Herb Farm would set you back more $$.

The Herb Farm is on my list for a meal the next time I'm in Seattle.

Jessica-- my condolances to you and yours.

Allyson-- I am sure you do small talk better than I do. Unless I right down questions to ask, I pretty much need to be with a good small-talker, or I just talk and talk and talk about myself, my personal quirks, and I overshare-- all through shyness.

Or I do what tommy does and busy myself and/or visit the bathroom.

I am a little scared of the Snowpocolypse, because I take the bus and I have to work tomorrow at the theatre. And since the designer flew in today to do fittings tomorrow and leaves tomorrow night and doesn't come back until next year-- we sort of have to do it.

was sent to a shop to get a picture of my boss' wife printed on photo paper.

But some jackass cropped it.

So there was no way to make it a suitable size.

So I go to the frame store trying to figure out how to mat a 6x5 3/4 photo, that is needed for the party, tonight.

I found a frame, plain matte black, that had a mat inside it that would do. I got another mat to overlay the picture so that it would have a sort of frame in a frame effect. No one told me, because no one knew, where it would be hung.

So I went with the plainest frame I could find, after receiving four calls in the frame place crying about how no one understands why a shittily cropped pic cant be blown up to an 8 x 10 without creating a circus mirror effect.

So I come back, after standing in a busy frame store, annoyed at the stupid, and my boss comes in, sees the frame, and proceeded to insult me on the frame choice for five minutes.

I am trying very hard to not cry in anger at being insulted on my "taste."

I am pretty sure that I have much more "class."

Allyson, you so don't need to be funny at the party. You barely need to be sober or civil.

So not killing people has its advantages then?

That's the rumor; however, I think it is a highly overrated rumor.

At this point, I'm not sure that Allyson even needs to go to it.

I think your boss is broken, at this point. That's a totally jackass thing for him to do, even if you had no taste, which is simply not the case.

Yeah. Your boss is clearly having problems that are exterior to you, and he knows you best and is taking it out on you. He needs to step off.

Allyson, that's a crap thing to do, and I hope you ask for an apology tomorrow. I'd also point out to him that it's crappy to ask somebody else to run your Xmas errands AND it's probably a violation of company rules to send your worker on a personal errand.

Harumph.

I am so angry, I am trying to not cry at my desk from the rage.