The last day of 2011

Wow, since October I've been soooooo very very busy. As much as I love the holidays & always want to enjoy every minute of them from the moment halloween gets here up till Christmas I get so busy with work. Unbelievably busy. So I've been terribly remiss in posting anything here.

I hope that those of you who used to read this daily will enjoy reading these again. I'm gonna see if I can do a better job with this coming year.

So since October what have I done, what haven't I done? Ugh. Seems like I've lived at work. Lots of training, lots of new hires to get us into the holiday's. I don't remember if I had already told ya'll they sent Mani to Arlington & we finally got Doug who I told M Taylor about last September, who wanted to be in our store, he was moving down here from Arkansas. Doug is Domino who used to be my work out partners boyfriend. Great guy, everyone at work loves him. He actually does his job & a great job he does. LOL

November, came & went terribly fast. My brother in law, Clint found out that he had prostate cancer just before Thanksgiving. At work every available moment I had I was on the phone taking TG to go orders. We had 86 this years which is about 30 more than last year. Since they finally opened up the roads, all the construction is pretty much done around us, we have gotten busier & busier. Which is a good thing. But the attentiveness of our service has gone down in our scores. Some things have gotten better & some things haven't.

All the kids are now out on their own, Niki & Randy got a new apartment, Amanda & Jason found a place right off Las Vegas trail North of 30 & Stephanie found an apartment 5 minutes the other direction. So Robert & I now have the house to ourselves. We started working on some of our remodel. We stripped & painted the entry way, it looks really good. Primed & painted the first bedroom & got it all set up as a guest room. Of course we had that mostly done before we went to the Canyon. I still have to decide on the colors I want in the second bedroom. Although I still want to make it my craft room & turn my craft room into the second guest room.

Thanksgiving was a blur, we usually go to Sissy & Clint's but with his diagnosis they had a lot on their plates & didn't get the invite out early enough that we accepted Robert's sister Glenda's invitation. Of course just like the last 5 years I had to work sitting on the front porch for those picking up the bulk to go orders. This year I went in at 7 & didn't leave until after 3. Got home changed & we head to Alvorado. Spent a couple hours at Glenda & Johnny's with Mary Lou, Dena, Katelyn & Stephanie joined us. We had a nice visit, great food. Then we left for home & vegged the rest of the evening. Since Thanks giving is on a Thursday it was nice cause I always have Friday & Saturdays off.

December went even faster than November, I went to Rhonda's yearly Christmas party, which is always a lot of fun especially when you have about 20 women all together enjoying the games that Rhonda devises for us to play. LOL

Work Christmas party was on the 12th, this year it got started late because there are idiots out there that can't read or if they can don't care. We always post on the front door a week & a half to two weeks that we will be closing at 8 PM so that the employees can enjoy our Christmas party. So I get to the store at 7:30 there is an 18 top in the third dinning room who had just gotten sat another 15 top in the first dinning room who had just gotten sat & several other smaller groups. Needless to say that by the time we got everyone served & they sat and visited for ever, once everyone left & we got things cleaned up so that we could set up it was 9:30. Now mind you last year home office said that ETC are no longer to be in charge of the employee Christmas party, that managers are supposed to plan them etc. WELL that went over like a lead balloon this year. I didn't worry about, I had a lot of other things going on. So our party being on the 12th, when I worked Sunday the 11th our DM M Taylor came out to the store for lunch and to shake things up a bit like he likes to do & he asked me what I was doing for the party, if we were ready. I said I don't know, I'm not doing anything. He then proceeds to grill me on why not, I said because the directive from home office last year & this year said ETC are not to do Christmas party planning any more, we could help if asked but not to do the major work. He then tells me that "well you're the only ETC I have in the district then who isn't doing the party" Great, now what? So he tells me I need to find out what's going on & if I can help.

I talk to Fred, who is doing the party, he tells me he thinks it's Doug. Well Domino happened to be eating lunch with a friend at this same time, I was running the dinning room & Doug was on the grill, so I ask Domino, what has/is Doug doing for the party tomorrow? She tells me that she was supposed to get all the gifts the day before but had forgotten so she was going to do the shopping that afternoon. I said ok, well Taylor has pretty much informed me that I should be doing the party so at 2 meet me here back at the store because we have 200 to spend in store and then we'll go to Ross to see what they have, Tuesday Morning also if need be. We have 300 we can spend outside the store. So at 2 Domino & I start shopping for gifts for the party for the next day. We get it done & loaded in my truck. I worked Monday but left around 3 so that I could get home at a decent time to make food for the party & wrap all 90 plus gifts. I got online to see if I could find some games & entertainment for the night. BECAUSE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAD BEEN DONE OR DECIDED UPON FOR THE PARTY. I informed Mike Bernard the Wednesday after the party that we're going back to the way we used to do it. Next year I will start on it in late October early November like I used to do, we WILL have sign up sheets etc. Cause the only thing they had decided about the party this year was that instead of pot luck we'd do mexican.

Once the party got started, it went ok, everyone enjoyed the food, we had a couple of games to play, Santa came & saw the kids, giving them a stocking with goodies & pictures. I then had everyone pick a gift, not to open them just to pick a box or bag. I got everyone in a VERY large circle & we played the right/left game. It was a ton of fun & funny. It was something different & everyone enjoyed it plus it gave everyone a gift. There were a few extra left over so we drew for them.

Then Mike had a couple of awards to hand out, he started with some of the Employee of the month awards, then he made a small speech about how much work this person does to keep things in order & running & I really didn't hear the whole thing. Then he says that is why this next award goes to ........

Michelle Bartee - she was chosen as the ETC of the District for 2011. I really was surprised. I was hoping I would get it but when DM Mike Taylor wasn't at the party I figured I didn't get it since he was supposed to award it to me. I teared up, they wanted me to make a speech, I'm not sure what I said except how touched I was & how special it was.

This is the first year for this award & ETC's are chosen by their DM's. I really was surprised & excited that I got it. It's a 3 by 3 by 3 lead crystal block with a star engraved inside with my name & ETC of the District 2011 engraved on the front. It weighs like 5 lbs. Then Mike gave me a gift from the managers at the store. Which was some items from the new peacock display that I love. Tina tricked me, telling me she was thinking of sending some of it to her mom & what did I think.

Of course I've never gotten employee of the year in our building cause everyone thinks they can't vote for me. Oh well I got something more important. It really means alot.

So back to the sign up sheets, after the party was over, some helped me get the dinning room back in order & I assumed that there were people who had straightened up or cleaned the kitchen area where we had all the food laid out. NOT, after everyone had left including all the managers except Shawn cause he was doing his inventory & Sandy the night maintenance gal. I walk into the kitchen & nothing, not one thing had been cleaned up. So it's 11 PM & I have to clean up the kitchen now cause Sandy has to get started on her job & Shawn is useless. It took me an hour to pack up food, clean up the area, put food in the cooler & pack up some of it to take home with me since I was the one who had to clean it all up. I was pissed.

So that is one of the other reasons why next year I'll be totally in charge of the party again. We wont have any of the last minute problems like this year.

The rest of December flew by, I really didn't do any shopping, Robert did it all this year. I actually didn't finish getting his gifts until the 23rd. Of course the 22nd I left work early sick, had been sick for a week & by the 22nd it was really bad, I went to urgent care & found out that I had an upper respiratory infection, got all sorts of meds & told to go home not back to work. No problem wasn't planning on going back that day & I had the rest of the weekend off, my normal fri/sat plus we are closed Christmas day so that gave me Fri thru Sun off. Back to work on Monday feeling better & we were WAY busy the whole week. I once again have Fri thru Sunday off cause I asked to have New years day off this year.

So here it is New Years Eve day & I'm doing absolutely nothing but catching up on this blog.

Oh to report on some of the movies I've seen lately.

Hugo, Sherlock Holmes 2, War Horse, The adventures of Tin Tin, Breaking Dawn, ALL good movies.

Hugo - not really a kids movie but a great 3D, forgot I was watching it in 3D it was that good. It gets into the history of some of the silent movies, I think children under 10 0r 11 really wouldn't understand it. I really enjoyed it alot.

Sherlock - great movie, love Robert Downing Jr. & Jude Law. Can't wait to see it again.

War Horse - Speilberg has done it again. This is a great film, wonderful story & a good family film.

Tin Tin - wonderful fun, good kids adventure movie.

Breaking Dawn - saw it twice, can't wait for the 2nd part to it. It was good.

I'm sure there are a couple others that I've seen & hadn't reported on. But these are the most recent.

Still want to see the new Mission Impossible, the Darkest Hour & We bought a zoo. Plus I really want to see The girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

So tonight we're going over to Glen & Rue's for dominoes & snacks. Just gonna hang out with friends. No big parties.

So to all of you my friends & family, followers of my blog, I want to say I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season, a blessed Christmas & most of all that you each have a Happy & prosperous New Year. God Bless you all & keep you safe through out this next year.

Saturday, 16th of Oct to Sunday 23rd of Oct 2011

Hmm, where to start for this past week? Last Saturday didn't do much of anything, we stayed around the house all day, didn't go anywhere. So it was just a hang out & continue to catch up on all that I had recorded while we were gone. Think I got it all caught up. LOL

Sunday had to work as usual. Busy day, good day. Got home around 2:30 & chilled for the night. Watched the premier of Walking Dead. Great start for the new season. Wow.

Monday I had orientation with a new server & a seasonal retail. It was a good day, two nice young ladies. Finished up with them at 2 & sent them on their way. Finished up some of my work & headed home a bit after 4.

