and exhausted. Yesterday was really so disappointing… i’d like to just forget it.
We got up for church, but didn’t go for sunday school, just for service at 10:30. Not a big deal really, but i really really look forward to sunday school! It’s a huge part of my day, and to not go to it… well it just threw the whole day off.
Then leaving church and coming home, we went a different way and ran into a HUGE line of motorcycles… i’m talking HUGE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!! But Don sat through 2 lights until they were all done before he’d go. First of all it was WRONG for the cycles to just go through red lights, especially when they were all jsut stopping at the moose lodge for a break, it wasn’t like they were going to get lost or something. And secondly it was just frustrating!
Then on the way to church Don said no to biscuits and gravy, but changes his mind on the way home, so we stopped and got the stuff to make it. We just got done talking about how we ALL need to do something about our weight, and how this paycheck was so low that we really really have to watch our spending and buy all the groceries that we need in one trip, so that the grocery money isn’t frittered away…. in one ear and out the other. blah blah blah
Then we get home and i made breakfast for everyone, the B&G, pancakes and me a small quiche. And then NO ONE even offered to clean the kitchen, so it’s still a mess. (oh yah, i cleaned the kitchen before we left for church, cuz no one was doing it at that time either).
So after lunch we’re on the front porch and it just seemed like i was doing this and doing that for Don and Kris. Now excuse me, but didn’t i just spend a week of doing this and doing that for M&D?!?! It just rubbed me the wrong way.
LOL What a day. IT was just a big irritant.
Terry called a few times and sent a couple emails, the vacation didn’t help her at all. Just like i thought. You go away and do for yourself (but she didn’t really) but you come home to the same thing… Parents who piss all over themselves and don’t care, parents (kids) who leave messes behind themselves, Parents (kids) who don’t listen to what you say when you say it… Parents (kids) who don’t care about anyone but themselves. *sigh* frustrating. i really think they should be in a home. Mom left a huge pile of piss on the bathroom floor one day… if dad had stepped in it…………….. ughhhhhhhhhh
Anyway… i go back to work today. HOpefully the new chairs are there … it’s a little something, but it’s something for me to look forward to. 
August 18 2008 | miscellaneous | 1 Comment »
Between M&D not hearing well and the two parakeets Terry has in the kitchen… i’ve spent my week SCREAMING over everything so that i can be heard. UGH. LOL i teased M&D and told them that i was going to go home and i’d still be speaking loudly and Don would say “JEN, I’M IN THE SAME ROOM!!!” lol i can hear it now.
So the highlights of my week here…
i taught Mom, Dad and Larry (Dad’s caregiver) how to play Uno. Not the exact version, but enough that they get it. Like, Dad can’t hold alot of cards in his hand, so we only pick up one card instead of picking up until you get the color you need to play… and they don’t yell Uno when they are down to one card… and the blank cards in the hand are wilds, stuff like that. Dad didn’t want to play it at first, but he really got the hang on it and i make him tell me what color and number he has to work with, so it gets his mind going. And i can tell when he’s getting tired, cuz he starts to get confused on the colors. But the good thing, the really awesome thing, is that we learned that HE CAN ADD!!!! He totally added up his score at the end of the hands. Course we weren’t keeping score, we just played each hand, but he can add!!! He was so proud of himself and i was so proud of HIM! You have no idea what a big deal that is! And one of the really best things about it… he enjoyed himself after he played a few hands.
When i was at the Y with them on Wed, i went down a hall way and saw these ladies painting in a room. i came back and told Dad about it and seemed interested in it… said it sounded “FUN”. Dad hasn’t said anything sounded FUN in YEARS!!!! So i jumped on it and i’m signing him up for it! If he goes one time, that’s great, you pay weekly, so if he doesn’t go again, it’s no big deal and he would have at least tried something new.
Mom has problems with her bladder… and i’m sorry, but it’s gross! Yesterday, she got up from a long nap and she piddled all the way to dad’s bathroom and left a big puddle beside his toilet. i went into her room to make sure she was up and i ended up stepping in her trail. GROSS!!! So i had to get their little steam cleaner out and clean it up. She was actually going to just leave it. What if Dad had slipped in it?!?!! UGH.. i’m so upset about that… she just doesn’t care, and yet she does. When he has a stroke or something happens to him, she gets so upset… i just don’t get it.
