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Monday, February 28, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Family Time
I spent some quality time with the family last weekend, which resulted in some quality quotes. .... Love them
“I used to crack a thousand eggs a night!” – my uncle, on his time in the Navy
“I could be a hipster. That would be a nice little phase for my 20s.” – my sister, on moving to a new Portland neighborhood.
“That’s some serious BTU going up that wall!” – my uncle, on wood-burning fireplaces
“Even if I had a diarrhea fetish, I would still be more than 80% dateable.” – my cousin
“No, I haven’t read your blog yet. I’ve been really busy digitizing everything in my house. It is called ‘Greg’s Studio’” – my uncle
“There’s no way you saw a wolf. Maybe you could’ve seen a wolf if I had a magic wolf pill and threw it into some water.” – my uncle
“Grandma! You need to come pose with the mace gun for a photo!” – my cousin, (mace gun pictured below)
My grandma also gets Cat Fancy. I didn't even know that magazine was real! LOL.
“I used to crack a thousand eggs a night!” – my uncle, on his time in the Navy
“I could be a hipster. That would be a nice little phase for my 20s.” – my sister, on moving to a new Portland neighborhood.
“That’s some serious BTU going up that wall!” – my uncle, on wood-burning fireplaces
“Even if I had a diarrhea fetish, I would still be more than 80% dateable.” – my cousin
“No, I haven’t read your blog yet. I’ve been really busy digitizing everything in my house. It is called ‘Greg’s Studio’” – my uncle
“There’s no way you saw a wolf. Maybe you could’ve seen a wolf if I had a magic wolf pill and threw it into some water.” – my uncle
“Grandma! You need to come pose with the mace gun for a photo!” – my cousin, (mace gun pictured below)
My grandma also gets Cat Fancy. I didn't even know that magazine was real! LOL.
Snow
"I'm sorry, the world is ending in Seattle. The sky just turned black...I feel like Mt. St. Helens just exploded." - my esteemed colleague, Roberta
Weather enthusiast
I would describe myself as a weather enthusiast. (Yes, this is going somewhere.) Twister is probably in my top 20 favorite movies. I could watch the weather report on NWCN all day. Sometimes I do. Even when the news feed starts repeating the same stories and "weather pics" every 20 minutes, I keep watching.
In 1996, the Willamette Valley had one of those thousand year floods. I made a scrapbook about it...on my own time. I don't even like scrapbooking. Did I not have enough homework from school to do? What kind of 12 year-old was I? I also made my parents order the VHS footage from the TV station. If I still had a VHS player, I could re-live all the chaos of "Wild Winter."
Today, I'm one of those wackos that sends photos of 1/2" of snow on their deck to King 5. I use terms like "snowpocalypse" and "arctic blast" in everyday speech. I've worked from home for the last 2 days because it might snow. There is no snow.
The point is that yesterday, I discovered that my dream job does, in fact, exist. Who knew that Weather Blogger was a real job? My new life plan is to go take some classes on meteorology, buy a 4-runner and a netbook, and spend my days driving around blogging about funny weather things. (I am also going to invent a new term for meteorology, because I can't spell it.) Check out this job post from indeed.com...weather enthusiast and examiner?!?! I couldn't be more qualified.
"Examiner.com is looking for talented writers and photographers to promote their objective viewpoints to a large online community through our Top 100 website.
We seek professional journalists, aspiring writers, first responders, paralegals, meteorologists, law enforcement officers and any other news, crime or weather enthusiasts who have the vision, skills and determination to write authoritatively about a specific topic in our News category.
Our original content is provided by over 68,000 passionate, informed and credible local insiders we call Examiners. Examiners have their own page on our website complete with a photo and a bio which may also include links to their personal site. Previous writing experience is not required."
In 1996, the Willamette Valley had one of those thousand year floods. I made a scrapbook about it...on my own time. I don't even like scrapbooking. Did I not have enough homework from school to do? What kind of 12 year-old was I? I also made my parents order the VHS footage from the TV station. If I still had a VHS player, I could re-live all the chaos of "Wild Winter."
