Isn't that the cutest tag..I wasn't thinking about what it said until after I posted it..Then I had to laugh,,because the only man I will probably have in my life is a snowman...lol....
On that subject.."men" not "snowmen"..I am at the point that I would like to meet someone. I think I am ready. Doesn't have to be anything serious or lifelong...Just someone to hang out with.
Meeting someone might be somewhat of a problem...I don't really do much. I go to work, I go to the store....and once in a while I go out to lunch..Now I know that if God feels the time is right, he will make sure that this person comes into my life..Just can't figure out how He is going to make that happen...lol...I know that if it is meant to be, it will happen...But I do think that I need to put myself out there in some way...but then again,,maybe not...lol...

Anyway...things have been crazy busy..I kid you not. Every darn time I think it's going to settle down, bam something happens..
We had lost a couple of buildings. Then picked up a few. So it evened out rather well..The building that is in my area is large. It's an insurance company. The woman that we have cleaning it had to have a cyst removed from her ear last week. That kept her out of work for most of the week.
We moved one guy from one building to another so I had training last week. I still have one more building that we are trying to find someone for. I had to cover that job two nights last week plus training..So, it has been hectic. I should be done training the one guy tomorrow..Then if we fill the other building this week, ( we are interviewing someone tomorrow..keep your fingers crossed) I will have to train her at least two nights...

I still didn't get around to making any of my Christmas cookie dough...I am hoping to do at least a couple of batches this week..

Saturday my daughter, granddaughter and I took an hour and a half drive north to get a gift certificate from a restaurant that my niece likes to go too..We had lunch, (Indian). It was very good..Then we hit the outlet mall..I didn't do too good finding Christmas presents. Monique did the best. She got things for her boyfriend, one of her brothers and her baby sister. These are her siblings her Dad had with his second wife. I am so glad that she is trying to keep a relationship with the kids..It's important to all of them..

After we got home, I did some cleaning. And that was it..I watched Christmas movies..lol..I got really lazy..
I got up at 2:30am and went to resupply two of my restaurant accounts. Got home at 5:00am. Made sure my fill in made it to her account at 6:30am. and then fell asleep in my recliner..lol..I woke up at 9:00am..
I moved some of my furniture around to make room for my tree. Then I was out the door again.
My granddaughter and I went to the expo center. They were having an art fair of American Indian items..I found a really nice print for 13.00. It has matting, but no frame. I will have to pick one up.
Then we went to lunch. Panera Bread. Monique hasn't been there, so it was a new experience for her. We had a nice time together. She's a good girl. I'm so proud of her. She works hard at school. She is prepping for college.

My girlfriend bought a small turkey for Thanksgiving. Then her brother invited them to his house for the day...She is giving me the turkey...awwww...how nice..I told her that she should just keep it in the freezer for Christmas, but she said she would rather give it to me. Isn't that nice?

It will probably just be me and Jeremy for Thanksgiving..I love family, I love the Holidays..But I have to say, I'm looking forward to a quiet day..

Now I need to get to my paperwork..again...lol..I have to e-mail my orders for next weeks supplies..
Then I think I will go to bed...lol..

It's early Sunday morning. I've been up since 2:30am..I have my alarm set for that time so that I can make sure my workers are checked in. Most of the time I go right back to sleep, but today I decided to make my run to the two restaurants to restock and do my weekly white glove test.lol....
Both of these gentlemen keep their building in good shape. I don't have too many complaints from the restaurant managers..

I am contemplating going to the YMCA this morning to swim. My daughter and I have been trying to get back in the practice of doing our exercise routine. We went yesterday and walked the treadmill for a while and then worked with the weights..
I had also gone on my own one day last week...It's a start...lol
I did have a strange experience getting off the treadmill on both visits. I felt very lightheaded and had to give myself a moment to adjust.
I have never had that happen before. I don't know if I need to make sure and eat breakfast before I go or maybe I need to make sure I drink some water to ensure that I am hydrated.
I'll make sure and keep an eye on this the next few times that I go workout..(I know I didn't push myself too hard).

