"Happiness Is Abundant In The Joy Of Achievement"

I heard about this on the radio this morning and found it interesting yet disturbing. then to add insult to injury at our morning meeting we were told that if they do it....there will be no doubt that we will too in a year or so. could you imagine!?!?!?

customer: uuum...yes i would like to put this on layaway......
me: *blink*blink* are you saying you only have two months to live???

i can just see this crazed obsession the world is going to have about this.

anyway....this week we've been raising some money for an associate who is in "critical need" and so far in two days ive raised over $300 with bakes sales and jeans days. i think its awsome how we as associates come together to help one of our own. the associate has colon cancer that has been gone and back 3 times. however this time its worse and were just praying that shes ok. you would never know shes sick by her attitude and personality. shes got more spunk than anyone i know. its really to bad that she has to go through this.

so i have this bet going with sarah now. lol. she wants to lose weight before her trip and she thinks that slim fast is the only way this is going to happen. now im sure it helps but she won't do it right. all she will do is drink the drink and not eat and that is not healthy....so i challenged her and we made a pretty hefty bet and set up a point system since i am heavier than she is and can lose a lot more easily than her. so for every 3 lbs i lose is considered 1 point and for every 2 lbs she loses its one point. so in the end it works out. (she did this mathmatically on paper and it works. don't ask me how...i haven't a clue). so ill keep you posted.

tomorrow she starts school and shes dreding it. poor thing. she lucked out with the bus stop. its practically right outside our front door. shes the last to be picked up and the first to be dropped off. sweet...

she got up at 6am with me this morning and stayed up all day and tonight will be going to bed at 10 to get her back into the routine. im quite happy about this cuz this means no more late night tv. thank god. ill get some sleep too.

you know i was so excited when the olympics were coming on and now that they are here im not that excited anymore. i try to sit and watch but end up changing the channel. i don't know what i was so excited about. *shrug*

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and since i can't think of anything else to say....here is this:

Did You Know That?
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6. Cure urinary tract infections with Alka-Seltzer. Just dissolve two tablets in a glass of water and drink it at the onset of the symptoms. Alka-Seltzer begins eliminating urinary tract infections almost instantly -- even though the product was never been advertised for this use.
7. Eliminate puffiness under your eyes..... All you need is a dab of preparation H, carefully rubbed into the skin, avoiding the eyes. The hemorrhoid ointment acts as a vasoconstrictor, relieving the swelling instantly.
8. Honey remedy for skin blemishes... Cover the blemish with a dab of honey and place a band-aid over it. Honey kills the bacteria, keeps the skin, sterile, and speeds healing. Works overnight.
9. Listerine therapy for toenail fungus... Get rid of unsightly toenail fungus by soaking your toes in Listerine mouthwash. The powerful antiseptic leaves your toenails looking healthy again.
10. Easy eyeglass protection... To prevent the screws in eyeglasses from loosening, apply a small drop of Maybelline Crystal Clear nail polish to the threads of the screws before tightening them.
11. Coca-Cola cure for rust... Forget those expensive rust removers. Just saturate an abrasive sponge with Coca Cola and scrub the rust stain. The phosphoric acid in the coke is what gets the job done.
12. Cleaning liquid that doubles as bug killer... If menacing bees, wasps, hornets, or yellow jackets get in your home and you can't find the insecticide, try a spray of Formula 409. Insects drop to the ground instantly.
13. Smart splinter remover... just pour a drop of E lmers Glue all over the splinter, let dry, and peel the dried glue off the skin. The splinter sticks to the dried glue.
14. Hunt's tomato paste boil cure... cover the boil with Hunt's tomato paste as a compress The acids from the tomatoes soothe the pain and bring the boil to a head.
15. Balm for broken blisters... To disinfect a broken blister, dab on a few drops of Listerine... a powerful antiseptic.
16. Heinz vinegar to heal bruises... Soak a cotton ball in white vinegar and apply it to the bruise for 1 hour. The vinegar reduces the blueness and speeds up the healing process.
17. Kills fleas instantly. Dawn dish washing liquid does the trick. Add a few drops to your dog's bath and shampoo the animal thoroughly. Rinse well to avoid skin irritations. Goodbye fleas.
18. Rainy day cure for dog odor... Next time your dog comes in from the rain, simply wipe down the animal with Bounce or any dryer sheet, instantly making your dog smell springtime fresh.
19. Eliminate ear mites... All it takes is a few drops of Wesson corn oil in your cat's ear. Massage it in, then clean with a cotton ball. Repeat daily for 3 days. The oil soothes the cat's skin, smothers the mites , and accelerates healing.
20. Vaseline cure for hair balls..... To prevent troublesome hair balls, apply a dollop of Vaseline petroleum jelly to your cat's nose. The cat will lick off the jelly, lubricating any hair in its stomach so it can pass easily through the digestive system.
21. Quaker Oats for fast pain relief.... It's not for breakfast anymore! Mix 2 cups of Quaker Oats and 1 cup of water in a bowl and warm in the microwave for 1 minute, cool slightly, and apply the mixture to your hands for soothing relief from arthritis pain.

