Tired

This should be my to do list.. lol.. I am so tired.. get this mess, I have to work tonight on my only day off in awhile. Go back to Nov 7 and go through Nov 24 and that's 18 days right? Wanna here something crazy? I have worked 17 of them 18 days... Ahhhhaaahhhhaaaahhhh!! I am getting so flipping tired of working. I don't mind working but a day off would be nice. I am not crazy about my schedule this weekend. Saturday 9 to 5, which is nice since I haven't had a Saturday evening off in since I don't know when. Sunday I work 3:30 to 8:30.. I guess that's not so bad. I will get around 35 hours maybe more for this week. They are going to have to bump me up to full time if they keep this up. I went from having 12 hours a week to getting more hours then I know what to do with, LOL!! Ok, enough blabbing. I have got to get started on cleaning this house. It's a flipping mess, I have let it go since I have been so tired. Today was my day to get caught up but I guess I will just do what I can. Have a great day everyone! **Hugs**

Can't sleep, so I will blog

Tonight was just awful at work.. I actually *hid* in the bathroom a few times to escape. I was walking around the store like a blubbering idiot. I had no clue what to do and had no one to ask because they were all off doing their normal jobs.

OK, so lets back track a little bit. My job is now stocking the shelves with things like toothpaste, mouthwash, shampoo, Maxi pads, tampons, even condoms and everything else in between. I even have to stock the pharmacy stuff like all the million different kinds of aspirin to hemorrhoid medicine.

This is a great job for me because when I start a job I like to finish it without being bothered. Sometimes in the Deli if we got behind and a customer came to my counter I actually got mad I had to stop my work to wait on them... so when I got offered to be able to work alone and not have anyone bother me I took it. Now I do get a few people stopping to ask me where this and that is but that I can handle.. it doesn't take but moment to say That's in isle 8. Most times I walk them to the product (company policy) but it takes all of a second to walk back to where I was and start back again.

I have never really been trained on what to do. My first day they gave me a cart of stock and had me put it up. Which wasn't that hard to find where the toothpaste went...

OK fast forward to last night. My last night in the deli, so I was closing. We had a truck come in and BOY was it a truck. Their was A LOT of stuff to be put up. I was figuring I'd have a TON to do tonight. Boy was I wrong. I got their this afternoon and everything was already out on the shelves. I didn't really need to come in. I go find the store manager and he said get with Kirby so I found this Kirby fellow whom I had never met before and he said their is a cart of stuff in the back hall get started on that. Cool.. So I did.. within 40 minutes I was done putting all that on the floor... OK so now what... go find Kirby to find out.. I walk from end to end of that store looking for this man. I finally find him... he said to go get a feather duster and DUST the shelves and straighten the items on the shelves up. So I did... I then get called to the front (first time ever hearing my name go through the pa system.. *Nicole, please come to the front office please* So I go up their and guess what, I had to help the cashiers bag.. didn't know I had to do that... yep, when they get behind and need help here comes Nicole to the rescue. So I help out for about 20 minutes or so to get them caught up. I go back to dusting and fixing up my shelves. I do this for 2 hours and then I am like what in the hell am I doing? I go to the bathroom and force myself not to cry and mess up my beautiful make up job. I calm myself down and go back out their and walk around the flipping store some more looking for Kirby so I can do something else.. them shelves were damn straight. I find him talking to the store manager Ken so I hang back a little bit looking like a stalker but I didn't want to bother them or interrupt their conversation... So finally Kirby sees me and we go to the back hallway and he says put his candy up on the shelves and then you can leave. So I go.. it's all back stock and already on the shelves so I can't add anymore. I put my stuff up and I hall ass out of their at 8:30...

I was like my god what a waste of 4 hours... I could have been home with my kids whom I haven't been able to spend NO time with. I mean I am home with Kylie all day but not Bryan and Trinity. I don't get to see them much anymore. I wish I could be home but i know we really can't afford it. I keep telling myself it's all for them in the long run but gosh I miss them! Crap.. now I am trying not to cry again! Ugh...

I can't even remember if I work tomorrow. I will call around lunch time to find out. I am keeping Bry and Trin home from school. They have a dentist appointment to get some cavities filled so instead of sending them to school for just a few hours I am just letting them stay home with me. They enjoyed that idea!!

I guess I will go now and try to do something to get sleepy. I am tired but when I lay in the bed my mind will not shut up and let me sleep. So I am going to probably do some quite cleaning and make myself get so sleepy that I pass out as soon as I hit the pillow.. hey now would be a good time to have some of them sleeping pills I stock, lmao!

Nite and thanks for reading this!
~Nic~

Hello

Sorry I haven't been around much to post, I have been working SO much! I have had 1 day off in nearly 2 weeks and working close to 40 hours a week. I just have no time for the computer anymore. My life is working and my family. I will post and update as often as I can!

Have a great day!

~Nicole~

It's Election Day!

I hope you all went out and voted today! It's a great thing to be able to vote for who we want to be our next leader of this great country!

I got the kids up and out the door and 20 minutes later James, Kylie and I were at the polls. I figured it to be better to go early then to go this evening and have to drag all 3 kids with us. Our polling place is just a mile down the road so it takes us no time to get their. We were in and out in 45 minutes. Which wasn't so bad.. Came home and it's now almost 2:00 and I haven't done a darn thing today excpet sleep and watch cartoons.. lol... I guess I better get started on doing something huh?

