June 10

Tried to upload pictures, wouldn't work!!




I cannot beleive it is summer! (Almost) We are having our regular June gloom. I like it, doesn't bother me. I wouldn't even mind some rain. We had a thunderstorm and some hard rain for about 30 minutes a few weeks ago, in the middle of the night and I managed to sleep through it. And an earthquake the same week! Nothing big on the Richter scale, but it really rocked the house and everyone felt it and went running for doorways. You learn to do that very young in California. Of course we are still waiting for "the big one" that they say is coming. You wonder each time, is this it? Until it stops. I was in elementary school in the 60's and I remember the Air Raid drills. That was kind of scary to consider for 8 years old.

Alot of changes taking place. My middle son is graduating from high school this week. Always a big deal. I've had one already graduate a few years ago and I have one more at home to go, still in elementary. Things at my job are shakey, we are being gobbled up by a bigger company. We are being offered employment with them so I thought that was a good thing. But they are going to drug test us, credit check us and make us take pages of what I feel are REALLY silly personality type tests. "What do you think someone else would want you to say about what kind of person you are? OMG! as my son says many times everyday. I have nothing to hide, but I have to say that I feel resentful and very unhappy about it. I have been at my job 3 years and have recieved nothing but good reviews from my employers and praise from customers. I have tried to stay on top of new things and take advantage of further training opportunities. Why don't they look in our personnel files to find out about how we do our job which is the important thing I thought. I'm not out there flying planes or driving school buses or anything. I can see testing someone if a company feels that their job is suffering in someway, their behavior is erratic or something. Innocent until proven guilty.......what happened to that? People I work with who are mostly younger than me say, no big deal, that's how it is. But I've never been tested like that at a job. I feel insulted. Probably just me.

On a happy note, I am getting ready for a REALLY short trip to Seattle. I truly good friend I have had since I was 21 and she was 18 is graduating from college! She is 47. I am so proud of her. She put everyone first, she held down the fort so her husband could graduate college, then had child and raised him up to nearly middle school before she felt comfortable doing something that would take so much time away. And she went for it. She is majoring and minoring in a subject that makes a difference. She is physically one of the most beautiful woman I have ever met, she could have been a model or TV newscaster or something, but she likes to get down there in the trenches and help people when tragedy strikes. (She went to Louisiana as part of a rescue/help effort. She is a truly wonderful person and for her I will fly to Seattle Sat. and fly home Sunday!! I can't stay, my son is graduating and it will be full week here at home. But it will be great to see my friend.