the snark chronicles

Moved!

2008-08-17T16:25:00.001-05:00

Please redirect your bookmarks to my new blog home: http://snarkchronicles.wordpress.com/

Changes are coming....

2008-08-14T09:44:00.002-05:00

I am working on some blog changes. They should be complete by early next week. Stay tuned...

Oh the things we have seen!

2008-08-06T21:57:00.006-05:00

I has been a busy, busy past few days for M. and I! We took a road trip to visit friends this weekend. M. got to go golfing Saturday afternoon and I hung out with M.'s best friend's wife and her kiddos. Sunday evening M. and I went to see Radiohead - live - in person - up close! We were only about eight rows back from the stage. Thom York singing, dancing and giving the audience 'the eye,' Jonny

I know my F***ed up Disney

2008-08-01T07:54:00.000-05:00

Disney gone blue? Score: 100% (10 out of 10)

Library Debate

2008-07-31T09:19:00.003-05:00

As the week winds down I am having an obstinately difficult time concentrating on my work. So here I am at my blog, taking a break. Don't turn me in for wasting company time - I do get my work done! ;)One of my favorite blogs - Mental Floss - had a link to a blog on one of my other favorite topics - libraries and reading! (I see M. rolling his eyes or shaking his head in mild disgust right now..

Best Wishes and No Farewells EDIT

2008-07-28T09:13:00.007-05:00

7/28/08: Had to write an edit worthy of my little brother this morning. By the way, as my brother so lovingly pointed out, he is 25, not 26. But he will be 26 at the end of August. I just subtracted 3 years from my own age and ended up a month and a half off... Anyway, back to this post's edit.M. was reading my post last night at home and said, "You've never been to

Aprons and Green Tea Bathes

2008-07-22T14:46:00.003-05:00

Pioneer Woman Ree did a post today about a cute cowgirl apron she just got on her Home & Garden blog. When someone on one of the blogs I regularly read posts about something they found online I head right over to the website. In this case, PW's apron came from Sommer Designs. They do have cute aprons, but the ones they have available for sale right now are hostess aprons, you know, those ones

My Poor Lu

2008-07-21T19:52:00.003-05:00

When Luigi had his dental surgery last week a piece of the gum the vet cut off was sent to a lab to be analyzed. The vet called me with the results today. Luckily, no cancer. However, they are not sure exactly what is going on. It could be one of two conditions - neither of which I can pronounce. I asked the assistants to write them down when I went in this afternoon, but they said they would be

Teen Workers Are Peoples Too!

2008-07-17T08:29:00.002-05:00

Listen here Ms. Higher Up, don't tell me that you have urgent, urgent work for our teen helper to do when she is in the office, withhold the list of files you need pulled, and then when I come request the list because our teen helper is in the office today snark at me like we are bothering you. Don't tell me, "Teen Helper will just have to wait," in that condescending voice of yours. You are the

Tales of the Pumpkin

2008-07-16T14:00:00.004-05:00

Okay, I originally started this post way back on 5/29 when one of my coworkers came into work a wee bit late because her car had a flat. This made me think back to the time I had a flat tire. It was when I was in high school. But then I realized I did not have the right photos to go with the post. I called up my brother who is 26 years and still speaks in sarcasm (hmm, does that run in the family

Thinking about my boys...

2008-07-16T07:58:00.002-05:00

The Mental Floss Morning Cup O'Links this morning featured a few links that had me thinking about my boys - Clyde, Luigi, and that wonderful M.First, we have this lovely cat animation by Simon Tofield that reminds me mostly of that little Lu living in my house, but with some Clyde thrown in. I watched the video at work this morning, so no sound, but still, it was hilarious! My poor little Lu had

Belated Warm Snarkies

2008-07-14T08:31:00.002-05:00

Two late warm snarkies this morning to two great people who had birthdays yesterday, July 13th. CH and AB, no super duper images for you, but wanted you to know I didn't forget your birthdays! Hope they were good ones!

Nine Years?!

2008-07-10T07:18:00.003-05:00

To My Dear, Dear M.,Nine years ago today we stood in front of family and friends and took a vow to love and honor each other for the rest of our lives. It is hard to believe it has already been nine years! Time with you passes in a way in which I hardly even notice it is gone.I remember meeting you in that chat room oh so long ago in a time when internet dating wasn't even a thing. There was no

Random, useless workday thoughts...

