Freaking Wednesday

 I just got my first call about my driving. Apparently I cut someone off and they called the number on the back of my car. 

Awesome now I have a point on my work driving record. 

Suck it Tuesday

 It’s only the second day of the week and I’m already done. This morning I come in and make my 2 runs that need to be done right away.

After the runs Boss asked if I wanted to check in stock (it was something I haven’t done before), normally Drinkie does it but since he is out for 2 weeks I’m learning things that he does. I start working about 9am. I had to do so many runs that as noon I felt like I couldn’t do the runs and checking in stock. (I’m not the only driver today. We have Witch (she doesn’t like driving because she wants to only do the front counter.) but she refuses to drive unless she absolutely has to.

Boss said ok and he finished checking in stock for me while I was on a long run. He said I could try again tomorrow. 

I cannot wait for Monday to come. That’s when drinkie comes back.

Drinkie has been out since last week. His step mother was exposed, and he was around her so he had to stay at home just in case. What does that have to do with me you ask? That means I get overtime and shorter lunches because basically I’m the only driver (witch hates driving and I get to do it).

Curry Chicken

Here is a recipe i am going to make for Kommandant. He LOVES Curry Chicken and there is 1 place in town that he really loves going to but we only go rarely.

https://pinchofyum.com/thai-yellow-chicken-curry-with-potatoes

 

Surprise

• Work has not picked up, it slowed down even more. Kids are back in "school" so parent's are not bringing the kids to the mall. Tuesdays at the mall are the worst because even when it isn't a nightmare it's the slowest day of the week normally.
• I got a call yesterday that i didn't answer because i was working and i normally don't answer calls that i don't know who is calling. yesterday i didn't get a voicemail. This morning i got a voicemail marked that it was from yesterday (my phone LIES). I applied for a job to drive for O'Reilly's auto parts. At first i got an email saying that they filled the position and they didn't need me at all. It surprised me when i got the voicemail this morning. I called back and they said they were in deseprite need of people to work for the store near the mall. He set the interview up for tomorrow at 9am.  We'll just have to see how it is going to go tomorrow.
  

Kommandant's Birthday and work

•  Kommandant's birthday was yesterday, he got a couple of gifts that he really enjoyed. I really wanted to get him a new phone, but he didn't want to get one (in the past he has said that he wanted to upgrade because he has an older phone and wouldn't mind getting the newer one). Since he didn't want a new phone i then thought he would enjoy a new iPad. we were looking at Target, Walmart, Best Buy, Fred Meyers (Apple is currently closed and we don't know when it is coming back) everywhere is out of the one he wants. Fred Meyers had 2 but Kommandant didn't want one of those because he wanted the one with bigger memory for the same price as the one we found. So we are going to wait till closer to Christmas (Black Friday) to see sales of the iPads (Maybe both of us upgrading the iPads)
  

•  We did gaming and cake at the store after work. He had a good time, a bunch of his friends showed up. Kommandant didn't come back home till 1 in the morning.
  

• Work has been painfully slow. Customers are not coming into the store and when they do they don't buy anything. they just want to look around (because their person is in another store and they don't want to be with them) and touch board games. Customer also come into the store and ask if we have any specials going on (i get that people don't have a lot of money because just like them i am not working a lot and don't have money to just spend on anything i want).
  

The Weekend Away & Monday

-We spent the weekend camping at Nat Soo Pah camp ground and hot spring. Getting there was a little bit of a challenge. We decided to bring Pink Bird with us, with that we had to arrange the car for 3 people and not the normal 2 plus 2 dogs. Poor Kommandant he had to sit in the back on a bunch of stuff and he had the dogs with him (they didn't want to be in the front with Pink Bird and me).

-It was nice being there with the family, only 2 sisters came out of 6 siblings. Kommandant's Mom and older sister stayed in a hotel in Jackpot so they were only there for the days and when night was close they would leave for the hotel.

-Kommandant's Mom is done with tent camping, she just cant handle the air mattresses and having to get up and down all night. So she is giving us first dibs on her camping items. There are a couple of items that i really want from her (she would always bring them so we didn't have to purchase them).

-Everyone in the family loved Pink Bird. I thought we introduced her to everyone but we did not. When we were leaving to go home everyone asked how she was related to us. If we decide to take Pink Bird again everyone would love to see her again.

