My day started off cleaning dog poop (and I mean runny poop) off the carpet. That was at 6 am after I had was woken by an insomniac husband from 3:30-4:45 and after I had taken a shower.
Amazingly this was not really the worst event of the day. My team at work dropped the ball majorly on a customer and while not directly my fault, I am their leader and therefore responsible.
I don't think the dog poop stain is coming off the carpet.
Ugh. Calgon take me away!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
my random thoughts on the drive into work today
Question: Why do I like jeans so much? Answer: They don't need to be ironed. Or dry-cleaned.
One of the best movie lines ever is from LA Confidential. The Kim Basinger Veronica Lake Hooker character says to the Guy Pierce cop character, "Some men get the world. Others get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona."
Why didn't I get tickets to the Inaugural Ball?
Oh shit, I need gas.
LA Confidential is an awesome movie. I love movies set in 50's Hollywood. Except for The Black Dahlia. That movie sucked. Bad.
Should I have a baby?
Hmmm, Beck Road is icy again. Maybe it could snow some more. Oh God, It's only January 19 there could be 2-3 months more of this weather and we don't have a vacation planned this year.
I wouldn't really have anything to wear to the Inaugural Ball.
Balls. I'm here.
One of the best movie lines ever is from LA Confidential. The Kim Basinger Veronica Lake Hooker character says to the Guy Pierce cop character, "Some men get the world. Others get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona."
Why didn't I get tickets to the Inaugural Ball?
Oh shit, I need gas.
LA Confidential is an awesome movie. I love movies set in 50's Hollywood. Except for The Black Dahlia. That movie sucked. Bad.
Should I have a baby?
Hmmm, Beck Road is icy again. Maybe it could snow some more. Oh God, It's only January 19 there could be 2-3 months more of this weather and we don't have a vacation planned this year.
I wouldn't really have anything to wear to the Inaugural Ball.
Balls. I'm here.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
I want you to know that I now have another smoke detector chirping in my house. This would be the third one since Friday. And while we went to the store with 9volt batteries on our list but could not find them in our newly remodeled and rearranged Meijer. So we forgot. Until just now.
We are sitting on the couch, Dave is reading, I was surfing, the kids are spending the night at their granny's because they don't have school tomorrow. It's our quiet wind down time and then,
Chirp (my battery is dying)
Dave starts looking for the ladder as I frantically start pawing through the junk drawer in hopes of finding a forgotten 9volt battery buried in the rubble. Which I did not find.
Chirp (if your house burns downs, I won't work, but I can still chirp)
Chirp.
That smoke detector is currently wrapped in a towel in a box in our garage and covered with one of the kids pairs of snow pants. His brother across the hall is also wrapped in a towel in the box. Guilt by association.
Tomorrow I'll tell you a tale that begins with a bag of frozen smelt and ends with a broken ice maker.
We are sitting on the couch, Dave is reading, I was surfing, the kids are spending the night at their granny's because they don't have school tomorrow. It's our quiet wind down time and then,
Chirp (my battery is dying)
Dave starts looking for the ladder as I frantically start pawing through the junk drawer in hopes of finding a forgotten 9volt battery buried in the rubble. Which I did not find.
Chirp (if your house burns downs, I won't work, but I can still chirp)
Chirp.
That smoke detector is currently wrapped in a towel in a box in our garage and covered with one of the kids pairs of snow pants. His brother across the hall is also wrapped in a towel in the box. Guilt by association.
Tomorrow I'll tell you a tale that begins with a bag of frozen smelt and ends with a broken ice maker.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Phoebe and the Fire Alarm
This was us a few weeks ago. I wanted to post this then, but I couldn't find the full clip on YouTube. However, I got home from work a few minutes ago and the smoke detector in the spare bedroom is now beeping. I thought we replaced the batteries in all of them when this happened. So I dragged the ladder up from the basement all the way up to the second floor and replaced the battery.
It's still beeping. Does that mean it won't detect smoke, but it can still beep every 45 seconds to warn us that it can't detect smoke anymore?
It's still beeping. Does that mean it won't detect smoke, but it can still beep every 45 seconds to warn us that it can't detect smoke anymore?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Okay, So I will tell you this one work story
It's pretty not work related so, I guess I can share it.
Yesterday I walked into this "guys" office. He was in there working with another "guy". Let's call them Hector and Achillies. Why not? It's my story. Now I can be entertained when I see them at work tomorrow.
Anyway, It's Hector's office, but Achillies has his laptop set up in there and he has this really nifty power supply. I'm instantly drawn to it because it's small. Perfect size to fit in my new Christmas present laptop bag that is awesome but won't fit a lot of stuff. I've been actually going sans power supply and that hasn't been working out so well. So I say to Achillies, "Sweet power supply. Where'd you get that!?" And he says, "You want it, take it."
Pause.
First of all Achillies is usually an asshole and likes to keep the good stuff for himself, so I find this strange. Second of all, I'm puzzled. Am I supposed to say, "Cool, thanks!" and then rip the power supply that is currently plugged into his laptop, out of his laptop and take off with it? I did not know how to proceed. It was weird.
And he told me to take it twice. Double weird.
Then I looked down where the power supply was laying and I saw this cheap little black tote bag laying there next to it. Maybe he thought I was talking about the cheap little tote bag (which if I had turned it over, probably had my company logo on it. Something we call a schmoogie). Even though I said specifically the power supply was small and cool. Perhaps he really wasn't listening to me.
Yeah, that explanation makes much more sense. I think.
Yesterday I walked into this "guys" office. He was in there working with another "guy". Let's call them Hector and Achillies. Why not? It's my story. Now I can be entertained when I see them at work tomorrow.
Anyway, It's Hector's office, but Achillies has his laptop set up in there and he has this really nifty power supply. I'm instantly drawn to it because it's small. Perfect size to fit in my new Christmas present laptop bag that is awesome but won't fit a lot of stuff. I've been actually going sans power supply and that hasn't been working out so well. So I say to Achillies, "Sweet power supply. Where'd you get that!?" And he says, "You want it, take it."
Pause.
First of all Achillies is usually an asshole and likes to keep the good stuff for himself, so I find this strange. Second of all, I'm puzzled. Am I supposed to say, "Cool, thanks!" and then rip the power supply that is currently plugged into his laptop, out of his laptop and take off with it? I did not know how to proceed. It was weird.
And he told me to take it twice. Double weird.
Then I looked down where the power supply was laying and I saw this cheap little black tote bag laying there next to it. Maybe he thought I was talking about the cheap little tote bag (which if I had turned it over, probably had my company logo on it. Something we call a schmoogie). Even though I said specifically the power supply was small and cool. Perhaps he really wasn't listening to me.
Yeah, that explanation makes much more sense. I think.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Kidspeak
Becca said two hilarious things tonight.
#1 There is a Mexican restaurant by our house that is called "Los Tres Amigos." When I came home from work today she said, "I want to go eat dinner at the Three Tres Amigos!"
#2 She was telling about some movie that is coming out that features two characters called Romeo and Juliette. Dave asked her if she knows where Romeo and Juliette come from and she says, "Yes, Shakespeare." So I'm impressed thinking that I'm rubbing off on her and she add, "But I don't know who wrote it."
#1 There is a Mexican restaurant by our house that is called "Los Tres Amigos." When I came home from work today she said, "I want to go eat dinner at the Three Tres Amigos!"
#2 She was telling about some movie that is coming out that features two characters called Romeo and Juliette. Dave asked her if she knows where Romeo and Juliette come from and she says, "Yes, Shakespeare." So I'm impressed thinking that I'm rubbing off on her and she add, "But I don't know who wrote it."
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