In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Happy Birthday Brenda. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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1st day back at work, and I don't think it could have gone better. 
Finished my obligatory cup of coffee and was on my way to punch in when I saw my team lead walking in and he said he was so happy to see me that he could hug me. Nice way to start off the week. :)
I guess the last week was a CF with the guy who was managing us manning the remodel crew and the new manager slowly taking over the role. There were a couple of days before the new guy started that a different day shift manager was manning the ship while the team lead and I weren't there and I guess he just phoned it in and nothing really got done because the lemmings didn't have a leader.
I guess my team lead had been singing my praises to the new guy the last two days, and I got to show him that he wasn't full of shit. ;)
Talked to the guy who is now manning the remodel crew about "fixing" my schedule again, and he told me I now had to talk to the new guy and my team lead about it. New guy said with the way that I work, whatever they got to do to keep me around they're going to do.
Not only are we going to "fix" my schedule again tonight, but he's not afraid to hard code it into the system so we don't have to do this song and dance every other week anymore. He said if somebody has a problem with me getting a set schedule he'll just tell them that if they stop letting me do twice as much work as they do then he'll talk to them about getting their own set schedule.
He also said he is going to look into getting me on 7 nights straight since I want it. I was told before that it would take clearance from somebody higher than the store manager to make that possible. Fingers crossed this guy gets that done.
I think I'm going to like the new guy.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Hey Brenda!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!! ahead of time!
THUGGER admits it's not about RUSSIA !!! and is, in fact, a witch hunt. "Trump better be innocent of any wrong doing, anywhere, anytime."
Thank you and you are a whole month to the day a head of time. 
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SIX... I'm so happy for you that you're in a place where hard work pays off! So many places are so effing bureaucratized ... they don't want to cross corporate HQ you see ... that initiative is stifled and poor work rewarded.
At some point, do you see yourself becoming team leader? Does this latest development put you in the class of "full time" with benefits? Just wondering!
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Hey BRENDA! I'm soooo not a birthday person! I only remember my birthdate because everyone is always asking me for it, but I shamefully confess I do not remember the birthdates of my own sisters, nor did I remember the birthdates of my own parents.
All that so say... HAPPY BIRTHDAY AHEAD OF TIME! 
I KNOW I'll forget by the time your b'day rolls around; I seem to have some sort of scheduling deficiency but my heart's in the right place.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:I don't have quite the dietary considerations that you do, but I need to avoid gluten, sodium, and too many carbs. And because I cook in batches ahead of time to take to work, my dishes need to tolerate being frozen (so - no avocados or spaghetti squash, for example), and fit into one container. And then, well, I hate vegetables but I know I SHOULD eat them. So I try to fit 8oz of vegetables (about 225g) raw weight into every portion.
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I love to cook and bake. I had to take up the cooking chores after my dad died as he was the family cook. My mom was a terrible cook and baker.
I still like to cook and bake though with my food sensitivities and such, at times it becomes more of chore than a pleasure.
But with my blood sugar problem I have to keep everything on an even keel.
Given all that, I think my food is tasty! I make a mean shrimp fried rice with toasted riced cauliflower instead of rice, and a great chicken curry also using cauliflower 'rice'. I make palak paneer; a zippy beef, pepper and chili stew; a hearty seafood-tomato soup; pork, cabbage and potato stew; and ... too many other dishes to mention.
But I know there's other recipes out there! I think I have a lot to bring to the table (literally) in a recipe exchange, and I would love to learn new things from others!
THUGGER admits it's not about RUSSIA !!! and is, in fact, a witch hunt. "Trump better be innocent of any wrong doing, anywhere, anytime."
I know gluten is a tough one Kiki. Carbs are also hard on someone has low blood sugar like me. Carbs turn into sugar as soon as your body starts digesting them. I eat a certain amount of carbs a day. I don't count but just watch what I am eating.
Sodium is another one that is rough on people. I watch that too.
I'm suppose to eat 4 of 5 small meals a day. I don't totally do that. But I have breakfast, take my meds, eat a snack when I get to a local mall, do my errands, eat lunch and if I am playing mah jong that afternoon make sure that I have a granola bar on me to eat while I am playing, get something to have for supper. Then I am usually good until around 9:30pm to take my second round of seizure meds and a couple of hours after that a snack for over night.