have a good day!!

Reality Slap

Todays Entry is Here.

Thanks for reading
Hugs, Jeannine

4 days!!

Hello and welcome to my 4 day weekend!! WOO HOO!!!

yep....That's right. I needed tomorrow off cuz I just have way to much running around to do with Sarah starting school next week, so I just decided to take 2 more vacation day and make it a long weekend. Just in time too cuz I got an email from someone today confirming that my candles will be shipping out today!!! Sweet deal if you ask me. I love having time to play with. I have to be careful though cuz I don't think I have much time left and I want to be able to take some time off January.

work was cool. I was alone the entire day and it was pretty busy. The customers were pretty steady in layaway which is unusual for daytime. Its usually slow until about 3pm. Not today. I was running.

can I tell you about my anal daughter. Oh. My. God. I have never met a 17 yr old so anal in all my life. She's one of those types of kids who like the weirdest things. Tonight for example...Were doing laundry. I separated, she washed. So I'm sitting there watching her do her thing, cuz I don't
"do it right" (which I don't on purpose...heh) and she was standing there with the cover open watching the water fill up in the machine. To rewind a bit I have to say just one thing....I was sitting there watching this all the while thinking how wonderful it is not to have to feed the machines with quarters and appreciating my new home even more because of this fact when it dawned on me that she was doing this. So I asked her what she was doing. "I like to watch it fill" she says. Ok...I did that too sometimes but then!!....She's getting upset (not like freaking out or anything, just more of a frustrated type thing) cuz the clothes on the top are not getting wet. Actually said....."I need a stick" then with her hand pushed the clothes down like these pieces of clothing would never get wet in the wash.

so weird.

She's also anal when it comes to doing something once it gets in her head. It has to be done NOW and would drive you crazy until you made it happen. It is truly amazing.

tomorrow we get her registered for school and shop for school supplies AND get her plane ticket back home for her reunion. Normally she would not be excited about this...She hates going home...But she gets to bring her dog back so She's really excited. I've decided to keep Sophie (my white cat) and Claire is going back to her original owner and unfortunately Ruben and ebony went to a shelter. So my pet dilemma is solved.

another entry in The Feedbag if your interested.

I'm thinking there is more to talk about but right now my brain is tired so I guess ill end this here. Looking forward to resting and relaxing and enjoying this wonderfully cool weather were having here. It was actually really cold here tonight. I think its down to the low 50's right now.

so lovely........Yes indeed

Later this day......

