Category Archives: Holidays

Happy New Year!!

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We want to wish everyone a safe and Happy New Year 2014!!!

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We spent our New Years Eve, just as we always do, having a quiet, relaxing night.  The only big difference this year (other than the fact that our house has wheels now), was being in the Eastern time zone.  For our entire lives, when watching the ball drop in Times Square, it was always 11:00pm Central Standard Time.  So it was a little odd watching it “live” at midnight.  And then hearing lots of fireworks going off (Makena was not happy!).

Many people make all kinds of resolutions for the new year, and we wish everyone the best of luck in keeping them.  Just remember, we don’t know how long we will be on this Earth, so make the best of everyday!!

We have donned our Wisconsin Badger apparel for today’s football game against South Carolina.  Go Bucky!!!   Jump Around!!!!

Quote for the day: “We will open the book, it’s pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity, and it’s first chapter is New Years Day.”  –  Edith Pierce

 

Odds and Ends

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After 6 days in a row, and about 75 miles of walking, we had a day off on Thursday. We were expecting to go back to work today (Friday) for mandatory overtime, but it was cancelled. At first we were disappointed, but we appreciated another day of rest. And we made sure it was a day of excitement, with laundry, defrosting the freezer, clipping Makena’s nails, and making a big pot of chili to go with another Columbo movie!!

On Monday, we did get together with Karen and Al, whose blog I have been following for awhile now. (http://wishuponanrvstar.blogspot.com/) It has been fun getting to meet all the folks who have helped to inspire us to live our dreams.

This week we did have a telephone job interview, for Crazy Horse Memorial. We did accept the jobs, and we are both looking forward to spending May thru September of 2014 in the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota. We will be working in the gift shop. You can check it out at: http://crazyhorsememorial.org So if you are out that way, please let us know so we can get together. They do have a campground right at the memorial, so we can walk or bicycle to work.

There is one thing this time a year that I will miss…and no it isn’t snow and bitter cold!! My sister Margie and I have been having a “cookie bake-a-thon” for over 25 years. We spend 3 days doing nothing but making Christmas cookies. Day 1 is planning and mixing the dough. Day 2 is baking, and Day 3 is decorating/frosting and boxing up the cookies for gifts for family and friends. And of course at the end of each night, we would have a tasty Tom and Jerry!!!

When we were at the grocery store the other day, I just felt very sad when I looked at the display of baking ingredients….

Here are some past photos:

Margie and I

Margie and I

 

The supplies

The supplies

 

The finished product!

The finished product!

 

Chief cookie inspector

Chief cookie inspector

 

end of the night!

end of the night!

 

Quote for the day: “Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies  and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets  for a nap.” – Barbara Jordan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving

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We hope everyone has a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

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This afternoon we are going out for a Thanksgiving dinner with a group of our neighbors at the campground who also work at Amazon. We are looking forward to a good meal and great conversations. Hopefully the Packers can get a win today…? Unfortunately we won’t be able to watch the game today, but at least we should be able to stream the audio.

Tomorrow begins the official start of the Christmas shopping season, and all shifts will be working at Amazon.  Should be an interesting day.  We may, depending on the volume of orders, start mandatory overtime next week.  We are hoping for it.  We have  already had 3 voluntary overtime days so far this season.  We could potentially have mandatory plus voluntary overtime for 2 weeks, which would mean 60 hour weeks ( we may need to buy another pair of tennis shoes!)

This week the managers handed out fresh fruit during our afternoon break, which was a pleasant surprise.  I guess they will be providing occasional treats for us.

They have also been having picking contests one day a week.  Dan has won both times now!!  The first time he won two tokens which can be used in the vending machines.  This week he won $10 in “Campbellsville cash”.  The ‘cash’ can be used to purchase Amazon branded items such as t-shirts, chip clips, glassware, etc.

Quote for the day –  “Be thankful for what you have, you’ll end up having more.  If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”  Oprah Winfrey