I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.

Riley ,'Lessons'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

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.


Liese S. - Aug 31, 2011 6:40:11 am PDT #23289 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I realized something that's been bugging me about FlyLady, and why I will never do the shiny sink thing - she assumes that women get no help housecleaning from their partners.

Yeah, there's lots of stuff that bug me about her, and that's one of them for sure.

However, I do have to say, I woke up this morning and went to get my breakfast (healthier, because I have to report it to Noom) and I started looking around to see where I could eat it, and what do you know, my dining room table was clear! It's my hotspot I cleared off yesterday. I ate at my table, y'all. Insane.

Today I am waiting until Noom tells me to go walking at 5, because it yelled at me for two days when I went early on Monday. Also because I still have the blisters from Monday. I have to try a different pair of shoes today. The ones I used Monday were my running shoes, but all normal people shoes come up too high on the heel for me. My foot is apparently not like other people's feet.

Is it wrong that the reason I want to go into work today is that I have a brownie cupcake in my desk drawer?

So not wrong. At one point in the tech heyday, my SO had a contracting gig where he was basically invaluable to this large insurance company in downtown Indianapolis. You can see his building when they pan the city during Colts games coverage. Anyway, he was really bad about attendance there, because there wasn't really anything they could do about it and because he was getting the work done. So he had this one particular friend who would call him up and tempt him away from work to go hang out in the Nashville music stores or whatever.

So his coworker eventually put him on the Twinkie plan. If he came into work on time and stayed the whole day, she gave him a twinkie the next day. It totally worked. She's in HR now.


Scrappy - Aug 31, 2011 6:45:09 am PDT #23290 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Today there is going to be a party because it is my 10th anniversary here. It kinda freaks my shit out a little because I have never stayed on any job nearly this long. There is going to be a party and I am getting an iPad, which will go a LONG way to mitigate my freaked-out shit.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 31, 2011 6:46:22 am PDT #23291 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I'd like to have a vaguely sane romantic relationship before I die, but I suspect that might require me to have some kind of fundamentally transformative experience that I wouldn't enjoy very much.

You and me both, Strega. I console myself that I'm fairly content with my own company, so someone else's is an optional extra rather than a necessity.


msbelle - Aug 31, 2011 6:47:09 am PDT #23292 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I remember when you got THAT JOB!!!


sumi - Aug 31, 2011 6:55:03 am PDT #23293 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

We bad a. couple of brownouts this morning & now my computer doesn' t know me. Our network recognizes me but so it makes no sense.


Scrappy - Aug 31, 2011 6:55:27 am PDT #23294 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I have been a buffista MORE THAN A DECADE!!!!!!!!


Sophia Brooks - Aug 31, 2011 6:56:40 am PDT #23295 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I remember when you got THAT JOB!!!

ME TOO!!!! And I thought it was fairly recent!


Gudanov - Aug 31, 2011 6:59:21 am PDT #23296 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Today there is going to be a party because it is my 10th anniversary here.

In May I got my company's 10th anniversary gift delivered in the mail. One week after I was laid off. It's funny now.


Kathy A - Aug 31, 2011 7:00:48 am PDT #23297 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Today there is going to be a party because it is my 10th anniversary here. It kinda freaks my shit out a little because I have never stayed on any job nearly this long. There is going to be a party and I am getting an iPad, which will go a LONG way to mitigate my freaked-out shit.

Congrats!

If they don't lay me off in the meantime, I'll be having my 20 year anniversary in 15 months. But I won't be getting anything as nice as an iPad, that's for sure. The gifts catalog has some okay stuff in it, but nothing that pricey.


Toddson - Aug 31, 2011 7:03:46 am PDT #23298 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

heh ... talking about going to work for snacks reminded me of a story in the paper the other day. Seemingly, with a hurricane bearing down on us, people stocked up on junk food (no worries about twinkies going bad!). The paper described it "as if Mr. Hyde had gone shopping and Dr. Jekyll had to fix breakfast" (or words to that effect).