Mumping for Dollars (or writing an MMPOP when you have no ideas)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Once again I’m annoyed at myself for not getting stuff done. But I’m doing something about it! I uninstalled the game that kept distracting me for hours on end and to prevent me from moving to something else, I uninstalled the Windows games. And with Leechblock on Firefox keeping me from spending all day there, the only distraction is Internet Explorer (aka, the bastard child of browsers) and copious amounts of reading material on my computer, which I’m not likely to go to because I can’t excuse it saying ‘oh, I’ll just read for fifteen minutes’

I think part of it is also PMS, because I’m always really unmotivated for a day or two.

But I’m still kind of screwed because I have something halfway due in… half an hour that’s not done and I have a bunch of work due tomorrow that’s not even started.

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Happy Doggio Day!

I shouldn’t go to sleep, I shouldn’t go to shlheep, I shouldzzz…

The sun was out today for about five minutes - the way the whole class jumped and stared at the window, you would have thought we’re all vampires. Or maybe sunflowers. I’ll do some work on my metaphors when I wake up, ok?

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Seven inches today and still snowing…

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOGGIO!!!

The entire state of MD is now under blizzard alert - this is because the snow is blowing fiercely and visibility is near zero at times. We’re holding up okay, but boy does this wear on you - stress to the max. We do have plenty of food, though, and are warm enough. ::knocks on wood three times::

Hope everyone else is staying safe and warm. Sending good thoughts out to all.

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Happy Birfday, doggio!

Wonderful news, dotty!

Good job, bobbio!

I’d get the pooch to the vet, taters. Dogs will try to hide that they aren’t well. To me that’s more likely than depression. But IANAV.

RIGS, the hell with the snow…did you feel the earthquake??? :eek: My boy child and his girl are in Chicago right now. I sent him an e-mail but no response yet.

moooom, that’s a purty picture.

I am supposed to be writing responses for interview questions beginning wth “tell me about yourself.” :stuck_out_tongue: Don Juanna.

Tupug

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Happy Birthday doggio

Paths are lethal in StupidParis which makes the long walk home trecherous when public transport was being a beee-yotch aka not running to time or route to go along with the inclement weather aka 0.5 inches of snow :rolleyes:

urgh. Home. Warm. Thankful I am not in the North Eastern United States right now

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The snow has stopped! :eek: Dunno of it’s the end or if there’s more to come, but I just let Bernie out and while it was blowing, nothing was falling. <fingers crossed>

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Here, too. I took a video - I’ll post the link when I get it uploaded

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stills

video # 1

video # 2

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<AHEM> CLEARING THROAT <AHEM>

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HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR DDDOOOGGGIIIOOO!!!
HAAAPPPYYY BIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!!
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Howdy Y’all! Two down and three to go. Still no snow. :smiley:

Nuttin’ much else to report. Just another day at the salt mines.

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and because I can, kitteh pics

eta I already wished db a h.b. last night on fb. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Happy Birthday Doggio!

I am in an extremely irritable, pissy mood today. Shit at work pissing me off; what else is new?:rolleyes: I’m fucking tired of working my goddamn ass off, being “teased” about not having enough work to do, and never, never, never, never being able to get caught up on all my back burner stuff because I keep getting shit dumped on me. I’m sick of it and I’m seriously looking to get out. As soon as I find something in the listings around here, I’m applying for it and any other jobs I’ll qualify for.

The final kicker? I still haven’t received my performance review. It’s way past overdue. If my boss doesn’t complete it this week, I’m screwed out of any kind of performance award as he will have been late by more than 90 days. Tomorrow is my last day at work before I see him again on March 1st. He’s going on leave for two weeks starting this weekend…out of country.

I asked him yet again on Monday where it was and his words were, “this week; it’ll get done this week”. I flat out told him I’d been hearing that since November and it didn’t mean anything to me anymore.

So, my attitude about this place is in the tank. I’m tired of working my ass off for nothing; nada, zilch. I’m tired of having to do other departments’ work because they are too fucking stupid and ineffectual to do it, and I’m tired of fucking stupid nutroll taskers from our regional office. They can stuff something very large, pokey and uncomfortable up their asses as far as I’m concerned.

I so fucking want out of here. It’s not improving, it’s getting worse, and I can’t take it anymore.

Oh, and my new boss nagged me once again about filling out my work log.

WTF! I’m a goddamn 45, almost 46 year old woman who is a GS-11. I’m not a goddamn GS-3 clerk typist who needs to be told every fucking task every step of the way!

Ugggh!

I am so sorry. It’s all just coming out of me. I’ll shut up.

Oh, the dog is better. He was back to his usual self last night.

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Our driveway is cleared!!! <much happy dancing> This guy and his nephew had a snowblower and a shovel. It took them maybe 45 minutes? We paid them the $60 they asked plus $10, and we told them next time it snows more than a couple of inches, they should come back. We forgot to ask for their phone number…

Daughter just called - they’re somewhere in Georgia. Boy are they in for a rude awakening when they get back! hehehe

Did I mention that the oatmeal cookies I baked were very yum? They are. :smiley:

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{{Taters}} Is the performance eval issue something you can escalate up a level to your manager’s manager? That’s total bullshit, to put it bluntly. I’d have been banging down HR’s door after the first month, let alone after three.

