Jesse--I am in AWE of your ability to actually enter the Container Store and not buy stuff you didn't need! God knows, I've never managed it.
sits next to Robin.
You've got my support. Just think of me as...as your... You know, I'm searching for 'supportive things' and I'm coming up all bras.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Vortex - Jul 28, 2006 1:03:45 pm PDT #9225 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Jesse - Jul 28, 2006 1:04:54 pm PDT #9226 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am impressed with myself! So many little boxes I did not buy! My secret was not getting a cart, and picking up the shoe rack I was there for first, and then carrying it around the rest of the store.
Kat - Jul 28, 2006 1:05:57 pm PDT #9227 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Go Jesse! I avoided the Container Store today because I was askeered of the store. Worse? I did go into the Paper Source which is EVIL.
Jesse - Jul 28, 2006 1:06:08 pm PDT #9228 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also, I did realize a couple of things I needed while I was there, but I really did need those things.
Allyson - Jul 28, 2006 1:09:01 pm PDT #9229 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
the Paper Source which is EVIL.
Ooooooh. Totally evil.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2006 1:32:05 pm PDT #9230 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm very happy that the Container Store is very far from me. I have bought only one thing there, I think.
I seem to have discovered an attitude problem. A personality was clashing with mine, trying to insist things didn't have to be done by the book because he knew better. After a bit of "look, process is here for a reason--how much trouble were we in without it?" I just said "You know, experience trumps paperwork--we'll go straight ahead and do it your way despite the published process. Tell me exactly what you want me to do."
He backed right off and said I should contact the process owner. It's what I figured would happen if I looked like I was going to charge forward with his name on the banner.
Hmmph.
Now I just have to wrestle an impossible project plan (JUNE 2007??? ARE YOU INSANE) into submission, and maybe my weekend can start.
Glamcookie - Jul 28, 2006 1:38:19 pm PDT #9231 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I need to remember your strategy, ita. It's a great one.
Liese S. - Jul 28, 2006 1:40:03 pm PDT #9232 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I need my weekend. Where is my weekend? Instead, I am just sitting here at my desk, and not getting jack done. I think I need to break things down into smaller tasks. Or maybe go play with the dog and watch HGTV for a while. I dunno.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2006 1:41:53 pm PDT #9233 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Because I'm not a nice person (the attitude problem referenced above was mine) I'm considering contacting the process owner by saying "Soandso says we don't need to follow your procedure--can you verify that before we go ahead?"
But he's not answering his phone right now, so that deed remains undone.
Man, I want to go home. I have stuff planned for tonight, Saturday night and Sunday night, and I need as much nap time as possible inbetween. And I've taken Monday off too, since I don't want to pretend I have recuperative powers or anything. I just hope I make it through everything I've planned for.
Burrell - Jul 28, 2006 1:51:46 pm PDT #9234 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
nap time is key, ita. I haven't been sleeping well, so last night I went to bed at 8:30. Well, "went to bed" as in fell asleep in Franny's bed while I was tucking her in. Oops.