Ok so not a whole hell of a lot of interesting things went on today. Work was cool. Business is picking up a bit with back to school stuff going on so its been a little busier. I have to say that we had more BTS layaway's last year and I'm thinking that this year it doesn't look like its going to be as busy. I also realized that with this new store (supercenter) opening up in October, our store won't be as crazy this Christmas as we are every year which 1. I look forward too, but 2. Worries me. I know with the new store opening that will take some of our business, it will be interesting to see just how much.

after work Sarah and I went for dinner at this nice little place in our local area. I have the Entertainment book which is a sweet deal (if you use it) and so we had little dinner (buy one get one free entree). She had this huge Italian beef sandwich with all the fixings and I had this huge steak potato with all the fixings which was awesome!! It was a nice little treat before she had to go to work.

I cam home and took a nap for about 2 hours which in my mind is acceptable nap time. I'm hoping to get to bed at a decent hour (midnight) and catch up on a good night sleep. So other than that......

hope you had a great day.

"Take charge of chaos and feel the rewards"

2am
went to bed.

5:23 am
woke up....Had to pee and decided...My alarm will be going off in 10 min I might as well just get up...So I did.

5:50 am
dressed and ready to start my day.

now usually I'm ready by 6 and by that time the roomie is done and I go up and make my breakfast. Since I have some time this morning (roomie is still doing her thing) I decided I would enlighten ya'll will an early morning entry. Pretty cool huh.

I thought fa-sho I would be really tired this morning but I guess with all that sleep yesterday I got the required amount of sleep I needed.

fa-shizzel

so now I'm dressed in these tight ass jeans waiting for the roomie to finish up and then I can go and make me some yummy coffee and perhaps a breakfast sandwich and be on my way. I bought me some vanilla/chocolate/almond coffee the other day and it is yummy. Still lovin the one cup. mmmmmm

ok well seeing as its Monday I'm sure I'll have a lot to talk about later so until then....

have a wonderful day
hugs, jeannine

Good Times

I want to live in a state where it is 75 degrees every day. Last Thursday was the most perfect day. I loved it!! Sun was out, shade was cool, breezy, perfection in my book. Ideal weather conditions for me. So if you know of this place...let me know

well this weekend wasn't all that productive. I'm really mad at myself today cuz I did nothing but sleep and there is plenty to do, but yet I slept the day away. I think I need to see a doctor. This is just not normal. However, that and reading Says journal gave me an idea to have my own "fitness" journal of sorts. I'm not sure its going to be about fitness, more of the trying to lose weight, instead of complaining here.....Ill do it there type of journal. Its called The Feedbag. It will be linked over there to your right so if you ever want to check it out....Its there. Don't know if ill be posting every day on it...But on those particular "fat days" I'm sure there will be plenty of blog-buzzing. Ill have a notify too, so be sure and sign up for it.

so again today I slept all day. Got up around 10, had breakfast, hung out with the roomie for a little while, went back downstairs, checked my email, Sarah woke up and I was going to get dressed but instead lay'ed down and didn't wake up till Sarah called me at 4 (from the upstairs phone) asking me if I wanted dinner. After dinner she went to work and here I sit. This is just not normal. The sad part about all this is that I can go back to sleep if I wanted too. I'm actually forcing myself to stay up. After this I'm going to do some laundry and move some things around. I really don't understand this pattern. I think I'm going to look it up on the net and see if I can find something. I just hope I'm not diabetic. I've heard that this is one of the symptoms. Any ideas?? Leave me a comment....

well that's about it for today. I want to get off my ass and do something before I end up sitting here all night and nothing gets done. I hope you all had a great weekend

I know what Victoria's Secret is. The secret is that nobody over thirty can fit into their stuff.

So I still haven't found a home yet for the cats and now I have to shelter them. 2 of them actually. Claire is going back to its original owner and I'm going to keep Sofia. Ruben and ebony are the two that are going. Since those are Sarah's cats and she's getting her dog back, she doesn't have a problem with it. She would much rather have her dog and I'm happy to keep Sofia. This has been the hardest thing to do. Its no wonder there are so many cats on the road. Every shelter I called is full or not taking animals from the public, blah blah blah. I understand that and I'm not being irrational, but jeeze. These are two good, healthy cats that just need a home. I hate this. So now I continue making calls and hopefully ill find something.

