Restless and ready for a change

It has been a rough couple of weeks at work and it may be rougher the next few.  I am going to have to make some unpopular changes on how things are and I may be the only one left standing.  I need to live up to my name and haul out the axe.

I am restless and not really sure what it is I'm wanting.  The season changing is part of it.  I get this way every spring and every fall even more so.  I think I'm setting up to hibernate for winter.  I want to redo all my rooms with warm, darker colors.  I hate that in the winter I go to work in the dark and I come home in the dark.  There are days that go by that I don't see daylight at all.

I am still sitting at that 18 pound weight loss.  It really is harder this round.  It doesn't help that I eat when I am stressed out.  I have been so under stress here lately that I think I could twang in the wind.

No room to breath

You really have to watch what you say.  I put challenge out out to the universe and it came back to smack me in the face.  I didn't do it on purpose.  At work the next few weeks are going to be totally insane.  In the next three weeks I have two meetings for all employees.  One is off site and has two times so everyone can attend one and one on site. I have the fall food show on what is usually my day off. I have two employees on vacation, one each on the following two weeks.  I have 12 hours of online classes that must be complete before the 9th of Oct. I am walking in the race for the cure on Sat.  All this is to be done with no overtime, everyone getting to the meetings and the online class time turned in also but not if it makes me go over 40 hours.  I actually had a schedule written that accomplished everything. Had everyone off where they needed to be off, had all the shifts covered, gave me time off to get the online stuff done and no overtime.  This is where I made my mistake.  I said to my boss that it seemed like the powers that be wanted to see how much crap they could throw at me and I still be able to write a schedule that would be approved.  I told him I did it but that there was no room to breath at all.  Well last night my newest employee walked out for who knows what reason and totally snarled things up.

I ended up staying and working a double last night which threw off my hours to do the online stuff.  I had to pull on of this mornings workers to this evening to cover his shift tonight. That left the morning shift horribly short.  I wasn't sure how I was going to be able to do the walk on Sat since he worked a shift there as well.  I was getting mad because I have a team of 16 from this store and one other location walking with me.   Its important to me.  I asked one of my employees to work a double that day.  She'll do it cause she just bought a house and needs the money.  She works anywhere and any shift I need her to.

I also had to completely rewrite the next weeks schedule which had no room for error to begin with.  I did it.
It is rough and I'm sure we will all be grouchy and tired by the end of these few weeks. I told one of my employees that I really need to change this blogs name to The grouchy Bitch cause I sure am one lately.  I have vacation coming up in about four weeks and I am ready.  I don't think I have to worry about hiring a new worker.  I have the demo girl who would like to come back into the deli and also a guy they moved out of the meat dept that's willing to come back and work in the deli.  Hes been filling in where ever they can use him for right now.OK enough of that.

I think I have a bunch of hummingbirds traveling through on their way south.  My number seems to have jumped alot.  I have four feeders and I had four hummers circling one feeder the other day.  I tried to get a pic of them but they dart around way too much.  I got alot of pictures of the feeder alone or with a couple of blurs next to it.  I have one male that every year his favourite hobby is chasing everyone else off the feeders.  That is why I have four feeders.  No matter what he only has site of two at a time.  There are always two out of site that the others can go to.

I have now lost 18 pounds. It is way harder to get it off this round compared to early last year.

Im Back

OK I know this is way past Wednesday.  I went to Illinois to see my parents and I didn't think it was good idea to post online that I would be gone for a few days. 

Alan drove the truck up with the two dogs who like going to see grandma too, while I drove up with my daughter Jamie and my granddaughter Lexi.  I just got my car cleaned out today.  It looked like I had a daycare in the back seat. While we were there we went to see a high school friend of Alans.  He lives out in the country and Lexi got to see his animals.Sorry the pics aren't great I really couldn't see what I was clicking at the sun was glaring too much.  Lexi got to pet a chicken.

                                     

  She got to see a llama, a donkey and a miniature horse.  And lots of chickens.  She also got to see 4 very large horses and too feed them corn.  I didn't get any pics of them.

  My pumpkins are a complete bust this year.  I only had one getting any size on it and it was rotting when I got home.  Ill just have to chalk this up as a bad year and try again next year.  My window boxes however are doing great.



When it was first planted.

Look how full they got this year.

This is just a very large spider living in my flower bed.