Cinderella

well finally ours have arrived........made me want to sing............ Gremlin bells ring, are you listening, On the bikes, chrome is glistening A beautiful sight, We're happy tonight. Riding in a Venture wonderland. Gone away is the 1st Gen, Here to stay is a 2nd Gen The chirp sings a song, As we go along, Riding in a Venture wonderland.

same here diane..........snow storm this weekend.............welcome to the midwest.!!! I thought we left all this crap back in ohio when we moved here.........

must be slow here also .........no ringing sounds comin from my mail box yet either......... I guess he sent them to the real ding-a-lings first........

we made it thru with no major mishaps.......over 24 hrs straight of freezing rain......it finally stopped last night and then the wind picked up. It was eerie listening to the trees creek and snap from the ice when the wind started last night. They did an excellent job on the main roads here, but everything else was covered in ice......lots without electric around the KC area but we never lost ours thankfully........heres a cpl pics I snapped this morning of our trees and bushes they arent hanging as low as yesterday......2nd day of no school.....Haylie is going stir crazy.

lol.............well charlie looks like winter has set in up north.you are back to "Too much time on your hands.":stickinouttounge:...........

MINI..they are talking about you again....................

RandyA check out this thread.........there was a big discussion on the subject a while back. Maybe you will find some useful info there......... http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=8752&highlight=cpap

Just a little follow up on my return to work yesterday......... Things went well....no feelings of problems with any fellow employees.... but heres the kickers 2 of them....... The manager was having problems figuring out what some of the other employees had done on their paper work from the previous day......she was totally frustrated.......well she came to me..showed it to me and asked if I had any idea what they had done.....I told her what it looked like to me had happened.....so she went back to work on that idea......but just didnt get it... later when I was doing my paperwork she came and sat down and said she just had to get away from it , couldnt get it worked out ( it was a money issue) well once again I looked at it and explained what I saw and how it had carried over to the next person and so on.....so back she went....still not quite getting it....... she asked me not to clock out til I came in her office and went over it with her again. Well I managed to get it all straightened out for her so everything came out. Now on to the next one......obviously because of what happened with me...the big office sent down some policies and procedures in writing that she wanted me ( and everyone) to read over.....well guess what.....the managers were told that there would be no more schedule changes without informing the employees invloved and it had to be ok with them......because "your employees" do have lives and make plans according to the original schedules that are posted.....there were other things about favoritism, etc. If nothing else at least i accomplished this ! Before I left she did mention the "miscommunication" between us and wanted to know if everything was "ok" between us......I said I'm fine I have no hard feelings to which she raised her hands to kind of high five them against mine.........

sounds fun to me also.................. will it be gag gifts??? bike related gifts? personal gifts? oh yeah if they own a 1st gen and its bike related......they would be gag gifts wouldnt they............:stirthepot::rotfl:

this is gettting funny now...........I got woke up around 5 am this morning with a phone call.....no glasses on and it was dark and It woke me up so I didnt look at the caller id...just answered thinking somethings wrong for the phone to ring at this hour.......... haha,,,,,it was someone from work......she is sick and needs to go home, she tried a couple other people and noone could/would come in.........so the manager told her to try me.......she knows i cant come in til I get Haylie off to school at 8:15 but thought I could come in then........and yep you got it, of course i said yes..... so here we go, the cycle starts to roll once again.......... oh the girl who called did *snicker* a lil and say "welcome back"......

thanks for all your input, insights, suggestions, etc. as someone said " Is it worth it?" thats my issue....but i do need the money......lol I did have my little pow wow with the manager today.......altho she never brought up the "incident" that happened........ we did come to some understanding about what hours and days I can work and I have been put back on the schedule. Not sure if this would have happened if the general manager had not gotten involved in the situation.....I felt compelled to go higher up to resolve this unfair treatment..especially after a new hire was given several chances to show up for work and only showed 1 out of 3 days and they kept giving her another chance.....hmmmm..whats wrong with this picture?? Even tho the manager, to my knowledge, hasnt taken any of the responsibilty for the miscommunication, I am going back..at least for now and see how things work out. I did apply for several jobs while i was on my little "vacation" from there......and will leave if something pans out. I kind of feel that my reputation amongst my fellow employees has been tarnished, tho i dont know exactly what had been told to them.....which is hard to swallow as I had a very good repoire with them. I believe some of them think I quit. Time will tell..... at least now ya all know i wont be in here starting trouble all the time..... im goin back to work......got a few more days tho......dont go back til sunday:stirthepot:

the way things have gone for us the last year, why shouldnt it continue??? I'm torn as to what to do about my job. we were gone to Ohio for Dales dads funeral upon my return home I knew I was scheduled to work friday and sunday. Knowing that I had saturday off Dale accepted work for saturday. I go inot work friday afternoon and see that she had put me on the schedule for saturday. I asked her when she did this and she explained that since the new hire didnt work out ( show up) she had to put me on. Well I explained to her i could not work because Dale had to work and I do not have a babysitter. She ( the manager)asked me when he would get off so maybe I could come in later. I didnt know what time, we never know what time when he works saturdays but usually its 10 - 8. It would be no use for me to come in that late as my shift would end at 10:30. She said that she had had to work for some others so she guessed she could work for me also. This is where the conversation ended. Well guess what.....she didnt show up for the shift saturday.......neither of us did. But guess who is getting blamed for it? As soon as I heard what had happened I tried to call her, both her cell and home...she wouldnt answer. I left a message. I called the assistant manager and talked with her. She told me the manager took me off the schedule and she ( the manager)wouldnt talk to me til monday , when she was back on her regular schedule!!! So I called the manager monday and she pretty much layed blame totally on me for what happened. I appologized and said obvioulsy it was miscommunication.she tried to tell me the last thing said between us was what time does dale get off so maybe you can come in late....and since no more was said, she figured i was just going to come in. She appears to not be taking any responsibilty for what happened , which really upsets me. It was obviously a miscommunication and I have admitted to my share of it and appologized to her and to the person who had to come in and cover the shift. On our phone conversation she said she would talk to the District manager and tell him we had spoken and see what he wants to do. Well I havent heard anything back. I contacted the owner and let him know what had happened and how I feel im being treated unfairly....the general manager them contacted me and said she wants to get this straightened out between us that maybe I should go talk to the manager and she would come also if I wanted her to. I'm so frustrated, I have always worked when asked to, helped out by staying over some hours into the next shift when someone couldnt come in, worked overnights to train a new person....i have missed one day in the last year, other than the time i had to take off for the funeral, always busted my butt for them ( in fact I was in for a raise) This is a new manager who has been there for 1 1/2 months now and I have gotten along fine with her, no problems til now. We do have some other issues going on about me switching back to overnights because of Dales schedule now, which I was told I could have because the night guy was going to be transfering to another store to be assistant manager, well some probs have come up with that and we dont know if he is leaving or staying now. Because of this thinking i was going to overnights I turned down my chance for the after school program for haylie that ive been trying to get inot since school started, I told them to give it to the next person waiting because i would be going to overnights. So now I have no child care for afterschool so I cant work the shift i was on. What a mess. I have even agreed to cut my number of days down for a while and take the 2 overnights available and wait to see what happens with the other guy transferring. sorry about the rambling but im so frustrated, cant afford to be without a job.and really dont know if I want to go back there now.........

LOL ! Ive seen this pig many many times........as I lived in NW ohio for 40 yrs of my life...everytime we trecked on over to the toledo area on 24 we would make a point of checking "the pig". Dale thought I was crazy when I told him about it......til he saw it.....and then he started checking for it whenever he came to visit me and we went that way. Ive seen it dressed for holidays and to go fishing.......ya never know whats next. By the way is the waterville witch still around? We used to go by her house......she always had sticks in the ground surrounding her house, we used to sneek up and take sticks and then we ran like H***......we didnt hold on to them very long because we were afraid something would happen to us.:rotf:

now JT do you really think they want to admit they have 1st gens??? this isnt a 1st gen anonymous meeting......... :rotfl::stirthepot: the first step is to admit they have a problem...........

uhhhhhhh apparently someone didn't tell you about the back door guard......and let me tell you........they dress in pink.........and .....well......I just can't tell you the rest..........but I have warned you....:rotf:

wow.........back in Ohio where we moved here from, the market is terrible. We still own a house back there that we have been unable to sell. ( yep two mortgages going on) Let me put it this way......we had the house appraised before we moved when we had it on the market(july 2005).......and we just had it appraised again a few weeks ago......the appraisal value has dropped almost 40 grand since July 05 !!! I was in shock.......no wonder noone wants to buy a house that the balance due on the mortgage is 28 grand more than it appraises for. Makes me sick. But............yep always a but.......... we were about to lose the Ohio house, in fact ready to do the dreaded deed in lieu.....at the last minute the people renting it stepped in and decided they wanted to try to buy it..so we are still waiting word on whether our mortgage co. will accept the short sale. Should know by the end of this week. They would be fools not to accept it as they offered only 8 grand less than we owe, which is way above the appraised value.......my concern is will their lender approve a loan in which the house value is that much lower than the mortgage amount??????????????????????????\ Im keeping my fingers crossed.......as this will certainly lessen our burden and financial situation. We have been pretty stressed over the situation.

oh how we miss you also, charlie.................... good grief did I really say that............ coffee I need more coffee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haylie loves it also.......we made the mistake of letting her ride at Fort Collins....her first major ride was over 250 miles ! No complaints, nothing.....she got rained on, snowed on, sleeted on......and kept on smiling.... arms in the air waving......head hanging over the sides ( a lill too far for my liking so she was quickly told no more of that ) She keeps asking when she will get to go again......! and even before she ever rode a real bike she had her wooden scoot.....see second picture.....lol

Dale and I were very saddened to hear this news......our prayers go out for strength for the family in this tragic time and for fast healing for Gary. I just dont know what to say, other than we feel your pain Gary and you know that everyone will be here for you to help in any way they can.

so very true what everyones said.............. and when people ( you know who u are) know things arent going real smooth in your life....they manage to take the time to send lil cheer ya up jokes and emails.....so not only are there offerings of physical help but emotional also. I have seen more love and caring from this small community in the short time Ive known you all than in my whole lifetime. CAN YA FEEL THE LOVE????????????????????????????????????????http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_2_104.gif

SHARE, SHARE AND THEN SHARE SOME MORE Sherry !! I like to hear how you are doing and whats going thru your mind.......and just what you are experiencing....it helps me to understand better........as I have no comprehension of what its like for you or others who have experienced such a tragedy in their lives. I think it helps us all to heal! Thanks for opening up to us and allowing us to share it with you.

juggler you are right..........Sherry is gonna need a lot of support. I tried to call her a few minutes ago, but wasn't able to reach her. Noone was answering the home phone or her cell, but I'm not surprised.

I am shocked............Tigress called to let me know . Sherry you and your kids our in our thoughts and prayers........ Our hearts ache for you and what you must be going thru Cindy and Dale

you were blessed to have a grandmother around so long........all my grnadparents passed while I was young.......other than my grandfather who lived to 98.......and passed several years ago.... Im sure the memories will be with you forever....... and hope you find peace in knowing she is in a far better place and is really just starting her life now !

well mama..........take the bull by the horns.........no not your hubby.. and take up donations for it......and then just do it.........!