Tuesday my new server was supposed to show up to do computer work, never saw her. Called left messages, nothing. Really strange, she seemed eager & excited to work for us. Not a clue as to what happened. Called her several times through out the week with no luck or return calls. Spent the majority of the day calling all the applications that have been piling up since my vacation. LOL. Set all the managers up with interviews for the rest of the week. Will call more this week & set up more.

Had my 6 month follow appointment with Dr. Young at 2:50 in Fort Worth so left work early to get there. After the appointment went over to visit Cindy at her work since it was only 3 blocks away. All was well, Dr. Young released me.

Wednesday finished calling applicants & booking appointments, fielded return phone calls from those I had called on Tuesday. Worked on our holiday mail outs with the help of one of new rising stars, giving her extra hours. Left work after 4 & headed h0me.

Thursday was once again the 12 plus hour day for me at work. It was really a great day. Everyone in good moods, business good. Stayed busy & steady most of the day. Finished up the mailers. Got home after 9 & vegged.

Most nights after I get home from work, Robert & I sit in front of the TV watching our shows or right now the World Series - Go Rangers. It's really rather boring. Stephanie has moved back in with us just over a week now. Supposed to move into her new apartment the 4th of November. Niki & Randy spent this weekend moving into their new place. Amanda & Jason have been in their new apartment for about 3 weeks now.

Friday Robert & I were both off work, I had to go to the Weatherford PO to get the mailer out & when I got there they told me it wasn't even ready, I didn't have the bulk mail stamp on the envelopes from the Chamber & they'd have to be crated or what ever they call it. So I had to go to the Chamber & once their the lady who does the bulk mailers for the Chamber didn't even have a clue that we were supposed to be using their stamp. It was a big mess. Tammy who is the boss over there had just walked in the door as we were trying to figure out what to do, we all had some ideas. Then Tammy said "are they all going to chamber members" I said yes, we got the labels from ya'll. She suggested then that Saturday they have a crew who comes in & does the stuffing for the Chamber news letter & why don't we just put it inside that & it wouldn't cost you anything. Yes, that was a fantastic idea. I offered to stay & de-envelope them all but they said no, I had already done so much not to worry about it they'd take care of it. Thank heavens. Mike should be happy to hear that when I see him on Wednesday.

After I got home we loaded up to go over to some friends house & help them move some furniture from one place to another. Went out to dinner after ward & then to a club in Dallas. Had a very nice evening got home close to 2, went straight to bed I was beat - slept on the drive home also. LOL.

Saturday got up around 7:30 had to be at work at 9. Got there about 10 till. Got the key & my head set on as it was Fred in the kitchen & me in the front of the house. Shawn wasn't supposed to be in until something like 11, I think it was supposed to be 10, he said he thought Mike had changed it to 11, he came in at 10:15. No biggie. He spends all his time in the back of the house anyway. He & Fred both stayed in the back while I ran the front & the dinning room. We did a great job if I say so myself. Stayed busy, had good compliments, barely went on a wait. Left work around 2:30 & headed home. Chilled out for a bit took an hour or so nap then went to Lake Worth to the movies with Cindy. We went to see The Three Musketeers. It was really fun. I liked the new twist on the storyline. We enjoyed it, very entertaining. Isn't that the point to enjoy & be entertained. We were.

Got home after 9 & it was close to the end of the ball game, no bueno, very bad game last night. I think we were both in bed & passed out by 11:30. I was really tired.

Sunday Robert got up before me, I think I was up about an hour after him. He hooked up the BAT to the truck, backed it out of the pasture & I got in the drivers seat & took it out for a practice drive. Since I'll be the one driving it down to Burleson Friday for our weekend away. I drove it to Walmart in Hudson Oaks, actually to the street that runs next to Walmart to get it out on to I - 20 West, drove it up to the Main Street exit, took it around the Texas turn around back up 20 to the Aledo exit over to 1886 to 730 then home, I parked it myself. Yeah me. Didn't have any problems, however it took me a while before I could breath right again. LOL. But I think I can handle pulling it down to Burleson on Friday.

Just hung out around the house the rest of the day, played on my facebook, read emails, sat here in the living room while Robert watched Nascar, the Cowboys win & now the Rangers. LOL

There ya have it folks, my life in a nut shell. LOL

Hope you all have a fantastic week. God Bless & keep you till next time.

Wednesday to Friday, 12th to the 14th of October 2011

Wednesday - very busy finishing up training with all my newbies, computer work, classes, a couple of PAR tests, menu's. I think I was running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. I don't think I ever stopped that day. Left around 4 to go home to get ready for our dinner date. Robert & I met friends in Grapevine for dinner at Le Madeleine's, it was good but of course all the boys & some of the girls wanted to watch the game so after we ate we went next door to chili's to the bar area to watch the Rangers win. It was 11 before Robert & I got home.

Thursday - I went into work early because Mike was supposed to give me my eval first thing. I did very well & should be getting my annual pay raise. Plus he submitted me to our District Manager for a new award the company has decided to do, ETC of the Year for each District. So exciting - however I really don't expect to get it. I'll be surprised if I do. After the confrontation between our DM & myself back in the early part of the year I don't think he likes me much. We'll see. It would be nice to get some sort of recognition after 5 years as an ETC.

This was my long day & surprisingly it was a very good day. Everyone was in a great mood, we were all having alot of fun, we stayed steady. I had some of my newbies finishing up their computer work. Working around some of these new guys schedules is getting a bit difficult. But we'll get there. It was after 9 before I got home. Working 13 hours. Very long day.

Friday - got up before 6 & got dressed for the Weatherford Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Before Business meeting at 7:30 at the Doss Center. I took two gift baskets for the drawing & our holiday brochures. Made a couple of new contacts that I believed panned out very well for our store. Met a man who is the President of the Texas Home Builders Association & they meet once a month at a different restaurant that isn't working out for them, so he had quite a few questions. I gave him some info, Mike's card & told him to call I'm sure we could work something out.

After the meeting I went to Walmart to do some grocery shopping then home to unload. Did some house work & chilled out. Took a nap. LOL Robert woke me up around 5. We just hung out at the house & watched recorded shows from the week that we didn't watch due to watching the Rangers. In the evening Kelley called me & said that a lady had come in to talk to Mike about using the dinning room once a month for their meeting. The gentleman from earlier in the day had told me he'd have his secretary call, it seems she decided to come in rather than call. I think they worked out a deal & it would make us an extra 800 one Tuesday a month. This would be great. Love local network marketing.

So, not a lot to tell for the past 3 days. Same ol', same ol'.

Enjoy your weekend. God Bless

Monday & Tuesday, 10th & 11th of October 2011

Monday - an uneventful day at work today. No orientation - had to move it to Tuesday, which will through everything off for the week, oh well, I roll with the punches. Not as busy of a day as was expected, good thing, we only had 8 servers. Had the newest grill cook in training with Lynda & Jojo - grill cook hired around 6 weeks ago, come in to work with Lynda on more training. So what little bit of busy that we did have we got the food out fast cause we had 4 grill cooks on the line, for a Monday that's pretty good. LOL

I was able to get a few things done in my office that need to be caught up on since my vaca. Gave a couple of PAR tests. Wrapped up & left for home around 4. Got home & of course we had to watch the ball game. Go Rangers. It was a great game. And if you didn't see that grand slam you missed it. It was classic.

Tuesday - had a dermatology appointment at 8:30 to follow up on my rosacea. Still the same, not worse, not as bad. It has been flaring up the past few days so the dr got a good look at it. Refilled scripts. Headed to work, of course I had to put my make up on in the car before I went in to work. Went in & got clocked in at 9:30, ordered some breakfast before my orientation class at 11. Had 5 newbies - 1 dish, 1 server, 2 cashiers & 1 retail seasonal. Seems to be a good bunch. We'll see. Finally wrapped up at 5 with the group, finished getting them into the computer & headed to Autozone to get a few things for Robert so he could get Niki's car fixed. Thank God it was an easy fix & not something way worse.

Please, keep Niki & Randy in your prayers, they really really need alot of prayer. Young kids trying to make it & for those of you who were married in your early 20's you know how hard it is. Keep them in prayer please.

Stephanie & Niki came over around 7:30, Steph to do her laundry & Niki so she could get her car.

Sat here & watched the Rangers again, this time in Detroit. No Bueno, Rangers lost. Let's hope they do better at the next game.

Oh, two of our friends showed up at my store today. Bob & Saeng Soul, we were in Iceland with them. The live in Clovis, New Mexico now, for several years. That is were they retired to when Bob got out of the AF. He's a NM Highway Patrol. She has a restaurant, if you're ever in Clovis & you want the best Oriental Food you've ever put in your face, go to Saeng's. She is amazing, you only think you know what oriental food is. They had come over to Dallas to visit his parents & were headed back to NM & stopped in to see me. We had a really nice visit. It was great that my class was involved watching video's(Tina had a couple of extra's to throw in for the upcoming holiday's) so needing to use the dvd player the whole class watched them with her class. So I got to sit with them & visit.

Well there ya have it. My past two days. Woo who, exciting. LOL

God Bless you all, have a wonderful week.

Sunday, 9th of October 2011

What a very busy day it was at work today.

But first let me tell you of what a wonderful breakfast my hubby made for me this morning before I went to work, bacon, eggs & tatercakes with a large glass of oj. It was really good.

