HERE IS YOUR SIGN

Do you ever wonder why things happen? So this week was okay at work. Yes I still had runny noses and wild boys to deal with but overall working was okay. I went scrapbooking yesterday. As I was packing up my things to go home at 11:45 pm I lifted my box of paper to put in the trunk and put in some other items, I closed the trunk and not realizing it I dropped my keys. I go back in to retreive my other supplies and then get out to car and realize that I don't have keys. I checked my pockets, I checked my area and no keys. The lightbulb goes off, No... I didnt lock them in the trunk. But yes I did. The other doors had not been unlocked yet so I couldn't get inside to push the button which is in my glove box. I call the Winterset police who comes and tries to open my door for me with this big long bar which he had to wedge my window open to do. His first question is do I have any id. Yeah I do but guess where it is. IN the car. He spends twenty minutes trying to get my door unlock but at the first try the car alarm goes off. His words were You didn't tell me there was a car alarm set. DUH........... his concern is that he would wake up the neighborhood. I am at a american legion hall and there is nothing but closed up businesses around What neighbors? Just get the door open. His next question do you have an extra set of keys. I live in a small town that I can walk home in 5 blocks don't you think I would have gone home and gotten extra key if I had one. HERE'S YOUR SIGN. The set in the trunk was the extra set. I asked him to try and get the latch of the door lock and pull it and then it would unlock the door. He tried once couldnt get it. Finally I asked him to call someone who could come over with a jimmney and do it. The officer asked me why I had my car alarm set in town. Because even though Winterset is a small town it still has crime. HERES YOUR SIGN The neighbors cars have been vandalize lately. So far mine hasn't but I lock my doors and set alarm every night. I even lock my doors hardly anyone does here. Some people don't even know where the keys to their houses are. A few minutes later a tow truck driver here in town comes. Him and his son come and try a jimmney that look different then the ones I have ever seen. They didnt get it opened so they pull out a long rod like the officer had and they tried the latch on door and after a few tries had it opened.
$43.00 dollars later. (Had ask my friend to pay for it until I got my debit card story down below) Now why couldn't the officer do that. It is not like he had any other calls to handle. Matter of fact I was probably the only call all night.

Last Sunday I went out to car. I couldnt find my Debit Card. I figured it was lost or stolen. So I cancelled old card had to wait for new card 7 to 10 days. Meanwhile I have money sitting in my account waiting to pay bills but can't get it out. My debit card is a prepaid one. So my card is the only way I can get access to my funds.
My daughter loaned me money for gas because I can't get money out. She paid for my scrapbook outing and lunch. I know they say we are suppose to learn from our challenges but what did I learn from this NOTHING. Get an extra key. Already did that before. Dont leave debit card in car. (never do it was in my bag) I couldnt find it. Dont complain or somebody will have other things happen just so you can realize that nothing is as bad as it seems. LOL Well I got home and new debit card is in mail. MURPHY'S LAW

Just another week

Post warning IT IS LONG..........

