Meal's

In the last week friends of our have been dropping off food for us. It has been so nice! I knew a lot of them were good cooks and no one has disappointed us.

Its so nice to know that we have friends that help out in this difficult time as I am recovering. It has not been easy on my man, since he has to help me shower and all. It has helped him not be so burdened with everything.

I had no idea how many different rice and chicken dishes people could come up with and they are all great. None of them have been repeats of the same dish. They have also been kind enough to make a salad and drop off dressing. It's been really kind of them and interesting what we get the next night. We now have plenty of left overs for this week.

We did have to get out of the house and for the 1st time ever,as a couple we went to the OC Fair. I had wanted to see the piglets they showed on TV. I was not disappointed. There were day old piglets and they still had their umbilical cords attached. They were cute and pink and one had spots and was so happy nursing on he huge mom. Ok I knew pigs were big, but these momma pigs were huge. Seeing the babies in comparison was quite a big difference.

There was also two day old kids. That's goat and not humans. The kids were all leg and stumbled a bit. Even at two day the twins a boy and girl were literally butting heads. It was cute to see them play and try to head butt each other. We also petted the sheep and other farm animals. It was great and not that I have my chickens and used their droppings for fertilizer, ok farming. This year I am much more interested in the other farm animals and what we gain from them. The sign above the goats said they are used for meat. So there you go. Also they clean up and will eat anything, like the one after my parasol.

I was never told how much good food there was at the fair. The theme this year is "Let's Eat" if that gives you a clue. We did have some really great BBQ ribs. In all the years my friends have gone they have talked about the animals and rides and eating too much fried foods. Nothing about smoked ribs. I might have gone in other years had I known. We did try a deep fried twinky, it was good. Nothing I wanted seconds on, but worth the try.

In an effort to get out of the house more and before we had a new meal brought buy, we did manage a quick trip to the mall. It was nice to see my friends at Chanel and Dior and Louise Vuitton. At Dior we were treated to some champagne. With all the stress of the last two weeks, I needed a bit of luxury. Looking at nice things always cheers me up. I was able to talk shop as well since I have been in the retail industry of late. After some free champagne and feeling tired from walking, we went home. Shortly after we got home, our friends dropped off some pot roast. Thank you cards are going out this week, for all that cooked for us. We have been very grateful for their help! Thank you again!

Change

It seems that change is supposed to be good, we should change how we think and do things. It sounds great, but do people really change?

This woman I work with had surgery this year and she said it helped he to eat better, take better care of herself and gave her a whole new out look. Wow, that would be great, if it were true. In truth, she is very negative, one of those people that always says the worst things. She always talks about gross medical procedures and freak accidents. None of which are up-beat, or positive.

She also steals sales and the pretends she doesn't. We have a sales book, which she looks at, checking others sales and gets mad when some one else is doing better than she is. While she has been bringing her home made lunches to work to save money, that is something a lot of us do and is not that big of a deal. It seems the more she talks the more we find out that she still is very competitive, just like she was before she had her procedure.

A few weeks ago on a Sunday there was a customer that was purchasing a huge order of products. Rather than hog all the sales to herself, an other sales girl on my team shared it. There was no reason to be greedy, there was plenty of commission to be made by all of us. Four of us helped out and shared the sales. I gave that girl a jar of my home made jam and some eggs to thank her.

The 1st woman I am talking about was not working that day, she was so insanely jealous of our good sales, when she found out. She would not have shared with us. The other day I was again working with the nice girl and I shared my good sales with her, since she had done the same. That is team work, the other way, not so much. My question is, where is that great positive, life changing out look the 1st woman is supposed to have?

While I don't see any evidence of that, and neither do any of my co-workers, change is a nice concept. As long as you can really get it to work.