I have finally returned home from eight solid hours of church and family activities. This morning I showed up right after the children's Christmas Pageant service and had to explain to various people who wanted to talk about it that I hadn't actually been in attendance. I met up with the rest of the Music Outreach program, and we headed over to ( Read more... )

They have implemented a freakin' "jeans and tennis shoes" policy until January 2nd to "celebrate" the holiday season. The entire office rejoices... except their newest employee, who is quite used to wearing jeans to work, thank you very much, and just wants to enjoy slacks and heels for another week before she, too, comes to hate both ( Read more... )

This afternoon, I completed Day Three of my mandatory new employee orientation, which consisted of six hours per day of online courses and assessments on customer service, Microsoft Office programs, company and workplace policies, accounting practices, business ethics, and document management. There were only twenty-five courses and corresponding ( Read more... )

Had a nice girl night with Marissa and Kati tonight. Well, it wasn't really designated a girl night, but Steve went to bed almost as soon as he got home, so it was a girl night anyway. We cooked awesomeness, including ( Read more... )

My group was released from jury duty for this upcoming Monday. :D

Is beta culture one step along the path toward "future shock", that acute state of distress supposedly suffered by members of a society wherein the rate of change accelerates exponentially such that individual members of that society experience culture shock within their own culture ( Read more... )

"Customers Injured in Crush Suing Walmart".You have GOT to be kidding me. The people who CONTRIBUTED to the stampede that resulted in the death of a Walmart employee are suing WALMART for carelessness, recklessness and negligence ( Read more... )

American Idol-like shows are stupid... but I might be able to enjoy an American Idol SYMPHONY kind of show.

For about 5 minutes I had a 200 disc cd/dvd changer.

Then Steve and I broke it.

So now we're off to the gas station to buy needles and a lighter so we can MacGyver this shit.

We Will Prevail!

Pepperoni pizza and wild cherry Pepsi breakfast; mad dashing around back and forth between the gas station and the apartment trying to make gas to drive and money for gas happen at the same time and place; systematically cleaning up my office computer in preparation for the job transition by deleting my favorites from Internet Explorer, making a ( Read more... )