Go team Onerous Task!

I am returned from the Department of Parking and Traffic where I have scheduled a hearing to protest our car's towing.

I am emboldened to do another crappy task now.

Liese! Are you doing the Onerous? Ginger?

Wahh! Want in baby T. Or, you know, chick cut.

I go to lunch and ended up with a mini-meara upon my return…

I just won this kit at ebay—

That is cool, Kathy. Different from the ones I used to make, but they look like a good project when you are up to handling a needle. Now I come up with my own designs.

JZ – apply. Apply NOW. As difficult as change can be, removing yourself from a known toxic environment will make your life SO much better. As will the more money, but mental stability is key.

Do people call it "hard enter"?

Really? No one has commented on this yet

Chikat, I am with you, down in the gutter.

Teppy – that reminds me of when my mom first started working in Word. She was on my computer at home while I was at work. She said she had typed out a 3 page document but couldn’t find pages 1 or 2. I had to explain “scroll up”, which is harder than you would think. That didn’t do the trick. I was really stumped until I tried to think about typing things out manually. I had her click on Windows and tell me how many documents were listed. She had three documents open. When she reached the bottom of each page, she had hit “new” to get a new page. Pure logic in her mind. Absolute hilarity in mine.

this. it's lovely.

Again, thanks Sox. I’m pretty sure my secret santa giftee will receive something similar this year.

That's a lot better than the version in my head, amych:

Dear People Who Should Hire Me:

Hi, I'm JZ! I will enliven your office by occasionally wearing crinolines, I never misspell anything, I am flexible on the issue of the serial comma, I love semicolons and treat them properly, I understand our institutional bureaucrazy (no, that is not a misspelling; that's deliberate) and where all the secret passages, trapdoors and helpful crawl spaces are located, and, if hired, I fully plan to use the boost in salary to fund an exciting new project called Homemade Zucchini Bread For The Entire Office Once A Week.

In return, all I ask is that you not be my old office. See how easy that is?

I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

Most earnestly,

JZ

Homemade Zucchini Bread For The Entire Office Once A Week

That should close the deal, right there.

Aww, yours is pretty sparkly fabulous on its own!

(Seriously, cover letters and resumes and apps and all to do with them are uniformly horrible for me, and you have my strongest support for even putting yourself out there!)

I called and made an appointment to pick out a grave marker. That was actually easy once I got over myself and made the call. Stupid phone, intimidating me out of checking stuff off my To Do List.

Glad to hear it. We'll be sending ~ma if you need it.

Go, Onerous Task Do-ers!! Just sending my support. Go do onerous things!

Yay, onerous task-doers!!

I'm not really doing any myself, but I did just determine that something people were trying to tell me in a meeting was a big fat lie.

I just made a dentist appointment, after about 3 or 4 years.