The lady from the credit union called me back. She said the delay was because of all the different people she had to talk to about how co-signing works and their policy. "A co-signer can not be used to offset credit or financial debt to income data". So there would be no point. Then we talked credit scores. She looked up my score from the last time I had it pulled at the credit union in 2012 and it is too low (shocker, I mean, duh).

I'll talk to some others, including Nanita's cousin, and see what is possible elsewhere.

Go msbelle!

I don't understand work sometimes. I thought my boss was going to lead a certain discussion in our staff meeting on Monday. We have monthly rotation of facilitation, and it is my one coworker's turn this month. So how am I now in charge of this discussion??? I need to see it as an opportunity to work on something I actually do need to work on.

Lunch: I have leftover chili warming in my desktop Crock-pot. I want to run to the store to get cheddar, sour cream, and Fritos to go with it, because that sounds delicious (and my chili, while tasty, is extremely basic. Literally ground beef, chili powder, and beef bouillon. And I like it all plain like that, but I've eaten it for three meals already, time to garnish). We'll see if I can pull that off.

Halfway through my self-evaluation! Stuck on Job Performance Areas Needing Attention. Really want to say "Tamara is awesome, maybe she can work on being awesomer but mostly just keep it up". Then I've got Goals & Objectives, that'll be challenging. Doesn't help that I can't find my actual Performance Appraisal from last year, only my self-eval - we do our self-evaluations and give them to our manager who writes up her appraisal maybe using what we gave her, maybe not so it would probably be a good thing to consult last year's appraisal. Oh well.

We were doing the rotating facilitator thing for our department meetings for a while. Since we meet without the management team, we all decided that we don't need a facilitator, just someone to take notes, so we rotate that. However, our manager seems to think we do need a facilitator so now we have a permanent facilitator. It's weird.

How does the desktop crock-pot work? I ask because I have tried to use a big crock-pot to heat things at work, and they have not actually gotten hot by lunch time. But again, that was a big crock and a full recipe, for pot-luck purposes.

It's a small crock-pot and it says right up front that it will not get hot enough to cook, but if I put some leftover soup or chili in in the morning, it's a good eating temperature by lunch. I like it better than heating up in the microwave although I'm not sure I could really say why. It is certainly nice to smell something appetizing all morning while whatever it is warms up.

Came up with some goals and objectives. Still stuck on Areas Needing Attention.

Lunch: Popeye's chicken fingers. I give myself one fast-food lunch a week, the rest are salads.

Zenkitty, Ouch, re:your sister. At least it's a nice sunny day to be stuck here?

It's a small crock-pot and it says right up front that it will not get hot enough to cook, but if I put some leftover soup or chili in in the morning, it's a good eating temperature by lunch

Yeah, when I tried the big one, it didn't get to a good eating temperature by lunch, starting from cold in the morning.

It is certainly nice to smell something appetizing all morning while whatever it is warms up.

...And this makes me realize it would be a nightmare for me! I would have lunch at 10:30.

So...what's for lunch?

Boss is bringing something back from MacDonald's for me.

The only reason I don't eat lunch at 10:30 is because I drink coffee from 7-8 and a whole pot of tea from 9:30 or so to (going by today) 11:45. Sometimes with cookies. In the vein of "just so you know it's tea, here are your cookies".

Can't actually smell my chili today, come to think about it.