My Favorite Things
Mood:  happy
Now Playing: Give A Little Bit - GooGoo Dolls

I think this is becoming a trend, so here is my contribution.


Yankee Candles - I know there are other candles out there that are as strongly scented, but what can I say? I'm a candle snob. My favorite scent right now is Home Sweet Home, also Clean Cotton is really nice.

Fluffy pillows - lots of them. I'm a total pillow hog.

Warm fluffy blankets - to go with the fluffy pillows, duh!

My children's soft little cheeks - the ones on their face people! Get your minds out of the gutter!

Reservations for dinner - who doesn't like those right?

Be Good to Your Daughters - song by John Mayer, I think it's absolutely true and couldn't agree more.

My Diary of Alicia Keys CD - damn that woman can sing and play the piano. I wish I could sing like that.

Janet Evanovich books - if you haven't read them, you should. You'll laugh your ass off.

George Carlin - ok he's a person, but he's one of my favorite people

Blogs - I must say that blogs are one of my newer favorite things, but I'm so glad I started.

I thing I could probably go on and on and you would eventually quit reading. What are your favorite things?

Christmas Decorations
Mood:  special
Now Playing: White Flag - Dido
I hauled the four giant tubs of Christmas decorations into the house yesterday and started going through all my stuff, just to see what I had and where I might want to put things. This is our first Christmas that we aren't living in an apartment, so we actually get to put lights up on our house. My hubby is beside himself. He stood outside for an hour debating and deciding how he'll decorate the outside.

My son asked if it was Christmas day because of all the Christmas we were putting up. I want to make a paper chain or get an advent calendar so he can count the days until Christmas.

My daughter and I went to Target on Saturday so she could spend the money her Grandpa gave her. She actually went up and down the isles in the toy department and pointed out all the toys she wanted for Christmas. She wants everything for Christmas. If she wasn't three and would actually know that she's not really going to get all that for Christmas, I might feel bad that she would be in for a crushing disappointment.

I'm going to start my baking this weekend since I did manage to get my house in order last weekend.

We had a great turkey day visiting with all our family and the kids totally wore themselves out. My fil visited and had a really good time.

Happy Thanksgiving
Mood:  celebratory
Now Playing: Smells like Thanksgiving
Ethel was fired today.

A moment of silence please for Ethel. She drove me crazy and boggled my mind, but it's a shame she didn't work out. She was a nice lady. I don't think she was even going to say goodbye to me, if I hadn't turned around when I did, she would have just left. Perhaps she wasn't wild about me either. I hope she finds another job soon.

I hope everybody has a good weekend and eats lots of turkey. We're going to my hubby's uncle's house and the fil is visiting, whoopeee! I'm real excited about the fil visiting let me tell ya'. About as excited as I would be about having my hair set on fire.

Yeah, nothing says painfully long weekend like, "honey, my dad's going to visit for Thanksgiving!" If I drink a lot maybe he'll just think I'm really into celebrating.

I'm gonna shop til I drop Friday morning. I did it last year and had a blast! Even though stores were really crowded, people were really nice and helpful. And I got some damn good deals too!

Weekend
Mood:  party time!
Now Playing: TGIF
Ethel's last day will be next Wednesday. Happy Thanksgiving Ethel! Jeez, I thought my boss wouldn't fire her right before the holiday, but it's her perogative.

I hope everybody has a good weekend. I'm going to get my house in shape as my FIL is coming to visit for Turkey Day and I need to start my holiday baking.

Ethel Update - Week #2
Mood:  d'oh
Now Playing: I never really loved you, I just drank too much
Ethel has completed her second week of training and I have become convinced that she knows less than she did when she started. Oy vey! She's giving me a headache. Ok, so she's gotten better at answering the phones, but that's about it. At this rate it'll be six months before she's up to speed.

Ok, enough complaining about poor Ethel. It's all I seem to talk/blog about lately. Probably because she's driving me insane. She's one of those people that if you're having a conversation with somebody else in the same room, she has to say something. Not that I was trying to be rude and exclude her, but holy cow! I was talking about something with my other co-worker and Ethel kept saying stuff that was totally off the subject, but clearly trying to work her way in. Sorry, but I'm 27 and Ethel is like 68, we don't have much in common.

So, anyhoo lots of fun. Getting ready for Thanksgiving. Hopefully hubby's co. will give us another check for a turkey this year. This will be our first Thanksgiving in our house instead of an apartment. We'll also be getting ready to go to Disneyland in the first two weeks of December and then Christmas and New Year's and then my birthday. It seems far away, but it's creeping up on me. I feel like I should be baking or basting something. Maybe wrapping something in foil.

On my drive home I saw somebody had already put their christmas lights up. Please, I haven't even taken my Halloween decorations down yet! I'm so lame, usually my Christmas decorations don't come down until it's almost my birthday . . . in February. Last year though I did manage to get the dead tree out of the house before the 31st. January 31st.

My boss returns from her trip to Hawaii tomorrow, so we'll see what happens with Ethel. I'll be sure to update everyone. Cause I know you're just waitin' around to find out.

