Toes

Ha ha, I know....but it's a fitting title for sure.  My toe hurts so bad!!  Last night at work it was myself and Whitney working four or five pallets of down stack.  Right as we were getting started, a Frozen/Dairy/Deli truck arrived.  This meant we had to move our pallets out from the middle of the floor.  She used a jack to move hers and I used my hands on mine.  As I was trying to move mine (which was quite doable) Whitney used her foot on the other side.  I wasn't expecting it so I dropped my side!!  We both started rolling on the floor laughing.  I now have a bruise under my toenail.  Thank you Whitney!!  LOL

My intense sunburn that I got on my legs about a week ago is peeling.  It normally doesn't bother me except, this time it itches so freakin' bad!!  Last night I had to use foot cream on it because it was the thickest, richest cream I have.  God, I cannot wait to get a decent base tan so I'll stop with this crap!!

As I type my cat is stalking a bug.  A beetle of some sort I think.  It's funny but it also freaks me out a bit.  I don't like bugs in my house.  I also don't like when he catches them and eats them.  Gross....

Hm...

It's been busy these past few months.  I've been working as often as I can...most times during the early day into the early part of the evening.  The boys have gotten out of school and I've been playing stay at home mommy for a minute or two.  It's tressful but I'm dealing with it well.  I've gotten a little closer to some of my crew mates at WalMart.  Mostly thanks to Facebook!!  Whitney is now someone I talk to on a daily basis and, of course, I still keep up with Mr. Wes Hewitt.

Speaking of that guy, I got to hang out with him and another of my best friends, Renae, this past month.  I finally got to meet her little guy.  He's a doll and he looks SO much like his Daddy.  I got to take Little M so he had a blast of course.  He was tuckered out by the time we got home later that night.  HA HA so fun!!

Work has actually been steadily better.  Scotty moved to electronics but we have three awesome people to make up for his being gone (that would be myself, Whitney, and Brandon).  As time goes on, we're getting loaded up with more jobs to do and that's okay by me.  More responsibility means more of a chance to prove myself at work!!  I sure do miss that short little guy though!!  Oh, not only did Calen quit Wally but so did someone else in the produce department...Schooley.  He was a mainstay there for a long time.  Older guy who always had the answer you needed.  He was so nice too.  Dang, it just isn't the same over there with out those guys.

Not much else has been happening here lately which is probably why I haven't posted anything of consequence.  I suppose instead of a daily thing this has turned into a whenever I remember thing.  Looks like yet another project I've started that doesn't go as planned...HA HA 

This is What Happens

So...I need an outlet to vent or just ramble.  I make a blog that some peeps might actually read faithfully.  I get a new job and some of the stress goes away.  I don't really need an outlet anymore.  I get new friends.  I can vent to them.  Now, i have a blog that has not been posted to in FOREVER!!

Hi!!  I'm back!!  Even if it's only for a little while...I'm back.  The house has been a jumble of ups and downs for a little bit.  Emotions have been running high and the stress has been through the roof!!  Since Jon and I work different shifts, we don't get to communicate as often as we would like.  This has a tendency to suck on a major level.  Something gets said and it gets taken the wrong way.  Something DOESN'T get said and it gets taken the wrong way.  Signals that were once caught aren't anymore.  There's an endless supply of weariness.  I can't wait for the stress to end!!

Um, there's been a lot of changes going on at work.  Some of them aren't major but some are positively out of this world!!  We have a new way to set up the pallets when we pull them out now.  Instead of parking them next to the frozen bunkers like we always do, we need to park them in between the bunker and a feature!!  It isn't a major change but it's enough to confuse a person for the first couple of times they do this.  I've learned how to bin.  It's good thing and a bad thing.  What happens is, if I get bored and there really isn't much to do on the floor I can go in the back room and busy myself doing something that needs to be done anyhow.  The managers don't mind and it IS a good time filler.  Once again, nothing major though. 

