The Holidays

The last two weeks have been filled with laughter and enjoyable meals with family and friends . It is amazing that all visitors arrived and left as scheduled in spite of the snow and freezing temperatures. Such a wonderful holiday! I am working at the branch store today as the manager lives further away. I am looking forward to days off on Wednesday and Thursday. My daughter gave me Bob Tarte's book Kitty Cornered and I am laughing at the antics of his felines. Also discovered author Denise Grover Swank and enjoyed her Rose Gardner mystery, Twenty and a Half Wishes. Hope the sequel is as fun and not formulaic!

Incident at the library

On Monday, I drove to the library to replenish my supply of mystery books. I prefer to visit on Friday after work. There are only a few patrons so the library is calm and peaceful. I had a list of authors and selected 12 books to check out. As I approached the self scanner, a patron said, "You're not going to read all those books!" and another patron strode up, said something similar but added "You must not do anything else!" Eventually a library worker addressed the first patron who told her that he had to wait for me to finish and she directed him to the other self scanner which incidently had been available all along. There was no reason for this encounter and thinking about it still bothers me. I posted a picture of my black and white cat snoozing on the back of my couch with the snowy day in the background. Someone commented that my cat looked like a "cow in the window and how much does it weigh." I can't control her reaction to the photo, but I can control my reaction to her reaction. I will enjoy the photo of my eight pound black and white cat curled up on the back of the couch.

Napa, our new hungry cat

Need to make another grocery run

The employees at my husband's work have been taking care of a homeless cat. They feed him and provide him with outside shelter. Recently the temperatures have dipped and when my husband noticed the cat shivering, he decided to bring the cat home. I took him to the vet for a check up. He is being treated for an upper respiratory infection and parasites. I believe that he would have died if my husband had not brought him home. He is eight years old and is constantly hungry. My new cologne of the day is "Eau 'd Amoxicillin" (scent of bananas) as I struggle to give the cat his medicine and end up wearing some. We have a menagerie with three dogs,four cats, one rabbit and seven fish. Along with people food, we need dog and cat food and timothy hay.

tablet with laptop capabilities

I wish all the letters on my dock were working. It takes five times as long to type a story on a virtual keyboard, even if most of the words come up! I am dreaming of an android tablet with laptop capabilities. I did not renew the subscription for the chat site. I discovered that I rarely used it. It was fun to chat with people from other countries and I will miss the opportunity to do this. I select books from the library and discover that I dislike either the writing style or the characters. I made a new list of possible authors to check out.

Sometimes you make me angry

Yesterday my boss came to the branch store to prepare for the open house today. All went well until two minutes before his departure when an order I had taken came crashing down. I had sent the order to a flower shop in another state and the shop forwarded it to another shop. When I called to check on the status, the sale associate could not find the order. It was late in the day. My boss called several shops, no success finding one to deliver. He was angry on several counts. I had only given the shop 3 1\2 hours to get the order delivered. The product was for a loose wrap and most shops prefer vased arrangements and he ate the difference. Also the order is going a day late. I called to explain the situation to our customer and she was most understanding. The boss said, "Sometimes you make me angry." I'm sure. I enter the wrong data at the end of a long day, and the boss, not an accountant, does not know how to correct it. The branch manager told him, "at the end of a long day,I sit here just thinking how I can upset your day!" Between my boss, martial arts master and husband, I am always in bad grace with someone. It is a chronic condition.

A New Great Niece

On Monday, my new little great niece was born. She is beautiful with her blue eyes and dark hair. Congratulations to my brother and his family! This new little one is his 7th grandchild. Perhaps I will see her later this month when my family celebrates Thanksgiving. The event will be at my mother and dad's home, and we will have turkey and all the trimmings. I hope many of my nieces and their families will attend. A bit different for my family this year. My daughter is flying south to spend Thanksgiving with her sister who just got married and my son is driving to celebrate Thanksgiving with his partner and family. I'm not sure if my daughter who is attending a local university will be home on that day, since it is a Sunday, and she has classes that week. Thanksgiving...a time to be grateful for all the blessings that I have been given. I have everything I need and perhaps even everything I want.