slow to update

Sunday look for a current update. Captiva vacation, back to work and a deep dive.

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Our retreat at work last week, we played tourist.

So i have the evening to myself as Dago is off to his 4Life thing. The natural ingredients of the products work very well and I feel better taking them.

The work week is over ending with a ODS (one day sale) and my feet hurt, time for yoga toes.

They work for those of you who have never tried. I love them.

I am reading the Shack, interesting that God is a large African-American. mmmmmm

No more facts revealed as I know there are people out there that have not read the book.

Enjoying no TV since Wed pm. The satellite on the roof got misdirected by the construction crew and DirectTV gives such poor customer service that I cancelled my plan with them and am moving back to the local cable company. Bummed that my 24, Lost and Sarah Connor Chronicles are lost, but hey I can catch up on the computer. So I rented 3 movies for the weekend. Tonite I will be watching Changeling with Angelina Jolie. Tomorrow it will be Body of Lies with Leonardo and last night we watched TransSiberian with Woody Harrelson and Ben Kingsley. Not the ending I expected, good movie though.

So the construction crew that messed the TV situation has been doing upgrades for the past few weeks. I have a new wall in the front patio, lots of new siding everywhere and a new garage door one day (can I ever get them to schedule and show up?). After it is all done the entire group of townhomes will be repainted. So that's where alot of the fees are going. I am glad I solved that mystery. After the construction crew moves on I will be able to do some spring gardening.

Hope all have a great week.

Surprises in the bills

so today cimi and i went to joanns to get dagos gift for his bday this friday. we enjoyed ourselves. we then took a tour through the new townhouses being built near us and had to say great views, nice counters and loved the washer and dryer hookups down and upstairs. i dropped cimi off did a store run and then came home to do the sunday dinner thing. cimi called twice as she had to go to the store twice. now you all must remember cimi and i do not do the grocery store, the guys do that thing and well, we were just put out on sunday cause we had to do this. i mean really, what is the world coming too? so now it is evening and i am just finishing up with paying the bills. don't you love it when you finally decide to open up those envelopes that you know are not bills, cause it is tax time, and when you do you discover that you overpaid something for an entire year and you get a refund? mmmm don't these companies know how to use calculators? so now i am caught up with all of you and off to start another week. just for reference Macy's is in very good financial standing. the cuts in the stores were done a couple of weeks ago. the layoffs that the news reported this past week are in the corporate offices of all of the divisions. we are consolidating all of our buying to new york. all employees who were a part of the layoff thing will have the opportunity to apply for any of the new corporate positions which will be a little over 3000 positions. so that is only about 3500 that will really loose their jobs. some of the people who are loosing their positions are also eligible for retirement so that is what they are doing. so if anyone needs any retail questions answered give me a holler and i will try to help you out. have a great week and talk to you soon.

back to normalcy

is that a word?

it is today.

and what have you done this week?

i went back to work on tuesday and wished i was still off. it is all about inventory and for those of you in retail you know how wonderful that time of the year is. i really do not have to do much, remember i am in charge of selling and service. i just keep the managers focused on what their priorities need to be. during the week at home, i continued to decorate for mardi gras. here are a few of the decorations. next week i am doing the carey thing and deciding what kind of diet i need to be on to get ready for bikini season.

enjoy the photos and talk with everyone next week.

anyone out there who can tell me how to DO a slide show would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

remember DO what you think is best for you.

end of the work week and fay's life

So can you say rain? You know it's wet outside when the dogs don't even want to go out. Jack was visiting through today, while Cimi was in Austin visiting Brenna. This has been a really long work week. We get to work on Monday and start Hurricane Conference Calls. Decide on Tuesday that time to kill the calls as this TS Fay is really not a problem. Get to Thursday and she is now worse that when she started out the week and just will not go away! What is that all about. Moving at 5 mph? Get out of here, beaches are awaiting us sometime, somewhere. Back to work, could the days just drag by. I am always busy, but it seemed as if the days would just not end. I guess just thinking about having 15 days left of vacation time gives me the feeling to just be OFF! So I will leave everyone with a picture of what Fay looks like as of now. Stay dry if you can and talk to everyone soon.

Hurricane Fay, Macy's update and Manny and Emily

Another week has gone by and guess what? Another hurricane, tropical storm, whatever is making its way towards Florida. Above is the 5 day forecast of where Fay is going to travel. This Monday is an airport run for Manny, he is dropping me off for a 730a flight to Miami for the class that I have been in all year and for Emily to make her way back to Louisiana. I get on conference calls tomorrow to see if the travel for myself is still on and if it is off, I just go to work for the week. But unfortunately for Manny, Emily is going north west so she will not have any issues travelling. This week we have spent the time getting to know Emily. A delightful young lady. She is a good influence for Manny and supports the fact of him being in Orlando straightening out his life. They spent this past Sunday at the beach with us. If you have not checked out the Picasa album here is a pic of Emily and Manny skimming in the surf. The beach was awesome this past week. I can not remember the last time I spent so much time in the water. It was perfect.

Tomorrow Manny and Emily are off to Universal Studio to ride the rollercoasters. That should be fun for them. Jacki left Orlando this past Thursday to spend the week in New Orleans visiting her mom and sisters and any other family that she runs into. It seems as if drama loves to be in mine and Dago's life at this time. I think I should contact a cable show and have our lives produced at this time. Talk about crazy. And I thought that I had raised my children and would be able to enjoy my adult kids, but hey, not in the cards at this time. Work this past week has been interesting. It is all about the New Store Structure that we are converting to. No one knows exactly who does what and we are all enjoying confusing our boss, by pointing at each other saying, hmmm, that's under their umbrella, and where is the line we are not supposed to cross. Buisness continues to be good at our Macy's (thanks to tourists and the dollar to the pound) so as we all say we are having fun working at the mall. Enough updates, I need to go and do some homework for my, just in case I go, class on Monday. Will update next week. And Happy Birthday to Janet in Littleton Colorado.

4 days at work

i would just like to know, why is it that when you return from vacation, you work harder than you did prior to leaving for vacation. everyday this week i have woken up prior to the alarm going off and getting up to get ready for the day. rocko and i have had some really good bonding time in the am. he comes down wants to go out then wants water and maybe breakfast to go along with it. that is the extent of our bonding as then he goes back up and naps until dago gets up for the day. i thought that dogs slept all day when you were gone, is he? cause he sure likes that early morning nap. anyway i digress.


so back to work on monday, took most of the day to read the over 150 emails that were waiting. touching base with all of the people that needed their bases touched, and no one struck out.





tuesday was typical with conference calls, meetings, more conference calls and then more meetings. i love being productive .





wednesday was all about back to school for juniors, rmm visits, floor moves, people connections and planning for the upcoming conference call for the National Urban League convention touch base. For all of you out there, an Assistant Store Manager for Macy's Florida is involved in lots of things. For some strange reason, I got volunteered for this for the region. mmmmm





and thursday finished up the 1st part of my back to work week with rallies, congratulations to sheyla for celebrating 20 years at macy's, touching bases again, do we sound like we play baseball? i prefer soccer, go Carey and Steph.





so tomorrow is friday, i am off, hair day and then we will see what else the day brings, i hope it does not rain, it has everyday this week, sunshine would be good.