We're not really busy at work, with customers, but we are busy filling up the case from yesterday, which was food stamp day.  Making sandwiches, salads etc and other orders like the 50 piece cold chicken order, and the other orders in the deli. 

My closer come in at noon, and the first thing she does is starts washing dishes, no helping me make salads, no waiting on customers, she walked right past one on her way to the sink while I was trying to make burritos for the case. So I had to stop everything to slice meat .

Makes for a very grump Kris....

I love the fall days, the cool crisp air, the leaves turning to yellow and red.  But I don't like the super cold weather that we have been having, as I've had  to scrap the frost off of the windows the last couple of days, the cold misty rain, that turned to snow yesterday for just a little bit during  the day.

Thursday, I opened a new account at Union Bank and Trust, and I'm happy with the move.  I still haven't closed my Wells Fargo account, and probably won't, since I can use that account to pay for rent to my parent's account.

We went to Micheal's boy scout awards banquet.  We were the only other than parent's there, and I felt so out of place.

I've been watching movies on scrapbooking on Photoshop element, and I'm excited about creating my first digital scrapbook. 

I miss Mike, it's been 2 days since I talked to him last, or seen him, I went to the Red Deer Lodge, to visit him and help build duck blinds.  Hopefully he'll call me sometime soon. 

Went to the Pumpkin Patch craft fair today, and I bought a couple of cute things like a snowman lover's pillow, snowman ornaments, scentsy scents, and a cute little snowman quilt.  

Then we went to PK trading, a 2nd store, where I bough more snowman ornaments, a cute snowman wreath, and a snowman.

Think I like snowmen?

Cleaned house. Watched TV. Hung out with the family.

Did I mention it snowed last night? Just a little skiff of snow, gone pretty much by 10am, but still it snowed.

The Pepsi man didn't make it yesterday.   It's so sad, his 5 month old daughter won't even know who he is or was, and his 5 yr old son will grow up without a father.

There's just  been way to many accidents around here.

Wow what a day at work. One the way to work, I met two ambulances going out of town to the west, now, to most people, seeing two ambulances going out is nothing but to me in a small town, it is a very big deal.  Usually it means a very ad accident has happened, and we very rarely have very bad accidents in my area but they have been increasing this last year. 

So I pull into work, park, walk in and the door is open cause I'm the 8am person.  I ask in the deli if anyone has heard about the accident. And Roberta said that her husband Bill called as he was heading to work in Merriman, and seen the accident and knew who it was. It was the Pepsi man, we all know him, he's in the store daily.  We're on pens and needles, wondering if he survived the horrible accident or if he was dead.   We're a small town, everyone knows everyone, and we know that he has a 5 yr old son and a 5 month old daughter with a heart condition, and that his wife is in Omaha at a doctor appointment.   We also know the Pepsi mans parent's, he has a trucking business, and his wife is a RN at the hospital, and we all pray that she's not on at the hospital when they bring him in.  We also know that she's only his step mother but it would still be awful.  

So we get to work, trying to keep the accident out of our mind, and the people that had the wedding cake, came in and picked it up, and I have a meat and cheese order for another person that had passed away, but he's a elderly man, that is well known in our little community, a radio annoucer,  a singer in the local band.   He's been battling brain cancer for the last couple of years.  

Then we get a call from the couple that picked up the wedding cake, it's the wrong cake, not the cake that they ordered at all, and it's 4 hours away from the big day. No time to fix  the cake, as the cake decorator is out of town.  So I hand  the phone off to the manager. 

The morning is gone, what seems like just the matter of minutes, and the 12 o'clock person comes in, and were so busy slicing meats and cheeses.  It's just crazy.  There's no Nebraska football game this weekend, and people are out shopping. That and the wind has died down, after blowing for three days straight.

After work, I feed the horses, then head to the house to search the web on digital scrapbooking. I found a few sites that really interest me, and I signed up for a few online classes. I so want to year how to do the photoshop elements with scrapbooking.  I also plan on taking more pictures with my camera.   I plan on buying some templates and learn how to do it.  

I came home work sick yesterday, it just hit me at work, right after cleaning the filters on the fryers.  Spent the rest of the afternoon on the couch and in the bathroom.   Felt better in the late afternoon/early evening, hung out on  the computer/watched TV.

Feel allot better this morning, well at least to go to work.  I like going to work on the weekends, I do, it gets me away from home, peace and quiet. 

I miss that peace and quiet,  no yelling, no arguing, just nice peaceful mornings, while sipping a cup of hot cocoa, while looking out the living room window. 