Got to work around 9 & it was hit the floor running, stayed that way until I left at 2:15. Had a guest come up to me & tell me what a wonderful staff we have, said everyone was on the ball. They had several servers check on them, refill their drinks etc. He told me that the store in Tyler seems like all the servers have blinders on but we were really on the ball. I asked him to please call home office & let them know what a great job we did.

Driving home I called Debbie (stepmom) to check on her. Her spinal surgery was about 4 weeks ago, it's been a very slow recovery process for her but she's getting there.

Once I got home, I changed clothes, took off my make up & warmed up left overs from yesterdays, red beans/sausage & rice with corn bread. Just finished a wonderful home made butterfinger blizzard that my hubby made for me. Yummy.

Hanging out now, watching CSI Miami recorded from the past two weeks. Finally just about caught up on all of my recorded tv. LOL

Oh, BTW, do you all know it's only 6 1/2 weeks till Thanksgiving. LOL just thougth I'd throw that out there.

Ya'll have a great week, God Bless.

Saturday, 8th of October 2011

Well to start with today, I've done absolutely nothing much. Robert & I slept late, I've been on my laptop all day playing games(catching up on them) & watching the two weeks of recorded tv shows to catch up on them as well. We are now watching the Rangers with the back door open listening to it rain & thunder. It's awesome. I did make a pan of sweet corn bread to go with the red beans, rice & sausage that my honey made us for dinner.

I'm really sorry, once again, to be so remiss in posting.

Starting with the week we left for our trip, had a lot of work to do at the store before we left, that Thursday I didn't get home until close to 9, Robert & Cindy had loaded up the trailer with most everything except my stuff. So as soon as I got home I immediately started going through my clothes to decide what I was taking & started hauling all my things out to the trailer as well.

We had finally finished the guest bedroom, got a little touching up to do with the paint but all in all it's finished. Now I just need to figure out what I want to hang on the walls in there. It looks really good. We didn't have the blinds before we left so there still wasn't anything up on the window. But after we got home this past Saturday night, the blinds had arrived while we were gone & on Sunday Robert hung the blinds & the curtain rod, so I got the curtains hung up after he got everything else up. It looks really nice, I'm very pleased.

Back to the trip, we pulled out of here on Friday morning the 23rd at 7:30 AM, stopped at the gas station 3 miles up the road & bought breakfast burritos & coffee for Cindy then headed on down the road. We made it almost to Wichita Falls before we had a tire on the trailer blow out on us, not good. We had only been on the road an hour & a half. There are 3 tires on each side & this was the front passenger side right under the kitchen slide out. Needless to say it tore up the sheet metal & the trim as well as ripped off the hose that runs from the propane tank to the fridge which was running to keep our food. We had to quickly cut the gas off. Robert got the tire changed & we limped it into WF, finding a trailer place which sent us up the road to a hardware place which sent us to some hole in the wall place looking for a new hose to replace the one that runs to the fridge. Once we found the place which wasn't called "The hose place" like the people at the hardware store called it. Luckily right across the street was a tire place that did tires for every size vehicle you can imagine & enough room for us to pull in & turn around. Robert changed the hose out & got the fridge running again then we got the tire changed. Putting us back on the road close to 11:00, now we were about an hour & a half behind on the schedule. Got through WF & most the little towns until we stopped for gas & poor Robert had been doing so well it was a difficult place to get into & he was watching out the side mirror looking low that he missed how far out the pump hung up top taking out the pump & some of the sheet metal on the side of the trailer. No camera's, no one saw it happen but we did the right thing & Robert went in & spoke with the manager who told him they never would have known. Not sure if they'll contact our insurance or not?? Went on up the road to the next town where we were able to get some gas. We got 30 minutes east of Amarillo & once again another blow out, this one being the middle tire, the one behind the one from the morning. It was just after 5 so I got on the laptop & Cindy got on the Tomtom looking for a tire place. I called 3 different places that did not have the size tires we needed. Found directions to a place & when we got off the highway at 5:35 in the afternoon on a friday, rush hour traffic mess with a one ton four wheel, four door truck pulling a 40 foot 5th wheel that was quite the feat. The street we were trying to get down had to major accidents, the place we were looking for wasn't there but thank God there was a Firestone on the opposite side of the road from where we were & when there was a bit of a break in the traffic we crossed 4 lanes to pull into their drive. Robert went in to talk with the guys & they also didn't have what we needed but thankfully another store did & they sent a guy to pick two up. I didn't mention when the tire blew after looking at it & it being in the middle didn't change it driving very slowly into Amarillo so that by the time we made it to the tire place there was about an inch of rubber around each outside rim of the wheel & that was it. We had them change the middle & the back tire on the right side of the camper giving us 3 brand new tires on that side. Four weeks earlier we'd changed the left rear tire from that one blowing out after our trip to Hillbilly Haven. Cindy & I just prayed that the last two on the left would hold out even though we thought that we should have changed all of them there. We finally got back on the road around 7. Now we're a good 3 hours behind on the schedule. We made it into Albuquerque just after 9 PM their time(10 central). Tried two different gates to get onto the base one not made to get a trailer into & the other closed. We found the gate we could get into which was on the total opposite side of the base from were we needed to be. About a forth of the way to the FamCamp a small car pulled up beside us & asked if we were looking for FamCamp & told us to follow him. Good thing, the GPS was going to take us one way which wouldn't have been conducive for a 40 foot trailer. Got to the camp & got set up. Had called Justin when we got into town, then again after we got set up called him to tell him we were all beat after 15 hours on the road, which with out the trailer would have been around 10 hours, with the trailer we figured 12 even with gas stops. We just didn't figure on all the other probs we had.

Got up the next morning, had breakfast, got cleaned up & Robert took Cindy & I to Justin's. It was so nice & I wished someone had had a camera to take a picture of Kali's face when she saw me. It was wonderful. I came in the door, gave Audrey a hug, turned to my left into the kitchen & she was in the living room looking toward the front door to see who was coming in & when she saw me her face lit up & she hollered MIMI, I just melted right there, all the bags I was carrying as well as myself dropped right there to the floor & held out my arms which she promptly ran into & gave me the biggest hug. In case most of you don't know, I've only seen & spent 4 other occasions with her since she was born & she's only 2. So I was very very happy she recognized me & came to me. I have so much love for her it's so hard to explain. Those of you who are grandparent probably understand. I love all my children so very much but there is something about a grandchild.

She'd been up since before 6 so not long after we got there she was getting very cranky. Robert had left because he has work to do on the trailer, the siding, the gas hose, the trim above the wheel wells & the air conditioner. Cindy & I went with Justin & Audrey & Kali to Walmart. We all needed to get a few things. Kali was still throwing a fit, she was so tired & wouldn't fall asleep. We finished up at the store, headed back to the house dropping Kali, Audrey & the groceries off so that Cindy, Justin & I could go to his football game. He's coaching 7 yr olds in little league football. We dropped Justin off at the field & Cindy & I went to Dion's, a pizza place very popular in Albuquerque, really good pizza. Heard from Robert just as we got there & he was done so wanted to meet up with us. We all had a great lunch then headed to the park. The game was supposed to start at 2, it was about 2:15 before it got started. We stayed & watched for a bit but when we found out they'd be there playing a full game till like 4, unreal in my mind for 7 year olds. And people think Texas is gungho about football. Anyway, standing outside, even though it was a beautiful day, that high of an altitude under the sun at 2 in the afternoon, no shade, we didn't stay long. The 3 of us went back to the trailer so Robert could get cleaned up then we went back up to Justin's house. Kali was up from her nap & in a much better mood. She helped me make cornbread for dinner & was supposed to help with the peanut butter/chocolate chip cookies too but got side tracked. LOL We had a very nice dinner & visit with Audrey's dad Art & a co worker/friend of Justin's, Adrian, had come over so they could make some beer. After Kali went to bed around 9, Robert, Cindy & I headed west to Rio Rancho to some old AF friends of ours that was having a get together. We hung out over there for 2/3 hours visiting. Cindy had a chance to meet the Smith family. Topper, Debbie & their son Dalton, their daughter Dotty was at the homecoming dance. Around 11:30 we headed back over to Justin's, Cindy & I spent the night their & Robert went back to the trailer.

The next morning we all got up & Audrey made a wonderful breakfast while Cindy & I played with Kali. We watched Rio & Ringo, Kali & I played airplane in the kitchen after a while. She loves to fly. So for about 10 minutes we're going round n round in the kitchen. Kali saying "do it again, do it again", we had fun. Robert finally showed up around 10 & we all just hung out around the house for the day. Later in the afternoon Cindy, Audrey & I decided to take Kali to the park around the corner from their house, Kali fell asleep on the ride in her stroller so when we got to the park we just sat & visited under the pavillion. Robert caught up with us & we enjoyed the outside & each other's company. While I was taking pictures something woke Kali up & it wasn't a good thing. She wasn't ready to wake up & she became a very cranky kid.

We went back to the house, Justin & Art had been working on the back yard wall when we left & returned. There was a low place & earlier in the week one of their dogs had gotten out & disappeared for the week. So they built it up & got it fixed. We had another nice dinner, played more with Kali, gave her her bath, got lots more pictures, played a little bit more before she went to bed. We hung out for a little while longer then decided we'd better head back to the trailer because we would be getting up earlier the next day to head on over to Arizona. It was bitter sweet, I never get enough time with my boy & his family.