They go to the chapel on Thursdays, to spend an hour of adoration there. (That’s a long story about what it is and why they do it, but suffice it to say that it’s sweet and they actually go and pray for an hour… least Dad does his rosary.. mom reads some or sometimes cleans, but at least it’s something more than church on Sunday) Anyway, they usually go on Thurs. Well, monday night, Dad said they had chapel in the am, so we had to get up and ready for that. i thought to myself that i thought that was on thursdays, but i didn’t say anything. So Tues we get up, got ready, and went to chapel. It was crowded and they couldn’t figure out why. Later that day, i asked mom… “Don’t you do chapel on Thursdays”? she said yes… and i said… today is Tues…. lol She laughed! It was funny. But i looked at it like it got Dad up and out of his chair an extra day. Can’t beat that with a stick!
His heart is working at 30% capacity. Scarey. But it’s the way it is. i know he can’t/won’t live forever… i’m going to miss him when he’s gone.
All he keeps talking about is coming to see me in Ill. He wants to drive up there! LOL i just laughed when he said this, cuz he can’t read (or see to drive) and mom gets so confused on the road that she can’t drive anywhere she doesn’t know. So then he said what about a train?? So i told him that i’d look to see… but i didn’t think they’d have non-stop train rides from charlotte to chicago. i’ll look, but i doubt it.
Let’s see… i know there’s more, but i can’t think of any right now. i’m anxious to get home. i miss my husband. i’ve enjoyed staying with M&D and have enjoyed it so much that i really want to quit work and just stay home again. It’s not going to happen, but it’s what i want to do. Don and i talked about it and he’s enjoying the extra money… not that we’ve had a chance to enjoy any of the extra money… since we’re not paying for Kris’ school anymore, he’s been out of work and not getting his regular paychecks… so my check has been goin to finish paying the bills. So, i’m not sure what *extra money* he’s talking about… but i guess we’ll get a taste of it at some point. lol
Nicole started school, Lain is going to take the ASVAB test again cuz he scored higher on the practice test than he did on the one he took in high school, but he’s got another 20 lbs to lose before he can sign up… in the mean time he’s playng lost of video games… *sigh*. Kris is working at Walmart, enjoying it, he’s still at the farm as well and loving staying so busy. i can’t wait to get home to all of them to see how things are really going.
Mostly i miss my husband. i hate being away from him…
August 16 2008 | miscellaneous | No Comments »
and i’ll be gone until 16/aug. The thing that stinks is that i’m going to miss my boys 18th birthday. We’re celebrating tonight, but it won’t be the same as being here when they actually turn 18. *sigh* It’s really no biggie to them, just me. Oh well.
So i’m leaving tomorrow am, really early (like 5) to go to Charlotte so that Terry can have a small vacation. She needs it. She works hard and then takes care of M&D on top of that. It’s hard on her. So i’m glad to help.
That’s it… i’m on vacation. Gone, but not forgotten, i’m quite sure! LOL
August 08 2008 | miscellaneous | 1 Comment »
i got us new chairs!!! Well, we haven’t officially gotten them yet, but Tuesday they brought us a new chair to try out to see if we liked it. Turns out we all do like it, but they brought us blue. So they are going to check into the colors that we have and bring them by so we can choose. We’d really like to have green, but it’d take 6-8 weeks for delivery and we’re all the kind of “we want it NOW” people, so we’ll probably choose gray or black… not sure yet. i’m excited though. Josie… is… well… ambivalent about the whole thing. She doesn’t seem to care, either that or she’s jealous that they are finally giving us something that she’s HINTED at for the past few years. She never really just asks for something, she hints, and well, when you hint at things, nothing gets done. So i asked and they said yes and now she’s… just strange about it. So who knows how she’s really feeling! lol
The other thing at work… on Monday night we had a HORRIBLE storm. There were tornado warnings and everything around here. Well, at about 8:30 pm most of Morris lost power (we didn’t at home, thank goodness!) But the whole strip of 47 did. That meant no Jewel, no Walmart, no Aldi, no Big R, no McD’s/Wendy’s/Burger King! So i got to work on Tues morning and Jewel was being run by a generator… and not a very strong one! lol We were able to get the computers up and running, but that was about it. No calculator, no counter, no program to accept transactions… it was all down. We finally got power about 11:30 Tues morning. But, our Server was down… and it’s been down since then! Meaning… we can’t do any transactions. We can take them, and we’re hand writing people receipts, but they aren’t being posted for a couple days… and we’re really starting to have problems with it. And on top of that… we have no idea how much money is in our drawers!!! It’s frustrating! We don’t mind the whole hand writing receipts, but we do mind not being able to balance and see that wonderful happy face that says we’re OK. lol
Yah, Josie had a lot to say about that, and complained about it all day Tues, but Moni and i had fun with it yesterday… except for the balancing thing… that kinda gets us… but what can we do?! So whatever.
