What you do when you're bored at work....

My job is very much so either sink or swim. There are only 2 levels of work that I experience here:

1) I am so busy that I want to kill myself and I honestly don't even have time to get up to go to the bathroom

or

2) I am so bored that this is what I resort to:



Yes. That is me dressed up in a full "Ben Ten" costume!

I think I am way better looking then the real character. Don't you agree? Don't judge.



The kicker to this story is that I was lead around the office to hug unsuspecting fellow employees!!! Have a great weekend everyone!

My one true love....ruined

So as we all know, I love to shop. Shopping is ONE of my guilty pleasures. The mall used to be a place that I could go to to get away. Shop my sorrows away. The other day I went to the mall just to pick up a few things and I was horrified.

As I was walking through the what once used to be just a corridor, I found myself inside of a soliciting nightmare.

"Hello miss, who styles your hair?".
UMMM, NOT YOU CREEPY LADY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MALL WITH A HAIR STRAIGHTENER.

"Excuse me Ma'am, do you have a cell phone?"
WHO DOESN'T HAVE A CELL PHONE NOW A DAYS?

"Would you like to whiten your teeth?"
SERIOUSLY??? IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MALL? NO THANKS WANNA BE DENTIST.

"Can I ask you a question?"
NO DAMN IT, I WANT TO SHOP. NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS.

Does anyone else feel like the mall is an uncomfortable place where we are just solicited left and right for crap we don't want/need. If I came to the mall and wanted a straightener, I would have come right up to you and bought one. You asking me who styles me hair as I scurry past you doesn't make me want to buy anything from you.

As I arrived inside of Macy's I breathed a sigh of relief. I figured I was safe from all the pressure of crap buying and I could now shop in peace. As I was perusing the Women's section for nothing in particular, I was approached by a Sales Associate.

SA: "Hi"
ME: "Hello!" (Oh how nice it is to be shopping somewhere without people asking me questions)
SA: "So, what are you shopping for today? Any special occasion?"

OK....come on now! What am I shopping for? What color underwear are you wearing? Yea.... how do YOU like being asked unwanted personal questions? Sucks doesn't it?

Since when do I have to be shopping for a specific occasion? What kind of answer are these people looking for? Why can't we just shop in peace? A simple hello or how are you is fine but anything beyond that is annoying.

Back to shopping online. Thank god for Bluefly.com.

Highlight of my Year

Some of you in the Toledo area may have heard that Barack Obama made an appearance in the great city of Toledo on Monday at the SeaGate Centre, my fabulous place of employment. I, being an Obama supporter, was ecstatic to have him here and most of all was out of my mind excited that I was in charge of putting it all together!!

I worked closely with his camp to arrange everything and it was quite an experience working with the secret service. Everyone was great to work with and extremely grateful for all we had done for them. I was truly shocked at their genuine appreciation for all the hard work of everyone that made their event a success! Definitely the highlight of my career!

After the Senator spoke and the event was over, I got the memorable opportunity to personally meet him and shake his hand. It was just me, him and about 10 members of his camp and secret service in the room together. He thanked me for everything I did and then had someone take of picture of us together. They said they would send it to me, hopefully they follow through on that!!!!! Once I get it I will post it to my blog for all to see :)

And no matter what your political stance is, make sure to get out and vote this year!

Patience is a virtue....you can say that again!

So today I read a story about the Oldest Virgin. Yep, that's what I said. A 105 year old woman that has never had sex in her long ass life. Never ever had sex....Ever....Wow!

I guess if you don't know what you're missing then it doesn't matter.

Read the whole story here

It's been awhile

So I know I haven't blogged in a very long time but hey, I've been pretty busy.

I am back to talk about how I believe technology will be the end of us.

I was at the bar on Sunday and next to me was an older gentleman, roughly 70. As I was waiting for my drink he received and sent a text message. I couldn't help but smile and laugh a little inside. A 70 year old man texting someone while he was sitting at the bar? Haha, priceless....But I digress....

Anyway, back to my point. I ran across this story today and it completely proves my theory. Technology is going to kill us all off and take over the world.

Walmart Annoys Me

As I was leaving Walmart yesterday, I was annoyed by a couple of things. Things that bother me every time I am at Walmart!

Annoyance #1: As you are pushing your overstuffed cart of cheaply priced items out of the store, right before you get to the edge of the sidewalk there is this bright yellow strip of bumps (sorry I don't know how to technically describe it). Basically it shakes yours cart and makes a really loud noise when you go over it. Yesterday when I was pushing my cart over it I was bitching about how much I hated it and that it made no sense to have it there and it was a huge pain in the ass. E's only reasoning for it being there was to "warn blind people before they got into the street". Clearly this isn't the case because I can't tell you of one time I ever saw a blind person grocery shopping alone. So what is the reason for it?

Annoyance #2: This is a big one. People who just leave their cart rolling around the parking lot instead of pushing it into the cart corral. I understand this doesn't only happen at Walmart, it happens at every single store in American that supplies shopping carts! This makes me sooooo mad. Are people honestly too lazy to walk their cart over to the corral? Do they not understand that by leaving their cart just sitting in the parking lot is basically like purposely ramming it into the side of someones car!? When I see people do this I give them an extremely dirty look and for a split second picture myself grabbing their cart and throwing it on the roof of their car.

Maybe it is bad karma because I'm shopping at Walmart and we all know how bad Walmart sucks. I can't help it, their cheap prices suck me in :(

Put a smile on your face

This video made my day!

Too funny :) ENJOY!

Sorry I refuse to play

Games at Bridal Showers should be banned!

Why does anyone think that a group of grown ass women, that most likely don't know each other that well, want to play games together?

Great idea. And after the games? Pillow fights in our undies! NOW THIS IS A PARTY!

What do you think? Games or no games?

Debby Downer

Wah Wah....I have been Debby Downer lately so I told myself not to blog because I was SURE my bitchiness would come across in my posts.....Well apparently I can't get out of my bitch funk so I am just going to post something that happened to me today anyway. It seems stuff like this has been happening quite a lot, hence my extended bad mood!

At work I called one of my clients for the FOURTH time in two weeks to let them know that I needed their insurance before their event this weekend (We need proof of general liability insurance for every event before it happens). Twenty minutes later I get a call back from the frantic (stupid) client. She rambles about how she knew nothing about it (really? have you not checked your email or voice mail in the past month? Oh and did you or did you not read the contract that you signed for our building?) So I kindly explain to her AGAIN that she needs it before Saturday or their event can't and won't happen.

Twenty minutes later I get a phone call from the clients DAD! Really mature right?

He threatened to sue me....Yeah, sue me!? Who the hell threatens to sue a twenty something that lives in an apartment and practically works for peanuts?! And sue me for what you may ask? I dunno, can he sue me for his kid's stupidity? Nope, sorry sir, our contract does not cover that!

He tried to say that I had to pay for the insurance (hmm, how does that work?) and told me to have their space ready for them on Saturday (Sir, did you not listen to anything I just told you. I NEED INSURANCE FIRST!!!!)

It seems like stupid people are pretty standard in my life right now. Maybe I should change the theme of my blog to be all about what stupid people do to me everyday. I would have A LOT more to blog about....

PHOTO PARADE!!!

I love this idea! Thanks Turtle Parade for being so creative!

This picture says "excitement" to me because it was taken with a self timer at midnight on New Years Eve! I think it just truly captures the moment of the New Year and all the excitement and anticipation surrounding it! Plus, how often do you capture a moment like this on camera?