Have No Fear ROBIN is Here!

Well I do have a good excuse(s) for not posting.

1. Shop-a-thon at the Ridge is the hardest time of the year for me. Long days at work and no lunch. Make this sign WAIT remove that sign from the network. Where did you get this info from for this sign is it wrong...OH YEA Right we forgot to tell you we changed that. Good thing I can handle it fairly well, I do have my moments of self doubt. But it is all over and I survived. Now it is time for clearance mode!

2. Comcast! No home access for 3 weeks, 6 appointments with 3 people showing up saying nothing is wrong, 2 people not following directions and calling the home phone (which does not work when the internet does not) and ONE calling saying he is one his way over and NEVER showed up. I can't even begin to express my feelings there, Thank Goodness Bill is handling all that. We have scheduled appointment #7.

3. Part of the issue with my 3 weeks of no internet turned out to be a bad ithernet card in my PC. That is fixed, so I was able to
get in here and post today.

4. Can't post from work. My MAC does not like the blogger.

So thanks make ups! There is a lot so here we go.

Nov. 8 Bill who understand my mood swings, and can make me laff even when I want to cry.
Nov. 9 For my 17 years at Garden Ridge and my co-workers who spoiled me with goodies today
Nov. 10 Eating out!
Nov. 11 Airfresher!
Nov. 12 My mom who called me at work just to say hi!
Nov. 13 my new PJ's LOVE THEM!!!!
Nov. 14 Fresh Kettle Corn --- mmmmm
Nov. 15 For people who are silly and make my laff, J and Patrick who went on and on for nearly an hour about how Yao ming needs to close his resturant and focus on B-Ball and not the wontons. It was very funny. (you had to have been there)
Nov. 16 The food network! I love that channel!
Nov. 17 Tom my boss who understand how crazy product labeling makes me (and him)
Nov. 18 For my WL buddy at work Barb who understand those days when you wnat to eat everything
Nov. 19 That Buddy cat has decided he wants to sleep on my pillow all night again.
Nov. 20 That Shop-A-Thon signs are done and things are looking like it will be smoothing sailing for a few days.
Nov. 21 For a few days off!
Nov. 22 Family and Friends, to day was a great day of blessings
Nov. 23 Black Friday Fun. I didnot get anything out of this world but I did manage to spend $74 at the dollar store (do I have a special talent or what)
Nov. 24 Lynsey my niece, she is just great, although pre-mature, she has asked me to be her Matron of Honor for when The B-O-B finally pops the question.
Nov. 25 Rainy days and Nappy Time!

Are we done with this yet, this is hard!

Wednesday Already

I would like to say I'm Thankful that the week is nearing the end, but I'm loaded with work at the RIDGE and as the week ticks away I feel like I'm further behind! But have no fear! Super Robin has it under control. The plan is tomorrow I will not answer the phone or even read my email (except of store issues, avoiding those will just make more work for me). Before lunch All the daily specials must be completed (I can do it) before I go home at least 2 more pages must be done (I can do it). Let's hope tomorrow I remember to take a potty break for I have to run the 1/8 mile to the nearest restroom. I don't know why I freak out, this happens every year, just like the past 17 years I served at the RIDGE, it has not killed me yet, it only makes me stronger! LONG LIVE THE RIDGE.
I can't wait...5 more weeks and the ad start falling to every 3 weeks instead of every week, maybe JUST MAYBE I can get caught up then. Even though it may not sound like it I love my job and the people I work with. OH the bras should be in any day for those who are interested, I hear though they are not for buxon ladys, but for those still in training LOL.

Make up thankfuls for my few days of slacking!

Sunday -- Lubys and their yummy fish, with corn and mac n cheese.
Monday -- Bath and Body Work Vanilla Ice Cream Lip Gloss OH MY...would it be wrong of me to eat the tube?
Tuesday -- When my moms calls me at work just b/c she was thinking of me. It makes me happy! Even though at some point in the conversation she trys to slip in some guilt of some sort, but isn't that what moms do?
Wednesday BONUS -- Bertolli Dinners - wow that was easy and tasty.

