The mother of one of the ladies at work has been sick for the past few months and steadily going downhill. She's been in and out of town visiting her parents because of this. She'd gotten a call early today that her mother wasn't doing well, so she was keeping her phone close by ( Read more... )

So I wrote for three days on NaNoWriMo, actually making my word count and doing it easily...and then nothing for the rest of the month. Weirdest part is that I didn't feel horrible at all about it. In the past I'd feel guilty that I'd try to write and couldn't ( Read more... )

I keep hearing that these next two weeks are the slowest working weeks of the year.

Ha! For everyone else maybe. These are our busiest weeks. I go to work and I don't get a chance to take a break. I haven't even been eating lunch the past few weeks, and I won't be eating lunch for the next few weeks to come.

So, slowest weeks my ass.

Mmmm...I hadn't been able to close completely by myself since being promoted, because corporate offices wanted to wait until the manager I'm taking over for leaves. I'll get her keys when she does do that ( Read more... )

First, some nostalgia:

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My training begins on Monday! As in tomorrow ( Read more... )

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I have had a pretty fucking miserable weekend. Aside from Mom pulling her usual bullshit, I had to work five more hours than I was scheduled for ( Read more... )

I'm proud of myself. I rescued a mouse the other day. We had one in the stock room at work, so they put out the glue traps. The mouse got caught that night and when we (manager, another associate, and I) went into work the next morning, we found it. The poor thing had gotten totally stuck all along one side, and the managers weren't sure that ( Read more... )

I am way too...persnickety for my own good, but I swear, sometimes people are just so dumb. CSS is a beautiful thing. It takes away the need for images in so many different ways, and yet people (people who profess to be web designers, mind you) still use images to create certain affects that could be created with CSS. It's a waste of a visitor's ( Read more... )