Ripped Off

The 15th of February was my 10 year anniversary with my company. For service anniversaries, they give you a plaque with your name and years of service. We usually have cake and chat about positions we've had at the firm. So when I first started, you had to be here at least 10 years to get a plaque. In my 6th or 7th year, they started celebrating 5 year anniversaries. Of course the manager I had then laughed when I said I wanted a retroactive party.

So yesterday morning I asked my manager when I was getting my plaque. He said "What plaque?". I said my plaque for being here 10 years. He said he'd ask around. In the afternoon he said he found out about my plaque. I said "Let me guess, I'm not getting one." He laughed and said yep. The firm is no longer acknowledging 10 years of service. You have to be here at least 15. I told him I was getting ripped off and was not happy about it. LOL. He said we'll still do something to celebrate. How ghetto is that?! 10 long years of putting up with this cheap-ass place and they don't even want to give me the stupid plaque and key chain.

Twilight

When I first started hearing the hype for this series, I wasn't interested. I heard it was for young adult and thought it would be cheesy. When I was at my parents over the holidays, one of my sisters said I HAD to read these books and brought over the first one. I waited a day until I was bored to look at it. By the third chapter I was hooked. When I got home, I bought all 4 books and finished them within a week of starting the first.

Stephanie Meyers grabs you and forcefully pulls you into the world she has created and doesn't let you go. You are enthralled until the very end and even then you thirst for more.

Holidays

For Christmas, I went to see my family in WA and had a whit christmas. The weather there was amazing and so beautiful. I took tons of pictures and read 5 books. 4 were the books of the Twilight series and the 5th was John Grisham's Playing for Pizza. I have several more on my reading list but haven't even gotten through one forward since I've been back at work. C'est la vie.

For Sale

There is a sign in front of my house. It kinda makes it real. I have been working hard to get it ready to sell. And then we filled out all the paperwork. But it was all an idea. Until the sign. Now, there will be people calling that number and going online to look at pictures of my house and coming over when I'm not here to walk around in it. It's a pretty weird feeling.

Greed

This is what happens when I give each dog one rawhide bone.

Some girls really are bitches

All the jokes guys make about us never letting anything go. It's true. You can go years thinking everything is fine and dandy and we'll just bring shit up from forever ago. And it's not even stuff you knew we were upset about. It's stuff that you thought wasn't a big deal until we throw it in your face like some sort of betrayal. And that's when you find out we never liked you to begin with and you wonder what the hell you were doing with us all this time.