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GM's new ploy. We all get the employee discount. What does this mean? What is the discount? And it doesn't apply to all new models. but if I were to work at GM what would I get? The same old discount? or would I get something even better? How about a supper employee discount. Or how about a gold coated-lead key chain?that could be nice.

Woke up to a rainy,cold, yucky day.... Yes, I'm very thankful for the rain, as we have been in a really bad drought for a loooonnngggg time now. Still..... The cold is what hurt I guess. After almost 80 degrees yesterday.   We got up and went to the local flea market to buy some avon and vaccum cleaner bags. Cheaper than anywhere else and I buy enough to last half a year. I dont like going to this flea market after say about 9 am because it gets very smoky from people smoking there. I am allergic to the smoke and it greatly bothers me... On the way back home we found a book store that had just opened. An independant one selling used books. We love book stores...antique stores,......  They also take books and give you  store credit. We browsed, then headed home. Once there, my husband proceeds to attack the book shelves in a search for unwanted books to take back to the new store we found. He got a bag full.  Anyway, I had to be at work at 1, so he took me and went in to browse some. I work at a major retail bookstore.  I was put on a register by myself today, well, in between two seasoned cashiers. I didn't do too bad... Yes, I made some booboos but all in all I thought I did pretty good! Just my feet and back are killing me from standing all day! I did get a 30 minute break and I got off at 6. Still, I DO NOT want to work on Saturdays! Or Sundays for that matter. I like a Mon-Fri job, since I'm just part time anyway. I only took this job because we need to get caught up on some overdue bills and pay for daughters braces, among other things. Have a son in college too. Need to help him out as much as possible... Anyway, nothing will be like my last job at the Coffee Corner was. I could get as much time off as I needed, basically tell when I could work. There were only a handful of us that worked  there anyway. It was small and intimate. We got to know our customers as they came every day, and shared their lives with us, and we them. I made some good friends there. It was a Christian place and the atmosphere was wonderful to be in. My friend owned it for almost 2 and 1/2 years. I worked for 1 and 1/2 years there. It became a lot for her. The taxes with having employees kills small businesses like hers. And the rent was outrageous too. She did good for awhile, then the costs began to tax her and her own money. She had to get out so she sold it. The new owners kept it for 5 months and kept us too. Then they sold it and those new owners kicked us out, and now the place is empty. The third owners never did anything with it. Sigh.... wish I could've bought it and run it myself. With no employees to pay,I could have done it I think. Just would've taken an initial investment of say 10 grand?? And who has that?? Not I!!  Anyway, I'll never have a job like that again. Occasionally I would work a Saturday, but she closed the place on Sundays so we could all go to church. We all attend the same church too. It was family, and cozy. I miss it a lot. I had planned on quitting in Dec. if it had stayed open, just because of the new owners changing everything, the hours and such. Of course it quit being Christian owned after they acquired it. We lost some of our regulars when it changed owners but the die hard ones stayed.   Thing is, I've never worked a retail job per say, not at a major retailer. Years before my children were born, I worked at a church daycare. I was there for 7 years and quit when I was about to give birth to my first born in '88. Then I was a SAHM and had another child in 1991. While my children were small, I kept several other children in the home to make some money. Then when my youngest was 4, she went to preschool and my oldest started Kindergarten at the church school. I went to work in the cafeteria there. I got off at 2 as the kids were getting out of school. It was perfect. I quit there when my oldest got out of second grade, and my youngest had just finished kindergarten. We started Homeschooling then. We did that for 5 years. I enjoyed my time with them, and we did a lot of field trips and such with the local homeschooling group. Both kids got involved with extracurricular activities such as swim team,softball,and baseball with little league. My daughter got involved with pop warner cheering too. That was fun. Her last year of Pop Warner her squad made it to Nationals, which Pop Warner holds in Orlando,Fla. That was something else to experience and it lit a cheering bug under my daughter. They went into public school for the first time during middle school and seemed to do great. Both of them flourished. They both can relate to all different ages and such due to their background in homeschooling and then public school. I am proud of them both. They have accomplished much. Not too much deterred them, except maybe MATH! lol and I hate math too, so I can't really blame them! Just they had to have 4 years to graduate! My son squeaked by barely and now my daughter is doing the same thing! I only had to have 2 years of math to graduate and I took Pre-Algebra for those 2 years! Hah... My husband and I neither one could do High school now. It has changed... My son got involved with Drama while in high school and now he is in college about to major in some aspect of it...acting,producing,teaching, some form of it. He was wonderful in high school during all the plays he was in. He even got a big part his first year as a freshman. That was hard to do in high school. His teacher saw something in him and took a chance on him, and BOOM...now look at him go!!!  We love to see anything that he is involved with. We have supported both our kids in whatever they chose to do. We were there for them. Goodness, there was a lot!  Some I have mentioned before but I want to list them all now, I want to see how extensive it is!:

