PLEASE DON'T RAIN......PLEASE DON'T RAIN........

after working 4 saturdays in a row, i am finally getting one off.........whoo hooo!!!  and i want to go yard sale shopping tomorrow.  so i don't want it to rain......at least not before 4 pm.  i got paid on thursday, so i have a little money, and i am off, what a combination, lol.  now, as my luck goes, it will rain and no one will have yard sales.  sigh...............

i have decided i shouldn't go on payday to pick up my check if i am not working that day.  yesterday i decided to do just that and while i was there, 2 of my co-workers had ordered something to eat and asked me if i would work the register while they ate.  i told them i would if i could clock in.  i figure, volunteers are not allowed to handle money or work the register.  if i were off the clock, i would be, more or less, a volunteer.  so....... if i didn't clock in, i couldn't handle the money.  right???  hey, it sounded good to me, lol.  so i clocked in for about 50 minutes and worked the register.  about $8 more on my paycheck........works for me, lol.

i had a good day today, even though we were short handed at work.  there were only 3 of us working today, where there are usually 5.  the girl who relieves me for breaks and lunch was the only one working in the knick-knacks and brand label clothing.  we usually have 2 in knick-knacks and 1 in brand label.  but it was nice today.  no bickering and fighting.  just hard work. 

i had my yearly evaluation on wednesday.  my boss told me i had 3 b's and the rest c's.  i freaked...........when i went to school, a b was better than a c.  but in the workplace, it is as follows:  d = perfect, c = almost perfect, b = good, but needing a little more training, and a = not good at all, needs to really work on job description.  when i learned the c was the highest grade given to any employee at any time, i was very happy.  my boss even told me that his score was not as good as mine, lol.  everyone passed, which means we all get our yearly raise in september.  so, hopefully, i will get my 7% raise.  better than the 13 cent an hour a year raise i got at the craft store. 

speaking of the craft store, i went there after work on wednesday and richard hugged me and we talked awhile.  i really miss him.  i had a customer come over to me while i was shopping and hugged me, and told me she sure did miss me working there.  we talked a little and i did my shopping and left. 

ok, i am going to get on my soap box for a few minutes.  since a large portion of my readers are from over the water.........scotland, england, etc, etc..........i am not sure they will know what commercial i am speaking of.  but those of you here in the states might have seen it.  it is a commercial for new mentos chewing gum.  a man is sitting on a bench in a hallway next to a water cooler with one of those big water bottles.  a woman walks up toward the water cooler and instead of leaning over and getting water from the cooler, she leans over and sucks the mans mouth, making sounds like she is getting lots of fluids into her mouth.  i have never seen such a disgusting commercial.  i have to change the channel every time it comes on, or i will start gagging.  in fact, as i sit here typing about it, i am slightly gagging.  ewwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!! 

(steps down off her soap box)

i guess i shouldn't brag on my wifi connection for i am afraid i might lose it (jinx myself).  but i am getting a really good connection tonight, so i am trying to get everything i need to say into one entry and i am hoping it will take this entry.  i am trying to save up enough money to buy a booster box, but with trying to save up money to move my furniture into my apartment, i haven't been too successful.  if i get a constant connection, i can reopen my website and start selling my handmade jewelry and greeting cards and crocheted items.  i am slowly getting all my craft supplies organized, so making things will be much easier.  before i started getting all the containers to put my items in, i had a pile of crocheting stuff here, another pile of jewelry making stuff there, and still another pile of card making stuff over there.............i hate all the piles.

i have a really funny story to relate.  well, funny to those who have or have had cats living in their house with them.

a couple of weeks ago i was sitting in my den in the only chair i have and usually my kitty will either sleep in the bedroom on her little bed next to the computer, or come in and lay up under that chair while i am there.  i noticed she was edging into the room very cautiously and was jumping at every little noise.  she creeped over to my chair, peeked underneath, jumped back a little, and kept staring up under the chair. 

well of course i thought for sure there was some monster under there, like a large roach, spider or even a mouse or rat.  so i started getting uneasy as well.  after she did this for about 15 minutes, i decided to get up and pull the chair out and look behind and under it.  nothing was there that breathed or crawled, just some items that had fallen under there from my craft pile, like some yarn and a pair of scissors and i think there was a label from a skein of yarn.  i told her to quit being silly, there wasn't anything there.  she continued this little dance for over an hour.  when i was ready to go to bed, i noticed she didn't follow me into the bathroom like she usually does.  i couldn't coax her into the bathroom no matter what i tried.  i figured it was because she had to pass in front of the chair to get there.

i went on to bed and eventually, the scaredy cat came to bed with me, curled up and went to sleep.  i rolled and tossed alot, which usually makes her get down off the bed, but that night, she didn't budge.........just scooted closer and closer to me.

the next morning when i got ready for work, i headed toward the bathroom and the den looked like a cyclone had hit during the night.  every pile of craft items was scattered all over, and the fewcontainers of cat treats i keep near the chair were thrown helter skelter, as were anything else that was small enough to move.  right in the middle of the space in front of the chair was an item.  apparently, it was the MONSTER.  i can only imagine that miss scaredy cat had gathered enough guts to sneak up under the chair and swat at the MONSTER to see if it would attack, and had apparently gotten the MONSTER stuck on her claw and it followed her out from under the chair, which, in her little mind, meant that the MONSTER was real and was following her.  so....in her effort to get away from said MONSTER, she ran over everything in the room, scattering it like packing peanuts.  i picked up the MONSTER, took it to where miss scaredy cat was sitting, tossed it down beside her and she immediately imitated the sleek fast cars they advertise on tv........0-60 in 10 seconds!!!!  i had found the culprit, the MONSTER.  i have included a picture of this MONSTER, taken with my new digital camera.  please be careful when viewing it, as it might cause you to have nightmares.

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a red yarn coaster.................