We got up before sunrise Monday morning, ate some breakfast, cleaned up, packed up, hooked up & headed out of Albuquerque, west. We got on the highway just as the sun was coming up over the mountains. We had a wonderful drive during the day, making a few stops. One of the stops we made we spent 2 hours at the Petrified Forest National Park. WOW. Amazing sights to see. We made it to the Grand Canyon just after 4, got to our campsite & got things set up then walked to the market which was about a mile or so from our camp. Checked out the store & bought a couple of things. Robert went back to the trailer & Cindy & I walked out to the canyon rim as the sun was setting to get some pictures. AMAZING. Definitely one of the most amazing natural wonders I've ever seen. Up there with some of my favorite places in Iceland. Cindy & I made it back to camp, gathered up my laptop & her nook & we went back over to the cafe by the market to get online. Met some wonderful people who work at the park, we shared a table with a young lady who was also on her laptop. We got online but the speed was very very slow. Connections up there not good same goes for cell reception. Verizon seems to be the only one that works. Cindy is Sprint & we're AT&T. We hung out till a bit after 10 then went back to the trailer. Watched some tv then we all went to bed.

Got up around 7 the next morning, Robert cooked breakfast outside for us, we got showers, dressed then headed over to the West village where most the hotels & shops are. We started at the west side taking pictures & checking the sights, looking through the shops. We were supposed to meet Kelley & Kim at the ice cream shop around noon, we got there around 11:15 & waited but never heard from them. We finally left around 1 & went back to the trailer. Decided to relax & watched Alpha & Omega. Around 3:30 we finally heard from Kelley. They were late coming back up out of the Canyon. Cindy & I left Robert at the trailer & went to their rooms around 4:30, hung out for a bit & went to catch the redline bus to Hermit's Rest to get some sunset pictures of the canyon. Told Robert we'd be back at the trailer for dinner around 7/7:30. Which we were. He'd made penne rustica for us with sour dough bread. It was sooo good. After dinner, Robert had a book he'd been reading so he went to the master bedroom to read, Cindy & I decided to watch Thor. We didn't finish it cause we both started dozing. I got up & got my stuff ready & laid out for the next morning because I was getting up at 5 to catch the bus to the East rim out at Yaki Point for sunrise pictures. Went to bed & crashed.

Got up a little before 5(which at home was really 7), got dressed & headed to the bus stop. Caught the bus with a little couple who are avid & professional bird watchers from Canada. They were also going to Yaki Point, it was very nice to visit with them. They are working their way to Texas. He has a conference the first week in November in Houston, they were headed to Harlingen. I headed back to the trailer around 7:30 getting back just after 8 for breakfast & in time to start getting ready for Kelley & Kim's ceremony. We were supposed to meet them at the point but Kelley called & they were running late, so we decided Cindy & I would go to their room to finish getting ready & help her. Kim & Mark would head to the market to get the burger makings for our cook out & pick up Robert at the trailer. Cindy & I got to the hotel & Kelley was just starting her make up, I still needed to get mine on as well as do my hair & get dressed. I got finished, Kelley needed help getting her hair done. Cindy was already done & ready before we got there & looked great. Sue just needed to change into her dress. We all finally got ready it was after 10 (when we were already supposed to be at the point). Got some pictures & it was so funny walking through the hotel lobby in our semi formal dress, Kelley who looked amazingly beautiful in her long red dress with her bouquet of red flowers. She got quite a few complements from the staff. Needless to say we didn't look like we were going hiking like most everyone else. LOL All us girls loaded up into our truck, again a funny sight, remember it's a 4 wheel drive 4 door one ton long bed pick up. I have to step up on the running boards just to get in, Kelley & I both in long dresses climbing into that truck. Once we got to the road that we needed to take to the picnic area, it was a private road so no one could drive back except us cause we had the key to the gate. Driving back up into the woods toward the rim & passing hikers on the road driving in also got us some looks, again 4 women, all dressed up in a big ol truck. The boys were already there & had most everything set up. I had to hurry to the point with my tripod to get things set up with the camera & make sure everyone got to were they needed to go.

It was sooooooo beautiful. The day was perfect, the weather, not to hot, a slight breeze & a few clouds in the distance. All Cindy & I could say almost the entire time from Monday until we left Friday was WOW. Every sight we saw was awesome. The ceremony was wonderful, we all cried. Afterward we took a bunch of pictures(imagine that) lol, then headed back to the pavillion where Robert cooked us all some burgers. It was funny at one point a couple came hiking through & were sorta looking at us, I made the comment "yes, we always dress formal when we hike". LOL the lady looked, stopped a bit & said " Oh my, you are all dressed up". We all got a great laugh out of it. We drove out a little after 1 to head back to camp, they headed back to the hotel so everyone could change & rest or whatever. We meet back up at their hotel around 5 for cake & champagne. Cindy & I then left & went to dinner at the Bright Angel hotel restaurant. After our dinner we went back to their hotel room, where Robert was still hanging out, gathered him up & went back to the camper. Got into bed around 11 & crashed.

Had plans to meet up with everyone back at the hotel for breakfast, which was very good. Afterward, I went on a hike with Kim, Cindy went shopping with Kelley, Mark & Sue did some shopping & sight seeing & Robert went back to the camper. His ankle & knee wouldn't allow him to hike to much. Our hiking trip took longer than I thought it would so when I got back to camp Robert was very upset with me. The one thing he wanted to do we didn't do because he said it was to late. It was 3, sunset wasn't until 6:30 but he was angry with me so therefore we couldn't do it. So I went shopping since I hadn't gotten any gifts or souvenirs yet. The one big ticket item I wanted I didn't get because it was expensive but after getting back to camp & telling Robert about it, he asked what time the shop closed, which was 6, it was 5:30 he said I would make it to get it, I said if I take the truck instead of the bus I could. So I drove back over & got it. Got all my shopping done by 6:30. We had steak & baked potatos for dinner outside on the picnic table then did roasted marshmallows. Cindy played on her nook, Robert & I on our laptops, he online with our sprint connector, I downloading & organizing pictures. We all went inside around 10 or so. Robert went to the bedroom to read, I got online with the sprint connector for a bit, Cindy reading her nook. Then we were all in bed & asleep I think by 11:30.

We all got up early to pack everything up to head out. Time to leave & head east toward home. Boo hoo, didn't want to leave. It would have been nice to stay a couple more days. We had a very nice drive back through Arizona, made it into New Mexico & 30 minutes west of Albuquerque one of those other tires on the trailer finally blew. The middle one on the left side of the trailer. We pulled into the Route 66 Casino & travel center got the spare put on & limped about 5 miles up the road to Camper World, again being 5:30 in the evening & they closed at 6. Bought 2 new tires to replace the last two that were on the left side of the trailer. Finally getting back on the road around 6:45, we drove straight through Albuquerque since there wasn't a place to keep the trailer since the Balloon fiesta opening day was the next morning. All hotels, camping areas everything was full. We went on to Santa Rosa, getting there around 9 & set up for the night. The next morning Robert started breakfast, then ran to the store, I finished breakfast up by the time he returned. We chowed down, loaded & closed everything up & headed on to Texas.

We stopped at the Cadillac Ranch just west of Amarillo for Cindy, got some pictures & back on the road. We pulled into our drive way around 5:30, got the trailer pulled up onto the blocks & parked finally. Cindy gathered up her things, we unloaded some stuff from the trailer. Cindy headed home, we unpacked some, then vegged out for the night.

Sunday morning we got up, Robert & I just hung out in the living room watching his morning shows & on our laptops. Then he had some errands to run, while he was gone I went out & cleaned the trailer, thoroughly, took me 3 hours. But it looks great & is ready for the next trip.

Monday - Robert was supposed to have knee cap replacement surgery, he didn't. The dr decided to just scope the knee to check out exactly what the inside looks like, cleaned up a bunch of stuff in his knee. We waited longer for them to take him back than the whole surgery. He didn't have to spend the night which please him greatly. Got back to Hudson Oaks around 2:15, dropped off his script at Walgreens. They said 3 so we went to Boo Ray's to get a late lunch. Picked up the prescription & headed home. Spent the rest of the day taking it easy.

Tuesday - Friday, ugh, back to work. Orientation on Tuesday with four newbies. 2 servers, a host & a grill cook. Lost a grill cook, cashier, server & manager while I was on vacation. Busy week catching back up, the only bad thing about leaving for more than a couple of days. Had another orientee Friday, a server. Got somethings caught up. Doug our new manager started the first Saturday that I was on Vaca. Been trying to get him in our store for over a year. He's Domino, my workout buddy's boyfriend. Really glad he's finally in our building. Mani went to Arlington, which he told me before I left for vaca. Doug is great. I think everyone is liking him. I know I do, finally someone with the guts to do their job.

Well, there ya have it folks, a bit of a book I know. But I think I've finally caught up on this. Rangers still playing, it's still raining here at my house and it keeps moving that direction. They are still in the 5th inning due to 2 rain stops. Go Rangers. I really hope they win.

I have to work tomorrow as Shift Leader, ugh, I have another orientation lined up for Tues/Weds, a server, dish, & I think 2 seasonal retail.

Till the next time, have a wonderful day, God Bless

Friday to Thursday 16th - 22nd of Sept, 2011

I'm gonna post this alittle at a time. I've been rather busy this past week and hadn't had a chance to do much on the computer and that includes my FB and FB games. So I started with my day from last Friday it's almost 1 AM now and we'll be getting up in a few hours to leave on our big trip so I'll post this now and add more tomorrow when we're out on the road.

