Shawn and I filled out all the necessary paperwork for his schooling the FAFSA and the enrollment application to try and get a step up . Well I went to bed at 4 am to wake up at 8:30 am we both got ready got all of our paperwork together I went to the Social Security office and changed my social security card then rode by the tag office and changed my ID got back home and Shawn had already made his trip to the college and preregistered . So Dothan drivers LEARN TO DRIVE ! if you are at a 4 way stop , and you stop at the stop sign then the person to the left goes and its your turn to go and you go why would a redneck ass truck honk right in your ear thinking it was their turn . I didn't see a red light . I'm going by the DMV and getting a stack of drivers manuals every time a jackass is doing something jackass like im going to throw one at their vehicle . Either way the purpose of this blog is that im so amazed about everything that's going right right now . could it be my prayers were finally heard after 22 years . That maybe something may be working out in OUR favor . Life has thrown so many curve balls . Weve overcame them as if they were ghosts but now its real and its happening . We have so much left to do this is just the beginning . We are now husband and wife . My name is changed . Hes enrolled in college with the financial aid out of the way . steps left to go through are study for placement testing . take the placement test . start classes study for and pass classes . finish college credits study for asvab take asvab do pre physical training to get prepared for basics . Go to Basics then me move in with my mom and pay off some bills like furniture and credit cards Him graduate from basics and go to tech school . Him come home from tech and get ready to move . Me find a job in our new town we will be moving to . apply for on base housing . then move . its a long process something is bound to go wrong but me being a not so religious person saying this If GOD wills it to be . If it is the right decision everything WILL work out in our favor .
signing off tonight Katie SMITH
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Saturday, July 24, 2010
if i could tie 20 red ribbons around my pointer finger
So many things happen through out the day . So im going to tell you about a basic work day for me . Anyone else who is a current walmart employee oops associate excuse me . they will understand .
1. Wake up 9 minutes till i have to walk out the door have eyes open searching in the dark to find my pants my shirt my underwear bra socks and shoes oh don't forget the belt .
2 brush teeth don't forget the mouthwash close customer encounters
3 go through the list in your head and verbally to make sure you have the essentials cell phone to check time on break to make sure you don't go over even if it doesn't have service on it cigarettes because most associates are smokers have to be
wallet or at least a couple of bucks to get a 40 cent drink on break
keys cant forget those
badge a must
box cutter
pens
lunch if your lucky enough to get a lunch that day
4 grab a bag of chips or snack to eat going down the road along with something to drink
5 spill the drink on your hand while juggling everything and drop your snack after you've locked your door
6 get in the car realize you've left something behind and have to go back up
7 finally leave for work rushing no matter what time it is to make sure you clock in on time
8 as soon as you swipe your badge have a coworker or manager asking a question or asking you to do something of course the answer is yes or OK .
9 check cbl's
10 go to your department and check the TMAT and or notes
11 start doing bread if it was layed properly the night before no problem start baking . if it wasn't then start baking what you have while you go in the freezer to pull more for the day
12 check dates and pull reduced rack check on bread
13 start making a list to fill floor and drag everything out of the freezer to put out on floor
14 someone has to go to lunch cover the front and the back and the freezer and the floor
15 realize your going to be behind and ask for some help from a kind coworker
16 about time for managers to come through and ask whether the breads coming out or if the front wall needs to be filled
17 by this time everything you touch doesn't go right you drop cookies on the floor or the bread is over proofed or undercooked realize your out of something and that's the only thing the customers want today .
18 time for lunch yes you've made it through the first half of the day
19 lunch ends damn it wasn't long enough
20 go back to work something went wrong or somethings come up that's going to put you 30 more minutes behind
21 breads done baking time to bag it tag it and put it out on the floor oops missing labels or sell by dates.
22 get told production is not up enough do more of what your doing right now for tomorrow .
23 get all the breads put out on floor time to do the lay still stuff to put out on the floor plus you cant walk in freezer and a truck is coming . there's seafood and deli and frozen's stuff in your freezer what do you do down stack 3 pallets 5 l carts and 2 rocket carts as fast as you can while filling the floor and making a cart for the bread to be layed
24 lay bread . your out of half of what you need
25 fill floor again everything is sold and everyone mad because its sold
26 finish bread lay time to pull the reduced rack off the floor do throwaways and recycle it at least we don't have to wash trash anymore
27 finish bread lay
28 floors full
29 realize you didn't finish the cleaning list and now have 5 minutes to take trash and clean close
30 at the last minute a whole family comes up and wants to order a wedding cake 138 dollars of income for the bakery why would we turn down a wedding cake order we wouldn't not to mention a good word on the north side bakery
31 take the trash and plastic and organics throw them in the proper bins
32 take the trash cans back to the bakery do a once over to make sure everything that can be done has been done
33 get to the time clock and see your 30-45 minutes over clock out
34 go home
35 get home and clean up
36 start dishwasher
37 lay out dinner
38 wash clothes
39 cook dinner and clean up after dinner mess
40 watch a few minutes of TV or get online
41 set alarm and go to bed
42 start all over again
so there's my usual day at work and once again im sure any other walmart associate can relate to this no matter what there level is . had to get it out
1. Wake up 9 minutes till i have to walk out the door have eyes open searching in the dark to find my pants my shirt my underwear bra socks and shoes oh don't forget the belt .
