justalittlesnarky

Anti-Niche= good at many things, not an expert at any of them but having a great time all the same.

justalittlesnarky - Anti-Niche= good at many things, not an expert at any of them but having a great time all the same.

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Stuff, Things, and Coffee

At work I am not know for being a joiner, as is look we all want to get together and learn how to cook something as a “team building” event. I have no interest in this, at all. So, maybe this makes me a bad “team” member or just a bitchy person. I am not really sure which it is. Well that is not completely true I know that I am a bitchy person, so… anyway.

So the Current in Charge (CIC), suggested getting coffee on Friday. I was all “sure, I like coffee.” This was all very much to everyones surprise. Snarky always says “no thank you” when ever anything is offered like this.

For some reason free coffee was what was needed to get me to join in just a little. Who knew!

On a side note the question for today from the Daily Post is:


My answer to this would be, lots of ways. On the weekend I don’t spend much time with my electronics. (except to post daily & now with Script Frenzy) I would clean the house, work in the back yard, read a book, make a dress, craft something, nap or all of the above.

While I love my devices I can entertain myself with out them. I am old enough to remember a time when there was no interwebs, cell phones or computers for that matter. Yes that makes me old, I know.

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Now what…

I once again sit in the dark house,early before anyone else is a wake. This time there are no tears or snot, just dread. This dread is brought to you by not knowing. We do not know when the final day is for my MIL we have to take everything day-by-day. There are no familiar plans to be wrapped up in at this point. We just try to make it to the end of the day so we can do this again the next one. I am a plan person, which makes me a bit less than spontaneous this I know but I like to know what to except each day and with a plan you know that. I think other than the fact that she is going to really die, this no planing has been hard for me. I don’t handle uncharted territory very well and you can bet your sweet bibby that we are neck deep in uncharted, at this point.

All that was to say that I am dreading today, because I have to go to work today. A full 8 hr day. Due to the fact that we don’t know how long this will take, DH and I thought that it would be the best thing for me to try and get some hours in due to the lack of pay that comes from the lack of being at work. Sounds like a good plan, and it is some what of a plan. Days that we are not needed to help out I will work full days, the days that we are needed I work half days. Sounds like a pretty good plan right?

Well the one monkey in the wrench is that I dread spending the time at work. I am not sure that my co-workers understand the difficulty of this situation. They can sit back and tell me how it is not fair that I am not there, that I should just cut and run from it all so that I don’t have to be part of this. On the other hand there are “if there is anything I can do people” I think they also feel like I need to be there, and may not understand fully the situation either.

What I do know is that I can not make either group understand what is happening in my world right now. So what I need to do so I can make it through with out any more baggage is to know that it is not something I can change, and be ok with it. I am doing the best I can to balance these chainsaws that I seem to be juggling right now, and that is all I can do.

This post was inspired by:
“… grant me the Serenity to accept the things I can not change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference…”

How I got the Pluge and other made up words.

I think I have stated for the record that I do not like my job, not one little bit. And for those who don’t know this then I am sorry your late to the party. I have been in my current job for almost 5 years now? I think ? There are days that it feels like I have been there for 85 billion years. I know I need to be happy that I have a job, I know that, but it doesn’t mean that it is like working in Disneyland everyday. You can think mean things about me and my unhappiness, all you want this is how it is.

So here is what set me off today: Got to work on time, same time as my coworker, let’s call her Pita. The first thing she does it go running in to the bosses office to tell him that she may not make it through the day because she is not feeling well. (in a whinny voice I am sure). Then she then sat down at her desk and commensed spreading her pluge germs everywhere. (Yes pluge is what I wanted to type, fully aware that it is a made up word that was born from my bad spelling/iphone texting combo. It is also very fun to say, pluge. Try it you may like it. and if the The Bloggess can make up words and get them in to the Urban Dictionary, by the way she is my new hero, then I can make up words too. And the is a lot of coliary, if you ask me.) Oh, where was I? Oh yeah bitching about my pluge spewing coworker. She was not going to be her a full day any who she was leaving at 2ish as far as the update in the meeting on Tuesday. I really wish I could invite every one to those meetings, that would be a hoot, for me not so much for you all.

Any way back to the bitch session, she take a moment out of sniffing her snotty nose and hacking on everything in sight, and then marinading in hand sanitizer, rinse and repeat alot, to inform me that she may not make it through the whole day due to being sick. At this point I point out that she had said in the staff meeting that she was not going to be here all day anyway. To this she spewed something about leaving at 1:15 then coming back and then leaving at 2:30 for the day. I have to ask myself what is the effen point of coming back if you are just going to leave again, but I didn’t ask. I just nodded OK and went on with my morning.

As the morning moved on she was now sneezing on everything at her desk. And then there was more hand sanitizer applied to every square inch of her person, you may say this is a good thing but it smells, alot it smells and give me a headache, at some point I would prefer the pluge to that smelly shit that she is currently slathering on her. That was all in the first two hours of work today. When she was not infecting her desk she was touching things in the office or out wandering sharing the pluge with everyone, so kind of her, I know.

Moral of the story is it is good to share, we learn this a kids. But damnit if you are sick stay at effening home, I don’t want to take the pluge home to my family, it is bad enough that the Boy Head is in High School. Lots of pluge there. So if I die of the pluge then it is all Pita’s fault, just remember that.

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