Cashmere, you gotta love the ovaries on your sister. Tell her you want a Spring Clean up of your yard, out of the boyfriend.

Oh, I'm getting something out of this project. I don't know what yet, but I'm getting something.

1. Sleep, damn you! Why. Won't. You. Sleeeeeeeep.

2. I used to be cool. But you SUCKED it all out of me.

3. No! Stop! No no no.

Bwah! All things I've said in the last 12 hours.

My new apartment is on a different phone-switchy-hub-thingy than my old apartment. I have to change my phone number

Aww, that sucks. It should totally be one of the perks of moving within the same city, getting to keep your number. Though now that everyone has cellphones...I swear, some of my friends moved here with a cellphone from one place, like Boston, lived in DC for awhile, moved somewhere else (like NY) and still have the Boston cell #. It gets confusing, but OTOH, at least you don't lose anyone's number!

I'm amused by all the Trek love. I used to love it, and want to love it again, but these days when I watch an episode I tend to not feel the love like I used to, and just see the clunky parts. It's so sad.

She also uses sad faces with tears running down the cheeks.

Doesn't this take as long to draw as it would to write actual...words?

I just missed a layoff I didn't know was coming; I really didn't expect layoffs in my department.

So, wait, do you know you were not laid off?? goodness! eeek! Yay for still having a job? I would be shocked and upset, yeah.

The Head Office wants him to take his day as Paid Time Off, thus using up a vacation day, and the Saturday is considered by them just extra time that salaried employees sometimes have to work

Technically, they can do that. But it's EEEEEVIL. Though, if a whole bunch of other people had to work Saturday too, I guess maybe I could see it. Not really a way to get employees happy, man. Geez.

Sucks to be exempt. The compensation is usually that you get much more vacation time

Serious? Has never been true for me--everyone gets the same, unless they get none.

The idea behind an exempt employee is that they can come and go as long as the job gets done

THIS pisses me off--I am exempt, and I travel. And yet I just got told in my lead up to my yearly review that we are REQUIRED to work 8:30-5:30 or 9:30-6:30 or whatever, as a lunch hour is "expected"--but that even if we don't take lunch, or only take half an hour or whatever, that we STILL have to work those hours. Which I think is illegal. Though soon enough, that won't matter, as we'll all be working mad overtime anyway, with this project.

Aww, that sucks. It should totally be one of the perks of moving within the same city, getting to keep your number. Though now that everyone has cellphones...I swear, some of my friends moved here with a cellphone from one place, like Boston, lived in DC for awhile, moved somewhere else (like NY) and still have the Boston cell #. It gets confusing, but OTOH, at least you don't lose anyone's number!

Well, if you've got broadband off of a cable modem you can probably still transfer your number to Vonage have have a land line. I now have my home and fax numbers through Vonage using Voice over IP. I could have picked numbers for anywhere in the country. Also, just by taking my little Voice of IP box from Linksys with me, I can plug into any broadband connection on the planet and have my home telephone number with me. Kinda freaky.

THIS pisses me off--I am exempt, and I travel. And yet I just got told in my lead up to my yearly review that we are REQUIRED to work 8:30-5:30 or 9:30-6:30 or whatever, as a lunch hour is "expected"--but that even if we don't take lunch, or only take half an hour or whatever, that we STILL have to work those hours. Which I think is illegal. Though soon enough, that won't matter, as we'll all be working mad overtime anyway, with this project.

Yeah, this kinda stuff sucks. And very often isn't legal. The thing is, that doesn't matter to these companies, with out economy the way it is folks just want a job and will take the abuse, and the companies don't get called on it unless someone has the nerve, time, and money to bring a lawsuit against them. When I was with Disney there were using Temps and contractors as employees and keeping them that way for years at a time. They still do it. Microsoft got in trouble for it, but no one has challenged Mauschwitz on it yet, so they still do it. Legality has very little to do with the decision.

Hec cracked me up. I know he was only partially trying to be funny, but...

I have turned off my phone and have been knitting (which I dedided to learn how to do on Saturdy) all day. I'm feeling the urge to hole up for the rest of the week.

My cousin's baby shower, which I'm 1/3 hostess of, is Saturday. I'm taking Friday off to get down there and shop and get her stepmother's house decorated. Everyone knows this because I've mentioned that going back this weekend means that I can't go out of town for a while. Unfortunately, this means I missed going to Mardi Gras back home this weekend with my friends who were kind enough to parade-dial me all weekend to remind me of how much fun I wasn't having. Saturday morning, a friend called me to tell me her grandmother died and her grandfather was in the hospital, both in Tyler so she went to see FE, who also called to tell me friend's grandmother died, and that she said we'd all be going to the funeral Saturday (as in the day of the shower). Friend in NY called to see if I could give her a ride if she flew into Dallas, and I told her I could drop her off Thursday on my way home, but wouldn't be going because of aforementioned shower, and got a guilt trip. This morning damn near all the friends called to tell me another friend's (who also called several times this weekend) uncle was in surgery and likely going to die and her aunt had a heart attack at the news. Now they all want to know what my plans are for that weekend because shouldn't we be going to funerals, and what do I mean I can't make it...

Knitting, even as a beginner who has to rip a lot, is much less frustrating.

Wow. Just wow.

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Heh. I like the fishing lure ones.

Nail tips for billytea!

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I like the dolphins from the second link.