I've been sleeping an awful lot lately. Seems that whenever I'm home and I lay down for a nap its like 4 to 5 hours long and then I'm up for about 2 hours and I'm back in bed again. I can sleep a whole day away and not think anything of it and still get a full nights sleep. Maybe I need to take vitamins. Or lose weight. Get off my ass and do something. I'm just not in the mood to do anything and its really pissing me off. But do I do anything about it......NOOOOOO. Sorry I'm just feeling sorry for myself right now. You might as well go onto the next journal. I'm just ranting here.

I'm just fed up with life. Tired of always playing catch-up. This move was a good one, but its like one thing after another. In my head the plan worked out so well....Being able to get the bills paid, catch up on finances, save some money...But every freaking week something comes up and I'm broke again. I have to say that this time is better cuz at least I run out 3 or 4 days before payday instead 2 to 3 days after payday...So I have to say that that part is much better, but still........When is it going to all be ok again?? Is so frustrating.

well I'm going to shower and hopefully wake up cuz I'm about 2 seconds from saying....."I'm taking a nap" and then nothing will get done today. Maybe a long hot shower will wake me up and maybe I just need to get out and drive for a little while and think.........

one of my fish died yesterday too. :o(

"Why be happy tomorrow when you could be happy today?"

I had to force myself to sit here and write an entry today. There is just nothing going on. Nothing. nada. Zilch. Zip. Zero.

N-O-T-H-I-N-G!!

lets see.....Yesterday I wasn't in the mood to be at work cuz I was still mad from Friday so I "had a headache" and went home at 1. Came home and took a "nap". Woke up at 8...Ugh....Sarah was tired too and also slept. I think we stay up to late and to watch TV. I'll never learn.

after that............................Watched TV...I think....Can't remember.....Yes...Watched "Growing Up Gotti". That was pretty entertaining. Then I got sucked into all those damn TLC shows....They kill me every time.

today work was better and stayed all day. They are making me purge my layaway bins (where we keep all the packages customers put on layaway) from 16 bins down to 10. This my friends is no easy project. Were talking about putting 6 bins of packages into 10 that are already filled to capacity. His (store manager) reasoning is, he wants to be ready for the back to school rush. HELLO!!! We are already THERE!!!! What the hell does he think all those packages are??? Moron. I just think he's pissed cuz the store is looking really bad and layaway is the only dept that is pretty much OK and he's just looking for shit. Bastard. So that was my day today.

I bought more bead stuff and I was talking to some people there and are looking forward to seeing what I come up with. Already have some people interested in buying. So that's pretty cool. I haven't made anything yet. Still working on that loom project but the beads they give you are for shit so I got new ones.

I don't know if anyone watches BET but tonight they did a rerun of the BET Awards and that woman who plays Nikki Parker on that show "The Parkers" who is hysterically funny....Was the host. OMG...She started off the show with a dance routine with her (big girl) and 6 other big girls dancing to Beyonces "Crazy In Love" song. OMG...IT WAS SOOOOO AWESOME!!!! She has this thing about "skinny bitches" (as she calls them) and she tore the stage UP!!! Made this big girl proud :o) it wasn't your typical skinny girl video. It was great.

Came home, had pizza for dinner, and then I gave Sarah a perm (relaxer) to loosen the curls in her hair. She didn't want it straight. I don't think it took to well. She bought a kid perm...I laughed at her. It wasn't strong enough for her head of hair. She got some hair people. But she's getting her yearbook picture taken tomorrow so she wanted to try something different with her hair. She's a senior. How fast they grow. Tear.

ok that's about it...Gone split. Have a good one. Hugs!!