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| What a mix of emotions I have right now. I'm excited for my son because he is getting the chance to spend time with his father. I'm nervous and scared that something will happen and I am over 300 miles away from my son. Grant it that is a 6 hour from one city to the next with the Denali national park between us. Half lost not sure what to do because I have had my son at my side for the last 13 plus years. Ok! How did this all come to happen? My brother was going out of town for the week so he handed me the keys to his jeep and said go have fun maybe go camping. Well that sounded like a great Idea. So, friday I rounded my son up after work and away we drove back to our home town. I was having a blast. Grant it we got into town about 1 in the morning so instead of waking people we just camped right there in the car. Then once awake I called my ex to let him know we were in town. I got growled at about not calling ahead. That I did my best to brush off simply because that was him and I know he needed to understand I dont flex on every thing he says. One thing lead to an other and I had to get a phone repaired while there. So it gave the guys a chance to hang out. While hanging out someone had the idea of a week long sleep over. After we parted ways. For the day my son asked if it would be ok for him to spend the week with his father. I was frustrated and stressed over the idea but instead of being an ass I answered with "What do you want to do? I will support you either way." I know my son wants dad time he needs it badly I'm just not sure his father is the right one for the job. I pointed out goid and bad thing then ended with no matter what happens it is his choice and will support him. We grabbed lunch then went over to a local park to spend the next 4 hours with friends. My son played several games and had a blast with our great friends in the park. He even was given two foam swords so he could come back and play again. We camped again in the jeep. The following day we had breakfast with my ex and his girlfriend. We all talked things over then went over to were they were staying. After a while my son asked to stay the week. Instead of saying no I handed him money and his emergancy card. This week will be hard on me for all I can do is think about how my son is doing. |
| Well, I am not sure what type of angle is on my shoulder but here lately things are appearing to be changing. Out of nowhere my brother decided to let me use his rig for the next week while he is out of town with his lady. Who knows it might just be Karma smiling back at me for all i have done and keep doing for others. All I can say is I am grateful and know that at lest for two weekends I might be able to get out and do something instead of feeling the strain of staying inside away from the world. |
| Well I had a successful day for a Tuesday. Most everything they brought me I managed to get done not counting the chairs I need to build. Grant it to do chairs I need more free time so a late start morning just did not fit that need courtesy of my schedule. Though I will say thanks to my late start time at work I was able to get a good start on one of my stories that kept going through out the day as I got time. In fact I managed to add about 600 words to one of the 2 stories I am working on. |
| Well my Monday was a quiet one but I did get a good amount done at work. I also bought some steaks to grill. grant it the steaks where thin just so I could get use to using my bucket grill. Needless to say both me and my so wanted more than I had on hand.though the fun thing is that a small bag of charcoal will let me grill three times before being gone. grant it that dose not include adding more as I go; though the fire pan will only hold so much. my next purchase for the grill will be a storage box for the charcoal and a few other things like a metal spatula and a small squirt bottle to help control heat levels if needed. I also need to get a gallon container for water so that if i want I can drop hot coals in to quench the fire out. if i had that I could extend the life of my coals for more than one burn. I do know that when I do that I water log the coals but they make a great base layer for the next time I use the grill and extend the fir life when I do that. the steam from the drying coals also helps even out the temperatures around the fire so food cooks more evenly. After cooking and eating around the grill I got silly and with my tongs kept moving the coals around the fire pan enjoying the smells and heat from the fire. My son kept popping in and out of the apartment in hopes that I had more meat for us to enjoy. I think the next time I get charcoal I will get regular charcoal and then a bag of smoking chips to add to the fire. grant it not many near me grill just yet but I have been waiting for neighbors to ask to use my little grill simply because like me they have been longing to get out and do but really cannot do that. |
| OK, so I decided in spite of my son, saturday was all mine. It meant I did what I wanted to do in spite of his grumbling that I took over the tv and or dragged him out of the house to do something. All in all it went ok.He did grumble that he did not get his gaming time but all in all the day was quite. Sunday we both slept in. Though my son had decided to stay up all night so the day was mine. i got up and went out and found at the store a party bucket by colman. What is a party bucket well it is something I have been looking for. It is a small grill in a bucket. I had thought about making one till I found this a local store. I did not have enough coals in it to fully cook the hamburgers I bought but that's ok nothing a I could not fix inside. |