Have a great day everyone!!

Hello..

Hello friends! Sorry it's been awhile since I wrote. It's been crazy busy around here. Right now my house is a total mess and I should be cleaning but what am I doing.. nothing.. already took my morning nap with Kylie.. I am so lazy! LOL!!

I do have lots to share -- let's start back on Friday and work our way foward shall we? heehee!!

Friday of course was Halloween and Kylie's 5th birthday! I drove all over town trying to find this kid a costume to wear. Last year at Target we got Bryan and Trinity their costume when it was 75% off. It's been hanging in my mom's closet until this year. I couldn't find anything that didn't cost a arm and a leg. Some where $20-$40 and they were THIN and of course it was going to be cold so why would I put them in something that looked like it should be worn in the summer time and pay that much money, I don't think so! I finally found my way to target at 5:00 and found her a pretty witch costume and paid $13.. We finally get home after 6, NO SUPPER yet and James was like you didn't plan this out to well did you? We finally make our way to the park where they had games and of course candy.... around 8 we were all freezing and starving. I wanted to stay and see the fireworks they put off every year, but it wasn't going to happen for another 30 minutes or so and we didn't want to sit out the cold any longer so we left and went to O'Charlies for supper. Since half of our town was watching the fireworks we got right in without waiting. We had a yummy supper and even had them sing *Happy Birthday* to Kylie. It was nice! Came home and got the kids ready for bed and we crashed soon after that too.

Saturday ~ I wake up at 7 and at 8:00 I was out the door to walmart to do my big grocery shopping for the next 2 weeks. It's nice going at that time of the day, not a lot of people where in their.. but one thing bugged me -- THEY WERE PLAYING CHRISTMAS MUSIC!! Ok, I have NOTHING aganist christmas but please play the music after thanksgiving when it feels more like the christmas season.. So, I left and got home around 10:00.. yeah, took me 2 hours to shop.. Got home unloaded the groceries and got the kids dressed and off to Bryan's football banquet we went. We got their a little after 11:30.. It was nice and all the boys got their trophys and so did the coaches. Bryan's coach Reggie told us that next year he is moving up to coach the Mites which is where Bryan is moving up to as well.. SO we will get coach Reggie again and James will be coaching with him. We left around 1 and once we got home I started cleaning up and then went down into the basement and helped James clean up some stuff. I left and went to work from 4 until 10:30. Came home and just chilled with James.

Sunday was extremly lazy day for me and I took full advantage of getting that extra hour of sleep! LOL!! I didn't even get out of bed until 3 when I had to start getting ready for work. Went in at 4 and did it all over again, LOL! When I clocked out the store manager asked to speak with me and asked me if I'd be willing to work in another department of the store. I said sure. It would be more hours and I'd even get a small raise *Hey at this point every little bit helps* He told me to talk it over with James and get back with him. So once I got home James and I talked about it and then went to bed.. It took me awhile to fall asleep since I had so much on my mind.

Monday was a normal day with laundry, kids, cleaning and phone calling. Nothing too exciting to write about except I called the store manager and told him I'd take the job. So he said That's wonderful, let him and the other store managers get together and talk and they would get back in touch with me.

Ok, I'll think I'll post another post here soon about today.. lol.. Thanks for reading and sorry this got so long!

Good Thursday Morning!

I hope everyone is having a great day! Mine is just getting started... once again it's 6:45 and the kids will be getting on the bus in the next 5-10 minutes. Then I will start my daily cleaning.. blah... i am out of detergent so I can't wash clothes which SUCKS because I have a TON.. it doesn't take 5 people long to rack up a ton of dirty clothes. THANK GOD tonight is payday because we are out of food completely!

My meeting at work was good... It was an hour and a half long!! Hey ~ I got paid for it so they could talk for as long as they wanted to! A lot of new changes plus we added new items for the holidays. It's going to be crazy but I actually think I am looking forward to it. The more people spend in our department the more hours I can get, so buy that $12 a pound lunch meat please! LMAO!!

Well, I am going to hop off here.. James is up and will be requesting the laptop soon so he can go to work. I'll be glad when tax time gets here and we get me a new laptop!! Have a wonderful day everyone!!

Good Wednesday Morning!

Hello everyone! I hope everyone is well on this Wednesday morning! I am doing great! I just got Bryan and Trinity onto the school bus. Kylie, the pups and I are on the sofa watching Fairly OddParents. I will be cleaning the house up today and then later my mom is coming over to watch the girls for me because I have a manatory meeting at work tonight.. yay... not really, LOL!! I am not sure what it is about exactly but I know we are going ot be talking about the upcoming holiday season. I am not looking foward to working during the holiday season, lol.. People can be SO MEAN during this time of the year. But hey, at least I have a job so I should be thankful for that!

Bryan has a football game tonight. Last Thursday was his last game for the season but this week is the tournament. I really don't like the idea of him playing tonight because it's sooooooooooo cold outside. As mean as this sounds I hope they loose tonight.. it's just getting too cold in the evenings to have these little dudes outside. Winter is coming fast for North Carolina.

Well, I think that is all to write about for now. I hope everyone has a wonderful day!!