Oh Lisah, how sad.
msbelle, any way to talk him into gift cards instead? Even for people who can eat ham, it's not everyone's taste.
I fed off a flowerperson, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.
Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
Jessica - Nov 07, 2013 5:31:29 am PST #11299 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
msbelle - Nov 07, 2013 5:35:52 am PST #11300 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I will try.
Jesse - Nov 07, 2013 5:38:13 am PST #11301 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You can send me the ham, no problem.
FWIW, even The HoneyBaked Ham company sells things that are not ham, so a gift certificate there could do both things. (Although I'm sure the boss likes the idea of rolling up with a truck full of hams and handing them out like Santa.)
Burrell - Nov 07, 2013 5:39:45 am PST #11302 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Very sad, lisah.
We have an everyone buys for everyone Xmas, but it's understood that little gifts are just fine for the various extended family members. Siblings too tend to get smaller gifts. It's really only the kids (my two and their two cousins) who get the big gifts. Oh! And there's a baby on Cody's side, she'll be a big gift magnet in a year or two.
msbelle - Nov 07, 2013 5:41:59 am PST #11303 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Although I'm sure the boss likes the idea of rolling up with a truck full of hams and handing them out like Santa.
Yep, I think that is the idea, since the drivers and foreman get paid by the hour and in the winter the work really slows down. STILL and I cannot emphasize this enough, despite the environment and culture that this is low-level work and they are all somehow scrapping by, the drivers' base pay IS MORE THAN MINE. Uneducated and blue collar does not equal economically down trodden.
msbelle - Nov 07, 2013 5:55:37 am PST #11304 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
everyone is too quiet. did you all miss the part where I do not want to work today?
So 1 of the issues I need help on is at least getting discussion circulating higher than my pay grade. I love that I was just sent this task to do and when I start asking questions, no one knows how to deal with it and there is not any real agreement on steps to take.
Kat - Nov 07, 2013 6:06:09 am PST #11305 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I think you should sing show tunes, msbelle. It would be less quiet and would be not working.
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Hil R. - Nov 07, 2013 6:08:08 am PST #11306 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This is an incredible story. A 5-year-old boy in India gets separated from his older brother in a train station and falls asleep on a train. He wakes up in Calcutta, a long way from home, and has no idea how to get back. Eventually he ends up in an orphanage, and then adopted by an Australian couple. 25 years later, he uses Google Earth and his memories of what his hometown looked like to find where he was from. [link]
msbelle - Nov 07, 2013 6:10:21 am PST #11307 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Valjean, at last, we see each other plain.
Jesse - Nov 07, 2013 6:10:50 am PST #11308 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Holy crap.
I am doing interview followup (because I am super professional) but really need to be doing my job.
ION, Timothy Olyphant was on this week's Mindy Project, if anyone is interest in seeing him try to look like a loser. ( mean, he does look like a loser, but a smoking hot one, still.