You can now get office supplies at belk!!!

Nov 3rd



Not really but if im working you may get lucky......

Today was crazy we are doing presale for on of belks biggest events in which we try to get everyone to let us hold there merchandise until that weekend which is when the big sale is so they don't have to come in standing in big long lines to get the good good sale prices so we just hold there items in the back charge the account sat. morning so hey get the good deals with out having to come in ...our goal was 20000 dollars for each employee.



SO i worked alone for most the day today presaleing like crazy i was up to my elbows in bags being he register that needed to go to the back. Finally my other co worker arrived and i could breathe i lost the stapler and my pens and about to loose my mind. I figured I'd find everything once i cleaned up...nope no stapler could be found. I took some more bags to the back and when i came back my co worker said the stapler has been found. O good i say ya...u put it in a Lady's back of clothes, she got in her can and looked at her stuff and though well i didn't by a stapler! She thought maybe is was our.....Ha ha sure was



Its almost as funny was the time i was wrapping a bday present for my 3 yr old niece at the time and lost the scissors and when we were at my sisters opening gifts she opens my present and my little niece pulled out the scissors from her present and my sister demanded why the heck i gave a 3 yr old scissor....that where they went huh.... haha just another day of my life.

faux Monkeys

Oct 21st


Today we took Adrianna to the pumpkin patch. We had a lot of fun took a tractor ride to pick put our pumpkins went through a "sugar cane maze" since corn doesn't exist is Sc lol. Doing the sugar cane maze a boy came running up behind Adrianna and it scared her. Andrew gave her a stick and said well if he does it again hit with a stick. A minute later he can running by she swung her stick like a baseball bat and had a I'm gonna "destroy you" look on her face she missed but the boy got the point he didn't run by her anymore, Andrew couldn't be prouder and i could stop laughing...

So they had a little petting area which had horses and ducks, pigs and bunnies the typical far animals. Well we walked up and i stood in front of a cage there were about 15 people around me I go awww look at the monkeys. Everyone looked at me turned around real fast and were searching to find these moneys my husband got really excited and i had everyone on the hunt even the lady that worked there. About 2 seconds later i said " um i mean bunnies look at the bunnies" You could see monkey searchers disappointment when if fact there were no monkeys... They lady that worked there said well i didn't think we had any monkeys but ya never know haha. My husband was the most sad about the whole situation for he was the one most excited about seeing monkeys poor guy i think ill take him to the zoo ;-)

excuse me, have you seen my clothes?

Aug 6th

So today started off pretty well, not alot went on just work. Later in the afternoon i went and got some coffee was drinking out of the straw being safe ya know...Nope the straw squirted coffee all down my shirt....or course right. So The girl i was working with say hey go back and just put a ice cube on the spots just hold it there it will come right out!. So there i was....in the break room holding a ice cube on my boob and one on my stomach. Another lady thats works there walked in looked at me with a curious but unsure expression turned around and walked out with out saying a word...fantastic she thinks im a freak. By the way the ice cube trick....ya didn't work. so i scrubbed it with soap and water until it came out.... then i went back to the sales floor with a soaking wet 1/2 see through shirt. ANd after it dried...coffee stains were still visible.......sigh


Aug 7th
Well back to work again for me today i has to close it was crazy busy for the tax free weekend. I went in the dressing room and cleaned them all out while putting the clothes back on hangers and what not i came across a pair of worn khaki shorts and a grungy tank top. I thought wow how nice someone comes in and changes there clothes and steals the new ones. Jerks. soo i call the Loss prevention lady and told my manager about it. And the loss prevention was looking on camera to see if they see anyone and what not.... But then.... A lady comes to the register..... Excuse me.. have you seen my clothes? i stepped out to get a different size and went back and they are gone!!!! SO i in fact was the clothes stealer not her.... soo i gave her clothes back i her and called off the search. Apparently im being a little too efficient at my job and need to calm a down a bit. talking people clothes and all.....ah haha everyone got a good laugh at me for that one.
what can i say, Story of my life.

