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coffee clutch - 2009-12-20- 8:38 a.m.
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"my coffee clutch” I have told you how I go to the restaurant every morning for coffee. The waitress is a girl who got married during a double wedding with my sister. Their husbands were brothers. I had made the cake for them all. It was 10 layers of cake and the girls wanted the color in peach and white so I made two separate hearts shaped cakes with brides and grooms on them and a cupid on top of the main body of cake. I did have ribbons going from the top to each heart cake to tie it all together. Both the girls have the same name too. But now both of the couples are divorced. They got married atleast 22 years ago and both of them have grown kids. This means I have known this girl along time but what I did not realize was she can be dumb. She recently got engaged to the guy she has been living with for the last 4 or 5 years. She thought she was suppose to have the ring on her right hand till she got married. She has a very pretty ring that looks to have cost quite a pretty price. She has some other ring on her left hand. I told her I really thought it was suppose to be the left hand but I would go online and find out for sure. I went to Wikipedia and found that I was right except if she was from Poland or Ukraine. I went there this morning and told her what I had found and she laughed and called herself stupid. Then she said that Larry the Cable guy says "you can't fix stupid" and I laughed inside cause that is really from Ron White. She is cracks me up. There is a guy that goes there every morning too. He works for the city and has the same name as one of my brother's. The day I found out she was engaged he was not there. I did go to the china house and he came in there. He and another guy sat at a table across from me so we could talk I think. I asked him where he was? He admitted he was at the competition place. He said only one time. I told him about her pretty ring and all that and how he missed it. As I went to leave he told me to keep warm and I ask so are you going to be there in the morning? He laughed and said, oh yes for sure I WILL be there. It was like he got caught being bad, just too funny. There are a few other men that go there every morning and we all drink coffee and wake up. We do discuss current affairs. We talk about stuff in the news and what ever we each know that is happening around our town. That was how I found out we are getting a McDonalds next to Casey's with the ground breaking in the spring. My husband found this in the paper three weeks after I had already told everyone at work. The one good thing about that was the people at work really want this in our town and some told me if it was not real they would be upset with me for getting their hopes up. So then they also read it in the paper and now have more faith in my coffee clutch of friends. Oh someone up there really likes us here at work. Asshole is not at work again today and has sent an email saying they will not be here. I talked with one guy who has been where they are before and he feels badly for them cause all they ever do there is sit in meetings all day. He is not sure how they get any work done there cause of all the meetings. Yes this is a very expensive coil we do for them but so it takes so much just to get it going into production. Boy oh boy can't this day go any faster. It feels as if I have been here forever already. I hate waiting on people. I have a few important things to get done but I need to wait for other people to either get here or call me to get them done and still no one. The clock is S-L-O-W-L-Y moving one minute ever few hours or so it feels. And until I either heard from or see those people all I can do is wait. The only good thing about this is Asshole is still not here and we got an email saying he would not be here today either. We ( the other office lady and myself) were both so happy to hear that. I said Santa knew we were good girls and this is our present. Or like my husband says it is our company bonus for the end of the year. But doing all this waiting puts tiredness in my head. Next week when I am off work I will come in on Wednesday and pick up my check. If I could afford to I would just not come in but I still need the money so I will pop in get the check and pop right back out again. I will put my stub in my office like I always do so I do not lose them. I only have 11 years worth of them in my file drawer cause the 1st year I worked here I was on the floor and did not have a drawer to put them in so I promptly lost them all of course. This day finally got over at work and I left there and stopped at the bank to deposit the check Tat gave me to pay on the snowmobile. I went right home and got Bear the we went to sign the papers on her new apartment and I paid the part of deposit and the week of rent. I did go over there and saw the apartment and found it to be one room with a kitchenette and a small bathroom and a good size closet in it. It is a bit bigger room then she has here but not by much. I think it will suit her ok for now. Since it is on the third floor there are a lot of stairs. There are two flights of stairs on the outside of the building then another flight inside. I will not go up too often but they make sure the rails are solid so I can sometimes. Today is Saturday and Tat and I are going to the quad cities shopping. Ok now it is Sunday. Yes we went shopping and the Mall was so full of people I could not see much of anything. I did get a few things and I think I do have everyone bought for. Tat and I did stop at Famous Dave’s and he had Rib tips and I had Brisket. We really do like eating at that place. Bear had her friends already at my house packing her stuff into their car to move her right away. I did ask Tat to come with to clear off the stairs. They were full of snow and ice. I would not let anyone go up those steps with out the ice being cleared 1st it was dangerous. Everyone was lined up behind him as he clear it off. It did take him a bit but he got the steps cleared very nice. I had given Bear a long time light bulb for the hallway so it was not so dark anymore. They got everything up and her friend began telling me where everything was going to be put. I stopped her right then and told her we already figured out where she will put stuff and shut her up. Tat had gotten upset with her cause of her bossy ways too. We did have Tat’s sister with us too to help us move the stuff upstairs. She rode with me there and with Tat on the way back home. She was saying how her mother is being so bad to her. This woman does the same thing to Tat making him feel like he can not do anything right. She puts them both down and talks like no one cares about her at all. His sister said that she should just pack up and go back to Muscatine. I told her to please think of this different think of how she is helping her brother out since he had to deal with this for the last 4 years. She did say yes that is true and he needs a break too. So now together they will deal with her and of course this means Tat can still get a part time job sometime.
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