I can haz Cthulu!?

Lolthulu

Enjoy. I want this as a bumper sticker.

Work is going well. We let go one of our trainees and we are working hard with another to build her confidence.

I'd much rather deal with "I want to do it and I'm struggling" rather than "I'm lazy and I'm going to do as little as you let me get away with."

Today was the other trainer Kelli's birthday. We ordered lunch and she had to listen to my version of Happy Birthday before she left to go home.

I went shopping last Wednesday with Al in Erie and picked up some sweet new clothes for work at Burlington Coat Factory. I also got some Mary Jane-style Crocs, so I can wear them to work and be super comfy for training.

Gonna have some porkchops and macaroni and cheese for dinner, Jeff is on the phone to Adam. We are hopefully going to see him sometime in May.

That's all for now folks, Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Damn you Artie

I know it's been a long time between posts. To make up for it, I bring you this link. Artie showed us this last night. I hope that once enough other people see it, I can stop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA

Things are good here, just finished our first new hire class at work. We have determined that our test sucks. When the highest score is a 79.5% (You have to pass with a 75%) it's not a good sign. The test is poorly worded, and doesn't actually test what they need to know to be on the phones.

Today we are going to Port A to hang out with Jess and Frosh, Chits and Artie is coming to. We will play some games. I hope we can play Vegas Showdown, I am getting pretty good at it.

Not too much else going on lately. Looking forward to seeing Iron Man when it comes out May 2. I also want to see Zach and Miri make a porno when it comes out, which is apparently not until Halloween. :-(

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

It ain't over til I say it's over!

So yesterday morning, I get pulled into a meeting with my manager Tom, and our HR rep, and I am offered a Training Coordinator position. As it turns out my friend Juli, the current Training Coordinator, put in her 2 week notice on Sunday, as she is taking a job at a call center closer to her home in Jamestown. So now the new Training Coordinators will be Kelli (who I strangely feel better about, now that I know she spells it with an "i". She also reads a lot and has a good vocabulary, so I am certain we will get along swimmingly.) and me!!!

So although I am sad Juli is leaving, because I was looking forward to working with her, I am very excited to be starting my new position. I got to go out to lunch yesterday with some of the folks from our management team, and today I got to attend my first management meeting.

The only forseeable downside is that my schedule is going to change, I will be working at least one evening shift a week, and one weekend day. But Tom and Trisha both emphasized the need to be flexible as far as scheduling goes, so as long as people are willing to help me out and cover me when it is needed, I think it will work out great. My pay rate also increased, and as a member of management I will also get more vacation time each year.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

More work?

Work has been interesting this week. Once again, we can't accept credit cards. About a month ago now, we lost the ability to process MasterCard orders. We converted a lot of those customers to Visa. Now we have to tell them we can't take their Visa either. The customers aren't too happy. This contributed to the following quote from my friend Dawn, which made me do one of those arched back, belly laughs at the ceiling.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones,
But I have all your cigarettes!"

Lazy day at home, most ambitious activity so far has been shoveling and sweeping off the cars. We got a pounding from the snow last night. Jeff's copy of Risk: Godstorm also came in the mail today. I think soon he may be looking for someone to play with.

I was feeling a little under the weather yesterday, doing better now, thanks to 12 hours of sleep.

Back to World Of Warcraft now I think. I am working on getting my warrior to level 70. I have couple things left to do in Hellfire Peninsula and then it's on to the Mushroom Forest... I mean Zangarmarsh.



(Does anyone else remember this book besides me? It was awesome!)

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Things I wish I knew 10 years ago

I was having some deep thoughts in the car on the way home today, and I thought "this sounds like a blog post". I was thinking, you never know what life will bring you. Jeff was saying the other night that he wants the next place he lives to be the house he dies in. And that would be nice, to have so permanent a home, but you never know. We could buy a house near Bradford (not right in town, of course. Scary townies!) and then 5 years later the company I work for could move to New Mexico and offer to pay me to move down there. We could go on vacation somewhere and like it so much we decide to move there. Jeff could get his MSW and be offered a position in another city or another state. So we're never "done". I don't think we can plan before we're 30 to be settled. The only constant is change.

