Let's Go Shopping! NOT!!

No, I am not stress about anything. I just decided to pay myself everyone’s payroll for the month. Yes, you read that right. I direct deposited everyone in my company’s paycheck into my checking account. The good news is that the checks went into the account today and I found the error today. I got everything straightened out and everyone is taken care of. I am working with a new payroll software. I either didn’t put the numbers in and the software automatically copied mine or I put my checking account number into the software under everyone’s name. I just can’t believe I would have entered my numbers under other people’s names in error. But the fact of the matter was, it was done…Mrs. Boss 1 was worried that her taxes would be wrong and etc…I was like, Mrs. Boss 1; the only thing affected was the money was deposited to me and not you. The numbers are recorded correctly under the SSN. I could tell she didn’t believe me but I told her not to worry. I mean come on; would you be worried about it? Me the payroll person in charge of money and all the numbers…..Hell yes I would be worried! What else do you suppose I could be doing and not catch? I don’t even want to think about it!

Miss Violet

She is doing very well! Hurray for Miss Violet!

hair bows

She wanted hair bows put in! Not the freebies given to you when you get your hair cut but the pretty red ones. I was very happy to see that she wanted them and picked them and then wore them!

Bear and the Atheist

An atheist was walking through the woods.
"What majestic trees!
"What powerful rivers!
"What beautiful animals!"
he said to himself.

As he was walking alongside the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly charge towards him. He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder & saw that the bear was closing in on him.

He looked over his shoulder again, & the bear was even closer. He tripped & fell on the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw that the bear was right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw & raising his right paw to strike him. At that instant the Atheist cried out, "Oh my God!"

Time Stopped.
The bear froze.
The forest was silent.

As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky. "You deny My existence for all these years, teach others I don't exist and even credit creation to cosmic accident." Do you expect Me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer"?

The atheist looked directly into the light, "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask You to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps You could make the BEAR a Christian"?

"Very well," said the voice.

The light went out. The sounds of the forest resumed. And the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head & spoke:

"Lord, bless this food, which I am about to receive from thy bounty, through Christ our Lord, Amen."

What do you think?

I have a friend who has been married for 20+ years. She married this man straight out of high school. I used to like him. I thought he was so very funny. I don’t think he is funny any longer. I know I have spoke about this friend before. The only way she can reach me now is via email. She uses the My Space account to email me. Husband found out and deleted her account. Weeks later, he said she could sign up again so she did only to have it disabled less than a month later. Yesterday she asked me if I would sign her up under my name. She mainly uses this “my space” to track what her 15 year old daughter does and she emails me. I agreed to do this for her. Am I a bad girl?

Miss Violet

Isn't she lovely?

Monday Monday

Last night I could not sleep. I tossed and turned and tossed and turned. I am not sure why I could not sleep but I could not even get tired! So I got up and took 2 sleep aids. Now this morning, I don’t want to wake up! I have had 2 glasses of tea and a large cup of coffee and yet still, I want to lie down under my desk. I am sure wanting to lie under my desk has NOTHING to do with both partners being in the office this morning. It is such a warm welcome for me to come in first thing Monday morning, especially when I am so tired and have to answer a million questions right off the bat, even before I get my coat off. I am such a lucky girl! Lucky, lucky girl!

Collin

I asked Stephanie Byers if I could take a picture and scrapbook it for her. She allowed me to take this picture of Collin. I have been thinking for over a week or so how I wanted to scrapbook the picture and even sketched out what I wanted to do with the page. This page ISN'T WHAT I sketched. I cut the paper incorrectly and then had to totally re-think and re due what I originally wanted to do. I was VERY DISAPPOINTED but here it is.

Rah!

I got a bonus today and it turns out to be around $350.00. Now don’t get too excited about this amount. Even through it is $350.00 I am still down in my pay $1,500.00 a month. I will say it was a nice thing to get but it still sucks to see my check each month. This will pay off 1 medical bill and I only have 4 hugh ones left. Rah! Go Me!

Friday Morning

Today is our "Come to Jesus" day at work. The last Friday of each month, I have to put together financial reports for the partners to see who and what is getting paid. Just as you can imagine, it is a really fun exercise for me to have to do.

I am supposed to be going to a baby shower tomorrow. I really don't want to go but I know it will be good for me to go out and mingle....I don't like to mingle....Thus the reason why I don't want to go. Baby present already purchased. I had work pay for 95% of the gift.

That is it for now. Happy Friday everyone!

CRS

I am totally losing it! I have CRS syndrome! Today I was looking at my calendar and I have down the words “96th Street 11:00 am – 1:30 pm” on the 31st. I kept wondering and thinking what it was I was supposed to be doing on this date. I went from one thought to another and I just couldn’t think of what it was. After about 15 minutes I decided to forget it and thought maybe it would either come to me later or that I would have to miss whatever I was supposed to be doing on that particular date.

Update: I was looking at the month of January. OMG!

Why didn't I think of this?

FINALLY, someone has come out with a 100% bipartisan political bumper sticker. The hottest selling bumper sticker comes from New York state.

