🙂 Weird company-wide survey we all had to take this week that didn’t seem related to our situation in the least. Like asking us if we’d like a game room (fuzball, darts, etc.)? Or a nap room. A nap room? Well, sure. Paid gym membership? Um … But, but, but ….
I actually started laughing out loud at some of these questions as we haven’t seen so much as a tiny cost of living raise in 8 years and there has been no effort to restore the pay cuts we took 5 years ago. 401k match, gone. Health insurance, way up. Makes you wonder who’s running this operation (oh yeah, bankers; I guess for them a nap room would be cheaper to give us than raises).
The answers they’ll get from us about overall morale should be sobering to them. Or maybe not.
😦 Speaking of work, we have probably 25 positions throughout our 9 regional papers that have openings that aren’t being filled — and seemingly no plans to file them. Our newsroom has maybe 4-5 reporters (on a good day) scattered amid a sea of empty desks. We simply can’t cover what we should be covering with a staff this small. It’s unsustainable. Everyone’s either stressed to the hilt or has gone onto autopilot. Rant over.
😦 Heat wave. Again. When will it end?
😦 May have to update a story sometime this weekend, waiting to hear, having to put feelers out.
😦 Almost 80 degrees in the house already at 9 a.m. Fans working overtime.
🙂 OK, time to get into the kitchen and do some cleanup before it gets even hotter.
🙂 A tentative date for the sale of Lee’s route. (October 21. Maybe.)
🙂 A new online friendship that has crossed into exchanging emails. We have a lot in common, but also enough differences to keep it interesting. From her words of appreciation to me, I can see that God is using me to bless her. That makes me feel good, to know God is using me to touch this sweet lady’s life. (I hope that doesn’t sound like I’m bragging about being used by God, because I truly do feel humbled by it. It always surprises me when someone tells me that God has used me to touch them, & I am so grateful to God for doing so.)
🙂 On Wednesday, Lee & I had a nice lunch with our Pastor Billy & his wife Renee. We got along very well, & easily. Lee & I feel very good about this young man being our pastor. He has a maturity beyond his years, as does his wife.
🙂 A really nice walk with my hubby earlier in the week
🙂 A really nice supper last night with a couple who is going to be very significant in our older daughter’s life in days to come (someday we hope to share grandkids)
We like the young man, but I can’t say I’m sure how I feel about being a stepmother-in-law . . . isn’t that like being the wicked witch of the west?
😦 The cost of that really nice supper (not really extravagant, but more than we like to spend for a meal, even for a birthday or special event)
🙂 Our weather these days is super lovely
😦 . . . all the more a distraction when I’m trying to work!
But really, God is good all the time, and He gives us many good things to enjoy.
😦 I backed into a wall I didn’t see. Nat big enough to see looking back. I damaged the rear bumper. 🙂 I’m glad it was me because if it were her, I would have made an incorrect assumption.
Chuck’s kids came over last night for dinner and we had a nice visit.
Donna, that wall is only about two feet high. If my bumper were a real bumper, no problem.
Nowadays bumpers are just sheet meta. the only harm is the way it looks.
I violated my own principle of “Know what’s behind you before you back up.
But I thought I did. I was turning around.\
Cameron! Greetings! I used to be Cheryl D. but at age 44 (four years ago) I married a widower with two (at the time) teenage daughters, and am now living in Indiana. So now I’m Cheryl . . .
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🙂 It’s Saturday
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😦 :-)Way too much to do
🙂 😦 busy weekends until Thanksgiving, which pretty much means the rest of the year.
😦 Tired and in need of some down time with none in sight.
😦 Whiny
🙂 Two year-old birthday party here at lunchtime.
😦 Worried about my gift
🙂 Many blessing.
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🙂 Graduated from physical therapy last week.
🙂 Sudden improvement yesterday in my range of motion in the hardest direction.
🙂 Lots of great music to prepare for upcoming piano performances.
🙂 New group school time going well with the 8-, 11- and 14-year-old children.
🙂 18-year-old, who is graduated, enjoys sitting in on the group school time too.
🙂 22-year-old coming home this afternoon for a weekend visit.
🙂 She is bringing a surprise belated birthday gift for the 8-year-old — a tank for our latest pet, a little turtle, which 8-year-old takes care of.
🙂 Gorgeous sunny days and perfect temperatures — usually mid-70s for the highs for a good two weeks now.
😦 Too many things to do inside to take full advantage of the great weather.
😦 Hubby and his arm/shoulder/back/neck pain.
