| ...a day in the life of a mouse |
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| ...a day in the life of a mouse |
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2004-12-22 - 2:19 p.m. Some things really annoy me. Ok, actually LOTS of things really annoy me, but here’s a shining example from today: Our boss lady (not the one that looks eerily like the over-tanned-bleach-blond-wrinkly bag from Something About Mary), came into our part of the office today, and began wishing everyone a merry Christmas, Happy New Year, etc. only, it was so obviously NOT heartfelt it was nauseating. She summarily went from group to group, stopping at every pod (yes, our work group clusters are called “pods”), asking the same questions to everyone, “So, are you ready for Christmas yet? Blad-de-blah”. It’s the ONLY time you ever come into our side of the office to actually TALK to us, and then you go from pod to pod talking to us all like you’re checking things off on a To Do list. I mean, it was so much NOT a well-wishing, and so OBVIOUSLY a PR visit…keep the peons happy. Cuz, you know, it’s not like we can tell you're insincere or anything. *cough* ::: by the way, do swing by Hissandtell’s diary. It’s her birthday. Wish the sexy young thing well, would you? I often dream of being even a fraction as saucy as she is. *sigh* oh well, what’s a plain brown mouse to do? ::: Hey guess what?? Our Christmas tree is up (as of last night) and it’s only December 22!!! Of course, the damn thing isn’t decorated yet…but it’s up! And all (but 2) gifts are bought, and will be wrapped tonight. I may actually spend Christmas eve this year doing all sorts of Christmas eve-y type things! Yay for me! Of course, I spent waaaaaaaaay too much money on presents. It’s so much easier to buy for people when you don’t have a budget (or at least pretend you don’t have one….electricity bills be damned!). Those last two gifts…I will likely be buying them tomorrow or Friday. Ya, I don’t even really want to buy them, so if I run out of time…meh. Whatever. They are for Chicken’s dad and step-mom. Pffft. Actually, chicken and I were talking about it yesterday and we both came up with the same idea for his dad…but neither of us was going to say it cuz it’s mean. But then we both said it at the same time, and laughed and laughed. Ya, we’re cool like that. We thought we could re-gift him with the stupid astronomy calendar he gave him for his birthday, and a ½ a bag of jelly beans (we’d give him the whole bag, but he already ate half). It’s so wickedly funny, that we are actually tempted to do just that. But as funny as we find being evil sometimes, that’s not really the kind of child I am trying to raise…soooo, I will take up MY precious time and go buy the bastard some cheap crappy gift certificate or something. Also, I have to send my xmas cards. I know it’s too late for them to get anywhere on time…hush! At least I’m actually planning on sending them this year! I actually am very good at writing the cards out, and even addressing the envelopes. Where I fall short is actually sending them. Yassee…by the time I’ve bought all the presents, I’ve never any money left for postage. Good planning….ya, I need to get me some of that. And what do you do about the cards you kinda HAFTA send cuz they’re family, but don’t really want to, cuz they’re pain-in-the-ass family? Just wondering. Ooh! Another thing I actually got done on time was Chicken’s “school” photos! They are not actually school photos…cuz somebody kept forgetting to bring the damn forms home from school and, therefore, didn’t get pictures this year. So I took them myself, photoshopped them to look all perfect, and got them printed up at the W@l-M@rt, for less than it would have cost me for the school pics! Yay me! And they look way better. So now I have pictures to send out with my cards, and to give my mum for her Place of Honour on the mantle. I also have a picture of him on my desk at work now, so I can show off my handsome son when the other women show off pics of their bratlings. Go me! If this keeps up, I may actually have my shit together before I’m 80!! 
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