Hello! I may not have the time or inclination to post on Xmas Day itself, so here goes…<\/p>\n
Oh, and Happy Birthday to my Mommy, whose birthday was 12\/23. Yes, I did call her on her actual birthday. We sent her a Lowes Home Improvement gift card, a t-shirt from the International Spy Museum that says “I went searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction and all I found was this Lousy T-Shirt” and two cards: a nice one and one with President Bush on the front. She thanked Gene for the kindling.<\/p>\n
Secret Santa finale was yesterday. I received all manner of girly stuff that led me to proclaim (loudly) “Ooh, Santa knows I’m a princess!”, including a candle, some lotions\/foot scrub\/body spray and two new ornaments for the tree. Secret Santa gave the frigging motherlode: note pads (2), post it notes in the shape of her first initial, lotions, etc. Our controller looked at all the girly stuff and said “Oh, more crap for the shower.” He was the only man playing this year and I’m glad he did. His final gift was a bottle of Chivas.<\/p>\n
Before I left the office yesterday (at only 4 pm, after they dismissed us at 3…oh, well) I thanked this same man for everything he’s done for me, and thank you for whomever decided to return my pay to its previous level. He says that was decided by the HR Director.<\/p>\n
I’ve also decided I’m uncomfortable with non-pals crying in the office. Over the past few days I’ve heard both our AA and HR director cry in the office and I just…hate…it. I think it’s because I don’t know my role when it happens ; when my buddy D cries at the office (rarely) I know what to do because she’s my friend, but when my former boss cries, now what??<\/p>\n
But now, in the spirit of the season, I leave you with this: Xmas Card<\/a>. (Or else go to www.jibjab.com<\/a> and select the Santa Claus cartoon).<\/p>\n Merry Xmas and a Happy Festivus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello! I may not have the time or inclination to post on Xmas Day itself, so here goes… Oh, and Happy Birthday to my Mommy, whose birthday was 12\/23. Yes, I did call her on her actual birthday. We sent her a Lowes Home Improvement gift card, a t-shirt from the International Spy Museum that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-really-deep-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}