Scouting,baseball,softball,cheering,swim team,gymnastics,ballet classes, dance classes,parades,competitions,music lessons,band,Pokemon!(LOL), clubs, Drama,church,youth group,outings,.... whew! And on it goes! LOL I can't think of much more but I know its there! Anyway, that proves my point, they did a lot and we were there for them! We had crazy schedules, but we made it work. Sometimes one parent went with one child and the other parent with the other child! It was a whirlwind sometimes,but it was fun.... I miss it and I miss them being little.Just like Trace Adkins song:

Then They Do

In the early rush of morning
Trying to get the kids to school
One's hanging on my shirttail
Another's locked up
In her room
And I'm yelling up the stairs
Stop worrying 'bout your hair
You look fine

Then they're fightin' in the backseat
I'm playing referee
Now someone's gotta go
The moment that we leave
And everybody's late
I swear that I can't wait
'Till they grow up

(Chorus) Then they do
And that's how it is
It's just quiet in the morning
Can't believe
How much you miss
All they do
And all they did
You want all the dreams
They dreamed of
To come true
Then they do

Now the youngest is starting college
She'll be leavin' in the Fall
And Brianna's latest boyfriend
Called to ask if we could talk
And I got the impression
That he's about to pop the question any day

I look over at their pictures
Sittin' in their frames
I see them as babies
I guess that'll never change
You pray all their lives
That someday they will find happiness

(Chorus)

 

 

Makes me cry everytime I hear it. And oh, how so true! Don't wish your kids were grown, you will miss them!

I remember a couple of years ago an incident that I interrupted at Walmart. I usually don't say things to parents with their kids but this day I got angry at the mom. She was jerking her small child and telling him to quit it. Then she jerked him a good one and almost shouted,"I'll be so ***&&  glad when you are grown!" I turned to her and said," No, you won't. They grow too fast and you'll regret ever saying that to him." then I just walked off. She was shocked that I said anything, and I hope it sunk in too...

 

"You pray all their lives
That someday they will find happiness"  

This line is also so true. As a parent, you pray, you begin to pray when they are little, that somewhere out in this vast, mean, world, that if the Lord tarries, HE will bring your child a wonderful Christian partner. Someone who is kind, and who has been Saved. Someone who has accepted Christ with their all, and will love your child deeply and honor them. For your son you want an obedient wife that respects him as the head of the household and becomes his helpmate,loving him deeply. For your daughter you want a loving,kind man who will guide,help,and love her deeply. Both becoming helpmates and loving the Lord.They need to pray about everything.... It is not easy in these days and times for our children. Satan has thrown a lot of traps out there for them. We can rasie them and give them to the Lord, but they ultimately must decide. My son was saved when he was 5, as well as my daughter. It was a sweet time with both of them. I have watched them through the years and seen them doing right, and some wrong, but they always find their roots, and come to Christ.

Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

 

 

Well, I wrote way more than I intended too, but it was good. I had a lot to say, and more to say still... It is therapy to write. You can always go back and see how you've changed and what you need to do to change.

Well, signing out for the night.

Good night.... A little prayer I learned while a small child:

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Bless this bed I lay upon

Four corners to my bed

Four angels round my head

One to sleep

One to pray

and two to watch until the day. Amen

 

This prayer doesn't mean anything much to me anymore, not since I became a Christian when I was 17.

