Hey all. Today I start the job internship at Howard Johnsons. I have no clue when I will be done today. I have all three abc soaps set to record and Y&R for the first time in ages. I can't believe there is something on every show that is worth seeing.
Anyways, its cold here but no snow and no ice which is good. I am going to leave a little early to go to work because there is a little Starbucks right by the hotel so I will go get me a treat.
Good luck, Shelly!! Let us know how it went on the first day.
It finally stopped snowing, but fortunately it was cold enough to be fluffy stuff, easy to brush away. I'll be at my son's house from 3 to 7 helping with the kids as he'll be out for the evening trying to find a replacement for the guy that took off to India.
Right now I have to put on that big pot of stew I was going to make the other day so I can take some down to my d-i-l, give her a little break from cooking dinner. I hate chopping up all the veggies.
Nick and Laura moved out of their beautiful but expensive apartment in the Avalon into a "crappy" place that they are trying to make better, he says. It'll be a big saving so they can travel some of Australia before Nick comes home in April. I still don't know if Laura is staying behind or coming back too. It must be hard for my son with that indecision and there's not a thing I can do to help.
Oh, and thanks all for joining Facebook! Yay Lainey Lurv, lol. In the space that asks how we're connected, I put that we are in an organisation together "Team ABC Snark". I think that's appropriate, non? It IS how we all first met.
yeah so starbucks was good but I spilled a little on my white wool coat. Thats why I like Dunkin Donuts, their lids have that flap on it that you dont have to open til you need it instead of the open hole. So now I have to take my coat to the dry cleaners because I am not even going to try it. Luckily I have to take the hubbys uniforms in anyways.
Work was okay, not use to standing so long. Esp in heels but I suppose since this is my major I must get use to it. I learned quite a bit and thankfully it was slow. I am still a little intimidated by the phone system with all the buttons but since I am not getting paid I am going to take my time getting use to it all.
She pretty much told me that by spring I will most likely be able to switch to an actual employee so thats nice and certainly something to look forward too
Glad the new job went well, Shelly! I have been gone so long!! So HI EVERYONE! I started my spring semester of shcool a few weeks ago, have taken on a bunch of new responsibilities at work, and am becoming pretty heavily involved in OK democratic politics so I have been BUSY! Also, my grandfather passed away suddenly last Wed. He was 79 years old and he died doing what he loved, WORKING! I don't ever remember him being in the hospital or being sick. On Wed when he passed he had gotten up that morning and drove the school bus (yes he still drove the school bus at 79!!), and then went to get feed about 60 miles away for the little country feed store he and my grandmother own, he had unloaded the feed for the store and take some deliveries and unloaded those, and was on his way to drive the school bus for the after school route. The men who had been with him while he unloaded the delivered feed, drove back by where they had last seen him, he was the last to leave, and his truck was off to the side of the road still in drive and he was inside and had passed away.
I worry about my grandmother, but she is a tough one and she will make it! My family is so super close and its been really hard on us, one of my brothers who was at Ft. Bliss TX getting ready to deploy to Iraq (he left today) we did not think would get to come home for the funeral, but luckily my dad's cousin happened to be best friends (unbeknowst to us) with head General at Ft. Bliss so strings were pulled and he got to be here and left the day after the funeral. I have put a link to my gpa's obituary if you wanted to check it out!
I have brought some plants from the funeral home, and hope I can keep them alive keep your fingers crossed!!!
Thanks, Tina! 79 is a good long life! We are so blessed that he was always able to work and do the things he loved, he wouldn't have wanted it any other way. The only better way would have been for him to have been bailing hay in the summer on his tractor!
79 is definitely a nice long life. I am glad you didn't have to watach him suffer. I really wish it had been like that with my grandpa, but at least we got to enjoy him for a while I guess.