OMG, I have been so busy, I got some catchin up to do. I was off this past weekend and Robert & I stayed home all weekend. I was going to go help my friend La Rue at her shop Friday and not long after I got up and was sitting on the couch catching up on FB, I heard a whining noise at the garage door. Knew it was Sophie wanting in and when I opened the door there she lay covered in blood and couldn't hardly move. When I walked away to go around from the front door she pulled herself up into the laundry room. I had to get her cleaned up just to see what was wrong. Our neighbor has a female who was in heat for about 2 weeks and every boy dog in the area was hanging out in our yard causing all the dogs to go nuts. So we think one of them in the heated moment of fighting that all the boys were doing, because she might have jumped in to help Boxer. Any way they got her good. Once I got her cleaned up and checked how bad it was, she had a couple gashes and I got her bandaged up got her moved eventually onto her bed in the living room and there she laid the rest of the day and most of the night. I didn't go anywhere I stayed on the couch did some things on my computer and watched her all day. I did do a bit of piant in the bed room. But I didn't go very far from Sophie. I got her to drink some water and after Robert got home we got her to drink more water and I got to wennies and broke up a tylenol into them and she scarfed it down.

The rest of the weekend Robert and I painted. I never left the house until Sunday morning when I had to work. I worked 9 to 2 as a shift leader and ran the dinning room. I had Mani with me but again I ran the dinning room. One of my newer hosts, a young man, who is quickly turning into another some one in our building who is a pain in my neck, I made him stay at the podium and be my name taker and caller. He wasn't happy about that. But he did ok once we got him over the hurdle and I told him everyone has to do it they can't all be the seaters or running all over, which is really what he wants to do.

I had orientation during the week with 2 ladies and a very tall young man who is the brother to one of our other servers, a cash, retail and a server. So working all week getting the 3 of them trained, do PAR tests, finish up some paper work, did my DM report since it was the end of the month. When I wasn't at work I was at home painting and working in the bedroom getting it ready for Cindy on Thursday night and Stephanie to stay in while we're on our trip. So that would be why I'm sooooooo behind on my blog. Once again I apologize to those of you who like to read about my boring life. LOL

On Tuesday Mani told me that he was leaving. I said leaving the company? No, he's leaving our building and going to the store on 360 in Arlington. YEAH. Our replacement is Doug Brown who I've been trying to get into our store over a year. I promoted him to Mike Taylor last fall when he was trying to move down from Arkansas. He happens to be my work out buddies boyfriend and he lives only like 15 minutes from the store. They moved him down last year and when we got Mani they sent him to Grapevine. So I'm happy, Domino is happy and I'm sure Doug is happy. He's gonna shake some things up I know but I told Domino to tell him to not go in guns ablazin and not to upset any of my people until after I get back. LOL

So there ya have it, my week in a nut shell. Thursday I worked 13 hours and then had to go home to pack and put all my stuff in the trailer for our trip. Robert had gotten pretty much everything done, Cindy was at the house and helped me pick out clothes. I was up late, late, late after the two of them headed to bed to finish stuff.

My next post will have the beginning of our trip. Till next time, God Bless you all.

Monday to Thursday, 12th - 15th of September 2011

What a week I've had this week. Monday I didn't have orientation this week due to the fact I scheduled two hour classes with all the servers/grill cooks & hosts for the entire week. Monday I was to have two classes but some of those scheduled didn't bother to show up. We were very busy between 12 & 1 which was very unusual for a Monday. So I helped out then had my class in the afternoon.

Tuesday again a morning, an afternoon and late afternoon class, busy busy. These classes were all about focusing on the guest experience and changes to the some of our procedures to help employees. I believe those who did read their schedules and came got a lot out of it. Again when I wasn't in my class I was helping out in the window and Nick one of our grill cooks cooked a burger and the guest wanted it on grilled bread instead of a bun. He had the plate with the sandwich on it in his hand and turned to put fries on the plate and as he turned the sandwich literally kept going and ended up in the floor, the look on his face it was so funny, I looked at him and said "you didn't just throw that on the floor did you?" LOL he just looked so crestfallen, we all got a laugh out of it, even Nick however he had to cook another burger. I went to the dinning room to the guest and explain what had happened, it was so hard not to laugh, although the man did laugh with me and said "that was fine, he wasn't in a hurry."

Wednesday again with my classes, finished up my day around 6:30 and headed home to paint, Niki came home with me to help and Randy came over to pick her up around 10. Got the front bedroom started with the primer and spackled up some of the holes in the walls.

Thursday my long day, still classes one this morning and another at 2, switched to shift leader at 3, finished the class at 4 and had about an 1 1/2 break to finish up the schedule for next week before we got hit around 5:30 and it was hard, new grill cook and he was doing the cooking, Jennifer not the new one what doing the salads and dipping and frying and trying to keep up, we ended up with 25 minute tickets, not good. Shawn finally got on the line to help move the food. We stayed busy till 7 when it slowed just a bit but never really stopped until close to 8, thank Heavens, I really didn't want to stay past 8. I was beat.

Robert has been in Dallas since Monday and got home tonight about 2 hours before me. He had to be over there for work. So I had the house to myself the past 3 nights. Quite most the time. Steph & Niki came over for a bit Monday night. Monday was an off day for me though, I woke up feeling off, if ya'll know what I mean. The whole day I felt that way and even into the night. I crashed fairly early Monday night and for those of you who know me I'm a night owl and up till 1 or 2 in the morning. But Monday night I was in be by 11:30. Got some good sleep and Tuesday was much better. Had Tuesday night to myself and watched the second & third Twilight movies on sat tv. Wednesday like I said earlier Niki came over for a while after I got home from work and helped me do some of the painting. After her and Randy left I finished up some of the painting and washed out all the rollers and brushes and then washed the paint off of me. LOL

Robert did more in the front room before I got home with more of the primer. We've just hung out watched the new Christina Applegate show and Free Agents which I had recorded this evening and last night. Pretty funny.

I'm off work tomorrow and Saturday and I'll be working in the front bedroom to get it finished up.

Tuesday began our count down to vacation. Now we're down to ONE week. Wooo whoo. We are getting excited, at least Cindy and I are as is our friend Kelley. Robert I think is also since he told me we need to start preparing and packing the trailer this week getting ready so we can pull out next Friday.

Soooooo excited. Get to see my grandbaby girl, Kali next weekend and then on to the Grand Canyon.

Ya'll have a great weekend and an even better week, God Bless

Friday to Sunday, 9th to 11th of September 2011

Friday - the first day of my weekend off. Started cleaning out one of the bedrooms, then headed to Lake Worth with Robert to do some shopping at Home Depot/Lowes looking for paint colors to paint the rooms we are now cleaning out. After we left Lake Worth Robert took me La Rues shop in Azle so that I could help her out with all the homecoming mums. Getting it all organized. Just after 6 we closed the shop and Rue took me home. Robert's back, ankle and knee were all bothering him so we stayed home and chilled for the night.

Saturday - got up and figured I'd run up to Home Depot in Weatherford to get the colors I finally decided on, along with new light fixtures for the hallway, blinds and all the brushes and such to do the job. Once I got home I played with the paint a bit to get an idea, being that I bought samples and not the full size. Good thing, the darker color I wanted the guy convinced me to go even darker and when I got it on the wall it's a deep maroon almost a claret color. So it's not gonna work. Had Niki & Stephanie come load up the stuff of theirs that I was cleaning out on Friday. Lined up my hall way. Around 5 or so I started getting ready for out night out. We had plans to go to some friends house for the evening and just hang out. We left around 7:10 and headed into Fort Worth. Had a nice evening, enjoyed good company and good food. Didn't get home till after 2 in the morning but oh well. We had a nice time.

Sunday - Slept in a bit, but not much had plans to go to the movies with Cindy and then to Penney's so she could looks for some boots & jeans. Met her at the Starplex at 11:15 to see Contagion - ok movie, not great. Good story line but no real connection to any of the characters. You don't get invested really in any one person. Maybe a little in Matt Damon's character but he's not really a central character. After the movie we went to Ridgmar to Penney's. Found Cindy 2 pairs of jeans, 2 shirts, a great dress and a pair of boots that she can wear to Kelley's ceremony in a couple of weeks. I still don't have a clue of what I'm gonna wear. LOL. Got back to Cindy's and into my truck to head home. We'd invited Glen & La Rue over for dinner, found out we would have 2 more for dinner so I stopped in at Kroger and picked up two more bakers and some veggie skewers to add to everything. When I got home I made Robert sit down and soak his foot again(had him do it Saturday also, bought epsom salt) and I cleaned the kitchen. He already had the ribs on the smoker. I put the potatoes in the oven just after 5 and while they cooked finished cleaning the kitchen and vacuuming the living room. Robert had painted the entry hall with the kilz's and patched holes in the walls in the first bedroom. Had everything ready by 6 when company was coming over. They didn't get here until 6:40ish. We had a really nice visit and great dinner. Smoked ribs & brats, baked potatoes, ranch beans, a mixed salad and I smoked the fresh veggie skewers(onion, red & green bell peppers, zuc's & yellow squash and mushrooms) they were good. Company hung out till about 9:30. We had a nice time. After company left, Robert got his laundry done, so he could pack because he is in Dallas Monday to Thursday for work. We watched some of the recorded tv and headed off to bed.

That was my big weekend, I didn't watch any of the 911 specials because I knew I'd do nothing but cry and get really down. I did have the families and the country in my thoughts and prayers.

I'll post another posting with my week at work and home alone.

Till next time, God Bless and take care.