I called this blog "Things I wish I knew 10 years ago" because I was remembering being in high school and college and thinking "Oh, this is it my life is OVER. I failed a test, my life is over; my boyfriend dumped me; my life is over; My friends are all graduating and leaving me, my life is over.

Life is never "over." It's a series of endings and beginnings that cycle over and over again. And the balance of the Wheel goes 'round and 'round.

So even though I did not get the Training Coordinator position at work, my life is not OVER. My manager had nothing but great things to say about me even as he was telling me they went with another candidate (from outside the company) And I am going to be going through the training with this new person, so I can learn how our current training process works. They want to give me the background I need so that (hopefully maybe they wouldn't guarantee anything outright) I can be a part of our training staff in the future. Tom (my manager) also said they wanted to hear my ideas on our current training process, how to tie the information to different things so that people can remember it once they leave our training classroom and are out on the phones working.

So while I did not get the position, I am still going to be doing something new at work starting Monday.

It's not over. :-)

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

tiny Kharasa

February post

Today was a great day. Jess and I went skiing at Holiday Valley and then ate lunch and did some shopping in Ellicottville. We went to Alexandra, where there is this awesome candle that smells like a tomato plant. It reminds me of my Grandma Eb's garden. We also went to Kazoo II, which has all kinds of neat things. I spent some time looking at the milagros, which are silver charms that Catholics in Latin American countries will give as offerings to saints on behalf of their loved ones. For example, if your loved one had a broken foot, there were foot charms. There were also breast and penis charms, which seems to me to be for motherhood or fertility, or I guess any ailment with those parts of the body. It's basically a form of sympathetic religious magic. I love finding similarities between the rituals of different religions.

Then when Jess and I got back, we played a new PS2 game that Chits has purchased. IT's a trivia game and you get 4 buzzers with it. It was pretty fun. I won the first game (which Chits did not play in) and lost the second (in which Chits kicked all of our asses, badly) I also got to see my adorable nephew, Aidan. He can take a few steps now, and stand up from being seated. I can't wait til he starts talking.

It's a busy month. Lacy and Jay are coming up next weekend to go to the Old Library. They are going for Valentine's Day. I am going for French Onion Soup and dessert. Valentines Day sucks, see last year's rant here for the reasons why.

Well, it is way past my bed time. Merry Part and Blessed Be!

I want to have Cpt. John Sheridan's baby

Again, long time no post I know. But at least it hasn't been a whole month. We've been busy here. Had friends to visit over New Years. Jeff's Birthday was last Friday. We've been enjoying our Christmas loot, most specifically Babylon 5, which is the reason for this blog title. There was a move Sheridan came up with on the disk we were watching tonight, that was just so totally and completely bad-ass, that I want to have his baby. We are currently watching Season 3.

I applied for a new position at work. I'll write more about it if I actually get it.

Also, adding some funny videos here that we were introduced to over Christmas/New Years:

Merry Christmas!

Yeah, it's a day late, and I haven't post in a month, but you're still glad to hear from me right?

Anyway, I got a pile of sweet loot for Christmas. I know that's not what it's about, but it is a lot of fun. And my friends and relatives really outdid themselves. Jeff got me a Celtic necklace, a pretty scarf, The Princess Bride (the novel, not the movie, I already have the movie) and a Wicked Witch of the West Keepsake ornament. My Mom and Dad got me an IPod Shuffle (which is totally awesome!), some cute clothes from Old Navy, and the Seasons expansion for Sims 2. Jeff's Mom and Dad got me some books and DVDs from my Amazon Wish List, more Sims 2 stuff, and some neat things from their travels this year (a mask from Vegas and a necklace from Tennesee. We got more Department 56 pieces for our Halloween village from Jeff's aunt and uncle, and he got some cool gargoyle bookends from his cousin Steve. Oh, and I also got some big fluffy bath sheets and a fairy statue from my Aunt Beck and Uncle Rick.

