Category: working girl
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A night out with co-workers, a send off to Wisconsin. Someone brought a cheesehead, literally.
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-get new job. Check. -quit current job. Check. -upgrade AAA membership. Check. -give 30 day notice to landlord. Check. -do walk through with landlord. Check. -find new apartment! -get snow tires. -get oil change and 50k mile tune up. -get dog tuned up. -get quotes for moving containers/transport. Check. -get DOT street permits for moving…
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It's amazing–I never knew I still had so many friends still back in Wisconsin! What a perfect time to join Facebook—I've been 'friended' by so many familiar faces! I'm searching high and low for an apartment in Milwaukee. Portland is so dog-friendly, I'd forgotten that other towns aren't so keen on your four legged friend…
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I'm going to need sweaters. Lots of sweaters.
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It started last Sunday (my birthday!) and was a welcome winter break—even the rumor of snow and ice here is enough to bring Portland to a stand still. I had the day off, and enjoyed watching the pretty white flakes fall, as I finished making my own snowflake ornaments for the holiday. By Tuesday, I…
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Today's work place quote: " I could rock a suede skirt." -me -look of doubt from co-worker "I could too! I could totally ROCK a suede skirt" -me, incredulous and insistent -24 year old co-worker walks away with look of mixed amusement and pity, not at the prospect of my about-to-be-thirty-six year old bottomside straining…
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While at the chiropractor's this week, when discussing the current dismal state of affairs and the gloomy pervailing attitude, I mentioned that despite the disaster befalling all of us at the low-end of the scale (now is not the time to make your living on commission), I've somehow entered a state of relaxed resignation. I'm…
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As part of Work Therapy, we have to take a Talents/Strengths evaluation (StrengthsFinder)–a series of questions meant to determine your top five Strengths/Talents inherant to how you operate in the world–at work and otherwise. Mine are, in order: -Input -Achiever (notice the lack of Over- or Under-) -Learner -Restorative -Communication The descriptions of each Talent…
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They've brought in a Business Coach at work. I was scheduled to meet with her, as an introduction to the process, for half an hour on Friday. I was with a client at the appointed time, so the bookkeeper went first. When my time came, we sat in the only available space with a closable…
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Sentence of the Day at work: "I have to have constant, hot lubrication." Get your minds out of the gutter, the topic was beverages.
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