2008-07-08T10:29:00.003-05:00

We have a couple single-seater restrooms in the back of our building. The doorstop in the lady's room is one of those metal rings with the rubber ring on the inside. I can't help looking at it when I'm in there and wondering how much bacteria has gathered in that rubber ring, or do small insects find it a suitable, dark place to build their homes?Also, several people in the office are wearing

To Someone in the Front Office

2008-07-08T08:29:00.002-05:00

Dear Someone,When we have office staff out we all need to pitch in and help cover that person's job. I take a good portion of duties for the particular person out this week. Did you know last weekend was a holiday weekend and there were emails and information requests piled up from 3 days not only for the person who is out this week, but for me too.I understand that you, Someone, also take a

Ack!

2008-07-01T09:02:00.001-05:00

I have a story to post about my travels home after my trip to North Dakota, but no time to do that right now. I did have to take a momentary break from my work this morning to bring you this very snarky post.I love having a summer helper around the office. It is especially exciting this summer because I am organizing her work. But seriously, Ms. Higher Up, if you want me to do the workload

She did it!

2008-06-27T10:38:00.002-05:00

Mom got her tattoo yesterday. She decided on a cherry blossom branch with the Chinese symbol for human life. Below is a little slide show I captured during the inking.I also found out my uncle (and godfather) is the State attorney in a murder case this summer. Testimony in the case just started today.This will be my last full day in North Dakota. Tomorrow morning I head out early - 4:40am - for

Vacation Update

2008-06-26T12:00:00.000-05:00

Wednesday, June 25: We took a trip to the state's capitol, Bismark. We did not get going as early as planned (mom takes longer to get ready than I think she realizes), so once we had made the 2.5 hour drive it was time to have lunch. We had tickets for the Lewis & Clark Riverboat cruise of the Missouri River (once again obtained by mom from the Wheeler Dealer radio show), so we decided to eat

The Vacation Run Down

2008-06-25T08:05:00.000-05:00

First, an apology to my readers who checked for a post last night. My parents have one computer and my dad had to use it last night. By the time he was done I was too tired to write a post and was off to bed.Now, for those of you who are interested in what I've been doing in North Dakota on my vacation, here's what's happened so far. I've not taken very many pictures yet, but do plan to post some

North Dakota - A vacation spot?

2008-06-24T09:09:00.003-05:00

It is when you grew up here! I arrived Saturday afternoon and will be visiting until this coming Saturday. So far it's been an interesting trip. I plan to do a more 'fully featured' post this evening, so stay tuned.

What's Been Up?

2008-06-10T10:40:00.000-05:00

I've been enslaved by a copier, that's what has been up! We found out that for one of our accreditations we need to send all our reports (burned to CD) from all of history to the accrediting entity. Well, we had reports saved electronically from 2004-present, so I've got those CDs all wrapped up and they have already been sent where they need to go. Anything before 2004 was not saved

Oh, Embarrassment!

2008-06-05T13:46:00.002-05:00

I got some new clothes yesterday. I rarely get new clothes and wear the same outfits to work week after week, so I was excited to wear a new skirt and top today. There was no wind when I walked into work early this morning. Unfortunately for me, the wind picked up sometime between my arrival and the time I left for lunch.I walked out the office door on my way to my car and Bossman walks out

To Someone at This Morning's Meeting

2008-06-04T12:28:00.003-05:00

Hey Someone,Did you know we all know you're sitting up there? It is not necessary to speak over everyone else. It is especially annoying when you begin to talk over someone and you don't know what you're talking about. Let a person have their say - you might learn something about that of which you do not know and you may also not have to comment. But then again, we all know you, and you not

DUCK!

2008-06-02T16:20:00.003-05:00

For the past couple weeks we've had a visitor to our back door at the office - a duck. He comes to the door and either stares in or lays down right next to the door and falls asleep with his head under his wing. Other than making a bit of a mess on the concrete pad outside the door, he's really not hurting anything and he provides some office amusement each day.Bossman has been out of the office

A Very Warm Snarky

2008-05-31T08:52:00.003-05:00

Graphics from the 'Beautiful Mess' kit by Elizabeth Quintana

Lunchy, Munchy, Snarky

2008-05-30T13:25:00.004-05:00

So I've received a complaint request from RR for more snarky posts. (Go ahead and read her initials as a growly sound, I do.) So, in honor of dear RR and her upcoming birthday, I have mustered up as much snark as possible for this post. Ironically, most of today's snark comes from the birthday lunch for RR that half the office just returned from...Overall, it was a very nice lunch, and for that I

This fits our office so well...

2008-05-30T13:16:00.002-05:00

Thanks KE!

