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.