One of the bigger things though is the move of my "mentor" Scotty.  He's going to switch to Electronics and leave Dry Grocery.  It's only major because now I have a bit of a load that is expected of me.  I like getting a few more hours on my checks though.  I really don't mind the workload.  Scott Jones has taught me well.  I know what needs to be done and I can do it.  I have learned where most everything is and can actually help someone when they ask.  I think I don't like this because it's a bit of a shift from my comfort zone.  Not to mention I will be losing a good conversation partner.  It hasn't happened yet.  I don't know when he will move.  He hasn't told me.  One day I'm going to walk in and Gary will tell me "Hey, Scotty moved over today."  It will be a sad day.  LOL

Another thing that rocked the boat...my buddy Calen quit Wal-Mart completely!!  He was scheduled to work yesterday and never showed.  I got asked where he was.  I had no clue for sure!!  We're friends but it came as a surprise to me.  Schooley (one of the main produce guys) was the one that asked a manager what was up.  It got back to me and a few of the others around 7 or so.  Sheesh, yet another conversation partner gone.  Now I'm REALLY gonna have to work (just to keep myself occupied).  This is a major shift in my damn workplace.  I still have some of my old stand bys and there are the other newbies that have come in.  I can deal...I think.

The weather has been mirroring how it's been going here lately.  Up and down, sunny and rainy, warm and cold.  It's never the same from day to day.  It's wrecking havoc on the allergy sufferers in my family.  Oh wait, that's the ENTIRE family.  Crap!!  Today I need a jacket, tomorrow will be the same.  The day after that I need a tank top and shorts!!  Oh how I love living in Oklahoma...

Friday, Friday

Oh yeah...I want to thank Rebecca Black for that terrible piece she likes to call music.  My darling cousin Richard has decided that from here on out, he will upload that music video to his profile on Friday.  It's become a ritual that I hope he will forget just once.  I mean, I don't click on it or anything but the second I see the video I recall the annoying lyrics...well the chorus really and it makes my head hurt.  My cousin is an ass...thankfully he knows this.

Last night it poured rain.  It poured for maybe five minutes.  Ha ha, not exactly what I was expecting but it was good none the less.  I got to open my windows and air out my poor house of it's burnt popcorn smell.  Ugh, it was pretty terrible.  The sky is hazy today too.  We have about the chances for rain today as we did yesterday.  Hopefully, if it DOES rain today it won't be a piddly five or ten minutes.  I could go for some drizzle.

Little M has decided that today is the day to test my patience.  We can't close the bathroom door so he's decided that anything in there is free reign.  That just happens to be where Damien keeps his crap.  Hm, this is gonna be a long day!!  I go in at 3:00 and I get to be the Easter bunny.  Not so excited about that.  I'm a little worried about the kids and stuff.  Most of them freak out when it comes to things like Santa and the Easter bunny.  I don't have the patience for screaming brats that aren't mine.  Is sound so mean...

Hm, I guess this is the perfect day to think to myself "You can do this.  You've got two of your own".  I CAN DO THIS...watch out Easter bunny suit.  I will take you on and I will win...

Oh, Easter...How I Hate You

That's right folks.  I freaking hate this holiday now.  Why?  You may ask.  Well, yesterday I was on my morning shift at work.  Since I work in grocery I get to stock the shelves.  Since I got to work at 9:00 in the morning there were no picks for me to do.  Since I actually took initiative and asked for something to do instead of stand around with my thumb up my butt they had me help a lady named Becky with candy.  Um, it just happened to be Easter candy.  Little did I know there was SO very much in the store.  I messed with candy for eight hours yesterday.  Stock this, move that, make a four-way for this.  Whew.  I have never lifted so many boxes of Easter stuff.  My legs got a good work out though.  I never want to see Easter candy again.

There was a joke made that since I was stocking candy all day I was the Wal-Mart Easter bunny.  What makes THAT funny is I will quite literally be the Easter bunny tomorrow and Saturday for kiddo pictures.  That's right, I will be dressing up in a bunny costume and taking pictures.  Why, oh why did I ever say yes to that?  Oh yeah, because instead of getting off at 11 on Saturday I'll probably get off at 8.  Heck yeah I'll dres up as a bunny for two hours!!