My affair with Nano

2008-05-28T13:21:00.006-05:00

I have a metallic green iPod Nano - 2nd generation. I love my little Nano for all the stupid reasons people love their iPods (or whatever player you have). It's small, it's cute, and best of all, it's GREEN!M.'s parents got me an iPod Shuffle for Christmas a couple years ago. I liked the Shuffle - it was defitely a great size for a player and you can clip the thing anywhere, but I was still very

Alas....

2008-05-28T09:41:00.002-05:00

I think the blogging bug has left me. It may be the weather (nicer weather for me means nicer disposition) or it may be that bossman is out of the country... Whatever it is means that the Snark Chronicles has been neglected once again. I shall end up losing all my readers and drift away to the wasteland of unread blogs.There is a little snark about today. Does anyone else use Google Reader to

Crime Library

2008-05-23T14:47:00.003-05:00

While I am a fairly good person in life (especially since entering my 20's), I've always enjoyed reading and watching videos about the not-so-nice side of life. My favorite movies are horror and thrillers, I read a ton of true crime books when I was in junior/high school, I wrote a paper on satanism when I was in high school, the list goes on. Along this theme I have a website to share with you

The Story Warning! this is another long one...

2008-05-20T08:40:00.004-05:00

I grew up in North Dakota and my entire immediate family still lives in North Dakota - my dad would never live anywhere else. If you know anything about ND (which a lot of people don't; I've met people who think it's part of Canada...), then you know people population is sparse and spread out. Also, we don't get very diverse in ND - you mainly have your white people of Norwegian heritage or your

Thought Spill... CAUTION It's a long one!

2008-05-19T13:15:00.001-05:00

Oh, I have been gone so long! Things have been extra busy for me at work and I typically don't blog on the weekends, but here I am. Welcome to a new blog post! How have you all been?Weekend Happenings: After sleeping off the beginnings of some kind of illness all Friday, I was pretty ready for the weekend. Saturday was chore day (not a routine or typical happening at our house). M. got out and

Ragin' on the Road

2008-05-13T07:34:00.003-05:00

On my way to work this morning I stop at a two way stop - cross traffic does not stop. The person at the stop sign across from me was there before I halted my car and they are turning left (left blinker light is clearly displayed). So once cross traffic is clear I wait for lefty to make their turn. Well, since people in that area are not the best about waiting for people to make their left turns,

Birthday Bonanza and Monday Morning Snark

2008-05-12T10:13:00.005-05:00

Before I get into any snarkiness this morning, I would like to update all my wonderful, faithful readers (I know I have at least 4) on what I did this weekend.Wordiness about the Weekend: Most of my readers know it was my birthday Saturday. Because age means nothing to me, I don't mind putting it out there that I am now 29 years old and I do not fear the approaching 30. So for my birthday M. and

Mudluscious!

2008-05-09T20:17:00.004-05:00

Credits:Thank you to CS for lending me pictures of Isaac!Background papers and filmstrip from 'Star Man' by Chris GreiserTags from 'Orange Crush' by Wendy Page

Meet the Snark

2008-05-08T19:06:00.003-05:00

This is the Snark. He's the little green goobly who lives in my mind. Sometimes he gets pretty nasty and says snarky, quippy things - that's what the blog is mainly about. Who doesn't like to read a good snark? Snark can also be warm and snuggly - sometimes he just feels that way and has to give out a 'warm snarky.' I love my Snark and if you're a frequent visitor to my blog you love him too!

Warm Snarkies to the Lunch Bunch

2008-05-08T19:03:00.002-05:00

Hey ladies, I had a great time at lunch today! And CS - thanks for the card and the gift card to the mega store. I don't actually like going there, so I will probably use the card online.

Oh, come on!

2008-05-08T11:15:00.003-05:00

Do I really need to type up an email for you consisting of 70 words, six of which are your signature line?! In the time it took you to write it out, walk it down to my office, explain what the email is, and asked me to type it, you could have typed the dang thing yourself!

Credit Card Sigs - Who the Heck Cares?

2008-05-08T08:15:00.003-05:00

Mental Floss had a very amusing link in my Morning Cup O'Links today. It made me think of my dear, sweet M.M. and I have credit cards, we use credit cards. In fact, cash and checks have become unknown entities to us. Green paper that acts like a credit card - really? Pieces of paper where I have to fill in a bunch of junk, including the amount of purchase - what the hell?Now we all know you're

I shook my card...

2008-05-07T16:01:00.004-05:00

... BUT I have not opened it. It sounds like there is something moving in there within the card... oh the suspense!And what the heck is this?! What a yucky way to spend $300 an hour. But if I had to do this I would choose Landon.

