Hi All,
Just wanted to let you know I'm still around. It's been a busy, crazy few weeks. I'm IT now but I was clerical and HR backup. When I became IT, someone else became HR backup. She was messing up the payroll so badly when she did it, I got it back. Don't you love how that works - when others can't or won't do their jobs, the work comes to me who already does 105% at work.... The HR person left 2 weeks ago so I'm now HR. At least most of my IT duties have been given to my back-up but she still needs some help here and there. Supposedly I have only 1 more week - the new person should start next Mon. I'll probably have to do a little training, but it'll be so nice to have my own duties back. I know payroll more/better than HR.
Thursday a week ago, we found that my grandfather is having mini-strokes so he decided to give his car to us - it's 9 years old with 42,000 miles on it. He has Alzheimer's and my mom has POA and all she asked is that we pay for 1/2 the cost to fix it up (he'd let some things go since the Alzheimer's diagnosis). She wanted the repairs to be made before we got it because they live 2 hours from us and she didn't want anything to happen to us in that car on the way home. My grandfather giving us this car turned out to be such a good thing (more on that later).
Last weekend was the church and school fair. We were there, walking around and watching the boys ride the rides for 2 1/2 hours each day then I worked 6 1/2 hours Sat and 4 1/2 hours Sunday. I'm still tired.... But, the church grossed only $2,500 less than last year and last year was the best year ever - not bad in this economy (the "bad stuff" is just hitting here).
My van is 13 years old and is starting to give us some trouble (we've had it for 7 years). DH can use his work truck for personal business and we have (had) a pick up truck my grandfather sold to us. It was 10 years old with only 20,000 miles on it and in the last 6 years, we put less than 14,000 miles on it. We've kept it for when my van is acting up or if someone else in the family needs to borrow it. My van was in the shop last weekend and when I got home from working the fair last Satuday night, we went to go pick it up in the personal truck. I drove straight home in the van. DH went to put gas in the truck and a drunk driver turned right in front of him - totaled the truck. Thank God DH was only banged up, not hurt badly. We got more from the insurance than we thought - almost double!!! We were very happy and surprised about that (I guess the low mileage helped). We don't know if the other guy had insurance. Our insurance is treating it like uninsured motorist. If he does have insurance, we will get our deductible back, too. This is where it was a good thing my grandfather gave us his car. We won't need the truck as much now that we will have a more reliable car. But DH is quite upset about losing his truck. I'll miss my van but, again, it'll be nice to have something more reliable.
We spent all of yesterday going to my mom, ste-father's and grandfather's to get the car then coming back home. I'm going to try to catch up on the postings. But tomorrow starts another work week.....
Just wanted to let you all know I'm still here and have missed you!
Cathy
"What matters in life is not great deeds, but great love." - St. Therese of the Child Jesus
"The laughter of a child is the light of a house" - unknown