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I just got home from a very busy day at work. I actually remained busy all 10 hours. I had my normal work of entering the employees hours for the week so far to catch up on. Then I also had to pull and separate all of the charge accounts for the month of June and then I had to put in an order for the store items. The day flew by which was great considering I am stressing out.

I am going to full time at work. I will be adding 2 days at the Milwaukee store. I have never worked at that location and I do not know any one there. I am told that their register there is different and they want me to learn the oil bay computer. I was only at that location once and that was 5 years ago. I do not even know if I will get lost on the way there. I hate driving on the interstate in Milwaukee. I freak out big time. It is lanes and lanes stacked on top of each other wrapping around skyscrapers.

I know it sounds silly, but I hate starting new jobs. I feel like this is starting a new job, but I am expected to already know everything. Who knows, maybe I will like it. They said that they will give me gas money but I have not been told the details. As of right now I will have to cashier 10 hrs on Thursdays and probably have to be a computer tech in the oil bay one day. I know what the oil bills should look like but I do not know their computers and I do not know anything about cars. I do not like saying no to money and I want to help James out so I just agreed. I always get stuck doing the odd jobs when they do not want to hire a new person for just a few hours. At least I should be getting overtime. I will probably end up with 45 hours.

Well, tomorrow is my first day working in Milwaukee so I better get to bed early for the longer drive.

I finally finished Harry Potter this morning. I feel weird. I spent so much time reading and trying to get them all finished and now it is over. It sounds silly because it is just a book, but when you wait for years getting a new book and clues every couple years and waiting for more. Anticipating what might happen. Then all of a sudden it is over. I feel a kind of loss. Like, OK so what do I do now? Kind of silly.

The girls are doing their math home work. In the summer we have a more strict chores list. Each kid is in charge of their room and one other room. They must make sure the rooms they are in charge of are clean all the time and they have to put away their own laundry when I have it all folded. Noelle has to do the dishes and clean up dog poop in the yard.

Then they have their summer "homework". They have to read for at least 30 minutes any book from their bookshelves. They also have at least 30 minutes of math to do on any one of the educational game web sites. They are not allowed to go outside to play until they have it all done. It should not take long seeing as the rooms should always stay clean but they like to have "breaks" all the time.

James called the school district offices yesterday to get the kids all set up in school. They told him what I was afraid of. I remembered kids going through it when I was in school. Wisconsin believes that it's schools are so superior to other states that you have to be tested to get in. They believe that children coming in from other states are not at grade level and want to be sure that they should not be held back a grade. James got worried since kids tend to slip back in the summer as it is and our kids have been out of school for 2 months already. So they are doing real homework for the next 2 weeks until testing. He found a website with printable math homework so they are working at it.

Well time for me to go correct math homework

Just a quick blog to say sorry I can not blog but I should be done reading Harry Potter soon.

James and Noelle went out for the midnight release just like every other time. I stayed home seeing as we had to work in the morning which meant that I had to wake up at 5:30am. They came home and went right to reading. James was already 7 chapters in when we went to work. I brought my copy with to work but I did not ever find time to read.

Why is it always that when I actually have something to do I end up busy at work and other days I just sit bored? James took my copy at work and read it when he had time. All day him and 3 of his mechanics kept threatening that I had to be nice all day or they would start telling me what happened in the book.

I finally had time to read it Sunday afternoon when I got back from doing payroll. James had already finished his copy so every once in a awhile he teases me and says,"Guess who has a baby and who it is named after? It would give it all away!" He finds it funny to chase me around the house annoying me.

Well, today I have been reading between household chores and feeding kids. Some how they think their getting food is more important. LOL

I am up to page 511 out of 759 pages so life will get back to normal soon. Right now though I have to quick shower and make dinner so I can get back to reading. One of my other addictions is on TV tonight too. I can not miss Kyle XY either.

I am having a hard time finding the time to read blogs and make my own so today I decided to make mine first. I can read blogs at work tomorrow. It is easier for me to read at work than it is to actually write. I get interrupted way too much to be able to stay on track with my thoughts.

Saturday...
We got up for work like normal. Saturday is the only day we work together. I definitely do not get any special treatment at work. I have asked him why he is so hard on me at work. He says, "I expect more from you because you are not an idiot like the rest." I am thinking stupid people must have an easier life. LOL

Sunday...
I got up for work and James was already on his way out the door. He had to work on the computers in Milwaukee. Sundays are fast easy days. The oil bay is closed on Sunday. We just have the car wash open for 5 hours. I just work Sundays to do pay roll and so someone is there.

James and the owners do not work on Sundays it is just me and Juan the head of the car wash guys. I had already done payroll early so I just sat reading the paper and drinking coffee.
I got home to find out that the power in the house kept going off. We had this problem about 2 weeks ago and we thought it was a bubble lamp that got a leak from the move. When it happened Sunday they thought a puppy bit a cord and it only sometimes kills the power. After they unplugged the surge protector for the entertainment center in Nicole and Neona's room the power stopped shutting off so they figured it must be something on that and just left it unplugged. Whatever it is that is doing it kills the power to the entire house not just one circuit.

