And on to the next project

So, aside from some minor paint touch ups and hanging a new matching curtain, my downstairs bathroom is finally complete. I just finished up a freelance job and will be using that money I made from that to remodel the upstairs bathroom next. Since there is pink tile on the floor and up the walls around the whole room, I am REALLY excited about the change! I'll be tiling myself and installing a new pedestal sink. Instead of retiling the walls, I have opted to use a nice white wainscotting instead.

But tonight, what am I doing? I have big plans for this Friday night! I am helping my brother and sister-in-law install hardwood flooring in their living and dining rooms. We actually started on it on Wednesday night and my brother worked on it by himself yesterday since he was off work. We are hoping that we can get the rest of it laid tonight.

Here are a few pics that show our progress. These floors look great and they are a vast improvement from the previous carpet. The previous owner's had a pit bull... enough said.

I'm sure my sister-in-law, Jennifer is really going to appreciate this one.
But look how hard she is working!


Good view of the floors in the dining room


My brother, jonathan, carefully calculating how the cut that piece around
the door frame. We won't say how it turned out, LOL.

Slap Happy Drunk

I just read an article about a man who was arrested on a flight for slapping another passenger who turned out to be an undercover federal air martial. Apparently the flight attendants decided he had enough to drink and refused to serve him more alcohol. While I do find it funny and ironic, I have to wonder what would have happened if the other passenger had NOT in fact been an air martial? Is it okay to slap another random passenger? He was not charged with assault but "interfering with a flight crew." It makes you wonder? I will have to remember next time I fly to test my theory. So, if you get on a plane and see that you have been seated next to me... good luck :)

Karma

So, have I ever mentioned how much I enjoy watching people hurt themselves? Falling down, hitting your head... all the funniest stuff in the world! (Just ask my friend how much I laughed at him last night when he hit his head on the chandelier). I watch Amercia's Funniest Home Videos religiously. I have seen all of the old Bob Sagget episodes at least twice. I'm sure my cruel laughter is the sole reason for some of the odd things that happen to me on a daily basis, because karma is most certainly real.

But nonetheless, I cannot help myself. Maybe its because I don't have children, or maybe its because I am just a mean mean person... but I laugh EVERY time I see this video. I even have it on my iPod to whip it out at any given time.

Shedding some laughter on this crappy Thursday

This is one of my favorite SNL skits. It is from Justin Timberlake's first show several years ago. Then, the second one is from a new show he did I few weeks ago. I unfortunatley missed it but caught this clip anyway! Love this stuff!

The Next Round of Madness...

I feel like I really didn't have a break. I worked both Saturday and Sunday at American Eagle and we were unbelievably busy both days. Nothing like procrastination! Then yesterday, I had Christmas morning at my parents and then lunch at my grandmothers. I woke up feeling terribly congested on Christmas morning so I took some cold medicine and felt like a zombie the rest of the day. After filling myself full of turkey, dressing, my favorite casseroles and desserts, I made it home and napped in my favorite chair under a new fuzzy blanket I got for Christmas. And luckily for me a MythBusters marathon was on the Discovery Channel.

So today, its back to work... both jobs. I don't know how to do returns on the register yet, so I am certain I will be the person putting all of the clothes away as people return them today. I am certainly not looking forward to that. I was also told by one of my managers this weekend that I could continue to work after the holiday season is over. After New Year's, I'm sure that hours will be cut back and I will only work a day or two a week which will be perfectly fine with me! I generally find that I have a good time at work and (for the most part) like the people that I work with... which brings me to a funny story from this weekend.

On Saturday, a customer asked me to check to see if we had a size she needed in the back. I went into the back and was down between two rows of clothing digging for a size. When I came out, another employee was standing in the middle of the stockroom with his pants around his ankles (and yes, he was still wearing his boxers). Startled, I covered my eyes and said "Oh, I'm sorry." To which he replies, "Oh, don't worry about it... I was just checking to see what size my pants are."

First, why not go into the dressing room to check, since you would be guaranteed privacy there. No risk of other employees barging in on you and no possibility of a customer seeing you through the OPEN DOOR.

Second, was it really necessary to drop your pants completely to the floor in order to see the tag that can be found in the waistband? Couldn't you just have loosened your belt and flipped the tag out? He didn't seem to be embarrassed but I was. I guess I am just more modest than most people? But it was funny nevertheless.

I hope everyone else had a good holiday break and actually got some rest!

Dirty Santa is right!

Just wanted to share a better picture of the masterpiece that I created for Dirty Santa last week. This is one of my co-workers and she was the 2nd person to actually steal the "Throne Fit for a King."

Jumping on the bandwagon!

Since some of my fellow bloggers are doing it, I thought I would jump in...

Before:


After:

Wait... wait! Aren't the after's supposed to be better than the befores?? My bad...

