Things I have done today: 1) Preheated oven. With an entire plastic wrapped pan of Nuts & Bolts still inside. Sooo glad I didn’t mummify the Nuts & Bolts and just covered loosely. (For the record, they were in the oven to keep them safe while the cleaning lady was here yesterday). 2) Freaked out…
Grocery store bloodbath
(Or, Thanksgiving 2010: The One Where We Go from ‘Hedonistic Long Weekend in Vegas’ to ‘Relaxing Meal at Fancy Local Buffet’ to ‘Holy Shit We Need To Buy a Roast. And A Couch’) Needless to say, Thanksgiving 2010 has not turned out the way I had hoped originally. The good news is that we have…
Guess what I won’t be posting about…
the Monday after Thanksgiving? Stupid Xmas Muzak! My beloved new employer doesn’t even have Muzak! (the downside is that sometimes I spend all day humming the last song I heard – OK when it’s something great, but humming some shitty country song makes for a long day). The delight of no Muzak…plus free lunch on…
Thanksgiving 2010: Menu
Okay, this is more for my reference than anything else, but here is the planned menu for Thanksgiving 2010: Appetizers: White Bean Dip with Pine Nuts (w/ pita) Cream Cheese, Sausage & Rotel Dip (probably w/ tortilla chips) Nuts & Bolts (baked Chex mix, family favorite, using Blanche’s recipe) Entree: Rib Roast with Garlic and…
Oooookay!
Holy Hell, this has been one heck of a week! Since Monday I have… …brought 5 new clients live (ie, processed their year to date payrolls, etc). The last two processed their first “real” paychecks today after 5. Both of them were SUPPOSED to process yesterday. Tomorrow, now that those cluster situations are handled, I…
Dear Coach…
Back in 1999 or 2000, I took my last “big” paycheck from when I worked for Toysrus.com and spent it on a brown Coach purse. Gene encouraged me to also buy a simple brown Coach key fob to go with it. The purse has been replaced, the key fob remains…until recently when I realized it…
Wonking and Talking…
So, how did the election go for you? I called my mother earlier this week on an unrelated topic and she thought I was calling to discuss the election, which I gather did not go well for Democrats. (See, I used to get my news from the Daily Show and now we don’t even have…
Hi, internet
So, here are some things I have learned lately: 1) Remember the Pepsi recycling machine I posted about a week or so ago? It does not accept non-Pepsi items. “Let’s all save the Earth! Wait, is that a Cherry Coke?” 2) Just finished enrolling us in health insurance for 2011. Gene works for a technology…
The crazy
Uhoh. I think the crazy is seeping in again. Let me start this story over (lest my family consider having me committed): So (and that’s better already, that I’m starting this wacky tale with “So”), Rite-Aid stores here have these machines outside of them called the Pepsi Dream Machine. Basically, they are gigantic machines that…
It’s never too early…
to start making plans for 2011! Next year, I want the following things to happen: 1) I want to pay off our credit card (fingers crossed that no ONE keeps that from happening…!) and start saving to replace the Murano in a few years. Here, Mini Mini Mini! 2) I want to go home to…