What Was I Thinking?

Someone tell me, PLEASE! I go back to work, PART TIME, and I am working 6 days a week. This is nuts. I do love what I do though. I found out yesterday I will be training for the Rancho San Miguel stores next week. Se Habla Espanol. Which is good because my boss was actually thinking about sending me to the Merced store and giving phone training. I told her she was crazy! The good news is my boss, Diane, asked me if I would be interested in working one day a week in the main office help her out. I said sure I would love too. Diane said good I will set up an interview with my boss, Wendy, for you. The same day Diane asked me to go to the warehouse and help her with our storage of papers their. No problem, so off I go. Our warehouse is connected with our main office in Lathrop. In the hallway of the office we run into Wendy. Diane introduces us. Wendy asked me how I am doing with the new job. I say it is great thank you and out to the warehouse I go. I am suppose to have my interview this week. But wait. I talked to Diane Monday and she said I already had it. No, I would remember a job interview. She said Wendy was impress with what she saw of me and I got the new job, one day a week. Yeah Me! So tomorrow I start, with phone training!

I started tanning last night to get ready for my trip to Texas, in 4 more weeks! I can't wait to see Nathan, Tony, Dave and Liz! And who could miss Southfork Ranch or Cabella's. I am working on a few things to submit for a magazine call, wish me luck! I am hoping to submit 5 things and get one picked up. I have been at Weight Watchers 10 weeks now and have lost 13.2 lbs, and fitting into my summer clothes. I haven't had time to sew lately but hoping to soon.

Poop is teething again. Which means another ear infection. Which means she is sick from the prescription. She is happy though. We do get to see an ENT next week and look into her getting tubes in her ears. I think this will be a good thing. She loves swimming. I am looking into getting her swim lessons this summer. It would be a private lesson and she would learn to kick to the surface, flip to her back and get to the edge of the pool.

Scott did nothing for his birthday. We went to Dante's with my parents for pizza. He is now $100 closer to the $2000 binoculars he wants. I am sure they do something amazing that the $600 pair he already has doesn't do. Maybe they carry the deer out for you. He is still in San Ramon waiting to take over the job. His office is bidding plans for a tract in Merced. If they get it he will be going down their. Maybe we could carpool? No exciting plans for the holiday weekend. I am working, ALL 3 days.

Be safe. Buckle up. Don't Drink and Drive, anything! That's it for public safety announcements.

We've been busy!

I am still trying to adjust to working again. Getting up at 4 am is crazy! The job is good though. They are wanting me to train for the Rancho San Miguel stores. I have told them I can't speak Spanish, I will have Monica and Margie on speed dial. These stores are more difficult and time consuming. I guess they think I am going to be able to handle it. Some of the other book keepers can't. Also I am down to 2 swaps. One is a secret sister swap. No big deal. Hopefully I will have more time to sew.

Delaney is doing good. She gets smarter everyday. Last week she got a clean towel out of the closet and went to the bathroom to wash her hands and face in the toilet. How smart is that! Not many 14 month olds know to get a towel BEFORE they play in the toilet. She has learned where he nose is. She usually put her finger in her nose and then laughs but she can find her nose. She also tries to open the frig when she wants a drink. She is still honing her most important skill, finding diamonds. Now when we ask her "where's the diamond?" She looks first for a wedding ring, then earrings and last for a necklace. I think it is important to also teach her some life skills. Our friend Kevin is going to teach her about diamond quality when she is a little older.

Scott's birthday is coming up. He will be 32 on Sunday. We are going to some comedy thing on Saturday night with my sister and Josh. Other than that no big plans. He is still working in San Ramon and waiting for the job to be turned over to him. It is a big hurry up and wait.

We are still have some minor problems with the new hard drive for the computer so no new pictures. Maybe soon. I haven't even loaded any music to my very cool green Ipod Shuffle. Which is my reason for not using my Gazelle.

Finally Back!

