Tuesday - 09-29-09, Doing some catching up.

Ok, since I'm currently at work, and don't have internet, I'm not sure what the last thing I posted was. I have posts from several days, but my PDA is giving me problems, so I have to work on fixing them before I can put them online.
I know I haven’t typed anything since 9/25 though, so I'll start with 9/26. I had to work in the morning. Then came home that night to do some cleaning up, and some running. Since there was a Bears game, which they depressingly lost, on Friday we didn't get out shopping done. So we did that, and pretty much didn't do anything else the rest of the night.
On Sunday, 9/27, Cathy went to her mom's, and I stayed home. I did some of my normal tasks in the morning. Then when she got home we ate a quick lunch and headed up to the preseason Bears game. This was a pretty exciting game. It looked like they would win, then it looked like they would lose. It ended up going into overtime, and the Bears pulled out a win.
We noticed that when we got home from the game that some of the names on our cups were starting to rub off more. So Cathy tried something. She covered all the autographs with laminating sheets. I hope that holds the names on.
Now a recap on Monday, 9/28. I was off work, I had requested off, and even though I could have worked I decided I would rather stay home. Cathy called me from work. She told me we are getting the cat now. Her supervisor would be brining it over later that night. SO I had to do a little straightening up. She showed up with the cat at about 6pm. She was there until after 7 saying good bye to it. Cathy told her she can come visit any time she wants to.
Now onto this morning. We got up this morning, and the cat wasn't where it was last night. When we went to bed he was under the bed. We looked and found him under the couch. So we had to try to get him out. We ended up lifting the couch up while I slid under and pulled him out. The first time he knocked my glasses off my face batting at me. We put him in the kitchen to feed him, and he came back in, and ran back under. So we had to get him out again.
Once he was out, and had food he seemed fine under the table in the kitchen. I got scratch out and cleaned his pen and left him run. Once we were done with that we moved the screen so the cat, trouble, could come back in. He stayed out in the kitchen until about 8. Then he snuck in past me and went back behind the couch. When I looked back to see if he was ok, he just hissed at me. SO I guess he's ok.
I got to work this morning to find that the stand wasn't open Sunday or Monday. I know when the park isn't open, if I can't make it in, they usually don't open. But when the park is open they usually have the stand open. But the last day's paperwork that is anywhere around hast Saturday's date on it.
I was expecting to come into a mess, which I did. This is the third week in a row that the stand wasn't cleaned right. So I made a list of what wasn't done, and I will type a PAM, and put it on Harry's desk. I hope he signs it.
Around 11:00 Natalie came down to see if they could get any drinks for the preschool event that runs every Tuesday. I gave her what she wanted. Plus she asked if she could get some carrots, which I gave her. Since they are out dated, I told her that if they wanted them for the animals the zoo could have them. She said they would definitely take them. So we'll see if anyone ever picks them up, or if they get thrown away.
Although I had seen some people walking around, I hadn't had one customer yet at 12:00. I figured that if I didn't have any customers by 1:00 I would call up to the office and see if I could just close early today.
By 12:30 that idea was gone. I got two people who purchased kids meals and fries. So now there was a good chance that I wouldn't close early. Although with Rich power washing the awning over my patio, I don't think I’ll get too many more people.
Rich made a mess on my patio while working on the awning. Although it’s water resistant, when you spray it with a pressure washer, the water comes through. So the whole patio is wet, my condiment table and counters are soaked with dirty water. I'll have to throw away the sugar, salt, and pepper packets. He actually got the main part of it done pretty quickly. Then he moved on to the edge of it.
Sometimes people don't use their brains, and this time Rich was one of them. After getting my entire condiment table soaked, he came to me and told me that he was working on cleaning the awning, and I may want to cover everything. So I went out and covered everything to make him happy.
It took me about 20 minutes, but I got through all the bread that was either moldy or mouse eaten. I figured it wasn't done since I did it a few days ago. And since I wanted to take all the empty bread trays, and soda trays, to Minetown, I figured this would be a good time to go through all the bread. I ended up throwing a lot out. There was a ton that was moldy, and some that was mouse eaten. If they wouldn't have ordered so much the last time I wouldn't have had to throw so much away. But I wasn't the one who did the ordering.
I didn't get another customer until 2:00. And that one only got a pretzel. The lady was a little upset that she got wet from Rich washing the awning, but she saw what he was doing before she walked up. He only had a small section to do at that point. I figured once he was done I would finish with the bread. I didn't want to get wet carrying out the trash bag.
I was a little behind on my precleaning. With Rich doing the awning, that created another mess I had to clean up. Plus, like always, I got some customers. Not a lot, but enough to slow down my precleaning.
I got out around my normal time, got home and looked for trouble (that's the cat's name). I think if I would have known that up front I may have said no to getting it. :) Anyway, he was behind the couch where he was when I left for work. But I noticed that Scratch's fur was all ruffled up, and that Gordina (our baby dragon) was totally black. This means that both are stressed. But I decided to be nice to the cat, and talk to it. What does it do, growl and hiss at me.
So after watching our shows I decided to go get a shower and shave. As I'm finishing up in the bathroom I hear Cathy yelling, and banging on something. I go out to see her on the chair I sit on looking in the corner behind it. I asked what was wrong, and she told me that the cat just backed up to the corner and peed in it. Well we can't have this. So at 10:00 at night we were trying to get him out of the corner, and show him the litter box again.
In doing so he scratched my hand and arm, and tried to bite me. We finally got him out, and I put him in his letter box. He just sat in it hissing at me, and swatting at me. So we decided to lock him off to certain rooms. We moved his liter box to the back hall, and closed off the door to it. We then closed the one bathroom door. This gives him the bathroom, bedroom, and back hall to roam in. It also keeps him from Scratch and Gordina. I just hope he starts to settle down. If not Cathy and I were talking about it, and have decided that if it keeps up he'll have to go....