The family was suppose to be gone today, my Aunt was going to be in Thedford, so everyone was going to go there to see them, but my Aunt went back home, they live in Loveland, Co, as she hadn't been feeling well, has a cold and sinus infection. So everyone is home. Megan came home at 10am, after spending the night at a friends house. They had Homecoming last night and the dance didn't get over until midnight, so she just went home with her friend.  But then Megan decided that she wanted to go  and pick grapes at the FFA advisors home near Nenizel. Which made my sister and very unhappy little camper, she was wanting to clean house, and work on crafts. So there was allot of drama and yelling.  The niece said that she could drive herself there, this is coming from a 14 yr old, with not a even a learners permit, who thinks she can just go and get her student permit on Wed,  and not even do the 2 months of driving on the Learners Permit, before getting the Student Permit.  

It'll be nice on Wed to go with Mom to Rapid City to take the neighbor lady to the doctor.   Get away from it all.  I wish we were doing it on Monday rather than Wed, but Mom thought that we'd go out to the casino for my birthday. 

I'm so ticked off right now, not at the family, it's my bank. I bank at Wells Fargo,  and they've done a few things in the past to upset me, but after today, they really ticked me off.   I deposited my check on 9/23 and then on 9/24 I used my debit card to purchase gas for $35.97.   And the $35.97 charge bounced, and I was charged with a $35 overdraft fee. I called them and they said that the check hadn't cleared, but the debt purchase had, so they charged me with a overdraft fee.  I called them and complained, and all they said was that's business and I told them that I had the right to find a bank that would work with me.  

So I called around to the two other banks in town, and finally decided that I'm going with Union Bank and Trust, they have a promotion going, that if I sign up I get $50 and then the person that referred me would get 5000 points on the program that they have and Jolene uses.  So I called Jolene and asked if she would want to do it, and well of course she did. Duh. So come Monday I will sign up for a checking account at Union Bank and Trust.  I did look at the other bank, and it's the bank that my employer uses, and they have a promotion going on too, if I sign up that they will give me $100 sign up bonus, but I didn't really like there online banking site.  

So Monday, I'll be heading off to Union Bank and Trust and sign up for a new checking account.

It's starting to feel like fall around here, there's a crisp feel in the air, and it's been overcast and just plain chilly outside for the last couple of days. 

I think my niece's problems are all parental,  she hadn't been parented with my sister and brother in law, and know that she's here with us and we have rules, she's acting out.  She quite intelligent, and bright, and has no problems adjusting to moving and making new friends.  Her problems stems when she is told No, and then when she knows she is not going to get her way she throws a fit, it goes from begging to full out crying and screaming when she doesn't get her way.  She did calm down, after realizing she was not going to get her way.  

But she's so attached to that phone, and she has plans to get a better phone, with a job that she's hoping to get at McDonalds, she applied for a job, but I really don't think she understands just how many hour she can work since she's only 14 yrs old, she can only work until 7pm.  She thinks that she'll be making allot of money, and that she can save up to buy a car, buy school clothes and a new cellphone.

They are planning on moving into Grandma's house once Cindy and Rich move out from not paying rent,  but the niece thinks that she can just go in and recarpet the whole house, repaint the house, and do whatever she wants to do to the house. I told her that she needed to okay it with the owners of  the house, even if it is her own grandparent's.  She doesn't think that she should have to ask to redecorate a rental house since they will be the ones paying the rent, but I told her she doesn't own the house,  that they are just living in the house.   And all should could say is Whatever Aunt Kris and your crazy rules. I asked if she could redecorate there base housing and she said that they couldn't do anything to it. 

It just irritates me that she thinks that the everything belongs to her to do whatever she wants to do it it, when ever she wants to do it.

She's only going to be living 3 blocks from school and I told her that she could walk to school, and she said that she'd never ever walk, which is so sad, I told her that walking is a great form of exercise, and she told me that she gets enough exercise in PE.  

But I'll let her let life give her the harsh reality, that working at a minimum wage job, doesn't pay the greatest, and that if she does horse around and is on her cell phone 24/7 that she can and will get fired.  

I know I've been missing, actually I've been reading all my LJ friends entries but not posting myself.  I spent the night out at Jolene's on Monday night since I had Tuesday off.   I needed to get away from home.  Get a good night sleep. 