It has been a long week. Our computer crashed last Sunday night. The good news is we got a new hard drive and are able to be back on the World Wide Web. The bad news is that they haven't been able to recover anything yet, we are still waiting. We have lost ALL of our pictures. Here is my request, if you have any pictures of Poop could you please put them on a disk for me. I will pay for it, make brownies, scrapbook for you, sew, anything you want!

Other than that, I have been busy at work. I got one week of training and last Monday morning I was left on my own. I am currently only working at the Lodi and Wilson Way stores. I am going to get some training for the Rancho San Miguel stores too. This week I am doing the Hammer Lane store too. They have a different system than I have been trained on, I have no clue how to use it. Wish me luck.

Scott finally got the house plans done. They are in Sacramento waiting to get permits to start the building. Scott was printing the last page of 20 pages when the computer crashed. We are hoping that they can also retrieve this file with the pictures. Otherwise he has to start from the beginning if the city wants to make any changes.

Poop is having fun at Aunt Linda's while mom is at work. Aunt Linda feeds her stuff mom says no to. There are some great pictures of Poop on the Sarabear blog, the link is on the left. Our friend Heather took them at our friend Emma's birthday party. Poop thinks she is big enough to climb up the ladder and go down the slide on her own.

MMM, Chocolate

What more can I say. It is all that was left after I gave her a 1/4 inch square piece of chocolate. She loves playing in my sewing room and my living room. She keeps taking Scott small things she can find. And then he brings them to me asking if it's ours. Who else would it belong too? it's in OUR house! Some of her favorites are a small turtle, a black and white rock egg and grill seasonings.

Frist Day

Well I made it through my first day back to work. Not much has changed in the 9 years I have been gone from Food 4 Less. I think the only thing different is that paper work. I am training with one girl this whole week and I have asked for a day of training with another book keeper, Merleen, before they put me on my own. I have a feeling I will be on my own next week. The good part is I was off work by 11am today.

All went well with the baby shower. I got everything done in time, including my makeup. We took all the furniture out of both the living room and family room for the party. It was in the sewing room, Poop's room and the garage. This is what the sewing room looked like this last weekend. I only had enough room to swing the door open. Needless to say I haven't been sewing.


I do need to get a few baby quilts done and soon. Also I am hoping to give Gina my Parts Department quilt on her next trip over here. I have gotten little, very little, bite more done on it. I am hoping to get the row of pinwheels done this week It is going to be about 6 weeks so I should have some time to work on it. Speaking of Gina, I was able to meet my wonderful new friend Saturday morning at the quilt store. I enjoyed getting to talk to her, it felt like I have known her forever.


Here are the two cards I entered in the Paper Crafts Magazine Gallery Idol contest. The theme was a Hello card. I made them both on Thursday afternoon and the deadline was on Friday. They will be picking 20 people to go on to round 2. I will know on Friday if I am one of the lucky ones.


Saturday I got my stamps I won from Paper Crafts. I can't wait to make something with them. I do need to get some block to use them with since they are unmounted stamps.


Scott did some yard work at our house. He got home early one day so I asked him to pull out our city tree. I have hated that tree since we bought the house. For some reason yard work either means using 4-wheel drive or drinking a lot of beer and watching the grass grow.

Baby Shower Count Down

Okay I don't think I am doing to bad:
1. Table cloths are made
2. Food and chairs are ordered
3. Favors are half done
4. Game prizes are wrapped
5. Paper products are purchased
6. Trees riped out of front yard

I still need to:
1. Make desserts
2. Finish print outs for games
3. Make diaper cake
4. Decorate
5. Clean house
6. Pick up and prep food
7. Pick up and set up tables and chairs

Also I am fully hired at Food 4 Less. This has been a 3 day process. It took more of my time than I thought it would. I start 5:30am Monday morning at Wilson Way. I still need to buy black shoes this weekend for that.

Friday is also the deadline for the Card Idol Contest I wanted to enter. I have entered 2 cards and would like to get 3 more done before the deadline, I think I have until 11am. Wish me luck! Somewhere around 800 cards have been entered so far. Twenty people will be picked to go onto round 2, many people entered more than one card.

I will post pictures tomorrow.

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