-We got home pretty early on Sunday, we had enough time to go to storage and drop the camping stuff back off. i had to take Pink Bird home and while I was out I grabbed a coffee. When I got home and Kommandant saw he asked if I got him one, I said nope but you can have the rest of mine (which was 2/3rds full). He finished it while I showered and started to relax from the weekend.

-Once i stopped moving my body decided that it was done with everything. I got really really tired and couldn't focus on anything. I was doing laundry going, had to do 3 loads and Kommandant's blanket. I was afraid to wash it because it's old and I didn't know if the washer could handle it. I asked Knittech before washing it and she said that it was fine.

-Kommandant was playing his game from the time I dropped Pink Bird off till I needed help with folding and putting away the clothing. I just could not focus long enough to do anything so Kommandant had to do it. By bed time once i was ready to fall asleep that was it for me. I didn't notice Kommandant get up and let the dogs out or the cat yelling to be let in or out.

-Kommandant set up a breakfast with a friend this morning. I really didn't want to get up that early but i did because i really wanted breakfast and coffee. Kommandant left me at the house because i was busy talking with Grilltech. I was maybe 7 minutes late, but it didn't matter because our friend wasn't there when i got there. It was odd that he wasn't there because he normally is early for everything. so Kommandant and i had a couple cups of coffee while we were waiting and he still didn't show. at 9 i made Kommandant call to make sure everything was okay and our friend didn't answer the first phone call. Kommandant called till he got an answer and our friend wasn't coming to breakfast. so Kommandant and I had a nice breakfast together this morning.

-I made it to work and realize i forgot my pineapple that i was looking forward to eating for lunch today. I texted Grilltech to find it (i didn't remember where i put it) and put it back in the fridge so i could take it tomorrow.

Camping Planning

I am currently planning what we are going to take for the Family Reunion. I'm making sure that we have:

• Tent
• Air Mattress
• Non-Pop up canopy
• Straps to hold it down
•  need to get kitty Litter to have it anchored down
• or Water Bottles
  
• 5 Gallon Water Bottle
  
• Manual Water Pump
• Cooler
• Need to borrow from Grilltech
• need to grab ours
• Kitchen items
• tote that has everything
• Coffee cups
• plates
• forks
• knife
• flat plate skillet
• electric skillet
• Coffee Peculator

New Year

 Good Afternoon,

-Work-

• Things have changed a little since that last post. Job is still the same (which is good) but i don't think i am as happy as i could be.
• it could be just the Pandemic and the feeling like i'm not going anywhere.
• The Pandemic hit and the Owner has been doing things that i think aren't fair. He took scheduling, payroll, and my authority (i feel) away till things get back to somewhat normal. the mall has been on restricted hours (11-7).
• the owner wants 1 person doing the jobs and i understand about the payroll, but the person that is doing the schedule doesn't work in the stores and i just want to be able to do something other than talking to customers.
• my authority i feel that i don't have any because i don't see my employees and i just work to be the main person in the store during the week.

-Personal-

• Last weekend we Visited Kommandant's Mom.
• she was happy we were there and we didn't spend enough time there (Saturday 1AM - Monday 2PM)
• she wants us to move there and be with Kommandant's Family.
• Personally i don't think that is going to happen. Kommandant and i have our lives here. My Family, Our Friends are all here. i know we could always make more friends there and we would have his family there and we could spend more (than we do now) with them. but i don't want to move away from everything i know.
• i have taken up the Shuttle Tatting again.
• i found a pattern that i really like. I'm turning it into a doily that I'm going to put it on the table where Grilltech sits.

I'm Still Alive!!!!

Let’s see what has changed since the last time that I have posted (since it’s been more than a year!).

I Got a New Job after some Drama from the last one. I am now a Store Manager of a store. I get to do a lot more things and I have more responsibility’s that I get to handle. I have days where I miss what I did but they pass because I am way happier doing what I am doing now.

            Currently I am having issues with trying to get people to do what I would like for them to do. Some of it is employees under me and some of it is people above me. For the last 2 weeks I have had to change the store manual because it was written very fast and things were running together and not making much sense. So, I changed it all and make it more user friendly. Before I changed the manual, I asked every employee if they had an issue with it and if there were changes that they would like to see changed. I had 2 employees say yes and give me examples of things that I could work on so that I could make it better. I had 1 employee not really give me any input on it and that she didn’t really see any issue with it.

