David Cook, The new American Idol!!!

Posted On May 27th, 2008 by Marie in American Idol, Bonanza, General Blog Entries, Holiday's

I know that this news is now a week old, but I have been so busy, I haven’t had a chance to post my congratulations to David Cook for being named the new American Idol for season 7. I have watched all of the American Idol’s except for season 1 and 4. 

I hate watching the tryouts because to me, they focus on the really bad and terrible people that make it through to the third round when they meet and tryout for Randy, Paula, and Simon. I wonder how many truly talented people don’t make it past the first round in order to make room for these people that are either tone deaf or just truly can’t sing!

Today was Memorial Day in the USA. As many of you know, I work the third shift, so because of this, I never have to work on a holiday because we close at 10pm on holidays. I did work last night, however, and it got me to wondering if at midnight, would I be paid time and one half for holiday premium? I didn’t know because I had never worked on a holiday, much less the third shift, so I figured I would find out when I timed out at the end of my shift. Sure enough, the first two hours (10-midnight) I was paid my normal pay plus the $1.00 extra per hour 3rd shift premium. Then, on another line, it said 8.05 hours holiday premium <enter cheer emoticon here> I was very excited for this because I lose two hours of pay whenever there is a holiday due to the fact I only get 8 hours of holiday pay. This particular pay period, however, I will be making up those two hours because I have a core team (managers) meeting on Wednesday at my favorite restaurant I Fratelli’s on Wednesday and then a regular store meeting on Saturday. 

I want to take my hat off to everyone at Bonanza Brand and Bonanza World for their outstanding contributions they made to make Pernell Roberts’ 80th birthday celebration a great success! I think that everyone did a beautiful job and their talents as well as their adoration for Pernell really showed through. I know all of the members enjoyed the day and that is what we do it for isn’t it? The members. Cudo’s to everyone!

I hosted my Trapper John, M.D. video montage at You Tube since my webpage makes you have to view it through Quick Time. I was really proud of my first try and doing a montage. There are so many about Pernell, Adam, and Bonanza, but I don’t ever recall one about Trapper, so I decided to make one about Trapper. I don’t have all of the fancy graphics, but the basic IMovie program I have on my MAC gave me a nice template in which to work with. If you have not seen it and would like to, here is the link at my website: http://gallery.mac.com/pmmcclure#100010 If you don’t have Quick Time, you can view it at YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3aAL0u_KbU I don’t know why the music isn’t working on the You Tube site right now, but it does work on my website, so you can check it out there. I think it looks better on my website anyway, but the only drawback is that you have to have Quick Time to view it.

Chantal, I have a couple of very pretty pink themes, however, when I switch to them, I can’t read my entries very well. I need to find out how to increase the font size and then I will change it to a pink theme. :) I promise!

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Hello world!

Posted On May 12th, 2008 by Marie in Bonanza, General Blog Entries, Work

I would like to start by thanking Jo for giving me this little place on her site to house my blog. I left Bravenet because I was constantly getting spammed on my Bravenet blog, so I decided to make one here when Jo allowed me to come here.

This coming weekend is Pernell Roberts 80th birthday! Bonanza Brand is going to have a lot of great surprises in store so I hope that you will all come by and celebrate with us. A special badge will be available to all that join in on the chat Friday night! If you haven’t already put your haiku in the Virginia City Literary Society, be sure you do to get a bonsai tree badge! This badge as well as the special one for the Friday night chat are going to be history after Friday and Sunday, so if you want one of these limited edition badges, be sure that you participate! That is the only way to get the badges!

For those that don’t know, I am working the 3rd shift now at work. I love it too! We don’t have a lot of customers, but we have been more busy lately than normal with customers late at night. I guess they think  because they come late at night, they can get big jobs done while they wait. WRONG! What they don’t realize is that we have other customers that have brought their jobs or sent their jobs to us earlier, and they take priority. I usually can get the jobs done for them by the morning, but just because you come at 3am and have 1,000 color copies, 100 tabs, and 10 binds that need to be done ASAP doesn’t mean that you can bump other jobs and sit there at my counter looking down my throat while I work on your job. The same rules apply at 3am that apply at 3pm.  We are not open 24 hours sitting waiting for you to come in and bring in your job. We are there to run big jobs at night that can’t be done when we have a store full of customers! But I forget….The customer’s procrastination is MY problem! NOT!!!!!! LOL

 

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