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Ready to start looking for work

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I was just saying on my other blog that I’ve been feeling a lot better lately. I think I might be able to return to work in a few months. Well … provided things keep going well.

I’ve been off work on sick leave for almost 5 years! That’s a huge amount of time to be stuck at home! Now that I’m actually starting to feel a bit better I can see myself at least working part time again.

Maybe I’ll start browsing around to see what kind of healthcare job listings are being advertised right now. I think I still have my ER job to go back to .. but who knows, I could get stuck on a medical floor … so we’ll see.

Have you ever been off work for a long period due to an illness? Did it feel strange going back to work after so long?

Woman freaks out in Walmart over coupon

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My husband and I were out shopping this afternoon at Walmart and this woman totally freaked out in the checkout line over a coupon.

I guess she was purchasing flavored creamers and there was a coupon loosely attached to the top of it that said buy one and get the second one free. Well, since it was a two pack that she was buying I guess she thought she’d get it for half price or something.

I wasn’t listening to the whole flare up, but that’s what I think was going on.

What it seems really happened was that the coupon was for some other product or maybe for a single flavored creamer so the cashier told the woman that the coupon couldn’t be applied.

The woman started freaking out and demanded to talk to the manager. Then she started pounding on the item conveyor belt and slamming her grocery cart around. Then she started yelling at the cashier because she was packing the woman’s’ items in plastic bags when the woman had said “no” to the bags when asked.

My husband and I felt really bad for the cashier. She was just doing her job. It’s not her fault if someone put a coupon for another product on the double creamers, plus she did call for her manager like the woman had asked. Oh and the woman’s husband and young son were just standing there while all this was going on. I wonder how often they have to go through this with this woman?

We had been at a cash right beside the woman who was freaking out, and when we finished paying for our items the manager came along and she actually took us aside to ask us what we’d witnessed. I guess it’s not every day that a woman freaks out to the degree that this one did – I think she actually damaged the cash conveyor belt area. We went into this room that had what looked like Industrial computers and she took a statement from us. I wonder if we’ll be contacted about what we witnessed sometime in the future?

I don’t know about you but I hate seeing people loose it like that in public. Especially when it’s over something so trivial as a coupon. What was the woman going to save anyway? 25 cents?

Long Weekend Plans?

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I was just talking to my sister in law on the phone. She was making one last ditch attempt to get us to come up to their “cottage” for the long weekend.

They bought a new RV trailer last year. I think it sleeps six people quite comfortably and now – every long weekend – they call wanting us to come for a visit.

If it were closer I’m sure we’d go more often, but from Toronto it takes about four hours to drive there and that’s not including the likelihood of getting stuck in slow moving traffic on the way in and out of the city so make that more like 6 hours.

She was also telling me that they have their rv insurance all paid off for the year so she’s happy about that. No more bills other than utility bills for their RV for the rest of the year.

Anyway … we can’t go away to her cottage this weekend. She had forgotten that her (and my husbands) nephew and niece are flying in this evening from Chicago for the weekend. The kids are doing their own thing in the city but we’re picking them up at the airport in an hour and we’ll be getting together with them for lunch or dinner at least once. So that nixes going out of town.

What are your plans for the long weekend?

I love my neighborhood

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Last weekend when my husband and I were working outside at the front of our house one of our neighbors came by and started talking with my husband.

The neighbor works for our cities bus company and he happened to mention that they were going to be hiring soon in a particular division and since it has to do with health care (this part of the bus division transports the handicapped) he thought my husband might be interested in the job.

It would certainly pay more than what my husband it making now .. oh and there would be great health and pension benefits too.

So my husband has been working on his resume and then going and talking with our neighbor .. polishing up the keywords that they think the bus company will be looking for etc.

Earlier tonight the neighbor came by to offer a few suggestions and he gave my husband a present – a box of cohiba cigars. Now my husband doesn’t really smoke cigars … but his brother does on occasion so I guess we can save them and then they can have a smoke together next time his brother comes down. Maybe they can celebrate my husbands new job together? Now that would be nice.

I love our neighborhood. The people are so nice. We all do favors for each other, give little gifts on special occasions or at Christmas etc. It’s a nice place to live. Now this neighborhood might actually help my husband get a better job. I love it.

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