            During the last week or so we have had some changes happen. There was 1 employee from my store quit & one employee from Kommandant’s store get fired (I really don’t know the details of that one). With this thing are changing schedule wise and how much Kommandant, the General Manager & I have to work till we find someone to hire for the hours that we are hiring for. The General Manager has asked for me to change my schedule, as of the 18^th I am going to be pulling 3 open to closes and then 1 day where I am working maybe 5 to 6 hours. This is because they felt that having staff come in for an hour and a half was unreasonable and that they couldn’t get anyone who wanted to work these shifts because it was such a waste of time before I changed my schedule I made sure that everyone was okay with it. all the staff that agreed to it has either quit or gotten fired. Now we have new staff and it is just easier for me the change my schedule and have the new staff be happy. Another thing that is going to be changing on the 18^th is that my favorite employee that I have shown how to do things and that has been working hard is going to Kommandant’s store and I get to keep one employee (everyone loves but me) that I wasn’t too impressed with. I have asked the General Manager if we could get more training hours because they are going to be needed for when I am not here, the employee is going to be on their own and they are going to need to receive freight and or do things that they really don’t know how to do or not really wanting to learn at the time.

            I just have to except that I get to keep someone that I am not impressed with and I am definitely not happy that I am losing my best employee, but the best employee is going to be used for different things. I just need to except this fate and try to get this employee to the steps of where I want her to be.

            Today I am a little upset that I have to receive a bunch of things that one store has had for 5 to 6 years and they couldn’t sell and now I get to try to sell things that are really old, and they look like it. (I’m going to see if I could get them discounted so that customer want to get them. I also asked for a change request and I didn’t get it because the General Manager is just too busy doing her stuff that she doesn’t have time to take care of her other stores. About 3:45 I was told that she would try to do it, but it is 7:00 and it hasn’t happened, I wasn’t told that ‘oops I didn’t have time’ or ‘Hey I ended up not having time to do the change request and I will get to it tomorrow.’ Things need to change for this or it’s just going to get old and I am going to stop requesting help for the store and doing things my way (but then I am going to have to answer to the ‘well why were things done this way and not this other way?’ and I am going to say is ‘ I can’t get anyone out here to help out and I needed to put X in place and since no one is willing to answer me I did it that way’.)

            I’m going to leave it at this and have a good day away from work.

One mass

Life

On march 16th the techs and I were suppose to go to Seattle and see the red hot chili peppers, that's not what happened. I went into surgery to remove a cyst that was attached to my left ovary.

The surgery went well, there wasn't any complications. The cyst was 6 liters (gallon and a half) of liquid, and it was 30cm (a foot) big.

About 5 days later I went to the doctor to get my staples out. I had 19 all together (The nurse left 1 in. She didn't see it when she was removing the others). About 2 weeks went by and I was healing along and then my wound was leaking some red and yellow liquid (it didn't smell). I was freaking out because I wasn't sure if that was normal or not. Kommandant told me I had to call the doctor and find out if I needed to go to the emergency room. They told me to place a pad on it and then come in on Monday.

Went in on Monday and got to talk to the doctor. She looked at it and the wound was healing from the outside in. So the liquid was normal. The wound had healed at the very top and the middle. The only parts that didn't was the upper middle part and the very bottom (it was like a drain). Kommandant went with me and she poked around inside of my wound to open it up and then packed it up with this packing strips. Kommandant got to pack my wound 2 times a day (I am so lucky to have someone to do that to me.).

They told me to get up and moving so that I can build my stamina up. So about two times a day either Knittech or Kommandant would walk me around the block. We started off with the small block which took so much out of me each time we would walk it. 

About week 4 Kommandant didn't have to pack the wound any more. We did have to put a pad over it because I was still having a little leakage. Week 5 came and went and we stopped putting a pad down so that it could have all the air it wanted. Week 6 came and that's when I was sleeping and I scratched my scar in the middle and opened it up. I'm waiting for that to heal and I'm doing everything in my power from not scratching it.