And the Snark, It Just Keeps A-Comin'...

2008-05-07T14:27:00.004-05:00

This message just popped into my email inbox: Thank you for your recent purchase from FTD.COM. Our records show that ithas been delivered to 'my mom's name here' . FTD, what the hell?! I specifically asked that the bonsai tree be delivered May 9th. (May 9th was the cheapest delivery option prior to Mother's Day.) Is today May 9th? No, FTD it is not! Now my retired father is sitting at home with

Oh by the way Ms. CS...

2008-05-07T14:18:00.002-05:00

I have a birthday coming up. I'm not one to bemoan getting a year older, especially since I still feel the same as I did when I first married M., which was now almost 9 years ago. But at the office this means you get together with coworkers for some lunchtime fun and get cards and stuff like that.Well, coworker CS came down to my office today and she hands me a card. The card's in an envelope and

Some Snark and Recent Reads

2008-05-07T13:56:00.003-05:00

I'm not feeling the snark lately, but some things have happened today that set off a slight reading on my snark meter. For instance:It's Wednesday. Wednesdays mean meetings day at the good 'ole office. Meetings mean at least one good eye roll and several snarky moments. Today featured such memorable moments as bossman and another 'higher up' having a slightly argumentative discussion in front of

SIGH

2008-05-06T20:18:00.002-05:00

When I think of something and implement it I typically enjoy doing whatever it is. I know, that didn't make a lot of sense. Let me give an example. My workplace recently had to downsize and let a handful of people go. I have been taking a monthly class on how to make handmade books, so decided to make a book for each person leaving and had everyone write in it. But it was my idea, so I enjoyed

Just some morning thoughts...

2008-05-06T09:03:00.006-05:00

It's primary election day here. M. and I voted early at one of the local libraries, so all taken care of. This is the first time I've made any kind of vote in a presidential election - much to M.'s chagrin. The only time I have made any kind of vote previously had been in a school-based issue.I ended up stopping by AB and KE's office today. Seem to get stuck there a lot (and not to do work). We

Mother's Day

2008-05-05T15:04:00.004-05:00

Mother's Day continues to creep up on us - it's this Sunday!! I did finally decide on a gift for my mother (as far as I know, M. is still working on something for his mother). No, I did not get my mom some slutty outfit from that site that sent me the email last week (M. thought it would have been pretty funny to do that - well, if he wants I'll order one for his mom). What I did end up getting

Self Evaluation - I'm a "4" all the way!

2008-05-05T10:24:00.003-05:00

It's time for my annual review at work. I've been here almost 4 years - that means seniority around here! Each year the employees here have to complete a self-evaluation prior to the formal annual review with their supervisors. My supervisor emailed my self-evaluation form to me about 3 weeks ago. I've looked at the thing, but it's not done yet, not even close. Not because I don't know how to

My Flan Adventure

2008-05-05T09:20:00.003-05:00

We're having a Cinco de Mayo lunch at work today. Last week the sign-up sheet appeared in the kitchen asking "What will you bring to our lovely Cinco de Mayo lunch?" I was about to do my old staple - nothing, but then decided I wanted to try something out for this lunch. What did I decide on? FLAN! Had I ever in my life made a flan? No. Have I ever even eaten flan before? Again, no. But I was

Another Sunshine Challenge

2008-05-03T07:31:00.002-05:00

Credit: 'A Day in the Garden' by Sunshine Studio Scraps

My Halcyon Place

2008-05-02T09:10:00.002-05:00

I really, really, really do not want to work today. I have been struggling with JDWW Syndrome all week (Just Don't Wanna Work), but today is the climax of every other day this week and I feel like just sitting here and staring blankly at my screen doing absolutely nothing. But since I can't do that I am writing this blog post instead which gives at least the appearance of working.Prior to writing

Mother Day Woes

2008-05-01T15:33:00.005-05:00

I have no idea what to get my mother or my mother-in-law for the upcoming holiday. This is a reoccurring theme each yet - What do we get mom?I got a funny email today from an online clothing store. The subject was "Mother's Day is May 11th - shop for the super diva in your life." My mom and the word "diva" not synonymous! Just for kicks, I clicked the link in the email to see what kind of

Online Forums

2008-05-01T14:35:00.003-05:00

One of my favorite scrapping blogs has expanded their site to include more areas than just the blog and with that comes a forum. They used to post challenges on the blog, which I have in my Google reader for easy follow-along. Where have they moved the challenge postings? Into the forum.As you probably do when reading many of my posts, you're thinking, "So what?" Well, mostly I really hate online

Oh my luck, it does suck!

