Thanks, Strix. I'm just so damned impatient to get on with it.

Ze mulch is finally gone! Only took two weeks.

After taking a closer look at the "unclaimed property" letter, I realized that it wasn't even for my current electric company. I haven't had PSE&G since I moved from Union County four years ago.

Now we're into holiday season planning, and now I'm caught in the middle of an ED who doesn't trust the DD to do her job, and so is doing it for her, and I'm having mini-meetings with both of them individually and trying to steer the madness without actually calling him on his BS. Dude, this is her job. I understand you don't trust her, but if that's the case, fire her. Otherwise step back and see how she does. She doesn't have awful ideas. And if she f's it up, well, let her go. I know it's a huge risk, which leads back to letting her go now.

I managed to steer a public meeting away from his cray-cray and into a place that everyone seemed happy with, including me and the DD, and then stood firm in a private meeting that while his one idea was exciting and I'd already made plans to accomodate it, I didn't have the time to personally implement it, and that we'd let the DD arrange for a designer to handle it. He offered up his own services.

Smile and nod.

Someone give me a banana.

Timelies all!

Hugs for all who want them.

Today is a late day for me at work, so I'm in from 1-9:30pm. I had lunch with a very old friend and have enough deelish leftovers for my dinner tonight. Plus my dude sent me birthday flowers, so my office looks and smells beautiful.

I got a shitload of birthday wishes on FB, so no no need to clutter natter up with more, BTW. I'm having a very nice day!

well the news is that it was no one event, they fired her for cumulative issues. She had been written up a lot of time, but then again, in the year I was there I was written up twice for less than truthful reasons.

I might need a Do Not Feed the Drama Llama sign.

My mother is a notoriously bad speller, though she has always read a lot and does crossword puzzles regularly. She just can't keep what vowel goes where straight, especially since they all often sound like each other. It pleases her no end that in her genealogical research she's found that our ancestors were not content to go around spelling their name one way all the time.

My meeting this morning was to inform the department that our admin was laid off. Which is a bummer, and confusing, because it came the same day that we were told the company exceeded their revenue plan and our department was important to that. Also, she was on the other side of the cubicle wall from me and now it's all eerily quiet over there.

Juliebird, you should claim the unclaimed property. You must not have gotten notified when you got a deposit back or something, but that's still your money, but it won't be if it clears the threshold of time when the state can take it. When I've had to do that here, it's been through the state controller's office, I think?

What pisses me off is that I think I'll make the cutoff date in time to get reimbursed, but this is one of those instances where my neighbor didn't give me this mail until halfway through the due date. We share a mailbox, and they always get home before me. But if I got a PO box, I'd be terrible about checking it. Maybe I should change my mailing address to my work address.

It sucks. I get so little mail because most of my bills are online paperless. It feels like too late to ask them to leave my shit in the mailbox.

But, yeah, I claimed that money. We'll see if it takes another four years to get to me.

msbelle - I like my schadenfreude on sourdough toast with a bit of butter. And wine.

Matt's idea is incredibly funny.

Julie, yes get that property ASAP.

If you change your mailing address to your work address with the post office, you will not be able to change it with forwarding to a new address in the future, since your work address is a business address. I had this issue with my Toledo apartment.

Flea, I'd say talk all you want about the dad drama (which...good lord) just not in front of her?

Yuuuup. There are going to be many whispered side conversations, I am Certain.

Speaking of gossip (and I also support you in your work gossiping, msbelle!), remember the wedding invitation I just got? My mother just told me the groom was going to ask me out if he didn't start dating the woman he's now married to. Hilarious! We have never spent any time together, but have met a bunch. But among other things, he is too short for me!

Hey msbelle, do you want any of the old McCormick green top spice jars? I took several from my grandmother's, in case you want them.