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.