Happy Mardi Gras!

baystateapple · February 2012

Good morning all! It's my last "normal" day of work before all hell breaks loose (Lent) starts. So hopefully it won't be too busy today. H and I are having some friends over tonight for dinner, I'm making fajitas. Should be a pretty good day. How are all of you?

aleighk1 · February 2012

Morning Bay. It's a little chilly this morning but it should warm up to about 55. I've been sitting around for 30 minutes. I'm not ready to get ready yet.

baystateapple · February 2012

Me neither, Aleigh.

H woke up around 4 AM and was trying to get ready for work when I woke up and told him he still had two hours to sleep. I think he had a dream or something that he was late. In any case, both of us went back to sleep for the next two hours and neither of us were moving too quickly when it was finally time to get up.

mica178 · February 2012

Good morning!

It's hilarious that you call Lent "all hell [breaking] loose."

baystateapple · February 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_happy-mardi-gras?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:29b43b4a-59d1-4046-a57f-32c7dfcef591Post:be7a8a33-2961-4da1-8f65-20f39875add9">Re: Happy Mardi Gras!</a>:
[QUOTE]Good morning! It's hilarious that you call Lent "all hell [breaking] loose."
Posted by mica178[/QUOTE]

Hahaha. It's my FIFTH Lent working for the church. The workload increases significantly, people who don't come to church all year start showing up and requesting Masses or whatever, etc. Plus my boss is hassled and stressed out. It makes for an interesting seven weeks.

Stackeye210 · February 2012

Bay you should tally up the number of times during lent that you answer a phone call or question about when a service is. Good Luck!

Good Morning e'erbody. I hope all is well with you this week.

baystateapple · February 2012

Stacks, last Ash Wednesday (I kid you not, hand to God this happened), a woman called me up asking "If I'm standing on (street), looking towards the bridge...which building is the church?"

Um...the one with the big, pointy thing on top of it?

*headdesk*

Stackeye210 · February 2012

I'd have been like, "ummmm, ma'am stay where you are, I'm coming to get you, you need this in your life apparently!" hahaha. My aunt works in a Catholic church and she's forever emailing me some of the craziest things that happen during Lent so I feel for you.

mica178 · February 2012

Poor Bay.

Stackeye210 · February 2012

President's Day was yesterday right? Like no mail running yesterday? Today on the way into work they had a traffic report saying traffic should be lighter than normal due to the holiday. I was confuzzled.

mica178 · February 2012

It's ski week, Stacks! When I was growing up, a bunch of people would extend President's Day into a week's holiday and head to the mountains.

I miss California.

Stackeye210 · February 2012

hahahaha, except it's like 45 degrees here with rain forecast for today and no mountains in the area.

I've never been skiing. I keep meaning to go but the part about cold weather really makes me not want to.

mica178 · February 2012

The cold doesn't feel as bad when you're having fun.

H doesn't ski, even though the rest of his family does. I haven't been skiing in over a decade. I miss it right now.

Snippylynn · February 2012

Hello. I'm cranky today. People are stupid. GR.

Bay, at least you can immediately ask (and receive!) forgiveness for your mean thoughts to people.

This week is also 'sportlov' or, sport leave. People literally go to ski or do fun wintery type things. So, my office is deadsauce.

Too bad one of my regions don't go deadsauce. >-(

baystateapple · February 2012

Haha, good point Snippy.

Ok, I have to ask because I apparently missed it. Why is your sig pic a carton of ice cream labeled with an STD?

Snippylynn · February 2012

ha! It's a hilarious http://www.happyplace.com/10430/the-most-enjoyably-cantankerous-notes-ever-posted-in-the-workplace

This is how someone labeled their ice cream to keep coworkers from stealing it.

Beachy730 · February 2012

Good morning. I am ridiculuosly sore and in pain today. Possibily TMI, but this is my first AF after going off the pill, and holy hell I forgot how bad it used to be. I don't like being a woman today.

Stacks do your schools have off all week there? I know a lot of schools just now extend President's day into a full week off.

baystateapple · February 2012

Snippy that's hilarious!

