Insane Random Ramblings

We have to make our work area look nice. Our department is expanding and we’re gaining between 8-12 new people. They’re going to farm out across the empty desks that we have. In preparation our managers are going crazy and want the area to look nice and presentable.

All of our old files have to be sent to our imaging department to be put on microfiche. I had 2 moving boxes full of paperwork to be sent down. It was hectic trying to get all of that stuff together and make sure each file had all of the proper documentation.

It does make my area look cleaner and less clutter though. Which was actually the goal of this whole exercise.

The Pittsburgh Pirates. That’s right they are officially a joke. Yesterday they traded Freddy Sanchez to the San Francisco Giants. They also traded both Jack Wilson and Ian Snell to the Seattle Mariners. A man who’s so depressed (Ian Snell) that he asks for a demotion and then admits that he contemplated suicide. Then you trade him to the city with the highest rate of depression in the country (Seattle).

I don’t even know who they have left on the team. I’m sure by the time Pedro Alvarez is ready to come to the big leagues, they’ll be ready to trade him away.

What a joke.

I never change my oil at the 3 month mark but I always try to change it after 3,000 miles. The reason for that is that I don’t drive that many miles in 3 months. This time it’s taken me almost 6 months to reach that mark. I’ll drop my car off and run across the street and go shopping. I want to price a PS3 and buy some stuff for my house. I need laundry detergent, hangers and some personal items. It seems like I don’t have any clothes but I keep running out of hangers.

There’s really nothing like knocking out multiple chores at one time.

I haven’t decided yet. My regular week of vacation is the week of my birthday and I’m planning on going home for a couple of days. I want to visit with my family that I don’t get to see that often. My moms birthday is a week and a half before my vacation so I may go home that weekend as well.

I’ll probably drive for the longer vacation since I’ll have a chance to relax after the trip. I’m not too sure about taking my phone though. I don’t think there are a lot of cell towers  for my provider on my route. I don’t want to get out in the middle of nowhere and not have a signal. I’ve had a accident in the past and I’m paranoid about that. I may borrow one of my friends’ phones.

I guess I had better make my decision pretty soon. I want to still be able to get a reasonable ticket for my short weekend. That’s if I have enough money to do both. I guess I should balance the old checkbook before I start making too many plans.

I’m really not sure. I do want to stay in the same industry but I want to go in another direction. I want to become an analyst for my company. It seems like you need an advanced degree to get into those positions. I’ve considered several schools and programs. One that I’m considering is a Masters in organizational development from Gonzaga online.

The program information looks informative and very promising. One of the career tracts that the degree can lead to is a Management Analyst, which is right up my alley. If I don’t want to become an analyst, this can also lead to a consulting position. I can also look into a getting a Masters in Organizational Leadership instead. The leadership tract opens up many more career choices. It also teaches you how to influence others while achieving the goals of your company. This is one skill that I am definitely lacking in. I usually have good ideas but I’m unable to take the leadership of the idea and articulate those ideas.

It’s a hard decision because I have to devote both the time and the money to going back to school. But I think it will be worth it in the end. I just have to make sure I make the right choice for me and my career goals.

The Spiritual Grandma Grandma is eighty-eight years old and still drives her own car. She writes:Dear Grand-daughter,

The other day I went up to our local Christian book store and saw a
‘Honk if you love Jesus’ bumper sticker ..

I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a
thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting..

So, I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper.

Boy, am I glad I did; what an uplifting experience that followed.

I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in
thought about the Lord and how good he is, and I didn’t notice that the
light had changed.

It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn’t
honked, I’d never have noticed.

I found that lots of people love Jesus!

While I was sitting there, the guy behind started honking like crazy,
and then he leaned out of his window and screamed, ‘For the love of
God!’

‘Go! Go! Go! Jesus Christ, GO!’

What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus!

Everyone started honking!

I just leaned out my window and started waving and smiling at all those
loving people.

I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love!
There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him
yelling something about a sunny beach.

I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger
stuck up in the air.

I asked my young teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant.

He said it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something.

Well, I have never met anyone from Hawaii , so I leaned out the window
and gave him the good luck sign right back.

My grandson burst out laughing.

Why even he was enjoying this religious experience!!

A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that
they got out of their cars and started walking towards me.

I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is
when I noticed the light had changed.

So, grinning, I waved at all my brothers and sisters, and drove on
through the intersection..

I noticed that I was the only car that got through the intersection
before the light changed again and felt kind of sad that I had to leave
them after all the love we had shared.

So I slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them all the
Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away. Praise the Lord
for such wonderful folks!!

Will write again soon,

Love, Grandma

Instead of waiting until the weekend like I usually do, I’m going shopping tomorrow evening. There are a few things that I want to get that are usually sold out or close to it on the weekend. The fresh fruit that’s on sale for the week is always gone on Saturday. So are the bread  products. I also want these diet pills that I found a few months ago. They’re the best diet pills I ever had. They’re not chalky or thick or anything like that. Best of all, they’re on sale too. So I plan on making it a pretty big shopping trip.

Besides, I want to start pricing a new tv for my living room. I can’t even imagine life without tv. The one I have is about to go and I want to be prepared when it happens. As long as I have tv to watch, I’m a happy camper.

I guess I shouldn’t really complain since I live on the third floor of a walk-up building. I get all of the heat that rises from the lower floors as well as the heat from the sun on the roof. Needless to say, my apartment stays hot in the summer. But this has been one of the mildest summers that I can remember. I just went out and bought a air conditioner a few weeks ago too. I haven’t had the time to put it in yet. So it’s a good thing that it’s not really hot.

I love summer but I hope it stays like this for the rest of the summer.

Three couples went in to see the minister about becoming new members of his church. The minister said that they would have to go without sex for two weeks and then come back and tell him how it went.

The first couple was retired, the second couple was middle aged and the third couple was newly married. Two weeks went by, and the couples returned to the minister.

The retired couple said it was no problem at all.

The middle-aged couple said it was tough for the first week, but after that it was no problem.

The newlyweds said it was fine until she dropped the can of paint.

“Can of PAINT!” exclaimed the minister. “Yeah,” said the newlywed man. “She dropped the can and when she bent over to pick it up I had to have her right there and then. Lust took over.”

The minister just shook his head and said that they were not welcome in the church.

“That’s okay,” said the man. We’re not welcome in Home Depot either.”

But I just couldn’t bring myself to watch it. I only wanted to see Ryan Howard and that’s it. I know that there were a couple of people that would have been pretty cool to see too. I do know that I was one of the few people out there that was rooting against Albert Pujols. Especially since the Derby took place in Saint Louis.

I know that crowd would have been obnoxiously in his corner. I just don’t like him because of 2005. That was the year that the Cards won the World Series but Ryan Howard won the MVP. Well crybaby Albert declared that since his team won the World Series that he shouldn’t have come up #2 in MVP votes, he should have won. Now I’m a Howard Homer so that just rubbed me the wrong way. Especially when everybody screams how great of a guy he is and then he starts whining. Once he saw that he was getting backlash, he backed off of his statement but it was already done in my mind. He’ll always be a jerk to me.

I did see today that Prince Fielder won. As long as it wasn’t El Jerko, I’m happy.