Sunday to Thursday, 4th to the 8th of September 2011

Sunday was a lazy day for us, we did go to Grapevine in the late afternoon. We were supposed to meet friends for dinner at the El Fenix over there and they were gonna be late so for the first time ever in my life Robert took me to the Bass Pro Shop. That's one big place with alot of out door sports stuff. We tootled around for about an hour and a half then headed back over to the restaurant. We had a nice visit and dinner. Leaving for home around 9. Just chilled the rest of the evening. Not a very busy day for us. LOL

Monday - Labor day - I had to work of course since it was a holiday. Woke up with a headache. Got to work a little after 8:30. Got a couple of things done and then at 9 it was really getting busy. Ended up in the window setting trays to be run. Long ticket times due to incompetence on the grill line. Seriously you have 2 grills and the managers put the two slowest and worst on one side and the better two on the other. Let's just say the side with the best were putting across 2 to 3 orders to every one of the not so good side. Unreal. Finally I'd had enough around 1 and stepped out leaving the window to Fred. I went out to the dinning room and made sure that servers were bringing in dishes since quite a few of them were not cleaning tables and the dinning room wasn't getting cleaned. We finally slowed down a good bit after 2 and I left about 10 to 3. My earlier headache had left me feeling ugh all day and my lower back was spasming so I left like 10 min early. Came home and chilled out the rest of the day. Robert of course had the day off and he was just a bum. LOL

Tuesday - I had orientation today with 3 new servers. Got everything done with them, had people lined up since Saturday to watch the promo video, those who didn't do it on Sat or Sun I did write up's on them and gave them to Mike on Monday. Mani told me he had brought his portable in on Saturday and put it on the alley line and played the video all day. Others told me that they didn't pay any attention to it because they were to busy. Well of course and they would have had to stop to start each section of Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner/Dessert. Mike told me on Thursday that Mani reminded him of that to which I told Mike they still need the write ups because they were scheduled, it was only an hour after their shifts and those who worked Saturday that I had seen Mon - Weds had told me that they had not paid any attention to it at all. We'll see what he does. He probably wont give them the write ups.

Wednesday - day two of orientation - menu's and plate presentation with the 3 new servers plus Jaron - one of my cashiers who wants to cross train into serving. Got through that and put the 4 of them on micros ringing in practice orders. Had people lined up in the afternoon to watch the video, some PAR courses and tests. I finally got into the office to call about half of the applications to line them up for interviews for Thursday and Friday. Had about 13 people in the rising star meeting. I left work around 5:30 and headed home.

Thursday - Had people lined up all day to watch the video and/or do courses or test. Stayed busy all day. Of course it was my 12 hour day. Luckily the evening wasn't as busy as it has been in the past so I was able to stay in the office and get my part of the schedule done for next week. I wont have any orientation but I have 2 hour meetings lined up for everyday at least 3 a day to go over the newest info that home office wants us to deliver to the host/server/grill. We did the trainers 2 weeks ago(a week late cause they didn't show up) so we are behind by a week or two getting this done. Oh well, no orientation. We'll see who pays attention to their schedules and actually shows for the training. May have some more write ups to do. Left work at 8 and headed home. We watched Burn Notice and Mega Mind(I watched Mega Mind - about half way through Robert went to bed) LOL.

So there it is my week. LOL not a whole lot to tell. Just getting excited about our trip. TWO WEEKS and I'm off for 10 days. OH YEAH. I really need it. I'm so very tired of work, tired of the crap and the some of the losers we have working for us. The attitudes and the lying. The theft that no one will do anything about. I really should call LP and report it.

Ya'll have a great weekend, God bless.

Monday to Saturday, 29th of August to 3nd of September 2011

Well it was a fairly busy week, of course you all know I had to work nights this week which is one of the reasons I didn't post.

Monday, I got up and hung around the house for a while catching up on somethings before I had to get ready for work. I went around 2 and got somethings done before my class arrived at 4. I have 2 new grill cooks, a server and a host. One of the new grill cooks is an 18 yr old kid who is still in high school which is why we had to have night orientation. He seems to be a good kid, he's only been in the US for just under 2 years, he's originally from Columbia. He's worked really hard to learn english and he does speak and understand it better than most. So Monday night we did the videos and paper work.

Tuesday, Got up, got dressed and went to La Rues for a while, needed to get a plant for my Aunt who lost her Mom this past Saturday. The visitation was set for Wednesday night and the funeral for Thursday. I knew I could change my schedule to let me work Wednesday day so that I could at least go to the visitation. So that's what I did when I got to work today. Reworked my schedule and worked it out that my rising stars could finish their training at different times the rest of the week. We did menu's and plate presentation with my two grill cooks because my new server called out had something come up. He told me he could work anytime on Wednesday so I had him come in Wednesday day to do his menu's class. I had the others come in to do their computer work. I also had last weeks new grill cook to come in Wednesday to do all his computer work so that he'd be ready to work with Lynda on Thursday & Friday.

Wednesday, I also went to work at 8:30 still working with all the new hires and fielding calls from all our newest applicants. I never really had a chance to call any of them this week like I thought, I was so busy with all the new hires and getting the schedule finished for everyone who needs to PAR as well as those who need to watch the new promo video. I left work close to 4 and headed home to change clothes and eat something before I drove to Colleyville for the visitation. Got over there close to 7. My Aunt Glenda looked well but tired which was understandable due to the kind of week she'd had. I got home a bit after 9 and just chilled before I crashed for the night.

Thursday, Got to work around 8 and worked till 9 PM. Got home and once again just chilled, watched my recorded shows, Burn Notice one of my favs.

Friday, got up early to head to town and run some errands, went to the dry cleaners then to the bank to cash in some of my rolls of coins. Then to Walmart to get a couple of things killing time till 10 when Belk opened. Went to Belk and got new pillows cause one we needed them and two I had great discount coupons. I got 3 pillows, Robert a shirt and pair of shorts, a great pair of sandels for me and a freezable cup with lid and straw and saved $195, I love coupons. LOL After Belk I ran over to Best Buy to check on the status of my camera, which I have been with out for almost 2 weeks and I'm not liking not having my camera with my all the time. They told me that as of the 31st it was being looked at by a tech. So lets hope that I get it back real soon. Then I left for Burleson for lunch with Kelley and to give her her Pampered Chef. After lunch I went out to her house for a bit to go over some things once we get to the Canyon for the day of the ceremony. Got home just after 2 and Robert fixed me a great dinner of teriyake chicken & rice. Later we went to a party over in Dallas. Had a nice time. Got home around 2:30 in the morning and we crashed.

Woke up around 8 this morning and decided I didn't want to get up, so I rolled over and went back to sleep, lol. Slept till about 10:30. After I woke up Robert came in and said he was going into town did I need him to do anything like get my dry cleaning. Yes, please. LOL. I got up, did a couple things around the house and then got on my laptop to start looking at the route for our trip. I watched Haven & Torchwood. My momma called to let me know she was gonna get to go to CKC in San Marcos after all and wanted to invite me. Told her I wished I could but we're saving the extra's for the trip.

Around 3:45 Robert and I decided to drive to Lake Worth to the Starplex to see Conan. I thought it was pretty good. For a blood & guts action movie I liked it. Robert said it was ok, he doesn't like it when the camera's move around alot. I guess it makes him dizzy. LOL

After the movie we went to Best Buy and looked around a bit. Then we headed home and now we're sitting here each on our laptops and watching a movie called Get Low on Starz. Robert Duvall & Sissy Spacek, good movie so far. Love Robert Duvall he does make good movies.

So there ya have it everyone, my past week in a nut shell. Not a lot to really tell. Or maybe I'm just not that good of a story teller or I just have one down right boring life - Sometimes. LOL

Night to all, God Bless and take care.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 25th to the 28th of August 2011

My oh my, I have been remiss in posting. Thursday was my long day at work as usual. Finishing up with some of the new hires and all around busy at work. When I finally left work I had to get things packed up for our weekend away. I needed to have everything ready since I still had to work half day on Friday and Robert wanted to have the trailer loaded and ready to go. So Thursday was a busy day and after getting my things together and packed, I played a couple of games on FB and headed to bed.

Friday got up and headed to work, got there about 8:30 and spent pretty much the whole time in my office. I was helping Jose with his courses on the computer while getting all my info together to do my end of the month DM report. Got everything I needed to get done and was out of the building by 10 after 1. I headed home, changed clothes and I jumped into the truck and we headed down the road to Hill Billy Haven. We got to the camp grounds between 2:30 & 3. We got the trailer parked and started setting everything up. Got the AC on and started cooling things down. Cindy came out and joined us for hamburgers. Then Cindy & I played a couple of games for a while. We had a really nice time.

