Monday, March 9, 2009

Huff and puff and go blow it out your ass

If you read one of my two posts from yesterday you will understand what I'm about to talk about. If you didn't SHAME on YOU! But here you can check it out.

Alright now I got here so she must not be to mad I'm plotting her demise. Or maybe she is just unaware. Anywho. I got here and still couldn't access the fax machine from my computer and the lone monitor from the computer they have slowly been taking away was still sitting here. it was 12:30 p.m. I knew the IT guy had read the damn email by now. Whats going on.

Finally around 2 p.m. he comes huffing up. I'm not even exaggerating. He says something along the lines of "I have a bunch of stuff to do and the other lady is off and this is ridiculous. I'm sorry you aren't at the top of my list of priorities. But I don't need a mean email to tell me to do my job. "

It is important to note that he didn't say these things until he realized I was not at the desk. I was sitting at the celebrations desk, where he could clearly see me. Oh very passive aggressive of you computer nerd. P.S. Your a jerk!

So he gets on in like 1 minute it's fixed and then he unhooks the monitor stuff and moves the printer. Total time spent with us 5 minutes. WOW! Then i hear him go "I didn't realize it would be this easy."
P.S.
Your a jerk!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

You say tomato I say NORMAL

so I'm starting my 6 day stretch today. 6 days of fun trips to work EVERYDAY! 6 days of work fun. Can't wait. But that means I might not have time to blog so I'm giving you a double douse of me today. A two4one. So here goes.

I wanted to post on Normal is. It's a prompt from last weeks writing assignment. so here goes.

Normal is
.....thinking of ways to avoid your family during the holidays.
......thinking someone else's parents, family, job, life is way better.
......taking a cold shower in the summer
......watching the same movie 9 times in one month because it makes you laugh.
.....licking the beaters when you bake.
.....laughing till you cry
...crying till you laugh
....wishing on a star
......rolling your eyes
.....bending over backwards for people you care about
.....saying not so nice things about your siblings
......fighting anyone who talks bad about your siblings
.....running through the sprinklers with all your clothes on
....lemonade in the summer and hot chocolate in the winter
.....losing one glove every winter
......sledding when your way to old to sled.
.....calling in sick when you aren't.
.....frowning
.....wearing the same jeans all weekend, they just get more comfy
... dinner with friends
......letting loose on your birthday
....kicking your shoes off in the summer and going barefoot.
...an ice cold beer on a summer night
....regretting somethings you do
....but doing them again anyways.
...water balloon fights
....not wanting to grow up
.....staying in bed all day because you can
.....wearing your pj's all weekend and never leaving the house
.....sitting around the fire with family telling stories and making new memories.
...being embarrassed of your family and their hickish ways
....but letting loose when you are together
..being a different person at work
....not liking all your co-workers
.....knowing more then your boss
...and caring way more about the people you see on a daily bases then they do
....is spaghetti sauce on a white shirt
...running into your crush at the grocery store after you left the gym
...stepping in the puddle
...stepping in the dog poop in the backyard
...rolling down the hill with the kids
....skipping stones int he lake
...not knowing who the Jonas Brothers are
....coloring for fun, at any age
...only picking up pennies at are heads up
..Snow cone trucks
...ice cream after dinner
..ice cream for dinner
....laughing politely
...talking during the movie
....rain when you have plans to be outside
...muddy footprints on your carpet
....lettuce in your teeth
...pimples
....your dysfunctional family
...never wearing a dress

Normal is not perfection. Normal is me. and you. and her. and him over there. Normal is who we are.

Mark this down

WOW. So I'm starting my week off on a grand note here at work. Seems my co-worker isn't to accommodating for the fact that I'm taking time off in April. Now yes i know i was just off for a week. However that was unplanned. This time in April has been planned since the end of January. She knew it. I told her the last of January. The dates, and days (same thing right) well apparently since is didn't involve her she didn't REALLY listen. She has since decided she's going away over the weekend i need her to work for me. And ISN'T working. I'm sorry. What? Seems she's not giving up her plans for me. Seems she doesn't give a shit about anyone but herself. So I've gone ahead and made the executive decision that I'm also taking the Sunday after thanksgiving off. See last year i was nice and worked Black Friday for her so she could leave early to go to her Boyfriends families home in Maryland. this put off my trip to Maryland to see my family and hunt for the weekend by a few hours. Now it's a 4 hour drive to my family's home, so Mr. Ship and I didn't leave York until 3:30 p.m. so we wasted a whole day. Friday was shot till we got there around 7:30p.m. So this year I'm done being nice. I'm not giving up my Friday for here EVER again. What a jerk. See our boss (if that's what you want to call her) tells us to deal with figuring out our vacation time and making sure there is someone to cover the days we are off. I'm sorry but isn't that the BOSS's job? What the hell do they pay her for? Please inform me about this? I'm pretty pissed because now Ruth has to work 6 days in a row and princess gets her time off and i feel like crap because i like Ruth and i don't want her to have to work so many days. Needless to say I'm pissed. REALLY PISSED!

I still can't access the fax machine from my computer to make sure the faxes I've sent have gone through. it's been well over 2 weeks since my computer lost the ability to check the fax status and over 6 months since the other computer lost the same option. So i emailed our IT department. Hopefully they are done setting up all the NEW laptops they bought the advertising department (yeah furlough?) and can take care of this problem. they have slowly been dismantling a computer at our desk for 2 months and i also asked them to get it the fuck off my desk space, only slightly nicer. here's the email i sent them.

