Seeing a successful payroll (defined as “no one died in the making of this paycheck run”) is like the relief a mother feels when her incredibly stupid child is accepted to college.
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The Post About Work This Week
First, HI D!!!!! She’s on vacation at her parents house and checked my blog via dialup. DIALUP, folks. Wow. So, if she reads again, HIIIIIIIII!!!! Anyway, so D’s on vacation and I’m filling in for my employer’s administrative assistant. D and I refer to her as Saint A. I’m marooned over on the operations side…
Catching up…
The boy and Gene showed up around dinnertime on Thursday. Hooray!! Good news: No surgery on the boy’s knees next week. Bad news: Possible hip surgery on the boy’s hips sometime in the future. Ugh. The recovery period is 6 weeks on crutches. What a mess. He’s going for a second (third?) opinion as soon as…
I gave THIS up to do payroll last week?
What was I THINKING???? Anyway, work is going badly. Apparently my boss is bad mouthing me to the HR director (my old boss) and the controller. Initially, this really, really pissed me off, but as I made the drive to Barkin Buddies after work I realized that hopefully she was just going to them for…
Get these geeks OUT OF MY HOUSE…
The first one arrived 30 minutes early. THAT IS SO MEAN. In other sad news, my beach envy has now evolved into full out beach rage. Gene’s going to be in Atlanta the next two weeks (this coming week he’ll be home in Cheesecake City) but that weekend in the middle, he is free and…
The post where I make fun of the temp for liking American Idol…
Did you know that her kids like Jessica Simpson? No surprise with the American Idol hysteria over at her part of the room… And that’s another thing. Apparently everyone where I work is psycho-nutty obsessed with that crappy karaoke TV show. So if we’re all so damned critical, why does today’s music suck so much???…
So, lately…
The Land’s End order came. I liked all the shirts and hated the pants and shorts. Yes, even the MELON capris. (Yes, I know. I blame the downfall of American culture of capri pants and I still bought a pair in a goofy color). The return box will probably go out tomorrow. Gene’s at his…