Yumm!

Look at what I picked yesterday morning!! (that ruler is a 15 inch one!)

AND..... after I left to work, Cruizer decided to pull a brand new bag of flour off the counter..... and then try lick it up....my husband cleaned most of it. He said it was all over... I guess when I clean  the floors next, I gotta pay extra attention to this spot... (that's a rag on the floor)

 Here is the puppy.
"what? I didn't do it! you shouda seen those other people that came in after you left..."

Anyways, that's how my life has been around here. CRAZY!

at work, it's another story. I'm still trying to train the brand new servers we just started, (almost every one of my old servers started school...) and because Boss is on vacation, I had to put the order in for food,

and I had the worse difficulty trying to convince our linen company that "yes, I do need linen NOW!!!!"  I called them 3 times over 2 days and they gave me the runaround... and so I called the Boss and then I got linen. I guess when the boss says she'll be NASTY to them, she is. the delivery guy says to her " I never got your messages!" even though she left the 4th message with the answering service people and never mind that I talked directly with the delivery guy on Sunday... boss told me he lied. I love it when my boss sticks up for me!

SO. My day yesterday was horrible. all the time I wasted training the new people the last 2 weeks how we change out our linen after every meal no matter what if it was sat at, Throw  it out the window. the new motto the last 2 days was if it's not that dirty and the food didn't go through to the other side, turn it over and re-use it. P.   U.  

Then they delivered a nasty rusty orange colored table cloth. -said they were out of our color. REALLY???  So we had a tie-dye dining room when we reset last night. I hope our regular delivery guy is back from his vacation today for delivery! my eyes are hurting from that color! But I was happy to not have to use the same tablecloths a third time in a row!


SO..... now I get to try see if my ear can be looked at. I think I've had an ear infection for about a month now... AND.. I get to pack. we are going to Flagstaff for our 7th anniversary Friday!!!.... AND.... No dog this time! My sister will be puppy sitting him!!!

SO now I get to clean my house, work every day, clean the office, do laundry, see a doctor, pack, write out and pack a menu, write up a paper with how we care for OUR dog (he's not like anyone Else's I promise! I've seen many and grew up with dogs), all by Thursday. We leave Friday. Will I get it done?

• 3 days.
• 21.5 more hours of work each day
• about 2-3 hours to clean the office
• 3 hours drive time to and from work those 3 days
• = 26.5 -27.5 hours away from home time over the next 3 days
• 72 hours total for the 3 days
• -27.5 work
• =44.5
• -16 hours I will sleep within those 72 hours
• =28.5
• -3hours time to eat
• =25.5
• -3 I've already wasted this morning
• =22.5 left for living and I haven't eaten breakfast yet.
• can I do it?
• I BETTER GET STARTED!!!

I think I can do it. It seems like so much time left, but I seriously don't know where it goes. wake up, let the dog out, feed the dog, eat, read a book or sit around or sit at computer, do dishes or other simple chore, make something if I feel like it- yesterday banana bread, today, cookie dough, Wednesday is grocery shopping morning. After morning stuff is done, feed the dog, eat something myself, get ready for work, leave at 10:30AM, home by 7:30-8PM feed the dog if my husband hasn't, sit down, eat supper if I didn't at work, relax with my husband, or computer time, go to bed hopefully by 10PM.

Day starts again with whimpers from the dog at 6AM to let him out...  It's an endless cycle. not much gets done. It feels like today my eyes aren't awake yet...

But I gotta get started. I still have to eat breakfast I've only eaten a spoonful of cookie dough so far! and I should at least sweep or something huh? and I gotta get my ear checked out! and goodness! It's already almost 9AM! guess that will have to wait till tomorrow! right after shopping or something. I gotta leave in an hour and a half!

Have a great day! I just might write something here if I get a chance to before we leave on our weekend!
Trisha

Holy Cucumber!

Guess what I picked this morning?

I couldn't decide which picture, so you get 2

THIS THING IS HUGE!!!!

My stove looks so small now!

My baby pineapple plants are still living!

And my garden groweth still.

I had a purple potato for breakfast and ramen noodles. very healthy huh?

We had a guy come give a quote on painting the outside of our house this morning. ouch! at least this guy is cheaper than the others and he seems to know what hes talking about. He has a beautiful website and told us we could print off a 10% off coupon there.

Tonight we go to Benihana for my sister's birthday.

See ya later!
Trisha

Update:

I finally decided to upload some videos I had in my camera for a while.

I did upload a video I made this morning 1st though, so now they're out of order, but I don't care. They're uploaded.
Here's my channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/203948tag if you want to see the other videos.
There's even a video of Cruizer making a fool of himself with socks on!

Here's my garden this morning:

Check out that armenian cucumber! It kinda grew over the weekend while we were on vacation!

wowza!

My house is still clean, and I'm still proud of me for coming up with the wonderful idea to clean it before we left!

So, hope you have a good day! I'll write more tomorrow!
Trisha

Vacation!!!!