Then last night, the niece had another drama attack, and unleashed her fury of wrath when she didn't get her way. She wanted her Mom  to take her to a friends house at 6:20am, and her Mom said No, and the niece had a fit, called her Mom a few choice names, told her she wished she never had a Mom, and then my sister took her cellphone away from her, and my niece had another temper tantrum. That lasted 3 hrs.  She cried and bawled, and cried and bawled, screamed and cried,  told  her Mom that she wished she never had a Mom, and that if her Mom loved her that she would actually let her do the things she wanted to do.  She then made up this big story that her friend in Nevada had threatened to kill herself tonight, and that she needed to talk to her on the phone or she would do something stupid.   Then when we asked her to see the text messages she told us that she deleted them.  That it was private, and we didn't need to see her text messages. 

I missed watching my NCSI  and NCSI  LA and was a little torked about that.  I was looking forward to it.  I know I sound a little childish, niece is going through drama and all I can worry about is a TV show.

The niece asked if I could take her to her friends house when I left for work at 5:30 am and I told her No, that I wasn't going to go against her mother's wishes. She wasn't impressed that I wasn't going to take her.

Tonight I hope that it's nice and quiet.....

I am going to go to the discount store and buy a container to put my shower stuff in it, so that I can just pick it up and go.  I forgot that I left my shampoo, conditioner, and body wash out, and the conditioner, and most of the body wash is gone. 

The niece and I are the only ones that use the bathroom downstairs. I mentioned it to my sister, and she turned it back at me, with all that they bought me at the commissary. Huh?  It's not like I have the food all to myself, the kids have been eating the cereal, and snack foods.  That and most of the food that they did buy was for using my cereal, and other snack foods. 

I told her that it wasn't the money, but that she didn't ask, or  tell me that she used all the shampoo, conditioner, and body wash, so when I wanted to use it, that I had none to use.  

After the shower this morning, I forgot to put my new body wash, PS I love You, that I bought from Bath and Body Works on Thursday, away.  I forgot about it when I arrived home from work, got busy with a few household things, and then when everyone was getting ready to go to the rodeo, I could smell it.  

The niece used it, she said she thought it was her Mom's so she just used it, without asking whose it was.   And she even had the nerve to ask if she could have it.  Nope. Sorry, if she'd went along to North Platte, but she decided to stay home. 

It just irks me that she uses things, anything without asking.  I know they are just living here, but she knows what's her's and what's not.  

I can't remember to put things away all the time. Really I shouldn't have too. I know what's mine, and what's not mine. 

I love nights like this, everyone is gone,  to the rodeo, and me. I stayed home, to just chill out, peace and quiet, no screaming, yelling, or drama. No  tantrums, no nothing, just me and the cats and the dog.  Sitting watching NCIS,  looking at the new, cross stitch stash. 

Work was nice and quiet, drama free.   Of course the drama queen wasn't at work. 

What makes the night even nicer, is that the niece is spending the night at a friends house, how sweet is that.  Sweet huh.  I thought so.  No being rudely awaken in the middle of the night, no listening to music at all hours, no lights shining in the bedroom, just peace and quiet.

Back to the cross stitch stash, a few months ago, I was given a few of granny's knick knacks, and one of those was two little fawns, vintage, but very cute.  I seen a cute cross stitch patterns, one that said So Happy, and the other said together, and it had a doe and her fawn on it, and bunnies sitting on the front.  Now all I need to do is find a little shelf to sit the deer on, and of course stitch  the patterns. I also bought flag day, it's a girl with a sheep, holding a flag, so very cute.

Trish called me tonight, asking how I bathed a horse, I told her with a rubber curry comb, and shampoo.   How hard is that?  I know, they're newish horse owners and want to do it correct, but they've washed a horse before, lots of time.   But I think, she just wanted to talk. 

Mike is gone for the weekend, think he went to see his folks before the hunting season begins at the hunting club where he cooks, and see his kids. It's pretty quiet around here.

I stayed home on Friday with Mike, he didn't have school today due to parent teacher conferences, but the high school and middle school did have school so Kim and the niece did in fact have school.  

I let him sleep until 10 am,  then it was getting him up, breakfast, he wanted cheese and crackers and I told him he had a choice between, cereal or a donut, and he chose cereal.  Had a tadbit grumping over it.  Getting him to put his medicine patch on for his ADHD, was a fight and then getting him to brush his teeth was another battle.  

Went and fed the horses, and he messed around outside, yacking about the horses.

Back inside, I put in a few loads of laundry, watched TV, and read a few books. 

Then Mike wanted to go to McDonalds, so we headed out he wanted a Big Mac and I had a Swiss and Mushroom Angus burger.  

Parents arrived home around 1pm from vacation. 

Then we headed out to the BBQ at Grannys assisted living, had hamburgers and brats, and salads.

Then back home fed  the horses, watched TV, and headed to bed around 9:30pm.