Man down and a bruised apple

Aug 3

So i thought that since we've been having such rotten luck that maybe my little petty bad luck episodes were gone for a while and maybe the bad luck fairy was giving me a break.....until today
I Get to work as I'm gathering my lunch, my apple, my fiber one bar , my coke zero, my coffee and my phone...ooh and my keys don't forget my keys... i have everything piled just so, so i can carry it all inside( we cant have purses on the floor and has to be in a locker and i cant figure out my damn locker combo turn the knob this way once and that way 3 times...and so on so i just choose not to use my locker) i shut the door my apple rolls off my pile and under my car....sigh.. i open my door put everything back inside and crawl under my car (in a pink dress) to retrieve my apple...only thing missing from this scenario is a big gust of wind blowing my dress up and over my behind referring to last year at my grandpa's funeral when we were walking out to the funeral ceremony and a gust of wind took my dress all the way to my waist reveling me and a black thong and a bunch of blushing people who try to pretend they didn't see anything...they did...) any way i opt out on any further embarrassment..this time. i get my pile back together and start to head in and then my coke zero falls off my pile.... and busts a stream of coke comes flying out fizzing all over the place , and squirting my legs...i run...sorry coke I'm leaving u behind today. i get inside.....drop my apple again Arg now i have a bruised apple and no coke at least I'm on time for work. I clock in and read the new posts on the board, our hours changed no one mentioned it to me....i was a hour late. Then i realize its senior day at work today even better. So my day goes on pretty normal...then one of the associate that works the register in the bra's comes up to bring me the clothes that belongs in our dept. Let me tell you this women... Is the rudest, meanest, grumpiest women in the store, customers complain and employee's complain about this old bat. Yet she preaches that she is a child of god and how christian she is.... One extreme to the other.. i dunno but i don't think you can me a mean hateful women and the worlds best christian i just don't think it works that way.....but in her loony mind it does...Any who ,here is our conversation mean lady: You know u guys can bring clothes down to me too. Me: yup i sure do cristina was getting ready to head to lunch and bring you clothes. Mean lady: well you know u can bring it down too. Me: well i sure do know that i can thank you. Mean lady: mmh ya just letting you know Me: well you don't have to tell me hun i already know! ill make sure ill bring u a big o pile next time...you have a great day now. mean lady: grumble grumble grumble...hehe I thought it was pretty funny. gah she is just so mean and rotten that women. we have fights sarcastic fights i love it. Then we had about 5 seniors complaining an bitching about everything and anything...ahh i love senior day ;-)

It's Kinda like that

July 27th

So you know how you never see a certain type of car until you own one then you see them everywhere?....its kinda like that.... Sunday evening after everything was over..andrew and i were laying in bed watch t.v. A commercial for the PepsieMAX drink came on followed by a commercial for dogs...andrew and i both looked at each other like are u serious right now....ugh... Then today i was just skimming the newspaper looking at real estate and there in bold letters.... Mastiff puppies for sale.... ya know i would have never seen that add if max was okay.....we are getting reminded without even wanting to be reminded that our boy is gone......it sucks.....

but on a lighter note a few good things....

yesterday i was waiting in line at sonic to get a tropical fruit smoothie.....one of the workers (knows me pretty well b/c of my visits came rolling up with a drink. She said ya here for a lemon berry slush? i said no not today i haven't had that in a while i started drinking the fruit smoothies...she's like well i didn't know ya changed on me i brought you this slush if ya still want it... you don't have to pay its on me. so i took it and though wow that hasn't happened ever.... it was nice.... when i got home i had a box waiting for me my bday gift from my good friend jenna. it was a heart necklace the had writing around it that says a true friend reaches for your hand but touches your heart. She told me she was really sorry it didn't come on my bday. I told her im glad it didn't because i had been upset all day and it made me happy...so it came just in time. Then for some odd odd reason i got a 74 cent check from my belk card....i mean its only .74 but hey ill take what i can get. And lastly I was upset that we were going to have to pull adrianna out of ballet. she takes both ballet/tap and then gymnastics and loves it all. but we have to cut back alot to pay for the vet bill we were gonna have to take her out of one of the classes. My momma told me she will pay for her ballet class so we didnt have to take her out... Thank you so much mom...i felt so bad having to take her out i know she would have been upset!! So ill keep taking these good things that are happening please this kind of stuff usually never happens so please keep it coming please please.....