Monday...
We stayed up late watching TV so we slept in. One of James' employees came and picked up another puppy so we are down to 3. We are keeping one and a girl that used to work their wanted one. She had told me that she wanted to get fully moved into her house before she picked up her puppy but that was over a week ago so I think I better email her. I want these puppies out of here. Once the last one finds a home she needs to come get hers or I will find a new home for it. I am sick and tired of all these puppies chewing up all of my stuff.

We had a ton of laundry and cleaning to catch up on because of the holiday and then working Thursday. About a half an hour after I started laundry the power went out. I started to think that the house just can not handle all of the power we use. It seems to happen when the laundry and the A/C are going at the same time. So I decided to start unplugging some things to test out if it is a cord, an outlet of just the house. I went all day yesterday with no computer. I do not know how I ever got by without one in the past. I go to the computer for everything.

I had to turn the power back on twice just so I could finish shampooing the carpet in the living room. I am starting to find this to be very annoying. The power went off 4 times yesterday. At least it goes right back on when I go down and turn it on again.

Tuesday...
Well, all I have planned for today is more laundry and some papers for work tomorrow. If I can get the girls to do their chores early enough in the day I think we may start a craft. They have a whole Rubbermaid of craft things that they never get to do because they take forever to do chores. They always want to have breaks between chores and the next thing I know it is dinner time. James got them each a hemp bracelet kit. I don't know if anyone but Noelle will be old enough to do all the knots but we have friendship bracelet stuff also.

This summer is going by so fast and we have not gotten anything done that we planned. We make beaded bracelets too so we talked about trying to make some dangle ankle bracelets for summer but we still have not.

Oh well, back to laundry.

James came home early and is laying down watching TV so we stopped chores early. He does not like all the running around the house that doing chores creates and it gets me out of doing any more. So the girls are going to play outside and I can relax.

I have been keeping very busy updating all of my old files and paperwork. Thank goodness I still have all of my old files because they have not had anyone doing the stuff I used to do so they just have hand written papers with scribbles and white out. They have a new weekday cashier that started a couple weeks before I did. She is kind of trashy and rude. I know it sounds like I don't like her and that is because I don't. LOL

James has had many problems with her. She is lazy, dishonest, and stupid. I never work with her but I see her on Wednesdays when she gets her check. The biggest problem has been that the owner is not very good at standing up to people so she gets away with a lot of it.

Now since she has seen how much I do she feels she has some right to do some of it since she started two weeks before me. The reality is she does not know how to do any of the spreadsheets, sales sheets, or accounts... so she wants to do the work schedule, payroll, inventory, and ordering of all the lobby store items.

All of which she also does not know how to do but she thinks she can figure it out. She believes that I stole these jobs from her and she always starts a fight when she asks me for her check on Wednesdays. The owner who can not handle standing up to people has asked me to just let her do some of it if she wants since I am still getting paid to do it even if she does it.

She threw the biggest fit about ordering. She wanted to do all of the ordering for the store so he told her to go ahead and do just that. James was furious. She is new, there is no way she should do orders. That is what is pissing James off the most. He keeps telling the employees something and they cry to the owner. The owner can not stand up to people so James is having a hard time getting people to listen to him.

I cashier while I do all of my work because the desk I work on is right there and we don't need 2 people there. So I am a over paid cashier. All she knows is that she works full time and I don't so she decided in her head that she is above me.

Well, since we were closed for the fourth I lost a day of work. James informed her that she would lose her Thursday because I would be working it. She threw a fit. He tried to explain to her that otherwise I would only work 15 hrs and she would work 40hrs. I work 25hrs a week because that's what it takes for me to get it all done.

She went on and on about how she is full time and she should not lose hours. James reminded her that she was only promised 30-35 hours a week swapping every other week with me. She got 40 because I don't want it. She then came in the next Wednesday screaming at me about how she wanted her hours. I told her the same thing I tell her every time she screams at me, " I guess you will have to go complain to James or the owner because I only do what I am told to". I piss a lot of people off because I refuse to argue. It is entertaining to watch.

So yesterday I went to work (on her day to work) and started working on my laptop. She had to come in with the puppy she got from us so James could give it one of its shots. She didn't say much to me but I have been told by some of the employees that she talks bad about me all the time so I usually just say hi and go back to what I am doing.

I was very busy yesterday and then about half way through the day James told me to make an order. I reminded him that she will throw a fit if I do it and the owner will probably freak out if she puts him in the middle. He then tells me that she has never made an order and now the store is running out of things.

He said he told her Tuesday that we were running low on a lot of things and she never made an order. I reminded him that she was going to come screaming at me again on Wednesday. I also reminded him that I have informed him and the owner that I am only nice for so long and they will soon see what can happen when some one yells at me.

He then reminded me that he was still my boss and I should go do the order. The other owner that is seldom there was there all day and he found this to be very amusing. He and James are good friends. So I did the order. I don't know when she will notice I did it. Knowing the owner that is usually around will just hope she is not working when the order comes in.

Well I suppose I should finish laundry so I can get to sleep at a decent hour. I have to wake up at 5:30am to get ready for work.

James has now gotten up and made dinner himself while mumbling. Oops

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