Office Update
Mood:  don't ask
Now Playing: I Wanna Be Sedated
OMG! I just don't get it. I spoke with my supervisor this morning, she called from Hawaii to ask how Ethel is doing. I had to tell her, Ethel isn't doing so good. She just doesn't seem to be grasping the concept unfortunately. I've told her things several times and she'll turn right around and do the opposite. It's like working with one of my children!

Forgive me for continually complaining about this, but this is the main issue going on in my life right now. After a few waves in my marriage things seem to have settled down and are on the up swing and hopefully will stay that way. It's exhausting I'm telling you. I think if all us wives, mothers, and working women wrote down everything we do every day, we'd give ourselves heart attacks. Not that stay at home moms have it any easier, I stayed home with my little ones for a year and a half and that was harder than going to work every day. With all due respect to the women that do stay home, I just couldn't do it. I think that has to be one of the hardest jobs and stay at home moms, don't stay at home. I was never home when I wasn't working! All in all I think my children have benefitted from being in daycare and now pre-school, their vocabulary is amazing and both of them are ahead of where they should be for their ages. Of course that could just be good genetics. I'm so modest, I know.

Currently we are debating traveling north to visit the fam for Thanksgiving. Hubby wants to go, he just doesn't want to have to pay for the gas to drive there. We drive a suburban and gas prices being what they are right now in Cali, the expense is truly frightening. We shall see, I would like to see everybody, but traveling like that with small children is draining. Thank goodness for in car DVD players, I love mine and wouldn't want to be without it. Blessed silence is so wonderful while driving. Gives me a chance to actually have a conversation with my hubby about something other than work, the kids, and bills.

You've got some splainin' to do!
Mood:  incredulous
Now Playing: Babalou!
I want to tear my hair out. I'm usually a very patient person. I try to go at a slower pace when training a new employee, cause I've been doing this job for almost 6 years and naturally I'm a lot faster than someone who has never done this before. But when you tell someone something and 5 seconds later you ask them about what you just told them and they give you the deer in the headlights look, it makes me want to bang my head against the wall, repeatedly.

Ethel is a very nice person, aside from the fact that when I'm typing if I make an error, even though I'm backspacing to correct it, she feels the need to correct me. She's almost 70 years old, which makes me feel very bad that I'm bitching about somebody that's old enough to be my grandmother.

But this is driving me nuts. In order for me to do my job, I need Ethel to be doing her job. Ethel needs somebody standing behind her constantly telling her how to do her job. Ethel does not at all look like she's fast approaching 70, nor does she act like it. She doesn't appear to be slow by any means. But I show her how to do something and five minutes later she's asking me how to do it again. Now, please keep in mind that Ethel has been in training for a week already, so something should have sunk in by now. It hasn't and my supervisor (and back up) is going to Hawaii next week for a week and a half. I think I'm going to start drinking now and by next week I won't care if I have to sit in Ethel's lap and hold her hand and do all her work for her.

Pass the tequila!

Yipee!!!!!!!!
Mood:  suave
Now Playing: Nelly
So I submitted my entry to RDD for Pardon the Interuption. It was pretty short. I ended up not having as much time as I wanted and had to sort of type on the fly. I just reread Bubba's entry and went for it. I think it came out pretty good, Bubba made it really easy to continue. I tried to keep it going in the same sort of direction so the last few people will be able to wrap it up easily.

I haven't written fiction in so long it was easier than I remember. I hope everybody enjoys it.

One of My Biggest Pet Peeves
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: Good Charlotte
I hate it, absolutely hate it when people are late and they act like it's no big deal. It just drives me up the wall, like I don't have things that I could be doing other than waiting around for their slow movin' ass to show up?

Ok, who am I kidding? I'm talking about one of my co-workers. He was supposed to be here at 4pm and it is now 4:30pm and he just breezed through the door like he hadn't a care in the world. No "sorry I'm late, I'm a total ass" or nothing! I don't have to pick up my kids until 5:30pm, but that doesn't mean I actually want to wait that long.

I myself can't stand being late and am usually annoyingly early. So naturally I expect everybody else to at the very least be on time or at least call and say that they're running a little late or whatever. Is it just me, or is asking for some common courtesy a little too much?

Ugh!

At Long Last!!!
Mood:  surprised
Now Playing: Whistle for me, won't ya'?
My co-worker that is perpetually late, takes days off for the strangest of reasons (she needed to look for her son's birth certificate), and never does a darn thing unless told to, gave her notice yesterday. This will be her last week here.

She is a very nice lady and really a great and fun person to be around. But she's not getting paid for that. Wonder of wonders, she's getting paid to work. For some unknown reason, my boss just did not want to fire her.

So, a part of me is glad to she her go, cause now some actual work will be getting done and whomever we hire might actually be able to lighten my load just a little bit. But another part of me is bummed that she won't be here any more. She is very funny and very nice to talk to, and has been a really understanding person.

I guess I'll make her a cake and wish her good luck.