Friday 245

TGIF! Its been one long week. I think I am still recovering from all the overtime last week. I love the extra money though.

Matthew and Emily will be here tonight again. I have not seen them in almost a week and poor miss Emily has been crying for me. :( I called them up last night and asked their momma if they wanted to come spend the night again and they JUMPED at the chance.

Thursday 244

Slept in this morning for a change. I've been very busy at work again and that coupled with class last night I was just overly tired. I certainly hope its just working too much and not that I am "sick" again.

Wednesday 243

YEA!!! Stayed awake long enough to watch American Idol last night :) They were doing songs from the 21st. century. Now I do not claim to be a GREAT singer but......most of them SUCKED last night. The only idol that I thought did a fairly descent job was Taylor and Bucky. Kelly who I really want to win did an ok job. Now, in my opinion either Lisa or Kelly should be booted off. Lisa did a UGLY rendition of Kelly Clarkstons "Because of you" I LOVE that song and she MURDERED it. Kelly did something by Christina Agularia....I don't know the song she sung but in my opinion she sounded flat, but the judges seemed to have liked it. We will have to see who gets the big old boot off the show tonight.

Tuesday 242

Yesterday flew by so fast. I had a ton of things to get caught up with in the Jewelry dept. Came home with a huge headache. Today I have to go through the rest of the spinners and take care of any damages and then mark down the items that were missed at the last price changes.

Monday 241

Still very tired from all the overtime I put in last week. I guess I am not as young as I used to be. I worked almost 50 hours. That's 10 hours of overtime at 1 1/2 times my normal rate of pay. Looks like it going to be a pretty nice paycheck. Hopefully this week I will be able to take some time and get some things done in the Jewelry dept.

Friday 238

Worked almost 12 hours yesterday and am doing it again today. I was so exhausted when I got home. I had a hard time falling asleep though. You would of thought that I would of been asleep easily BUT NO! Layed awake till almost midnight. Ugh.

Thursday 237

Up and awake this morning. Going into work 2 hours early for some overtime. Looks like I will be staying late also. We have to scan the whole store before Friday morning.

Wednesday 236

Went to dinner last night with Marilyn and the kids. We had a good time. :) I will be working in the fashion area again today as it seems that the pricing team cannot get the prices changes done.

Slept very good last night. I got home from dinner and took a long hot bath and then was in bed by 8:00pm. I wanted to watch American Idol but fell SOUND asleep.

Tuesday 1yr 235

Slept very well last night, but when I woke up it felt that I had not slept at all. I must of done a lot of tossing and turning last night.

Got a HUGE compliment at work yesterday. The vice president of Meijer was in and he was telling someone he was walking around the store with that he wished I was running every Jewelry department. Its sort of nice when the vice-president has good things to say about ya. :)

Monday 1yr 234

Was a very busy weekend. Had the kids Friday night. Work called at 6:30 Sat. morning. I guess someone had misplaced the keys and they needed my set. I got up and dressed and was awaiting Qynn to come over and pick up my set when they called again saying they had found them. Then I was busy all day Sat. went into work Sat. night and then got home around midnight. THEN I had to be up by 6 am yesterday as I had to cantor for mass, so as you can tell I was very busy.

Friday 1yr 231

Well today is the day for inventory and it feels like I am no where near ready for it. I worked all day yesterday with only a 15 min break trying to get everything done. There is still a lot more that I wanted to get done but time would not permit it. I sure hope everything goes well today.

I have the kids again tonight. Mike and Mer are going out and both Matthew and Emily have been begging to come and spend the night again. I know I am going to be pretty worn out but who can say no to those two cute faces?

Thursday 1yr 230

Last nights class did not go as well as I had hoped it would of went. In the end we had to separate the boys and the girl. I taught the boys and Letti taught the girls. I think it really sink into the boys heads the subject we were talking about which was sin. When they got back into the room the first thing one of the boys did was apologize to the girl which I thought was a good idea.

Wednesday 1yr 229

Good morning. Yesterday went by fast again. I think I am finally done with all the clearance items in Jewelry. They do want me to come back in this Sat. Night to set the ad again as the girl that was supposed to do it quit yesterday.

Looks like I will be having the kids here again this weekend. Matthew and Emily both were begging to come for another sleepover visit. :)

Tuesday 1yr 228

Spent a long time with Mary Witucki in church last night. Her mom is very ill and she was telling me about what the hospital is trying to do for her mom. Brought back memories of when Mark was sick. I shared her her a lot of the "things" that happened right before Marks death. All in all I guess we both "needed" to talk.

Work was very busy yesterday. Lots of price changes. I am nowhere near done with them, so I am going to try and finish them up this morning and then I still need to get ready for year end inventory.

