Thursday, March 30, 2006

Favorite Band Meme

My loverly sistah, Nookie, tagged me.

Instructions: Choose a band or artist and answer the questions using only titles of their songs.

For those Celine Dion fans out there who might not recognize the titles, I am picking AC/DC as my band.

Are you male or female? "The Girl's got rhythm"
Describe yourself: "Problem Child"
How do some people feel about you: "She's got Balls"
How do you feel about yourself: "All Screwed Up"
Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend: "Inject the Venom"
Describe your current significant other: "Love at first Feel"
Describe where you want to be: "Sin City"
Describe how you live: "Breaking the Rules"
Describe how you love: "There's gonna be some Rockin"
What would you ask for if you had just one wish: "Dirty Deeds, done dirt cheap"
Share a few words of wisdom: "It's a Long Way to the Top"
Now say goodbye: "Have a drink on Me"

EDITED MY "HOW YOU LOVE" ANSWER FOR MONSTY. :)
My original answers were "Go down" and "Let me put my love into you"

I tag Breezy, Tkit and Lasann

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Carey's off the wall post for the day

I just felt a need to say this:

Poopoo cookies are uber divine.

that is all.

Monday, March 27, 2006

Work rant and it's resolve

Last week I had a very stressful work week. I was soooo happy that it was over.
Mini backstory: One of my coworkers is the biggest bitch on earth. She has been with the company for almost 30 years and the owners made her exempt from being fired when the new management took over.
There isn't one employee who can stand her. She is not a team player, she is rude, she is a snitch and in general has no personality above being a bitch.
a couple of weeks ago, I was out for 2 1/2 days. I left her with about 6 jobs to quote for me. One was quite a project but it was for a new client & it had to get done. Our customers have grown used to getting their prices back from me within the same day as their request and for a project like this, they are used to a two day turn around on the prices. If it is going to take longer, they know that I will either call or email them.
Well, after being out part of Wednesday and all of Thursday and Friday, I go back to work on Monday and guess what is sitting on my desk. Yep, the same quotes I handed to my coworker on Wednesday. Including this project for the new customer.
I worked up a quote for her and sent her an email. It was an $80,000 project. Quite a job for a small company of less than 40 employees, dontcha think.
Well guess what else. We didn't get the job. Why? Because we didn't get the quote to her on time and she awarded the job elsewhere. To someone who priced it in the same range.
My response and my solution? Let me train the new girl who has years of experience in our business. The boss has told us all to start giving her more work. Bitch coworker had a fit, said customers need to understand if we are out sick and must wait and she doesn't want me to train the new girl to do my job. We ended up in a yelling match that day.
Today, the boss came back after being out for two weeks. Boy was he pissed to learn about losing an $80k job because of my coworker.
i now have a new project. I am writing a training manual/instruction booklet on how to do my job. *BIG GRIN* and I will be training the new girl over the next two weeks.
I won. She lost. I'm happy. She's pissed. It's the little things in life that make me happy.

Friday, March 24, 2006

Update on my Booboo Baby

So Michelle just picked her up from the vet. Everything is okay. Whew. *deep sigh of relief*

Again, thank you for all of the nice words. It did help.

*giggle* Michelle did get a lecture from the vet. He said that now that she is older (the cat, not Michelle) that we need to keep a better eye on these things. He said that it will take two of us to clip her nails because she is a spawn of the devil. He suggested that we just bring her in to him. It only cost $15 and is well worth it. He said that it even took two of them to hold her down.
No surgery, no sedation, no booties and no antibiotics. She will just heal naturally.

She was screaming like a demon when Michelle walked in but as soon as she heard Michelle's voice she stopped yelling. Michelle put her finger in the carrier and Shug put her nose on Michelle's finger and rubbed it and then immediately calmed down and she hasn't yelled since.

So all of you peeps, go check your animal's claws tonight when you get home. *points stern fingers at everybody*

*smooches* again to everybody. *wipes tear from cheek*

Tell me it will be okay

*sigh* My oldest cat is 18 years old. It seems that her claws have gotten too long and they ended up curling and growing into her pads. And now her pads are splitting. We noticed blood on Michelle's chair and it is coming from Shug's paws. She has a vet appointment today and the vet is going to get the claws out of her pads. My worry is that because of her age, she is going to have some sort of major trauma over this. I'm worried that they may have to sedate her in some way. What if because of her age, her heart can't handle that stress. What if they have to operate on her? What if they have to declaw her? What if, what if, what if. I hate the what if game but these are all possibilities. I'm just worried that any kind of stress is going to be too much for her poor little heart. I'm basically freaking out right now. Michelle will call me when it is all done but I have no idea what time that will be.
So tell me how it's not as bad as I think it will be and my baby will come home safe and sound this morning. *sob*

EDITED FOR UPDATE: Michelle just called. The vet is keeping her because they can't just simply clip her claws. They are going to lightly sedate her because she tried to bite them. They laughed though because she was purring the entire time that she was trying to bite them. They did say that she was in great shape for being 18 years old and I guess the lady even called another vet lady in and said "can you believe this cat is 18?" So they are happy about the shape she is in. Anyhow, they are going to sedate her and then soak her paws in an iodine solution and then take the claws out. She will have to be on an antibiotic because one of her paws is slightly infected. Total of three claws on two different paws. They will call when it is all done.

Monday, March 20, 2006

Crap

My SBC email account cancelled on me without notice. So I have lost most of my bookmarks to blogs and some of my email addresses and all of my YM messenger addresses.
Do me a favor, if you still want me to have your email address and your YM account name, could you PM me at the other place with the info so that I can start to rebuild my address book and YM list and blog bookmark. Obviously if you are linked over on the right I don't need that blog addy. But if I had access to a private blog of yours, could you PM me with that. Assuming you still want me to have that info.
Thanks.
What a day. *sigh*

EDITED TO ADD: I think problem solved. Everything imported into my new email account except for my address book. But I think I got all of my addresses (I hope) because it imported all of my inbox/sent/trash. So I had to go into each of my emails and click on add address which was a pain in the ass but it was doable.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Something is telling me....

Something is telling me not to post tonight. First I had a post and then my computer took a dump and I couldn't recover it. Then I posted one of those quiz thingies that made me laugh. It was "What terrible Christmas gift are you" I was a fruitcake. *snort* "Nothing tastes better but you're about to get thrown into the trash" *sigh*
But I fucked up the link somehow and it didn't post right and I deleted it. Then I tried to post a picture of a Samoa cookie and I had errors and it wouldn't post. If this one doesn't post, I'm giving up.
Hi.