Then at 10:30pm, the niece arrived home and can tromping into the house,  speaking loudly to her mother, and then came tromping down the stairs, calling for her kitty, and yelled Where's my kitty at? I need my kitty.  I told her to be quiet as I was in bed asleep.   So much respect.  Showered and  then went to bed.

Up at 5am,  to make donuts....

It's been a very long day so far. All I can say is it November yet?

I actually had time to go and snap a few pictures of Lilly, while I was out checking the cows.  I need to get her in and start feeding her back up, she looks thin, just in pasture condition. 

Sis wants me to stay in  home and go with her to Mike's boy scout meeting, which I'd feel wierd going to since, it's not my kid and really I have nothing to do with boy scouts.  So I think I'll go out to the ranch, and look for the young calf, take a few pictures, and visit Jolene.

The niece is having a friend over tonight, since they have to leave to go to Grand Island to Husker Harvest days.  I think the niece is in for a eye opener, it's a ag show, allot of tractors, implements, and ag stuff. She thinks that they will get to go shopping, maybe at the HH days, but she's holding out that they will go to the mall.  

Then on Wed night she is planning on staying at her little friends house, she told her Mom she was doing this, and then after school have her Friends Mom drop her off at her house.  That way the niece can do whatever she wants to do, while we are gone to North Platte, but what she doesn't know is that I plan on taking the internet router cord and hiding it, so that she doesn't have access to the internet while she is home alone.

I'm not a betting person, but I bet that the Sis gives  the niece her cell phone service back tonight.

The niece still  thinks that she will be showing horses with me this summer, and I told her that she had to help out at the ranch before I'd take her to any horse shows, and she told me that she'd help with certain things and I told her No that she'd help out with whatever we did out at the ranch.  I told her that if she wanted to go to Lincoln and Freemont, to the APHA shows, she would have to help out at the ranch, and then stop arguing with everyone. Her step brother lives in Freemont, so I'm hoping that this will help with her wanting to help out around the ranch and with her manners. It's a long shot.

I forgot that she also signed my charge ticket at the gas station, and I told her that I guess she was paying for it, since she signed it. And she replied Whatever Aunt Kris. 

My sister informed me today, that they have been approved to move, actually it's something to do with my nephews medical condition, he has ADHD, to me I don't think it's as severe as they make it out to be, and my sister doesn't try to control it by diet, cut out the red food dye from his diet, he gets really hyper after drinking his strawberry milk,  and processed foods.  

Back to the original story, they've been approved to move, that means the packers now can go and pack up there house, and ship it to Nebraska and the BIL is going to be moving back, not sure where he will be stationed, but they meaning the sis, and her kids will live here in Valentine, so that the kids can go to school here. 

Which means that they can find a house to rent.

Which means Kris will get her life back. 

The niece ticked me off tonight, she was whining about not getting her laptop back, and that it wasn't fair, and that she really wanted that laptop back, tonight.  

Can you guess what happened next, the girl was told she was grounded for a week, and that was on Thursday,  didn't know it was Thursday already, did you. Man, the week went by rather quickly.

I  told the niece that I'm tired of always arguing with her, and that she always has to be right, to which she replied that she's doesn't say she's always right and went to argue that she doesn't always argue with a person. Funny the person that says  they never always argue, is arguing that they never argue. 

The niece wants to drive, and I told her to get a  Learners Permit and then we'd talk, and her reply was that Mom and Grandpa let her drive, and I told her that if she wrecked the pickup that we wouldn't be insured, and she said that Grandpa's insurance would cover her, since it covers me. I told her that I was a licensed driver,  and that's why they'd cover me, and not her.  And she's replied whatever Aunt Kris, have it your way.  I'm sure State Farm would love to hear that a  unlicensed, under aged child was driving the pick up when we wrecked the pickup.

But we're ruining her childhood by not letting her do the things  that she wants to do.

She also said that she's so ready to move into her own house so she can do the things that she wants to do, and not have anyone tattletale on her.  

She also said that her Dad is going to buy her a new bedroom set, flat screen TV, and a new car. 

I chose to ignore her and she kept repeating it.

She also said she's not going to North Platte with us on Thursday,  since she's going to a field trip with FFA on Wed, and that she's spending the night at a friends house. 

I decided that the router cord is going with us on Thursday, since we were informed that she'll just spend the day at home, while we are gone. Of course it'll be on the internet.  Not.  

Hopefully her Mother gets balls and doesn't give into giving her back her cellphone.  

I'd smack the kid up along side of the head, and ask her just who the hell gave her the right to speak to people in that manner, but I don't want to spend time in jail for a ingrateful kid.