I got out the little tree that was in my moms room at the nursing home. The last two years, I have bought more ornaments for it. I'm going to try to get it decorated today. First I have to go to the store and by a large can of coffee..I set the tree inside of the can and put a couple of rocks in there to keep it stable. If I dont do that, the tree tips over too easy..
I am going to start putting my Christmas decorations in the breezeway. Then I will start in the house.

I put up three more blinds. Two in the living room, and one on the door that leads to my breezeway. I am really sick of dealing with blinds...lol..I have one last window to do..Then I can put my screwdriver away...Doing the blinds in the living room were a little bit of a challenge due to the fact that I have my curtain rod up already. I had to work around the brackets for that..
But it's done now and all is well.

It was a beautiful day yesterday. Oh my gosh, when my daughter and I went to the Y, I didn't even need a jacket. Can you imagine t-shirt weather in Nov. IN WISCONSIN? It was just heavenly...Hope today is a repeat.

Don't remember if I mentioned it in my last post,,,but I finally got new tires on my van..I was so happy. I am now ready for the rain or snow to come...(well, not really..lol..).
At least I will know that I can get out on the roads without having to worry about sliding into someone..

I have paperwork to do. Plus I have to e-mail my orders to my boss..Not looking forward to that.
It's not much, but right now some of my paperwork is a little scattered..I need to get in the habit of writing my orders down on ONE piece of paper. lol... I'll learn to get it in order when I get sick of making more work for myself...

Have a great week..

My birthday was on Monday...54..shhhh...don't tell anyone...lol..
Most of the time, I don't have a problem with getting a little older..but once in a while, I will look in the mirror and I LOOK OLD..Now, for the most part, I think that we are as young as we feel..But what happens when we FEEL old? When we start to get out of a car and our bones don't want to move as easily as we would like? LOL...I really do try to keep a positive attitude about aging..but once in a while...oh my...

My daughter brought over a cake..she got me the electric can opener that I wanted. She also wanted to take me out to dinner but time was not on our side..lol
I had to work for a few hours that evening..
When I got home I got on the phone with my friend Andrea. As we were talking I had another call come in. I checked it and saw that it was my ex...my sons father.
I didn't take the call. I told Andrea who it was and then proceeded to rant about what an ass my ex is....
We live about five blocks from where he lives and he has not seen Jeremy for over a year. He has not called Jeremy on his birthday in two or more years. He doesn't do anything for him for Christmas but yet he can call me on my birthday? WHAT is he thinking??
After I got off the phone with Andrea, I listened to the message that he left..All he said was,,"November 9th,,,Happy Birthday"...
I am so angry...Since our divorce in 1995, Mike and I have had times that we have gotten along and times that we will not see eye to eye..but this tops it all. I feel like I have forgiven him more times than he has deserved.
This is the man that has lost one son to suicide and STILL has not learned to make amends with his other children..
I give up.

And then....I get another call...from Carlos..(must have been the night for ex's).
I haven't talked to Carlos for some months..We didn't talk too long. He did ask about where I moved to.. I told him that it's the same house that he and I had lived in...He didn't have too much to say about that. lol...
I'm glad that night is over with...Too many emotions..lol

I have been doing some of my Christmas shopping...Oh how I love Christmas. I won't be able to go overboard, but it will be nice..My granddaughter is already talking about coming over to watch "It's a wonderful life", and Miracle on 34th st."
Can't wait for that..This year her boyfriend might watch the movies with us. He has never seen either movie...How that happened I don't know..lol

Work has smoothed out a bit..and believe me, that feels good..I will have another week or two of training and then all of my buildings will be covered. I think some of the people we have hired recently are Very dependable. Maybe I will be able to get thru the Holidays without too many problems..lol..

Guess I'll get to sleep now. Hope everyone has a great day tomorrow...