There's been a chance of rain all week yet it hasn't rained at all.  I don't think there's even been a trace of a sprinkle.  It sorta makes me sad.  The breezes have been nice.  But then again the breezes have been teases.  Ha ha that rhymed.  I'm easily amused what can I say?

Thankfully, I have today off.  I get to spend some quality time with Jon tonight.  It looks like a new episode of The Office is on the plate.  Yay for comedy...

Gorwing Up

Yesterday I was watching Harry Potter.  Oh yeah, I totally dig Harry Potter (more so than Twilight).  Cam comes in and he's freaked the heck out.  He's like "Mommy, mommy my tooth is wiggly!!"  So I asked him which one it was and then I went ahead and wiggled said tooth.  It was pretty wobbly for sure.  I reassured him that his tooth was loose and it would fall out soon.  Well, he kinda freaked out a bit more until Daddy said "But you'll get a big, white, grown up tooth instead."  Funny how that helped.  He came back an hour later with his tooth in his hand.  It apparently didn't hurt when it got pulled either.  He left it under the pillow like a good child would and well...the tooth fairy never came.  Fail on my part.  We decided to try again tonight with out the tooth wrapped in toilet paper.  Maybe she'll be able to find it easier that way.

Work has been getting steadily better.  I haven't worked as many half days as I normally do.  It's been awesome.  I get to work a day shift this week.  I can't wait to see how that goes.  If it works out better than my nights I might have to ask for day hours more often!!  I'm sure not a single person in this house would mind if I did that.  Jon wants to spend more time with me at night and of course, I wouldn't mind putting the boys to bed every night...and going back to a regular eating schedule!!  My eating habits are becoming terrible.  I hardly eat anything anymore.  I'm hungry when I can't eat and not so hungry when I have time to.  It's stupid and it sucks.  Ever try to eat when you aren't hungry?  Not fun.  It doesn't quite satisfy.  Or you get the other end of it and you eat too much because you aren't quite sure of what you want then you're too full.  I've done both.  Not my idea of a good time.

So, while the temps are going to look steadily up this week, it's going to be rainy this week as well.  I don't mind too much because it should be fairly warm.  Maybe the rain will soften the allergens going on right now.  It also makes the air nice and fresh.  I love having the windows open during the rain.  I have them open right now, as a  matter of fact.  The breeze is glorious and there's just a hint of rain.  It's cloudy and there IS a chance today so...  The boys window in their room is open too.  God, it needs to air out bad.  The kids got to play outside all weekend and then would come in and sit until they had to take showers and what not.  Ugh, talk about funky smells!!  Whew, who knew kids could smell like that?  Ha ha!!

Anywho...chicken alfredo lasagna tonight for dinner.  I can't wait to make it.  I haven't done it before so this is going to be an experiment.  Hopefully it tastes as delicious as it sounds...

Tornado Sirens

Yeah, so, those things really suck by the way.  I don't particularity like to hear them going off.  Especially if I'm at work and they just keep going for, oh, an HOUR.  Seriously, I guess they thought it woul dbe okay to go ahead and freak everyone out for that long.  I was busy stocking my candy wall at work.  It got a little annoying.  We had a manager standing by the door checking out the sky.  I mean, the storm did get a little heavy.  Well, it got REALLY heavy.  There was rain, hail, and a LOT of wind.  The lights went out in the back rooms.  We got called to the Site to Store room in preparation for a tornado.  It was pretty dumb...Let's be honest, it was REALLY dumb.  I had just clocked out on my lunch too.  Ugh, they only kept us back there for about 15 minutes but that was enough.  Sheesh.

There hasn't been any rain since...at least I think there hasn't.  I did sleep pretty hard last night.  As for today, damn it's cold!!  The rain came in and brought the wind and chill. Wow.  I wasn't expecting this.  Thankfully, the boys have their hoodies.  I think I may have to get some socks on Little M before he goes to MeMa's. 

Tonight there should be a full crew (thank God).  It was a little bit of hard work last night.  I'm glad that I did it though.  It was a good work out.  I can't wait til I get some new outfits to show off this awesome new work body.  Jon's enjoying it for sure!!  Here's to another good workout tonight...