Efficient Me

Today I feel effecient and full of energy. I know that it's because I've started eating fruit and veggies lately. I went to Pro's on Wednesday and stocked up. For some reason I stopped eating fresh fruit and veggies.

The weather is beautiful! I have my doors and windows open!

I have scrubbed my bathroom till it shined and cleaned my kitchen and did the dishes. Then I pulled the last few weeds out of the front my husband missed,- we had a ton out there- he must have spent a lot of time out there pulling! and cut my cactus so it doesn't branch out in mid air like the vandilizer set it up to do. I then watered my front plants. I am very proud of myself cause I havn't done that much all at once to my house since I got my new position!

Clean shiny bathroom sink!

Clean shiny kitchen with the big dishes handwashed and drying!

My fresh cut cactus trimmed. It was so hard for me to trim it. But I knew it had to be done.

 Look what I found! a new bud! It's near the very bottom so I'll have a 2 pronged cactus again for a while, but I know next year it will have a new 3rd branch- if it survives this brutal trimming I gave it! I'm so excited and have new hope for this cactus!

 Here are the trimmings. I'm debating if It's worth it to try grow them in case my cactus dies, or if they will just branch out ugly. I think I'll give them a week to dry out and plant them in pots just in case and then from these new ones, I'll make a cutting from a new branch to start a new nice plant just how I want it. Will take many years though!

look! My elephant food plants are coming back! They froze so bad I thought they died!

I have finally devised a plan I think will work for me -a strange new way of shcedualing that finally clicks with me! a graph! I know I'm strange, but then I've never thought about things the same way most people do! This I understand and don't get confused or overwhelmed looking at!

Anyways, I gotta go cause I have to leave for work in 20 minutes!
Bye!
Trisha

My weird day

Today I got up about 6:45AM or so. That was weird cause lately I've been able to sleep in at least till 7:30 or 8.

7:20AM I got a call from work that someone didn't show up and they were 20 minutes late. so I decided I had to go in early. I took off my pjs and was getting ready to get dressed when they called back that they showed up. So I put my pjs back on and finished loading the dishwasher. That was weird.

My husband got up early. That was weird.

We decided to go out to eat for breakfast, went to the car, and noticed a fire department crises response car and a police car out front. Our neighbor told us the man across the street died in his sleep during the night. He was really sick. I'm happy he is no longer suffering. That was weird.

So we went out to eat. no waiting at the resturant and we got a seat right away. Every time we have driven by there, there's always been a crowd outside waiting to get in. That was weird.

We ate, and came home just in time to see the mortuary loading Mr. Expired into the back of an unmarked white van. Unmarked???? I guess they don't advertise. That was weird. Who took him?

I then recieved 2 phone calls about 1/2 an hour apart from 2 of my employees saying they each were sick and couldn't come in today. one with a "sore throat who couldn't swallow" but sounded instead like they had just woken up. The other very cheerfully said they had stopped somewhere to eat on the way home last night and it's now not agreeing with them- but was also the same person telling me last minute last week they couldn't work Sunday even though they were already schedualed and were hired to work Sundays. 2 in one day?? Now we were short on the floor today. That was weird. (I think they both were lying).

I went to work 10:30 and I struggled and ran around and sweated and stressed to do all the work the morning people decided not to do and ended up still plating up pies up until the very minute I was to be out in the dining room taking orders. Why didn't the servers have it done? they know what to do! That was weird.

We were short for lunch with me also having to take a section with no foodrunner. We were also very short for dinner.But I had absolutely no trouble getting the other employees to stay and help out for the dinner shift so I could still leave 5:30 to go to a reception for my brother in law and new sister in law who eloped.
I got out on time and everyone was OK when I left and in happy moods. THAT WAS REALLY WEIRD.

I went to the reception and had fun. I got to laugh at my cute little nephew eating (he eats so cute!) and see family and welcome my new sister in law to the family and congratulate my brother in law.

I had a small headache from all the stress caused by work, but it went away at the reception, so I think it was stress related. That was weird it went away and didn't get worse as usual! :-)

My day ended up being good after all. JUST EXTREMELY WEIRD. I hope I never have a day this weird again as long as I live! Everything somehow all worked out in the end! Just made me stress out about it in the process though!

Anyways, Goodnight!
Trisha

Yuck

warning: Graphic Details- read at your own risk.

I hate migraines!

If you've never had one, your way to lucky and don't even know how lucky you are!

