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!