A Hard Working Monday

I really worked hard this morning. I had a little filing to do and then I took four microfilm packets into the microfilm room and searched for a half dozen files. It took most of the morning but I found them all. We cannot destroy these files until we have them saved on either microfilm or scanned.

After lunch I started working on the 2009 traffic tickets. I worked until 3:00 on those sorting out the "keepers" (misdeanors) and saving them to be scanned.

Then my supervisor, Bonnie, asked me to fold and get some jury letters ready to send. She went out for her break in the meanwhile. After I got three folded, I noticed the date was for a February 5th trial. I knew she meant March so I opened the letters and took them back out and left her a note and went back to my traffic ticket work. Soon she came back and had to print off another 60 letters with the correct date. I went in her office and picked up the new labels she was printing and some of the corrected letters and together we got them ready to mail again. I finished just in time to clean up my traffic mess before leaving for the day at 4:00. She was sure glad I read that letter.

Tomorrow morning I will finish my traffic job. I believe I'm up to the "S" letter so I still have a litle ways to go.

I've nothing planned for the evening. I will probably have a smoothie for dinner. I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a glass of milk for lunch.

I have to go sometime and get some more mulch for the last back yard flowerbed.

Then sometime soon, I hope, I need to start on the front. My creeping phlox will bloom first...if I get the leaves cleaned out of them. I also have more leaves to be raked and bagged on the west side of the house. Those leaves came from my neighbor's trees.

A Beautiful Sunday

It is a lovely day. After church four of us, Bob A and me and Leslie and Maia went to eat together at the Mexican restaurant. It was good, as usual.

Then after Bob A. brought me home, I worked in my flowerbeds a couple of hours and got all the leaves and weeds out of them and got them ready to mulch again. I am really tired now. I don't know if I can get the energy up to mulch them today or not. We'll see after I rest awhile. Maybe I can get up the energy.

I went to Braums last evening and bought milk, orange juice and bananas and tonight I will have another of my smoothies for supper. They fill me up and are healthy.

I work tomorrow. I have a lot to do tomorrow. I am going to go though all the microfilm and make sure all the files I want to destroy are on the microfilm. That will take me forever. If they are not on microfilm, I will have Faye scan them. They have to be either on microfilm or scanned before they can be destroyed.

I am rested some now. I guess I will go out there and drag another of those bags of mulch over to the shed and start with that flowerbed.

More later...

Well I got that shed flowerbed mulched and ran out of mulch. But I took the mulch bag and cleaned out the leaves in the small flowerbed next to my mailbox. The trash pick up man will really be surprised when he sees my trash bin tomorrow. I hope he takes it all. It will take another two bags of mulch to finish the flowerbed next to the fence. I'll have to get that later. I work tomorrow and it's supposed to rain Yuesday. I will have Thursday off this week but I have a hair appointment that morning at ten and the alliance meeting at noon. I probably will have to finish later. The two photos of the finished flowerbed after mulching are at the top of this blog. Those down further were taken after I finished the weeding and cleanup.

A Very Good Saturday

This has been a very good Saturday. I had a real good night's sleep with only one interruption...Missy. She thought she wanted out but it was 28 degrees out there so when she got to the door, she decided against it. I picked her up and put her out. I told her once she woke me up to go out, she was going out.

Then I went right back to sleep.

I awoke at 4:45 and got up to let Missy back in and feed her. I believe we had an understanding this time.

I met Bob A. at 7:15 and we had breakfast. While we were ordering breakfast my daughter called to tell us that she also was going to Joplin but she was going to the reunion grounds. (our church's campgrounds) Afterward she was going to eat at Olive Garden too. So we invited her to join us. Then I came home and cleaned both my bathrooms. After that, I went out to visit Phyllis and Gerry. They were both awake and I had a fairly good visit with Phyllis and a good visit with Gerry.

Then I went to wash my car. I came home and vacuumed it out and wiped it down inside to clean it. It looks very nice right now.

About that time, Bob A. came and we went to Joplin and ate at Olive Garden with Leslie. She had just been seated so we didn't have to wait for a table. We had a good visit and she went on to get gas and then on to the mall before we did. We didn't see her there.

We walked the mall and then came on back home. He dropped me off and went on to his house. He will pick me up in the morning for church. I am the speaker tomorrow.

