Thanksgiving

I had to work Thanksgiving night at Yavapai Cafe, but this pic is from e-cafe at about 12:30-1pm. Brenda & I went for lunch there...obviously lots of other people did too.

Missed the Macy Parade on TV...there was a dog show on instead (on the TV in the corner)

Oh yes, Brenda will kill me for this 1...but she ate to much Thanksgiving dinner. She tried to convince me that the pumpkin pie was good this year, But I still didn't try it. I bought 3 pumpkin pies from the general store instead.

She missed out on Thanksgiving dinner last year because she got sick.

This is our unit manager, Adam. He is wearing a "Wizard of Oz" tie. The minute I came into work he started out asking me what the significance was with the Movie wizard of oz & Thanksgiving...anyone who could answer that question correctly first would get a free meal card.

So for the next few hours, the 3 cashiers & I kept passing along trivia stuff about the movie. Guess there is a book called "wicked" that I need to read.

Just some friends who came into Yavapai to eat dinner together.

Overall, it was a pretty good day. Tai even passed out extra food to everyone at the end of the night to take home. He forgot that I don't need tons of gravy on my food though. Oh Well.

Deer Farm

Here's Christine and her husband John. (both are taxi driver's in the park)

They had gone to the deer farm last year...but I have never been before. It cost us each $8.50 to get in which was expensive...then we had to pay for the cups of food (which didn't last to long)

Don't really think Christine liked having all the deer crowding her.

John decided to play photographer here and got a bunch of pics of me & Christine feeding the deer...actually the deer will eat ANYTHING!

They started chewing on the back of my shirt and I even had to get my keys out of 1 deer's mouth.

(obviously this was taken before I hid the keys down inside my shirt...cuz I can still see them hanging)

ok whats a camel doing in a deer farm?

Actually there are wallaby's, llama's, quite a few different birds, mini donkeys and other animals at this place...who woulda guessed it?

Deer kept chewing on Christine's coat and pulling on the tie-strings.
Good thing the deer in the park don't do this...or people would not be able to walk around here. We always say the animals in park are not afraid of people...well believe me it ain't nothing like the animals at the deer farm.

John found a new date as we were leaving...lol

this bird could only say hello...so John stopped to talk back to it.

I had run into Christine yesterday morning in e-cafe and she invited me to tag along with her & John while they ran errands and paid bills....so glad I did.

It was a fun day!!...went to deer farm, 2 thrift shops, had lunch at some chinese food place next to "Dollar Tree", picked up a hitch-hiker on the way to a casino (I lost $10), and then Fry's before heading back home. Which made for a long day.

Veteran's Day

My younger brother, Lt. Col. Allan Conkey is getting sworn into his newest job in Washington D.C. (this pic is from a change-of-command ceremony last June)
He has been in the USAF for 24 years now

This is Philip. I think the picture was taken while he was in South Korea. He recently got back in Ft Hood,TX...which had some unfortunate crazy excitement this week. Luckily Phil is safe and thinks we are all silly for worrying about him. Phil has been in the Army for only 3 years and is thinking of getting out.

This picture below is Adam, when he first joined the Army. He has been to Iraq twice and now stationed in Hinesville,GA.

I may not always agree with these 3 guys on every subject that pops up, but am sooo glad I have the right to freedom of speech and the freedom to disagree with them when ever I want and the freedom to come & go when ever the mood strikes me, and of course tons of other freedoms that I'm sure I take for granted without even thinking of them.

I guess I need to say Thank-You to them more often for my freedoms.

*around the canyon*

Well I seem to be having Monday-Wednesdays off from work this month. Not sure how I forgot, but went to marketplaza to get my mail & go to the bank...oh yeah, post office & banks are closed for the holiday today...DUH

Guess I will have to go into bank before work tomorrow, seeing as my atm card ain't working.

Shop Till We Drop

Shop Till We Drop

Luckily I had today off work so I could go down to Flagstaff with my friend, Brenda. (She always has weekends off)
We went into Michael's craft store. Halloween is Brenda's favorite holiday and I've been calling her "The Queen of Halloween" for a couple yrs now. She needed to get supplies for project/gifts that she is making for about 30 people, she also wants to make 2 haunted house (1 for home & 1 for her work office) and stuff to make a black halloween wreath. She will go back down later to get stuff for her yummy fattening treats...that will be part of the 30 peoples gifts.

