Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[pbjmaker]

ahh baby chickie is soo proud of himself!

So this morning I'm sitting on the phone (20 minutes so far) waiting for our power company to answer the phone. We had rain all day yesterday and then at 1 am it turned into a thunder snowshower. Bad news for trees that still had leaves on them. Whilst we still have power in our house, we lost several large branches off a tree in our front yard and two of them are still laying on the power line going to our house. I don't know how long it can hold them before it breaks. Unfortunately there are 9100 other people without power around here too and they are all probably calling in also...

Also the satellite is covered with so much heavy wet snow my TV isn't working so I can't watch the news

ETA: I was on hold for 49 minutes. The poor lady taking the reports sounded very frazzled, but they should be out today and cut down my branches...

 

[ibpboo]

Good morning

I hope you are not still on hold pbj.

We are suppose to get rain again starting Friday. Right when we go to Lundy Conference! If it rains Sat morn, how are we going to do our fitness walk!!


At our meeting on Monday, my boss announced she is taking a new position.

She starts it when we get back. Until her position is filled, she will try and tackle both positions for a bit.
Be available for us in the morning before starts her other job.
My oh my, so many changes in the district.

pbj, so many of the students always want pgj for lunch, wanna make some more?

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

Quote:
Momma is giving you the stink eye. Baby is going "Oh crap, how do I get DOWN!"

 

[sparkles2307]

Morning kids.

That is all.

 

[maple]

boo spelled it pgj....peanut gutter and jelly?

oh tree chick...what's babys name gonna be? Does that mean they both jumped on pony butt to get up there?





ok...think Blake Sheldon's song, "God gave me you."

g's version.....


God gave me hydrocodone to make the pain go down...
God gave me myralax to unstuck my bowel....



yeah...pain pills make the other function not function...and yeah, I had to share...who else am I gonna sing my song to?

 

[ibpboo]

I like your song maple, wish you didn't have to sing it though.

 

[ibpboo]

sharing an email

Subject: The Green Thing

The Green Thing

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."
The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.


Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.


We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.


Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day.


Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then.


We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.


Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.


But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?


Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartypants young person.
Remember: Don't make old people mad.
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to upset us.

 

[sparkles2307]

What do you get someone who only likes brown and is allergic to EVERYTHING?

 

[Orchid]

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Dear Fit Girl,

We also don't care what you ate for each meal over the weekend, the total caloric intake, or how many times you pooped.

Oh yes, I said it.

Crabapples.

Dear BYC ladies..

On my 2500 Calorie a day diet I have lost 37 pounds while retaining enough protein intake to keep most of my muscle mass. Although I know I haven't lost a pant size, my belly has shrunk.

Thank you...


Former Chippendale dancer.. Now a chunk n Dale hobbler..

I think it's harder for men to judge weight gain and loss by pant size, because for a lot of you the pants sit around your hips anyway, which is not typically where you gain the weight. I am so impressed that you've lost that much weight Boyd!

 

[debilorrah]

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A gift card.