2008-04-30T13:10:00.004-05:00

You know about my dreadful car experiences over the past couple weeks, what I forgot to tell you is that when the service center shuttle picked me up last night: he first forgot to call me when he was on his way. He called me right when he was here which made me rush out and I forgot my returns for the dreaded mega store and had to come back to the office to pick them up after getting the loaner

Blah Morning

2008-04-30T08:02:00.001-05:00

Well, I did not win the standing mixer from Pioneer Woman, but oh well. I got to thinking yesterday, I barely use my hand mixer (not much of a baker) so do I really need to use up counter space on a standing mixer? If it was free, sure, otherwise, probably not. What I do need is a really good set of knives...More drama with my car: I finally got a call from Sherry at the service center yesterday

Sunshine Studio Scraps Challenge #6

2008-04-29T21:47:00.005-05:00

This one was a journal challenge - definitely a little more difficult for me since I don't journal a lot on my scrap pages. We had to journal something to do with spring cleaning. I took a little liberty with the theme.~Credits~photos are from my 2005 trip to Chinabackground papers, frame, flower elements from 'A Day in the Garden' by the Sunshine Studio Scraps groupring frames around the photos

Car Service Place

2008-04-29T15:32:00.002-05:00

This is a snarky post - a hate post even - about the place that is currently servicing my car. Also known as the place that has serviced my car three times now in the past 2.5 weeks.I dropped my car off at 7:30 AM so they can once again try to determine why the check engine light is on. They are supposed to call me on my cell phone once said problem is known. So I wait, and wait, and wait...

Little Snark, Lots of 'Net Perusing

2008-04-29T13:30:00.000-05:00

I have been busy at work today, but found a little downtime to look at some links from Mental Floss and to type up this post, which I am sure has been much anticipated by my faithful readers. I found some interesting things through this morning's dose of links. Here are some my readers might be interested in:Bugs can be snarky too, especially when you look at electron photographs of them. I

New Post Category

2008-04-28T14:58:00.000-05:00

Due to my lasagna disaster last weekend and my quest for a recipe book/binder in which to keep my recipes grouped together, I have decided that I need a cooking-type label for my blog. Welcome 'Snarky Kitchen.' (By the way, I like the single quotation mark better than the double, even if I'm not using it correctly!)I used to cook a lot when I lived with my parents because mom is a nurse and used

Blog Neglect & The Monday Morning Snark

2008-04-28T08:10:00.004-05:00

I am seriously guilty of blog neglect the past week. Things at work just seemed to move at a hectic pace this past week. I even started a blog post on Wednesday and never finished it. Perhaps I will rework it for later this week.From this weekend: M. purchased a new weed eater because our Craftsman weed eater is a dud. We now have an electric one, which I used to think was stupid - who wants to

Sunshine Challenge #5

2008-04-22T20:36:00.003-05:00

Criteria for Sunshine Studio Scraps challenge #5 is that the layout must include one heart-shaped photo. Here's my layout featuring our niece.Papers and elements from Shauna Burke-Smith's 'Preppy' collection

Too Many Hands in Too Many Pots

2008-04-22T15:14:00.003-05:00

Here at my office we're supposed to have different email distribution lists to send problems to depending on the nature of the problem. This is a good idea - in theory. In practice when you have an organization as small as ours (especially since the downsizing), several people end up on all the lists (even if they don't need to be or shouldn't be). Plus, there has been a lot of confusion about

All Gangly

2008-04-22T08:58:00.004-05:00

A few years ago I noticed I had bump in my left wrist right below the base of my thumb. It was painful if I bumped it on something and since I am left-handed, I was prone to bump it every now and then. I get squeamish about the stupidest things. Give me all sorts of blood and gore, doesn't bother me, even if I'm eating. However, pull your eye lids down in front of me, flip them up, poke an eye,

More Snarkiness for Your Enjoyment

2008-04-21T13:00:00.005-05:00

Okay, with my post this morning I had very little to snark about - even though I found a way to make that post very long... Well, if I had waited just a few more hours I could have been a very, very long post indeed.M. and I traded in M.'s Dodge Ram pickup last October due to fuel efficiency (the thing had none) and because we really don't need a truck. I ended up getting the newer car even

The Monday Morning Snark

2008-04-21T09:14:00.003-05:00

Hello all my faithful readers - at least I do know I have a few at work, and M. even put the Snark Chronicles on his link toolbar thingy in his web browser!From this weekend:Not too much to snark at over the weekend - it was a pretty good weekend. Nice enough weather, M. did his chore of mowing the yard and helped with the laundry. We finished watching the second season of Dexter and watched the

Warm Snarky - on the RIGHT day

2008-04-21T07:32:00.002-05:00

I just wanted to say 'Happy, Happy Birthday' to MH. Hope you have a super duper day! Did you have a big birthday bash since you have to work on your actual birthday?picture by SaphiraTamina-Elric

Not Snarky Enough?

