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About This Author
A changeling spirit,
constantly evolving,
revolving around an inner core,
spinning forth legend and lore,
stories and lives
as I come to grips
with who and what I am,
have been and may be.
I am a phoenix:
rising ever above and beyond!
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The White Board
The White Board
 
For meandering thoughts, and mindful walks...for rants and pouts, and blowing off steam. For happy days and sad days, for crazy adventures and delightful victories! :)
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I got my new computer! Gobs of space, whizzzzzzzzzing fast processor speed, kick ass graphics card and a 20 inch wide-screen monitor!!!! Whoooohoooo. Now all i need to do is get back all the stuff from my old, fried, dead hard drive and life will be peachy! I've lost so much there...but I'm hopeful!
Store's going well and we open in a few days! on the really up side there...no more 'Miss talking back, demanding, argueing with everything i say' cashier! She quit! Says it is a kid issue out of state BUT she didn't tell her other boss so who knows...but now he's fired her! lol
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Grocery day! 1st truck arrives at the store today :) Three of us get to enjoy about an 18 wheelers worth of stuff to put on shelves... I'll have a store almost full of food and stuff...lots and tons of candy lol. I can't wait. It is getting close....
In the continuing saga of 'angel'--yes...still stuck with her....she's a hard worker, i'll give her that, but well.....sigh
*looks forward to the day....*
Taking pics today :)
AND if all that weren't enough... I'm getting a new computer :) Trying to check out hard drive in another computer...lights come on, fans whirrrr, but no one's home...so i'm getting a new one with a....heck...i'll cut and paste all the goodies tonight....hurry up delivery day....timing is cute, should get here on May 7th, two days before my birthday...goooood birthday present! |
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The most awesome thing happened today! Yesterday (at work) having to clean the cooler from top to bottom because it had been shut off for 3 months. Black mold was coating every *sneeze* thing! All the sliders that hold the pop etc and all the racks from 8 cooler doors worth (something like 64) were coated. I suggested tossing them all in the truck and I'd powerwash em....well Ken and i did just thaty and got em all white and pretty again. The big boss came by today and said he'd heard about my doing that and he wanted to see them. Well!!! He was amazed at how great they looked as he was afraid they'd be replacing them! He made a bunch of comments about how he liked my thinking etc and I said I was just doing my job and getting the work done in the most expedient fashion etc. Then he says thank you again and hands me a $100 bill!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All day long, everything I suggested he thought was great!! What a day! Whooohooo! |
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I miss my computer. Sure, I have one to use, but it isn't the same...links are different and the mouse and keyboard are very different and darn it!!!! I want mine back *whine, moan, groan and complain*
My store opens in about a week! I'm getting very excited about it, but this morning i can hardly move. My sore muscles have sore muscles! I think I may have found one tiny part of me that doesn't hurt! Putting up shelves, scrubbing the walk-in cooler that was a black mold disaster, sweeping the lot....sore puppy this am and I can't wait to get to work!! I'm hopeless! lol
Today I'm going with my district manager to get my desk! Whooo hooo! And all the other office-y sort of stuff to go with it.....will be fun! Can't wait to 'decorate!' My frog is going up on the wall for sure!!!! |
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I wrote this initially after Columbine...now there's been more killings at yet another school...when will it end? Where will it end...and bottom line....
Coffins still remain...
When kids are killing children
and there are bombings in the schools
when the chaos threatens close to home
like a flame to sitting fuel....
then
some people point a finger
with an easy source of blame,
yet when the dust has settled....
the coffins still remain.
When bombs are exchanged
because a dictator has his say,
the end result becomes a war
it's always been this way......
and
some people point a finger
with an easy source of blame,
yet when the dust has settled
the coffins still remain.
When lovers fight and emotions rise
until someone starts to bleed,
and rational decisions flee
in the wake of pain and need
When a child is abused
it matters not if mind or heart,
the pain's the same and lasting
'till a body search they start
and
some people point a finger
with an easy source of blame,
yet when the dust has settled
the coffins still remain.
There are no easy answers
to the thoughts that I have raised,
but shifting blame from near to far
cannot be the way
for
some people point a finger
with an easy source of blame,
yet when the dust has settled
the coffins still remain.
Some people point a finger
with an easy source of blame,
yet when the dust has settled
the coffins still remain.......
Terry made this.....
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blue screen of death, that is :( Was happily doing my thing on my puter when all of a sudden....a big blue screen with a message about a memory dump and to restart the computer...so I naively restart....and nothing happens...nada....zip....zilch.....
About that time my system (the human part) went from frazzled to pure ass freak!!!!!! Addicted? Who me? Nah...Yeah right! ACK!!!!!!
A friend who will look at it tomorrow thinks it is a bios issue.....I feel like someone cut off the my air supply...lol....thank goodness my other half has a puter!!!!!
So I'm freaking and look what Ter sends me!!!
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C'mon folks....please come bid on me at "Invalid Item"  It is all for RAOK and I'm doubling any winning bid on me...thus far I'm not going to have to dig very deep at all *pout* Come bid on me and really make me have to dig deep!!! I've got a new car... and a new job! I can do this!!! But only if you come and bid on me!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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amazingly, I'm wide awake considering I pulled an all nighter at work...driving home I had to drop off some paperwork at another store and find out that one cashier who gave me all the trouble is telling folks that she's going to be my assistant manager.....NOT! Not that she has the flexibility to work 2nd shift or has transportation or a babysitter or my endorsement lol....oh is she ever in for a rude awakening!!!!!! Looking like my store will be opening in a week!!! Oh yes!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm involved in the auction that IamMark is doing and no one is bidding on me :( In fact basically none of we women are being bid on...and, frankly, that sucks bigtime as it is all for fun and to raise gps for RAOK! Grrrrrrr!!!! Please go check it out at "Invalid Item" .