(There are three things you don’t mess with if you want to stay on my good side - my work, my food and my money… performance evals hit two out of the big three)

In my company, they automatically send a note to the next person up the food chain if a supervisor fails to fill out the evals by a specific date. Apparently, the delinquent managers get dinged on their bonus payouts too, since one of the compulsory elements of their bonus is ensuring they’ve filled out an eval for all of their direct reports. Needless to say, everyone here takes the deadline for evals VERY seriously.

Thanks for the pix, rosie! I needed a kitteh fix, and that totally hit the spot.

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{{{Taters}}}. Just damn! Shall we cross appropriate/inappropriate appendages that you find another position soon?

I have been told I’m bossy. Moi bossy? Just because I ever so gently hinted that since we’re having some folks over for lunch after church on Sunday that perhaps somebody who can make a dang good cheesecake should make one bein’ as it is Valentine’s Day and therefore a special occasion. Ok, what I said was that all the ingredients to make a cheesecake would be in stock come Saturday mornin’ and that cheesecake makin’ should commence while I’m at work. Still, BOSSY???. Why, I’m only thinkin’ of our guests!

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Yeah, I think it’s obvious I’ve reached my “up to here” point. I’m not feeling at all professional or energetic and I just don’t give a damn anymore. This is not good for me or my organization.

Mahna, it is to laugh. My rater is in the military. Next higher up, (and my rater’s boss) in the chain of command is my senior rater. Approaching my senior rater would go over like a huuuuuge turd in a punchbowl. It is “just not done”. My senior rater is part of the command group. This would be a huge faux pax and make me a lot enemies.

Evals are supposed be taken seriously around here. Those who fall under NSPS do have their evals taken seriously. I’m still under the old system. Under the old eval system, you don’t have an electronic box pinging you to write your part of an eval.

Yes, all those responsible for writing evaluations are supposed to have that annotated on their performance standards. However, military do not receive bonuses. It’s no sweat off their noses if they’re late with a civilian rating. Oh, they might get “chewed” a little, but nothing really happens to them.

My boss, for all of his “big talk” about how he was going to “take care of me and my co-worker” has made it perfectly clear to me what he thinks of mine and my co-worker’s contributions for the last rating period. It goes without saying. I am so angry at him right now, that I won’t even talk to him. If I do, I’m going to lose it, and I refuse to do that. I’m expected to meet all my suspsenses and I bust my ass to do so; I expect the same courtesy from him.

The best thing for me is to move on. As soon as I find something, I’m out of here. It might take a good while, but this is the final straw.

I gave up a lot in the last rating period. A lot of time, a lot sleep and gave 150 percent to the job. No more. I’m not doing anything more than what is required of me; period. This hurts to write, because I’m not usually that kind of employee.

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Ok, God. I just called the hair place. I HATE my hair. I have now washed, conditioned, air-dryed and flat-ironed it and it looks like shit. There are no layers (I asked for layers) and it’s essentially a page boy–I like look the Sherwin-Williams paint boy.

I hate this. And now I’m all frazzled about do I tip her after she fixes it and I don’t want her to go even short on the overall length, but dayum, can’t she do something!?

I go at 0545 for a dry cut–to shorten the top layer. And I resent that I’m the one who feels embarrassed and awkward about this. Gah.
Sorry, no room or time for anyone else’s drama, but I will have time later.
Taters–that sucks. I’m sorry. :frowning:

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rigs if your hair person messed up, she should fix it. IMO, no tip. Further IMO she should fix it free but that probably ain’t gonna happen, right? BTW I don’t think it’s shallow to worry about it. After all, unless you are planning on taking up wearing hats at all times, your hair is sump’n everybody sees.

I just took some Tylenol PM cause I’m feelin’ all sniffly. I do not want a cold. I forbid it. Hey, if I can threaten the weather, I can threaten rhinoviruses (virii?) right? :smiley:

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There is a freaking blizzard warning on for the Blue Ridge tonight. A blizzard. It’s illegally cold again and the wind is brutal.

Duke plays UNC tonight. Both males in the apartment are UNC fans. I favor the Dark Blue Evil One. Oh, this will be fun, especially since UNC has decided to suck this year. :smiley:

HAPPY DOGGIO DAY!

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I’ve got a feeling my daughter will return to 2 tanks full of dead fishies. She put in a 4-day feeder before she left, knowing her team teachers would take care of the tanks. Except no one has been in the school since Thursday. So unless one of them lives close enough and has a key, the fishies will probably not make it. Including a gorgeous snowflake eel… :frowning:

No word yet on work for me tomorrow. At a minimum, it’ll be a late opening. But if a plow doesn’t come thru our neighborhood, I won’t be able to get out anyway. We shall see.

Back to my knitting needles.