2008-04-18T14:05:00.004-05:00

Apparently I have not been snarky enough for some readers (RR I am staring at you through the office walls!) I have a bit of the seasonal affect disorder, so as the weather gets nicer, my mood is prone to improvements as well and we've had some very nice springy weather here the past couple days. Of course, there was an earthquake and aftershock in there, but that was my first ever earthquake and

Cattitude

2008-04-16T21:43:00.005-05:00

This was a template challenge from Sunshine Studio Scraps - take the template, make a layout and post. Here's my 'Cattitude' layout.background paper, paper behind the 'meow,' and swirl paper from Shauna Burke-Smith'Cattitudes' text and paper in upper square from Epson.com CreativeZone

That in which I am (dare I say it) WRONG

2008-04-16T07:43:00.004-05:00

I like to be right and hate to be wrong (but the wrong thing never happens, right?). Even though I am so right almost all the time, there are those moments when I am reminded that not everyone, not even I, can be right all the time (I just come very, very close).One of those moments was yesterday during one of our office's wonderful meetings. Last week I had gotten

Gee, Thanks Alot!

2008-04-15T13:25:00.004-05:00

Well, I am simply overwhelmed by the gracious responses to my requests for subjects since I am taking a photography course. Here's a couple:M. "Negative!"KE "Eek!"Well blah! It's a portrait class and all I have to take pictures of it cats. This gets a big snark to all my "real life" readers. No more warm snarkies here! By the way, did anyone enjoy the lovely Olivia?In other not so exciting news,

Documentary v. Interpretive Photos

2008-04-14T20:56:00.005-05:00

I am taking a photography class called Art That Happens to be Your Life. For this week's lesson we are developing our critical eye and focusing on documentary photos versus interpretive photos. Usually I would try to watch the lesson video and read through the handouts over the weekend to have some time to work on my assignment, but since the flu hit me this weekend, I used M.'s game time to work

An Engineer's Guide to Cats...

2008-04-14T18:44:00.003-05:00

... or basically how our Clyde and Luigi get treated too! Watch this entertaining video!We only have two cats, but there are some very striking similarities with the three cats in this video. Clyde is colored like a fuzzy Oscar and Ginger, but is built more like Zoe. Behaviorally, he is also more like Zoe - he is our marathon lounger. However, like Ginger, Clyde is also an awesome dancer - he

Warm Snarkies EDIT

2008-04-14T14:33:00.001-05:00

I initially called this post 'Shout Outs,' but that seemed too cheerleaderish for me, so decided to do 'Warm Snarkies' instead. Enjoy!I wanted to do this first warm snarky on Saturday, when my timing would have been right on, but if you read my previous post from today, you know I was asleep...I just wanted to say 'Happy, Happy Birthday' to MH. Hope you had a super duper day! I would have been

Back from the depths of the dreaded flu

2008-04-14T12:38:00.002-05:00

I never get a flu shot. M. gets on about every year, which is fine. I'm not opposed to flu shots, but since you can get sick from them and they don't guarantee to stop the flu from entering your body and wreaking havoc, and because I don't remember ever really having the flu except for one time when I was a sophomore in high school and that lasted for half a day, I just don't get a flu shot. Well

A Snake! A Snake!

2008-04-11T09:12:00.004-05:00

Dear M.,I know you don't like those creepy, crawling reptiles. Every time we're watching NatGeo or Discovery and a snake is featured you give a little shutter and scrunch up your face.I personally have always kinda liked snakes. Where I grew up we had these really cute bright green grass snakes. They were itty bitty and I would catch them and let them curl around my finger like a ring. They don't

OfficeView Pro 3.11 - A reality check?

2008-04-10T10:07:00.005-05:00

At our office we use spiffy nifty little program called OfficeView Pro 3.11 to help determine if people are in the office, and if they are in, are they available to take calls, answer questions, help others, bitch at, nag, etc.OfficeView could also be used as a reality check for what is happening in our office over the past few months - we're shrinking. And no, it's not because of all the rain.

To M.