Yesterday my little nephew turned 1- his golden birthday! He was adorable! I got him some goofy toys! I enjoyed his birthday and had fun celebrating with him! He seemed to enjoy every second of it!

all day yesterday I also had a headache. I could hardly eat anything for supper, and felt so horribly bad I couldn't celebrate his birthday with cake or anything, cause I felt nausious at the thought and the smell of it all. but I knew it would taste good. And it looked good too. But I couldn't eat.

After I got home, even the crisp clean sheets on my bed did little to make me feel better! I woke up at 2:30AM feeling a horrible sharp pain in my head. Not being able to fall back asleep, I got up, drank a little water, went to the bathroom, let the dog out, and tried to sleep again.
If anyone has had a migraine you know how this is. I had to get up fast with an urge to puke and did so in the toilet. Feeling so horrible all day I then realized why I felt so queasy! My body wouldn't digest anything cause it was under to much stress with pain and I actually threw up my lunch on further exploration. So the thought comes to my head that why didn't it make me throw up earlier? I ate lunch at 2:00 PM -12 1/2 hours later I threw it up. weird. Migraines mess with your body!

I felt so gross and queasy after so I drank some water brushed my teeth and tried to go back to sleep. less than a minute later, I had to run to the toilet and up came the water and the rest of lunch and all I'd eaten!

I lay there moaning cause my head only hurt worse and told my husband "III--II-I     W-W-W-ant TYLONAL!" and he goes we don't have tylonal? I said nope and he said why didn't you say so earlier?
He said he had some in his truck so I took some, and had to fight the urge not to throw up again so the tylonal could work and everytime I lay down I had the urge so I had to make myself sit up- ever try sit up when your body feels so bad and you start falling asleep in 2 seconds but the pounding won't let you? and you feel so queasy and gross and keep falling over? surprisingly, the tylonal started to work! usually it doesn't. It knocked me out! probably with shock it worked! I didn't get up till 8:40AM I still feel a little bit of headache, but it's not bad at all just a nuisance!

So that's how my day started!

If you've never had a migraine, count yourself one of the luckiest people on the planet.
I've come to realize I don't think I've ever had a true headache! They never feel any different, but the levels of pain are different with each one- they all feel like a migraine! I can't believe I got so lucky! Migraines only for me!

Enough! I have only 2 hours before I have to go to work again and I am hoping it will go away.
and I'm exhausted already!

That's how my day is so far
Hope yours started better!
Trisha

Bored

There aren't usually times like this that happen anymore. I have work at 11:00 and a little while yet and 1 million things I could be doing like pulling up weeds, planning my garden, cleaning my house, giving the dog a bath, doing dishes...  So many things, and I feel bored cause I don't have plans to do anything! So what can I do?

I'M BORED!

1 by 1 all the roofs in my neighborhood are getting reshingled. So everyday there are the sounds of hammers, and shovels and every once in a while mexican music from various parts of the neighborhood. I'll be glad when they're all done including mine.

The other house is almost finished! It only needs the very bottom of the outside walls painted, and the bathroom and laundry room cleaned. It also needs some yardwork. Then I'll remop the floors and maybe wax them so they look better and then hopefully it will sell. We're trying to get it on the market this week.

This is exciting news to me cause soon my house can be worked on and maybe the bathroom in my bedroom will finally be usable! only the toilet works in there right now.

TO DO CHECKLIST for my house:
*Bathroom- install sink and shower/sink fixtures and shower doors
*Laundry room- add shelving for pantry/ laundry stuff
*Paint house inside and out
*Shingles
*drywall in the bathroom, closet and laundry
*sprinkler system
*rocks
*landscaping
*Organize garage
*Garage sale with 50% of our stuff

SEE? ALMOST DONE! It'll only take another 2 years probably the rate we're going!

Well, gotta go get things ready for work! gotta leave in 1/2 hour!
Later! Trisha

MMMMMM

In the midst of me always trying to eat better, I just ate 4 doughnuts. 4 of them -2 chocolate with sprinkles, one with carmel, and one plain. and I enjoyed them and even licked my fingers.

Does that make me unhealthy?

I just spent an entire day doing nothing. I sat on the computer for a while figuring out a 7 day vacation for 2 that would cost $1,015.40 including 4 day hopper passes to all the Disney world parks , airline tickets and a hotel, and my husband said no I can't book it. It's all the way in Florida where he had a brochure in his truck about a month ago for about $2000 from a travel agency. I think I found a great deal. I was so excited and proud of my find too! :-( So now what? will I ever get a vacation?

