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where is everyone? The coffee's on o[_] .....

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by Wizard57M-TR

Black is fine too...I'm here, off and on all day it seems, every day...right now I'm
bracing myself for another blast of winter weather. ;)

by purpleskys

seem to be the gig of the week wiz....I swear, everyone is stressed and/or so busy, they don't have time to turn around. I took my first real retail job this year at Walmart as a cashier; it's been....interesting. I like it, but holy smokes! We don't have much in the line of big box stores in Truro anymore....we've got Walmart and Giant Tiger....that's it. Target missed the mark in my books by not coming to the Hub Town (Truro is considered the Hub of Nova Scotia). We're supposed to get a Winners, but I have yet to be impressed by any of their store; i'll have to wait and see I guess once they get here.

Anyway...almost ready for Christmas here. Not bad considering we've both been working a lot and dealing with my 16 yr old daughter having her gall bladder surgery last week. It was scheduled, but it was scheduled on one of the worst storm days of the season. What should have been an hour's drive turned into almost 2.5 hrs the snow was that bad. My daughter and I deliberately left lots early because we knew we would be driving into the storm. Surgery went fantastic and she is recovering well :) . She did great.

Today, December 23, we are looking forward to a big ice storm...oh yay...Hopefully, it's not too bad.

Hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas :)

by slayer_

Remember, just go back to bed and sleep through the storm. Don't go on the roads.

by purpleskys

it hasn't been that bad....we haven't lost power and it seems to have eased up for now. We're still under and EC weather warning though. Unfortunately, I can't sleep through the storm; I worked 6:30-11 yesterday evening and work 9-5:30 today...no rest for the wicked ;) lol....have a good day. :)

by nicknielsen

Steady 400 ml/hour drip ought to keep me going through Christmas.

I don't know WHAT is going on this year, but I've closed 340 calls in the last 60 days, while averaging more than 10 hours and 150 miles per day. That average, by the way, includes the 11 days since October 23 I didn't actually clock in. I'm beat, and there are still three working days until Christmas! :|

by purpleskys

you definitely need a direct line hook up ;) lol. You sure have been busy; wouldn't give you any time to shop. I can imagine you're looking forward to having a few days off to yourself. Safe travels my friend and have a very Merry Christmas! :)

by nicknielsen

That assumes I have no sev 1 page-outs. I had 2 today, 115 miles apart, the first one 125 miles from where I was eating lunch. Forty minutes on site after a 2 hour drive, then a two-1/2 hour drive to the second, all of it on 2-lane roads. With farm traffic. In the rain.

I love my work. :\

by purpleskys

dunno if I could do the double boiler type thing.....yikes....but, as it sits right this minute, I do foresee spiced rum in my evening ....

by slayer_

I'm on stress overload and this is shaping up to be the worst xmas ever.
There's still time for it to turn around, but it seems pretty bleak right now.

by slayer_

I did get some snowmobiling in though. However at -30c its not that comfy and the trails aren't groomed yet.

I don't look forward to X-mas day, my grandmother died a few weeks ago. We normally have x-mas dinner at their house. But this year its going to be me, my father, my grandfather, and uncle just being sad and cranky.

by av .

Sorry to hear about your grandmother. All you can do is try to make the best of it.

AV

by av .

I'm about to start wrapping Christmas presents even though I don't want to. I figure a little Cappuccino might help. Its more festive than regular coffee and you can always put a little something in there to kick it up a bit. :^0

by purpleskys

irish crème it is....;lol....sounds yummy to me anyway ;) Happy wrapping AV....hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas :)

by av .

