Changes, yet not changing....sort of

I'm beginning to think it's practically an annual event to change the leadership in my office. The year after I started my current position, I got a new boss (Marc). After a few months it became apparent that he was not the best person for the job, at least it was apparent to those of us who don't make the Big Decisions. Those Decision Makers finally clued in around this time 2 years ago. So Marc lasted about a year. Then his duties were split between two people (Jean, a contact employee and Julie, previously my coworker who became my supervisor). Well I guess that hasn't been working as well as was hoped because Jean's contract was terminated and her replacement is imminent (David, currently our Marketing person) but not official yet. Julie would like to focus more on other aspects of her job so the duties that were split are now back to just one person and I'll be reporting to him officially in a week or so.

Oh, and another contract employee was also let go.

Throughout all this my duties remain pretty much the same.

All of this happened today.

*whew*

Theme Song

I must be having a nostalgic morning because I'm listening to Oldies music (which I listened to almost exclusively from about 8-13 years old).

Anyhoo, this song should be my theme song: Devil in Diguise

Unique switchboard question

I will periodically help out with the switchboard at the university I work at. Consequently I get some of the wackiest questions and comments you've ever heard. Today's question had me practically in stitches:

"So, I have a question probably for the Math department but maybe you can help. We were wondering how Romans did numbers with Roman numerals."

Who calls up an 800 # and dives right into a question like that with a switchboard operators??? Too funny. :)

Gavin and the Car

Most babies will sleep during car rides. In fact, this seems to be a widely held assumption and frequently applied to young families whether people know the baby well or not.

This is subject to change, particularly in a couple weeks when we make our big 20+ hour road trip but let it be known that Gavin sleeps very little to not at all in the car when we drive during his scheduled nap times.

This makes for some very "entertaining" evenings sometimes.

STD

That's "Save The Date".....get your mind out of the gutter people! ;)

We will have a birthday party (with family) for Gavin; we're planning Saturday, July 26 (late morning on into early afternoon, which is when he's in between naps). I'll send out invitations soon but need to print them first. I couldn't find ones I liked in the store so I'm making my own.

In the mean time, family members, please don't make other plans for that weekend!

Would anyone like to adopt two cats?

I'm serious.

Movie Theatre Update

Believe it or not, I received a response to my scathing e-mail.

For those who guessed that we were evicted because of a celebrity, I meant to respond that although I totally see how that could happen, I didn't think that was the case this time because the people going into the theatre were obvious high school students wearing prom-type dresses (but did not have Prom hair/makeup or corsages).

Anywho, I got an e-mail back from the General Manager and I thought I'd share the explanation with you since you so kindly read my venting a few days ago:

"A local High School found themselves without a place to hold their year end drama awards dinner. The local school had contracted with a local hall, only to have the hall back out on them. I simply wanted to help out this local group and be a good member of the community. Weekdays in May are pretty quiet, and I thought we could easily help this group, and make things right with our guests. It was made clear to the staff to accommodate guests, whom may have purchased a ticket prior to the schedule change."

As a former high school theatre geek, there's that part of me that understands and appreciates that someone out there really does support art more than athletics (FINALLY!!!). However, as a customer, he would have been smart to check the sales log first and see how many people he'd be messing with while attempting to be "a good member of the community" (btw, I abhor that sentence; it makes me feel like I'm the nasty, anti-help-the-poor-kids-out person).

More than likely this will probably be the end of this saga unless we run into additional snafus while attempting to see yet another movie there. I debate responding to him to let him know I appreciate his explanation, however he should have checked first to see how many people had already paid the extra $$$ to see a movie in that particular theatre. Because my life is crazy enough as it is and I just won't have time or energy to respond I bet I let it go. But I'll amuse my frustrated self by mentally drafting polite but chilly responses. ;)

Uncle!

Are there any other dorks out there who watch the Weather Channel daily? Just me? Oh…ok. Well, in any case if you’ve heard about the lovely weather slamming the Midwest in the last few days I thought I’d let everyone know we’re ok.

It’s been raining like crazy for a week now but Friday the fun really began for me personally when, at just after 3:00 p.m., the local tornado sirens went off. I was at home alone with Gavin (who naps until 4:00 mind you). I didn’t grow up in the Midwest so the mere threat of tornados usually have me pretty nervous. So when town sirens go off I suddenly have pictures in my head of mass devastation and carnage in the wake of an F5 twister. I also have the Wicked Witch of the West theme song playing in the far recesses of my mind but I digress…

So the sirens go off and I did what I usually do in such cases of personal panic: I call my hubby. Turns out they sound the alarm when the weather people escalate us from a tornado watch to a warning, not necessarily because a twister had been seen close by on the ground. Slightly reassuring but I still grabbed Gavin and the dog and headed for the basement (which is gross and badly in need of a cleaning so I was stuck holding Monkey Boy for 15 minutes while waiting for things to calm down. Overall, Friday wasn’t so bad but it still shook me and Gavin was consequently crabby for the rest of the evening.

Saturday was much more “fun.” Other than the heat and humidity, it was a beautiful day and I was able to get some weeding done while Mr. S washed his car. By mid-afternoon though the sky became ominous. We were concerned because we’d planned a cook-out with friends at our house (ETA: 6:30). At about 4:45 the local sirens sound again… this time the warning will last an hour. So we head back down to the basement with dog and baby in tow. This time Mr. S has the brilliant idea to bring the pack ‘n’ play downstairs. Our Monkey Boy happily played with my cell phone for about 20 minutes and that was nice.

Yet again, no twister came through but the evil factor by then switched from WIND to WATER. Great big gobs of water…gallons of water. And by gallons I mean, literally, billions of gallons PER DAY (the amount of rain we’ve received so far this weekend was equivalent to 10.4 billion gallons per day).

UNCLE!!!

ROTFL

I adore Office Space but of all scenes/lines, ones involving "my stapler" are my FAV!!!