We had the last doctors appointment on week 6 and she said that everything looks great and that it is 100% healed. I still have scabs on it and I have the middle part to heal. But I'm happy that it is done and over with.

oh my

Kommandant and I want to have a child. Since nothing has been happening I thought that I should get go to the doctor. I found a new doctor and told him what I wanted to do. He said okay and sent me to go to an ultrasound of my ovaries. The tech sent a lot of time looking at my right ovary. Since it was a tech doing the test they didn't say a thing to me and I had to make an appointment with my doctor to find anything out.

I went to the doctor and he said that he wanted me to do a CT. He said that there was a mass and he wanted to get a better idea of what it was. Maybe it was a hormone secreting tumor or it could be apart of the PCOS that they are 99.999% sure that I have. So I wait and wait and call the doctors office to see if I could schedule an appointment myself because they were taking so long; they told me I had to wait because they had to get an authorization from the insurance. (They told me when they called that they didn't need one) so I get in to do it and the gal that was the tech was really nice. As soon as I go to get dressed she told me to wait because they were having computer problems and I might have to do the test again. But they figured it out.

The results came in and the doctor sent me an email because I didn't want to waste my time and get an appointment. The email said that there was indeed a mass near my left ovary and he was going to refer me to a gynecologist to help me with my issue of a mass.

So the waiting game began again. I had to wait for the new doctors office to call me and set an appointment up. They called the next day or something like that. They had someone cancel their appointment and I got the appointment. I went and talked with the doctor and they did an examination and I have to have surgery to get the 30cm mass removed (the mass is the size of my belly.). They want to do it quickly so that it is out of me. They did a blood tests and made sure that it isn't cancerous. (It's not)

The surgery is going to be on the 16th of March. (I'm not happy because Knittech and I were suppose to spend a week in Seattle going to a concert and enjoying out time). Knittech is going to take me to the hospital and help me recover from this.

I told Mr. Boss Man and he wasn't happy because he relays on me a lot because I'm pretty much the only one that bends over backwards to help. I told my staff that I'm not going to be here for 4 weeks and I needed them to help Mr. Boss Man out. I'm afraid that they aren't going to help.

After telling Mr. Boss Man the news I went home and I drank a whole bottle of wine myself.  It was not a smart idea but that's what I wanted to do.

How did we get here?

One of my resolutions this year is to get checked out by the doctor and make sure everything in my reproductive system is fine. I wanted to confirm that I have PCOS. The last doctor I went to said that she was 99.999% sure that I had it and that I didn't need any tests to confirm it. All I had to do was loose weight and take metformin and I needed to loose weight.

My goal in life is to have a child by the time I'm 30. So I went to a different doctor last month and told him my goal. The first thing he did was he wanted to 100% confirm that it is PCOS. So I had a blood test to check my hormone levels. I was expecting a phone call with results, a letter came in the mail with the results. (I really liked that). The next step is getting an ultrasound done on my ovaries to see if there are masses on or in them. (The doctor said that I would get a phone call to set the appointment up and nothing happened for a week and I called them and set up the appointment myself. At least it got done.)

One of the things that I didn't like about the doctor was that he kept saying that I am obese. He could have said overweight. I'm not going to nitpick that issue with the doctor.

Sunday, October 2

I've been feeling a little stressed out since Mr. boss man told me he really wants to quit. Nothing I can do or say will make him want to stay. He's unhappy with his job which I can understand it stressful when you're the boss and you have to answer to higher ups, your employees, your assistant and just about everyone else. He says that he may want to stay to help out with the engraving for the holiday season and then he might go. He might even go before the holiday season which is really stressing me out because I don't want to be the boss when it comes to the holiday season. We still have to hire three engravers which we're trying to get one of the master engraver back that we normally get it. And I'm not even sure if he's going to come back. Then I have to hire a sales person for the season. Then I have to hire a permanent employee that only gets eight hours a week. And it's not great hours either it's normally nighttime four hours per shift.

When I got into work the first thing I did was clean my engraver. I figured out how to tighten the vise block. This morning started out with customers coming in and wanting to get their stuff engraved. There was a lot of handholding because it was customers were like: "how would you do this or how would you do that". I did make my sales goal today and it was in before 1pm.

I'm trying to get the redisplay started and it's just not happening. There's just way too many people coming in when I start trying to work and they want to ask questions, they want to see things, they want all of my attention. Whenever I start something I have to immediately stop because somebody come in I get a phone call that they want to ask a hundred questions.