I'm not a fancy cook but I think I produce good meals for myself and my guy and my mom both liked my cooking. I do a riff on a Paella but instead of seafood and sausage, though I have made it with sausage, I use chicken and broccoli along with the rice. Chicken stock, salt, pepper, garlic and bay leaf. Very tasty.
Can't really make fruit pies anymore but the cupcakes I make have no eggs in them or milk. With dark chocolate. Yummy! Have to make another batch for my birthday in a month.
Do you take cinnamon? Does it not regulate your blood sugar?
I have survived for several decades making batches of my favorite dishes to take to work, usually making enough to last a couple weeks at a rate of one every 1-3 days. My spaghetti and my goulash (like beef tomato sauce macaroni) have not only Fed me, but they continue to be my favorite dishes, even in smaller batches.
For sodium, are you referring to salt, or something else?
1. I have hypoglycemia which is Low Blood Sugar
2. I hate cinnamon
3. I was talking about salt.
That rice dish I was telling Kiki about can last me 4 or 5 meals depending on how much I eat. I also cook chicken legs, wings or thighs and they last 3 to 4 days and then I just add rice, veg or eggless pasta to go with them.
I get hamburger or ground pork, add tomato paste, garlic powder, salt and pepper and that can also last about 3 or 4 days.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Rumor has it the title of this thread references rain.
Today we had some weather, converting extremely muggy to submerged cars in the parking lot, recording 5.5 inches in a few hours. In my house, my A/C pulled 4 1/2 gallons of DHMO from the house air in 16 hours. I'm only using a 5 gallon bucket to collect.
Had some rain up here too JSF but it didn't last long. Dry and sunny out now.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Happy Birthday Brenda. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Thanks Jack but it's not until the end of September.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX... I'm so happy for you that you're in a place where hard work pays off! So many places are so effing bureaucratized ... they don't want to cross corporate HQ you see ... that initiative is stifled and poor work rewarded.
At some point, do you see yourself becoming team leader? Does this latest development put you in the class of "full time" with benefits? Just wondering!
******
Hey BRENDA! I'm soooo not a birthday person! I only remember my birthdate because everyone is always asking me for it, but I shamefully confess I do not remember the birthdates of my own sisters, nor did I remember the birthdates of my own parents.
All that so say... HAPPY BIRTHDAY AHEAD OF TIME!
I KNOW I'll forget by the time your b'day rolls around; I seem to have some sort of scheduling deficiency but my heart's in the right place.
-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
Thanks Sig. I know it is.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX... I'm so happy for you that you're in a place where hard work pays off! So many places are so effing bureaucratized ... they don't want to cross corporate HQ you see ... that initiative is stifled and poor work rewarded.
I think that's subjective. If you ask most people who work there, I don't think they're going to tell you the same story. I'm in the unique position where the amount of money I make isn't as important to me as the other benefits I get from the job and isn't nearly as important to me as being able to make my own schedule.
Given the amount of quality output I provide, at only around $4 over minimum wage I'm a steal. I also know this, I'm not afraid to let them know that I know they know it, and I've learned over the years how to do this without putting people off. It's not bragging if it's true.
It's taken a bit of time to get to this point. I've been working there a little over 9 months now. I didn't come right out of the gates making demands. I've slowly been positioning myself for this, and now it seems to finally be paying off in spades, if not actual payroll.
I would say that for almost anybody else, this company is no different than your assessment of most companies. I just happen to have a lot of leverage here, not only because of the quality of my work for the pay, but because my position of not being a wage slave allows me some liberties.
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At some point, do you see yourself becoming team leader? Does this latest development put you in the class of "full time" with benefits? Just wondering!
Anything is possible. They'd have to offer me quite a bit more for me to work full time though. There are full time opportunities for people at my level, but they dont' increase your pay rate at all. I'm not interested in that. I wouldn't even consider working full time unless it was for at least $17/hr. I'd still only take that if I confident that it would translate into even more money and an actual management position within about a year, maybe two tops.
At what they pay me, I'd only work half of my days, and only when they're a week straight. Working overnights you automatically lose 1 day to the switchover every time your off work. Working as many days as possible in a row and having a long break ensures the least time lost to "jet lag".
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:And another 2 1/2 gallons in 8 hours.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Rumor has it the title of this thread references rain.
Today we had some weather, converting extremely muggy to submerged cars in the parking lot, recording 5.5 inches in a few hours. In my house, my A/C pulled 4 1/2 gallons of DHMO from the house air in 16 hours. I'm only using a 5 gallon bucket to collect.
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