Have you checked out the Gazebo Graphics yet? Please check it out!!! "Invalid Item" We have new stuff appearing daily! I tossed it over to Ter to manage... I simply haven't the time...and she does it sooooo well! It was her birthday yesterday! Looks and sounds like she had a great time and enjoyed the Birthday Forum that Highwind and I set up for her...actually, Highwind did most of the work, but it was from us still and all.
On the BIG NEWS front.....Extra EXTRA...Read all about it!!! My youngest daughter (the one in the US Navy serving aboard the USS Ronald Reagan) just won the Navy's Hightest Journalism award for new articles!!! She now goes on to complete for Military Wide Recognition amoung the other four branches!!! Way to go Kiddo! *grin* Me??? Proud Mom???? MOI????? Damn Straight I am *grin*
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Supposed to be spring!!!! Brrrrrrrrrrr!!!!
Well, had to dig up my very own special EASTER BUNNY!!!! 
Hope you all have a blessed and Joyous Easter! |
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Guess what!!!!! Me and two of the best graphic designers around have opened "Invalid Item" and I am so excited!!
New job is going well, got the low down on the 'attitude chick' and know exactly how I'll handle her. Should work and it should keep everyone happy!
Sorry this is soooooooooooooo short but there's a bunch of folks waiting on the results of my contest and I have a BUNCH of reviews to write and now that I've got a map of the village up at my contest, I have to fix it cause right now, LORNA's house is hiding behinda tree and I need to move a tree or something! Oppps!
PS I love my car!!!!! |
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SNOW!!!! Ick!
Got a question for folks. I've been told by my district manager that the two people kept from the old store (pre-remodel) that are there at my discretion.
I met one of them today at the store I'm doing my manager training at.
Now, I am a firm believer in first impressions. Altho I will give people the benefit of the doubt...up to a point. Second chances are a good thing.
Strike 1. When meeting a boss/manager/ type person, I was always taught a firm handshake is a good measure of the type of person one is dealing with. Male or female, that a wimpy, 'I've felt fish more alive than this' handshake says nothing positive.
So I shook this employees hand and ick....dead, dead, DEAD fish.
Strike 2. She reaches over and flicks a finger at the scarf I am wearing. Company uniform being yellow shirts, black pants and a scarf or necktie. Me, I think scarves for women and ties for the men. Looks sharp and professional. If you've ever been in a Mobil 'On the Run' you now the uniforms I'm referring to. Anyway, after flicking her long, french manicured nails at my scarf,[more on this later] I answer that yes, we'd be wearing the scarves. She says that the dm told her it would be their choice. I repeat that we will be wearing the scarves. My store, my rules. (thought but did not say, you work for me....)
Strike 3. On a break she mentioned, or should I say stated, I still get my shift back. I say that i am not sure about that, but that we are hiring some other people and I will be workig out a schedual to best fir the needs of the store. She replies that it is HER shift. I repeat that it is not something that is set i stone. She then informs me that a) she doesn't drive...because she doesn't have a license...because hers is suspended so that b) her boyfriend drops her off on his way to work and that she c) can't work the afternoon shift because she has to babysit the boyfriend's kids. This tells me she...1)hmmmm lost her license for a reason...and in Michigan that tends to be drunk driving....2) cannot ever be 'called in' to cover a shift, 3) may well call out if a kid is sick (which isn't a good excuse really as reliable babysitters are a must for working mms/dads--and she says they do not have one. She also complained about working at the restaurant next door because they haven't paid her yet and are 'stealing her money' when she's says she's only been there 2 weeks (they hold first pay week and pay biweekly) and are one of the oldest established family restaurants in town.
Now, back to those looong ingernails with the expensive looking french tips. As a cashier in a gas/convenience store, one cashiers, does food service, sticks tanks, cleans bathrooms, LOADS/FILLS coolers, mops floors etc. One cannot stoc coolers in a timely fashion if one is worried about 'breaking a nail', nor do I want to have to have a 15 minute task take half an hour because she's being careful o said nails. Not the least of which is fishing change out of a drawer with long nails is darned near impossible.
SO. There I am. One other piece of info is that I was asked ifn I wanted to bring someone in with me. And yes I do and she's applied. This is a cashier/food service person I trust implicitly, who's as familiar with my work ethic as I am with hers...who also wants days. I want her for days, because i need a reliable person checking in vendors, making accurate conts and eventually being trained to help out on weekends and when I am not there for what-ever reason (like weekends)
Now am I wrong in thinking this girl isn't a)gonna last long b)shouldn't last long and/or c)not gonna be a 'good fit'.?
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. But I also am at the point where I don't know how to feel or act. I hope you are doing well, and I also hope to see you around the community soon.
Remember, 60 is the new 40. I consider age to be really reverse logarithmic. 
I am beyond excited for you and can't wait to get my hands on a copy for niece and nephews .... 
umm .. okay ... and ...errr ... for myself because I'm just a big kid at heart. 
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