Catch up

I've been on blogging hiatus. Mostly because when something is truly bugging me, I avoid my blog in order to keep myself from whining on it. I'm still having issues with the management at my job. The charge person on my shift is great, no problems there. We have almost identical schedules, so we probably work together more than any other two people on our shift and we have a good repore and work well together. I don't have authority issues, and I think I take direction pretty well, but when someone dictates to me that I have plenty of time to add this that and the other thing to my duties, and I try to explain to that person that what is being asked while not impossible will require back up from the other 2 shifts, and said person cuts me off without letting me finish a sentence, I get a little irked. Disrespect bothers me to no end. I may be the new person, but this woman has been absent for most of my tenure at my job, so to shut me down like I'm lazy and looking for an out was almost it for me. Good thing the economy sucks, or I might have walked away. Said person is the supervisor for my building and I think she has lost touch with reality, and what it is like to be in our (the human services assitants) shoes. Then there is our area supervisor. She is the one who does the interviewing and hiring, and does the schedules, approves leave and what not. She has said out loud that she will not be approving any leave for third shift for the foreseeable future. It's not like we are all asking for blocks of long term leave here, we just want to take our holiday comp time. One day here and there. If you aren't going to give me comp time, then pay me double time for working on a holiday. Scratch that, EVERY holiday since November. I'm living up to my end of the bargain as far as what is expected of me in my employment, they need to live up to theirs. Ok, and this is nit picky, but neither one of these people can write out a coherent sentence. No, I mean it, every time I have to read something either one of them has written, I have to go over 3 or 4 times. I don't have a full college education, but I learned most of my writing skills in highschool, and that is a requirement for any position held at the center.
In other news.....
Wes had a birthday on January 11th. Here's his "cake":

He wanted brownies instead of a cake.


Also, the kids got their report cards and both did really well. Mackenzie came home with all A's and perfect attendance. Joey once again missed two A's by one point each, but I'm still proud. Mackenzie's school has started an after school sports program for A/B honor roll students. It's very intense: kick ball and cheerleading. She did cheerleading last trimester, so she is trying kick ball this time. Joey wants to play baseball for his school this spring. He's looking forward to that starting in a couple months. For now we're braving the cold weather we've been having, but have so far warded off the snow. Thank goodness for small favors! Joel continues to do his own thing. He sleeps in, even though I wake him up most mornings to drive Joey to school, wakes me up for breakfast, then passes his time on nick.com or playing the Wii until his brother and sister get home and he can go outside.