Say it ain't so

Oh, no I can't believe it. I just talked to my Granddaughter. Hereafter referred to as "Baby Girl". She went shopping today with her Dad and Stepmother. They were shopping for a dress for her to go to the Father-Daughter dance at her school. I can't believe she is going to her first dance. I am so glad that her Dad has agreed to go with her. Plus to come through and get her a complete outfit. She got dress, shoes, necklace, earrings and bracelet all to go with her dress. I just can't believe she is growing up as much as she is. I love Baby Girl and am so proud of her. She is really doing good in school and has finally found a school that she loves and doesn't hate going to school for the first time.

Walking is easier

Anybody who know us very well know that Randy has trouble with his knees. He has had a hard time walking for quite a while now. But a few weeks ago he really gave me a scare. He could hardly walk even here in the house. He was in such pain and there was nothing we could really do about it except for prayer. We do not have insurance nor a ton of cash for him to go to the doctor. So we just prayed that God would help him. I got him a cane and he has been using that. But within the last week or so his knees have stopped hurting some, not completely mind you but he is able to walk without being in tremendous pain. So for that I am very thankful.

Ice skating dog

This is my little dog. On Wednesday morning we woke up to not only about 3 - 4 inches of snow but it was topped off with about 3/4 inch of ice. So here is a picture of Snoopy after he had walked out the door to do his morning potty thing I don't know if you can notice but there are no foot prints in the snow. He didn't weigh enough to break through the ice. He was not very happy about being out there standing on the ice and not having any grass to sniff around to figure out where he wanted to do his morning potty thing. I had to keep pushing him out the door and he finally managed to pee pee on top of the ice. But he was not a happy doggie. For the longest time he just stood there and shivered looking at me like I had lost my mind for sending him outside without any ice skates on his little feet.

Greetings

I have been hearing lately that the United States Post office is hurting for money. I can really imagine that the amount of mail being sent has dropped of dramatically. I remember when I used to write letters to family and friends that lived out of state. But now I do everything by email or I just pick up the phone and give them a call. With free long distance and with cell phones and internet. Who needs the U.S. Mail system anymore. One thing I haven't done for a while is to send cards online. I have been thinking about doing that again and have been trying to find just the right card to send to my daughters. Well now I can send them a Cardfish Phone call. You are probably saying "what is a cardfish phone call. I am glad you asked. Cardfish is a brand new personalized greeting and messaging service that will let you send cards to friends and family and friends. Here is how it works... You send a card to your friend or family member and when they open it they watch a video clip and the cardfish service knows they are watching the video. Then they get a phone call at a exact chosen point during the video. I will end up being a really fun experience for them. Right now there is a free discount code so that people can try this new service out. All you have to do is to enter the word Free in as a coupon code. So what am I waiting for you ask? The only thing that I am waiting for is to decide who I want to send my free card to and to finish writing this post. But, the real question is..... what are you waiting on? Check it out and start sending cards and bring some fun into your friends lives.

Rehired

Alright I complained a few posts back because I had been fired as it were from PayPerPost and I sent them a message on their site saying that I didn't think it was right that they deleted my blog. Well as the saying goes the squeaky wheel gets the oil. Well, I am very happy to say that today I received not one but two emails telling me that my blog had been reapproved as a blog for pay per post. To pay per post I say a very big thank you. Like I said this is not a job that I am going to get wealthy doing but it does give me some extra money to use. I am thankful that I have been reinstated as a pay per post blogger.

Ice and Snow

Alright so things were not quite this bad today for us. But, it was a lousy day to say the least. It snowed here Monday night during the night and was not to bad going to work on Tuesday morning. However, it started snowing again last evening about 5:30 pm and snowed until about 3:00 AM this morning when you guessed it. The snow turned into freezing rain. So I got up at 6:30 am and got dressed with my coat and gloves and the brand new snow shovel I purchased at the store on the way home last night. I went out and the snow was covered in about a 1/2 inch of ice. I managed to get the porch and steps cleared and sprinkled stuff on them to keep them from freezing over as it was still raining freezing rain. I finally got the car completely uncovered and shoveled all around the car and managed to get the car door open and got the car started. But at my age by then I was completely exhausted. This took me about an hour do accomplish this process. So I cam in the house and put my coat in the dryer as it was soaked and got myself a Diet Pepsi and hit the couch. Finally I decided about 8:30 am that I was then ready to get ready for work. So Randy made his way carefully out to the car and got in and started it so that the heater could melt the ice that had already formed on the windows. I got dressed and gathered up all of my things to take to work and made my way to the car. Randy put it in drive and carefully began to move up the hill that we live at the dead end of and after several tries we made it maybe 6 feet and then could go no farther. So we gave up and came in and I called work to say I would not be there late because I would not be there at all. I have laid on the couch all day reading a book until I finished it and for some reason I am so tired that I could go to bed right now and it is not even 8:00 pm yet. But I will hold out for a later time because I am smart enough to know if I go to bed this early I will be awake at 4:00 am waiting for the alarm to go off at 6:30 am to start this entire process over again. I think it is still raining out and they expect it to get below freezing again tonight and you know what happens when water gets below freezing. You got it water freezes and makes ice on the porch, steps, driveway, car and finally the roads. So until tomorrow I will try not to think about it.