So that's how my days going so far. It's about 3 o'clock so I think I'm gonna try and get my redisplay started and see how far I get.

Christmas!!

Kommandant and I have been working a lot because of the holiday season. Kommandant has been working his normal schedule with Saturday's playing the Star Trek game. 

Me on the other hand have been working long hours. I think last week I worked 54 hours. This week I think I'm close to that again. We just didn't hire enough people this year. No one wanted to work in the mall. We hired 2 people out of the 4 to 5 people we needed to have. So I'm a little tired of working. Over the 2 weeks I've had 2 days off that weren't close to each other.

Today starts a new week and I have 3 days off in a row. So I'll be able to rest and not have to work with people at all. I'm not looking forward to working New Year's Day because we are going to the judge's house and playing games. But the store is just going to be open for 8.5 hours for 2 days, there is no point having 2 people come in for little bit of time.

For Christmas kommandant got a PlayStation 4. Knittech and I have been playing Diablo 3 on it. Kommandant just got fall out 4. Don't know when he is going to have time to play it, since knittech and I have been playing on it more then him. Knittech went and got 2 more controllers for the playstation so they can play with us.

Kommandant got me an iPhone 6s Plus phone. I LOVE it. I haven't had the chance to put it down when I'm not working. It has a GREAT battery life and I have been using the crap out of it. The speaker is nice but I just got head phones and I have been using them.

Sunday!

Kommandant and I have moved. It sucks because I loved LOVED that house that we were in. We didn't like having the roommates that we did because they didn't do anything and they were very messy. I don't want to live with teenagers unless they are mine or related to me and I can tell them what to do. 

We have been cleaning the house so the landlord doesn't have to do much when we are gone. He will have to replace carpets and do a deep clean of the whole house but that was there before us. We have been vacuuming the house and I have clogged 1 vacuum cleaner to the point of no return. The second one is the one that is used often so we had to fix it. It was clogged good. It took about 15 minutes to fix it.

I have to go to the house tomorrow and vacuum my room and go back through and vacuum the house and then sweep and mop the house. I'm not looking forward to it because I am going to be doing the house we are in too because it needs done.

The head of the locust bought some bread for us because she ate some of our bread. She got wheat. I don't have a problem with the choice. But I have grown into a food snob. I like good bread and not the cheap breads. I have brands that I get. It was a nice gesture for eating my bread.

So we have had an issue with lights being left on and messes bring left. Kommandant and I have to get use to having other people in the house that make messes too. I know we aren't the best people to say that we aren't messy because we are. We have to clean us after we are done eating or leaving a room. We had our own space and we used the space the way that we wanted.

I thought the problem was going to be the dishes. But having a dish washer makes a huge difference. We put our stuff in the washer and we are done. We have been using cups and I use 1 cup that is the iron horse cup and nothing else. Kommandant uses a couple of different cups. We use more cups then anything else. So I have to talk to Kommandant and the head

of the locust and get them to use 1 cup and keep it out and make sure they know it is their cup so we don't run into the issue of no clean cups in the house.

 

Come on end of the month!!

I'm freaking out a little bit. We have 3 days before the end of the month and we have a lot of stuff still in the house. I don't know how we are going to pull it off.

Kommandant was suppose to go to the house today and do a load to the storage and I have his keys! So we are going to go to the house and load up the car and go in the morning tomorrow.

Kommandant and I were at the house the other day to do a load and by the looks of it the roommates haven't touched anything or moved anything out. I'm stressing over it because I don't want anything bad to happen to me because their stuff is still there and they haven't moved out.

I'm going to ask for the keys and the garage door opener Tuesday because we are giving the keys over to the landlord Wednesday.

I was able to take the coffee maker to work and it is the best thing ever. I am not a huge coffee fan and my boss things that I like dark and bold coffee. I like the medium roast and I don't like to have it every day. But the roommates have been using it for the last year and I couldn't do what I wanted with it because they were using it and Kommandant didn't want to have any conflict in the house because of it.

The other night I was making a chicken roll up and I was looking for the cheese that we brought from the house and I couldn't find it, all I could find was knittech and grilltech's cheese. So I didn't use any. I asked them in the morning and the head of the locust has said that she ate it. I thought we were done with people eating things that isn't theirs.