2008-04-09T08:19:00.003-05:00

Dear M.,You're going to Radiohead!! Can you believe after all these years waiting for them to tour again that you've actually got tickets to see them?I remember trying to get you tickets several years ago when they played in Atlanta (can it be that we've been married long enough for me to say 'several years?!') I even had your cousin trying to help me get those darn tickets and it just didn't

Frame Challenge From Sunshine Studio Scraps

2008-04-08T18:28:00.003-05:00

Sunshine Studio Scraps is holding another challenge. Criteria is to use three different frames. So I did the following featuring my nephew Fisher.Credits:background paper is blue sky by Moon Scrapsframes, snowflakes, tassel, and tag by Jeanie Baechtold (from her "Brisk" set available at ComputerScrapbook.com)index card by Shauna Burke-Smith of Pineapple Plantationfonts used: St. Nicholas and

Self-Diagnosis: NPD

2008-04-08T12:47:00.002-05:00

Dear Everyone Who Knows Me In Real Life:How many of you think of me as a nice person? Go ahead, raise your hands... hmmm... I have a confession for you if you raised your hand - you're wrong. I've been thinking about myself today (which will feed into this entire letter/post), and I figured something out. I may like to do nice things, but why do I do them? Mainly because I enjoy the attention it

Get ready for dinner parties and sexy beards

2008-04-07T08:18:00.005-05:00

Who missed me? Oh, you didn't notice I didn't post over the weekend? Maybe you didn't miss me. That's okay. I spent the weekend sleeping off cramps and steam cleaning my living room floor. M. is the official picker upper of wet cat hair the steam cleaner sucks up and deposits on the top of the carpet. We could probably make a new kitten out of the amount of hair that thing sucks up. Now doesn't

Shameful...

2008-04-04T06:00:00.002-05:00

To the local cosmetic surgery place:I heard your advertisement on the radio the other morning. I am disgusted by your new target: sensitive parents who worry their child may not be a beauty queen or the best looking boy in class.Yes, some children need cosmetic surgery to correct some kind of deformity (birth, accident-related, etc.), however this not what you speak to in your commercial. You

Alert, Alert! I registered my CELL PHONE!!

2008-04-03T06:50:00.000-05:00

Dear Coworker,When our boss sent out an email proclaiming everyone must register their cell phones with the no call list or they would be plagued by telemarketers I tried to do the responsible thing by finding the accurate information and providing the information to said boss. Little did I know that it would be forwarded to the entire office and you would go into panic mode.Coworker, I sincerely

Clyde and Luigi Demand This

2008-04-02T15:46:00.002-05:00

This is the house belonging to Rachel Hunter's dogs. Shhh, don't tell Cly and Lu - they would certainly demand a beautiful villa like this for themselves, well, one each. Cly certainly would not share a villa with Luigi given the choice. And you know what, if the price was reasonably in my budget I would buy them this villa... What spoiled boys they are!

Mother Freak Out

2008-04-02T08:20:00.001-05:00

Dear Mom,Please do not leave a voice mail on my cell phone saying you will email if you're not going to email. I waited for three days to get your email and nothing came. Then, you called me at work. You've never called me at work before - not in my entire life. Needless to say, my heart jumped into my throat and in the two seconds it took for the receptionist to transfer your call to my phone a

Sunshine Challenge #2

2008-04-01T22:03:00.003-05:00

STILL no winner announcement in that contest I entered. So, I decided to enter a different contest on another digital scrapbooking website - Sunshine Studio Scraps. This was their second challenge (I didn't do the first) and the goal was to utilize a predetermined color palette (shown below). Here's my entry featuring Clyde!

Entrance to Hell

2008-04-01T11:04:00.001-05:00

Who knew it was in Russia? Hey, I work with a Russian!

Okay, Google Got Me (briefly)

2008-04-01T09:53:00.005-05:00

There was a new link at the top of my Gmail screen today. It said Gmail had a new feature. Well, cool, I'm all up for new features. So I clicked the link to New! Gmail Custom Time. I read the article about how I can now "be on time every time" by using Gmail Custom Time to set any date and time on my emails, at least as far back as April 1, 2004 (and no, that did not tip me off, I kept reading...

