Three years ago, a colleague gave me an African Violet for Christmas. In the meantime, I’ve faithfully watered my African Violet, repotted it and stripped dead leaves. I’ve cared for it like no other plant I’ve owned. All for no reward whatsoever, other than bright green leaves. That’s right, for three years my African Violet has refused to […]
Work
A Just Becauses For Me!
Speaking of Just Becauses, I had a Just Because land on my desk. I think it’s The Best Card of The Year. Bet you’re wondering what it says inside, aren’t you? Me, too. And it was worth the anticipation! After I finished laughing, I thanked my friend for the levity break and the “thoughtful” card. […]
Recession Lesson: At the Office
One thing the Great Recession has taught me: It stinks to be a big idea person when you also have to cover the role of the implementation team. Lots of great ideas…with the double blessing of figuring out how to get them all done.
I Did. How About You?
Have you ever had one of “those” days? Deadline x1 becomes deadline x3 “Could you help with this? Shouldn’t take but a few minutes…” Which it doesn’t. Which it never has, in the history of mankind, by the way. Printer breaks. Email breaks. The person you must get a signature from isn’t in town. You […]
Frustrations
Has anyone else done the Email Two-Step lately? Answer and delete one email – receive two more. Answer and file four emails – receive one more. Answer and delete two emails – receive ten more. I’ll never get ahead at this rate!
I Had a Busy Day, So…
Let’s just be honest: Some days are not exciting. Some days you answer a million emails at work, fax stacks of paper to a contact because her email system is down, sit in two meetings too many and get home late from work. Some days you pull an insta-dinner out of the freezer (hey – at […]
Why I’m Better With a Job
If there’s anything I can say with certainty, it’s that I was not meant to be a stay-at-home person. By some oddity of holiday scheduling, I ended up with a four-day weekend. Now, a three-day weekend is a blessing. That extra day allows me to catch up on house projects that have been languishing, run errands […]
Getting an A for Effort
It’s Monday and Christmas is officially over. The Hayleys were determined to beat the holiday driving rush. The Boy asked me to find out what time the closest Cracker Barrel opened, then drug us out of bed on a very cold Kansas morning so we’d be there when it opened. While I didn’t appreciate this […]
Maybe Not So Different
Just when I thought it was safe to relax… Along comes an unplanned trip out of town, a host of holiday parties (and holiday party cooking…look for an update on that when I have, well, time) and the shocking realization that Christmas is less than two weeks away and I’ve not had time to send […]
You Asked For It
My company promoted me to Senior Associate and look what happened: What a reprobate!