RUB ON my Friends! RUB ON!

Thankful for day 3

Let's see...BLUE COCONUT SNOWCONES.

There is something soothing to my tired body inside the Blue Coconut Snowcone. It means when I get one I'm at my long time friends house Barbara (even though she is crazy) (not in the kooky, acting silly, make me laff kinda way, I mean the clinically, strange, clueless kinda way.) Bill spent the day working at Barb and Ricks on cars, 4 wheelers, motorhomes, trailers and even helped shoe a horse, while I went with them on a carriage job, the bride was an hour late to her own wedding. But it was a fun day.

OH and for the first time ever I was able to stand the truck seat up through the sunroof out the top of the truck to take pictures of the carriage behind us as we drove down the road and guess what I was NOT too fat for that.

Since this is day three here are 3 thankful things.
1. Friends, old, new, silly, serious and clinically crazy, you can never have too many and they are best when in assorted flavors, like a friend buffet!
2. The fact that I have officlaly finshed my 40 handmade Christmas Cards.
3. The surprise the next morning after eating a Blue Coconut Snowcone LOL.

And as always Bill, the bestest, stinkinest, most annoying, work-a-holic, loving, sweet, stubborn, husband in the world. Gosh I love him with every cell in my body...he love blue snowcones too. LOL

Thankful Day 2

Today has been another emotional ride for me, but it is almost over and life after Garden Ridge Week 40 will go on (and move right in to week 41 hell). Merry and I are going to the Sugarplum Nutcracker Shop Fest Christmas thing at Stafford Center. Shopping always makes a girl feel better.

I am thankful for my co-workers. We re all very close and they have all been worried about my mental state the past 2 days, not in the sweet loving way but in the "Bill did not leave his gun the truck" so you can go get it and take care of business kinda way. I love these guys. They are good people and a little crazy. If I did not care for the people I spend 40 plus hours a week with I'd probally be elsewhere (like a mental home). My big laugh for the day here was my POD neighbor explaining to the insurance company that the name on the claim was not a joke that that is his birth name (which is J Cat Fisher) What cruel parents he as LOL. We love to hear him explain that. He is one cool guy, and you'd have to be with a name like that.

Working here at the Holidays makes me understand what the Scrugg was feeling.
Oh yea and like everyday I'm thankful for Bill, with out him I would most definitely be institutionalized by now.

Thankful Day 1

Wow

I am thankful this work day dang near over. It has sucked with a captial S. No lunch and it was a birthday lunch day and I missed the party. No matter what I did it did not go right. WRONG is my word of the day. I can't wait to go home and cry like a little baby on Bill's shoulder. He is good a letting me cry till I feel better so I guess part 2 , I'm thankful for a wonderful husband that no matter how hard he tries will never understand what is it like to be a woman but know better than to say that out loud!

I'm a slacker!

It's been a while for me. Time flies.

I've been super busy at work, getting for ready shop-a-thon. Got my review and my boss wants me to do more creative projects with him, so someday I can have a person working for me and I get to do all fun project he does now. Overall it was good. he told me I needed to stop taking the blame for other peoples errors and tell them if they can 't get the info in time then I can't get their stuff on time. That is hard for me. I feel like if I do that it will make me look needy and unhelpful. ANYWAY!

Well I was back at the hospital since my last post. KNOT HEAD again! I had 12 yes 12 cyst removed from my scalp again. Doc. says he thinks it will be a while before I have to have it done again. He feels like they might have been there as fat deposits and thinks that maybe if I keep loosing and don't regain they will not return, BUT he says he could be wrong. He also complemented me on the impressive growth of them. He is silly. I'm gonna miss him, now that is all done I have no reason to see him, I hope he thinks of me everytime he gets into is new sports car or whatever he bought himself after my three surgeries he did this year on me. LOL Any way they are gone again and I have a smooth head. Now I just have a bunch of scars! I sure hope being bald never takes up fashion for women. But all is well, I can wash my hair without hurting myself LOL.

