It has been too long since I've been on here. I have been soooo busy and time has flown so fast I can hardly believe it!
To bring you up to speed:
I had my final ultrasound a couple of weeks ago and the radiologist found NOTHING!!! Yippie! No more doctor's appts! YAY! It was such a relief to know that the whole ordeal is over and done.
I've been working a ton. Strangely, it's still only 40 hours a week, but with the Saturday's, it seems like so much more because I'm there 6 days a week. Most of the time I would have gotten a half day off, but the past week that has not been so. One of my coworkers was on vacation and the other is laid up in the hospital. I thought she was faking for a while (she's pretty tight with an old employee who faked being sick, forged doctors excuses and was able to stay on short term disability for months at full pay, I figure that she picked up a few tricks from her. It would only stand to reason that she'd lie about her health since she has slowly been releasing info to me about other things that she'd lied to me about). So, with two out and without a boss, we have been super short staffed.
My new boss, Liz, started yesterday. She just moved here from Gainesville, Fl. I really like her a lot. This job is a promotion for her and it's nice to have someone who is familiar with what my job is and the challenges that the teller line faces every day. So far it seems like she's in our corner. We'll see how long that lasts. I believe that she will always support us, but our opposition is tough. The big wheels at work have started laying down the law with our sales even more so than before. I really should have seen it coming since they took away some of the products that we were able to get for sales (that were the majority of our sales), yet required the same output as before. It reminded me of when Pharaoh told the Israelites that they needed to make the same number of bricks, but they were not allowed to have any straw. The only difference is that we aren't building the pyramids here. Anyway, they've really been hammering us down about what they consider to be "real" referrals for sales. What used to count no longer does and regardless of how much work we put into the sale, if they have the slightest reason to believe that the customer was even remotely considering buying what we were selling before we talked with them, we don't get credit for it. I referred over twice as many sales than I got credit for last month just for that very reason. Jaded. And shafted. That's how I've felt for the last month at work. Needless to say, I'm not really excited about my employer at this moment. Thankfully, Liz is here and will hopefully help us.
On a brighter note, my house is clean. :) I feel like it's been ages since the thing has been cleaned from top to bottom and it feels so nice. I've been so swamped at work that I'd just clean this now and that later, so it's been clean, just not spic and span all at once.
We have had some killer rain shoot through here the last couple of days! Whew! Those storms have about killed our flower garden at our front walk. We had so much rain two nights ago, that it was spilling over the edge of the gutters because it couldn't drain out fast enough. That water was then pounding our prize flowers on the front porch. It not only beat the flowers down, but washed all the mulch and the dirt away, leaving behind only sad flowers with exposed roots. :*( So, John, as faithful and sweet as ever, went out two nights ago and fixed the flowers for me. He used all the left over dirt and mulch we had from planting them a few weeks ago and fixed them up beautifully. We figured that they'd have a chance to recover from the damage. Then it rained again last night. Again we had so much rain that it over flowed the gutters and caused the same damage. Again. John's been out there again this evening cleaning up from the mess. He has also installed an additional line of defense- some edging along the back of the garden and some larger much chips that (hopefully) won't float away. I'm just praying that the rain that they are predicting for the next few days will be lighter. These flowers need a chance to recover from their beatings.
Things at church have been going well, too. The Busy Women's Bible Study is progressing along well. We started with about 40 women and now we have a core group of about 12 ladies who have dedicated themselves to the study of God's Word and Holy Tabernacle. I love coming to class each month and listening to their questions, it always sparks such wonderful conversation about God and His Word. Also, Mindy's planning of our Babbie Mason concert this September is gearing up. I'm so excited about the whole thing. It will be a blast. One of the things that we will have are cardboard testimonies. God has been working on me so much over the last few months and has given me the courage to not only face the fears of my past, but being to embrace them as such a blessing, that I'm thinking about volunteering to hold my testimony up in front of the crowd. After all, it's not mine to begin with, it's His.
Also- Praises for God: My best pal and yoga teacher's sister was dealing with a terrible cancer and has (for the time being) beat it. The last tests show that as of right now, she is cancer free! YAY! Now, just more prayers for their mom who's recently been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Whew, I've had so much to say! It's been too long.
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