First to start out, we took the tree down about a week ago.

 with the help of this and drill bits, a drywall saw, and pick and shovel. (and the truck to pull it over)

Here's how our vacation started out:

We got stuck for 1 hour 20 minutes on the freeway because someone decided to drive off the road down a cliff and kill themselves. So the long wait was for the police to measure everything and take pictures, a helicopter to come out and leave right away, and wait for a coroner to come out and say "Yup! they're dead..." and than we could go.
Couldn't quite figure out how they would decide to go from the inside lane to the outside lane and straight off a cliff, almost perpendicular to the road, barely missing the guardrail by about 2 feet.....  I'd have rather just hit the guardrail... But I guess people are entitled to their own decisions.


While we were stopped, I had to entertain the dog. He went potty 3 times in front of everyone stopped, took me on a tour of the median between the freeway lanes, scared a tiny little spoiled chihuahua  doing the same thing, (the poor tiny dog poofed up a tiny little ridge along it's spine, and growled with it's tail between it's legs) poor thing.

Anyways, while we were investigating the median, I happened to feel my foot sink into the ground into a tarantula lair (mind you I was wearing my cute flip flops) and I was very frightened to see a tarantula lunge out towards my bare foot! My reaction caused another stranded motorist to come investigate and he took pictures of the tarantula: (I did too- after all, I found it)

PEEEEUUUUUU!!!!!

Oh I was shaking for a while!
P.U.!

After we started going again, It started raining.
After we reached the cabin, we had maybe a 20 minute wait cause we grabbed the wrong set of keys and had to wait for the rest of the group to show up. It got dark not long after.

But when we finally got out the next morning, oh the beautiful sights!!!! So many pretty flowers!  I especially love these dark red ones!

are these elderberries?

 ooooh! so pretty! these were a dark orange variety of the dark red ones.

My mother-in-laws pretty lilies

 beautiful stream ( I don't know who or what put that flower there -it was there when we walked up.)

We went on a tour of downtown Flagstaff, did some shopping at crowded Target, ( I think Saturday is THE DAY to go shopping there in Flagstaff) But I LOVE Target! We bought out their selection of candy and ice cream.

And guess what supper was? Spaghetti the first night, second night, Quesadillas! MMMMMMMMM!

Here's the monster taking a walk by the stream this morning! So fun! It's so pretty down there, and with the monster dog crashing through, you don't get much time to smell the flowers, but.... hee hee I video-ed him!!!!

AND..... on the way home, I ate the chocolate off of the rest of my 3 musketeers mini candy bars and then ate all the fillings last!!!! MMMMMMMMMMM! yep, I stuck them sticky and all on my purse. (HEY! my purse is washable, the car not so easily.)

So, that was my vacation. And now I'm home in my wonderfully clean house- I scrubbed it before I left.
I had a wonderful time, and hope you had a good weekend as well.
Trisha.

Hee Hee

In the midst of eating an apple she found on the ground under an apple tree:
"What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? a half a worm!"- Nancy Today

She is so funny!

She has a YouTube channel.

Guess where I'm going!!!! Flagstaff!!!!!! VACATION!!!!

4 day weekened!!!!
YAY!!!!! I'll see you later!
Have fun cause I will!
Trisha

Well here I be

I be still here.

I walked into work on Sunday and said "here I be" and they all laughed and looked shocked and had to take second glances to reassure themselves, that, "YUP! There she was!" and I was there even though I wasn't supposed to be- at least on the schedule. But I make the schedule, and I fixed it right up. I work Sunday, off Monday, work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, have Friday, Saturday, Sunday OFF!!!!!

Yay!!! 3 day weekend!!! Then next weekend, I get 4 days off!!! Yay!!! I get 2 weekends in a row!!! and when I asked my boss if I could have the next 2 Sundays off if it would be fair to my assistant, (since I haven't had the last 3 off,) she said, "you're the supervisor, You tell her you get the next 2 weekends off" So I shall.

Being boss and making the schedules sure has it's perks sometimes huh???

And it is late, so goodnight! :-)
Trisha.

WHY???

I have been working 12 days in a row. I'll admit 1 of them was off. I am so tired and waiting to have a day off. It was planned I would get Sunday-Tuesday off. I requested PTO for Tuesday so no one's touching my Tuesday!!!

I sent my assistant on a week and a half break from work, and then I got a call last night after
9PM (their last day of vacation) that they just left the ER and they have a sprained ankle. So guess where that leaves me? Another day of work. 13 days. I am waiting impatiently to go. Then I'll be done sooner, but the time is crawling by. 2 days of break unless we can figure out another day I can have off.

Why??? Why me??? I was so excited to get 3 days off in a row and now I won't. I'm going to try convince my boss that I can have Wednesday off. Then I get 3 off in a row.

I'll be finding another server to cover their Monday if their ankle's still not better... I'm hoping it will be cause I'm done working. I'm tired. I'm not mad at them cause I know they wouldn't do it on purpose they're not that type of person, and I'm sure they feel miserable. But what luck on my part huh???

Not much new around here but work and horrible house responsibility duties. my house is falling apart around me and I can't keep up! It's hard to have to work full time and care for an entire house by yourself at the same time. Especially when you're not sleeping well! I feel like moving into a smaller house so I can keep up on it. Less to clean is still my motto.

So, you might get something more interesting to read after I resurface!
Hope you get sleep and fun! Have a good day!!!
Trisha.