Monday 1yr 227

Yesterdays meeting went good. I thought it was going to be LONG and BORING, but it really wasn't. We also were done by noon, so I had plenty of time to enjoy the rest of my Sunday. What did I do you might ask? I slept. Going into work Saturday night and then getting up early yesterday had me exhausted. I out a potroast in the oven, and opened up my patio doors and window and let the warm spring breeze in and has myself a wonderful nap. To bad the warm air is not staying around. It is supposed to be snowing again by tomorrow. Oh well at least we know that spring is right around the corner.

Friday 1yr 224

TGIF!!

It feels like it has been a very long week. I do not have anything planned this weekend until Sunday, then I have to go in for a 5 hour training sesson at church for teaching ccd. That is gonna be a LONG day.

Tonight Corrine and I are taking Morgan to the fish fry. Morgan claims she does not like fish but when she did not know what she was eating last friday (which was fried clams) she loved them.

Thursday 1yr 223

Up and awake this morning. Class went fairly well last night, even with Joseph constant interruptions. Today after work, I have to pick up some new music and learn it before Monday. I just love challenges....Don't you? :)

Wednesday 1yr 222

My head was thinking way too much last night. I think I fell asleep crying, thinking about the past 5 years and how my life has changed for the good and for the bad. The reason why I was upset was that I was trying to come up with 1 word. If I could only say one word to certain people before I died what would that word be? For some people I know the word would come very easy take Maureen for example. I would look at her and just say "Sister". To my parents I would say "Thank you". To Corrine, I would say "Believe". There was many other people that I did that with, but when it came to Pedro I was torn. I could not sum it up in one word, and I so wanted to. That made me think of all the time we had spent. There is still so much that I would love to share with him, and it hurts that he no longer wants to be in my life. I even tried to think of words that I know would of pissed him off, like "heretic", and "hypocrite", but I know I was only thinking those out of spite.

Tuesday 1yr 221

So I went into work yesterday at 7. When I got there I saw that the jewelry as had not been set yet. This is supposed to be set by 5am on Sunday morning. I so very hurriedly ran around getting the ad set. As I was working I could not help but think, why are we paying people to set the ad for us, when its not getting done each week? I took it upon myself to go to Chris and volunteer to work for 1 hour every Sat. Night to set the ad. That way I know its done right and its done before the ad breaks. He took me up on the offer and then said for me to leave an hour early on Wednesday so I would have more time to prepare for class. So in a way I guess this is all going to work out. We shall see,

Monday 1yr 220

Well I am now working my "new" hours. I am going into work 1/2 hour later. I guess all in all its not that bad but I do like getting out at 3 so it might take me a day or 2 to adjust to the 3:30. I know that is going to make things "tight" on Wednesdays when I need all the time I can get to get ready for class, so I guess from now on I will try to get as much done on Tuesday nights.

Read an interesting thing this morning in my Lenten prayer book. It said take some time today and bridge the gap with someone you are on the "outs" with. Well all I can say is that I will pray for them. I know that they do not want me to contact them so in the end all I can do is pray.

Sunday 1yr 219

Went to 2 masses today. I had to sing at the 11:30 mass as the bishop was there and they wanted the full choir....More important than that was at the 9:30 mass they had the rite of sending forth and being that I am Morgans Godmother I wanted to be there. Corrine looked so proud of Morgan standing in front of the whole church. It is going to be a very busy Lent for Corrine, Morgan and I.

When I got home today, I turned on the EWTN channel and was very happy to participate with the Litany of the hours. It was BEAUTIFUL!!

Friday 1yr 217

Boy, its so very hard to believe that 1 year ago today Mick died. It seems like it was just yesterday. Pat seems to be doing well although I know that today is going to be very rough for her. I wish I could of taken today off of work to go to his memorial mass but I could not.

Looks like I will be taking another weekend just to lay low. I have a cold coming on. I know I caught it from Mers house. They are all sick there. Mike had ammonia, Mer has a cold, Matthew has not been to school since Monday, and Emily is sniffly too. Talk about a germ fest. Ugh.

Thursday 1 yr 216

YAWN....Good morning world. I am very tired this morning, but I still got up and biked and did my meditation. Right now I so want to crawl back into bed and snuggle under the cover. We are expecting an ice storm this morning and I HATE driving in that kind of weather. Looking forward to having another restful weekend. Friday can not get here soon enough!

Wednesday 1yr 215

Well today begins Lent. The next 40 days I am really going to try to build up broken relationships, mend some "fences" that I may have broken, and pray more. You might ask what I have "given" up for lent......Its OREOS! Oh how I love those cookies. I am also going to be spending less on my weekly grocery bill and then donating the extra cash to the Rice Bowl at the end of lent.
No class tonight so that the kids can celebrate mass with their parents. I am going to mass with Corrine and Morgan, my god-daughter to be. Morgan will be baptized at this coming Easter vigil. :)