Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Monday, March 01, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
You Suck and that's Sad
I'm almost 40 - when will I quit apologizing and/or pandering/cowering to people who suck? I'm smart, funny and damn it people like me. I'm also competent at my job; I bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan damn it and yet the littlest thing can throw me an emotional curve ball.
Example: A co-worker has a seriously bad attitude. Comes in every day looking like someone died. Maybe someone has died I don't know. Nevertheless they are downright bitchy and have been for two solid months. Bitchy to certain people and fake cheery and bright to a select few. I'm talking ignore you point blank when you say good morning bitchy - a degree of bitchtasticness the likes of which I haven't seen since..well ever really. My first thought was 'oh god what have I done'? I have worried myself sick over it. I tense up when they come around, get nervous when I have to work with them in a group setting...have politely asked "Did I do something to upset you?"
It's taken me several weeks but I've come to the realization that it has nothing to do with me. For the last several weeks I've tried to make conversation, be nice etc. and I've decided I no longer care, it's not my problem, and I give them two options: 1. Kill yaself. 2.Quit your job if you're so miserable b/c I (and several others at the office) are sick of looking at ya face.
Example 2: Customer emails me a meeting request - states in email anytime after Mon 22nd. I write back how bout next week on these dates and times will work. She writes back and copies my boss, "As I stated in my email March 22nd - please provide me with the correct dates". Well....I read and reread your email Ms. Customer and March is nowhere to be found - You said Monday the 22nd which just so happened to be this past Monday - How bout after I politely point out YOUR mistake you write back a quick note acknowledging YOUR mistake? This bugged me for 3 days. I was so embarrassed when I thought I made a mistake - it took me 15 min to get up the courage to send out another date/time request b/c I was afraid I was going to 'mess up' again. Really? How bout I grow a set and get over it? Of course it would be easier to get over it if she would admit she was wrong :)
Example: A co-worker has a seriously bad attitude. Comes in every day looking like someone died. Maybe someone has died I don't know. Nevertheless they are downright bitchy and have been for two solid months. Bitchy to certain people and fake cheery and bright to a select few. I'm talking ignore you point blank when you say good morning bitchy - a degree of bitchtasticness the likes of which I haven't seen since..well ever really. My first thought was 'oh god what have I done'? I have worried myself sick over it. I tense up when they come around, get nervous when I have to work with them in a group setting...have politely asked "Did I do something to upset you?"
It's taken me several weeks but I've come to the realization that it has nothing to do with me. For the last several weeks I've tried to make conversation, be nice etc. and I've decided I no longer care, it's not my problem, and I give them two options: 1. Kill yaself. 2.Quit your job if you're so miserable b/c I (and several others at the office) are sick of looking at ya face.
Example 2: Customer emails me a meeting request - states in email anytime after Mon 22nd. I write back how bout next week on these dates and times will work. She writes back and copies my boss, "As I stated in my email March 22nd - please provide me with the correct dates". Well....I read and reread your email Ms. Customer and March is nowhere to be found - You said Monday the 22nd which just so happened to be this past Monday - How bout after I politely point out YOUR mistake you write back a quick note acknowledging YOUR mistake? This bugged me for 3 days. I was so embarrassed when I thought I made a mistake - it took me 15 min to get up the courage to send out another date/time request b/c I was afraid I was going to 'mess up' again. Really? How bout I grow a set and get over it? Of course it would be easier to get over it if she would admit she was wrong :)
Friday, February 19, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Photo and person of the day
This is my friend Nate. This is Nate in his 'picnic' shirt. I told Nate this morning that I liked his shirt and he told me he has a pair of shorts that match, but that he doesn't wear them to work, although he does wear the shirt and the shorts together outside of work. So of course I had to take a picture.
Nate is awesome. Seriously - I wish you knew him (for those of you who don't). He's a very interesting person. He teaches bible study to youngins' even though he's a youngin himself - and yet he's not judgmental of me at all when I say inappropriate things or curse. He has a sweet wife and cute baby girl. He's funny and laid back and works in customer support - and honestly you have to be a special person to put do that job well and he is and he does.
Happy Valentine's Day Weekend!
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
What I've learned
It hit me last night, hard, that no matter how long a person lives it's never long enough, especially for those they leave behind. 99 years is not enough time.
Yes you can be lucky enough to have your grandma for all of your 37 years (and counting) and yes you can be comforted by the fact that they lived and are living a wonderful happy life but when it comes time to say goodbye I'm selfishly just not ready.
Yes you can be lucky enough to have your grandma for all of your 37 years (and counting) and yes you can be comforted by the fact that they lived and are living a wonderful happy life but when it comes time to say goodbye I'm selfishly just not ready.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Rick & Rob
I got Steve an iPod for his birthday and Spence is enjoying it - his two favorite songs: Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield and Dragula by Rob Zombie - I'm a proud Step-Mom!
Jan 16th
It's Bugg's birthday today. He's had a birthday dinner, birthday lunch and a broken chocolate b-day cake. He's also opened his presents and cards - feeling pretty special - and he should b/c he is.