2 brush teeth don't forget the mouthwash close customer encounters
3 go through the list in your head and verbally to make sure you have the essentials cell phone to check time on break to make sure you don't go over even if it doesn't have service on it cigarettes because most associates are smokers have to be
wallet or at least a couple of bucks to get a 40 cent drink on break
keys cant forget those
badge a must
box cutter
pens
lunch if your lucky enough to get a lunch that day
4 grab a bag of chips or snack to eat going down the road along with something to drink
5 spill the drink on your hand while juggling everything and drop your snack after you've locked your door
6 get in the car realize you've left something behind and have to go back up
7 finally leave for work rushing no matter what time it is to make sure you clock in on time
8 as soon as you swipe your badge have a coworker or manager asking a question or asking you to do something of course the answer is yes or OK .
9 check cbl's
10 go to your department and check the TMAT and or notes
11 start doing bread if it was layed properly the night before no problem start baking . if it wasn't then start baking what you have while you go in the freezer to pull more for the day
12 check dates and pull reduced rack check on bread
13 start making a list to fill floor and drag everything out of the freezer to put out on floor
14 someone has to go to lunch cover the front and the back and the freezer and the floor
15 realize your going to be behind and ask for some help from a kind coworker
16 about time for managers to come through and ask whether the breads coming out or if the front wall needs to be filled
17 by this time everything you touch doesn't go right you drop cookies on the floor or the bread is over proofed or undercooked realize your out of something and that's the only thing the customers want today .
18 time for lunch yes you've made it through the first half of the day
19 lunch ends damn it wasn't long enough
20 go back to work something went wrong or somethings come up that's going to put you 30 more minutes behind
21 breads done baking time to bag it tag it and put it out on the floor oops missing labels or sell by dates.
22 get told production is not up enough do more of what your doing right now for tomorrow .
23 get all the breads put out on floor time to do the lay still stuff to put out on the floor plus you cant walk in freezer and a truck is coming . there's seafood and deli and frozen's stuff in your freezer what do you do down stack 3 pallets 5 l carts and 2 rocket carts as fast as you can while filling the floor and making a cart for the bread to be layed
24 lay bread . your out of half of what you need
25 fill floor again everything is sold and everyone mad because its sold
26 finish bread lay time to pull the reduced rack off the floor do throwaways and recycle it at least we don't have to wash trash anymore
27 finish bread lay
28 floors full
29 realize you didn't finish the cleaning list and now have 5 minutes to take trash and clean close
30 at the last minute a whole family comes up and wants to order a wedding cake 138 dollars of income for the bakery why would we turn down a wedding cake order we wouldn't not to mention a good word on the north side bakery
31 take the trash and plastic and organics throw them in the proper bins
32 take the trash cans back to the bakery do a once over to make sure everything that can be done has been done
33 get to the time clock and see your 30-45 minutes over clock out
34 go home
35 get home and clean up
36 start dishwasher
37 lay out dinner
38 wash clothes
39 cook dinner and clean up after dinner mess
40 watch a few minutes of TV or get online
41 set alarm and go to bed
42 start all over again
so there's my usual day at work and once again im sure any other walmart associate can relate to this no matter what there level is . had to get it out
Friday, July 23, 2010
....
Well Shawn's foot is Fractured in 3 places his foot is black and blue . he has nothing to take for the pain and stuck on light duty for a week . Apparently fractured bones must heal very very quickly . especially when a 2000 pound pallet gets stuck on your foot . anyways that's among one of our issues right now, But other than all that life is OK . I baught Shawn a book to study his ASVAB . Hopefully everything will go well and he will get a very good score .
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Life is Grand right now
Im so unbelievable happy . Shawn and I are married and its been amazing ever since . Shawn will be going to college this fall semester to get 15 college credits then to pass the ASVAB test then on to basics I will be leaving our apartment and moving in with my mom to save money till we get moved to a base then I will be Mrs. Smith airforce wife . We will possibly be joining our extended family Mannon and Ashley depending on what career shawn chooses . Im so excited a lot of hard road ahead of us .
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