Finally got all the wrapping done. Now its on to cooking. My hubby makes lasagna and I make the sauce. My only problem after that is that I'm not sure what I'm wearing. Its basically whatever I can come up with in my closet this year.

by slayer_

Damn expensive though.
I only get it in the summer when i drive to the states and back

by purpleskys

I don't get it often either....and when I do, it's only a small bottle....but I'm thinking I'm about due to get some. We don't get down to the states so i'll just have to grin and bear the price of it here in NS. But it will be sooo worth it ;)

by steffi28

I went through almost a full litre bottle of Disaronno to myself at a xmas party on xmas night this year, I felt rather rough at the football (soccer) game I went to on Boxing Day too, but I blamed that on the fact that i'd had too much sugar as I usually drink diet cola and it was the full fat variety hehe :) Hope you all had a good xmas :) mine was hectic! Me and my boyfriend took over a pub in April, our first xmas in charge this year so it was manic!! First time i've ever had to work xmas day but the tips more than made up for it though :)

by shellbot

with no sugar .. cause i not taking stupid sugar anymore cause i'm trying to give up up stupid sugar cause I gotta lose this stupid weight I put on after quitting smoking. grrr

Is anyone in good form from xmas this year?? I been trying to get into the spirit, but its not happening. I don't want to be a downer for the OH though, so I'm kinda pretending to be in the spirit. Thinking that maybe it will kick in tonight when I off for the rest of the week.

Giving myself an early christmas present at about 5pm tonight, giving my 30 days notice at work. I'm going to take a month or so to study and do an exam for SQL 2012 DBA, and hopefully get a new position after that. Yup, I know, shouldn't be leaving a job till I have another, but I just need some space to get this studying done. I'm a contractor anyways, and my current contract is up just shortly after I leave anyways, so I'm not leaving a perm job. I won't go into details, but there's just nothing for me to do here and I know some people would love a job where they can just sit and stare at thier PC all day..but I can't. I need to be busy and I'm slowly going crazy here...

Hope you all have a relaxing christmas

by jck

Decided to poke my head in from androidland.

Hope you're doing well.

by shellbot

but i guess any alcohol will do.

I'm about ready to pull out my hair and run screaming from my job right now. 8 more days and I'm done though, so I'm tryign to hang in.

Since i put in my notice, its been quite uncomfortable. Main boss pretty much ignoring me, guy I work with is doing the same. I'm getting BS work to do..its nonsense and won't even be used. The stuff that will be used, I'm getting conflicting instructions on how to do it, 3 times its changed now for a particular piece of work, and I've had to redo it all each time. They might as well just have told me to go immediatly. I never pegged them to be so unprofessional.

Its actaully affecting my health. I can't believe I've found myself in such a place. So many years of contracting and I've generally had good expereinces.

Please, someone come and smuggle me out of the building!!

by nicknielsen

My work is supposed to slow down after Christmas, but there's been no significant change that I've noticed. Although there was that only 6-1/2 hour day this week, but since it was bracketed by 12-hour days, I think it was an aberration.

by charliespencer

chili cheese curly fries, a half-dozen Buffalo chicken fingers, super chocolate milkshake, a fried apple pie a la mode, and super-size all that.

Oh, and a small diet Pepsi.

by purpleskys

How's everyone doing? My new job is going ok; it's nice to be around other people instead of being a stay at home mom. Our Walmart is currently undergoing modifications to become a new Super Center; I'm very excited :D !

Winter has been pretty brutal here; I swear we have a snow storm every Wednesday; it's so bad, there's been a pic floating around crackbook calling Wednesday "Snowday" ;) .

Kids are well; school is going good all 'round. Our youngest started playing basketball this year; God love them, they're not very good but they have a great time playing. And in reality, that's all we could hope for. It gets her out of the house two days a week and doing something else other than playing computer games. I'm truly hoping it's something she sticks with for the next couple years.

So....that's a little of my news....what's new with everyone else? :)

by jck

Lots going on with me.

Sorry to hear Wal-Mart has invaded. Wait til your local shops all close down when Wal-Mart underprices them. They're good at that.

I hope your year has warmed up well, and the kids are doing well still.

I'll catch up later on. I have to go purify 201M records now. hehe

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