The first or second night I got to feed rascal and the locust was saying that we was going to eat his food for lunch. I had to tell her not to because it was animal food that we make.

Tuesday

Kommandant and I went out Monday and went looking away apartments. We left at 11 in the morning and didn't get done till 5. We found one that I fell in love with. It had enough space and it had extra storage space. The bathrooms weren't tiny and they had large tubs, I was in love and it would be the same amount as the rent we are paying now so it made it that much more desirable. 

We didn't get it. The reason is because of "past credit issues". That's why they declined it. We met the criteria with 24 months of positive rental history, and making 3 times the rent in gross.

I don't get how I get declined for an apartment but I get approved for a jewelry credit of 500.00. I don't get how I can get something like jewelry but not a roof over my head. 

So the search is still on. I think we are going to have to get a house because an apartment will not allow us to live in them with "past credit issues". 

Monday!

Today I had the day off. So the plan is to get Kommandant's drivers license or ID card and he would be set for a form of ID. We spend about 45 minutes in the dmv. I don't like going to the dmv and Kommandant doesn't like when I fidget. And I spend about 20 minutes fidgeting.  We got to the counter and asked a couple of questions about the drivers license and they said that he was good to go and he didn't need to take the test or anything. They just gave him the license. 

Yesterday the roommates where suppose to give us money. Kommandant was home all day and I was at work. He said he didn't see them at all. The only time I saw them is when I got home and they were walking out the door. And we thought that they would be up for a while and they were.

I spend a text message to both the adults to see if they had money for us and they said that they thought that they were done paying because they said $900 and they were looking to pay $1,000 for the month. I have been keeping track of what has been given and what comes due and they are back to about $1,000 owing us again. 

The mechanic roommate is trying to say that I still owe for the tune up. I paid them $400 and that is what they said that I owed them and that was it. The mechanic is saying that I said that I would give him the rest of the money at a different payday. I don't know what he is talking about because I did pay him and I checked the bank account to make sure and it is telling me I did a with draw of at least $400 that day.

New this week

Things have cooled off a little bit at the house. I'm not freaking out so much anymore. It sucks that we have to move but this gives kommandant and myself a chance to live together by ourselves. We have been married for about 8 years and we have lived by ourselves for about 4 months rounded up together with no one else. 

We have decided that we want to move by end of October. Because that gives us 3 months to save money for moving. We still haven't told the roommates because I'm pretty sure once we tell them they are going to stop paying. So kommandant and I have decided that we will tell them in a month in a half so they have a month and a half to move out. Technically in the agreement that we have with them if they miss a payment we shouldn't ask them to move out they should just move out on their own. I don't think that they would that's why we are going to tell them they have a month to get out. 

We are looking to move into the whitewater park apartments. It use to be called the clock tower, but they got new management. I'm looking at applying and it has a list of things that we have to have to apply, like prof of employment, 24 month verifiable rental history, a positive credit payment history. So it is a lot to just apply and get into it. 

Work has been going okay. The boss man is going to start working and getting the store cleaned and back to the way that it is suppose to be. He told me that I need to stop slacking and help get the store to where it should be. I told him I haven't stopped working my butt off trying to keep the store cleaned. I have been cleaning the floors and dusting when I can. So I'm excited that I'm not the only one cleaning the store again. 

We are giving daisy to the mother in law. We don't think that the apartment building would like having her be there. Kommandant's mom likes daisy. So we are "loaning" her out till we get a house or we move.

Story if my life (earlier this week)

Just when I think everything is going okay something goes wrong. I find out that the neighbors are complaining about the yard and the way it looks. It's looked like a mess for as long as we have been there. So the landlord calls and talks about it with Kommandant and me and he decides that he wants to hire a guys to remove the mess that someone that use to live there. We have been living with it since we moved into the house. The landlord called me yesterday and said that he would like to walk through the house and find out what is wrong, because we told him everything was fine.

 (I thought that the people that lived here before us told him everything that was wrong with the house to the landlord, but they didn't. The landlord thinks that we did everything to the house because we didn't tell him what was wrong with the house.) 

He told us that he didn't want us to sign a new lease when it comes again in June of 2016. Even though we have been there for 2 years.

I'm freaking out about it because the landlord was just at the house and he said it looked okay when he did a walk through. He wants to go deeper and find out what is in every room and make sure everything is okay.