xoxo Amanda

Max's doctor report

to all concerned,

Andrew and Amanda wright brought their recently rescued mastiff in on emergency. He had been chronically vomiting, not eating adequately, and not gaining weight. An enteric foreign body obstruction was diagnosed. The wrights elected surgery. No other option existed other than euthanasia. Max was sick.
At surgery a fibrous foreign object was found about 5 feet down the small intentional tract from the stomach. The S.I. tract was angry and edematous. The stomach contained foreign fibers, old sticks and some new live leaves.
On 7-20 the damaged portion of the small intestinal tract had to be resected and anatomised. Adhesion's were present. Max had reduced motility and what appeared to be chronic scarring in the pylorus of the stomach. These foreign bodies could have been present for a while and probably were givin max;s chronic emesis and low weight. We operated on max a third time in a attempt to control adhesions and peritonitis from the damaged bowel initially found. Max was such a good dog. The whole hospital loved him,. We lost max. He acquired D.I.C. from probably the abdominal toxins and micro clots. His death was a blow to everyone. The wrights are understandably devastated. They tried to do all they could to save a dog they only had for a short while. I have practiced medicine for 28 years in a bust practice. I have personally done 3 gastronomy/enterotomy procedures since 7/18/2010 with no complications. I feel max probably had that object in his stomach for quite a while or at least other object that gave his pylorus and upper duodenum fits.
The wright's are a very fine young couple. Amanda was at the hospital everyday. Anything that can be done to help them out would be well deserved.

Wish i would have's,and What if's

July 26th

Its been a while i know. As most of you already know max has a third surgery. I called friday morning(23rd) to check on him. i couldn't visit him on this morning because i had to be at work early. I called about 3 times waiting on his blood test results wondering if he was going into surgery. The doc told me he would have to do it again and would do it about 4 or 5 this afternoon. I got off at 3 so i rushed over to see him before surgery. I was to late and they already started. i was really bummed. I see him twice a day and this day i didn't get to see him at all.

Sat. 24th
morning (my bday) we got up early to do the yard sale for max. trying to Make some money to pay for his vet bill. Adrianna had a lemonade stand, i made cookies for doggies, and we had a donation box set up. It went pretty well. I got cleaned up and ready for my bday party and i stopped in to see max. The Nurse told me he was sleeping from the pain med. but i could come see him. I went up there and spent some time with him. He was out didn't even know i was there. After about ten minutes i left max...... My bday party went well... i called again to check on max they said he was doing well. I told them i would see him tomorrow morning.

Sunday 25th

I called to check on max the nurse asked if she can call us back b/c the doc was in surgery. We went back to the house as i was driving home i was thinking of My next day off work and thinking if he is doing okay i can prolly bring him home on wens. I get home and my hubby was on the phone and he looked pretty sad. Great i thought another surgery. he looked at me and said... max has passed away..... my heart shattered....how can this be...no..no he is coming home he is suppose to come home this surgery was not suppose to be that big of a deal. they kept telling us he was doing really good....he got off the phone said it was do to complications of the surgery.,..we cried...and cried... my heart is broken... people think we are crazy, we only had this dog for not even a month and Andrew and i feel like we have lost our best friend of 10+ years. He was a perfect dog. He was so sweet and funny. he would come to the side of our bed at night and lay his big giant head on top ours. He would get so excited when we came home he would have to bring us his big yellow plush bone. He would follow us room to room because he didnt want to be alone. He would look at us with those big brown eyes at dinner time trying to charm us into giving him food. He would rush to Adrianna's side when he heard her cry. He was the perfect dog for our family. We fell in love with him the first day we met him, even though he dragged me ten feet across a gravel road i was still loved him.
Andrew went and got his body sunday afternoon, we buried him at My good friend Katie's house, they own their home and will be living there for a long time, we live in base housing and will soon be moving out so we thought that it was a good place to put him at rest... I watched them dig the hole with endless tears streaming down my cheeks. My heart hurts so much. They went and got his body and my husband and i got his big yellow plush bone and his dog tags that we just made for him, they layed him down to rest and we placed his fav. yellow bone in with him along with his tags. I just wanted to close my eyes and wake up, i want to think he is still coming home to our family, i miss his slobbery face, and mopping my kitchen floor every time he gets a drink of water. i miss those big brown eye's. Andrew threw the first pile of dirt onto his resting body. I sat and watched as they covered max, and a part of my heart with dirt. When they were done i placed some flowers on his grave and i ordered a stepping stone to place there too. We love you max. you were the best damn dog. i wish we could have spent more time with you, I wish we could have taken more pictures. What if we took you to another vet. so many what ifs and wish i would have's But i guess i cant think about those things...we did all that we could could we loved him as much as we could and we try to save him as hard as we could.....My heart will be broken for quite sometime. But he is not longer in pain, no more surgeries. Just happiness now. We love you Max Pony Wright may you rest in peace