😦 Spiritual warfare amid all the blessings.
🙂 All the blessings. 🙂
🙂 God and His faithfulness.
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🙂 Saturday!!!! Yay.
🙂 Weird company-wide survey we all had to take this week that didn’t seem related to our situation in the least. Like asking us if we’d like a game room (fuzball, darts, etc.)? Or a nap room. A nap room? Well, sure. Paid gym membership? Um … But, but, but ….
I actually started laughing out loud at some of these questions as we haven’t seen so much as a tiny cost of living raise in 8 years and there has been no effort to restore the pay cuts we took 5 years ago. 401k match, gone. Health insurance, way up. Makes you wonder who’s running this operation (oh yeah, bankers; I guess for them a nap room would be cheaper to give us than raises).
The answers they’ll get from us about overall morale should be sobering to them. Or maybe not.
😦 Speaking of work, we have probably 25 positions throughout our 9 regional papers that have openings that aren’t being filled — and seemingly no plans to file them. Our newsroom has maybe 4-5 reporters (on a good day) scattered amid a sea of empty desks. We simply can’t cover what we should be covering with a staff this small. It’s unsustainable. Everyone’s either stressed to the hilt or has gone onto autopilot. Rant over.
😦 Heat wave. Again. When will it end?
😦 May have to update a story sometime this weekend, waiting to hear, having to put feelers out.
😦 Almost 80 degrees in the house already at 9 a.m. Fans working overtime.
🙂 OK, time to get into the kitchen and do some cleanup before it gets even hotter.
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😦 I’m not really as cranky as I sound. 🙂
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oops, I am sorry, but the guest room is now full.
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I am.
Well, maybe not. I’m about to spend an hour in the Bible. 🙂
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🙂 A tentative date for the sale of Lee’s route. (October 21. Maybe.)
🙂 A new online friendship that has crossed into exchanging emails. We have a lot in common, but also enough differences to keep it interesting. From her words of appreciation to me, I can see that God is using me to bless her. That makes me feel good, to know God is using me to touch this sweet lady’s life. (I hope that doesn’t sound like I’m bragging about being used by God, because I truly do feel humbled by it. It always surprises me when someone tells me that God has used me to touch them, & I am so grateful to God for doing so.)
🙂 On Wednesday, Lee & I had a nice lunch with our Pastor Billy & his wife Renee. We got along very well, & easily. Lee & I feel very good about this young man being our pastor. He has a maturity beyond his years, as does his wife.
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🙂 Some good progress on the big book I’m editing
😦 Not where I actually want to be on it, though
🙂 A really nice walk with my hubby earlier in the week
🙂 A really nice supper last night with a couple who is going to be very significant in our older daughter’s life in days to come (someday we hope to share grandkids)
😦 The cost of that really nice supper (not really extravagant, but more than we like to spend for a meal, even for a birthday or special event)
🙂 Our weather these days is super lovely
😦 . . . all the more a distraction when I’m trying to work!
But really, God is good all the time, and He gives us many good things to enjoy.
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🙂 We’re in Williamsburg.
😦 It rained all the way. Still raining.
😦 I backed into a wall I didn’t see. Nat big enough to see looking back. I damaged the rear bumper. 🙂 I’m glad it was me because if it were her, I would have made an incorrect assumption.
Chuck’s kids came over last night for dinner and we had a nice visit.
😦 😦 This laptop keyboard.
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Chas, you guys at batting 1000 with the cars this week. 🙂
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Donna, that wall is only about two feet high. If my bumper were a real bumper, no problem.
Nowadays bumpers are just sheet meta. the only harm is the way it looks.
I violated my own principle of “Know what’s behind you before you back up.
But I thought I did. I was turning around.\
“-) Gamecocks won.
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Go Brett Rypien.
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🙂 I found this site after years of being away!
😦 the twins napped late today, so bedtime is not going well…
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Hi Cameron!
It’s been nice being Facebook friends, but I’m also glad to see you here.
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Hi Cameron! Good to see you again. It has been years.
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Cameron!
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Plaid!
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Cameron! Greetings! I used to be Cheryl D. but at age 44 (four years ago) I married a widower with two (at the time) teenage daughters, and am now living in Indiana. So now I’m Cheryl . . .
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Hi Cameron – I haven’t met you yet, but welcome! Looking forward to getting to know you and having another online friend!
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Hello, Cameron! Nice to have you here.
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Hello, Cameron. I think I was after your time, but I was formerly known as Phos when we were on World Mag.
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