If your check date is tomorrow, don’t call us at 4:45 and expect me to take down your payroll, key your payroll and process your payroll by 5 PM. I don’t care that the other team was able to do that. (OK, fine, I pulled it off but they are getting an email that says…
The risotto that wasn’t…
So, about once a week we make dinner in the crock pot. This week, it was crock pot risotto. Well, okay, it ended up being more like crock pot mush. You know how when you stir something all the smaller pieces kind of whirl around and get mixed up? Somehow, stirring this was more like…
Hey, stupid
Point #1: Just enjoy the fact that you do not desperately NEED any appliances and stop window shopping for them. You’ll need a new fridge, dishwasher and dryer soon enough but probably not all at the same time (Sears 20% off 3 appliances sale be damned). Click away from the Slickdeals.net threads about great sales…
Every day’s a new day…
So, I mentioned the other day that I have three post it notes tacked up on my cubicle wall. One of them reads “Every day’s a new day”. I added that one a few weeks ago after hanging up the phone following A Phone Call I’d Been Dreading and Therefore Avoided Making For Days, By…
I hear voices…
So, you may or may not know this but one of the many ways Gene and I amuse ourselves is having two sided conversations with the dogs.* By which I mean that we have specific voices that are the “Betty” voice and the “Scooby” voice. I haven’t dreamed up a third voice yet, so poor…
I’m sorry
So, I have a new boss, Belinda. One of the good parts about working closer with Belinda is that she is very good at explaining hard to explain things to our clients. I have already got her to help me with a conference call with a mildly ticked off client, and I must admit that…
This week
Hey, check it out, it’s Saturday. What I’ve been up to (in no particular order): 1) Badgered Amazon.com into refunding the shipping for Sweet Valley Confidential (yes! It’s the Sweet Valley Twins, all grown up. The book itself is medium awful but I’m loving it. Team Elizabeth!) (ugh, just said Team Elizabeth…loser!) 2) Fooling around…
Argh. Sunday night.
And now it’s Sunday night and I have to go to bed in a couple of hours and then get up and go to work. And I don’t want to. I love love love my job, but sometimes I mean that more in the “I have a job” way as opposed to the “going there…
The 2011 Dead to Me List
YTD, of course, as we say in the Big Payroll Biz ;): Xavier Georgia Tennessee Syracuse Texas Notre Dame Louisville Purdue (!!!!????!?!?!?!) UNLV Vanderbilt Georgetown St. John’s Oh well, as Gene said to me at dinner last night, “It’s a good thing we don’t depend on your earnings as a sports forecaster”.
An Elderly Woman of 34…
So yesterday was my birthday. It was a good day. I woke up (after going to bed at 10:15 on the 21st) at 11:57 pm and stayed awake just long enough to wish myself a happy birthday. And then I woke up again every couple hours just for grins. I worked until only 6:15 (ie,…