6 weeks already!

Good morning everyone!  I hope everyone is doing well!  It seems that I don't blog as much as I should, but what they heck, I'm a busy lady!  Somehow I'm busier in my mind then in real life!  So what's new with me?  Well, I have been in my current position here at Manteca (Man-tee-ka) Care and Rehab for about 6 weeks now.  One of those, of which, I was down in So-Cal on vacation.  I am really liking it here.  Everyone I work with is great and treat me well.  I forget sometimes that I've only been doing this PTA thing since late February.  It feels like I've been doing it FOREVER!  But I guess that means that I'm doing what I was meant to do. So what has happened since my last post??  Well, I have a praise report!  On my vacation, I took a little trip with my dad down to America's Tire so he could give them a piece of his mind.  He's better at that then I am.  Unfortunately, the one that we went to couldn't help me, BUT they did advise me to go back to the original place I went to and talk to them about it.  So while I was down in Murrieta, I stopped in to speak with the manager.  He was very nice and took copies of EVERYTHING I had and sent all the paperwork to corporate.  While on my vacation, they did call me, but I was on vacation danggit!  I was not going to deal with that, but I was quite surprised that they called me back so quickly.  So after my vacation it was phone tag trying to get a hold of them, partly because I work 8-5 and have my phone on silent all the time, and partly because they were never at their desks when I called.  Anyway, after weeks of phone tag, they reimbursed me for not only the amount that I spent to get my car fixed, BUT the cost of the rental while my car was in the shop!  PTL indeed!!

The small group that I am attending is going good.  It's a "single's group."  Usually, I shy away from those kinds of groups, but the lady that runs it is very nice.  We are going through a book called "Boundaries in Dating."  Not that I date much, but it's good perspective.  The last couple Tuesday's were "movie nights" for summer.  I guess they're good because I'm meeting people.  The only other people that go are kids college age. So I don't feel so intimidated about going to a "single's group."

One of my favorite parts of Saturday!

So here I am sitting here on a Saturday enjoying my day off!  After working so many years on the weekends, it's so nice to be able to enjoy the weekends.  I love the fact that I have a M-F job!  Thank you Jesus for directing my every step!! 

I have a confession to make!  I am becoming addicted to fruit stands!  There is a cherry stand that I pass by everyday and it calls to me.  So one day I stopped and bought an 18# box of cherries for $12!  Such the deal!!

That's like $1.50/lb

So what was I going to do with all these cherries?  I obviously can't eat them all before they go bad, unless I want to be very sick.  But it may be worth it, I do love cherries!  Wendy, the lady that run's the home group gave me a great idea.  She told me that I could freeze them but I'd have to pit them 1st.  So she taught me how to pit the cherries with a straw!  Yes, a straw!  But it has to be a big straw with a pointed end, like a Boba straw.  You hold the cherry in you left hand and poke the straw all the way through the cherry with your right hand and the pit goes into the straw/  Pretty clever, huh?  So I pitted about six baggies full of cherries to freeze for smoothies, but I still had a bunch left over.  So I took a bunch to work.  Cherries for every one!!

Everyone wins when cherries are involved!

I took a stroll down by the Marina in downtown Stockton. Looks nice nice, huh?  While I was standing on this Marina, some RANDOM guy comes up to me and tries to give me his business card.  Being a female in an unknown city, I jumped back!  He got all offended and asked why I was afraid of Black man...REALLY??  Um, sorry dude, that's defiantly not the reason.  I'm sure you would have done the same thing...

That's all for now.  Until next time!~ L