It was a beautiful day and we had a good time visiting.

We are making a trip to Branson to Silver Dollar City the first weekend in April and so we stopped on the way at the Joplin port of entry and picked up some material on the shows that will be showing there during the World Fest.

Friday At Last!

In the morning, Bob and I will have breakfast at Eggberts. Then I don't know what I will do with the rest of the day. I should do some cleaning. That plan could change.

An old friend, Doug, called last night and visited with me. He lives outside of Oklahoma City with his wife, Denise. I have known him for over 40 years, since he was a teenager. And he just turned sixty. He is working at the VA there. He has had his own dental lab but it didn't make it through the recession.

Keith called during our conversation and I had to beg off visiting with him. Keith never called back. He was probably on his way home from work and once home, he had a lot to do.

Yesterday I noticed the rest of my daffodils were blooming.

Payday Thursday

My first daffodils are starting to bloom. And it is only the 23rd of February. This has been the strangest winter in my history.

I got my first pay after the new 28 hour week was instituted. However the first week of the pay period was the old 12 hour week. Only one week had the full 28 hours on it. So I was very surprised to see I only had an extra $100 on my check. I guess that's right but I was expecting more. Next payday should show the entire 56 hour pay period so I will have to wait a couple of weeks to see how much extra I will get. It will probably only be about $400. I had misfigured and thought it might be closer to $700. Oh well..it's still more then I was getting. It will help a lot.

Yesterday was exhausting. I don't know why since there was no real heavy work. I feel better today. I have no idea how Bonnie will fill 8 hours today and tomorrow. I did a number of different things yesterday. I started out folding sheets of jury forms and putting them in envelopes and stamping them for mailing. Then I filed a few files that were ready. And then I put labels on folders for 2012. After that I typed labels for old folders. Then I filed traffic tickets and wrote the information on other envelopes that hold the tickets. I ended up typing labels for the old 1996 files until closing time. I stopped from time to time and filed what had been scanned. Mainly it seemed like busy work.

I came home hungry. I had only had a cup of tomato soup for lunch. I microwaved some frozen lasagna from Schwans and ate that. It was too heavy for bedtime and I didn't sleep as well as usual.

Quiet Wednesday

This should be a quiet day. I will work 8:00 until 5:00 and I only hope they can keep me busy at work. Yesterday there was very little filing and I only worked 1:00 until 5:00. Lynn had surgery over the holiday and missed work yesterday. She's the one who handles domestic files. I got the filing finished in a hour or so. Then I typed labels on old files for awhile and then Bonnie had me sending out questionaires for choosing people for jury duty. I didn't get it finished so I will do that today.

I learned on my church's web site that they have cancelled Restoration Studies Symposium this year. That was to have been in April in Independence, Missouri. I already had my housing lined up and I am so disappointed. But now Bob and I can go to Branson if he still wants to go that weekend.

I have been having smoothies for dinner. I sleep well with something light in my stomach and I have been using frozen fruit in them with yogurt and orange juice.

I had a big day at work. Lots of grinding work. This evening I am exhausted. I may go to bed early and try to get some rest. There's not much on TV tonight.

Cakes Again

Today about 9:30 Bob and I will take the cakes to Independence to the First Christian Church for their dinner this evening. We are so blessed to be able to share in their mission in this way.

Afterward I will have my hair done before we eat lunch at Big Cheese. Then I will come home, deliver Bob back to his home and go to work.

Last night I watched part 1 of the American Experience documentary on Clinton. Regardless of his wild reputation, I always thought he turned out to be a great president. He learned the job on the job. After he convinced congress to pass his budget, for the first time in forty years, we had a surplus. He is even greater now because, like Carter, he has spent his retirement years doing service projects. I believe part 2 is tonight and I want to watch it too. I have read his and Hillary's books and admire her for her intelligence and the fact that she stayed with him through all he put her through because she decided she would be miserable without him. I always wanted her to become president but being Secretary of State has worn her out. I have watched several of his speeches and he has a phenomenal mind and memory. And he has always said she is more intelligent that he is. Her intelligence was what first drew him to her. He admires her greatly.

People seem to forget that other presidents also strayed. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy and I am sure there were others, strayed but that was before the cable wars and the press respected their personal privacy. The Republicans tried to crucify Clinton but the press also pursued him.

Anyhow, it is an interesting documentary.