This week has been a stressful week for me. Starting with Monday. I drove to work and found out we had no power at the daycare. Apparently there was a car accident and the car hit the power pole and knocked it down. This was about 1 pm Sunday. The daycare I work for is for Mercy Hospital employees and of course you can't just have the doctors and nurses come and get there children. So........... they put us in a conference room over at the hospital. It is great that Mercy has that option. They put 2yrs-5yrs in the big room and used smaller classrooms for the infants and toddlers. So imagine this you have over 90 children from age 2 to 5 in one room. You have none of your normal supplies. A few things were brought over from daycare but not enough. You have this huge room and they are playing movies almost all day (which just makes the noise volume higher.) not many children were watching it, with various toys around the room.
A row of folding chairs were used to keep 2's on one side of room. There are plenty of teachers but only a few were doing anything. So you have all this chaos and noise and maybe 4 teachers working and 12 others just standing around. They wanted to feed the children cereal and milk on the floor. Yeah I didnt see that happening. So after a few spoken concerns we got nutri=grain bars and juice boxes. Not enough to fill them up. Now in my classroom I have 3 difficult children and believe me this set up was not conducive for them. Of course my co-worker who normallys finds an excuse to leave the classroom about 20 times a day was one of the ones not working. So any problems with the difficult ones was left to me. She was either not in the room or she was over with the the two year old she was not helping just talking to other teachers.We left the room a couple of times just to have stories and calm the children in my classroom down.
For lunch we sat on floor with sheets like a picnic. The kids thought that was great. There milk was frozen. So the subsitute was water. But at least the got a decent amount of food. Nap time we normally have cots with sheets for the children at the daycare. But here they laid on floor with sheets and blankets. About 4:30 my co-worker comes over to me and says it hasn't been too bad today. WELL yeah if you dont do anything it is not that bad. A few good things came from this experience though the third floor supervisor saw that my co-worker doesnt do her job. (Thank goodness I only work with her 1 day a week.) And that my concerns are not just complaints about her not doing her fair share . But yet she can be negative about children.
We learned a few things like how things are done in an real emergency. The hospital did bend over backwards to help us meet the basic needs of the children. The parents were really glad they didn't close the daycare. The hospital just happened to be full that day. Maybe the higher ups will realize that we are an asset to the hospital.
By time I came home from work I was exhausted and went to bed early.
Now because we lost power for almost two days (because it was not repaired until late Monday night) all the food in all the refrigrators were spoiled and had to be thrown away. They started Tuesday off with toast and some juice for breakfast. Lunch comes from the hospital and they had gotten a shipment of milk so they got a regular meal again. By Friday I believe we were actually back to normal. Each classroom has access to a refrigrator so teachers bring things in to eat at lunch but if it was in the fridge it got thrown out. No teacher was reimbursed so if they weren't there on Monday they didn't know they wouldn't have any food. The teachers have to provide their own meals. I had called my co-worker that is in the room everyday except Monday so she was prepared.

So even though I have Tuesdays off I still was dealing with power outage fall-out. The difficult children in our room have been really off all week. So next week can only get better right. Not really I will be in class all alone for the week Co-worker is taking spring break off. I may start coloring my hair to cover the gray that has suddenly appeared LOL

Reconnecting with old friends

I want to start this blog off by saying that I am not very good at punctation so don't expect it. So if you are wanting perfect grammar better look else where. LOL Also on occasion I will misspell a word or two mainly because sometimes my thoughts go faster than my hands. I try to keep up So now on to the important stuff.

A couple of days ago a friend of mine from my mid twenties kept popping in to my mind. So I decedied to see if I could track her down. We were pretty good friends she was a bridesmaid in my wedding and I enjoyed being her friend but when I moved away from Utah to get away from an abusive ex-husband I kind of lost touch with her. I did visit her when I went back to Salt Lake to visit when Melissa was still young. We had a great visit I missed her advice and concern. So anyway even though I finally found her telephone number again, I was still nervous about reconnecting with her. Cause even though no one believes it when I say I am shy. I am. I finally called her today. I enjoyed hearing her voice and she made a few comments that made me realize she is still the same Stacee I knew back when I was 20 something. Thanks Stacee.

I also need to apologize to my friend AA she invited me to RS enrichment and I of course said No but AA just keep trying and I am sure your appetizers were great. I just like to tease and sometimes I don't realize that my teasing might hurt others feelings even though I am not trying to do that.

What is it? Maybe church would have been easier

Today I deceided that I needed to clean the living room. You know put stuff away that has just been dumped on couch and left there all week........ I looked over at my computer area and deceide that it needs to move because it is near a window so it is cooler and I hate being cold. So of course you have to move all the other furniture. So here it goes I moved the couch found out that moving with your legs is easier than your back. The chair got moved and finally the computer area. I found some papers that needed to be in another room. I take it there and of course something needs to be done so I do that meanwhile the living room is all messed up. I tell myself to go finish the living room and then come back to this room. So I do that. I think I might have Adult ADD but at my age if I tell the doctor that they might say it is Alzeheimers I know it isnt that because I have always done things this way. So some thoughts I had while rearranging were. 1) why with all the genuises we have in this world they can't come up with an electrical appliance that doesnt have a cord. I hate seeing them everywhere. 2) Why do I prefer sweeping my carpet instead of vaccuming it. 3) Why do people get upset when you don't renew your church magazines. Mine just get put in a magazine holder with the plastic still on them. I hardly ever read them. 4) Why after 40 years of setting up different vcr's, dvd players, did it finally work the first time. 5) Why can't professional organizer's be cheaper so I can hire one. 6) Can I afford a housekeeper. 6) Does that couch look good there or not. I don't care it is staying there unless 2 men and truck come and move it.