Her excitement was almost contagious as I almost bought stuff to decorate my door. Instead I got jewelry making supplies and a jewelry book to get new ideas. (I'm hoping to sell jewelry at our next Winter Bazaar) I forgot my 40% discount paper so my total was about $63. Brenda remembered her 40% and her total was still about $88. I better sell lots of jewelry at the bazaar to make up for my crazy shopping.

Later we went to Fry's for grocery shopping. Why is it that I always seem to get lost in that store? At least the produce section is easy to find, which is good because I wanted strawberries (2 containers/$5), bananas ( .59/pound), avocados (.88/a piece), tangerines ($1.99/pound), and baby carrots (.88). The avaocados were a tad bit softer then I woulda liked but I got 2 anyways. Flagstaff felt like a sauna today, so I got a few 32oz bottles of powerade for .88/a piece. I ended up losing Brenda in the store when I wandered off to look for Clif Bars...they were $1/ a piece.

Not sure if it was all the driving around or if it was just the heat...but I was sooooo tired on the way home. Was able to make 1 necklace (so far) since coming home though

To leave or not to leave~Q of the week

ok, I'm a bit stuck at the moment and not totally sure what to do.

I might have a job working at a hostel for 2 nights a week. I'll get free rent, free food, free wi-fi and its close enough to make it to my sons graduation next June, without the hassles I get here about needing time off. I can also work an extra day if I want to for extra $$.

?Will I like the job? ?Will I like the location in Winter? (IDK)

This was quite a shock to Brenda today. I sent her an email before I went to work today telling her about it. She was surprised that I would actually leave the Grand Canyon park. But geez, the park ain't going nowhere, which means I can always come back in a year if I want to. Actually leaving Brenda behind is the hardest thing about this decision. Brenda is probably the main reason I have stayed put here as long as I have.

But would Brenda still be here in a year??? Maybe if she gets the new promotion that she is hoping for. geez, if damn management had just let me stay in Maswik kitchen like I had wanted I wouldn't of even thought of leaving right now...but since when do I get what I want? I guess out of all the jobs I've had here at GC, I liked working in Maswik Kitchen last winter the best but that didn't last long enough.

Well, I guess whoever is reading this will have to stay tuned and wait for further updates later.

Summer is almost gone

Wow, hard to believe that it's September already. September started out with a little bit of sprinkles & thunder. In a way, it seems like Summer flew by and I didn't have time to do everything I wanted. Then again it seems like I wasted alot of time doing nothing to special.

Well today was supposed to be my last day at the kennel, but think I might be made to stay an extra week.... then I'm going back to Yavapai as a busser. But first I get 3 days off during holiday weekend. Was scheduled for health fair in Flagstaff but takes to much time and money. So I could just stay home and FINALLY get my room cleaned out & organized. Or at least spend 1 day this weekend with Brenda and see how her Halloween crafts are coming along...she's making something new this year, that I'll have to take pics of later.
OH! speaking of pics...I entered a photography contest here at the canyon last week...not sure when we find out who won. I put 2 pictures from Indian Gardens in the contest.

Well according to some story online, I guess Farmer's Almanac is predicting a harsh Winter this year.

no more daydreaming~just jump in

Well I have daydreamed about selling my own homemade jewelry for a few years now. While I was living in Kentucky back in 2006, I even had gooten some special license # so that I could buy stuff wholesale. But seeing as I left KY soon afterwards, that dream sorta floated off with the clouds.

This year Brenda has been encouraging me to make something and be creative and usually asks what I have done for the week. Well on Wednesday Doris drove us all to Flagstaff and I went shopping at Michael's & Jo-Ann's among other places...but I bought over $130 just for jewelry stuff.
Brenda will be surprised that I even signed up on etsy...now I just have to get pictures on my page there.
http://www.etsy.com/profile.php?user_id=7880432