RAIN RAIN RAIN

ok, georgia has been in a severe drought...........so we began praying and hoping for rain.  and we have been getting it.  but i guess we were so dry, it doesn't seem to be doing much.  as i sit here in the library typing and reading, the t-storms are brewing outside.  thus, i will be drenched on my way out.......but hey, i don't care.  it is wet.  i can roll the windows down in my car and let the warm wet air hit me and cool me down.

i have worked steadily since last i wrote.  i used to get 11 hours a week.........now i am working close to 11 days in a row without a day off.  NOT COMPLAINING THOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!  the bills are finally getting paid.  i got my power bill today for the month of august..................YIKES!!!  my share........yes "MY SHARE" was $96!  my housemate's share was $83.  i keep 2 window ac units going mostly 24/7, as well as 2 fans, one an oscillating fan, the other a box fan.  plus i am up late nights watching tv and cooking, lights on.........so i am sure with the heat we have had, the bill is high.  i was expecting it to be at least that much or more.

the wild bunch isn't a bunch any more.  i never see mama kitty.  blacky comes around every once in a while.  whitey hasn't been seen lately.  rocky has more or less moved on, as well as gray, with an occasional visit on the back stairway.  ditto comes around all the time, so i guess he/she is expecting food and water.  i have stopped feeding them because they weren't coming around and the food sat there and got ants in it, then no one wanted to eat it.  so if i see them on the back porch, i will put something out then, but no regular feedings.  they are all old enough now to fend for themselves, catching mice, birds, etc.  in fact, i have a funny story to relate.

the other morning i was getting up to get ready for work (yes, i said morning and work in the same sentence.....i had to be at work at 10 am, lol).  i was in the kitchen fixing some toast and looked out my back kitchen window and voila...........there was a white cat on the hot tin roof..........well, it wasn't hot yet, since it was only 10 am.  i think it was ditto.  it was running along the very tip of the roof, where there is a tin overlay keeping the rain out, and they were slapping at something that had gotten under the overlay, between the overlay and the roof.  i don't know if it was another cat, or if it was a mouse, bird, lizard or whatever, but it was so comical watching that white cat running back and forth on the roof slapping at something.  i was hoping it wouldn't slide off the roof and fall.  i guess it must have climbed a tree to get up there.  when i went back to put my dishes up, it was gone.  so much for my entertainment.

we have several new people at my work, some i really like, some i can deal with if i have to.  we have gone to computerized scheduling, which means everything is screwed up royally.  the first schedule that came out had me coming in an hour before we closed.  it also had me scheduled twice in the same day, overlapping.  so much for technology.  the general manager redid the schedules, and i ended up having a fantastic schedule.  i am getting almost 30 hours a week  now.  so i guess technology is great, when you tweak it a little.

i want to apologize to everyone for not visiting your journals and commenting, but i haven't had the time.  i haven't forgotten you..........i hope to start back to reading and commenting really soon.  i miss my internet friends.................

i have begun my crafts for the fall bazaars.  i am making crocheted floppy hats and berets, purses, afghans and cross stitched pieces.  i made a simple sampler for a girl i work with who got married last saturday.  i didn't completely finish it, but gave it to her anyway, framed, and told her when she returned from her honeymoon, i would complete it.  i need to make more jewelry (website:     http://hometown.aol.com/babyblueskye2002/ ).   

well, the storm has hit, and i am afraid i will lose what i have already typed if i don't close out now............so have a great weekend............i will be working.............sigh...............