Tuesday, December 26, 2006




MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE FORTS

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas! We had what felt like a whirlwind Christmas weekend down in Houston. Ate a lot of food, had a little booze, got some presents and some good old fashioned cash and headed home to be at work today. Christmas continues for us when my parents roll into town on Friday. I can't wait!

Have a great short week at work if you have to work like me!

Wednesday, December 20, 2006


Today's BONUS Post...

You might be your office's Dwight Schrute if...

1) You use the phrase "Let's have it done by Turkey Day" when talking to your team.

2) You use the phrase "okey dokey" when speaking to people you supervise.

3) You own a Christmas tie and you don't have any kids at home that forced it on you.

4) You wear a suit to work every day and you work in a business casual environment.

5) You have a laugh that the entire office can hear, no matter where you are.

6) You smoke cigars at work to hang out with the "cool kid" smokers.

7) Your boss has told you to "shut the F up" in a meeting and you still think he likes you.

8) You share an office with another person, but have decided that the flourscent light hurts your eyes so you turn off the overhead light, leaving your office mate in the dark.

9) There are people in the office that choose to work from home so they do not have to deal with you.

10) When a major issue comes up with a client you refer to it as "we made a little boo boo"

11) You wore a cape at your wedding.... so did your wife.

12) You and your wife have matching BMWs, but you couldn't do your Christmas shopping until your wife got her bonus because you are SO in debt.

13) People have started to not make eye contact with you in order to avoid talking to you.

14) You speed walk every time you have to go anywhere in the office because you might miss your boss looking for you.

16) You take every call on speaker phone so everyone in the office knows what you are working on and how much control you have over the people you manage.

17) You have a sign on your desk that says... "It's hard to be humble when you are as great as I am"... oh yeah I'm serious.

Unfortunatly for me this Dwight works right here in my office. When I'm not finding him completely annoying, he's actually a little bit of comic relief.

Here's wishing you all a Dwight Schrute Christmas!
You say it's your Birthday...

I was given this idea by fellow tribemate http://www.wildermetaforce.com/ but thought it was pretty interesting..

Wikipedia/Birthday Game
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. Choose three events that happened on your birthday.
4. Choose two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. Post it.

My birthday is on the 30th of October.

Events:
1922 - Benito Mussolini was made Prime Minister of Italy
1944 - Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican"[1]

ok three more because they are so interesting...
1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated. Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield so as to avoid breaking all the windows in Moscow.
1966 - The Zodiac Killer kills his first victim, 18-year old Cheri Jo Bates, in Riverside, California.
1974 - "The Rumble in the Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.

Birthdays:
1218 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (d. 1234)
1945 - Henry Winkler, American actor

Deaths:
1979 - Donna Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)

I seem to be pretty connected to the Mussolini's it seems.

Very interesting!

Tuesday, December 19, 2006






Ten Things I Learned While Taking Ice Skating Lessons

1) I love to learn
2) You can't be afraid of falling
3) It feels good to laugh at yourself
4) Gliding on ice is an amazing sensory experience
5) Skating backwards is not as hard as it seems
6) Olympic ice skaters have insane skills!
7) Little boys start taking hockey lessons now at 3 years old!!!
8) The hardest thing to do while skating is to trust yourself
9) If it's hard today remember it'll be easier the next time
10) Wear gloves!

I totally enjoyed the class and will graduated to Level 2!!! I'll be starting back in January.

Monday, December 18, 2006



I Come to Work to Rest

Lately I've been going a million miles a minute... but not at work. Between Christmas shopping, puppy kindergarten, ice skating lessons, cookiepolooza 2006 and keeping up with the house, I find myself using work as a resting spot. Of course being at a receptionist style desk I cannot actually sleep, but I can read, surf the net and every once in a while rest my eyes for a minute at a time.

Not so bad.

Thursday, December 07, 2006




I DON'T LIKE BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO!!!

I have finally figured out why I don't like my job, or the job before it. It's an epiphany that really changes everything.... I don't like being told what to do. I've never liked being told what to do... not as a child and not as an adult. I enjoy doing things for others that are not asked of me, charity work, baking cookies for the office, cleaning the house, but if you tell me I have to do these things, I'm not interested.

This does not work in a task based job like I have... all it causes is frustration on my part, but understanding what triggers the frustration does seem to help me put it all into perspective.

Common tasks I'm asked to do:
Can you make a second pot of coffee?
Can you call the garbage people and see why they didn't come today?
Can you go fetch me a sandwich at Subway?
Can you transcribe what I'm about to say into an email and send it out?
Can you make copies of this for me?
Can you print this for me?
Can you find "so and so" and have them call me?

It started with "pleases" and "thank yous", but after 6 months all of those have gone away and I am left feeling completely frustrated.

I just got in trouble from one boss because I wasn't at my desk answering the phone... I wasn't at my desk answering the phone because I was fetching a sandwich for my other boss. F em!

Friday, December 01, 2006





Maggie's First Snow

Yesterday Roger and I both got to come home early and enjoy the snow from the safety of our house. We watched Maggie play in the snow, curled the puppy and kitty up next to a roaring fire and made Beef Stroganoff. It felt VERY domestic and very good. I love married life.