Saturday morning, was so nice. Robert woke up before me and started cooking breakfast outside. Nothing like breakfast cooked outside and eaten in the fresh air. mmm mmm good. He came in to the trailer and say's "you have about 5 minutes before I have you an omelet ready". It didn't take me long to get up. lol. Breakfast of bacon, an onion, cheese & mushroom omelet with green chili powder, and bacon toast(for those of you who are wondering - toast grilled in the bacon grease - great flavor) We sat out at a picnic table under the trees and not far from the banks of the river. It was so very nice, not to hot yet and just very peaceful. We cleaned up our breakfast mess and I got Robert to sit down, get his leg up and iced down his ankle. He hurt it pretty bad stepping out of the trailer on Friday when we were still setting it up. So he settled in with his book and I got ice on his ankle. Robert brought his lap top so while he read I played on FB just hanging out in the trailer with no worries. Around 2:30 I got my suit on and we went down to the water where I tied up a rope to my inner tube and a cinder block and floated around in the nice warm water. It was so nice. Robert sat up on the bank and eventually he went back to the trailer, I hung out on the bank for a little while longer and then it started getting crowded so around 4:30 I headed back up to the trailer. As soon as I got back I tried out the shower. I was had a good bit of sand in places that shouldn't have sand. LOL - Like my hair and under my boobs among other places. After my shower and getting my hair brushed out and re-braided, I started getting things ready for dinner. Robert was on the couch reading his book and had ice on his ankle again. Glen & La Rue were coming out for dinner. I cut up mango & papaya, got the charcoal lit and heated up, cooked the smoked sausages and hot links, made rotel and got the ranch style beans on the stove. When Glen & Rue got there around 6 they brought pork tenderloins that we threw onto the grill and ended up having a great dinner. After dinner we played Hearts for a few hands but Robert is so cute throat we only played 5 or 6 hands. Around 9:30 we decided to watch one of the movies Glen brought. We watched Priest. Not a bad movie, could have been better maybe if they'd had a bigger budget. I don't know, sorta reminded me of the John Wayne movie of The Searchers but of course a major twist instead of Indians we had Vampires. It was left open for a sequel so who knows they may decide to make another and maybe they'll have a better budget. LOL

After the movie Glen & Rue headed home around midnight. It wasn't to much longer after that we hit the sack and crashed. Didn't take long to go to sleep.

Sunday morning, I woke up at 7, this time I was up before Robert. So I was going to start breakfast. Was having trouble starting the oven so I had to wake Robert up around 7:30, we got the oven lit and I got the biscuits cooking and the sausage cooked. We had sausage, egg & cheese biscuits for breakfast. While it was cooking we started putting things away, packing, getting things ready for the trip home. I had plans to meet Cindy for brunch at Blue Mesa. We both belong to their mailing list and each year we get birthday Brunch coupons from them for a free brunch.

Robert and I got the grey water & sewer drained and flushed, loaded up the motorcycle(which we didn't get to use since Robert hurt his ankle unable to get his boot on). We got everything loaded & hooked up and started for home around 9. We made it just pass the main street bridge and under the new bridge and there was a loud pop. We had a blow out, could it have been the one in the middle of the 3(trailer has 6 wheels) No the one in the very back and on the left hand side had to blow. So on the shoulder of the new road(right where the old exit used to be for Santa Fe) Robert unloaded the jack and up it went, got the tire off it and it was like some one sliced it straight from one side to the other and of course with a flap of tire it tore up the sheet metal and wheel well. Trying to get the new tire on it wouldn't jake up high enough and it slipped, scaring me half to death, Thank heavens for the 5 other tires. Robert was right under it. I had called Stephanie just as Robert started working on getting it changed. Asked her to drive up with my truck, not thinking to much ahead that she could pick me up. After thought, oh yeah come and we'll switch places since I was supposed to be at Cindy's at 10 and it was now 9:30. Surprisingly it didn't take us as long as we thought to change the tire and Robert didn't want to sit there for 1 more minute even though Steph was literally on the Texas turn around as we were getting into the truck. So I had to call her to tell her to go ahead and follow us down to the Lake Shore Drive exit. She caught up with us. Robert was checking everything. Steph went with Robert and I left in my truck for Fort Worth, it was 10 to 10. Got to Cindy's at 10:20 and we headed to the restaurant. They were already getting busy when we got there, we had a 15 or 20 min wait, not to bad. We got sat close to the front door in the front dinning room and after I got my plate of food Cindy headed to get hers and this cute little elderly lady came over and asks if her friend could sit down in one of our chairs while they wait for their table. I said sure so when Cindy got back to the table with her food we had to little ladies sitting with us. We chatted with them for a bit and then I said to Cindy that they should just stay since they were already sitting. So we invited them to share the table with us. The were so cute and we had a really nice visit make two new friends for the day. After brunch Cindy & I walked through some of the stores there in University Village. I used my $10 gift card at Origins and my $10 gift card at Victoria's Secret. We looked around at Francesca's and then loaded up in her car and headed back to her apartment. I got in my truck and headed home it was around 1. Once I got home Robert hadn't gone to the hospital yet about his ankle. He'd unloaded just about everything from the trailer though. I got my stuff out of the trailer and changed clothes. Robert headed to the hospital just before 2 so I had the house to myself for a while. I watched Haven & Torchwood. Robert came home with a stabilizer on his foot to keep the ankle from turning side to side. The x-rays showed a couple of small fractures but nothing they can do. He'll just have to be careful with it.

We've just chilled the rest of the evening, watched a GAC story on Sarah Evans then we watched Leverage, Against the Wall, the news and now Robert's headed to bed and I'm watching True Blood.

I gotta work nights this week so I hope to keep up daily posts. Ya'll have a great week.

God Bless

Wednesday, 24th of August 2011

Middle of the week, happy hump day. Day 2 of a 4 day work week for me. LOL

Had orientation today and all went well. My newest server was 30 minutes late however. Not a bad day. Kayla last weeks new hire came in and finished her computer courses. Not a whole lot really happened today. Mike & I had our meeting at 3:45 with the trainers. Lynda, Maria and Sam all showed and then Ferrin was a tad late but she came which was great. We had a very good meeting. Shared the new info and had a great discussion on what we can do to help make things better.

I got out of the store at 6 and headed to Niki's, went to pick up our camp table and chairs and sleeping bags. Got home at 7 and chilled out for the rest of the night.

Sorry there's not more to tell, it really has been a slow week at work, I already had people lined up for interviews today, tomorrow and Friday. Called the ones from yesterday that needed a second interview with Mike. So there ya have my exciting day. LOL

God Bless, have a great rest of the week.

Monday & Tuesday, 22nd & 23rd of August 2011

Monday, Robert & I both took the day off. Slept in a bit and after I got up we just hung out. Robert stayed home all day and did nothing which he needed. I ran into town, dropped off the dry cleaning, then had to go to Best Buy where I had to leave my camera. UGH, I hate not having my camera. My short lens stopped working, the auto focus wouldn't work. According to the geek squad canon wants the lens and the camera in order to fix it. So No Camera for about 2 weeks. ARG. After best buy I ran into Ross for about 10 minutes to see what was new in the shoe area. Found 3 pairs that appealed to me. I'll have to keep an eye on them. After Ross I ran to the Walmart in Hudson oaks to get some groceries. Got home around 1 and unloaded the groceries and then just chilled until I needed to get ready for dinner. Had a dinner date planned with my bestest bud Cindy to celebrate our birthdays. LOL. I've been celebrating my birthday since the 12th of this month. This has been cool, an on going celebration. Each year Cindy and I get coupons for a free dinner from The Keg and a free brunch from Blue Mesa. So we went to dinner at The Keg last night, I had the best filet mignon with twice baked stuffed potato and asparagus. It was really good. Cindy had the tiger shrimp in a white sauce and the twice baked stuffed potato. We had a nice leisurely dinner and visit. After dinner we each headed home. I made it home around 8 and changed clothes and Robert and I watched The Closer and Rizzoli & Isles.

Tuesday - Back to work, nose to the grind stone. LOL Not a bad day, I spent most my day going through all the current applications and snag a jobs, called the snag a jobs to come in and fill out applications and called the apps that I had and set them up with interviews. So the 3 associates are all booked with interviews for the rest of the week, so hopefully we'll have second interviews lined up for Mike for Thursday & Friday.

I have 3 people for orientation tomorrow, a grill, cash & server. They hired another for grill to start next week and it will have to be a night class since he's still in high school and can't come to work till 4. I HATE WORKING NIGHTS. Oh well. Once in a blue moon isn't too bad and the Thursdays I have to work till 8 is standard. I look at that as being the price I pay for having the weekends off. Most ETC's have to work on the weekends and I luck out because of orientations during the week.

Well, that's about it. It was a slow day for the store, leaving me to do what I needed to get done and I even gave a PAR test to Sarah before leaving for the day.

Good night to all, have a blessed week. God bless you all and keep you safe.

Friday,Saturday & Sunday, 19th, 20th & 21st of August 2011

Well Friday was the day we left for our trip to Tennessee. What a wonderful drive we had. We left the house at 9:15 just after all the work traffic into FW/Arlington/Dallas. Took I-20 around to 635 then up to I-30. The further north we went the greener things got and the temperature dropped under a 100. We stopped in Arkadelphia at the Cracker Barrel for lunch. I was very appalled at their staff. The host was literally bent over the stand coloring on some newspaper with a pen, no greeting what so ever, even while I was standing right next to him waiting on Robert to come out of the restroom. The ladies room was in need of cleaning and when Robert and I were at the table he informed me that they must just be coming out of the lunch rush, which I agreed since it was 2:15. He said that the mens room was REALLY dirty. Our server, who I saw at a table in the third dinning room wasn't caring a tray and had gum that he was chewing like a cow. Came to the table and pretty much asked what we wanted, no greeting, no scripting. We gave him our drink orders and when he came back he had a tray and asked if we knew what we wanted yet. I asked for a little more time cause neither of us had really decided yet. I had decided before I walked in the door but they don't caring what I wanted on their menu. So therefore I really didn't know what I wanted. When he returned again no tray and smacking the gum. We gave him our order and as it should have been we got it in record time. The food was good for the most part. I had the old timers and asked for hard scrambled eggs with cheese. They came med(which I could live with) and the cheese was half melted, again I can live with it but it didn't make for very good eggs. My biscuits were old and hard so when our server came back to the table to ask if there was anything else we needed I asked him if he could get me fresh biscuits, he literally rolled his eyes and took the plate and walked away, not saying a word. He brought me fresher biscuits but still not the freshest. For those of you who know, love and eat at the Barrel we make them fresh and only hold them for and hour and a half. I never saw a manager of any kind that I could tell, I did see one woman with a white shirt and black slacks come out of the kitchen but she had on a back belt, sorta looked like a corset but not so I wasn't really sure who she was. And only saw her the once. Robert went out to start the truck while I payed and I went to the restroom again, which still had not been checked or cleaned since we walked in the door. The whole time the same host still leaning over the host stand doodling. When I came out I looked around the food table for a snack and watched him, I saw a gentleman who I thought might be a manager walk up to the stand the host looked up at him the man said something and the host didn't even stand up straight just kept his head down and doodled then a woman came out of the rest room and when she approached the man he then stood and grabbed 2 menus and took them into the restaurant. Wow, really. I plan on calling HO when we get home as a guest and informing them of what all I saw while we were there. Rising stars with name tags on the right or under the rising star words, wrinkled and very dirty aprons. I was not impressed at all.

