FILM AT 11:00............

There is a (Cable) God.......For 12 years I've lived in this house, and for 12 years the reception on my basic TV channels has sucked. The cable channels were fine, but every time anyone from our cable company was out here for one thing or another through the years, they all said that the reception problem was a result of some weird problem with the electrical power coming into the house. Last week I started having some problems with my internet, which happens to be through my cable company. (I have high speed internet, and it wasn't high speed....) So today the cable guy came to my house (no, not Jim Carrey, LOL) to look at my modem and see what was up with my internet. To make a long story short, he gave me a new modem ~ but he also had a look around and fixed a few other problems, like old cable line, which he replace with new, and he discovered that the way our cable was coming into the house needed fixing too, which he did. Now, after 12 years of TV reception that sucked big time, we have perfect reception, AND my high speed internet is once again high speed!! Yippee!!! It just took one guy, 12 years later, to finally look at something and say "oh this is the problem, let me fix it for ya". Geezlouise. So now when I'm trying to do something on the internet I won't get so frustrated that I just turn it off ~ me, impatient?? Nah!!

Things at work are going pretty good with the new stuff I'm being trained for. I just have to get another week or so under my belt and I should be able to do that part of it without someone having to advise me or help me. And next week I start training a new lady in the cashroom ~ she's hired to be my "job-share". I work Monday to Wednesday and she does the Thursday to Saturday. (that's the shift I started out with there, and did it for 4 years) I love training and I've been told I'm pretty good at it too ~ but I admit it is twice the work, as everything has to be done at slow speed for awhile. I'm just going to be concentrating on teaching her all the actual "cashier" duties first, and after a few weeks she should be able to start learning the rest of the job, telephone reception and computer work. Anyway I'm looking forward to meeting her and having someone else in there on a permanent basis. ( since our integration, we lost my job share lady as she went to Travel..... so the end of the week shifts in the cashroom have been covered by a few different people that I've trained as back up over the last couple years.)

I just got a wedding announcement in the mail today; one of my best girlfriends is getting married in November on the beach on Oahu! The picture on the announcement is soooo cute ~ a bride and groom running into the water, in their bathing suits (she's also carrying flowers and wearing a veil) and they're both wearing flippers! It's just darling and suits my friend and her fiancee so well! There's going to be a reception dinner and dance here in December, and I'm really looking forward to it. Congratulations Monica and Shane!!!

And on that note, that about sums up my week. It's been busy and went by fast, but then the older I get the faster time goes by anyway...... I can't believe that it will be a year on Halloween that my Mom was complaining of terrible pain, and a couple weeks later we found out she way dying of cancer. 3 weeks later she was gone. And I can't understand where the year went, because it seems like just a couple months ago that we lost her..... God bless you Mom, and Dad ~~~