Phone: *Ring*

Me: You know it's Friday, right?

Phone: *Just...'Ring', okay?*

Me: Damn you to the deepest of hells.

Fuckcake O' the Day: Hey, Joe...it's JOE! Ha ha!

Me: How can I help you?

FCOtD: Wondering if you had an answer yet.

Me: To...?

FCOtD: We talked the other day.

Me: I received a great many calls a day. I'm sorry, I'm afraid I don't recall yours.

FCOtD: But how many calls share your name?

Me: ...

FCOtD: (expectant pause for laughter and recognition)

Me: ...

FCOtD: Um. I think I ended up talking to (Other Person)

Me: I'll see if they're available.

My manager is due in my office sometime in the next hour. She flew down to do my annual review. I already know what my raise is (a nice 4% - not fantastic, but not horrid), so why am I so nervous? I feel like there are a zillion butterflies in my tummy.

Oh, and in kid news, CJ gets his braces off today. K-Bug is taking him to the ortho for me. Afterwards, she plans on buying him some Laffy Taffy.

Afterwards, she plans on buying him some Laffy Taffy.

and some Hershey's Kiss, kiss?

FCOtD: We talked the other day

t shares sympathetic shudder

Here's an interesting thing for Nilly and our other Buffista jews. apparently, a modern version of Hava Nagila is in the running for best selling song of the Christmas season. You can see the video here: [link]

"British singer Lauren Rose has released a modern version of traditional Jewish song Hava Nagila, and gambling pundits have even given odds on the song to take the top spot in the U.K. Christmas pop charts.

"According the British newspaper The Sun, bookmaker William Hill has given 17-year-old Lauren Rose a 16-1 shot at having Britain’s best-selling song on December 25."

Timelies, my Lovelies.

Soooo...Boss just spent several minutes in here telling me about more places we're going to have to start babysitting people & more things that she "asked P to handle, but he didn't, so could I take care of it..." Okay, I'm over the fact that having a slacker co-worker makes me look majorly productive by comparison. Now I just keep saying, "the amount of crap that I have covered for the last few months BETTER be reflected in my annual increase."

Trudy, sorry your sitch is so sucky. Definitely start looking. You don't need excess stress and BS making you even sicker. Better situation SOON-ma.

DJ, much ~ma to Kevin's Mom.

Hmm. Would MM be as entertaining to the rest of us if he wasn't given such awesome raw material to work with? It's hard to know whether to be sympathetic or thankful...

What ended up happening with that Hava Nagila song, anyway? I remember seeing all the lead-up of "Will it be number 1?" but never saw anything after Christmas saying what actually happened.

I think Hil linked that a while back. Lauren is rather adorable, IMO.

Joe! How could you not remember Joe?

I had stuff to say, but my brain is foggy and I forgets.

Yay! Just got a call from the local eyeglass place, my contact lenses are in. Less than 24 hours after we ordered them. Why can little tiny local business get lenses from wherever they originate to two blocks away from my house in less than a day, and huge national company can't do it in three weeks?

Joe! How could you not remember Joe?

Probably blocked it to save myself from rage-induced mental trauma.