Moron-shooting

I am the web admin here. I often get phone calls from people asking where to locate certain things on our website. I do my best to make things as logically located as possible. But sometimes, logic just doesn’t help someone who lacks common sense.

OmySue: Alabama State Bar, this is [OmySue]... how may I help you?
User: I want to place an ad on your site. Where do I do that?
OmySue: Are you on [ourwebsite.org] homepage?
User: Yes, I am.
OmySue: In the green navigation bar running down the left hand side of the page, there is a link that says "The Classifieds."
User: No, there isn't.
OmySue: It's about the 10th link down and there is a white star beside it.
User: No, I'm sorry, there isn't.
OmySue: Are you sure you are on the homepage and not a sub-page?
User: Yes, I am.
OmySue: Click on the building in the upper-lefthand corner of the page that says "Home." Did it take you to a different page?
User: Yes.
OmySue: Now, is there a link that says "The Classifieds" with a star beside it?
Moron: Yes.
OmySue: Click on it and on THAT page there is a link that says "Submit Your Advertisement." Click on it to submit your ad. Thank you, have a nice day...

[Hangs up phone.]

Omysue: Moron.

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Afermath

The Christmas party was great! My gift got a really good laugh. It was even stolen the max amount of times and retired. I spray painted a toilet seat gold and decorated it with rhonestones and gems. Then I labeled it a "Throne Fit For a King." This is the best picture I could take with my crappy camera phone. I think someone got a good pic of it at the party so I'll try to get that and post it later.

Happy happy, joy joy!

I am having too much fun today! We are having our office Christmas party this afternoon. Everybody around here is in the spirit. I made... yes, MADE my Dirty Santa present last night and I cannot wait for someone to open it. This is my first Christmas working for the State Bar so I wanted to start off with a bang. I am not going to say what it is right now since a couple of my co-workers do read this blog. I'll post a photo and what lucky person gets it after the party today.

I also found out who my Secret Santa has been. She has been giving me some goodies the past couple weeks, inlcuding the cleansing wipes which helped remove the paint from my hands!

I'm really looking forward to this weekend as well. My good friend Brian's birthday is coming up so we are going to celebrate on Saturday. My neighborhood which is a historic district does a candlelight walking tour each year. You get to go inside and tour some of the houses that have been rennovated and meet some of your neighbors. Some of them also have cookies and hot cider and things to share... which is really nice because it is usually pretty cold. Brian and I are doing that on Saturday night and I can't wait.

I am also doggie sitting this weekend for my friend, Kelly. Her and her husband have two of the cutest (and most hyper) schnauzers. So, it should be an exciting weekend. She did warn me, though, to pick up all dirty underwear and socks because they would play with them. I can just see the dog delivering a pair of my panties to a guest. So, I was thankful for the warning! So, tonight I will probably stay in and watch some Christmas movies or something. But I am looking forward to having the company around the house. Sounds good to me...

Hope everyone else has a great weekend!

Oh wait, it's just chocolate!

I just got home for lunch. I swung by subway since I have almost nothing edible in my house right now. The girl in front of me got a big stack of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. I resisted the urge to get some for myself, but little did I know... I would be taking some of the chocolate home with me anyway.

I got back in my car, put my bag in my lap and drove the less than quarter mile from Subway to my house. I got out and noticed a huge glob of something on my pants. At first, I was sure it was dog poop and was mortified at the thought of how it managed to get on my sandwich bag... thus onto my pants. But a quick whiff of chocolate reassured me that it was not indeed, dog poo.

So I have changed pants... luckily I was on my way home and not back to the office!!

Note to Self:

Last night, I helped someone paint the panelling in their kitchen with Kilz primer. I was painting with a roller, and as usual a good bit of paint spattered my hands.

Note to self: Always wear gloves when painting with primer!

The following picture is my hand AFTER scrubbing with just soap and water.


I continued to scrub, using acetone nail polish remover. Some of it did come off, but certainly not all of it. So, I am still speckled today. I have a meeting at lunch today for one of the State Bar's publications. I know someone who will be keeping her hands under the table, LOL.

Funny addition: We are doing secret santa at work. I just got a delivery from my secret santa and it is "Merry Cranberry Cleansing Wipes." I don't know who my secret person is but there is no way they could have known how ironicly funny that gift would be this morning. I can't wait to find out who it is so I can tell them!

Another Update

My mom came to my office this morning with two 2-3 gallon pitchers of water to put in my car so she could follow me to the shop earlier. I used one and then we dropped off the car. She dropped me back off at the office and went to Christmas shop nearby for an hour or so and then get me for my lunch break. When she picked me up for lunch, we turned the first corner and I hear a splashing sound. I turned to look behind the seat of her van and see the second pitcher turned over, lid off, and the 2-3 gallons of water flowing all over the carpeted floor. What a wonderful addition to this story!