Don’s back to work at night now. His first night was last night. Hope he did ok. He said he took a 4 hour nap yesterday, but i don’t think he napped again before he left for work. i know he was excited to get back to work with his guys… and i’m sure they are excited to have him back. i know the other managers are! He’s so organized… gets his work packets done for 6 weeks before they are due… so that if anything comes up he knows how to handle it. Wish i was that organized. lol yah… i’m not… though i try to be, but to no avail most times. lol
So that’s about it. Oh, N starts school on Aug 13th, Lain has quit his job at McD’s and is now unemployed, but still spending like he’s living the high life… and Kris is now employed at Walmart! (along with the farm and the guy he’s helping to build a basement) So that’s my life…
i’m riding my bike to work today, i’m loving my bike… it’s awesome!!
August 07 2008 | miscellaneous | No Comments »
back to work. He really started on Thursday, but didn’t go in thur or fri. but he’s back today. He has some training to do this week, then he can go back to his normal position next monday.
i leave on Saturday to see M&D while Ter goes to the beach with my other sister Sandy and her family. Not sure how much of a vaca that will be for Ter, since S keeps trying to tell her how to deal with things with M&D, but whatever. That’s her decision.
We’re still going to the beach in Sept… i’m so close to canceling the whole thing because of money…. but Don is insisting that we go, so it’ll just go on the cc. *sigh*
Josie comes back to work today after her week of vacation. It’ll be fun hearing all about it… over and over and over again! LOL Only cuz each client will ask her how it went, so she’ll tell them and each time she tells them it’ll be different, so that will be our entertainment for the week! lol
i should be getting my new contacts this week. i sure hope they work. Did i tell you that i had an eye appointment and i have officially entered the “world of bifocals”, as the doctor says. Never thought i’d see the day when my arms couldn’t’ get long enough! LOL i can say this though….. my posture at work has gotten much better… only cuz i have to move farther away from what i’m looking at on my desk. LOL So anyway, we’re going to try new contacts for me. One will be for distance and one will be for close up. It’s called “Mono-vision” i guess. Supposedly it works well for people who need bifocals. We’ll see. IF it doesn’t work, then i guess i’ll try my regular contacts with cheater glasses… and if that doesn’t work, then i guess i’ll go to regular bifocal glasses.
That’s my life… interesting, huh? LOL
August 04 2008 | miscellaneous | 1 Comment »
i just found out that Joe’s wife is getting remarried. OK, so it’s been 2.5 years.. and life does go on, right? But, now, after 2.5 years, she’s going to go through Joe’s stuff, and send it to Terry, who will then, i guess, divi it up or just hang on to it.
i guess i just can’t imagine remarrying should Don have died in April… Strange i guess. i’m not angry at her, or anything… just sad… incredibly sad that life does go on i guess.
So that’s life… take it as it is…
July 31 2008 | miscellaneous | 2 Comments »
i decided to first go and talk to Julie and spill everything onto the table. i’m glad i did. i told Julie about everything that’s going on, from her making rude comments, to the way she makes the schedule. Jul said that if i wanted to talk with Josie in her office, that she’d make that happen, otherwise we’d do what i wanted to do. So i said we’d talk in our branch first and if it becomes a problem again, then i’d take it to her office.
