Rain dance

Got my car back today. It's so beautiful and shiny, like the first day I drove her off the lot. It rained most of the day and on my way home. When I got home I was going to wipe her off with a chamois and I didn't even need to. All the rain had beaded off and she was dry. They also took out the dent on the hood. She's hot. If I was a single male car I'd totally bone her. Anyway it finally feels like spring instead of summer. This morning when I was driving to work the rain clouds were so low to the ground and I could see them coming as I drove in to them and I'd get rained on and then come out the other end and then go thru another cloud. It was weird. Yesterday when it started to rain we all went outside and just hung out under the awning. everyone came out from registration too. You can always tell the natives cause they come out when it rains. It was amusing to me to see how many people were standing around "oohhing". The jets were out practicing for Luke Days and it was just such a beautiful afternoon. Today, while parked at a stop light I saw 2 construction guys pumping out rain from their ditch in the right turn lane. That is, one guy siting on a bucket, ankel deep in water with a second bucket scooped up rain water and handed it to this other guy who would walk it over to some nearby gravel to dump it out. It was very amusing to me. So clearly it's been a pretty boring week.

Chloe Bear.



Chad is so smitten with Chloe. Today he actually
said "she is so cute." can you imagine that?
if I hadn't heard it I wouldn't have believed it.

it's all about the down low

Had a pretty cool week and then it all came to a quik end but I remain optimistic. first, it is spring break so the ladies from work and I decided to make a sequel to our movie from last year's spring break. we had a lot of fun. I can send a link if you are interested in viewing.
then I got our shrink number for the fiscal year. for those who don't remember what shrink is, I will briefly explain. basically, it's the total inventory purchased x the total sales - the actual physical inventory. that number should = zero. anything over or under zero is shrink. the company expects us to lose around 1% of our total sales/year. we do about $1.6 million a year and so an average loss expected out of our store is about $10,000. Well I've had some problems in the past, my biggest one from a particular employee who stole a lot of money several years back. but I digress. so my number this year came out .09% which was not only the best shrink that I've squeezed out in my 7 years at this store but it was also the best in my region of 27 stores. Our region usually holds the best shrink results in the whole company of 800+ stores. So I am pretty proud.
Mitsubishi agreed to paint my car for free under their "good will" policy. that is since I'm past my warranty but it's still a new enough car and they feel bad so they fix it for free. they're also going to take my small ding out of the hood that some asshole left for me a few years back right after I bought her. so I am in back in my old friend Kia. almost the same model but a 4 cylinder and a bit older that the brand new one I had after my collision.
Weight watchers is still going successfully. I am now the same size I was in high school. I never thought I'd see the day. yesterday this woman that works on campus told me how wonderful I looked and how she only dreamed of doing what I have done and how perfect she thought I was. I assured her I was nowhere even close to perfect but I loved to hear it. No one has ever called me perfect. I went to the doctor this week for the semi annual check of my blood pressure and it's finally down below normal. Dr. Bhowra was so impressed with my weight loss. he shook my hand and told me how lovely I look. the nurse had weighed me wrong by 10 pounds more and he scolded her and told her how important this was and that her mistake wasn't fair to me cause it was taking away from my accomplishment. this is big cause he's always hidden any emotion, I assume under his turban. he is lowering my dosage and hopefully I can stop taking the pills. so I'm having a great week.....then I am checking my bank account and my debit card was hacked and being used in Mexico. yes some jerk who can't get a job of his own has some machine that just dials numbers all day and when he gets a hit he uses it for his purchases at the drug store and gas stations in Mexico City. how nice for me. luckily I caught it just after my bank caught it but he still managed to get $261 from me. my bank replaced it in less than a day but God damn if I don't check my account all the time for this sort of thing and wouldn't you know it finally happend. I think it's pretty inevitable that this will happen to everyone and it will probably happen to me again. be on the look out people.

As God is my witness, I will never shop at Basha's again!