Car Update

I dropped my car off at a radiator shop down the street from work. After I described the problem, and that this is a repeat of a problem he corrected 7 or 8 months ago, he offered a diagnosis. He told me I could take it to a general mechanic and they could take things apart and charge me a couple hundred to search for a leak. Or he could flush the radiator again and put in some "stop leak" tabs and hope that it would keep this from happening again for about $50. While he said he could not guarantee that this would correct the problem, he did assure me that this (and I quote) "ain't no jack-leg joe-bob-earl truck stop fixer upper" but actually something that GM uses in their new vehicles. So, considering the cost... I am going to try his solution first. I should have the car back later today and let's cross our fingers that it works out ok. That guy may have "talked funny" but he seemed to know what he was doing.

Off to a good start...

Yes, it's Friday morning and I am off to a good start. Last week my car ran hot. I checked the coolant, it was low, I added some and it has been fine ever since... until this morning. For those of you who don't know me, it only takes me less than 5 minutes to get from my house to work. In those few minutes, my temperature gauge shot up to almost the red. I pulled into my parking space at work and quickly shut off the engine. I heard a popping sound then saw steam rolling out from under the hood. I get out of the car and see a river running from beneath the car. And might I mention, this morning it is 8 degrees with the wind factor says the DJ on the radio just before I get out of my car.

So, now I am waiting... hoping that I merely have a blown hose and not something more serious (and expensive). Especially right before Christmas. I'm waiting for it to cool down, put at least some water in it and get it to a shop that is close by. Wish me luck.

Happy Friday, everyone. Hope yours started off better than mine. Arrghhh!

Just my luck...

I left work early for a dentist appointment yesterday. I usually don’t mid going to dentist for my regular six month appointments. Actually, I kind of look forward to it. My dentist is a woman and so are all of her hygienists. So, it’s kind of like going to the beauty shop and gossiping with the ladies.

Yesterday was only supposed to be a cleaning. But x-rays revealed that I had a cavity and a broken filling. The dentist wanted to fix the broken filling right away, and when they couldn’t get me an appointment in the next couple weeks, they insisted I stay and do it right then. One cavity was on the top jaw and the broken cavity was on the lower. She gives me shots for each one. Then when she goes to start drilling she says, “Oops. They hygienist wrote it down wrong. It’s on the other side. I’ll have to give you one more shot.” Just what I wanted to hear, right? So, now both the left and right side of my upper lips are numb.

On a side note, I had minor surgery on my throat/neck over two years ago that caused some nerve damage. I have regained most of the feeling on that side but some of the nerves have been “rerouted” so to speak. So, the tooth on the lower jaw that was supposed to get numb... didn’t. She kept giving me more and more Novocain, which was causing other parts of my face and my tongue to get numb... just not the tooth that needed to be drilled. So, I felt most of the drilling and did lots of squirming. Needless to say, it was not a pleasant experience.

Then, I had to be at my second job at American Eagle at 6. Did I mention that I couldn’t feel my whole face? So, I couldn’t smile, could barely talk and did everything I could not to drool on the clothes. Customers who asked me questions probably thougt I was either drunk or handicapped since my speech was slurred and my face didn't appear to be functioning properly. Plus, I was nice and grumpy because I was hungry but couldn’t eat dinner until I could feel my tongue and lips again.

So, today my jaw is sore from the many shots and my tooth is sensitive from the drilling. But at least it is all over with and I don’t have to go back for another six months.

A sure sign...

It's cold outside. Freezing. So, I brought some hot chocolate mix to work with me. I decided to make myself a cup of it in my trusty travel mug that I usually get my coffee in. It is very similar to the one pictured below. I caught myself as I was just about to put the mug in the microwave! Does anyone see a problem with this? Maybe all that metal on the mug? Hmm. Maybe it would have short-curcuited something and cause the building to lose power and we could have all gone home? I doubt it. Most likely I would have just blown up the microwave and gotten in trouble. I think this is a sure sign that I need to go home and go back to bed.

Happy Birthday, C-W Dan!

I made a cake and this piece is ESPECIALLY for you. No, I didn't do anything to it. No, seriously... I didn't lick it or sneeze on it or anything gross like that. I even washed my hands before I cut it for you. So, just eat it already!

Belated Birthday Things

Last Saturday was my 25th birthday. It was Thanksgiving weekend and a lot people were out of town. So, I had some girlfriend over. We played board games, had martinis and ordered pizza. It was really nice! And I managed to get all of my Christmas decorating done before everyone came so the house felt nice and cozy. Thanks all of you that came and those of you that called. I love you guys!

And a special thanks to Lioux and Dan who made a special belated birthday surprise for me today. It was sweet, even if they were guilted into it. ;) You guys rock!