Friday, October 30, 2009

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?

Sunday, October 11, 2009

the end to a good week


This past week has been kind of iffy. We have both been on edge for completely different reasons and we were already questioning how this new schedule of Zac's would work out.

Well it worked out fine. We've had weekends before but now we know this is somewhat more of a regular thing. Friday we went out for dinner on University and decided on a thai restaurant. We decided to eat outside because the nights are absolutely gorgeous. So as we sat up on the 2nd floor above all the noise and traffic, we ate under the stars and the twinkling lights of the patio. While we were eating a wine tasting was also going on. As part of the wine tasting there was a guitar and trumpet player adding to the ambiance. We declined taking part of the wine tasting instead we ordered a mojito and I got a beer. Originally I was going to get a beer similar to Stella Artois but then the waitress told me all they had was a 40 oz. Yeah no thank you! So instead I went with my next option....Tiger! Rarrr.....

Saturday we went to Tucson Meet Yourself. I guess this thing has been going on for a while and I never even knew about it until a couple years ago. The festival is cleverly nicknamed "Tucson Eat Yourself" and that would be most accurate. We went for lunch and lunch is what we found. We stopped at the Greek booth for some gyro and chicken something. We went to the Vietnamese booth for cinnamon tea (awesome) and green tea. We bought roasted corn and covered it in butter, chile powder and various other things I could get on it. Our next stop was Indian frybread with powdered sugar and one taco de carne asada. Our last stops included fried bananas(?) and something else from the Vietnamese stand that was by far the greatest find of the festival. I'm kicking myself because I can't remember the name of it but beside the name on the menu they called it their version of an eegee. The tasty dessert included shaved ice, diced pineapple, other chopped up fruit, something yogurty, boba pearls and who knows what else but it was good! And Zac got a honeydew boba. We left quite satisfied!

The rest of Saturday and Sunday was left to Zac studying while I did laundry and cleaned some. We went out for a few more meals since we don't believe in buying groceries at the minute. We watched our netflix. I put up the Halloween decorations and got out the brush and bulk materials for our pick up. The past couple hours I watched a movie in the bedroom now that we finally moved our old tv in after a month of just sitting on the living room floor.

Now it's time for bed and I'm writing this post as my uber geek of a husband is playing video games with his headset on and shouting at his uncle about something called a ninpo or a nympho.

G'night all!

Friday, October 9, 2009

work acceptable margaritas


yesterday i got phone call while at work from another co-worker asking if i wanted a margarita. i had been told earlier about these so-called margaritas and so i went over to get one.

one of the ladies brought in oranges, peeled it and stuffed saladitos inside it. i've had these before and usually i eat lemons with saladitos but it was so funny and cute to see a group of 4 ladies taking an afternoon break with their "margarita" treat. it's nice to pretend.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

single ladies

you love beyonce. you love single ladies. you love watching guys dance to it. first video is from glee and the dancing starts around the 2:30 mark. second clip is the best one i could copy from the snl skit with justin timberlake.




Tuesday, October 6, 2009

i should write songs






For the longest time I thought she was singing "I pray for circle k." I knew it was wrong because honestly why would people pray for a convenience store? Today I heard the song while at work and I finally decided to look up what she's really saying.

Monday, October 5, 2009

call me that again and we'll see how you like it when I rip your throat out

As if I haven't bored you with enough of my pet peeves, here's another one. I hate it when people around my age call me honey, sweetie, or dear. Only woman in their 40's to death can call me those names.

What I hate even more than that is when creepy vendor men call me honey, sweetie or DOLLFACE. Ugh!!!!!!! Today I had to talk to one of my vendors and he wants his orders. To quote him "we have hit the chaos stage". Then he closes the conversation with "well thanks for doing this dollface"

I replied with "ummm yeah...no problem...bye....click".

What I really wanted to say was "Dollface? Are you serious? You perv....Don't call me dollface! For that I'm not sending you any orders".

It really irks me when I have to deal with some of these old school vendors. It's like the guys went to a used car salesman school and learned how to schmooze. Bleh.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

going batty

The other day one of the merch buyers showed me this. This pair was sent to the photographer and when the photographer opened the box....surprise!!!!!

The poor bat was dead and the rumor goes that this is a fruit bat and it might have thought the shoe was a banana.

Poor little guy.