We went all the way down to the town of Maricopa yesterday to see family and I was immediately saddened that anyone would want to live there cause you drive through dirt and dead brown bushes and stumps after leaving the city till you get there. Then the small houses are about 2 inches apart, and there's a few stores there. Then when we were leaving, I couldn't help but make a face and gag at the horrible smell of old wet horse manure and pee that just hung in the air coating your lungs till you felt sick.
I felt like telling all that live there that the true city doesn't smell like that. I couldn't even see where the horses were cause it wasn't even farm land there! so where did the smell come from? Mysterious!

I had a ton of fun there though seeing my 2nd cousin and great aunt. Do you know that my cousin looks just like my uncle? I was shocked cause I don't think I've seen that lady in my entire life and there she was looking just like everyone else I grew up with! Weird I tell you! and the pets at that house! They were so cute! well 2 of them anyways. I had to try keep my ankles away from that growling chihuahua! the other dog was the sweetest thing and that cat was precious. We had a wonderful BBQ with coneys and potato salad with 1001 other choices to fill your plate up with and we had a fire to toast peeps over and it was a fun time.

Ever toast a peep? Nice and crunchy on the outside, gooey warm and tender on the inside. a wonderful delicacy!

EAT A PEEP! THERE IN SEASON YOU KNOW! that was from a March magazine a year ago! I saved the article cause it made me laugh so hard I had tears in my eyes!

every year I buy a package of them gross things and just about the same time you are finishing the last one, you feel like puking! but I do it every year, and also every year, I dump the rest of the sugar left in the package the same color as the peeps were from all the dye into my mouth and crunch it all down. then I don't eat another usually till the next year!

It's a good system! the trick is to eat them fast so you can finish them all before your body has time to recognize what you're doing to it and reject them and yell at you stop or I'll puke it up!!!!!! and then you can't eat the last one... but you always feel sick after anyways... so you force yourself to finish it all up! It's fun though!

I love walking in the Easter isles in stores around this time of year only to smell the scented Easter grass. That was my favorite memory growing up.. smelling the grass in my basket! It smelled even better than the candy! I also loved the other treasures in my basket that you couldn't eat cause they lasted longer than the candy and I loved how they brought back Easter memories everytime I used them! We always got a big chocolate rabbit too! I'd always try save mine for last!

EASTER! It's coming!

I just received a phone call from one of the servers from work that I'll have to drive down to unlock the fridge so they can remove the juices from the refridgerated juice dispenser to lock it up for the night. I said just shut off the light on the machine door and leave them in there cause I'm not driving 1/2 hour there to unlock and 1/2 hour back home! Sheesh! common sense would tell you "so what!" It's just juice and the caregivers have a key to the new fridge locks anyways we're finding out!  Makes more work for us cause we have to lock up all the food- remove it from the kitchen and lock it in the pantry or the fridge! All cause the caregivers eat anything they find! can't they just pack their own food?

Cruiser chewed up his squeeky ball, so we had to bring him to Pet'smart about a week ago to buy 2 new ones! He LOVES PETSMART! he starts whining as soon as he sees the building!

Goodnight! Write later!
Trisha

WHY??????

Why is it that when I'm starting to be happy with my house finally this has to happen????

I found out last night that I really do take a second or 2 before going inside after work to admire my cactuses I grew from branches off my old cactuses at my other house. cause the shock at what someone did to my cactus was enough to almost send me to the loony bin. I have babied those cactuses and made myself late to work somedays watering them if they looked dry and always worried about the freeze killing them, and always had plans that if I move I'm going to take a cutting again to grow at my new house.....

This beautiful little cactus always meant a lot to me and now someone rudly slashed it and didn't even leave me the cuttings to try grow in case they killed it! And I look at my little cactus and am sad now cause it was growing so tall and now that the growing ends are hacked off will only branch out as it gets higher. And look ugly.

                                                  3 hacked branches

the thiner one in the middle is the one I started with.It's only grown 3 branches in 3 years.

                                  It's going to take a looooong time to recover.

This is how tall it was -well almost. this is the other little cactus that's closer to the road that I also grew from a cutting the same time. this one is not much to be proud of, but they skipped over it to get to my nice one. my favorite cactus. the pretty one so thats how I know they meant it to cut that one on purpose!

Ruined is all it is. I silently went in, and brought my husband out to show him, and he said what? so I pointed and said I want to move now. and he said no.
why do people have to be so uncaring in this world and so rude and selfish? if they would have asked, I would have trimmed off an arm that's not growing straight like the others are and kept the others to grow taller like I wanted! Am I selfish? But it's my cactus! I was just admiring it the other day noting how much taller and grand it was and how soon it will reach the glory of how big the other cactuses I grew it from a cutting from!

