Of all the lame ......

........call in sick excuses, last night, I had to have heard the best. Seriously, guys, this ones a real winner. Almost right up there with calling in dead.

Last night, I had asked a coworker about a young boy who has been working really good for us for the past few weeks. This kids names Max. He had last week as vacation, as he went home to Cape Breton for a visit. He hasn't been back to work since, and he only booked off 5 days.

So, I make the stupid ass mistake asking where max has been. It is responded to by heavy laughing. Of course, I respond with " what?"

Turns out last friday, he was in a car accident. Well, if you'd call it a car accident. He had a little ity bity fender bender with a friend in his car. No damage done to either car (told you it was small), and obviously no one was hurt.

Seems he is " emotionally traumatized, and needs a week to recover from the horrific near death experience. "

I cannot make this shit up if I tried. Seriously. Ug.

So Yesterday was a hole lotta fun.....Dentist at 9:30 am. I get there, go right in, and I am given enough freezing to numb the entire right side of my face. Some one could have cut off my right ear, and I wouldnt have noticed it. He does the filling, and away I go in about 30 minutes. My dentist rocks, and is gorgeous to boot...I'm sure he thinks I'm fine as hell with the big blue rubber dam thingy stretched across my mouth. Ahh well, probably for the best that I didn't look hot..my husband would have an issue with a Dr. hitting on his wife.

After teh dentist, I had the bright idea to go grocery shopping at my store, with my mouth frozen. Turns out, my boss was working, so when I ducked in for a minute to get my schedule, she jumped on me and asked about the other night with asshole Justine. So, i told her everything, and she was like" yep, just makes it easier for me to dismiss her".

I then hand the ginormous list of cleaning that I was called in to do, and I apoligized for not getting it all done. She quickly read down the list, and she looked at me. Then she goes, " OMG, Nicole, you didn't need to do all of this! There is stuff on here that I wouldn't do! I am so happy I found you, you have been nothing but a god send since you started here!".

Of course, I was all, hehe.....theres no problem, I don't mind doing the extra stuff. The she said to expect a good raise at the end of my probation. EEEEEEEEE! Thats what I wanted to hear.

So off I go, doing my new " on Weight Watchers points plan" grocery shopping, which included a ton of those Thinsations cookies. On the WW points plan, there is only 2 points per pack. Did I tell you this WW points system totally rocks??

I started this on Monday, and I thought it was going to be hell, but it totally wasn't. You can eat normal everyday things, but you weigh them out, or measure them out. Veggies are completely free, meaning they have no point value, so you can eat as much of them as you want, only counting salad dressing, etc. I promised myself I wouldn't peek on the scale until Sept. 9th, cause realistically, I ddin't expect to see a loss until the end of next week, but......the scale was there...and it was calling my name....so I jumped on, for a little peek.

I was completely in shock. I still am. I think I'm going to buy a new scale, just to be sure. Keep in mind, I started MONDAY, as in 4 days ago, like the 27th, Monday.

I'm down..........5lbs!!!!! 5 Fricking glorious lbs!!!Can you believe it? Me neither. I'm completely estactic.

So yesterday, after our fun grocery trip, I went home, had lunch, and crashed on the couch, dead to the work for 2 hours. I really shouldn't have slept, cause I didn't get to bed till 2 this morning, which sucks when you have 2 kids up at 1:30. Why 2 kids when Tiana is normally a once asleep, she isn't heard from until 7 am the next morning??

Cause Lolita is moving up, of course, and we decided to try the kids sharing a room before we put Kallie back into the bedroom with us. And, last night when Kallie woke up hungry, Tiana decided she needed to get up to play with her. It wasn't fun, ya'll.

Up at 7am. gotta clean up after a storm hit my apartment. Work tonight at 5. I wonder if there are any point friendly energy drinks??

Hope everything is goin well for you all out there!

Why is there always that one person...

..............that is waiting to fuck up your day at work?

Is it a law of science? Is it a natural occurance that was created by some higher power?

No.

Some people just reallly like to make people's nights at work hard.

Last night, for instance.

I get called into work, right? I get there at 4:30, and it turns out that there are some big wigs coming to the store (I work in the deli of a grocery store), to check on food safety and overall cleanliness and sanitation. The only reason I was called in was to tackle some of the last minute cleaning jobs, which was fine by me.

There is this one girl who was hired by me, Justine, who is a complete flake. were talking like one of the head stoners . SHe always comes to work usually coming off of a high, and all she does is ask for food. She sneaks food, she takes stuff out of the deli cases without asking, and she goes as far as to ask you to go buy her something.

Then, she doesn't do her job. She took 2 hours last night to make up 8 subs. 8. They come pre made, all you do is add lettuce and tomato to them, and package them! Like come on!

