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so this is something i definitely won't and don't miss!! this is something that wasn't even on my original list!  but thanks to facebook and it's on today this is what you posted i was reminded of this this morning: definitely not going to miss being the bitch... i mean i am a bitch, don't get me wrong. but having to be the bitch is something entirely different. in the college years i had what my friends referred to as "the voice". basically the voice says i'm pissed off and you better not fuck with me. as a manager you have to have a certain amount of the the voice. but you can't have too much voice bc employees are delicate little beings. it is such a double standard and i'm so glad i'm not a manager any more. you have to hold your staff accountable and coach in the moment. but if you say too much they complain to your manager. ahhhh !! i'm getting so pissed just thinking about it right now. so you hire someone to do a jo...

DISCLAIMER: this post is not about any particular retail company. it is what i have learned/ observed/ experienced at 14+ years at XX, 7 intermittent years throughout college and post graduation at XX, kinda remember as a seasonal one year in college at XX, and barely remember for about a month at XX (bc i thought i could do 2 jobs at the same time and at the time i couldn't) these are my opinions about the retail experience and are not 100% based on one company so when i gave my 2 week notice i started joking around about how i wasn't going to miss this or that. then when i decided that i was going to start the blog again a decided that i was going to have a feature (or several) about what i wasn't going to miss about retail. before i left i decided that the #1 thing i wasn't going to miss was the music. and while this was decided based  on the awesome  music i got to listen to on a daily basis  it is not solely based on that job. i have several issues with the musi...

Now that I'm a mom I've learned a few things.  Today's lessen... Rocking the baby to sleep isn't good for you.  Sometimes you really really want the baby to nap so you can do the dishes or eat or take a shower or poop.  But really when you rock the baby to sleep you make yourself tired and all you really want to do at that point is just take a nap yourself...

I know I know...I said a few years ago I was going to write more... then I didn't.   Well things have changed. I mean really really changed.  The mr and I had a baby! The little man is going to be 1 in a few days.  So that really changes life.  I was very lucky that I was able to take 6 months maternity leave from my job! Then when I went back to work mom and dad put their life on hold and came out from the east coast for 6 months.  I also got lucky that my first day back ( as a retail manager) was the day after the day after Christmas! I missed all of the holidays, so that was an extra bonus.  The next step was trying to find a day care that could work with my schedule, which is different every week and I find it out 2 weeks in advance. This proved to be extremely difficult.My work has a life assistance program and I called them several times to try to source day cares. They came back with a list of about 4 each time that didn't 100% meet our ...

Stumbling upon way to many people who feel the need to over share and make themselves feel super self important seems to be par for the course these days... personally I've pretty much stopped posting anything on the Facebook and I don't have instagram or twitter. I've realised that I don't need to post my fault random thoughts so that people can validate them by liking or reposting. That being said I do have this lovely blog which I barely remember to post on..although I have written numerous posts in my head when I can't sleep or I'm driving. Anyhoo.... that main point of this rant is that I now feel the need to share with you all some of the random shit I've found on line. Back story of today's installment.... The hubs and I are back east for a long over due visit to the families...we are currently trying to figure out where to go for breakfast since a diner we frequented back in the day burnt down a few years ago and wasn't rebuilt. Que me goin...

how oh how has it been almost 3 years since i've written anything??? i know i've composed many many many posts in my head and i guess i just never got around to actually typing and posting them... so much and so little has happened in the past few years.  the most important thing is the addition of mr. dickie barrett to our lives!! no i'm not talking about this dickie barret   i'm talking about this one!! look at the little face!! ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! and how can you not die when you see that little face!!! i have it on good authority the dickie aka puppers aka little richard is the cutest puppy in the world... my nephew said it... and you know kids don't lie! ( well until they get a little older) that is the biggest news i must share with the interwebs and any of you random peoples who might just boringly stumble onto my little rant and share space.... but i swear i'll start posting more!! i have home improvements and recipes to share!! but for now ...

at least i have a reason for not posting the past week.. i'm on vacation!! after colleen leaves i'm going to do some serious yard work so i'll post pic's for the garden... it's HUGE!!!!!! soon we'll have tomatoes for days!!!

2010 is going to be tough to top!! how do you beat buying a house? or even better..getting married? 2011 is going to have to be amazing! i hope you all have a happy and healthy 2011!!

remember the blue moon house ? its back ! and not blue at all!! bummer... i kinda wish they would have kept at least a little blue...

so i'm addicted to house porn. well before we ever started looking for a house i was watching house hunters and hgtv. i would also frequent assorted online real estate sites. when were where looking at houses i would go online and look to see if anything new had been listed multiple times a day. i would also look at the million dollar homes and even homes that were just out of our price range. on occasion i would be chatting with a friend from college on facebook (hi colleen) and i would send her the links to the million dollar homes. she told me i was sending her house porn. now i know i'm not the only one out there who is addicted to house porn. don't all speak up at once... so anyway, last week my husband and i were having a discussion about a set he had worked on. (he builds sets for tv shows) he was referencing something and so of course i googled it. sadly i could find no real pictures of the set although i did find tons of video. i just don't really have the p...