It dissapoints me that they took the cuttings cause now instead of vandelism, they now also stole from me. and I now know they are trying to grow them from the cuttings! and is it mean for me to wish they shrivel up, and mold and don't take?

And I'm also sad I didn't take my camara out to snap a picture or 2 when I admired the growth a few days ago!

This house on Libby is still HOPELESS CAPITALIZED now. Theres nothing else to it.

I really want to move now cause there are selfish rude people here! I can't feel anything is safe now and someone's going to try steal anything of mine anyway they can.



Here are my other cactuses: They most all have some memory to them.

                              This one I grew from a cutting from the cactus at my old house

Also this one from a cutting from another cactus at the old house

 This one was given to me from a lady I babysat for. She didn't like it and wanted geraniums in her pot instead. It has turned into a huge puffball since I got it! She had maybe 10 spiny branches on it when I got it- it wasn't very pretty. I have babied this one as well. I think it froze a bit over winter though.

 This is the smaller of the 2 agave I drove over and dug out of some really dry rocky soil from a lady on Craigslist who wanted a different yard. It has opened up and turned beautiful in the year I've had it. I thought I had lost it not to long after I got it to slugs or shock, but one day it returned to the cactus land of living and beautified itelf! and yes, those brown lumps are my frozen bushes in the background and no, I don't like them much, but in summer they are a pretty green. they were here when we moved in.

 This is the other bigger agave I got with the other one. This one was also all closed up and near death when I got it, but from day one it has only grown and opened up and has only looked more beautiful with time.

                                              these were here when we moved in

here's the top of the saguaro in the last picture. It's so tall, I can't even reach the top by standing on the big garbage can holding a huge tall stick in hand. I tried one year to make saguaro fruit jelly but failed miserably as I couldn't reach the fruit all I tried. this year maybe I'll climp on the roof and stand on the garbage can and hold my big long stick in hand. NO I WON'T, but I really don't know how to get the fruit down! every year without fail, we have a nest of birds in it. It's so cute hearing their quiet cheeps everytime you go out in the yard!


Anyways, these are all my cactus plants planted in my front yard that I'm so proud of! Except my now ruined baby cactus!


I'll write more when I feel like it!
Trisha

Whew!

I am so exhausted lately and went home after work yesterday with a migraine. It then stayed with me all night and is very small this morning. I think today calls for a nap before work if I can squeeze it in.

Work. seems it's always on my mind now.
We had to let that newer trainee go who'd been there for a month now and still couldn't handle serving just 4 people. felt bad, but we couldn't take it anymore and now we can hire up someone else who can help us out.
We also switched lead servers and the old one isn't taking it too well, and is angry with me and Chef so makes work more stressfull. not only by telling me what to do, but also now the new lead server. Problem Child that one is. Hopefully Chef can help me out on that one.

I'm so excited though! Winter services were a wonderful vacation from work even though I had no time at home to clean or do anything! And my wonderful marvelous brother is back for 11 whole days! It's exciting to see him again and I'm hoping he'll be coming to visit at my house soon! He has such big plans for his entire vacation! I'll probably be squeezed into his schedual sometime I'm hoping! I tried to have him come over yesterday morning, and one of my servers had to go home sick right after they got there so I couldn't find anyone else to go in, so now with my new responsibilities I had to go in and cancel my life to work. and short handed they were so I'm glad I was able to help them out. I would have just sat in the middle of the dining room floor and cried if I was in their position! We also have that great new virus at work thats been going around the city- FLU. I'm glad I havn't gotten it yet! I've been exposed twice now. Just makes work more work cause we have to bleach down all the tables and chairs after each meal!

I so badly want to go see my cousins' new babies and I can't cause I keep getting exposed to the flu and would feel so bad if I gave it to one of those babies!

So here at home and at work I stay. counting down the days till my next 4 day weekend! I hope we can wipe the flu out at work so I can visit those babies on my weekend!

Sorry no pictures today, but I felt bad and had to post even though I don't have anything "important" to say. I feel all my words here are garbled messes and can't get over the fact people actually read them! I keep putting off posting though cause what can I tell you about- work? 

well, I'm going to go eat breakfast before my empty stomach eats a hole through my skin and try nap or something! 7:37 and no calls yet of being shorthanded! Sounds like I'm free till my schedualed time! YES!!!

Trisha.
isn't it odd how I posted this at 7:40 and is says I posted it an hour earlier? I seriously wasn't even out of bed at that time! I got up 7:02.