It's the little pleasures in life that make you smile the longest

Thumbs up to my Mother-in-law. I am my Father's daughter ... I love me some popcorn. Orville Redenbacher's Natural Buttery Salt & Cracked Pepper being my favorite (besides caramel corn, duh). Well like everything it seems you get to liking something and then you can't find it. I have tried making my version but no luck. Well, for Christmas my Mother-in-law gave me a Micro Magic Popcorn Maker ... Awesome! I put some Amish Country Buttery Popcorn Topping in the base, added 1/4 cup purple Amish Country Popcorn, was heavy handed with the coarse ground black pepper shaker. Stirred it with my finger. Clipped the bowl on it and put it in the microwave for 3 minutes. Flippin fantastic. Better than the store bought stuff! Home run, Alma!

 

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A month of changes

New boss, new schedule, new job criteria, new diet, new attitude ... New me! We will see how that works out. For the best I am hoping, anticipating, counting on!

School is out June 6th, at least that is my last day. Mountain motorcycle vacations starts July 4th. I am excited. I am also trying to figure out what I would like to do with the rest of my summer. Travel, self improvement, home improvement, veg out, work out... Time will tell.

New boss started Monday I couldn't get to sleep Sunday night. Wondering I guess. I like change but maybe I don't enjoy change. Last night I was tired went right to sleep. Woke up around two and tossed the rest of the night. Very unusual for me. Once I am a sleep I sleep. This morning I start work earlier for the month of May, it will be my duties to open and get everything rolling, then do breakfast, then do a couple more assignments my co-worker and I have been assigned. On top of that our new boss is a hands on person meaning we are the paperwork peeps. Which would be ok if we had been trained to do this.

We started yesterday with inventory, have a system, a bloody mess from the old boss and two very confused assistant managers ... Us.

Let the fun begin. Oh, yeah and there will be no bing eating just because you are already a month behind in your normal paperwork, through no fault of your own, and the end of the month is gone!

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Ho Hum ... Kinda mood

Lots of stuff rolling around the old noggin. My daughter was in the hospital for a few days and the issues are still not resolved, in fact they morphed into something totally different, though she feels better every day. My boss was informed they were being transferred the Monday after spring break. In essenses these two managers are just switching places. Not unforseen but unexpected before the end of the term. So ... New person to mesh with.

Personal relationship issues that were confronted in January were moving along and now seem stalled. My life direction during Lent is ... I guess working but in general is not thought of daily. Which I think is not the point. So I feel adrift.

And the biggest thing weighing heavy on my mind, well one of them, is friends or lack of participation. My participation in general. In 2003 I happened upon a friend I was in the processes of making a life change in my job. Over the course of working together, not as long as we wished, we found out we were soul friends. Soo much alike it was crazy. A great friendship bloomed.

Then life stepped in and we not only didn't work together we didn't even live in the same area any more. Not to say we weren't in each other's lives. We vacationed together our family and friends melded. We still are part of a core group in fact we seem to be part of the leadership of said group.

Anyway, as life often does people have left our group and people have come onto our group. Another person I have known off and on from afar and their spouse entered our group. They felt our connection was kismet and wanted that number one spot. I like this person. I like the other person. But I freaked out and stepped back. I was afraid to hurt either ones feelings. I was afraid of the hassle to address the issue. So what the hell have I done? I backed away from both and now I walk on eggs when both are involved, which is most of the damn time, and I don't have any one to vent to. WTF?

Any way that is why I seem to be adrift ... Not really caring about anything and life passing me by and not having fun. Life is too short not to have fun.

 

My funk ... And then there is the pollen

 

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