"RUN HILLARY RUN"
Democrats put it on the rear bumper.
Republicans put it on the front bumper.

I could have sold millions!

Attention or Breakdown?

Britney Spears shaved her head. I'm not feeling it personally. This could be a good thing for her....Picture all of the bad vibes and weaves her hair had entangled in it.... The divorce drama....The child neglect...The vomit...The partying...Hanging with Paris Hilton...Going out and wearing no panties and then getting her picture taken showing it all...Sleeping with both men and women. Let's hope all that negativity is now shaved away. Let's all hope it's a fresh start. Let's hope she hunkers down, hires back her assistant and stylist and then listens to them. Let's hope she goes shopping for some decent outfits....Works on her album...And rediscovers herself. Let's hope this new streamlined Britney is how she's going to stop masking the pain, and work through it and come out the other side pretty, and fun, and shiny, and making hot pop tracks the world is waiting for. I guess she could have gotten drunk and/or high and during this time had a complete meltdown and this was the result. I don't know...but I sure hope she gets her act together not only for her children but for herself.

Monkey Man

Aaron is a crazy monkey man.

T G I F

I have a bad headache today. I am freezing and I just want to lie down and go home! I am not enjoying this thing called work. I just don’t want to be here right now. I just don’t.

I found out boss 1 gave me the candy. No one is for sure where the flowers came from. I didn’t ask boss 2 because, well, frankly he isn’t the type. I am thinking I know who sent them but don’t want to ask.....just in case.

This just in! The person who I thought may have sent the flowers did indeed! It is a continual thank you present. It is the never ending thank you present. It is nice and I love it. Of course, it may be the cause of my headache…..double edge sword I guess.

More lights

And this

Came in to this

But I am still feeling like a pirate. ARGH!

SNOW

I can't believe how much snow we had! It took hours upon hours to get our cars out of the driveway and I have missed 2 days of work. The person who is in charge of plowing our subdivision did a crappy job! He didn't plow approx 10 feet of show from our driveway so we had to shovel the road to get our cars out....!!! I am working tomorrow and then get to wait and see what Friday and Saturday brings. It is supposed to snow.....

P.s. I don't know if you can see this, but the snow is covering my hood of my car. We had to also DIG underneath the car as it was packed as well.

Look Listen and Take Heed

This video is pretty funny. It reminded me of a friend who had to "sit and play dumb" when she was out with a MANLY MAN. Her date and another gentleman were talking about plumbing and she piped in and they both looked at her like she was from another planet. She was basically told to sit in her chair and look pretty. She didn't date him very long....thank goodness!

If you get a chance, take a look by clicking HERE.

Thanks mom for sending this to me.

Burnt my breakfast

This reminded me of a book my friend Beth told me about, which is pictured above. The book asked a question....What kind of a person are you? One who would scrap the toast and eat it or throw it away and toast another piece.

My answer: Throw the burnt one away!

Only in the midwest

Reservations anyone?

Time to Clean

I have an urge or impulse to clean out my desks today. I have wanted to do this for quite sometime but never found the time to do it. Today, I got to the point where I just started pitching and throwing. Boss 2 wife called me today and asked what I was doing and I told her I was cleaning out my desk. She didn’t seem concerned nor do I really at this point but I think I am starting to be prepared if something happens to my position. I don’t want my legacy to be known as someone who has old ketchup packets in her desk (among other things!)

I am pretty depressed too.

President Hillary

One sunny day in 2008, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue , where he'd been sitting on a park bench.

He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton."

The Marine replied, "Sir, Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn't reside here."

The old man said, "Okay," and walked away.

The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton".

The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn't reside here."

The man thanked him and again walked away . .

The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same Marine, saying "I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton."

The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mrs. Clinton. I've told you already several times that Mrs. Clinton is not the President and doesn't reside here. Don't you understand?"

The old man answered, "Oh, I understand you fine, I just love hearing your answer!"

The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, "See you tomorrow!"

This drink

I am so sad. This is my favorite drink...maybe of all time. This morning I was looking at my brake light on my car to see if I could fix it. (The brake light is not working.) I found this drink in my car! Of course with the weather being as it is, it is frozen like a piece of fish stick! I have taken it in to my office and I am hoping I will be able to see it thaw into a nice cold beverage for me to drink. I just hope the lid doesn't pop from the pressure and the contents spew all over my desk. I just looked and bubbles are coming from the bottom of the bottle to the top. It is kind of pretty when you think about it. Oh Well! Happy day!

It's snowing!

And snowing and snowing!

Dear Mrs. (Kindergarten Teacher):

I don’t like your attitude either! You are the most unwise woman and there has been an injustice done with not picking my niece as the little red hen. Stupid! Stupid! Woman! How did you get through college? Kindergarten must be a farce and children must not learn anything in your class. Any sensible person can see my niece is a genius. I don’t think the rest of the children in this class have the ability to pull off a role of this caliber but no…You must do it you way don’t you? You must think you know it all. I know this child. I see more of her than you do! What makes you the expert and have the ability to know what is right for her? You are just her kindergarten teacher and I am her Auntie! She is my flesh!

