Me too. 
At least I’m first on 3!
Mr Rebo has applied for a driving job that is located only five minutes from the house! The guy posted it on Craigslist, and Mr Rebo was there within 15 minutes! 
:: crossing fingers::
Lili – good luck. Hope the bun can stay in the oven just a little longer!
Ivory – cheers! (See, that guy’s yellow, not blue!)
**Spaz **-- Life (evidently) begins at 30. 
STG – I’m a serial killer! :eek: Well, I could be!
Good morning everyone.
Today is my 24th wedding anniversary. We won’t be doing anything special tonight because, well, tomorrow is MiL’s birthday and hubby had made arrangements to take her out for dinner then. When he asked what I wanted to do for tonight, I told him we’re not going out since we’re going out tomorrow too. I guess that means I’ll cook a nice dinner tonight and call it good.
The nausea has passed, although I seem to have a low grade headache. I hope that passes soon.
Sending sticky thoughts for our Li-Li!
I’m back at work, but not happy to be here. This place is really getting me down, and no amount of “it’ll get better” mantra seems to help me. I’m trying really hard to remain positive, but I’m hitting a couple of little, tiny bumps with the new supervisor. To be fair to her, I’ve been without a supervisor for so long, that I keep forgetting to include her in the loop. I’m doing much better about that, but still.
Also, the workload is still ridiculous and I’m tired of it.
The final straw is that my boss still hasn’t written my performance appraisal. It should have been done NLT 30 NOVEMBER and I’m still waiting on it. It really pisses me off, because I turned my support form in before my deadline, which was 31 October. My new supervisor is asking for my support form for this year, and I don’t even know what the impression of my performance was for LAST year. Ugh, I’m getting more angry as I write this.
I guess I should work, although I am very highly unmotivated to do so.
hugs.
{{{{{MMP}}}}}
Today was a rough day. I saw my MIL cry, which was something I simply did not think possible. It speaks volumes about what a wonderful person hubby’s grandmother was, that a room full of women (aged from 15 to 85) would all sit and quietly weep as they pray for her. God bless her and keep her in peace.
I agree with Dotty {{{ Everyone}}}
Cheery thoughts…cheery thoughts…hmmmm I had a good day at work today (for once) I was actually able to accomplish a bunch of things. A good friend of mine just found out she is having twins when she went for her scan ( Sticky thoughts to TNC 2.0)…it is my sisters birthday in a few days and she will always be older than me :D…dunno if it helped anyone else but it made my day a little brighter.
Good luck with the job hunt pugs
Aww. {{{Dotty and family}}}
{{{Soapy}}} and {{{taxi}}}
Happy Anniversary, Taters! and hugs for your job situation, too.
A joke to cheer this place up?
An Amish boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and back together again.
The boy asked his father, “What is this, father?”
The father (never having seen an elevator) responded, “Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don’t know what it is.”
While the boy and his father watched wide-eyed, an old lady, limping slightly with a cane, slowly walked up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady walked between them and into a small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched as small circles of light with numbers above the wall lit up. They continued to watch with fascination as the circles then lit up in the reverse direction.
When the walls opened again and out walked a beautiful 24-year-old woman, the man turns to his son and said, “Go get your Mother.”
Keeping my fingers crossed for Mr. Rebo.
Hugs to **Soapy, taxi, Dotty **and family. It seems like a good many of us are hitting rough patches quite often lately.
Well, back to what must be faced here at work.
Happy Taterversary!!!
Sticky, sticky, lil li-li tot!
Hugs back to everyone.
Found out today that there were quite a few layoffs last week. We are legion. Amazingly, I have heard from four old coworkers, one of whom has simply unbelievable contacts. We are having lunch Friday.
Went to the Endo for an ultrasound and blood work this morning. They are aware my insurance ends on the 31st and that I’ll be electing Cobra for at least the month of February so they are speeding things along. Go back on Friday for results.
Tupug
Well I’ve got a somewhat busy day ahead of me. I’ve had breakfast (chocolate muffin! Yay!) while chatting on Facebook. With three guys! Admittedly, two of them are dopers, but that’s not the point. … where was I going with this? Oh right.
So I have class at noon (ugh), a meeting with another teacher right after that to plan out one my classes (it’s basically an independent study at this point), the Art Department open house after that, where hopefully I’ll manage to grab another teacher to find out his office hours so I can get my last unit set up (I need ONE UNIT. ONE. Arggghhh!)
Then I have another class tonight. Actually I think we’re not meeting tonight, but I don’t quite remember so…
Just completed my first classes today. Looks like a promising group of students. I remain optimistic. The nausea, headache and disappearing voice made class interesting. Teaching and really nice conversation helps me forget about the blues, for a bit.
