EATing Lunch

Whenever Keith is home on a weekday it really throws me off my sort of schedule, kind of like when you have an unexpected guest drop by and you feel like you have to entertain them. Yesterday he was home because he had his strength test for BNSF at 9:30, thought about trying to go into work after he got back from that, but then said never mind. He was kind of down because at his pre-employment physical on Monday he was told that his hearing is greatly diminished and is below standards on hearing low frequencies which means he probably won't get hired for the job since he seems to be deaf as a post. Which I have suspected for quite a few years now, what with me having to repeat myself numerous times and the TV volume being up so loud that I cringe.

So, instead of going in to work after the rather rigorous and exhausting strength test, he played with his new cell phone trying to set up his voice mail and got very frustrated with that, then we went to the post office and got some lunch. There is a funky old coffee shop restaurant next to the Motel 6 up by the freeway offramp called Milt's that looks like it has been there forever and has the very tall sign that just says EAT above it, so we went there to EAT. Keith had breakfast and I had the teriyaki chicken lunch special which tasted pretty good and should have been served on a blue plate by a gum snapping waitress named Flo or Shirley. It came with the traditional mashed potatoes and a separate little dish of lima beans for the vegetable.

Then after lunch we went over to the bookstore to look at baby books since we are invited to our neighbors for Williams first birthday in a few weeks and rather than just another toy I was thinking of those board books that babies can chew on. So, we found a couple of Spot board books and also the little stuffed Spot toy to go along with the books.

Now we are just waiting to see if Keith gets rejected for the job since he can't hear. We should know by the end of the week, and it's going to be a long week waiting.

Mr. Forgetful

Okay, about six weeks ago we got a new rug for the bathroom and two new towels to match. Our old rug was falling apart where the backing starts to peel off and every time you wash it little pieces of the rubber backing gets all over whatever else you are washing with the rug and makes a big old mess. So, we, and WE is the key word here, went over to Target and found the basic rugs and towels on sale so got a new rug and towels in a kind of goldenrod yellow color, a rug and towels that WE picked out after much discussion over the color.

Well, the other day we are taking our evening showers and I'm coming out of the bathroom with a new yellow towel wrapped around my head and Keith is going into the bathroom for his shower and he looks at the yellow towel on my head and says. 'oh, did you get some new towels?'

Me: blink blink. Um, yeah... WE got some new towels.

Here's the latest on the hoop jumping through regarding getting a railroad job. They send you a health questionnaire by email with a password to get onto the site to fill out your questionnaire and of course the password doesn't work so you have to create a new password and then fill out all these questions about do you have chest pains and medications you are taking and can you breathe and all sorts of stuff like that and then they review your questionnaire and call you if they have any questions. Well of course putting on a questionnaire that you have had cancer raises a huge red flag and Keith gets a phone call yesterday about his cancer and another email with a form to give to the doctor so that he can give them a brief diagnosis and history of the cancer along with a prognosis and whether or not having had cancer would interfere with a job with the railroad. So we dropped that off at the doctor's office yesterday and now have to wait to see if the doctor will please just go ahead and fill it out or if he'll want to have Keith come in and see him first. The woman that called from the health verification place kind of let it slip that his tentative start date with BNSF is March 7, which is what, not even 3 weeks away and Keith can't give notice at his job until everything is definite. Although they do tell you in all the paperwork that you could start your new job even if your background check isn't quite finished and they could still decide they don't want you after all and leave you without your new job or your old job.

So, a little more waiting here.

We were supposed to have had rain starting last night and a 90% chance today, but so far nothing. Absolutely nothing except a few dark clouds in the sky, so come on big storm, let's rain already.