bad dreams and pee sheets

July 21st

Soo... last night i went to bed super late well actually like 1 a.m. today i have the day off i can sleep in no worries......sigh...Well about 4 or so Adrianna wakes up screaming "i don't want to do it i don't want to do it!!!!" she comes in our room clearly had a bad dream tried to ask her about it was about but she couldn't tell me lol. So we get her all settled in our bed then Andrew and i kinda wake up the same time i feel a little wet Andrew starts feeling his side of the bed...and we realize that at one point in the night....we got peed on....yes... so i got her up cleaned her off dressed her and put her in her bed. I striped the sheets off the bed changed my clothes washed off , layed back down for a little more sleep.... not even twenty min later Adrianna comes to my room asking for a Popsicle... i told her no she threw a crying fit and went to her room to be mad......all this before 7 a.m then comes back to my room tells me to get up and she is hungry... I'm afraid its going to be a long day and its only 8:30

Hope

July 2oth

Hey everyone i know ive slacked the last few days on writing. i don't have any crazy stories for you so far this week so ill just be updating you on max. He is doing great. I go and see him before and after work. He is so ready to some home. They just started feeding him today and he was doing really well with it i just cant wait to get him home and fatten him up. He comes home tomorrow afternoon!!! im so excited ive been busy making sure the house is Max proof! But we are trying to sell a bunch of stuff we don't use or need to pay for the vet bill...its got us a little worried. The rescue that got max is trying to help it but has to be careful on how to market it. The vet wouldn't work with us with the donations he wanted all the money at once and wouldn't do a little at a time. so she has to figure out how to do the donation with out giving us the money directly....which is totally understandable. But anywho im post a few things here and there on my face book of the stuff im selling so PLEASE take a look were asking for best offers on everything it all will go to Max's vet bill!!! AHH just ready to get him here in our warm loving house and not a clod lonely hospital...poor boy

On a lighter note Andrew goes to test for Charleston fire on thurs. Wish him lots of luck ( ya know we need it) he is also considering doin reserves as well as a extra . so we will see what happens. Keep your fingers crossed everything turns out ok.

Well i should probably go my daughter wont go to bed and keeps crying for cereal....for Pete's sake! lol

thank you all for your kins words and prayers :-) i really means a lot to us and glad we have friends like you!

Max's not so good food choices

July 18th

I got home from work today our dog has been throwing up everything even water. We were afraid he may have a blockage in his intestines from other things he may have eaten. So we went to the emergency animal hospital. after the xrays the confirmed he has a full obstruction in his small intestines. Since i know the hem of the blue jeans he ate didnt come from our house we think that this is the reason he was sick the week after we got him was because he had stuff in his belly already that would explain the fever the not eating well ect. It may have been in his belly for a while the doc seams to think the same thing. We dont blame anyone for what he has eaten he is a dog they kinda do what they please. Were just glad we caught it when we did before is severely hurt or killed our big boy. The worst part is...our bill is about 3,000 dollars.... yeah stab me with a knife i know. He said he will give us another discount because he has heart for people who rescue their pets. And he can tell we spoil max and take the best care of him possible. so im not sure what the bill is gonna be... I dont know what were gonna do...were suppose to be in the process of buying a house and getting out of the marine corps and saving our pennies for what may come in the civilian world....but he is Worth it no doubt we would spend the money over taking chances and him dying any day.i just wish all this didnt come at once ya know.....sigh......well its only 4 p.m. thats my day so far....

