the HR lady at the job I didn’t get has forwarded my resume to another company who is interested in me!!!! YEAHHH!!! (And of course she called today while I was hobbling through the mall with my cell phone at home. Go E!)
» Read the rest of this entry ...Yesterday, I woke up with a headache. Took some Aleve and went back to sleep. Woke up again at 8:30 (when I have to leave for work), decided my headache had taken a detour for Migraine City and called in sick for work. Five minutes later I texted Denise: “Home w/ migraine. Tell me it’s [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...So. I totally just spent the last hour falling into a YouTube hole watching/listening to all of the songs on my “Acceptable Xmas Songs” post from 2006 and updating the links on my original post to the YouTube links (mostly for no good reason, but at least annually I review this post to remind myself that [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...(watch out, this may be the blog post to get me kicked out of my family…) So, the other day I was driving around and one of Gene’s Richard Cheese songs came on the iPod. Let’s agree that it was his lounge lizard version of Baby Got Back (which is a pretty good version, until [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...(Subtitled, Read Any Good Books Lately?) So, I’m reading this book. It says “Lindsey Lohan Sucks” on the side, but inside it’s “Twilight.” I started it when I was sick last week. Last week, I read “Lace II”, “Zoya” and “Mini-Shopaholic.” Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pages. Granted, I started “Twilight” late in the [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...I had a plan, back in June 2010. I was going to take a picture and post it on my blog on my last day at the old job, when I no longer had to call my old boss Gwen and my beloved friend The Almighty D. Anyway…back in those crazy days, D (she has [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before? Visited Germany, interviewed for a job that I was later offered! And accepted! And then, improbably, promoted from! 2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? My 2010 resolutions were: finish the novel, get a [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...So, when I was a little girl (I would refer to myself as Lil Elaine, but the word “Lil” makes me want to puke), I had a Grandma. Well, of course I had two Grandmas, both of whom were splendid in their own (and very, very, verrrrry different) ways. I have only the best memories [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Is it Wednesday yet? Is it time for dinner yet? How about bedtime? I am so tired. Working is hard. On the bright side, I’m learning a lot about the software I’ll be using/supporting. My job is going to be setting up new client payroll data in the software. I’m not sure how much I’ll [...]
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