Baby 2.0 has calmed down. Baby 1.0 isn’t asleep and is figuring out how to climb out of his crib. I guess the next stage is getting him a bed and locking the door.
We have just had merry hijinks trying to consolidate Gnat’s prescriptions, but I think they’re okay now, after several hours on the phone with different pharmacies, and me standing in lineups a lot.
((((Dotty and family))))
Sorry everyone is feeling crappy today.
Hee! At least that made me smile.
LiLi, I’ve forgotten… when is tinyninjachef 2.0 due?
Happy Taterversary!!
{{**Dotty **and family}}
{{MMP}} Is it contagious? It seems like we’re all going through rough patches right now, for a lot of different reasons. The only thing we have in common is the MMP… :dubious:
Had a trip to the dentist today. The good news is that all my teefies are doing OK and all that’s wrong is I have one cracked filling.
The really cool thing is the dentist is in the same building, so it’s just a quick elevator ride down and pop across the courtyard to get to them. No more 45-minute long cross-town bus rides!
Speaking of prescriptions, DH needs to get his butt in gear and transfer his prescriptions today as he’s out of meds. Don’t know why, but he’s bad at keeping up with those things.
Little Lissar 2.0 is due March 22nd. Two months, although I’d rather like early March. Not January or February, early March. Hear that, kiddo?
Right. I am going to do something productive. Right.
Yes. Right now.
Howdy Y’all! One down and four to go! Actually it was pretty good today and went by quick. YAY!
Sticky thoughts to LiLi!
A dumb joke site for anybody who needs it.
Dindin tonight is beast stew and corn bread. It’s so nice to pull sump’n out of the freezer to thaw and heat.
Ok, off to do other stuff.
Later Y’all!
No, LiLi, the next stage is duct tape! You’re welcome.
Home, tired, aggravated. I’m trying like crazy to get my work done so that I don’t have to do weekends or late days. And I could do it, too, if I didn’t keep getting emails asking me what I’m doing. What’s even more aggravating is they want answers I can’t give.
I can only talk in general terms, but in order to do the first part of this project, we had to make a LOT of assumptions, since we just flat-out don’t know certain information. Which, to my mind, makes our results automatically suspect and not to be taken as Gospel. However, my team lead thinks the results are, in fact, indicative of reality, so we should base round 2 on that reality. And she can’t seem to wrap her head around my reluctance to say “This is what will happen” or even “This is what *might *happen.” The answer I want to give is “If our original assumptions line up in any way at all with reality and this happens in accordance with our logic, then it might be possible for the next event to be XXX, maybe, under exactly the right circumstances, assuming the actors in that event think exactly as I did when I came up with this answer.”
For some reason, they aren’t too crazy about that answer. And they refuse to say that there’s no way to give an answer without more data. Which we don’t have and may never get. And I’ve been saying from the very beginning that there’s no way we can do valid analysis based on pulling assumptions out of our collective asses.
**tarra **- maybe we should both drop our retirement papers and get new jobs with matching blue vests! :eek: :eek: :eek:
Teriyaki poke chops for supper, but I think it’s just daughter and me. SIL is working till 9 and **FCD **has to appear at some work-related reception, so he won’t be hungry when he finally drags himself home. I’ve got a coupla extra chops - anyone wanna come to supper tonight?
I can has Firday??
Hmmmm… I’ve been slacking on this week’s MMP, haven’t I? We have a new guy on the team, and I’ve been walking him through some of the stuff I’ve been doing (or rather, the stuff I’m paid to do… in reality, what I’ve been doing lately is surfing the web for 8 hours a day, since they haven’t officially kicked off my next project yet and my prep work is 99% complete).
Anyhoo, glad to hear the little one has settled down, LiLi. I guess it’s my fault for joking about the fact that hopefully this one would come out on his own, instead of getting dragged out kicking and screaming like his older brother. 
Thinking very very very sticky thoughts.
Hugs for all the blue people (errr… blue as in sad, as opposed to blue as in Avatar). I always get the blues this time of year… I think it’s something in the air, or maybe the lack of sunshine. Hope things get better.
gotti, that cappuccino chocolate chip muffins sounds scrumptious. I think I might have to cobble together a similar recipe when I get home tonight, just so I can have one warm from the oven too.
Oh, and Happy Tatersversary!
**Taters **- forgot to mention - we got the word today that as of April 25, we are no longer NSPS. We’ll be on a kinda-sorta pass-fail, and there was something about being rated 1 thru 3 on several criteria, and something else about getting QSIs. Not that that’ll affect me. I’m step 10. I’m stepped out.