I also got to see Allison, and Grey briefly. This week we have Adam coming to visit, and we're going to see Grant and Wendy too. It's also my nephew Aidan's first birthday on Saturday, so we have a birthday party to attend.

It's such a fun time of year! I hope everyone enjoyed their Solstice/Christmas or whatever you celebrate as much as I did.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

It's been a month again, so I figure it's time to post

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving with their families yesterday. Jeff and I went to St. Marys and had turkey, mashed potatoes, etc. at his Aunt Sue's house. Today we are going to Ellicottville to shop with his family and also eat.

I've been playing a lot of World of Warcraft lately. The recent patch made it easier to get from level 20-60, which is great, because those are the levels that didn't really get new content from the expansion, so they are kind of boring if you already have a level 70 character (or 2 or 3. I don't know where some people get the time!) So my warrior, Sampsa, has gone up 5 in the past 10 days or so, I'd say. She's currently working on Un'Goro Crater, Winterspring and Silithus. Actually, as I am typing this, she is flying from the night elf capital back to Un'Goro Crater (great area, volcanoes, dinosaurs, tar pits) to collect dirt to do a quest that increases your reputation with the night elfs. I want one of the night elf mounts, which are a big cat, and I am not going to get a night elf character to level 40 anytime soon.

Work is going better, they are going to change my scheduled to Monday-Friday until January to see "if it meets the needs of the business." I wanted to point out that me being dissatisfied and looking for a new position would also not meet the needs of the business. I think the problem is I know too much. It's handy to have me there on Sundays for them because then I can answer questions about mail, do the logging spreadsheets for the Admin team, and answer help desk calls from the phone reps while the managers are on break. I'm like a pseudo-manager that they don't have to pay management salary for. I didn't even apply when they opened the last two Team Lead positions, because they were for weekends and evenings. I'd like to see my husband and friends, thank you very much!

Anyways, Sampsa should have landed in Silithus now (desert area, ruins, big insects) so I am back to WoW. Merry Part and Blessed Be!

I know you aren't surprised

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!

You have come to a place mute of all light, where the wind bellows as the sea does in a tempest. This is the realm where the lustful spend eternity. Here, sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine, whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. You have betrayed reason at the behest of your appetite for pleasure, and so here you are doomed to remain. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy are two that share in your fate.


Level descriptions: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-information.html
Take the test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv

I bought a new book at Books Galore in Erie yesterday called Talk Nerdy to Me by Vicki Lewis Thompson. I had to buy it as soon as I saw the title. The other books I saw of hers are also about smart women with a thing for guys with huge.... brains. I really enjoy Talk Nerdy to Me, I polished it off before bed last night. We also got some Christmas shopping done yesterday, and bought Halloween costumes.

Hope you are enjoying the beautiful fall weather! Merry Part and Blessed Be!

So wrong...

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

From the net. I have Jay's sister, Erin, to thank for introducing me to Cyanide and Happiness. It's worse than Red Meat. It's so wrong, yet I just keep reading!

MP and BB

Cute picture!

I got to talk to Allison on AIM this morning! We are having a nice visit. I am going to start some laundry, and make some lunch. Hope you all have a great weekend!

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

I am a winner!

This morning I was caller three and I got to play "Who's Minding the Store" on Scott's Morning Buzz on WBRR Cool 100. I qualified for the drawing on 10/25/2007 to win 4 tickets and a limo ride to the Bills/Dolphins game. I also won a bowling gift pack for Byllye Lanes here in Bradford! I was so nervous I screwed up my choice for who's minding the store (I said Marcia from Byllye Lanes, but it was actually Brenda from Byllye Lanes, Marcia was from Worth W. Smith. Of course I can remember that now, but not while I was on the air) But I still won! I am going to pick up my bowling stuff at the radio station on Friday. And Jeff heard me on the radio!


Reviewing that paragraph, there are a lot of exclamation points.

I added a cool playlist to my Myspace page. If you have a myspace account, you should check it out.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

One more Blogthing

Your Deadly Sins

Lust: 100% Gluttony: 40% Greed: 40% Envy: 20% Sloth: 20% Pride: 0% Wrath: 0% Chance You'll Go to Hell: 31% You'll die while in the throws of passion - the best way to go.