I'll leave you hanging here. I'll pick up my story whenever I sign back in..... More to come!

 

 

I had a really great talk with Donna today. We laughed and talked about boys and the suckiness of this semester and how we should get together after finals week. She told me she's considering taking some time off from teaching to pursue her art (which I think is a great idea). It sounds like in some ways she's in the same boat as me. Rrr.
lol I didn't tell her about Ira (after all, I could totally see her letting it slip and saying something about him to me while I'm in drawing or something and he's around) but I did tell her about the issues I've been having with Ryan and how Cory has been acting. She seriously wondered if I'd never date Cory.
Funny how people don't get that sometimes I don't like people....I just find it fun to mess with them. No, I am not a tease.

People at Subway are beging retarded. So are the customers. Oh my gosh, I was seriously ready to kill about half of the people who walked through the door. One woman was super snotty when I asked her about her veggies and was like "I want it the same way as the other one!" at which point I had to clarify to her that I had not made her previous sandwich. I had just come onto my shift and the MALE to my left had been the one who had made her sandwich. Had her head not been so far up her ass she might have made that connection without my assistance. So, yeah...If I could work at Girls Inc. I totally would. At least I could deal with people I relatively like and not these morons who don't appreciate what you do for them. I mean jeez, on one had you've got customers bitching about this that and the other whereas on the other hand you have little girls hugging you and saying they love you. Yeaaah seems like and easy enough decision to me. Damn my lack of wheels, though. Never the less, Subway days may be coming to an end soon. I'm beging to remember my reasons for quitting the first time around.

Don't get me wrong, I don't believe in signs. But if I did, wouldn't you say that me being in one car and a potentical love-interest randomly being in a car beside me and me turning one way and him turning the other would be a horrible sign?...or that after weeks of searching high and low for citrus tic tacs (which have a certain connection to someone), my mom suddenly sees some at a grocery store we frequent and buys them for me just when I've given up hope (hope for someone, not for tic tacs)?...luckily, I don't believe in signs...

Oooh, also, Ira played some freakin' awesome music in class on Tuesday. Stuff by Andrew Bird as well as The Boy Least Likely To. I've become entirely addicted to the latter, and cannot wait for some cash to grace my palm so I can snag one of their cds. Here's one of their music videos:

With God for me, who can be against me? None. Truly none can succeed at being against me. But I will TELL you it sure is testing me to my very limits with trusting and seeing God move in all of this mess. And I am SO ready to be DONE and never ever have to say her name again.  Maybe that doesn't sound christian as you might 'believe' it to be. However, I wont harbor grudges, I will forgive her, I know I will, I often have mercy and grace for others that even shocks myself. BUT in the meantime, I just want to be rid of the gunk and trash she is trying to fill my life with.

 

Latest and meanest?  I got the chargeback from the other client, the one that is a police officer in Gwinnett Cty here in Atlanta, the one that you may recall me sharing that she threatened me in the office the day she found out that my therapist had quit. I tried to appease her, to allow the therapist to come in just for her, to give her her money back, she walked out with the understanding that she would come in for her final two prepaid sessions with the therapist as long as I could be available during those times to be present. Fine. Then , next thing .. she is not going to. Oh well. I called a week later asking how she wished to have her money refunded for the portion unused. No response.

 

Ok, so the chg bk was expected. Yes. BUT the letter that accompanied it to my credit card merchant account was NOT. She wrote a whole page about how I refused to refund her , how nasty I was, that I FIRED my therapist in front of her, that I was GOING out of business the end of the month, ( gets better, listen..) 

 

She then wrote ( remember she is an officer of the law, supposed to be UPHOLDING the law--maybe an oxymoron here in GA!) " I witnessed Dawn throw a KEY at the other therapist and STRIKE her in the face"

 

WHAT the heck!? 

 

First of all, she had gone down into the parking lot and therapist and I were up at the front door, with the therapist at the mailbox and I on the front step. Therapist asked to come back for her last client rather than cancel so late, I agree for the best of the client, and said, here is the key and underhanded tossed the key to sharon, which landed on the ground by my rear of my car, 4 feet from therapist. she walked over, p/u and left. Now the parking lot is down a hill , with a hillside of flowers between that and my car parked there, blocking any view from the parking lot to up there.

