Been a while

Haven't posted in two months! Wow. And me, always with so much to say! Probably wouldn't be posting today but a friend mentioned her blog so that kick started things.
Lots happening, or happened since last posting. I was transferred and given a 10% raise (not too shabby!) to go back to the mega store at the mall. I was pretty sad because I liked where I was and everyone else on the management team was great. I was involved in all areas, not just my primary area of responsibility. Now I am rather lonely. My staff is slowly warming up to me. But my two leads, VERY key people for me, one is fighting me all the way and the other is very good but a bit down as she had interviewed for my job and didn't get it. The one fighting me all the way is extremely tight with the staff. They all hang out together, etc. So as long as she is a problem, the staff is going to be too. I changed signage on a display to an older, but much nicer sign package. She immediately informed me that those were the wrong signs, they had been replaced by the ones I took down. I said, yes, I know this. But I prefer to use these. She went to an assistant manager when I was off and asked his permission to replace them as they were wrong. He said ok. I hammered his ass as soon as I saw him today and put my signs back up. I am going to sit the girl down and do a verbal counseling, documented tomorrow. I am also asking my boss to sit in so this person can see that I have his support. I can be patient and respect that change can be difficult, but playing a game like that? uhuh. Game over. She gets two choices only. One, she relaxes and accepts the changes and works with me. Or, two, she does not and finds alternative employment. My boss has already told me he has nowhere to move her to in house. So I have that to look forward to tomorrow! Yippee!!! I have allot of friends at that store as that's where I came out of. But there are a few that apparently are resentful of my taking my predecessors place. Which is idiotic because I had nothing to do with it. I was very content to be left alone where I was..for a while.
Lets see. The kids. Matthew blows off two algebra projects, get two zeroes so now his ass is mine. Took his laptop and video games away. Yelled at him for a while. Set his mom loose on him. He cannot be very happy at the moment. Too bad. Fucking kid lies to me, telling me all his homework is done and then I get a progress report with zeroes on it? What is he thinking? He knows I get the progress reports! Daughter is clashing with her crazy mother which puts me in a very delicate position. I cant say, well Lauren you know your mom is crazy and mentally unstable... I did say that I know how her mom can be as the woman spent the better part of 14 years yelling and verbally abusing me. She has now decided to refocus her nastiness on our daughter. Lauren, apparently taking after me, does not have the sense to just ignore the woman, so she gets upset and argues with her. Bad call. This intensifies things. Jodi is right to get upset, Lauren needs to do her chores around the house and not have to be asked over and over again. So I lectured Lauren on that and told her from now on when she gets home from school tend to her chores and then hit the homework. Also told her she may not talk back to her mom, that if she is getting upset or her mom is getting "difficult" to call me immediately. Told Jodi, back off the kid, I`m on it. ok, was a longer more difficult conversation then that, but I think I got through her thick head. So more joy for me! See a pattern here?
What else? Nothing. I have no life outside of work and kids. I must admit its wearing a bit thin. Last time I got laid was LAST December. Almost a year. That sucks. Perhaps I need to address my self imposed isolation from society after the holidays. May come up with a good new years resolution for 2010. We`ll see.