Hairmania

Dear Avid Readers. This will be my last post for 2007. Thank you for reading and commenting during the last year and a half. I wanted to leave you with a little food for thought. Does the guy on the bottom left hand corner remind you of the Asian Version of the dude from Coming to America.
I know you are running through your head thinking of all the characters in the movie...and you are saying to yourself...no, not Eddie Murphy. no, not Arsenio Hall.....hmmmm oh yes, that random guy that left a stain on his chair...what's his name???

I saw this picture and laughed so hard that I thought it would be a great way to end the New Year for my Dear Avid Readers.

Diarrhea of the Mouth

Dear Avid Readers.

Urbandictionary.com defines Diarrhea of the Mouth as being:

Spilling your beans nonstop to any and everyone who will listen. This especially applies when you're cracked out or tweaked on drugs and feel the need to share every random thought that crosses your mind.
Synonyms include: Chatty Cathy

With that being said, dear avid readers, I hereby begin my tale of diarrhea terror. Last night was my company Christmas party. Now these last few months have been trying for Yours Truly as there is a co-worker of mine that makes my skin crawl. Now this is the same, infamous
Employee X from previous posts that I will be referring to from here on out. Since then, she has continued making mistakes large and small. She comes into work late and leaves right on the dot. She has constant appointments with dentists, orthopedic foot doctors, dermatologists that she HAS TO see during office hours so will leave for like an hour and a half to two hours during lunch. And I would be fine with all this except that:
1. The little responsibility she does possesses she rarely accomplishes it without mistakes
2. When she does finally get to working she can never finish and sometimes pawns off her work to others.
3. Because my boss hates working with her I get all her extra load

(My top three reasons why I absolutely can not stand Employee X)

So, last week the IT guy discovered that one of his reports (an important one used to contact all perspective students) was tampered with by EX(Employee X). Now, she has been told by IT to NEVER touch reports because she keeps messing them up and when a report gets ruined it takes IT a long time to recover these damaged reports. However, as usual EX thinks she is able to do much more than we all know she is capable of. Except this time, she had changed and accidentally saved a report that allowed NOT ONE SINGLE STUDENT who put Los Angeles as the campus of interest to receive any mailings from us. If you were a perspective student requesting Admissions information from AMDA and put LA as your campus of interest we would not mail you anything in other words. Now, this was discovered 12/13/2007 and she had changed the report on 8/23/2007. As you can guess LA was LIVID. Their numbers are down this year and they have been getting a lot of slack from the higher powers that may be and so can you imagine when they discovered that someone from NY (yes, there is an unfriendly rivalry between the 2 campuses) that they were looking for a head to chop. However, rather than chopping the only logical head of EX, my bosses, decide it was LA's fault for being unclear with EX....(unbelievable right?) which adds to my intense dislike of working with her.

So, long story short last night at the work Christmas party I had a co-worker (at 1:30 in the am, 130 sips of wine later) who gave me the beginnings of a pity party
"Don't leave"
"I really want you to be here instead of EX"
"We all know how much more you're working"
And all this is like eating a bad piece of lettuce and getting diarrhea, because, after hearing all this, I began getting Diarrhea of the mouth and being like,
"I know it's sooooo hard working with her"
"I don't feel like I can work with her any longer"
"she is so brutal but no one does anything about it"

In other words, dear avid readers, it is what I've been saying to you, but now I've vocalized it (whilst drunk) to my co-worker. It is something I hate doing. I hate diarrheaing to people I work with but alas that cheap pinot grigio did a number on my judgment and I did it. Therefore, the only thing to end this post with is....Dope.

Where can I purchase one of these for Christmas?

Dear Avid Readers. I think I may have to ask for a Paper Bag for Christmas this year. I just got off the phone with Yours Truly's mother and the conversation went as follows.

Mom: "When do you get home again"
Me: "On the 24th of December. My flight gets in early"
Mom: "oh good. because the Lee's are performing that night"
Me: "So you are for real? What are we doing"
Mom: "We will have to perform so we should think of something"
Me: "I thought we were singing Amazing Grace?"
Mom: "we are performing."

End of conversation. Anyone that has heard our family sing would probably be able to give the following testimony.

The Lee's have been so blessed in their lives. God blessed mom with strength, a home, a restaurant and 3 children, God blessed Yours Truly with the ability to grow hair at an incredible rate, God blessed brother 1 with an uncanny ability to attract people with a sense of direction so he would never need to learn how to navigate, God blessed brother 2 with an ability to find women who, come hell or high water, would do as he says. But no one. Not one soul, would ever say the words....God blessed the Lee's with vocal ability.

With that being said. We need lots, and I mean tons, of prayer because even though God doesn't judge, I am pretty sure those sitting in the pews do. :)

Ring in the New

Dear Avid Readers. You would be proud of Yours Truly because after 5 months of looking and checking online at Meetup.com I finally brought myself to an event. I am officially signed up for.......
1. Bookclub
2. Knitting club
3. Improve your Chinese Club
4. Volleyball Club
5. People who appreciate dining out club
6. Film Lovers club
But as of Saturday the only club I truly belonged to was the "I would never show up to a club-club"
However, as I have been trying to live life to the fullest, I decided that this Saturday Yours truly would finally take advantage of meetup.com and I finally attended my first MEETUP.COM/Volleyball club. It was interesting to say the least. It was a group of avid volleyball lovers ranging from 24 years old to 50 years old. Although I wasn't the best volleyball player by far I was comforted to know that I wasnt' the worst. It was certainly an interesting experience. I played from 2-5 (that's a long time and I am still sore) adn afterwards most of the group headed to a bar for dinner and drinks. I met a lot of really nice people and the experience was extremely positive. The first 10 minutes was B-Arthur (Brutal) but once I warmed up (literally and figuratively) it was all fun and games. On to other news. For my 2 dear avid readers. As an update. I receieved a letter from The Boy, and I do need to talk to someone for advice, however seeing as it is late I will hold off and hopfully talk to you two soon and maybe brainstorm as to what I should do and what this letter means. I feel a little Carrie Bradshaw/Mr. Big right now :)