P.S..
thanks for your address Lucy....

It's that time of year again..turn the clocks back..Dark when you wake up and Dark when you are on your way home from work...ugh..that in itself is depressing...

It's going to be a busy day for me..I have one job to cover and one job to take our supplies from.
We have lost one of our accounts..I felt really bad because I am the account manager for three of the buildings and my boss has one..
We didn't lose the account because the cleaning wasn't up to parr. It happens sometimes when accounts come to the end of their contract and the customer decides to bargain shop..My boss says that you have to prepare to lose at least 10% of your business a year..
The one building has been cleaned by the same guy for 4 years. He worked Wed.night and then called me to tell me that he couldn't go back...What? He said that he had gotten scared while working and just left the building...He left the supply cart on the elevator..I asked him what had scared him..he didn't know. he was just scared..So, I had to drive 30 miles the next morning to put the supply cart away before they opened the lending center..ugh..then I had to clean it that night..
It a very old building..and I have to say, he kept it in really good condition. I wish I could get all of my cleaners to do their job that well...lol..
That building gets cleaned on Saturday instead of Friday. So, today I will go there to take care of it. Then remove our supplies..(most of which I have already taken out).
Then I have to meet my other cleaner at her bank and remove the supplies after she has finished cleaning.
I have to have all keys turned into the managers at each bank on Monday by 10:00am..Great, that just messed up my day..It wouldn't be so bad if they had said before the end of the day. Oh well, you do what you have to do...

My daughter and I have been having some problems...and that is unusual for us..I don't know if it's her or me..
Maybe it's both of us. Maybe we just needed some space from each other, I don't know. I only know that it feels terrible to have this splinter in our relationship..But damn it..sometimes she talks to me like I'm 2 years old...and I am not going to accept that anymore.
I know she has a lot on her plate. She is usually always tired because she works third shift and never seems to get enough sleep..But that doesn't mean that she can be short when talking to me.
We usually talk at least for a few minutes every day..we haven't talked now for about three or four days..I did comment to her by way of facebook. and then didn't like how she answered. SO, back to square one.
Maybe I'm just getting cranky in my old age...lol..
I was going to go with her and the kids tonight to the haunted forrest...I decided last night that I'm not going to go..I'm going to stay at home and hand out Halloween candy instead. I probably won't get many kids here, but that's okay..My girlfriend is going to come over and we will play cards while waiting for kids.

Last night I had intentions of going to my restaurant accounts...lol..my alarm went off at 2:30am.
I shut it off and woke up at 6:30am...lol..guess I'll be going tonight some time....or should I say very early tomorrow morning..

My house if clean, and I have most of my laundry done...that's a good thing..I do have to go to the store to get a few things. I know I should go before the stores get too busy, but I'm sitting here in my jammies thinking that I don't really want to even go out..lol..

On that note, I guess I will make myself get moving. It's way to easy to put it aside and stay on the computer....

I hope you all have a wonderful day and an exciting night of costumed kids.....and don't forget---
TURN YOUR CLOCKS BACK!

Why is it that just when you think things will smooth out and settle down,,,THEY DON'T? LOL
We are going thru some changes with employees..Some are good changes for the long haul..but in the mean time, it's hectic..
We have gotten some really awesome employees. They are proving to be dependable, detailed workers. For that I am really grateful.
I have had some time to myself, which is nice. I have been able to get some cleaning done..That has been driving me a little crazy..lol..I needed to wash floors and give my bathroom a good scrubbing..I did that last night. It was nice to wake up this morning to a clean house. Sit and have a cup of coffee without looking at dust bunnies

I had a nice time with Mason last week-end..we played games, had snacks and had his little party. My daughter and her kids came out and we had cake and ice cream..I had made a cake with little army guys on it. Nothing fancy..but when Mason saw it he said "awesome", so I guess it was a hit..lol..
I had taken him to the store so he could pick his present out himself. He got a very large tanker truck..It wasn't until we got it home that we realized how much stuff it did..Which was nice because I had thought it was a bit expensive for a truck..
I had extra army men after making the cake so I gave him those also..you would have thought that I had given him the most expensive gift ever..The cost for them...$1.00....lol..just goes to show you once again, it's not always about the cost of a present that counts..

