Close Friends

Do you have a lot of friends?  What about close friends?  Best friends?

It puzzles me how time changes so many people and relationships, how circumstances (sometimes out of our control) can put real stress on friendships.  And I also laugh at how life sometimes comes around full circle and presents us with people who we were close to as children.  Perhaps we can thank technology for that -  Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Vine, Blogger, etc.

I was thinking about this yesterday.  Growing up, I had very close friends thru grade school and middle school.  In high school, I didn't really have super close friends because I tried to be friends with everyone.  In college, I had zero close friends and as I have grown older, close friends have come and gone.  Maybe they weren't so close?

I do have those friends in my life now, the ones I consider close, who I don't even talk to every day, sometimes not even every week.  They are the ones who you know that no matter what, you can always pick back up where you left off and continue on.  Those are some of my best friends.

Anyway, I am rambling now.  It's going to be a hot weekend and the 4th of July holiday will be the busiest week of the year for our stores.  It surpasses Thanksgiving week and Christmas week, all because it's on the first week of the month.  There will be many family picnics, family reunions and get together, barbecues and dinners.  Starting on Wednesday, it will be a mad house in the store.  I am somewhat thankful my last day at this store is on July 4th.  The store I am going to is bigger and will be busy, but not crazy with first of the month shoppers like the current one.

At my current store, we do a lot of EBT and WIC orders.  Many of our wonderful customers use their funds all in the first week of the month and they load up!  The store I am going to is the complete opposite.  They don't care what day of the month it is and come almost every day for daily needs in their households.  To compare, my current store is what we call a 1st of the month store and the store I am going to is more upscale.  I don't know how else to describe it without being offensive in someone's eyes, so I guess I will leave it at that.

I am going to miss my current store.  The people are amazing and I really like working with all of them.  My store manager is awesome and she has taught me so much.  I guess all good things come to an end so something better awaits.

I am working late today and I have tomorrow off.  I haven't had a regular Sunday off in awhile.  I won't be going to OKC on Sunday because I have to be at work on Monday at the crack of dawn.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Laters.

Hhhhhhhhhhhot!!!!!

Ugh... this is why I don't like summer.  It's my least favorite season.  First favorite is autumn, but not until after the cooler temperatures start rolling in, usually mid-September to November is my favorite time.  This is followed by Spring, then Winter and last is Summer.

It's so flippin hot outside!  And it's the humid muggy kind of hot that you really only find in Kansas and Oklahoma.  I don't know how people did it back in the old days and I am sooooo glad I didn't have to live like that.  I will take my modern comforts of air conditioning on a day like today.  I feel bad for so many who don't have that luxury.  If any of my friends have no air conditioning on a day like today, they can stay with me!

I worked the early shift today, so it didn't get bad until about lunch time (12:30).  I didn't get much sleep last night due to heart burn.  But I feel better now and will probably get to bed early tonight since I have the early shift again tomorrow.

My official last day at my current store is July 4th.  Of course, I have to close, which totally sucks, but what can you do....

I am really looking forward to working much closer to home.  I can come home for lunch every day and get some stuff done around the house.  I can prep for dinner every single day and have it ready to cook by suppertime, much earlier than I do now.  Instead of eating so late, we can eat earlier.  This is sure to help the waistline!  I hate eating so late some days.  It's really bad for you.

I am having leftover chicken and rice now and will grab a shower and do a load of laundry.  I will do some reading tonight before bed.

I forgot to mention that my friend, K, is dilated to 5!  We may have twins in a couple of days!  Yay!

Hope you all had a great Thursday.

I leave you with this TBT picture I received from an employee about 4 years ago.

U Rock!

I love it!  I have passed it on to someone else who totally rocks.  :-)

Laters.

Wonderful Day

It's been a wonderful day so far.  Two years ago, my ex and I broke up.  It was a really bad time and I felt so guilty for wanting to call it quits.  I will save that story for a rainy day.  Anyway, today I decided I would spend the day paying it forward (PIF) to as many people as I could.

I started off at Starbucks this morning and paid for the car behind me.  This is my quick go-to PIF and I try to do this once a week.  I once paid for someone's order amounting to $32!  Lol....  Bet they were surprised!

After Starbucks, I met a co-worker for breakfast.  I have mentioned K before and today I met up with her and her two kids at Village Inn.  She is having twin girls and she could pop any day now!  While at Village Inn, we got to see my favorite waitress.  She takes really good care of us and always gives me a coffee to go.  I made sure to leave her a really big tip today - 50% of the bill.

We made our way to Target.  I asked K to get together a list of all the things she still needed for the twins.  The twins are girls btw.  Anyway, she had the list and we proceeded to get the items (I missed out on the baby shower due to the wedding).

We got another Fisher Price rocker, a baby tub, a bunch of newborn clothes, bottles, diapers, baby wash, a bumper for the crib (I bought her a crib a few months ago) and a few other items.  I spent a little over $300 there.  She started to cry at the register (pregnancy brings on those emotions!) and said she couldn't believe I got everything on her list.  She thought we were only going to grab a few things.  Lol....  I loved doing it for her and she is so sweet.  K is a good mama and her other two children are so well behaved and wonderful kids.  I know she needs help.  Unfortunately, she can't really depend on anyone on her side of the family.

Her boyfriend is amazing and so is his side of the family.  I think she is in good hands.

After PIF at Target, I had a hair appt to get to.  I gave my hairdresser an extra tip today for doing such a good job and taking great care of my locks for me.

I then headed to Carter's and found a huge sale on clearance baby clothes.  I purchased a few more things in premie size for the girls and grabbed a salad from Doc Greens.  Remember when I said I was going to eat my way thru their menu?  Today I got the Dr. Fiesta salad.  It's now my new favorite.  Lol...

Dr. Fiesta

Today has been an awesome day.  I could have spent it wallowing about and feeling bad about myself.  Instead, I used it to PIF to some special people in my day-to-day life.

Tonight I am cooking supper for the Kid and I.  He has requested my baked chicken and rice, with a side of roasted Brussels sprouts.  We won't eat until later, so using the oven won't be so bad.

Hope you all had a wonderful day!  I sure have.

Laters.

Hot, Windy and Cranky

I am in Oklahoma and it is hot and windy.  Stephen is cranky today (which makes me cranky) because he has a sore back.  We just returned from the chiropractor.  I don't understand why people spend money on them.  Whenever my back is out of whack, I always do lots of stretches and then use a heating pad or ice.  I feel better the very next day.  Whenever he goes to the chiro, he feels like crap the rest of the day and it's still sore.  The aches and pains are still there for almost another day.  I can do my own treatment at home with no cost.  But I guess if it makes him feel better, than that's on him.  Just wish he wasn't such a baby about it.  hehehehe.....

It's super windy and hot outside.  I saw a huge jackrabbit outside with the longest ears ever!  I wish I could get a picture, but they always race away before I can get my phone out to get a pic.  This jackrabbit is the size of a small dog.  I can't get over how big it was.

We are grilling sockeye salmon tonight with a myriad of vegetables.  I will probably do some light cleaning and a load of laundry.  I am so glad I am a clean person and don't need people to clean up after me.  That gets on my nerves about some people I know.  They can't clean up after themselves and they are grown adults!  smh....

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In the Heat of Summer

Looks like we hit over 100 degrees.  You know it's hot when the store starts to feel warm on the inside.  It's usually pretty cool in the store, but I was sweating while working on the sales floor.  I took a cool shower as soon as I got home tonight.

I work tomorrow and then I am heading south to see Stephen.  I am looking forward to going down and spending time with him.

Well, it's a short post tonight because I want to read blogs before bed.

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