max is in surgery as i speak...pray for him

xoxo
Amanda

After 3 hours of surgery max is going good. The doctor said he had a huge mass in his small intestines and that it put alot of stress and strain on his intestines he opened it up there was another sock in there and another mass of something he hadn't dissected it yet so wasn't sure what it was. then he said he went into the stomach and there were leaves and sticks that he had been eating to make himself throw up so he got that out he also said that there was a big ball of hair it wasn't his it was long hair. Which he wouldn't have gotten that here or the hem of the jeans because i don't cut off the bottom of jeans . The doctor think it has been there for a while now and was just starting to try and make its way through is body.He said its a good thing we had them do emergency surgery tonight because even another day he probably would have had to take out some of his intestines we think he's had all this in his body for close to a month now. He started getting sick the beginning of July then he seemed to be much better after we took him to the first vet but they didnt think to do x-rays just though he was just fighting a little sickness. he started eating again but then we think that as the objects finally started to come out it all just got lodged in and made him sicker. He is doing good tho were going first thing in the morning to see him andrews gonna try to take off work to send most the day at the animal hospital...were both just really upset because we dont want him to think we abandoned him. He doesn't get to come home until wens or Thurs so we will be there to see him everyday until he gets to come home. Just as a precaution were are spending the next few days really looking over the house, putting our dirty laundry baskets in the closets so we can prevent this from happing in our home as well! We are just so glad our boy is okay. We've only had him for a short time but he has def. stole our heart ;-) thank you all for your prayers!!!

officer...did i do something wrong

July 16th

Had to be at work at 6 for inventory yuck yuck.... everything went pretty smooth only bad thing that happened this morning is someone threw away my coffee cup...... ugh i re use the one i get from the gas station I've yet to find one that holds 24oz. On my way home from work i was throwing away my trash into a bag that i had in my car and swerved a little coming up on the gate.(i live on a military base) The civilian military policeman asked for my id couldn't find my military id then realized i didnt have my drivers license cuz we went to the water fest. and My hubby held on to it for me and i just forgot to get it back this morning....so then after waiting for my husband to get there to show them my license i get out of the car to get it from him. the officer yells at me to get back in the car.... i was like well jeez... so he went and got my id from my hubby told him he thought i was drunk....really i barely went over the freaking line. so after twenty minutes of waiting i get a ticket for failure to maintain proper control of vehicle and warning for not having my id. so worst case i get as few points taking away but still....fml Im never gonna clean out my car again.......while driving

and while im writing you this right now my dog threw up.....he threw up 3 socks and and looks to be the bottom hem of a pair of jeans that had been cut off....only thing is i haven't cut any or my jeans..... and why is my dog eating freaking socks!!!! my goodness... off to the vet on Monday.

p.s. i was making dinner and also just burned my forearm on the oven door....yup another one of those days

July 15th

So the sitter that was watch's my daughter didn't realize she was watching her all day...so my hubby was gonna get off work early to pick her up at noon...well he couldn't pick her up he had to stay....so after twenty minutes of trying to find a sitter number 2 for the day we finally got one. On my lunch break i had to go pick her up at sitter number 1's house and take her to sitter's number 2's house then get max dog food ( did i mention he is picky..yup and only food he will eat is 47.50 for a 30lb bag.... great huh!! so i go back to work (late) day goes by alright i go get my daughter from sitter 2 we were gonna go to the drive in movies so i was grabbing subway for dinner.... i went in subway and asked for a chicken salad sandwich.....she said it was a limited edition and we no longer have it...i thought i was going to cry Ive had that every time i go to subway since it came out(and i go A LOT) i was devastated... I'm still pretty upset about it now actually. i settled for a chicken boob sandwich and went on my way. Got home to feed the family found out no movies cuz the person who invited us had a sick son. so then decided to go to the water festival. So as we began to eat and our bread was soggy as heck. the guy put wayyyyy to much oil and vinegar on our sandwich and it soaked into the bread.....dinner pretty much ruined.....at least the water fest. went well

Slip of the....Nip?

so ive posted lots of pics of our new dog on face book lately so everyone can see our new "pony" Well today i work a msg from facebook came thru my phone. i read it and it went a lil something like this ..




friend- Umm, I think in your close up pic of you,drew & the dog, you might of had a nip slip? lol! Just thought you might want to know.


Me- no nothin is showin lol that shirt is way above my nips lol i ha scratches and stuff on my chest from when he drug me across the gravel road im assuming thats what you see.



