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guys deal with things SO differently. when dau and i had troubles like what son and hub have been going thru, there would be a cloud over the place for a week. the night after i typed last entry, it was as if nothing ever transpired. but i can thank the Lord. i prayed. in fact, son desperately wants to go to something with hub this weekend. he rarely wants to go anywhere with him and tries to get out of it. he can’t go this weekend, but he wants to. a new twist!

dau’s x is being a jerk. he is trying to joke around about everything and dau is taking it personally. she feels he is making jokes at her expense. he says it is no big deal, and he doesn’t mean anything by it. she says his loser friends are “changing” him. he says she has no idea who he is anyway. iy yiy yi

but things with new beau are going well. she is anxious to establish something before she leaves town in 5 weeks. altho she is concerned that this guy is soooooooo ooooooooold, (24) she thinks he is a keeper. she says stuff like: i didn’t know guys like this existed! and he is anxious to spend time with her. when she had to cancel out last sunday, he said something to the effect of, there are only a few weeks left before u have to leave town, ya know. yeah, she knows. and she now doesn’t want these 5 weeks to end. but they will. and staying there won’t help. he is going on tour anyway. i don’t know when exactly, but most of the summer, i presume. i could be wrong. i don’t know the details.

anyway, they are getting together today, friday and sunday this week. she has so much homework and finals coming up. and she changed her major to where she will have even more homework next year. she thinks she is swamped now! she has no idea. she is going pre-med. she can do it too, but at a price. she now wants to have a social life. before this dude came along, she wanted to be too busy. lol!

my job is suddenly getting interesting. i have been putzing along… initially told boss wanted me in charge of a certain dept. yeah, like i can just waltz in there and take over. so i have been there for a few weeks now. when i try to get involved, i get the mind your own business response. the plant supervisor gets the same response. so he and i put our heads together today. came up with the same conclusions. we are going to have weekly meetings and approach this thing as a team. it still won’t be easy. like he and i both would like to do it nicely. but if ppl are too resistant, we will have to be jerks and that is that. we both came to that conclusion. and we will not be alone in it. whew! i was beginning to feel alone. the ppl i work with in my bldg keep telling me that this same supervisor said they had to do something a certain way. i was like, well ok, if he said so. then i talk to him and he said, no i told them to figure it out. well, their solution didn’t work and this is at least the 3rd time a major delay has been caused by them doing it “that way.” so he said, 3 strikes you are out.

the answer both of us keep getting when we confront them with problems is an excuse, maybe someone else is to blame, and that they have it under control now. like super says, not good enuf. we need results. we need to know HOW you have it under control. and if you can’t come up with an adequate solution, we will come up with one for you. we already have in fact. today. so we are going to meet with two of the most controlling ppl tomorrow and give them a chance to present a solution to us different from what they have been doing. in writing. with deadlines. this could be messy. and like super and i said, we are willing to chance them quitting even, cuz this has to be resolved. i doubt they will quit. they both say they love working there (of course – they get away with stuff) and want to be there forever. they both NEED the job. super and i don’t. we are very marketable as far as working elsewhere, and i don’t even need to work. after my dad passed away, i get 800 dollars a month in addition to some other income and that is plenty for me. sounds like a lot, and then again not so much depending on where u live. these two controllers have issues. one of them would be pretty marketable, but she makes a LOT of mistakes. the other one has attendance issues. the combination is a bad one. he has to check her work because of her errors and he is gone a lot so it doesn’t get done in a timely manner. therefore delay. super and i don’t want to take over the checking for errors. that is their responsibility. but we might have to temporarily if the guy quits. the gal will stay. she is there forever i am sure unless we fire her. it has come close to that a few times. i don’t know if she knows it. i have saved her job for her more than once cuz she trusts me to “help” her. otherwise, she tries to do EVERYTHING herself. not good when you are in a growing business.

sorry such a long entry! nice to vent tho!

faith hope and love, but the greatest of these is love.