Friday evening Dec 11

Just home from the Christmas concert at New Covenant and what a wonderful evening. Such great music and laughter and all the Glory went to Jesus whose birth we celebrate. I am so glad I went. June picked me up and afterward we stopped at Culver's and had a bite to eat and great conversation.

It was an ok day at the Y pretty busy then of course popcorn Friday. I got a picture with Kay and one final good bye then a picture with Sheila and Kay and I. I got 600,000 grand from Amy then she told Eric she and I were going to retire and he said oh no you are not going anywhere :) She will be missed terribly but life at the Y will go on.

Hy Vee was pretty ok but every customer who had a complaint about something not ringing up right any other complaint came through my line today ugh! I could just feel the weight of all of that descending on me! When Denise sent me on break I said I am not sure I will be back, she said I wouldn't blame you. But I did and finished out my shift and my drawer was plus twelve cents! whoo hoo.

When I was waiting to clock in I noticed the schedule for next week and I asked for Friday off because I am to have a tooth pulled. Well Drew scheduled me! He was sitting eating lunch and I went over to him and Chad and I said to him that I had asked for next Friday off - well there is a not on the time off box no more requests for New Years eve or New Years Day, when I started talking to Drew he started to shake his head no thinking I was going to ask about one of those days. When he heard what I had said he got up and looked at the schedule and went in his office to see if I was indeed scheduled or if there had been a mix up on the sheet. He said yes, I knew you had asked for that day, and I scheduled you it was my fault I will fix it. Those are words he does not say very often so on the schedule by my time on Friday are his initials, it will be his task to find a replacement because I did what I was supposed to do. It was nice to hear him say that I think he is finally beginning to like me.

Jillian and Hannah had their winter concert last night. They really sounded great and it was neat to see them in choir together. They had a nice selection of music. Once they were done Matt and Sheila and I booked out of McKinley and headed to Grant Wood for Isaac's winter concert, we got there just as the kids were coming out to get to their places on the stage! Isaac had a speaking part and he did such a great job I was one proud Gramma! Afterward Sheila invited me (and Ash and Holly) over for homemade ice cream sandwiches with chocolate chip cookies yummmmm.

It was so nice to see Holly and Ashleigh and get caught up with them. Holly has had some traumatic times but just got hired for a new job at Casey's, and things are looking up. It's so nice to hear how much Ash is enjoying her job :) nice to see the girls so happy. It was a fun evening.

Time for bed, busy morning tomorrow then to Mt Pleasant for basketball. Another busy weekend but I am looking forward to family time!