And after closer examination after i got home I did indeed have a nipple hanging out they were right there!! It was on facebook for like a 2 weeks!.....they were the only one's who notice thank you lord!!! it was kinda hard to tell but somehow...lol they could.... and no dont ask if the picture is still up....it is not (ive actually had ppl ask me this)



So later that night i took max for a walk.... i know i said ill never walk him till he gets trained but...ya know.... Max isnt really a small animal person. he isnt mean at all he just likes to chase. Well my neighbors came walking up w a little dog not on a leash. i said hey he isnt to good with small animals.....nothing.... Hey guys really he isnt good with small animals he likes to chase and stuff... still they kept standing there then the dog takes off running ....as does max the leash went through my hand at such a speed i got rope burn across the palm of my hand and one finger the one on my palm went through a few layers of skin....and to think i was just healing from the last episode... well i said SCREW THIS im not going through this again and just let go.... and off they went max chasing the little dog.... he wasnt snapping or being mean just chasing. so tired from just getting home from the gym....i had to run around the neighbor hood chasing them.... finally max(who doesnt like to run) gets tired and slows down enough for me to catch him.... my hand feels like i stuck it in a oven.....burns pretty feirce



july 14 2010

Don't cry over spilled Cappuccino's

July 13th

I found a sitter for the rest of the week thank goodness. I got to work (late) and was getting my lunch and cell phone and keys and my cappuccino out of the car. I dropped my 24oz of cappuccino , it splashed all over the ground and all down my leg...wonderful and hot very very hot. So now pissed cuz A. im soaked with cappu. and B. i dont get to drink it and if i dont get my daily drink then im not happy..... so i get inside reg coffee will just have to do to get me through my morning. Go to put my food in the fridge and realize i forgot my yogurt for my a.m. snack and my apple to go with my lunch...so now im gonna be crabby and hungry...great. Well my day continues and i decided to go over and look for a ring. I have a ring called originality ring you get 3 or so to add on to the one you have diff styles and what not. i get myself one for personal goals i set. Kinda like a treat. Well anyway i go over there and guess what... i find out that they have been discontinued and we no longer have them..... i only got one of those rings.....

p.s. Today i also found out....our hours have been cut to only 30....fantastic

Any jobs for a 3yr old?

July 11th, 2010

We just got back from Illinois yesterday i went to facebook my daughters baby sitter to let her know ill be dropping her off in the morning and saw her post " Packing for Florida we leave tomorrow morning" Great day. So i call every friend i know, ....i can't i work tomorrow, sorry I'm in new york this week, No my son has a doc apt. i cant i have sooo much i have to get done tomorrow....and so not one person....well shit. guess ill take her into work in the morning ....

July 12th

Well i got up early to go to work...with my daughter... I went to my store manager office asked to see the sched. book and saw i had wens off. So i asked can i switch my day off for today and work wens. She said.... NO i need you to work today so u need to work. ......even though there were 3 other people working in my dept. So im like well do u have a job for my 3 yr old cuz.....then the phone rang and she pond me off to a assist. manager. she was like well ya cant work ya cant work and so i got the day off. I suppose its not to bad of a day after all....

Meet Max

June 29th, 2010

We made our 16 hour drive from south Carolina to Illinois where we lived before my husband joined the USMC. Everything went pretty smooth no flat tire no cracked wind shield we did great!! One of the reason were drove home was to get our new dog Max, a 150 lb English mastiff. It was love at first site. I decided to take him out on a run ( about 30 min. after meeting him) First off....Max does not like to run...he likes to walk i tried to get him to at least jog and he looked at me like i was crazy. After wearing myself out just trying to get him to run we walked up the back way to my in laws house ,a little gravel alley. Now understand he out weighs me by about 40 lbs. One thing i did not know about this new dog is....he loves to chase small animals. There was a bunny.....a bunny that i didn't not see and max did.... a bunny that cause max to unleash his running ability ....the leash was wrapped around my wrist. I hit the ground hard and he dragged me about ten feet across the gravel road until he realized he was not going to catch the bunny dragging me behind. When he turned around he gave me a look like "whatchya doin down there." I limped across the yard yelled for Andrew (my husband) to take our new horse while i checked out my wounds. Road rash all up and down my legs that later turned into beautiful bruises looked amazing for the wedding we went to a few days later, scrapes up and down my arms belly and chest my knee got the worst couldn't hardly walk on it for a week.... still hurts (3 weeks later) after i get done running. Ahh max max max my new dog max. That's when i decided i will not be doing the walks until he gets some training........