lately i keep hearing baby got back on the radio a lot and not even on the the old school rap station (which fyi i LOVE except they play opp too much) so late night i'm driving home from work and there's nothing better on the radio so i have to leave baby go back on... driving in complete silence until at the top of my lungs MY ANACONDA DON'T WANT NONE UNLESS YOU GOT BUNS HUN then i looked around luckily i was in the car alone only car on the road no one was witness thank gawd yet i feel the need to share that's it... but you know you've done the same thing don't lie

so i have a friend from college, let's call him bob. he's a writer now. (he is also magic, so let's call him magic bob)  he recently sent me a link to a article he had just published (although he mostly writes fiction). its about national novel writing month. it got me inspired to try to write a blog update everyday!! ok, everyday is not really realistic bc i'm kinda boring so once a week. yeah, i can do that!! CHALLENGE ACCEPTED! then i did nothing. i suck. so here i can trying to make up for it now and even sharing the link to magic bob's article! you should check it out. and maybe even try to write a little something everyday or at least once a week! you still have over half a month yet. as a matter of fact, so do it. now i need to take my own advice. and mentally writing s blog update does not count unless it is typed and posted for all to see! and actually i should have some recipes coming up to share, as we are hosting our thanksgiving in out new house!!...

it can take very little to make someone feel like an asshole or put in there place for the right reason. last nite i was at target. i stopped there to use the bathroom (as rob was tiling the floor and had to take out the toilet), to get snacks for a movie, and to get cash to give to marcie since she bought the movie tickets on-line. (sex and the city 2 the second nite it was open..we weren't taking a chance of it being sold out- which it was smart cuz when we got there at 9:40 for a 10:30 show it was sold out). so i'm running through target  bc it was crowded for 9:30 on a thursday nite. i cut through the clothes department to get around slow people (fyi- people in la and the la area walk SLOW!!)  the upstairs line was long so i went downstairs to pay. i'm headed for the beacon of light- a cashier with only one person in their line!! then a guy with a cart half cuts me off. so of course i roll my eyes. they he's like you can go. and i'm like that's right cuz yo...

so yes its been almost a month since i've shared the house with anyone we were supposed to get keys on may 4 originally so my parents booked a flight to come out and help us fix and move!  so dad was coming on may 4 to knock out some big stuff like the bathroom and mom was coming on may 8 since my vacation didn't start until may 9 (which was also mother's day so i thought it would be nice to give my mom a paint brush for mother's day-jk). so nice of them until we got the call the there was a court issue and we would not get keys until may 7. so mom looked into changing dad's to may 8 to fly with her and it just didn't make sense money-wise. so dad was going to get some quality time with rob that did not involve working on a house. so dad comes in and on may 5 he goes with me to sign the escrow paperwork!! then we find out that we are not getting keys on may 7- that is the final day for the court confirmation! we are not going to get the keys until probably may...

so i've been going a little schizophrenic lately house house house wedding wedding wedding house house work (i had to write performance reviews) house house wedding wedding house getting the feeling? so i wasn't going to post any pictures until we closed but its been pushed back twice now and i'm dying to share what we're doing!! so we were supposed to close in 30 days which means we would currently be fixing in preparation for move-in! then the governator passed a ca state first time home buyer tax credit! but you had to close after may 1. we figured the potential to get $10,000 was worth a week! except may 1 is a saturday so closing became may 4. then the probate court assessor said our house was worth $40,000 more than we were paying...ummm-what?? the estate was all like hells to the no! there's deferred maintenance and all sorts of crap and we're ready to close so the court lowered the price, but there is court paperwork that has to happpen. ...

the other nite i had a dream...or its possible i was awake and thinking then drifted off to sleep. i had mentally written an entire update that was dry, wry, and humorous (like my updates normally are, RIGHT?!?!) when i woke up i had no idea what i had mentally written, just that i had done it...so i figured i'd just tell you that... it might had had something to do with our abysmal continuing house hunt...our most recent prey is a house 2 door away from us! how awesome would that be?? its laid out just like ours..duplex. we only got to see the front unti, which is what we live in already so it was like a vacant version of out house! just wish we could have seen the back unit! its a probate sale and laws for probates in california are a pain in the ass!! it requires court confirmation..oh and we put in our offer over 2 figgin weeks ago and they still have not gotten back to us. so the house hunt continues... i hate the real estate market in southern california... we have been...

its the eve of another new year. do we really need a new year to make resolutions? i personally think no. i understand for many people a new year signifies change, but what about making birthday resolutions? it marks a new year for you as well. if you're not ready for a change for real and you have to make it as a new years resolution then maybe you aren't really ready for that change! any hoo..just my little rant... hope you all have a happy, safe and healthy new year. may you accomplish all the goals you set for yourself this year, be them new year's resolutions or otherwise...

so while walking to my car after work i was reminded of a line from a classic movie from the early to mid 90's hackers "spandex is a privilege, not a right" sooo true! oh 90's movies you speak to me on soo many levels. how i miss the 90's! not so much the early 90's like high school, but the early to mid 90's like college. those were the days! feeling the waves of nostalgia roll over me... but i digress there was a big girl wearing leggings as pants. (ok not spandex, but pretty damn close!) and i don't mean with a tunic or longer top, but with a normal length shirt falling just below the waist. really? do i need to see that? really? no, no i don't i understand being comfortable with your body, but would you wear a bikini on the beach? probably not now i consider my to be a big girl, not huge, but i could stand to lose a few pounds (which i'm not even going to think about until after christmas bc to me december is alll about food!) i might not...