Chix Chat

That’s all for now. Talk to you soon! God bless!

Hi Anne,

Olivia had her yearly check up today.  Everything is A-Ok, thank goodness. She is very healthy. She is going to be 10 on September 27.

Yeah I know how it is when DA BOSS can get into his {or her moods}  Ive never had a male boss before and you know how Nora can get in her moods sometimes.  My boss at *****, Joanne was alot sterner than Nora and for the longest time I was well, nervous around her.  I mean, it wasn’t like she was a tyrant or anything, but I always felt like she was watching me, you know?  I was much more comfortable with Nora right away.  With the exception of what happened last October, I’ve really had no major problems with Nora.

Kristin said to me yesterday, "I definitely don’t like that Ashley girl."  I worked with her yesterday for a few hours and I really do try to give everyone a chance but I just don’t like her. Another example:  when Nora or me or Kristin was trying to tell her how to something, she doesnt even pay attention.  THen she screws up and we have to fix it.  For example, on Tuesday we got a shipment in of merchandise which were boxes of ornaments.  We have to price the actual item and not the box it comes in.  So I was explaining to Ashley how we price things and as I’m talking to her, I’m looking at her face and she wasn’t paying attention to a word that I was saying!  GRRR!!    SO I said, "You got all that?"  and she said "Yeah, I got it" in an annoyed voice and kinda waved her hand as if she were shooing a fly away.  So I let her go to see if she really "got it".  So what does this half-wit do?  She goes ahead and prices the freaking boxes instead of the items!!  Me and Kristin had to peel the stickers off all the boxes and put them on the items while Ashley just stood there and watched us.  Both me and Kristin explained to Ashley we have to open the boxes and check the items because if anything is broken, this is the only time Nora can claim them.  And Ashley gave us both this dirty look as if she was saying "Don’t tell me what to do."  I CAN’T STAND HER!!  Nora said to me, "I’m going to wait until everyone meets her and works with her and if nobody likes her, I’m going to have to let her go."  Oh please do!

 Thank you for keeping Bob in your prayers. Both of us really appreciate it.  About his vision being improved:  he won’t know for a few weeks until the eye is completely healed.  Thank God his right eye is fine.  The scratch on his cornea is completely healed.

When I thought up of that scenerio about you telling Ron your true feelings for him, I was thinking about all the letters I wrote to my crushes over the years.  Yes, what a romantic fool I was.  First there was TJ.  I wrote an "I like you letter " to him back in 1990, and then around the same time I wrote an annoymous "Like you" letter to Jeff.  Ok, lets just say I was very fickle back then and I liked both of them.  Btw, I don’t think Jeff ever found out it was me.  Then in 1994 when I liked Matthew and when he moved out of state {first to Wisconsin then to California} I wrote a few letters to him, but he never wrote back except for one postcard.  And finally of course you know about Chaz.  I wrote that letter three years ago.  I wrote out a rough draft of it and every once in awhile I’ll read it.  Sometimes I’m so amazed at how brave I was concerning Chaz.  Its just so different when feelings are recipocated, you know?  I must of written in my diary a hundred times how I "loved" Tj or Matthew or Chaz or whoever.. "Oh, I love {name}  so much!"  Meanwhile  it was as far from love as it could get.  When I say {write} "I love Bob" or when I say it to him and he says it back to me {or vice versa}  I can feel it.  Its amazing.  If I could go back, I wouldn’t change a thing.  I look back now on my crushes with fondness.  I honestly think had my heart wouldn’t have ever been broken, I wouldn’t come to realize what a wonderful blessing Bob’s love for me is, and I might be taking it for granted.  Does that make sense?

Ok, a chat for Saturday it is then!  I work in the morning, how about maybe 6 or 7 pm my time?

Well, thats it for today!  Till next time, take care and God bless!

God bless the USA!

Yes, I’m finally answering your Monday e-mail.  Yay!  Do I get a gold star?

The turnout at the Enigmachat went well.   four people joined me which is  a pretty good turnout.  Unfortunately Bob wasn’t one of them.  I later found out he didn’t get out of work until 2:30 Sunday afternoon!  