She had an attitude with the customers, and and even worse one with us when we told her she can't eat while she's working. The phone in our dept. is not allowed to be used for personal use unless its an emergency because we have so many orders that are called into us, and where do you think little miss justine was half the night? ON THE DAMN PHONE. gaaaaaahhhh. 8 times, for roughly 10 minutes each time. Keep in mind, she is on probation until the middle of NOV.

Guess who's going to be fired??

I don't deal well with bullshit from co-workers, at work. Your there to do a god damned job, so for fuck sakes, do your job. Don't stand around and eat. Don't talk back. Do what the hell your told. After all, they give you your paycheck. I work with some really wonderful girls there, we have alot of good laughs, but she makes us all crazy when she comes in. Its depressing, and it makes for a long night.

So later today, I get to make another visit to my dentist, to have the filling put in where I had my root canal. Right now there is a temporary one in place because it has been a little irritated, so finally, we get the crap delt with and move on.

Tonight, its back to work, but thank god Justine isn't in with me. I think I might just beat her to death with a hunk of deli meat, and store her body in the cooler. Hopefully, she doesn't come in Friday for her next shift....well, she shouldn't....hopefully she'll be fired by then.

Am I evil for wanting her fired? Maybe......but it sure feels good to give her whats coming to her.

Worked to the bone

So, when I was hired on in the Deli, I was told I would only be recieving about 15 hours a week, 3 shifts or so, so I could still have time to see my kids, no matter how nuts they drive me. Since I started working there a few weeks back, I have only had 1 day off. 1! This week alone I'm totalling 37 hours!



We are so short handed, that we can't even hand out all of the hours that we are allowed to schedule. We need 4 or 5 people,and we need them bad. The problem is, Fredericton is a University/College city. There are 2 Universities, and a few college's. Almost everyone who is applying are highschool students or uni students, and they can't work/ won't work.



Anyone wanna move to Freddy and come work for Sobeys??



Today has been one hell of a rough one. Tiana has been the poster child so far today....she's been very wel behaved, and she's been....QUIET. Which is rare. Kallie, on the other hand, has done nothing but scream like someones poking her with needles. She's a little sick, a little congested. Plus she has tooth number two about to poke through any day.



So on top of trying to make a sick baby stop crying, I have been trying to clean house, do laundry, get a shower, and on top of it all, I had to wash my uniform, cause I got called in to work tonight, on my day off. Meh, money in my pocket! Let my husband deal with a screaming baby all night:)



We got some good news, finally. Since Erik's contract at work was terminated, we have been in a bit of a panic, not because of him not working, we have delt with that before, but because the place we are currently live in is so expensive that we couldn't stay here, plus we have a few bills that need catching up on. But, yesterday, my friend Lolita told me that she would be moving back in with us this weekend to go back to school, which helps me out alot!!! I was so excited to hear that! Now I can breathe easy for a bit, and not be so stressed out about money...who knows, maybe my husband and I can get a few dates in now that we wont be so hard up.

Welcome, this is me.

Welcome everyone. Tis I, your host.

I suppose I should give you a bit of back ground into my life, so you can understand what it is that I write about. Here are the players in my blog, the people I post about the most often.

There is Myself, Nicole, and I an the crazy housewife/working mom that is so easily stressed out, or frustrated, due to lack of time for pretty much anything.

Then, there is my husband of just over 2 years, Erik. The man that I love so much, and can't live without, but on the other hand,the man that I would love to kill off sometimes. He is an avid online gamer, and I sometimes think that he needs Computer Addicts Anonymous.

My children, Tiana, who is 3 and a half, and Kallie, who is almost 7 months old. Tiana is the princess/ drama queen who you would swear is 3 going on 25, who is full of attitude and has a wicked temper just like her dear old mommy. Kallie is a very curious baby, who also was blessed to have the temper of her mother. Needless to say, my husband really has his work cut out for him living in a house that temper built.

There is my Mother, who lives about an hour away in Saint John. She's the "drive you crazy with the over mothering" type of person, constantly on my ass about what my kids are doing, if they're hungry, or if they're safe.

My mother in law, the psychologist/psycho mother in law from another dimension, or Rina, her earth name. She drives me absolutely crazy, but I know she means well. She is never around, but when she is, she's the type of person who after about an hour, you just want her to dissappear. She's decent to me in front of my husband, but when she's alone with me, she gives me lectures on what I should be doing, and what I shouldn't be doing.

My asshole sister, Michelle, who i absolutely despise. She is everything that I hate in a person. She doesn't give a damn about her kids, my mother, or me. She will use whoever she can to get what she wants. SHe has never worked a day in her life, and has been riding the welfare system since she was 16. She's a cross between a hick, and a blonde (no offense to anyone, I mean the blondes that they talk about in the jokes).

Thats basically all I really post about. Everyday, my life seems to have some type of excitement going on, whether it be good or bad. There never seems to be a dull moment.

Well, boys and girls, lets get started, shall we?