Where's my new boss and other tales

So for the last 2 weeks or so we have known at work that our store manager was leaving to take over another store in the district....what we have not known is who is coming in to take ours.....I've even been questioned by the associates as to why I don't take it over, as I've been the ranking assistant for several years....truth it, and I've been up front with them as well as my soon to be former boss, I don't want it......been there done that bought the tshirt with Family Dollar years ago....will not do it again.... I can not put in those hours and still have a family life..others manage it somehow, but I've never found that balance where neither suffers. So I call work today and get my schedule for next week as I am on vacation now, and there is still no news as to who we are getting.....lovely....sarcasm meant.

The kids started back to school yesterday, which always brings out my best side....yeah, right. Getting them up and out the door, no problem. Even the 7 yr old is highly self sufficient in the mornings, with the occasional nudge usually all that is needed. Then they come home with the first of the year homework for parents--you know, the blue cards and all that....As I am reading and signing the high schooler's syllabi(?), I am noticing that yet again several teachers are requiring that tests and the like be made up at their convenience...either prior to school start and after the end of the school day. So it begins, with notes next to my signature that under no circumstances are my kids to be subject to this--the school bus is their ride to and from school. They do not drive, and I only drive them if they have had a dr. appt. Therefore such work is to be made up during the school day. I am waiting for the first time it is put to the test, so to speak...

Then there was the tale of no locks for my senior's homeroom's lockers....So I told him that if there was not one by the end of today, then tomorrow he would take his own, supplied by me, and I would not be supplying a key for the school, and I dared them to cut it off. He had a lock on his locker this morning when he got there......so this was a case of simple bad timing.....My sophomore got to school yesterday to discover they had taken him out of his piano class and put him in a photography class instead. He is now trying to get it changed back, since it was done without his knowledge....we'll see....but I did tell him that if he cannot get it changed back like he wants, then take the class and enjoy it......

Onto bigger and brighter things.....Senator Ted Kennedy has died. So I am therefore not watching the news channels, as I have no desire to see the lovefest that I am sure is going on. He may have done some good in his years in office, although I am hard pressed to think of some right now---give me a break, I'm not from MA and I have been severely ill this week---but there are also things he has done that he should have been held accountable for decades ago, even. And that any non-Kennedy would have been.....I shed no tears...I am waiting for our Sen. Byrd to kick the bucket just so I can laugh at all those who would still feel the need to kiss his cold dead butt.....

There is a lot of junk going on in this country right now and I swear I will get to spouting off about some of it, but the oven is calling---trying to rush lasagna before soccer practice.......yeah, buddy......