Then on Wed night, at 6 when we close, i went to work and talked with Jos with Mon there. i think she got *tipped off* that something was going on, because she took it very very well! i told her how i didn’t appreciate her belittling me in front of clients and making fun of everything that i do there. She said she was just teasing, she didn’t mean anything by it all, but i told her that it still hurts and i’d appreciate it if she wouldn’t do it again.
i also asked her to please speak to me about any problems that she has with me. If she’s my *supervisor* then i’d appreciate her acting like it. i told her that i’d have alot more respect for her if she were to say to me to “as your supervisor i’d like you to not wear those pants again because they are not dress code”… or whatever. Rather than what she usually says… “if you get caught wearing those pants and get in trouble, don’t come crying to me about it”
That won’t get you anywhere with me… especially when i see other tellers wearing what i would wear… but it’s not dress code. Like pants with flaps on the back, they aren’t “professional” looking, so we aren’t supposed to wear them, but i see lots of people wearing them!!! Including the president’s secretary! HUMPH!!!
Anyway, back to Jos… lol She took it all real well, said that she didn’t have any problems with me or my work, that i’m doing really well and yes, she likes working with me. i told her that it was unnerving to me to find out from other tellers that she is annoyed with me, or that she doesn’t like working with me. And who knows, she still may feel that way and will only tell me otherwise when it’s on her terms. That’s the way she works. But in the meantime, things at work are better than they were. Mostly cuz she’s on vacation, but that’s beside the point! LOL
And as for my birthday!!! It was fabulous!!! Don sent me a huge bouquet of flowers, then Lain came in and brought me coffee drink, then Kris came in with a dozen roses, then Lain came in with a basket of daisies!!! then Don came in with a cheese tray for my lunch/dinner. Then later in the day, Don and Nicole came in with a new purse for me, a new watch (the battery in my old on just quit that day!) and a new contact case for when i travel! Then even when and got my van washed for me. *sigh* i love my birthday.
People at work were amazed that i’d tell them my real age. They’d come up and say “oh 29 again??” and i’d say “NOPE… every day of 46 thankyouverymuch!” Most would comment that i didn’t look it and others would say that it was refreshing to hear a woman that wasn’t afraid of growing old! LOL AFRAID?!?! i think not… i relish in it… after all, it’s all one day closer…
Least that’s how i look at it!
July 26 2008 | miscellaneous | 4 Comments »
and how do i spend it? filled with doctor appointments and meetings. *sigh* Least it’s not all going to take all day, that much i like.
So things at work have been… rocky. Seems that Jos has had quite a bit of fun making tails about what is going on, so i’ve got a meeting (though she doesn’t know it yet) with my main boss to talk about it. Seems that other people have complained about the way things are run there, but nothing ever changes… except for the crew that works there. People come and go, and it’s all because of Josie. i was told about it when i first started there, but i decided to just go with the flow and see for myself….. so this is the way it goes…
A few Saturdays ago, Don came and spent about 45 minutes there with me at work. i did my job and pretty much ignored him, he just wanted to sit with me. a few days after that one of the girls from Jewel mentioned it to Mon and asked what he was doing there “for so long”. Jos took that and ran. She ran to the boss and said that he was there for 2.5 hours!!! and that i didn’t do any work while he was there, i had Mon do it all. Umm. what the heck is she talking about!!! Anyway, after that she apparently started to *monitor* my personal phone calls… cuz i get SOO MANY of them while i work. i might get one a day… and that’s a big MIGHT! Then yesterday she made a totally uncalled for comment in front of a client…. we didn’t have any body there, so i was playing a game of solitaire. Jon comes up and she says to me “you want to play the game or get Jon’s change?” How uncalled for an unprofessional is that?!?!! i was livid.
But she always does crap like that… she belittles, makes snide comments, and makes fun of me every chance she gets. Now what’s so strange is that i *thought* we got along!!! We always laugh and have fun there, and we’re always happy to be there. We work well enough together, getting things for each other (though i really started that, she’s starting to follow along in suit) and finishing what other’s can’t get done. i always thought it was a well oiled machine. Now i don’t know what to think. So i’m going to go talk to my boss today, then go talk to her to see what’s what. Maybe she’d be happier if she had me moved or something. i dunno. i really don’t want to move, i like working there, and for the most part, i like working with Jos… We’ll see i guess what’s going to happen. All i know is that Jos has never been hapy with her job, she’d rather open new accounts all day long, then wait on people and do their transactions. And Moni and i are just the opposite, we’d rather wait on people than open a new account. lol
There are times when i think, oh just let it go, it’ll blow over… but i’ve been doing that for a year, and it just keeps getting bigger and i don’t trust her with stuff…. i mean i’m afraid to even go to the bathroom… cuz she might be counting how many times i do that as well!!! i mean really!!!!
