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[FONT="Book Antiqua"]Sorry I've not been around, but Tom was here to visit all last week. What a crazy week it turned out to be. We spent Monday and Tuesday shopping for a car. Not how I wanted to spend the time, but at least I've now got a vehicle to drive.

I may have angered my in laws by putting up resistance when they wanted Tom to spend two or three days out at their house doing work for them. Instead of the fence, they wanted him to lay some water lines, and run loads to move their stuff for them. Then they had the nerve to look put out when it was mentioned that someone needed to watch the kids since I would be at work. I don't know if they thought he would just dump them on my Mom, and then he would come out and do all the errands they wanted. The really sad part is that I just don't care. I am not bothered at all by the fact that I may not be on their good side anymore. If refusing to allow them to make unreasonable demands will make them unhappy with me, then I'm not going to worry over it too much. This sounds really horrid (I'm still a bit mad over their attitude last week), but they're not my parents so I just to care. In what world is it right to take vacation to spend time with you son, and then plan a move in that time. They also made a trip to Atlanta and the east side of Ohio to get a couple of dogs. All in all, they maybe spend four hours or so with Tom out of an entire week:flare: :flare: I just get mad when I think of how that hurt my husband.

Things at work are still a mess. We've a thief in the store, and I'm afraid that she is trying to hang it around my neck. Thursday morning I opened the store, and the safe was $20 short. I then come in on friday to find that someone had the gall to say that I was trying to set her up. I went ballistic, the old witch is lucky that I didn't punch her I was that angry. First, I'm not a thief. I don't understand stealing, and the one time I took a necklace as a teen, I felt so guilty I took it back to the store. Second, my GM in a close friend and someone who I've known for eight years. Third, the sheer audacity it took to accuse me of setting her up when it is the other way around astounds me. We've some proof that she is taking, but our surveillance system isn't taking very clean images. We need something more concrete than numbers and a jumping image. We're close to catching her, though, and my stress level will decrease when she is gone. I'm exhausted with having to watch my every step so I'm not caught in a trap she's set for me. The safe wasn't the first one, and I'm just sick of it.

Other than that, I'm the proud owner of a hole in the ground with some footers in it. I'm hoping they'll be pouring the walls for my foundation in the next week or so. I go to look every couple of days to see what they've done.

Still sending out resumes. I think I've figured out what it is that I've been doing wrong, so I hope that I'll have it corrected with the next interviews I'm called on. I've not been sending thank you notes, and I didn't understand that they are the big deal that they seem to be. Hopefully I'll be getting further with the process that way.

I'm to bed for the night, but I hope everyone else is doing well. I've read a few blogs, and I'll try to catch up more soon.

Much Love,
Meg[/FONT]