Stackeye210 · February 2012

I don't think so beach, but that makes sense. There are so many school districts around here it's hard to tell who is doing what.

I think they just aired a day old traffic report, I don't know. I just want mail today b/c I'm waiting on a check.

Snippylynn · February 2012

ha! And I just found this one on the Outstanding Facebook Responses:

Beachy730 · February 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_happy-mardi-gras?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:29b43b4a-59d1-4046-a57f-32c7dfcef591Post:255e9b5a-d24e-492c-9dc0-72fb18c8b739">Re: Happy Mardi Gras!</a>:
[QUOTE]I don't think so beach, but that makes sense. There are so many school districts around here it's hard to tell who is doing what. I think they just aired a day old traffic report, I don't know. I just want mail today b/c I'm waiting on a check. ;)
Posted by Stackeye210[/QUOTE]

<div>I swear the only time I'm ever waiting for mail to come always ends up being around a holiday. Right now I'm waiting for all my curtains to come and was hoping for them yesterday, then realized halfway through the day that there was no deliveries. I just don't want to live in a fish bowl anymore!</div>

PetalPockets2012 · February 2012

Good morning. I really don't want to be at work today. Lately I feel so blah about it. DNB- I'm dealing with the same thing after going off BCP. I actually don't remember it being this bad.

adamar15 · February 2012

Morning. I'm ready for the weekend already. Plus I'm meeting Fezz on Sunday, so that needs to hurry up and get here.

Stackeye210 · February 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_happy-mardi-gras?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:29b43b4a-59d1-4046-a57f-32c7dfcef591Post:08a0dd9e-d715-4af0-979e-8822156662b8">Re: Happy Mardi Gras!</a>:
[QUOTE]Morning. I'm ready for the weekend already. Plus I'm meeting Fezz on Sunday, so that needs to hurry up and get here.
Posted by adamar15[/QUOTE]

<div>totes jeal</div><div>
</div><div>:)</div>

adamar15 · February 2012

Stacks, have you guys found a new house? Did you ever figure out if your house was sold or not?

adamar15 · February 2012

Hahaha I just realized I had a total reading fail yesterday. There was a pin on pinterest about using vaseline to distress, and yesterday and I read it as using vaseline to de-stress. I mean lubing everything up can be helpful, but I was definitely a little confused yesterday.

baystateapple · February 2012

Someone whose name I don't recognize just sent me this insanely long email about how the "the rich are robbing us blind with military intelligence and labeling us HIV positive to ease their guilt. The rich want our blood so they may continue there free ride afterlife." And so on and so forth. I'm just imagining this person in a basement wearing a tinfoil hat. And why is s/he sending this to me?!

sarabellam · February 2012

Morning, everybody! I have all week off (one of those districts that takes off the whole week or President's Day), so I'm a happy camper. I've got beignet dough rising, plans to repaint our bedroom this week, a senior project student coming over this afternoon to make some international desserts (today is baklava), and I'm reasonable certain I broke my little toe yesterday.

Snippy, it's sports break in Switzerland, too. Except they get 2 entire weeks off instead of 1. My sister and her family went to Grindelwald skiing, and sent back videos. My dad watched my youngest neice (age 5) skiing down a blue run, and said, "I could do that." Mind you, he hasn't skiied in close to 40 years, and will be 71 in May. But I think he's going to try and go next year.

baystateapple · February 2012

*stares at Cfas, puts tinfoil hat on, backs away*

No, I hear you. If it wasn't for the "going back to school" credit, H and I were going to owe a ton, too. Apparently his W2s weren't taking out any state tax because he works at the hospital (a nonprofit). So YAY! I told him he'd better fix that ASAP so we won't owe such an insane amount of state tax next year.

adamar15 · February 2012

I feel like our tax return was a fluke this year. It makes me scared for next year.

Beachy730 · February 2012

Cfas if he gets the same thing again I would consider taking them somewhere to get done just in case.

Bay people like that scare me. It was probably just some spam thing that somehow got your email, or someone who got it from some old chain of emails or something. But yeah, people who spew off crazy things like that and random statements like "labeling us HIV positive" frighten me. One of my BIL's can go off on tangents like that and I have to just walk away from him.

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