I'm on vacation this week and it is day four of the staycation and I have so many things to do around the house that I am actually pining for those crazy hazy days at the 'Fern (the affectionate term me and my coworkers have dubbed my company).
On the agenda today - - rip out the upstairs hall and stairs carpet. Now, many of you will be impressed that the single woman who works and goes to school is also so handy around the house. Alas (yea, I said "Alas"), you would be wrong to be impressed. I am like the male species that starts a project and then doesn't finish it.
I guess is shouldn't say that men don't finish projects because I am a little bit of a feminist and I believe that we shouldn't put gendered labels on people and women are just as able to do the same things as men and who says that pulling up carpet is a man's job and a woman can't slap a guy on the butt....aw shoot, I've gone off topic. Tsk, tsk, just like a woman.... :)
Anyway, I was saying that you shouldn't be impressed with the fact that I am ripping up the carpet because it is a project that has been in motion for over 10 months. First, I pulled the carpet from my bedroom. Thought it would only take me a few hours and it took over 10 hours (the glee of uncovering hardwood floors wore off about hour 3) and after that room was done it was another three months before I tackled the guestroom. So now the impressive handyman that is me will get the hall and stairs done and when my friends and family come a-visiting I will boast and brag about how I rock and women rule!
Oh (again slightly off subject), why when people ask where you are going for vacation and you reply that you are staying home do they have that underlying pitying voice when they say "oh that's nice too"? Too funny.
Here's to Grandma!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Happy Anniversary
Today is the 21st Anniversary of my friend Marianne and her husband. They are going to have a romantic dinner out at a fancy schmancy restaurant in NYC. They are going to spend quality time together luxuriating in each other and their shared years of intimacy. They will share a great meal, great conversation,...okay I cant go on with this charade. The dinner will be in NYC after that all that I have written before is garbage. Ain't love grand?!
I, myself was married for almost 13 years and understand how hard it is to maintain that type of commitment. It takes hard work, lots of love, and the ability and patience to not kill each other.
I wish both Marianne and Carmine many more years of acrimony...I mean matrimony! Here's to Grandma!
I, myself was married for almost 13 years and understand how hard it is to maintain that type of commitment. It takes hard work, lots of love, and the ability and patience to not kill each other.
I wish both Marianne and Carmine many more years of acrimony...I mean matrimony! Here's to Grandma!
Monday, September 19, 2011
Monday Blahs
What's worse than a Monday morning workday? Having to work the Monday that you are supposed to be off! Well since I was peeved that I had to work, I tried to make myself feel better by trying to dress especially pretty... I know, I know, but giving in to vanity sometimes helps to soothe the soul.
Spent the morning helping a coworker learn a new system, checking on my competition (not other women, mind you but other retailers), eating a sandwich for lunch, doing sales projections, eating a sandwich for
lunch, laying out a ad, eating half a sandwich mid afternoon, and discussing the Emmy's with my coworker Marianne. Who's got it better than me!? :-)
A little bit about my coworker Marianne. She and I have been friends for almost 12years now and she is my coworker/close friend/fake sister/therapist/co-conspirator. We have been accused of being attached at the hip, too close, and for those who just don't get it - lesbians. We are just great friends and have so much fun together at work and getting into trouble after work hours. So you will often see her name as I blog. Today she was doing the "dance of joy" because of some news that I cannot post here but for those of you who do not know, the 'dance of joy" goes a little like this: whilst you are sitting prim and proper in your seat you suddenly without warning break into either the full-on head toss while gesturing wildly with your hand or you suddenly break out the chair dance version of the Cabbage Patch. Either one will make your coworker (me, in this instance) laugh so hard that coffee comes snorting out of your nose.
My real sister, Maleeka, is (if I can use a really sophomoric term) my best friend. She is hysterically funny, a great Mom, and a selfless giver of her time and energy. Growing up it was just me, my sister and my mother and even though she is four years older than me (alright, I'm lying....I'm four years older than her) we were and are still very close.
Another name that you may see often as I post, is Raul. He is another coworker and I like to call him fake nephew. He is quite younger than most of us in the office but is mature beyond is age. Today he sent me a link to a US World article that states that women make up 40% (yes, 40% people) of the entire world's workplace but only 1% of the world's wealth. Makes me wanna go kick some Male a**, but I digress.
Anyway, that's all I have for today.
Spent the morning helping a coworker learn a new system, checking on my competition (not other women, mind you but other retailers), eating a sandwich for lunch, doing sales projections, eating a sandwich for
lunch, laying out a ad, eating half a sandwich mid afternoon, and discussing the Emmy's with my coworker Marianne. Who's got it better than me!? :-)
A little bit about my coworker Marianne. She and I have been friends for almost 12years now and she is my coworker/close friend/fake sister/therapist/co-conspirator. We have been accused of being attached at the hip, too close, and for those who just don't get it - lesbians. We are just great friends and have so much fun together at work and getting into trouble after work hours. So you will often see her name as I blog. Today she was doing the "dance of joy" because of some news that I cannot post here but for those of you who do not know, the 'dance of joy" goes a little like this: whilst you are sitting prim and proper in your seat you suddenly without warning break into either the full-on head toss while gesturing wildly with your hand or you suddenly break out the chair dance version of the Cabbage Patch. Either one will make your coworker (me, in this instance) laugh so hard that coffee comes snorting out of your nose.
My real sister, Maleeka, is (if I can use a really sophomoric term) my best friend. She is hysterically funny, a great Mom, and a selfless giver of her time and energy. Growing up it was just me, my sister and my mother and even though she is four years older than me (alright, I'm lying....I'm four years older than her) we were and are still very close.
Another name that you may see often as I post, is Raul. He is another coworker and I like to call him fake nephew. He is quite younger than most of us in the office but is mature beyond is age. Today he sent me a link to a US World article that states that women make up 40% (yes, 40% people) of the entire world's workplace but only 1% of the world's wealth. Makes me wanna go kick some Male a**, but I digress.
Anyway, that's all I have for today.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Blogger Newbie
This is my first attempt at Blogging. I am very excited to see how this form of Social Media pans out as it relates to my schooling and in my career.
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