How Sinful Are You?

I think this one is pretty dead on. :-)

I have been quite ambitious today, I think getting almost 10 hours of sleep last night helped. I did Yoga when I got up, and took a 40 minute walk after dinner. We are having fun with Brewfest in WoW. You have to be drunk off your ass to see the pink elekks (elephants) and wild wolpertingers (bunny rabbits)!

Yet More Blogthings

You Are a Log Ride

You prefer to live a fairly calm, relaxed life... with a few surprises thrown in. You don't tend to get yourself worked up easily. You can roll with what life throws at you. In relationships, you are steady and solid. You maintain a pretty broad perspective on what's going on. That's not to say you can't get swept away. You're emotions run as deep as anyone else's. Your life seems like it has been remarkably easy so far. But that's due to how you manage it. You never stretch yourself too thinly, and you think out your decisions carefully. Taking the time to enjoy each day is important to you, and you don't let your emotions rule you. You stay the course and do what's right... knowing it will all work out in the end. At your best, you are tolerant and understanding of other people's quirks. You take "go with the flow" to the extreme. Even if you don't like where you're going. At your worst, you repress your feelings and end up being a little tightly wound. You definitely have some explosive emotions that occasionally come to the surface!

What Carnival Ride Are You?

The Movie Of Your Life Is A Cult Classic

Quirky, offbeat, and even a little campy - your life appeals to a select few. But if someone's obsessed with you, look out! Your fans are downright freaky. Your best movie matches: Office Space, Showgirls, The Big Lebowski

If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?

Your Seduction Style: Siren / Rake

You possess an unbridled sensuality that appeals to many. The minute you meet anyone, you can make the crave you almost immediately. You give others the chance to lose control with you... spiraling into carnal bliss. A dangerous lover, you both fascinate and scare those you attract.

What Is Your Seduction Style?

I don't think that one is true, personally.

There's a 36% Chance You've Been Abducted By Aliens

Even though you have a few alien abduction signs, you're almost certainly in the clear. However, if aliens ever do come to your neck of the woods... they'll probably be coming for you!

What Are the Chances that You've Been Abducted by Aliens?

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Time for more Blogthings

Your Halloween Costume Should Be

A Sexy Bunny

What Should You Be For Halloween?

You Are Lightning

Beautiful yet dangerous People will stop and watch you when you appear Even though you're capable of random violence You are best known for: your power Your dominant state: performing

What Type of Weather Are You?

You Are 61% Pure

You're pretty pure, and you have no plans on changing that. You do have a devilish side though... and it will probably get the better of you.

The 100 Question Purity Test

Artie wins!

Last night Artie and Harriet came over to hang out. We had pizza subs from Parkview, and played Star Munchkin. Artie was playing the Bounty Hunter class, which has gives you the ability to resurrect the top monster from the discard pile when you discard your hand. He kept bringing back the level 1 Chair and beating it, and there was nothing Harriet, Jeff or I could do to stop him.

This is his victory dance:



And I told him I would blog about it and so I have.

Waiting for Lacy and Jay to get here. Looking forward to Alumni weekend.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Passion and Power

I thought this was a great little video, it was posted on the GoodVibes blog. It's a promotion for a documentary based on a book called The Technology of Orgasm. From what I can tell, the book follows the history of how vibrators were developed, first as a cure for women's "hysteria" at the end of the 19th century. This is a topic that has long interested me, I definitely believe that a healthy and active sex life contributes to overall better health and well-being. If you interested in learning more about the history of vibrators, check out the Antique Vibrator Museum at Good Vibrations.

Merry Part and Blessed Be!

Level 70 Biznitches!

Tonight, my hunter Kharasa, on the Eldre'Thalas server, reached Level 70. That is currently the highest level available in World of Warcraft. I also got a cool flying mount, an ebon gryphon. I killed many, many demons, and now I have about a dozen things to sell in the Auction House.





Merry Part and Blessed Be!