Photo Lab...

While I was at work I developed a lot of film (I worked the photo lab in retail world). There was a lot of half taken rolls of film that we developed. Generally when I'm over there... there is not NEARLY as much film that isn't full. But everyone had to document the damages taken to their houses, trees, and yards. You could see the major effects of the storm beyond just what had happened at retail world. Beyond what had happened outside our house. Beyond what had happened at my parent's house. Vehicles were damaged and trailers were damaged. There really was NO preparing to do... because it went from rain to hell in seconds. People who weren't scared of storms before became scared of them. Or at least uneasy about them. Just because of how quickly it changed from just a storm... to something far worse. But it also made me THANKFUL that our damage was minimal compared to some of those around us!

The Storm Is Over Now...

About an hour before I got off work today we had some PURE craziness hit! There was a storm coming. I knew it from my lunch at about 12:30 but I never expected what ended up happening. It turned out to be one of those storms that turn out a bit worse than expected.

The damage at our house was minimal. It tore up the tarps that we had outside. We have a car port and to keep the snow/weather from coming in we had tarps up. The neighbor lost a tree... which covered the road but didn't hit anything to cause any real damage. But beyond that, we were fine this time.

The damage at my parent's house was far worse. It took out all three of their trees but fortunately none of them landed on anything that couldn't be replaced. Dear Husband will be helping them tomorrow so that they can get that cleaned up faster. They already started on it tonight. So that is great! The electric company also managed to come and get the electric turned on for them. The phone line was repaired (it only broke the thing on the outside so that Steve got up on the ladder and replaced that) by Dear Husband tonight.

The damage at Retail World will be a bit more costly and probably take a bit more time. We lost about 3 of our sun domes. Mostly due to hail I'm sure. But it was quick.. it just broke and the rain came pouring in right over our softlines. We also moved quick and got them out of the way and buckets and tried to save as much of the clothes as we could. UGH! We did however, have some other leaks through the ceiling. They will have to repair those too. But we also lost our clearance tent (all clothing). The tent went down easily. We didn't try to save anything out there because it was to dangerous outside. So we concentrated on the stuff inside. The one person who went out... ended up getting hurt so yeah, that was a loss. Probably.

I'm glad that the storm is over for now... at least it made the last hour go fast as we are trying to run around and save things. But it's bad timing since we have inventory coming in soon! Very soon!

Traded In...

So, our Wal Mart was having an awsome sell on this lap top computer. It was a Toshiba and it was 17 inches. But it didn't have a web cam built in and it was missing a lot of extras. Well, I got tired of waiting for 5 minutes for the dang thing to boot up. I realized why this computer was SOOO cheap compaired to the others they had. Then I got to thinking that if I'm going to spend money, I want something that works. Ya know? So I put everything back in the box and I got my reciept together and took it back tonight. Then, after I was done doing that... I went ahead and got a different one. I ended up doing one of the mini computers. It actually works really well. I have to get used to a little smaller typing area but overall, I am loving it! This one has a web cam on it... which is, of course awsome. It doesn't have a CD drive... which is fine... because I use my flash drive the most anyways. It is mostly being used for internet use and papers for school. I also made sure I got one that kind of stood out... so I picked red. I think I'm going to be keeping this one. So far it works great!! :)

Yesterday was a HARD evening... without going into to much detail I am EXTREMELY moody with my children leaving me. I can go from very happy to very sad within seconds. It's a depression but not a dangerous depression (if there is such a thing...). I mean I don't want to hurt/kill myself. But it hurts so much when they leave me even if it is only for a month. Even if I do NEED the break a little bit. It still hurts so I get pushed over the edge really easy! I can't wait for this time to be over.

I have some ideas that I want to post about here soon! I'm hoping I can remember them all. UGH! I'm extremely tired... so I'm going to bed. I'll make another post tomorrow... maybe I'll work on a list of things I want to write about. Maybe not! Who knows.

P.S. I go to the school and get my books tomorrow! I'm kind of excited and kind of nervous!

Plans...

Dear Husband and the 5 lil' children are off to a birthday/graduation party. I hope that they have a lot of fun!! It should be. I will be working. Oh the joys of working retail world when it is open 24/7 (minus Christmas). But at least I'll be earning Premium hours!

Um, NOT ME!

I've decided to participate in the "Not Me" Monday carnival hosted by My Charming Kids! Go on over there and visit with her and her awesome family!!

1. I did NOT do a bunch of changes on my blog this week. I didn't turn it into a blue blog with some "secrecy" behind it. I didn't turn it into a three column blog. :) Not me! That didn't require me to play around with coding... something I enjoy but I hardly ever do because I don't want to mess something up and start ALL over!
2. It was NOT I who succeeded in week 1 of C25K! I am NOT nervous about starting next week's plan.... Because this week's wasn't all that EASY to start with. Now we are pushing already! But we'll check after day one. (Which isn't today of course!)
3. I didn't get online today to check my paycheck stub online so I could actually budget out my paycheck to make sure I would have phone and internet! LOL!
4. My husband didn't pick up a turtle on the road that was a water turtle which we then didn't placed in a tank. The kids DON'T like him at all.
5. I didn't go over to My Charming Kids and read her tutorial that she has over there.
6. I didn't want to hurry up and just get my own camera that wasn't point and shoot. I haven't been waiting patiently for a LONG time... and I'm NOT about tired of waiting.

Hum, that's about all I can think of for now... I'm gonna sign off here... enjoy a holiday with the family... clean up the house a bit. Everything I typically do BUT go into work! WOOT!