I had a great weekend, but not so great Monday. (I know....Are there really such things?)
I'll have to post more later because I'm exhausted. All the activities and stress is catching up with me. So I'm going to bed very shortly.
The good:
This weekend I was able to get a lot done around my house and made a dump and Goodwill run. Did a bunch of kid stuff, but also was able to go Edgefield in Portland and meet up with a couple of my girlfriends from High School. (One is my godmother's niece and the other was my best friend for years.) Unfortunately, I have been REALLY bad about keeping in touch with people and the relationship had withered. We hooked up on Facebook and decided to get together. It was really great to see them. (more to come)
Sunday we had our Twilight party. It was really fun. The kids dressed up (I was Renee ~ Bella's mom who would be leaving soon to head down to spring training in Florida so I could be supportive of my new husband's career.) and we had crazy catagories for prizes. One was the Best Goat Herder - because the crazy critters got out at least 6 times during the movie, so the dozen kids would stop the movie and chase them back. It was funny but kind of distracting.
The Bad:
I was notified today that all non union positions will be taking a 5% pay reduction as of May 1st. There is a big meeting with the County Commissioners tomorrow night with all employees. I'm going to go even though it means I'll miss C's play at his Scout meeting and might miss part of M's concert. I just have to get more info from the source. It's driving me crazy not knowing.
The Ugly:
I had my first knitting class tonight. It was fine. The teacher was a little distracted, but has been teaching enough that if you can have her show you individually it was easy to pick up. (I think all those attempts of trying created some muscle memory, because it flowed for me. Glad I had teacher within reach though, because there were several times where I did stuff that was my "undoing" during previous attempts.) I can tell that I will like knitting. It's very soothing. I can definitely get lost in the rhythm. But wow is my "practice" piece ugly. The teacher has already been scratching her head at my "challenges". Honestly I don't know how it happens but weird stuff seems to happen to me.
Well, I'm off to bed.
Have a Lovely Weekend.
6 hours ago
2 comments:
Just so you know that you are not alone, Idaho passed a law Friday cutting all State employee's wages (except elected officials, Judges, and school teachers) by 5% starting June 1st. There is a mandatory 3% cut from general funds and the other 2% is to be found in each agency's budget. As if the budgets haven't already been cut to the bone. The Gov. cut our budget 56% plus cut 10% out of our present operation budget (until June 1) on top of what he asked all agency's to hold back(5%). Tough times for all.
YIKES!!!! Ouch!!! I feel for you. Hard choices to be made.
I was talking to my friend James Ruchti last week. (He's a state represenative from Poky.) I sure don't envy being a legislator or an elected official in these times. (How do you choose between parks, veterans, poor kids' insurance, unemployment benefits and retraining, services for the disabled, or funding schools, etc.?)
Our BOCC says that we are going to be more fee based and that the general public will just have to start paying the true cost of services in form of increased fees.
In a show of leadership around here the various elected officials (BOCC, judges, etc) are going to donate (gift back to the county) the 10% of their pay.
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