I snapped at her for changing the radio station, and she said Grandpa lets me do it, and I said is Grandpa driving. And she said it was his pickup though.   And I told her I was driving and leave the damn radio be, and she got upset about everyone yelling at her. 

I was so excited about the parent's being gone for 10 days this spring, I love my parent's but it's so nice to have the house to yourself, watch TV, fix  the foods you like, etc.  But it's been living hell, since they moved in that I was ready to pack up and go on vacation with them for 10 days.  If I didn't have bankruptcy court on Thursday I would have.

I didn't mention the melt down that the niece had a few days ago, last Wed, she wanted to go to the movie, and her Mom said No, that she would be there to pick her up, and she said that she was at IGA, and her Mom said I'll be right there, and the niece said I'm not at IGA and I'm going to the movie, and her Mom said that when she got home she'd be grounded from the laptop, itouch, and cellphone.  I suggested we go and pluck the little niece from the movie but the Sis said No.

So she got home, actually we went to pick her up, and there was not a soul at the movie theater, no one, just the janiator of the theater, cleaning.    She lied to us once again said movie was to start at 7pm and it started at 6:44pm. 

Called and called her on her beloved cellphone, and finally after the 6th attempt she picked up, asked where she was, and she said that her friends parent's brought her home, and that she tried and tried to call us on the cellphone and the landline. Which was another out and out lie. i was in the basement, and never once heard the phone ring and it was sitting right next to me.

She wouldn't give up the cellphone, said it was hers, and that no one could take it away from her.  So her Mom gave her a option either give the cellphone now or have it shut off tomorrow. The niece screamed, bawled and screamed at her Mom some more, and kept the cellphone.

The next day her Mom shut off the cellphone, and when the niece found out that it was shut off, she started to bawl and scream for 4 hrs. It sounded like she had lost her best friend, with all the yelling and screaming, she called her Dad and told, acutally insisted that he tell her to turn it back on.  Told her Mom  that she was ruining her childhood. And that she was going to kill herself. She was getting desperate by then, when none of her tactic were working.  Had the pastor come and talk to her about it.

She got her ipod back last night, she said she needed music to fall asleep, but she's figured out that it has mobile internet on it, so Aunt Kris unplugs the router at night, just to tick the little niece off at night. She's not suppose to be on the internet past 9pm.

She told her Mom that she needed the laptop for English class, and it was another lie to get the laptop back, anything to get what Meagan wants.  Her Mom said that she was going to call the school to see if she actually needed the said laptop, and the niece said that she would do without.

She tells me on a daily basis that she doesn't have to listen to me, and that I'm not her Mom. Kim asked that Megan help move the bulls tomorrow horseback and I said No. She only wants to go and help with the fun stuff, so I said that until she could help with the not so fun stuff that she wouldn't help ride horses and move cows.  The niece also said that Grandpa gave her the buckskin horse, and I laughed at her, as that's my horse, and like hell I'd give it away esp to her. I didn't tell her that, but I did tell her that it was my horse, and it wasn't for sell.

She's so spoiled,  and tells me that she gets what she wants, all the time. And I laugh at her and tell her not with me, she had to earn it.

I know I'm a mean Aunt....

You know that doll I was talking about that I bought off of Etsy,   she said she was going to mail it the end of July, and I still haven't seen it, today, after I sent emails after emails, and gave her a negative on Etsy, she sends me a email saying she will ship it the end of the month, when she's feeling better.

There should be laws against people being grumpy at work.  I was in a perfectly good humor, after leaving home, and arriving at work, I was hit by a very grumpy deli person. Ruined the very good humor, after listening to her rant and rave about this and that not getting done the night before, just because heaven forbid she'd have to lift a finger and work. 

We were very busy in the beginning of work, making sandwiches, and packaging salads, but once Zella arrived at noon, we got caught up enough for me to go on break, and the rest is downhill from there.

Another 4 hours of work, and it'll be vacation/work time for me.  There's so much to do before we leave tomorrow afternoon.

I have  to go to bankruptcy court on Sept 17th at 1:30 pm, and my sister wants to go along except she has to go to parent/teacher conference from 10-11am the same day.  Did I mention that court is in North Platte, Nebraska, some 126 miles away. 

She thinks that she can go early, and be there for the 10am meetings, and we still can get to North Platte in time for my court hearing. I'd like to be there a little bit on the early side, so that I can find court house, meet with the attorney, and watch a few of the court cases before mine. I don't want to walk into court, and not be prepared.

Dad's in a grumpy mood today. Something about that he's the only one that does anything around the place, and has allot of stuff to get done before the sale, and vacation. Love it when Mom plans a vacation right around a major event.  Stresses everyone out.