Grandma has been in and out of the ER/Intensive Care and hospital for the last several weeks. She went back in the other night - her little heart is just not as strong as it used to be and it's not pumping things around as well it should or needs to be. Options are being considered - Grandma's option is "Eat Drink and Be Merry". I love her and I don't want her to go.
Posting some random pics from Xmas time that make me smile.
Grandma has been in and out of the ER/Intensive Care and hospital for the last several weeks. She went back in the other night - her little heart is just not as strong as it used to be and it's not pumping things around as well it should or needs to be. Options are being considered - Grandma's option is "Eat Drink and Be Merry". I love her and I don't want her to go.
Posting some random pics from Xmas time that make me smile.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Super Sunday
We got so much done today. Groceries - check. Manicure - check. Care package contents complete - check. Pictures & transom from the farm hung - check. Laundry done - check. Bird feeder set up - check. Dinner made - check. Love when I can check check check things off my list!
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Ahhh....Snow
It's been snowing these wonderfully light fluffy delicate flakes for the last few days and it's beautiful. Woke up this morning to the following scenes.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Paint and Canvas
We tried our hand at painting last night. So MUCH FUN!!! A little vino, some paint and lots of laughing. Can't wait to do it again!
Monday, January 04, 2010
Pictures
lots of pictures from Dec including the sweet b-day cake Bugg picked up, the owl book ends he got me, and the nightstand and dresser I got for a steal for Spence's room.
Friday, December 18, 2009
99 Red Balloons
My Grandma turned 99 earlier this week. We went to visit her and the rest of the Ohio family this past weekend to celebrate December birthdays and Christmas. As a side note - a few weeks ago she had a heart attack - mild as the docs put it - but really at 99 how mild can it really be? It was scary but she pulled through and is back to her 'old' self. And not to brag - but seriously folks - my grandmother is amazing. Heart attack aside she has aged gracefully.
She of course walks a little slower and hears a little less as she approaches the century mark, but she's still sharp. She still tries to get in her exercise, watches what she eats, reads, participates in activities and cares about her hair and makeup. She doesn't look 99 by a long shot and she has the cutest little butt that honestly I would die to have - which may sound weird but you know what I mean.
This weekend she was sporting a new necklace. It was quite fashionable and when I commented on it she told me she picked it out herself at the jewelery party they had at the assisted living home where she lives. Something about being 99 and still giving a flip about your jewelry AND being sharp enough to pick out something your hip young granddaughter would wear amazes me.
My hope is, if I'm lucky enough to live that long that I can be like her and not spend my days and nights in a diaper and/or having to pick my boobs up off the floor so I don't trip on them. (And if I do have to worry about the boob issue I hope Bugg is there with me to help!)
Friday, December 11, 2009
The friendly skies
It's been awhile since I've had much to say. But thanks to the sarcasm of the guy at the airport trying to sign people up for a Southwest Credit Card I've found my voice again - and it's pissed.
Bugg and I arrived at Gate C9 about 10 minutes ago, happy, full of coffee, and ready for our trip to Ohio to spend the weekend with the birthday girls; Jewels, Mom, and G'ma. As we approached the gate to sit down and wait to board, a Southwest credit card sales guy asked if we wanted to sign up for 'free travel'. I politely declined with a 'no thank you' and a smile. Then he said under his breath with more than a hint of bitch - 'fine, if you want to pay for it'.
That flipped on my bitch switch and I turned and curtly said "being a smart ass is not a good way to get business".
I was fuming - that pit of the stomach fuming you get when you have to make an ass of yourself b/c of something some other ass did. And fuming b/c damn it - keep your comments to yourself.
Bugg and I arrived at Gate C9 about 10 minutes ago, happy, full of coffee, and ready for our trip to Ohio to spend the weekend with the birthday girls; Jewels, Mom, and G'ma. As we approached the gate to sit down and wait to board, a Southwest credit card sales guy asked if we wanted to sign up for 'free travel'. I politely declined with a 'no thank you' and a smile. Then he said under his breath with more than a hint of bitch - 'fine, if you want to pay for it'.
That flipped on my bitch switch and I turned and curtly said "being a smart ass is not a good way to get business".
I was fuming - that pit of the stomach fuming you get when you have to make an ass of yourself b/c of something some other ass did. And fuming b/c damn it - keep your comments to yourself.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
A letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams
MARCH 31, 1776
ABIGAIL ADAMS TO JOHN ADAMS
"I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.
"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.
"Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
"That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up -- the harsh tide of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.
"Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity?
"Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the (servants) of your sex; regard us then as being placed by Providence under your protection, and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our happiness."
ABIGAIL ADAMS TO JOHN ADAMS
"I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.
"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.
"Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
"That your sex are naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up -- the harsh tide of master for the more tender and endearing one of friend.
"Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity?
"Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the (servants) of your sex; regard us then as being placed by Providence under your protection, and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our happiness."
Monday, November 16, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)