Digi-Scrap Masquerade

2008-04-01T08:50:00.003-05:00

Okay, still no winner announcement in that contest I entered. But their site is finally up so I was able to grab my layout images to post on my blog. There were six challenges and we had one week to create a layout based on the challenge and get it posted to the challenge gallery (except for the 1st challenge, we had two weeks for that one). The contest was hosted by Digital Candy. If you're

Standard Equipment

2008-04-01T08:30:00.001-05:00

Dear Fellow Drivers,Did you know your car comes with some amazing standard equipment? From my road time experiences, it is obvious some of you do not. Let me introduce you to this little beauty: the turn signal. You might also know the turn signal as "blinkers," "flashers," "indicators," or "that little stick sticking out of the steering wheel."Since this has been included on cars since the 1920'

Meeting Mayhem

2008-03-31T13:41:00.004-05:00

Meeting Mayhema brief play by LilSeed Cast of CharactersMAURESA, a “higher up,” older woman with a bad sense of what constitutes a jokeRAEA, overworked member of the staff, younger woman with a wicked mindNICIA, quiet observer of office lifeMISCELLANEOUS OFFICE STAFFThis play takes place during a routine staff meeting, anywhere. Act I (the only act)Scene 1 (the only scene)At Rise: (An office

My Monday Snark

2008-03-31T13:20:00.002-05:00

I recently entered a digital scrapbooking contest. I don't do a lot of scrapbooking, per se, but thought it would be fun. I had planned to do my last March post as a photo listing of my contest layouts. The contest was a masquerade and no one knew who did which layouts (not a problem for me since I'd never posted anything to the website anyway). So I was waiting for the winner announcement before

April NaBloPoMo - Letters

2008-03-31T08:13:00.002-05:00

The NaBloPoMo theme for April is letters - interpreted however you please. I think this is going to be a bit easier for me than the lists theme. I've never been a big list maker...

I get other people's snarks, too!

2008-03-28T15:59:00.003-05:00

I just had a coworker visit my office. She has a very legitimate snark (probably even more legitimate than my own, but hey, this is my blog). She is getting married and had her invitations delivered to the office so she would be around at the time of delivery. Luckily, she was also tracking the invitations or they may have ended up in Office Lala Land.Well, by way of UPS tracking, it showed that

What is snarking me out today?

2008-03-28T12:16:00.004-05:00

bookshelf boogery: We have a small lending library where I work. I was recently put in charge of this library and have been working on cataloging everything and devising the best way to get the word out to our clients. Well, having the library physically located in the back of the office where clients do not go and shoved in a corner did not seem to me the best idea. I proposed moving it into a

This Week's Ruminations

2008-03-28T09:01:00.002-05:00

Here's some random thoughts from this week:How can I sleep for 12 hours and still be tired?!Did my boss drink the water during his recent trip to South America? (unfortunately my office is stationed near the bathroom)Does M. realize when he decides to spend extra time in bed it affects my getting to work on time? (he will love, love, love that I posted this)Our apple juice tastes kind of funkyCly

Cafeteria Colloquy

2008-03-25T17:53:00.003-05:00

I had lunch with a friend from college today. My friend is very high energy and could probably talk nonstop. She can exhaust me without my having to do anything! I don't have to add much to a conversation since she is very chatty. Here's a list of topics we discussed today (or she talked at me):how hectic her job ishow things are same old same old around hereitems she needs to purchase before she

Deconstructing a Psychopath

2008-03-24T18:50:00.003-05:00

M. and I are watching the first season of Dexter on Netflix. (You can also catch the toned down version of season 1 on CBS.) We've watched five episodes so far and I am really liking this show. Things I like about Dexter:Dexter's early life before his foster parents the Morgans took him in is a mysteryDexter's job is to interpret blood splatters at crime scenesDexter is played by Michael C. Hall

Reality TV

2008-03-22T20:20:00.002-05:00

I admit to watching a bit too much tv, but hey, I enjoy it! Today I caught up on the newest season of one of my favorite reality shows, Top Chef. So today I am doing a list of my favorite reality tv shows, in no particular order:Top Chef on BravoSurvivor on CBSThe Apprentice on NBCTrading Spaces on TLCThe Amazing Race on CBSFlipping Out on BravoThe Girls Next Door on E!The Janice Dickinson

That Coworker

2008-03-21T19:59:00.003-05:00

You know, that coworker. The one that just seems to dig a little under your skin for a day. I had one of those today. Luckily, it was a short day for Good Friday. Here's some things said coworker does to just nibble away at the very subcutis of my being:the skin-tight clothesmany, many layers of makeupjingle, jangly jewelryexclamations of "I simply cannot do another thing"the angry foreign

Picture list of my kitties

2008-03-20T20:44:00.002-05:00

Random Work Day Thoughts

2008-03-19T20:44:00.002-05:00

I wish it would quit rainingI'm tired of printing everything for someone who wants a paperless officeHow many times can I send the same email to someone before he reads it?I wish the Art Institute would quit calling meI know someone who could really use this parenting videoHow much should you let your personal life affect your work?Just because someone says nothing can be done right now doesn't