| Well what can I say. Wednesday and Thursday where both productive at work. i got all the chairs placed in front of me and most of my shelves stocked around my great customer that come through my line. Lets see Thursday even though I did ask how thing where going my son got most of the things I asked done before I got home. Wednesday not a lot happened at home just my daily wake up go to work then home. As for my son he has figured out hopefully that if he does as I ask that I don't mind letting him go get a few things from the store and or going over to friends. Over the last few weeks I figured out that one of the tv stations runs Star Trek 6 days a week all the known TV shows. That out of that has happened has helped bring me back out of the lonely fog I have been in simply because they show my that I am lucker than some for how close people are even if it is just here on our wonderful site. |
| What can I say? Tuesday started out I felt like a slug just not wanting to do anything not even get out of bed. But you can say I was good and got my morning started and off to work without any issues. I got my work done at work which included cleaning up one area that had been needed it for a while. I also managed to get 4 out 5 chairs built around checking out customers and answering the phone. That was the first half of my day. After work I got to wait on my son to come to me after he missed 2 busses. Grant it the first bus I think was full and he just flat did not get out to the next bus in time to get a ride. with that said we got into an argument over something I said but he did not hear the day before. The sad thing there was I admitted he did not hear all that I said. Yet, he claims I never said it. This was on the way over so he could get his haircut and then go get subway for dinner. Once we had the subway in hand and headed back to the bus my son found a cell phone. Not even thinking about it we went to turn the phone in on the way we bumped into my brother who was buying shoes at the time. He turned to my son and told him to go pick out a pair of shoes. to our surprise, then gave us a ride home. Needles to say my day turned from slug mode into a good one. |
| I hope my day goes better than last night. My dear son decided that mom was to bend to his needs and wants. The worst part was had he done as I asked I might have been more flexible to do as he was asking. The poor boy dose not see that I am not asking much but the little I do is to help both of us. I know he does not smell the smells of the house when he leaves things in the sink for days and they get water sitting in them. I come home having to open the house up because I can smell the stuff then ask him to go take care of his chores. He the refuses saying it is all in my head. I don't know how to get through to him about this issue we are having. I can take all his stuff away and though saying he is bored will find something to do so he dose not face what I need him to do. the worst part of that is I only ask him to do 2 things. dishes and garbage. That dose include cleaning up after himself to ensure his mess dose not have garbage in it. |
| What can I say? Its a monday; Though my son did decide to get up with me. it was a welcomed change to getting my day started. Normally in the summer the first hours before I leave for work I am alone. So, this was a welcomed change. My weekend for the most part was quite though I did have one fight with my son to get him to go do something with me. The funny thing was it was his idea to start out with. Oh, we did find a nice spot go take picnics at. A quiet spot in one of the neighborhoods that is part of a park but all we saw was a few birds and a pretty little pond. Other than that my dear son ended the weekend with a stomach ache that was do to needing to go to the bathroom. That flared up into a full fledged headache. it lasted for a while after he took care of things but was going away by the time bed time came. So though it sounds like a lot we did not do much. |
| It all started with me wanting to curse out my tills at work. I had to find a way for me to curse but still have people giggle at how silly things sounded. I realized that if I called things a pickle for the way things where upsetting me that I could call them sour and mean without offending most that came through my line. Every now and then when it felt like my till was acting up I would grumble about my till being a pickle to me adults would giggle and kids would laugh not understanding that I was upset. They never knew that they where helping me each time that they came. My choices where right and that their giggling and laughing was building a bond and platform of trust that has helped keep my store going through the uncertain times we have been facing. I know that my co-workers have done a lot to show and develop our customers' trust and loyalty. Needles to say I figured out ticks and habits of my tills and in doing so I figured out ho to keep people from getting upset at my systems for being slow when the data streams are peaking by saying that my tills are sleepy creatures or that they are trying to raid my coffee next to them. some days they are trying not to get memorized by the rain falling or watching the fluff fly. Some times I say the tills are trying to watch the flowers bloom. Though with the frustration of what's going on I started saying that my old till and new card reader think that I am the pick in the middle to pick on. It is not uncommon to have customers laughing at my silliness as they leave the store. The best part of that is the number I have come beck in during my shifts just so they can see the helpful silly cashier that seems to be the center of customer service willing to make a fool of herself just to get them to smile. What I never really understood is that my silliness and helpfulness combined with my co-workers built a web of trust that is city wide. That trust has ensured that not only my store but my customers as well came out of this able to face each day. I have had customers come in just to see if we where open and for a smile from one of the staff. They really don't care who they just want to know we are there for them. Though a few have made a point to just come in for odds and ends they don't need just to see me so they say. |
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