 

So I called the therapist... stated, I was very distressed about this lie being spoken of by the client and therapist said.. "SOMETHING did hit me in the face, whether it was the key or a pebble I dont know and the POfficer told me that I could have you arrested for simple battery, but I told her no, you didnt mean it."

 

I was astounded. What the hell is her problem? Goodness.  She chose to leave. I didnt ask her to. Incredibly vicious. And will it EVER end? I knew she was a martyr type, but this is to the HILT.  I just told her it was probably a bee and told her to have a good day.

 

Wonder what the statute of limitations for something like that is? GEEZ.

 

Part of me wants to raise the roof with the Police officer, report her, etc. But it does come down to she said/she said.. and it may cause me more grief in the long run. So, I will just write it all out, and keep it in the folder in case I ever need to fall back on it. I also took pics of the parkinglot view,etc, to document positioning. And like my mom said, if she could arrest me, why didnt the police officer do so at the time? I believe she wrote this unnessary letter just to further threaten me as if to say, " i did tell you I could make your life a living hell" and see what I can do-if you push me I will pursue this" kinda thing, yanno?

 

AND that pisses me off greatly, cause I HATE when someone misuses power and I SO want to get her called out on this. BUT.... ( lets sentence linger...)

 

CHANGE of subject:

Last night was my last client at my old office. Today, when hubby gets home, we will be moving out the last bit of it, cleaning up, and then setting up my new little room. I got teary eyed while cleaning up the room last night after my client. I am sad, even tho I do have this new room in a nice location. Just had alot of dreams, prayers and hopes for that particular building and my career, sometimes we do need to be open to a new move in our lives, but it is still bittersweet none the less.

 

ok, hubby is home... time for breakfast..

 

 

Dawn

I hate confrontations. But this hopefully will be the last one with her. Her being the MASSAGE therapist that has worked for me 2 1/2 years. The one that has been aggravating me and I hoped it would clear up. She wrote me a letter that she was giving me 2 weeks notice. She would work for the next two weeks, then that was that. That she wouldnt contact any of the clients but she couldnt stop them from contacting her, so she feels that she doesnt owe me any cash settlement for the clients that I provided for her and that she will be taking. I do believe there will be about 20 that will go with her.

 

She came out of session with a local police officer. She said something spiteful, and I replied, good timing this week sharon, I was going to give you all the month of April cause I decided to move to the chiro's office as well, and had made arrangements for you to work there (its around the corner from my current office).  But ..since you are being ugly and nasty about this, you can finish the clients today as I cannot take them, and give me the key and arrange for an appointmet to get your belongings.

 

The cop came out and started yelling, I will not see anyone but (name) and you can give me my money back. I said, no, I will not refund, because I am not denying you service. you have 2 appts left, I will honor them. Not *S.. ,you paid my establishment not her.

 

This is what the cop said "YOU dont want to cross me, you dont want to make me angry, I have done enough white collar crime, I can win."

 

I said, whoa, you arent a cop in here, you are a client and you are threatening me???

 

Her: "Not threatening but promising, I can make your life hard and I patrol your home area"

 

ME:::: THEN YOU SHOULD BE DOING A BETTER JOB OF IT...

 

( mind whirling.. *S has talked about MY private and business issues with several clients, now this client too apparently.. file that for future reference)

 

I got on the phone to credit her back, she said no, if *S can finish it out, she was fine with it.

 

*S came back later to take care of the 2 clients, and told me that the cop said she canceled her appts and doesnt want anything to do with me and my office.

 

All this because *S was unprofessional, crossed boundaries in SO many directions across the board.

 

And I have half a notion to file a complaint against this cop.

 

I am going to get her info and do that.. or at least think seriously about it. I dont want to cause more problems for myself in the long run IF she has clout...argh... southern politics.

 

UGLINESS.

 

But, in the long run, good will come of this.. I am excited about moving over to the chiro's office..financially I think this will be so much more beneficial!

 

I just hate ugliness.

 

GARH!