free gobble gobble

Sweet!!!! We are getting free turkeys at work tomorrow!

I've heard about this before where your employer gives you stuff for the holidays. There was once something called bonuses but I've never seen one of those.

I'm lucky to have a job that I like and sometimes love. Even with all the cruddy stuff we have to go through I still love this place. Any place that has nacho day, bake sales, sample sales, free turkeys and free lunch day is an A-OK place with me!

Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

My nephew got it stuck in my head and the other night Zac looked it up. Now I can't stop singing it.

Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

i don't like it!

My memory is horrible, so I need to write down the things I hate.

Words, phrases and other things I detest.

it's like on tv

Here's a story of a young lady....

Around the age of 20 this young lady met a young man. They started dating and YL got pregnant. Young man found out she was pregnant and told her he wanted nothing to do with that. He left them never to be heard from again.

Around the same time YL gets a good job and gets her hair and nails done regularly. Every Friday she'd bring in her going out clothes and at 5pm on the dot she'd change ready for happy hour.

At the age of 24 YL meets another young man. They date and YL becomes pregnant again. This time the young man wants to stick around and be a dad. BUT young man doesn't have a job and has a hard time holding onto a job because all of a sudden the new job isn't what they told him it was going to be.

The baby is born and the young couple decide to move in together. YL has never lived on her own and is excited about moving out. Some might tell her to live in an apartment first and then figure out where to go after that unless you find a great house that you can afford to rent. Our YL wanted a house. A 3 bedroom house with a fenced in yard. During work she spent most of her time looking online and calling to see houses. She finally found a house and moved in with her kids and baby daddy.

Finally it's time to move in and spend the first night. OH NO! The place is haunted! YL and her cousins decide the place is haunted and her oldest son does not want to stay at that house. Oh but wait....YL wants a screen door on one of the doors, another outlet in the kitchen, her walls repainted, another outlet in the bedroom and various other things to be done to the house. The landlord gets so sick of YL's demands that he lets her out of the lease and tells her to move out!

YL finds another house almost immediately. YL then gets all her family to help her move into the new house. The house seems to be nice but the young couple are still having relationship problems. Baby Daddy still doesn't have a decent job and doesn't want to be responsible for his portion of the bills. The relationship fizzles out and YL realizes she can't do this on her own anymore. So she moves back to her parent's house. When asked about breaking the lease YL just shrugs and says she just moved out.

The YL and Baby Daddy are no longer an item. Later we find out that YL put a car in her name for Baby Daddy's use even though Baby Daddy's license is suspended. YL lets Baby Daddy have one day for visitation. Meanwhile, YL started her weekend ritual of going out again on Friday nights. Once again she has mom and dad as instant babysitters.

About a month ago or so another young man friends YL on myspace. They start chatting and decide to go on a date. YL is absolutely crazy about this new guy. He tells her he knows how to treat women because he was raised by a single mom and only has sisters. He also has a young daughter. They go on a couple more dates and all of a sudden YL's facebook and myspace pages are filled with pictures of the happy new couple sitting on each others laps posing for the camera.

Then comes this past weekend. New young man tells YL that he wants to see other women but doesn't want her to see other men. He also untagged himself from all her facebook pictures. Their 2-3 week relationship is over!

Today new young man has reposted the pictures of one of their outings and tagged YL.

YL's life is like a soap opera. At first you feel bad for her because she is so naiive but now you just feel bad that you don't feel bad for her anymore.

already missed

Coming home last night without Bishop was the hardest thing.
He was a wonderful dog.

the world as i see it

-I have the first five books to the Sookie Stackhouse novels!

-I won a gift card at work today! $25 to Apple Store or Barnes and Noble. I wish the card was for Target but oh well. I'll probably take the Barnes and Noble card and buy the next novel in the Sookie series.

-I feel like I'm copying Jenna's posts but mine aren't about sleeping or not sleeping.

-Sleep sounds good right now.

-Spreadsheets are going to make me go blind.

-I like to look at houses, I like to see how houses are designed and how people decide to add on or decorate their space. At the same time I have no desire to work on my own house.

-Lots of people having kids right now. Good for you for having all the sex.

-I love california rolls and soy sauce. No snarky comments about me writing this right after mentioning sex....there was no connection. I don't even know if califonia rolls even have some sort of sexual reference but I'm sure it does.

-I really want a pair of chuck taylor all stars but I think zappos is the only one that has my size and offers free shipping and free returns.

-I think I would be willing to move to Vegas if I could work for Zappos.

-Woke up with a headache this morning because all I could think about was how I forgot to buy a shoe for spring 2010. The shoe is in a March catalog and I probably won't get the shoe delivered until April. Was nervous all day until I finally told my merch buyer about it but she was cool.

-Wondering how I can win more free stuff! I like winning free stuff.

-Keeps thinking how funny facebook is....I talk to more people I went to high school with now than I ever did in high school. I also happen to be friends with the two guys I had the biggest crush on ever. Now they aren't so cute.

-I've been on a Jane Austen kick. I started reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, then I started watching the mini series with Colin Firth (oh how I love Mr. Darcy), then I started listening to the audio version of the real book while at work. I'm almost done with the book but needed more so I started watching Sense and Sensibility. Now I have Zac getting me more audiobooks to listen to while at work and I want to buy the newer dvd of Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley.

-done.

this and that

I posted the pictures of our work pumpkin decorating contest on facebook. I think everyone pretty much waited to the last minute to work on their pumpkins but they turned out good and plus it was fun.

I lost Zac to facebook now. For a guy that has a PS3 he's already addicted to the facebook apps. He said he would have joined it a lot sooner if I had told him there were games.

This morning we had a staff meeting. The conversation centered around a marketing meeting some had attended about selling our items to the 50+ age group. One of the points that was brought up was how seniors are into gardening and to think about including that in the lifestyle aspect or even include gardening items into our catalogs. Our VP(in the 50+ age bracket) said that she got some knee pads for Valentine's Day. I turned to my neighbor, another 20 something, and said "that's kind of kinky" I then had to tell my other neighbor another 20 something. We were all laughing too hard to pay anymore attention. We were pretty sure no one else would get it but the horrible mental image was enough to keep us laughing throughout the day. Maybe her husband is trying to tell her something?