I am very unhappy and most displeased. I sure hope you are not going to want any help anytime soon from me.

Auntie

Dear Mrs. (Kindergarten Teacher):

What do you mean my niece didn’t get chosen for the part of the Little Red Hen? Apparently I have misjudged your ability to teach as well as having the skills to see obvious talent. My niece has flair and could perform this lame, stupid play in her sleep. Jesus! It is my hope you weren’t the unintelligent person who decided not to place my niece in the main role of this daft and foolish play.


Thank you.
Auntie

Dear Mrs. (Kindergarten Teacher):

I was looking over paperwork, which you sent home regarding the Little Red Hen performance and I did not see my niece’s name listed as the Little Red Hen. I am sure this must be an oversight and wanted to point this out right away so that you could correct your error.

Again, please let me know if I can help in anyway.

Thank you.
Auntie

Little Red Hen Letter

Dear Mrs. (Kindergarten Teacher):

I was so happy to hear students in your class would be performing a play of the Little Red Hen. This story was one of my favorites when I was a child. I am so pleased to hear you are teaching my niece a story with moral in school. I can tell by the story chosen, you must be a positive person with good values.

Please let me know if I can help in anyway.

Respectfully yours,
Auntie

Spinning Around

Today, after what….7 years….I find out that maybe I shouldn’t take total blame for the spinning. I received a text message from boss 1 this morning. Boss 1 said he would be in at 9:30 a.m. The office had factory training on one of our lines we sell today at 9:30 so that made sense. What didn’t make sense was he just came in at 3 p.m. He made an announcement that they just got back in from Florida. Boss 1 wife told me they watched the game at a friend’s house and made it sound like they were in Indy. I was lead to believe they were in Indy….deliberately. Why? Why would someone deliberately cover something as trivial as that? If she covers something this small up, what else has she covered up? Am I supposed to believe these people any longer?? Is this what I am supposed to learn here? I got it. I got it. Also, Boss 2 wasn’t very happy about not knowing what was going on with boss 1. He didn’t sound pleased that we didn’t have training either. I believe a big blow up is going to come soon. Man, I hope I am not here to have to listen to it or have to be a part of it.

Sunday

My girl Maggie was so very cute yesterday! She asked me several times if the game was on yet. She wanted to watch the Colts play. This would be her very first game she had ever seen. Knowing she didn’t have a clue, it was very cute to see her want to watch the game.

“Have the Colts played yet Auntie?”

“No, not yet, they don’t play until 6:30.”

“It is past 6:30 yet?”

“Not yet, but I will let you know.”

When the game started, she sat on the coffee table in front of the big screen. In her right hand she had her Colts puppet on. (Picture below) I just wanted to cry when I couldn’t find my memory stick for my camera. That would have been such a cute picture!

Maggie watched, I would say, a good hour of the game. At one point, she asked to “pause” the game so she could get up to get something and that really made me laugh. She isn’t used to watching T.V. We normally watch things off the myth box (like a TiVo) or we watch a movie. Then she grew tired and wanted to play a game with us. I played waitress and customer with her so that I could continue to watch but play with her at the same time.

How do you play waitress and customer? Well, she is the waitress and comes to me and I tell her what I would like to eat and/or drink. She then goes to her play kitchen and stove and makes what I asked. I am not allowed to call her anything but the word “waitress”. I am not saying being a waitress is a bad thing, I just hope for her she doesn’t end up one for real. That is a very hard job!

Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Ms Violet

I am happy to report Ms Violet is growing and blooming!

Go Colts!

Maggie made this Colts puppet.

Life getting in the way

My mother told me this week that I needed to update my blog. I have been so busy that I just haven't had the chance but looking back I wonder what it was, which kept me from writing. I can only assume it is life getting in the way.

I have started a new chapter in the sales training class I am taking. It is all about journaling. The teacher wants us to journal first thing in the morning. Heck, I have trouble finding the shower in the morning before work let alone getting up and physically put pencil to paper so instead I find myself writing at odd times. For example I wrote about 4 pages the other day waiting in the lobby of my doctors office. I wrote about my fears of having to see a new doctor and the dreaded question if I would have to have a scope on my neck. (Yes to the last question.) It was good to write but now I admit I haven't written a single word since then. It has been a couple days. This isn't a good thing. I promised to give my all to this class yet I haven't followed even the basic rule, which is to journal every day. I am reminded every day by my conscious but yet I say to myself, "I will do it in a little while", which in my mind is a cop out. In a little while becomes days. I must ask myself why I keep doing it and then buck up and write. I just promised myself I would do write today but "in a little while".

I started on making a Christmas gift (2007) the other day for my friend Fraubyers. I am about to take scissors to it and rip it into shreds. I keep messing it up, over and over. It is frustrating and I want to understand why I can't get it right. Getting it right doesn't mean I don't think it looks good, it is a pattern so getting it right means getting the pattern correct. Nothing more on this subject! I don't want to give the surprise away.

Well that is it for now. I must take my journal and write in it now. In a little while has come.

Learn to Phone Phony: Tape 2

Very funny!

Learn to Speak Body

I love this one!