I have traveled over the hill and it is good. Our Super Target opened 2 days ago and man, let me tell you, it's Super! I drove by on a whim knowing it had to be any day now. I was excited with glee. I shopped and then I shopped some more. It was so clean and untouched and best of all it was empty. The prices aren't quite what I expected but it's the neighborhood so I guess since I live in the neighborhood I'm supposed to be able to afford it. It's still cheaper than Basha's and as much as I like the grocery store, their prices are outta control. But for the last 2 years it's been the closest store around and with a chef in the house, one is always running out for something. So that was my excitment for the day. Only other strange thing is that my meeting tonight had dwindled to a mere 44. That's 20 less than last week. I'm not complaining. It's nice to have a smaller group. Before new years our group was only 14. But new year's resolutions always bring in people and by next December we'll probably be back to 14. Mostly cause that group hasn't been able to keep a stable leader. The current one is no exception. Although she runs a good meeting, she's lacks compassion but fakes it. She's always absent and well people just don't like her. Really, I don't like her and I just assume everyone must agree with me.

No internet make jojo unhappy

I have not had internet for a week or so and I have actually been working at work so please no hassleing the jojo for the long time between blogs. Not a whole lot going on but I wanted to let yous know I am still alive. I had a bunch of good topics (good to me anyway) to post but now that they've long past I don't know if they're still relevant. You decide
1. The Ugly Side of Weight Watchers
Well I probably told you how I got dupped in to working 2 meetings back to back on a Saturday morning at the butt crack of dawn. I come from a long background of customer service. I can do it in my sleep. These women I worked with on Saturday had no such training. One lady who had been waiting in line to pay got very frustrated and angry that she had to go stand in another line to weigh in. She asked the lady who was helping her why we weren't better organized (I'm not really part of that we, I was just subbing so I take no blame) and (she wasn't mean about it she simply asked) and my fellow worker told her in a very stern voice

"ma'am I am not going to apologize to you for the size of this line. I have no control over how many people come in here."

Later, a different worker to my right proceeded to tell me in her regular voice how annoying the woman who had just left the counter was. Holy shit does she know anything about tact? Everybody heard her. The customers were packed in there nut to butt, about 80 in a tiny littly room. Like weigh in isn't stressful enough now these people have to worry that we're all talking about them out loud for everyone to hear. The worker has been with the company 35 years and works for the corporate office during the week. Nice. I got dupped again for another early morning Saturday meeting this week but I'm subbing for the boss so I guess it wasn't really dupped as it was over all fear of getting on her shit list if I said no.
2. The Ugly Side of Marriage
So I 'm in the grocery store on Friday and it's in the middle of geriatricville. This old married couple is in the frozen food section with me and this is what went down. I named them for my own purposes. Now imagine her voice in the most scratchy mean voice ever.
Cruella: "Why are you going down the fish aisle?....Since when do you like fish "
Herbert: .....
Cruella: "Oh peas, you want peas? oh well look at my husband the shopper. "
Herbert: ......
Cruella: (while holding open the freezer door and Herbert walks back to his cart) "Are you done here? Well you coulda told me I'm just holding the door open", incoherent mumbling.
She was just picked apart everything he did. She was so mean. And she wasn't the least bit embarrased by how she was treating him in public. I just wanted to go and hug him and say DTB* brother.
3. The Ugly Side of Puppy Training
She's still peeing in the house. Less and less frequent but I still am bent over every other day with my handy dandy spot lifter. Chad has trained her to walk on a leash and she draws small crowds wherever she goes. I bought her a dress but it didn't fit her and I had to return it for a bigger dress but they had run out by the time I returned so poo on them. Some other less cute medium sized dog is walking around in my dog's dress.

Finally, Blogger is locking me out cause it thinks I have an invalid account and they're gonna make sure I am not spamming. Silly boys. So who knows how much longer it will be before you're actually reading this.

*Dump that Bitch