I’m sorry to hear that Ron is leaving {well, taking a leave of absence}  I mean, yeah I know that you know he isn’t the kind of man you shouldn’t be involved with, but I’m sure it was fun for you to see him whenever you did and have those giddy crush feelings.  Do you know what gas station he’s going to be a manager at?  *giggle* I’m just thinking of a completely embarassing scenerio here:  What if Ron was going to move out of the country and in a moment of total bravery {or temporary insanity, lol}  you wrote him a letter declaring your innermost desires for him "What the hey, I’m never going to see him again, anyway,"  you reason to yourself, and then you find out he isn’t leaving after all!!  Talk about wanting to disappear through a crack in the sidewalk! So yes Anne, make sure Ron is really out of the country before you confess your true feelings for him! *giggle*

That’s ok about not being able to chat on Thursday.  The only other day I can do it is on Saturday.  Would that be a problem?  If it is, we can always try for a day next week.

 That is wierd about Penny’s brother calling you and saying your phone # was on his caller ID.  Do you think maybe he was just using that as an excuse to call you?  I don’t know, its just a hunch on my part.

Thanks for thinking the journal that Bob and I have is a good idea.  I just thought about it one day back in January and I mentioned it to him.  He thought it was a good idea as well.  He doesn’t write as much as me, but thats ok.  As a writer, I could probably sit down and write 10 pages in an hour!

He went to the eye doctor yesterday.  There stil is a little bit of a leak in his left eye.  His eye doctor gave him medication for it.  If that doesn’t clear up his eye, he’s going to have to have another surgery.  I hope not!  He didn’t sound too worried about it so I guess that’s a good thing.

And now here comes the part of my e-mail where I vent:  Nora hired a new girl. Her name is Ashley and shes about 21.  She started on Monday.  I DON’T LIKE HER!!  I mean, I didn’t like Shawna at the beginning either, but she grew on me.  I don’t think Ashley will grow on me.  To put it in a nutshell she has a condensending, "I’m better than you attitude"  I can give you a dozen examples but I’ll give you one right now: On Monday when we worked together for the first time she said to me {mind you in that uppity, condensending tone} "ANd how old are you?"  "I’m 29".  "Oh.  ANd do you do anything besides this?"  "No, I don’t work here anywhere else".  I got the feeling when she asked me that that someone my age should be working a more high class job than [the store].  Hey, its a job and it pays benefits.  I was telling Nora about it later and  I mused "I should have said to her, ‘I’m a lap dancer on the weekend." LOL  Nora doesn’t like her either and I don’t think Kristin does either.  Oh! Let me give you  another example:  When a shipment of mercandise comes in, we price them with our own stickers because the numbers on the stickers is whats in our invetory in the computers.  So each item has the orginal bar code and also our stickers (which have bar codes as well}  We scan OUR stickers.  But sometimes they don’t scan so what we have to do is type in our number into the computer.  Simple enough, right?  Ok, so here’s Ashley ringing up a customer and I’m watching her.  She was trying to scan an item, but it wouldn’t take.  So I said to her "you’re going to have to punch in the number"  She flips the tag over to where the product bar code is and says to me "Well, maybe its this one I’m supposed to scan".  I said "No, you scan OUR sticker"  she said to me "Are you sure?"  {in that uppity voice}. I just said "Yes."  what i was thinking was "Um, Hello?!  I’ve been here for 3 years… and how long have you been here?  One freaking day! So I think I know what I’m talking about!"

Ok, I’m done venting for the moment!  I will give you more examples in upcoming e-mails!  Even Psycho Karen was nice at the beginning, then she turned into a real mental case.  Maybe, hopefully it will be the reverse with Ashley, but I doubt it.  some people are just plain unlikable.

Well, thats it for today!  Till next time, take care and God bless!

God bless the USA!

Its Sunday afternoon… its raining… I’m off work today… WOO HOO!!   THe Enigmachat will be underway in just a few hours … another WOO HOO!! 

thanks again for the hallmark card.  I love their e-cards, but I don’t like how you have a 500 character limit!   there are some card sites where you can write as much as you want. Some e-card sites like bluemountain.com and e-greetings.com actually charge a fee if you want to send their cards.  That totally sucks!  