I have made my Thanksgiving cards, then I made my list to discover I need a whole lot more. I guess I need to downsize my card list. i have had 3 people ask if i was going to do my Christmas card workshop so I guess I need to work on that.

I just have too much to do. When I'm tired thiking of it all.

oh a new photo of all the cool new color of Christmas Trees we have at the Ridge. Check us out there is some cool stuff this year! I thikn my favorite is the lights and sounds of Christmas for $100 it hooks up to 6 yard decor things and makes them flash to synchronized Christmas Music. VERY COOL

Day 3

Well I have a 3rd page but it was a quickie. The paper did not need much really!

This is page one of my 7 year anniversay page. Still no pictures, I hope to get my computer at home working this weekend so I can order them. I need a monitor and I think someting is wrong with the thing that make me wireless. (whatever that might be).

Day 2 --- really I'm doing my pages

OK so I have no picutres to post but really I'm playing every night. Last night I worked on a baby book to give to my newphew at the baby shower this Saturday.

I don't have pictures of my pages but I do have some of my room. I will put forth extra effort to take pictures tonight.

I know I do not need to but I'm goign to JoAnns for lunch. They have a PINK cutting mat on sale for 50% off and I just must have it LOL. HELP ME!!!!

Challenge

Yesterday I made Merry a challenge to crop one page per day this week. So far so good. I have 2 pages done. I would love to post the pictures but COMCAST can't seem to keep me online at home. I will do my best to take some pix tonight and bring them to work so I can post them.

Well the family time was great we had a lot of GOOD TIMES. Julia did not want to leave but they had too. We ate out every night, went to Town Center and walked around, the Galleria, Ikea, Buca De Beppo, Phat Ky, Gringos, Joes Crab Shack, 59 Diner, Incredible Pizza, Oak Ridge Smokehouse in Schulenburg, San Antonio, the Alamo, road the River Taxis, ate again at Casa Rio, Snowcones, the girls first snowcone ever (crazy huh), then over to Natural Bridge Caverns, did a little panning for gold and to the Outlet Mall. WHEW no wander I was tired! They did a lot on their own while we were at work. Gavleston, the Zoo, the Galleria again lol, the mall and lots of swmming a the community pool. I'm sure I left out places...oh like Cheesecake Factory, the girls had cheesecake for the first time and it was not good, 8 year olds should never eat and entire pcs. on their own. They were wired and it was late, so it got them into trouble for being too bouncy and loud LOL..sugar is a wonderful thing. Oh Starbucks...bill has no clue, he got the girls starbucks. again got in trouble for being bouncy and loud. poor kids. Bill is a bad influence on little kids, he was in trouble as much as they were. Funny thing at the outlet mall, the girls were being good sitting by the fountains and boom, one leg one arm splash...Hanna was swimming, thanks to Uncle Bill. I did not see a thing, I come out of the store and they come running to me screaming that Uncle Bill threw them into the fountain, I had to explain to them that I kids lie and I think they were just trying not get into trouble for going a little to far and jumping in. LOL just rememberd another meal at Potatoe Patch and Ben and Jerry's. That was a good week!

This past weekend we went fishing in Galveston Bay, that was the most fun I have had in ages. I'm ready to go again. Yes I was terrified to do te step over into the boat but I was fine after that. It is the whole fear of falling that gets me. I caught the biggest fish, it was not huge but still the biggest. Total we caught about 30 fish. Man it was fun. No sunburn this time SPF 50! LOL

Family is coming!

Well we finally finished getting the house in order for the family. Judy and Julia (and a friend) are coming to visit tomorrow for a week from Michigan. We had to get the house cleaned up and a few projects finished. The big one was a guest room. It is done and it looks pretty good.