I haven't been able to access the fax server on my computers for over 2 weeks now. We need to be able to verify if faxes have gone through to funeral homes and law offices in order to ensure proofs and charges have been submitted. Please find time to fix this problem for us. The computer Wendy uses hasn't been able to check the status for well over 6 months. This appears when we try to check the status THE FAX SERVER COULD NOT FIND AN ACCOUNT MATCHING YOUR NETWORK LOGIN, "YNC/OBITDESK"

We also need Word put onto Wendy's computer in order for her to be able to do the envelopes for legal proof of publications, she was using the computer that we no longer have to do this. And if you could take the monitor that is still sitting here that would be swell.
Thanks
Amy
obit desk

What do you think? Point across?

Oh yeah and the vending machine ripped me off. Sure it said i pushed E6 but i very clearly pushed F6. Why would i push E6 there isn't even anything in that slot. So i got nothing and they got 80 cents. hum? Even the vending machine is getting the hang of this furlough shit. Just like the company take from us and keep for themselves. interesting.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Go postal why don't you

So my mailman left me a note. It says

No NAME no MAIL!



Uhm......sorry mailperson. I didn't mean to not have my name on my mailbox. It was there but it wore off. OOPPS.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

The ranger is after me!!!!!!

im off thursday, more funlough junk, so I'm not going to be posting on Mama Kats page but here is my writing assignment!

Here is the women and below are the prompts. If you don't know what to do....I don't know what to say. Go check out the women and get a clue.
The Prompts:
1.) Write a limerick.
2.) Normal is...
3.) Describe a memorable camping experience.
4.) What's the best thing that has happened this week?
5.) Did you have a childhood hideout? Where? Describe it.
6.) Words that hurt me.

My parents belong to Outdoor World, they've changed the name it's something like long piny trails now. I don't know. I totally made that up. the name, not that fact that they changed the name. so they have campgrounds all over the East coast. When we went to Disney we stayed at one. you could bring your own tents or campers or rent a camper. It's that kind of place. I love those places. WE always stayed at Lake and Shore in New Jersey when i was a kid. There is a campground near my home only about 15 minutes away. when we were young we would go there with my grandmother. Well when we (me and big brother) got older we were able to use the membership and put our camper on the site and stay. so we did. Why not? BECAUSE IT WAS A HUGE MISTAKE that's why. I don't know what the hell my parents were thinking and we they ok'd that plan.

So big brother, me and our friend Deacon set up camp down by the creek. Many nights of drunkin (yes underage drunkin fun) fun were spent down by the creek. We were loud, we were young, and we were drunk. Here is where it's important to say that while some kids are well behaved and angels (me) some are not (big brother). One night after a large dinner of steaks and whiskey, Deacon decided to vomit all over the camper door area. that was fun. he proceeded to pass out as did I. big brother being the veteran drinker among our group got bored sitting around by himself and took off on an ADVENTURE.

First stop the pool, where he had to hurdle the fence to get in. After going for a leisurely dip (please note this information is all based on what BB could REMEMBER and what the ranger would later tell the police) he decided to help do some redecorating and tossed a large portion of the lounge chairs into the pool. That must have worked up an appetite in our young friend because he proceeded to break into the snake bar. By break i mean broke out the windows and crawled through to find some yummy ice cream treats. while bleeding ALL over the place. Way to leave DNA evidence behind. nice job. At some point he got spooked. he could never really say what scared him, mainly because he couldn't remember and off he went, running his little ice cream and whiskey filled heart out. right into the fence. After scaling the fence AGAIN he ran back to the camper taking a long confusing route,as to throw off the ranger (or cause he was wasted, who knows). At some point he sprained his ankle REALLY bad. This is what i woke up to.
BB~ "He's after me! He's after me!"
Me~ (from a dead sleep) shut up! I'm sleeping. who's after you?
BB~ The ranger! AHH MY ARM!!
Me~ (sitting up) what are you talking....WHY ARE YOU BLEEDING?
BB~ i don't know.
Me~ where have you been?
BB~ the pool...i think.
Me~how did you cut yourself? (you could see down inside his arm)
BB~ i broke into the snack bar, ahh man i really messed that shit up. I'm going to need stitches.
DEACON~ ahhh what ahhh huh......(back asleep)
BB~ I need you to hold it together?
Me~ (CRYING HYSTERICALLY) what hold what?
BB~ my skin. I'm going to try and tape it up to stop the bleeding, ahh it hurts so bad.
Me~ NO! I'm not doing it. Oh my god we are going to be in so much trouble 9still crying)
BB~ Shut up! hold the skin together.
Me~ 9holding the skin together) I hate you! I hate you! why couldn't you just stay here. Oh my god, what are we going to do.
BB~ the ranger hasn't come yet, he might not have seen me. What am I saying he had to have seen me. I'm so stupid. I think i lost him.
Me~ (taped up his arm and he climbs into bed, I'm still crying) what are we going to do.
BB~ Maybe they wont know it was me.

i left the next morning to come home for tennis practice and Deacon snuck BB out in the trunk of his car. We told my parents he slipped in Deacons puke and sliced his arm on the pole outside the door 9yeah I said we were stupid). we stayed away from the campground for a day or two and hoped it would calm down. It didn't. they put 2 and 2 together and realized it was us. The sprained ankle, cut arm and loud noise gave him away. My parents had to pay some fines and replace everything he broke, and BB was banned from Outdoor World. Banned from a campground. BANNED! LOL. what a dumb ass. and that my friends is my fondest camping memory.

THE RANGER Is AFTER ME!