This is my thing… if she’s my *supervisor* the she needs to *supervise* and stop tattel tailing! How hard is it to say “jen as your supervisor, i have to say that Don isn’t allowed to come stay with you at work like he did Saturday when i wasn’t here”… or … “As your supervisor, you really need to tuck in your shirt, or not wear those shoes or pants.. ” whatever. It’s really not that hard… instead she says stuff like “if you get caught wearing those shoes or your shirt not tucked in, or those pants on, it’s not my fault!” Then she calls Julie to tell on you. really!!!
Anyway, i’m just kinda ticked off about it. i hope that Julie doesn’t think it’s all frivolous and doesn’t matter… cuz that’s how we usually feel out at our branch. We’ll see i guess.
Wish me luck!
July 23 2008 | miscellaneous | 6 Comments »
Turns out it was nice. Lauren (the secretary for the investments section of the bank), Denise (the head of our computer department), Miss Judy (she’s in New Accounts), Don (he’s in loans i think) and a new teller, Leslie (i think that’s her name) and then there was Kevin. So we went and had a nice lunch and i came back to work almost 2 hours later i think that was the best part about it.
Kris is getting a car. It’s a 1997 Grand Prix, white and very pretty. He’s gotta make some payments on it, so he’ll probably get it around late August, but he’s excited.
Lain is working today, Nicole has Kevin here for the afternoon and Don and i are about to go downtown and work in the Cruise Night thing that’s downtown every other Saturday night in the summer time. Should be fun unless it rains on us… in which case it’ll be a little wet! LOL Thought they cancelled it if it looked like rain but we havne’t heard from them yet, so i’m planning on going.
That’s about it. Exciting, eh?
July 12 2008 | miscellaneous | 2 Comments »
We watched Sweeney Todd this weekend. i was really really quite disappointed. It was a movie that for a long time i had wanted to see, cuz J Depp is in it. But i hadn’t heard alot about it, just that it was *good*. So it started and i realized that it was a MUSICAL!?!?!?! What the heck is with that??? It was strange seeing people who played characters from Harry Potter singing. And JD… umm… keep the acting career going, stop singing! LOL He wasn’t horrible, but it something i really don’t care to see again. Then the whole “plot” of the movie was just wrong!!!! LOL Using the human body’s *meat* for food… ewwwwwwww
Then the whole killing his wife was predictable, and the kid killing him at the end was too. Needless to say i was terribly disappointed when i had sat through 2 hours of what was supposed to be a good movie… only to find that it was really really stupid.
So i’m working today. It’s shocking, i know, but i am. Don is busy with errands. Our new van is still having trouble with the radio keeping stations. i haven’t even reprogrammed phone numbers into it, cuz i didn’t want to have to do them again and again. It’s time consuming. So anyway, Don is taking it in to the dealership to have them do something to it. Not sure what they’ll do, since last time they replaced the whole thing. We’ll see.
MJ is still here. Though we’re having a good time with her, she’s about to drive us all nuts with her worrying. She thinks that Don’s heart is going to explode if he works on a car by himself, or carries something heavy, or walks around the block by himself. It’s driving me insane. lol So working is a good break.
Today is the “birthday lunch bunch” so i get to go have lunch with the big wigs at the Morris Country Club. Should be interesting. i don’t really know anyone that’s going and i didn’t get to go last year, cuz i was so new i didn’t feel comfortable knowing that i was going to have lunch with “THE PRESIDENT OF THE BAAAAANNNKKK”, plus the girls that i worked with really made it sound lame. Well, now that i’ve been there a year (can you believe it’s been a year?!?!) i’m more comfortable and i’m ready for a free lunch! LOL Maybe i’ll work on getting us new chairs… Hey, i got us a fridge didn’t i?!?! LOL Who knows?! lol
ok, i’m off to work.
July 09 2008 | miscellaneous | 4 Comments »
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