We got back on the road and I got on the lap top and played my games on Facebook and enjoyed our drive, we crossed into Missouri and went north for about an hour and some change and then crossed the mighty Mississippi River into the great state of Tennessee. We got to the hotel at 7, so if we hadn't stopped for an hour for lunch and that once for about 15 minutes to get gas and go to the bathroom we probably could have made Dyersburg by 6. lol

We checked into the hotel and got all our bags into the room, called Eugene and couldn't get a hold of him. Decided we'd go get some dinner then hit Walmart since it is literally behind the hotel and we needed to shop for a wedding gift and isn't that what everyone does on vacation, find the nearest Walmart where ever you go. LOL

Eugene called us as we got to the restaurant on Carrie's phone he'd left his at home and they were all at church decorating and doing the rehearsal. Said they'd call after they were done, wanted to come by hotel and see us. Well it was late when they were done and they had to go to Walmart and were gonna stop by but at 10:30 they were all beat since they'd been at the church since 2 so they didn't stop by. LOL. Robert and I just hung out here in the room both on our lap tops listening to the tv as back ground noise and me playing games him reading his news and such. I actually got into the shower just after 10:30 once we found out we weren't having company and got cleaned up because I wanted to straighten my hair also for Saturday. After my shower I started working on my hair and for those of you who know me and have seen me lately there's a lot there to work with. After getting it all brushed out and all the tangles out I started straightening it around 11:15, it was after 2 before I got into bed. Yes it took me almost that entire time to straighten it. But it looked good. LOL

I'm gonna post this and finish it in a little while cause we need to load up the truck, Robert's taking me to Mississippi, lol, instead of Kentucky, we're only 50 min south of the boarder of Kentucky but we need to head south. We were gonna try to go n yesterday and ran out of time. Family obligations ya know.

Enjoy the read and I'll finish this later with all of Saturdays events.

Alrighty then, to complete this, lol.

Saturday we slept in which was nice, actually I slept later than Robert he was already up for a while when I woke up. We got dressed and left the hotel around 10:30 to find a place to eat. We ended up in downtown Newbern and found this little cafe/pool hall with the absolute best hamburgers you've ever tasted. Just after we ordered Justin our nephew joined us. The only live about 3 blocks from downtown and Carrie had dropped him off. Apparently he rides his bike up there most the time so he's a regular. The neatest thing is it's a very small town and he's a regular at this cafe. Like stepping back in time in this little town. After lunch I took some pictures of down town, there's an old train depot across the street from the cafe and it's a museum but also a functioning station. Justin and I were walking around on the platform and there's an area that is a ramp and as I started walking down it the wood is so old and weather worn it was slicker than ice and I became an ice skater with no talent. I fell so hard on my back side, scrapped up my left elbow and jarred my right shoulder but I saved my camera. For those of you who know me and my camera you know how important that is. So after taking my shoes off so that I could get up off my butt and take stock in the damage to my person and pride, I found all was ok. Shoulder hurt and still does, a bit stiff, Robert scrunched me so it helped alot but still stiff. We loaded up and headed to Eugene & Carrie's house. Visited with Carrie and Mary Lou for a bit before we needed to head back to the hotel and get ready for the wedding. Eugene was already at the church as was Rochelle & Michael.

Robert and I got back to the hotel and took our time getting ready. We left the hotel just after 1 and finally found the church around 1:25. I went to the room Rochelle was in getting ready with my camera and started taking pictures. There were a few others also and one young lady who I thought was a friend taking pictures for them I later found out that she was supposed to be the photographer. Once they lined up I got pics of the procession and the girl taking the pictures. I truly thought she was just someone taking pictures, she wasn't dressed like she was working(a t shirt and brown jean capri's). At one point at the beginning of the ceremony we were both on the same side of the alter and we decided I'd stay and she'd go to the opposite side and instead of going down the side isle and around she walked right behind the bride and groom. I was stunned and of course couldn't say anything because the minister had already started. Needless to say I took 630 pictures from start to finish and got some really great shots. I hope she did just as good, I know she got different views. I really had know idea that she was supposed to be the hired photographer. Although like I said I found out after all was said and done by Carrie that Rochelle didn't even meet with the girl until Wednesday and they weren't paying her although Carrie said she saw Janet(Rochelle's birth mommy)give her what looked like a check. ?? So who knows.

After we cleaned everything up and loaded up, we hauled it all back to Eugene & Carrie's. Hung out there for a bit. Robert and I went back to the hotel to change and while we were changing Carrie called and told us where we were going to meet for dinner. We ended up at the same restaurant we'd eaten at Friday night which was ok cause it was really good. We headed on over and Eugene, Carrie, Mary Lou and Justin and his friend Justin(they call them Justin squared) were there. We had to wait a while cause they wanted their favorite waiter. But it was good and we had a nice time. Got to be the only place I've ever seen them bring a pitcher of margarita's. Robert had ordered in his words "the biggest, baddest margarita you have" and the guy brings 2 glasses with ice and a pitcher with an ice core in the middle of margarita's, the second glass to Mary Lou & I shared, although I think she drank most of it cause I didn't even get a buzz. LOL But you could tell she was a bit happier. After dinner the boys all loaded up in our truck and Carrie, Mary Lou and I in theirs and headed back over to our hotel so that I could down load all the wedding pictures to a flash drive for Carrie. The drives she brought didn't have enough memory so Eugene and the 2 Justin's ran to Walmart and got 2 - 4 gig drives and brought them back so that I could down load one for Carrie and another for Mary Lou. I had them on a slide show while we waited for the boys to return and then while the flash drives loaded. Afterward they headed home and we went back to our room(we did all this in the dinning room where we could be comfortable) since it was after 10:30, they were beat. I was pretty beat myself and was out like a light by 12:30, I think I woke up around 2 and Robert was just getting into bed and he was watching something on tv so I don't know what time he fell asleep. I woke up around 8:30 and got dressed went next door(the dinning room was literally on the other side of our bedroom wall) and ate a waffle, back to the room where Robert was sleeping like a baby and I got on my computer. He woke up at 9:30 and was surprised at the time. As soon as he got up we started getting packed up and loaded and left the hotel around 10:30 and got on the road.

We went south to Memphis and Robert was wonderful when I got us lost for about 5 minutes trying to find Graceland. We finally got on the right road and finally found it and got some pictures and stopped in a souvenir shop so I could buy a magnet to go into my collection of all the places I've been. LOL

I've never been to Mississippi so after Memphis we drove on down through Tunica to Route 49 and crossed over the Mississippi River to Helena - West Helena, Arkansas were we ate lunch. We had a wonderful back roads drive and ended up seeing an old civil war era plantation house, it was awesome. No address, but it's been under reconstruction, check out this story, http://www.arkansaslife.com/editions/?p=3272

It has pictures of the house, now when we saw it there is a chain link fence surrounding it and 5 foot weeds and grass surrounding it. It's obvious they haven't commenced reconstruction but they have gotten a metal roof placed on it, you can see some of it on the picture that shows the back two story porch. It really a neat story about it's beginning and those who are taking care of it now. I hope they can finish what they've started. I'd love to go back some day and be able to stay there. It's been called Palmer's Folly or the Palmer house. But I wouldn't call it a folly because it has stood the test of time. The original construction was so well done that it looks to still be in great condition.

We took 49 all the way up to a town called Brinkley(would love to know the history behind that since my step dad is a Brinkley). We got on I-40 and headed South West toward Little Rock where we got on to I-30 and headed toward home. We stopped in Mount Pleasant at an Apple Bee's for dinner and got home around 10:30. So what took us 10 hours to get there took us 12 hours to get home. LOL Taking our little side trip. We weren't in a hurry, we both took Monday off work and knew that it wasn't a rushed trip back. We love taking the back roads because there is beautiful country to see and of course we couldn't have seen that wonderful house if we hadn't.

So we had a wonderful weekend, the weather was fantastic and the area we were in was so green and lush. It was nice to be away from the 100 plus weather for a couple of days. Even drove through some rain today. Wished we could have brought it home with us. Oh and on that same drive from Dyersburg to Memphis which is only a little over an hour there must have been 30 churches of all kinds. And they call Texas the bible belt. Robert and I both couldn't believe at the number of churches we saw. Literally they were across the streets from each other and next door to each other seems like every other block you'd see 2 or more together.

Ya'll have a fantastic week, God Bless.