We had a nice time at his pumpkin farm party..hayride and all...

I am looking forward to the week-end..(who doesn't, right)..I do have a few work related things to do but other than that,,I am free..
I am going to go out to catch a little of the Packer game. It just isn't as much fun watching it by yourself. My girlfriend is going to join me..Should be fun.

Well, that's it for the moment. I'm going to go to bed. Have to head out early in the morning..
Hope everyone has a nice Thursday!

Thank goodness for Fridays....lol...

It feels so good to know that I will have a day or so without running around..Well, at least not to the extent that I do during the week.
It has been raining non stop here. I don't know how much more of this I can take. Although I know it's better than snow, I don't like it...lol..Part of the problem is that I need tires on my van.
My boss maintains the van. I feel bad when it needs something..But it is not too safe with the tires that are on it right now. I also know that if I end up in an accident it will cost him alot more.
Just hate bringing up the subject.

Mason is going to spend Saturday night with me. I am going to go with him and his mom trick or treating tomorrow and then bring him home with me.
His birthday is Nov. 1st...He will be 6 years old..Can't believe it..They are all getting sooooo big.
His birthday party is actually going to be this Sunday..At the pumpkin farm..(hope it doesn't rain).
I really didn't want to go if my ex was going to be there, which I expected he would. That's why I made plans to have him on Sat..
As it turns out, my ex isn't going to the party..So, because my step-daughter let me know that Mason wanted me to come to his party, I will be going.
I'm still going to have a little party with him tomorrow though. I made a cake. I still have to decorate it..With GI Joes...That is his new interest..Along with transformers.
I had every intention of going to Walmart tonight, but I am running out of steam..lol..
I have been hanging blinds in my living room, cooking and cleaning.
I don't want to have to be doing all of my "week-end" things while Mason is here.

I also hung a couple of shelves in my living room..
I've had a couple of fires and I am just loving that:)

One of my workers is out for personal reasons..The soonest he could be back is the 27th and that is not guarantied. He has two buildings. So that puts us in a bind..ugh..I have only had to cover a couple of nights..but it is a big building..takes almost three hours just to do the garbage..
My body certainly lets me know that I am not used to handling such a large place..lol

With all of that going on, my daughter has also moved..and during that, her car broke down. She was Really lucky though..it turned out to be just the battery..Amen..we were really worried.
Now she is all moved in. I went there today to help her hang her curtains in the living room..

I think it's time to get some sleep..
I hope the rain stops and we can all enjoy the week-end!

Sorry about the double pictures here..I couldn't delete it.. this is the spare room/office.

The office side of the spare room..

dining area

fireplace side of the living room...

Monique driving away from my house..

Mason, Cameron and Destiny when they all spent the night...Oh that won't happen any time soon...lol..

I didn't take a picture of the living room because I had been doing bills..and when I do bills, I sit on my recliner and go thru them and thru what I don't need on the floor..lol..so needless to say, I had paperwork all over...

It's a peaceful night..it is so nice. I talked to my boss today about taking the week-end off. I am going to travel about an hour and a half away to my nieces house..my sister-in-law (her mom) is going to be there, so I thought it would be a good time to get away...

I'm paying the woman that used to be the account manager to handle the phone for me while I am gone. My boss offered to cover for me, but he already has his hands full. When he goes away he doesn't hand everything over to me. So, I didn't want to do that to him.

I'm just thankful to be able to go away...

I'm not thrilled with how this is set up..I wanted all of the pictures in one place. I don't know why they are seperated..

I better get moving here and get things ready for tomorrow..

Hope everyone is having a nice evening...

All of my grandkids in one spot...doesn't happen often..lol