My computer is about ready yo bite the dust. Any ideas about which ones to buy and how much memory to get. I do indexing for the Family History Center. I will need a lot more memory than I have on this one. I don't know how much memory I have, but it is not enough. My computer does not have enough memory either. Hope all is well with all of you.

Hard Hats and Robins

What do hard hats and robins have in common, you might ask. Nothing except that I have had encounters with both this week. Today I and a few of my fellow workers at the Morris center got to take a tour of the up and coming Central Production Kitchen. We Were supposed to take control of it on April 1, 2009. Well the projected date of the date of possession is September 1st. Anyway it is still mostly a cement building with many coolers, freezers, and production areas. It looks like we will have plenty of work to do. It is going to be more like a factory, assembly line type thing. We may even run two shifts. One really early. Or late depending on how you look at it, Some people are probably going to start at 10 p.m. Especially bakery and ice cream makers. Supposedly we should be sending out fresh cut veggies, fruit and other things by 4:00 a.m. Oh goody! Those of us who will be working in "veg prep", and "garmashay" will be working in a refrigerated environment. That is in rooms kept at 43 degrees. I don.t know about that, but I think it would be preferable to the stifling heat we work in now. There are very few days when I am too cold. Most of the time I am boiling hot! Many in the department, especially the thin tiny women are cold, and want all the air circulators turned off. Meanwhile. all I want is to be able to get fresh air and to stop sweating "like a butcher" as Grandma H would say. I really think I wouldn't be so exhausted after work if I could get a little air and coolness. If it gets to cold in the work stations, we can always add clothes, we can't take them off! Now to the Robins. For the last two days. when I get out to the garage in the morning I have heard this tapping at the garage window. When I first heard it I "thought, What the hey"? upon further investigation, I discover a big fat robin fighting the robin in the window, Every time he attacked his foe, it attacked him right back. He just wouldn't back down. I waved my arms, and he flew away, but was back at war with himself before I got back in the car to go to work. Yesterday he was gone by the time got home around 6:30 p.m. yesterday he was gone. This morning he was back, and of course so was his opponent. When I got back today at around 4:30 p.m. he was still at it. I got out of my car and went and looked in the window, and sure enough there I was looking at myself. He had managed to knock off the screen and poop a lot on the window sill. His opponent just won't get out of his territory.

Dumb game

1. DO YOU PREFER Mayo or Miracle Whip? "A Sandwich isn't a sandwich without Miracle Whip" 2. TP out or in? Out 3, PC or Mac? PC I have never used a Mac. 4, White or dark meat? Give me a thigh every time. 5. Chunky or creamy? Neither- On sandwiches at least. But in "Moose Tracks"ice cream peanut butter cookies or Reese's Peanut Butter cups. YUM 6. Mary Ann or Ginger? Both 7. City or Country? Country 8. Whole or 2%? Neither. Only if it is chocolate, or in the form of cheese, ice cream,or pudding. Forget yogurt! 9. Metric or Standard? I'm a cook. Standard of course 10. Manual or Automatic? I can't drive a Manual. 11. Belt or Suspenders? Whatever holds those baggy things up! 12. Right or left side of the Bed. Duh! I'm Left handed. 13. Country or Western? Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh. 14. Pen or pencil? Either 15. Soup or Salad? I hate lettuce! 16. Baked potato or fries. All spuds. 18. Diet or Regular? Yuck! Don't even try to get me to drink or eat anything labeled "Diet". 19. Regular diet or exercise? No Way Jose!

WHAT HAPPENED TO FEBRUARY?

I can not believe it is March already. Even though Feb. is a dreary month, and it seems that it was never going to end, It seems to have flown by. At work they are already planning for September. Didn't we just have that month? I am still trying to get all of the boxes unpacked. The box with my scriptures is still undiscovered. I am starting to find dust, and cat hair accumulations, which means that I had better find my broom or buy a new one. I think my brand new broom that I searched for for several weeks is now in the ownership of the moving company. I bought a new one but it is not the kind I wanted. Sigh. The good mood I was in all through Jan and half of
Feb has left me. That is the mood I like because I feel soooooooooo much better. I wish I could figure out how too capture that mood and keep it. Why do I have such a struggle staying upbeat and happy and feeling alive? I wish I knew where the magic potion was. I have been going to work and coming home. I try to do a little bit of house work and unpacking along with fixing my dinner. Unfortunately sleep and exhaustion overcomes most of my efforts. It is nice to see that a new child has entered the family. She is darling. We do seem to produce beautiful and sweet children in this family, Well at least the rest of you do. I have discovered tulips coming up in the flower beds here. Yippee!

Checking In

I really don't have that much to say, but thought I would check in to let you know that I am still around. I am really enjoying my new house. I am glad that I did not paint the interior. The furniture I have and the pictures I have look really good on the walls. Yesterday People from my former ward came over to halp me unpack. All of the boxes that were in my living room are unpacked and most of the boxes in the other rooms are also. It is nice to have most of that done. I didn't realize how much food I had until we started unpacking it. I am feeling alot better lately. I hope that I have not jinxed myself by saying that! First we had snow I unbelivable amounts of snow. So much snow that I got stuck twice in one day! Before work, in my driveway and then after work when I couldn't get out. That was a sticky day. Now we have fog! Our roads haven't been plowed since the big snow, so now they are pitted with ruts and ice bumps. Sigh!

New Year

Happy New Year everyone. I hope it will be a good one. May we all survive it and be of good cheer! I am saying this in hopes that I can do better this year. May we all do better! Happy Birthday Hillybilly sis!!

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.