Death by meeting

Yesterday we had to attend a meeting for our part time job. This was a mandatory meeting so there was no opting out of it in any way if you wanted to keep the very part time job.

Not only was this meeting on a Saturday but it started at 9:00 AM in the morning. So for me that meant getting up at the same time that I get up every day for work.

We were the first ones there as Randy has this thing about being late so in order to avoid that we are always the first to arrive someplace. But it was good for getting a seat at the table in the back of the room so that we did have a little bit more room since they had crowed 6 huge round tables with with 8 chairs per table into a room that was not all that big plus a very long table that they were later to put "food" on and for me I use the term food very loosely.

Well they started the meeting with some very mindless dribble and then showed a drawing on an overhead screen showing the new area that they will be moving this department. This drawing was actually the schematic drawing so to actually see anything. So we finally moved on from that and onto the awarding of certificates to people who have actually survived at least two years on this job. "Heaven help them"

OK, so now we are to the purpose of this actual meeting. This is to inform us that they way we have been scheduling our hours every two weeks is no longer going to be used. They have probably now spent a ton of money to use some sort of online scheduling system and we have to schedule our hours online. But the kicker is that these hours will now need to be scheduled every other Thursday at 4:30 PM. That might be great for the few people actually about 3 who work there that do not have a computer at home and need to come to the work place to use the computers there when no one else is working to schedule their hours. But for the majority of the group who actually have computers at home and who surprise surprise have a day job as well and work until 5:00 pm every day and then have to drive home this is a major issue. The reason it is such an issue is that there are only so many shifts available for any given week and they actually have people who want more shifts. So the people who get online at 4:30 will get what ever shifts they want and the people who work and don't get online until almost 6:00 will find out that all of the shifts have been taken. Plus for us I have to schedule for two people and to try to get both of us working the same days appears to be the impossible dream.

This is not a lot of money for a part time job that we are looking at but it was budgeted every week to pay a particular bill that we need to pay. So if we can't get our hours I don 't know what we are going to do.

So besides being bored to tears for "FOUR" hours we now may be out of our job. OK it is a job that neither one of us particularly like but we do need the money. So we will try to hang on to this as long as possible I guess.

Got the Ax from

I just received an email from Pay Per Post informing me that I do not have a quality blog according to their standards. I at first was very upset about this because this was a source of income for me. OK it was a very small source of income I have to admit but nevertheless it was a little bit of mad money for me. I think their way of doing things really stinks and is very unprofessional to say the least. But..... after sitting here and finally settling down I have a feeling of relief about getting the Ax. Now my blog Shoot Fire and Save Matches can actually become a blog about what I feel like writing about and not what I have to write about in order to be paid some very small amount for my services. I first thought that I would just dump the blog, but after thinking about it I am going to attempt to keep this blog going and to try to turn it into an interesting blog. So here goes. Starting tomorrow I will try to post as often as work and things permit and hope that I can keep at least somebody reading my blog once in awhile. I also have to feel better knowing "I am sure" that I am not the only blogger who got the boot from Pay per Post today. If you are out there let me know and maybe we can all cry in our Pepsi together. (Sorry I never liked beer). Can't you just see all of the quality blogs with a a Google rank of oh let's say 5 or 6 doing a paid post for the 50 cents that they have been offering for the last couple of weeks. OK I am through ranting and raving and have all of this out of my system. So tomorrow I turn over a new leaf and no more paid blogging for me.

Huh

You Are an Argyle Sweater

You are contemplative, brainy, and serious. You don't take much lightly - life is too important for that. You are a very determined person. You don't let anything stand in your way. You think out your actions and act deliberately. You don't waste time, money, or resources.

What Kind of Sweater Are You?

Yes I am a very determined person of that I am positive. I really don't like to waste money or my resources. I do think things through before I do them so guess this really sort of describes me.

Supersize it

I really wish we had a hot car that we could soup up. If we did I would get us a pontiac supercharger and get it all fixed up. But, right now I just can't see us souping up our Buick. But for those of you out there who have a really cool car that you want to soup up you have got to get with it. I am a firm believer that any company that I do business with has to have great customer service. I believe that is the heart of a company how well do they treat their customers? They have a ton of super chargers in stock ready to ship and everything comes with a great warranty. So get on over there and check things out for yourself.