Maybe she just wanted the cookies?

She was a very serious lady, so I don't think she was angling for cookies. It was very weird.

That is super weird.

Luckily, my friend can get and hand off my stuff. Christmas is saved!

This does not bode well for the day, I have had one customer so frustrated she was in tears, and she was just trying to set up a login. Customer who just called in started out with "I hate computers, I don't understand them, they frustrate me and I don't want to use them." I can deal with people who are simply confused. The panicked and the belligerently tech-phobic push my coping abilities.

Plus we're so busy they're bringing in lunch. This is supposed to be the slow season! Why are our developers putting out such upsetting products!

I cannot overemphasize what an ass I am: I ordered stuff online to be sent to my old job! The one with the awkward location!

Dude, I did this after it had been a long time since I'd worked there and moved to another state. (I blamed Apple for not being clear about where they were shipping to until after I'd purchased; I think Amazon's checkout workflow for shipping is much better.)

It is time for my annual complaining about our "Holiday Offering" to our maintenance staff. I hate that it is called an "Offering" because that just seems like the wrong word, with weird religious undertones. How about gift?

Not to mention a certain vibe of alms for the poor. Yes, I recall this conversation. Ugh.

Suggest that Maintenance set up an altar, with the most forbidding looking member of the staff standing nearby, ready to pass judgement on the appropriateness of the offering. Suggest that next year's quality of maintenance depends on appeasing the jealous gods.

edit: a bit of fear and trembling always works, too.

Ooh, Kat makes good lemon curd! (Haha, Swype made that Kremlin curd, and when I tried to correct it it was all Lenin curd? Swype apparently has opinions about my politics.)

Sorry to hear about the wtfery, Kat. Hope you get the insurance deal sorted.

Ha, third party shipper.

I am headed into my last week of craziness, two school parties this week and one work one, that we're hosting. But then, break! And it will be a long one, because we're taking off the first week in January for the movie premiere that they filmed at the SO's concerts two summers ago. I have a lot a lot of shit to get done over break, so it won't be particularly restful, but I'm still looking forward to it.

I like the altar idea! That would be great. I just hate the whole process (although I am not opposed to giving small)gifts, and actually have some candy for the woman who vacuums and does the garbage in my office, because she is super nice and I am super messy. Just not this wholesale collection of money- aargh. Every year I am irritated, but I know if I said something people would think I am reading to much into a nice thing that we do, and also, I am sure those people now count on the extra 300- 500 they get, tax free!

Oh, I need hive mind Google fu. There's a motivational gif (yes, I know, but I'm doing a thing) that had the text "You have the same number of hours in the day as Beyonce" but I can't remember where I saw it or figure out how to search for it. Any ideas?