Yes Bob does lament what could have been if he found his current eye doctor sooner.  But he tries not to dwell on it.  He is just grateful that she did save the sight in his right eye and saved what sight he had left in his bad eye.  You know, sometimes I forget that he has glaucoma. When he first told me about it, it made no difference to me.  Some women are so shallow, it probably be an issue for them because they want someone "perfect".  Well, Bob is as close to "perfect" to me as perfect can get.

He sent me a gift package yesterday.   among all the items was the latest tapes of music he made for me, and as usual, he put his voice on them.  He was being quite silly at times here and I just find his sense of humor so sexy.  He also sent back the journal.  Have I told you about that?  Well back in February I bought a journal and suggested that we take turns in writing our feelings about "us" in it. He thought it was a good idea and the journal has been passed back and forth between us  since then.  He’s had it since July and now I have it.  I like to look back and read our previous entries and see how much our relationship has progressed.

No, I didn’t read that post on the Gioia board about the guy saying he wasnt jumping on the "patriotic bandwagon" .  No, I don’t have a problem either about seeing "God Bless America" everywhere.  Let me be on that "bandwagon" too!

So, Kinnith is going out of town for two weeks?  I think that’s a good thing.  It will give you time to think about all of this.  As I said in our chat last week, I would give it about one or two more dates, if there is no attraction after that, then there probably never will be.

Speaking of chats… I’m off on Thursday {9/19}  would you like to chat then?  I’m off on Friday too but I’m going to the Toby Keith concert then.   I’m going again with Shelly and SHane but this time I don’t feel as uncomfortable about it, you know?  Maybe I was a bit wary the first time because I was afraid of feeling like the "third wheel".

well, thats it for now!  till next time, take care and God bless!

God bless the USA!

Michele

As I said in my e-card to you yesterday, I can’t believe its been a whole year since 9/11.  I was ok yesterday.  A little sad, but I had peace knowing that our country is strong.  So many stories… so many people.  It took them 21/2 hours to read all the names of all the people who died at the WTC.  My heart especially breaks at the stories of the pregnent women who lost their husbands/boyfriends. That is just so sad.

Ok, enough about sad things for now…. I don’t want this e-mail to be a downer!

Bob’s eye is healing quite nicely.  He took the patch off yesterday and he hasn’t had any pain, thank God.  He has to go in on Tuesday to get his stitches pulled.  His eye doctor is a lifesaver.  He’s convinced had it not been for her, he would be blind now.  She was the third doctor he went to.  If only he went to her first, maybe he wouldn’t have lost the sight in his left eye that he did.

So, Dr. ***** said "I love you too"?  *giggle*  I’m sure you felt a rush of heat go throughout your body when he said that.  I never had a crush on any of my teachers in high school but if I did and they would say "I love you too", even if it was sarcastically I would probably get a serious case of the giggles!

Have you talked to Kinnith?  Yes, I think its good that you need to tell him where you stand with him.  Have you gone out with him again?

THANK YOU for explaining that scene in XXX to me!  Yes I admit that I did read it, I couldn’t help it, the suspense was too great!  Mmm.. I could see why that scene intrigued you so much!   Danielle and I were going to go to the movies yesterday but I was just too tired when I got home from work.  I only got a few hours sleep the night before.  Bob and I were on the phone until about 2am my time and then I had to get up at 7:30 for work. I got the attack of the giggles when I was on the phone with him.  He laughed too… I really think he got a kick out of me.  We can get really silly with each other at times.

I’m looking forward to our chat tonight at 9:30 my time.  I have to work tomorrow morning, but I can still chat for a little bit. You know how I was supposed to start at 4 today?  Well Nora asked me yesterday if I could start at 1.  Shoot!  I was looking forward to just "relaxing" today until I had to go in.  Oh well.  I have to work until 5 tomorrow and maybe I’ll be able to leave a bit early.

Have I mentioned that Nora is going to a taping of the Oprah show?  She’s really excited about it.  She is going on Sept 26th.  She dosen’t know what the topic is… she’s hoping it will be a celebrity interview or something.  *giggle*  I’m imagining what it would be like if you and I were at a show like that and Arnold Vosloo was on.  We would both be screaming and "Whoo-Hooing" so much we’d probably be kicked out of the studio!  As security would be draging us away, my parting words to Arnold would be "Just one night with you! No strings attached!"

Well that’s it for now…. I’ll see you in messenger later tonight!  Have a great day, Anne!  God bless!

God bless the USA!