My boss is retiring after 52(!!!!!) years at Jacobi Sales. All of us girls went in together & got him an engraved bottle of bourbon & some monogrammed tumblers. We also took him & his wife to dinner one evening to give him his gift & our intention was to pay for their dinner.... he's the kind of guy who runs the server down before we've even finished eating to pay for all of OUR dinners.
I have worked for him for 14 years.... that's the longest I've worked anywhere. He's been very good to me over the years & has taught me SO much. Like seriously ya'll - I can't even tell you how much silly nonsense is in my brain because of him.
You wanna know about W2's? I know about 'em.
You wanna know about State, county & federal withholding taxes? I know about 'em!
You wanna know about lines of credit at banks & the regulations? I know about 'em!
You wanna know how much interest a loan will cost you? I know about it!
It will be a weird adjustment w/out him at work everyday & getting used to the new boss. Of course it's a family owned business so another family member is becoming secretary/treasurer. I've also worked w/ him the last 14 years...but you know how hard it is to work next to someone then going to working FOR them! It's tough for big-mouthed gal like me...
(Also a plug for the place that engraved our bottle-- we took it to "MADD engraving" in Greenville. They charged us $20 to do this. There was no limit to characters, lines, etc. They can even engrave pictures. Check them out if you ever need anything done!)
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We have lived in our house for 16 years. And for 16 years I have been bitching asking for a master bath remodel. It's a real problem when you have a hubby who can do anything yet has no time to do things for me. I have finally saved the money to get it done & B-rad has strict instructions that it 'better be done before planting'. I had asked him to go ahead & get the jacuzzi tub out of there since we NEVER use it & I was sick of cleaning it. Before I knew it, he was in the bathroom banging & clanging around & I realized he was getting it unhooked. I ran in & said, "WAIT. I have to take before pics!"
(You can see we use the jacuzzi tub for really important things like storing the laundry basket...)
I have picked out the shower & flooring but it's a daunting task. B-rad still goes to the barn every night & on the weekends (plus he has to shoot on Saturday nights to get ready for his competition thingie) so our shopping time is limited & that really irritates me. We went to Home Depot one night when he got home 'early' & were there an hour before they closed. I feel so rushed & I get aggravated about that. Plus it's late so we have no time to go anywhere else. You may ask, 'so why not take a Saturday or Sunday to go shopping the whole day?' Oh, people - if only my life worked that way... I could go by myself but lets be honest, I need B-rad there to tell me why I can't have what I want or to tell me how he could make something work. He's an intrigal cog in this wheel...
I have no problem making a decision, but sometimes too many choices becomes overwhelming to me. I don't know what I would do if I had to build a house & pick out every single itty, bitty tiny thing amongst a million choices. I would lose my mind. (When we bought our modular I think I had like 6 choices: What color carpet {in the whole house - not each individual room!}, what panelling package {YES there were other hideous options besides the flowers!}, what color counters {for kitchen & bathroom - same!}, what color siding, what color shutters & what color roof.
Easy breezy...
I hate this flowery panelling. It's the LAST room in the house to still have it. I have painted over it in the other rooms. B-rad is going to tear all this down & put up real dry wall. (UHM that tiny shower is where we've showered for 16 years. I can't wait to have a bigger shower! That's the main reason I'm doing this whole thing!)
Sunday night (when he got him from the farm at 6:30 pm) B-rad tore out that shower & I emptied all our personal effects from the vanity, medicine cabinet & 'over the toilet' cabinet & moved what we needed on a daily basis to the other bathroom. I told B-rad, "You know I'm going to be bitching at you all the time now to get this done because I'm NOT gonna like being in the other bathroom." Of course I just shoved stuff everywhere to get it moved & after 2 days of trying to get ready in that bathroom I said, "to hell with this - I HAVE to get this organized!" Tuesday night I worked for over an hour to get things where I felt like they needed to be, which also included taking out what was in that spare bathroom to make room for the items we need to use daily.
(Can I also just say that the amount of products I need for my freaking face is astounding. Pushing 40 is the devil...)
Even after I got the spare bathroom in some semblance of order I found out I was right - I don't like it & want our bathroom done like yesterday.
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Did ya'll hear about the shooting in Palmyra a couple of weeks ago? I know I got a few texts about it. :) It was right in town between where my parents, aunt & Marcia live & where I work. The guys in the shop watched Stat flight land & take off again. They locked the elementary school down too. This pic was after I got off work & drove past. It was around 5:30 so most the news cameras had done their live shots & gone. Wave 3 was still there & you can see the caution tape.
I recognized the name of the man who was shot but I could NOT place how I knew him. I texted mom & said, "How do I know him?"... he & his family went to church w/ us when I was young. The girl that allegedly participated in the shooting lives here locally & has been in & out of jail a lot for drug related charges. Her dad is raising her kids (according to people I work with - I don't know her personally. Small town - you hear things ya know?) & her mom died a few years ago from an overdose. Such a sad situation.
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A couple of weekends ago, Debbie & I headed to Rose's house to spend the weekend. Remember we all live fairly far away from each other (Rose is 1 hour 45 min from me) so we don't get to see each other often. I am making a quilt for our bed at the houseboat. When it's done it 'should' look like this: (pattern only - not the fabric {but how cute is that fabric?!})
Rose & I had bought my fabric a few months back but I cannot do things like this w/ out their supervision so I started on it the weekend we stayed at Rose's.
Quilting is the craziest thing---you measure where to cut...
& cut all the fabric apart. If you look closely you can see the pattern...little blue dots w/ large blue flowers piece & the next pile is little blue flowers piece w/ large blue dots piece.
Trust me it can get super confusing which would cause me to stare at them for several minutes to make sure I had the match-ups right.
It took me several hours to cut all the blocks into 3" & 2" strips & match them all together.
THEN you go back & sew them all together.
Each matched pair has a piece of white between it... I cut the white strips according to the instructions of my parental supervisor (Debbie) & of course I chose to sew purple back together first. When we laid all the blocks I sewed together out we realized she had me cut the white fabric 1/2" too wide so the blocks won't fit together right.
I had to cut the 1/2" off the remaining white fabric & I finished sewing all the other colors together. Time flies when you're having fun & re-cutting fabric & it was time to come home before I could fix the purple. Rose assigned me homework to UN-SEW the purple blocks, cut the 1/2" off the white fabric (they even sent me home w/ some of their tools to use!) & I'm supposed to borrow mom's sewing machine to sew them all back together. THEN I have to 'even' all the blocks up to 4 1/2" total (which Rose also let me borrow a 4 1/2" square for!)
So far I've done none of those things...
Sewing is more fun w/ friends...