Bill and I both have to work the entire time they are here, but will make sure the weekend is full of fun for them.

I'm looking forward to our little trip to San Antonio and San Marcos. We are even talking about a quick trip to Bolivar on Friday night to the Stingree. Crazy I know but Bill is insisting.

Well I got to get to bed, gotta big and busy week ahead of me. Check out the pix of the room. Pretty sweet huh?

Long time no post!

Wow! It has been a long time since I updated this silly thing.

Nothing too special has been going on. I'm feeling better. Other than headaches, but I'm thinking those are being a big ole knot head. That will not be the case after 9/7. Gonna have them removed AGAIN!

Been scrappin. Made some baby shower invites this that turned out pretty darn cute. Need to get back int he room and clean up a bit, getting close to out of control again. But this weekend the focus is the ENTIRE house. Bill's sister and niece are coming to visit from MI on those for a little over a week. First thing was, we need a guest room! So guest room, turned office, turned scraproom, turned junk room is back at guest room. And I must say looks doggone cute. Beige and turquoise. Texas stuff and old stuff. If we are blessed the room is done at it's final stage, and nursery would happily be the next transition.

Well back to cleaning...blog at ya tomorrow!

Isolation is a 10 letter bad word!

Last week I was in medical isolation. WOW I think it was the hardest thing I have ever done. Not being able to touch anyone else was a lot harder than I thought. Using gloves to just get a drink from the frig. The being waited on hand and foot at "feeding time" that was fun. But that was the only part that was. Even batheing was a pain. New soap, towels and stuff treating like they were toxic. Wait, they were! It was just very difficult.

I slept all day for 2.5 days because I could not do much else. I had big plans to clean out drawers and scrap and stuff, but the doc. said I should not handle anymore than I have too.

Keeping the kitties at bay was impossible, I would shew them away and 2 mins later they are back. They know when things are not right and they do thier best to comfortment at those times so they could not understand why they could not hold me. I just made a point to not hug them and let them hang at my lap and feet. There comes a point where one just gives up on the shewing.

The days were long but I made it through and it made me appriate human contact and realize how important it is to me. Funny how 8 years ago I could gone for weeks like that not have been effected but now that I have Bill I can't stand a single day.

Tomorrow I start my meds. so hopefully we are mere weeks away from the new Robin.

My First Post

Life has been interesting to say the least for me this year. Up it is all uphill from here. It started of good then took a shocking turn that taught me a lot. Allot about love and trust.

First I was released from a 4 year treatment for hyer-plasia, which gave us a great outlook to start a family, then almost immediately that was took away. Weight loss has brought open my eyes to many things. I have discovered that shopping for clothes can be fun, and these strange things called bones, seems they support my body or something. I also discovered my evil little friend we call Larry the Lump. Larry had to go. Larry had to tested and tested again. The worst 3 little words I have ever heard Small Needle Aspiration (run, run far and fast). Larry could could bring very shock and scary news, he was a suspect! SO off to the hospital we go. Surgery 1 reveal he was truly evil, evil of the worst kind. So back for surgery 2, Larry is forcing the complete remove of his home, my Thyroid. Now that Larry has gone I'm learning to love without him, weight gain, mood swings, and a new symptom, weakness and shaking. April 3 will begin the final process of the Larry eviction, our first appointment to arrange radiation treatment. I'm freaked out more about this than anything. There could be up to 5 days of isolation and these days I do not do well when left alone. No matter how hard I try I fall into funk and can't get out with my Bill. What will I do without his hugs. I sure hope this is coming to and end of my bad luck with my health. I thank God for my weight loss surgery, it has saved my life twice.

I sure miss scrapbooking. But it's hard right now, I try to sit down to it but he juices just will not flow. I hope when my mind it clear it will all come back to me!

Love you all.
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