Today, I'm one of those wackos that sends photos of 1/2" of snow on their deck to King 5. I use terms like "snowpocalypse" and "arctic blast" in everyday speech. I've worked from home for the last 2 days because it might snow. There is no snow.
The point is that yesterday, I discovered that my dream job does, in fact, exist. Who knew that Weather Blogger was a real job? My new life plan is to go take some classes on meteorology, buy a 4-runner and a netbook, and spend my days driving around blogging about funny weather things. (I am also going to invent a new term for meteorology, because I can't spell it.) Check out this job post from indeed.com...weather enthusiast and examiner?!?! I couldn't be more qualified.
"Examiner.com is looking for talented writers and photographers to promote their objective viewpoints to a large online community through our Top 100 website.
We seek professional journalists, aspiring writers, first responders, paralegals, meteorologists, law enforcement officers and any other news, crime or weather enthusiasts who have the vision, skills and determination to write authoritatively about a specific topic in our News category.
Our original content is provided by over 68,000 passionate, informed and credible local insiders we call Examiners. Examiners have their own page on our website complete with a photo and a bio which may also include links to their personal site. Previous writing experience is not required."
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Facebook Derby
Yesterday, I literally spent about 30 minutes making a facebook event invite for opening night at Emerald Downs. I wrote a really witty post about it and invited 47 of my closest friends. THE INVITE IS GONE! It is like it never existed!!! Did I make the whole thing up in my head?!?! Pretty sure Mark Zuckerberg stole the invite for himself. Jerk. As if he doesn't have enough friends.
His Fbook page has 3.2 million "likes." For comparison, Barack Obama has 18.3 million and Sarah Palin has 2.7 million.
Today, I found my Kentucky Derby hat at J Crew! I just need to add a giant flower to match my dress.
I've actually been walking around the house like this for the last few hours. It was fine while I was eating pizza and watching Two and a Half Men. However, as soon as I started to do laundry, things got tricky. This thing really cuts off about 80% of your peripheral vision. Navigating the stairs was hard.
His Fbook page has 3.2 million "likes." For comparison, Barack Obama has 18.3 million and Sarah Palin has 2.7 million.
Today, I found my Kentucky Derby hat at J Crew! I just need to add a giant flower to match my dress.
I've actually been walking around the house like this for the last few hours. It was fine while I was eating pizza and watching Two and a Half Men. However, as soon as I started to do laundry, things got tricky. This thing really cuts off about 80% of your peripheral vision. Navigating the stairs was hard.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Productivity update
At work, they have a drawing every month where employees can win stuff and get recognition via email if they've been "caught doing the right thing." You can be nominated for customer focus, creativity, initiative, integrity, communicaiton, and efficiency. If you win the drawing, you get sweet stuff--like stress balls, logo notepads, magnets, or CDs of ocean sounds.
After the printer fiasco in our office last week, my esteemed colleague Jacob submitted the following writeup on my behalf. I really hope I win, because I need a new travel coffee mug.
"Week of January 24, 2011- It was during this week that i witnessed a focused and highly efficient spearheading effort by Examiner Seed to get our Seattle Field Office DFI HP Color LaserJet 5550b printer fixed. When another examiner messed the printer up but had to leave right away to go on another exam, office productivity ground to a halt. There were at least two teams in the office prepping for multi-week field jobs, which require extensive printing of documents that need to be reviewed on-site. That is the only printer we have that will cooperate with PDF files or print in color. Several examiners tried their hand at fixing the printer, but the printer dispatched them handily with otherworldly noises and error messages. Everyone was paralyzed by fear and confusion…. but not Sara Seed! She sprang into action and coordinated the timely repair of the printer with not only Tumwater, but the HP technician who finally came and worked on the printer. It turned out to be that we had mistakenly put legal size paper in a letter size bin…whoopsie! What an appropriate problem to be tackled by our larger than life colleague and friend, Sara Seed."
After the printer fiasco in our office last week, my esteemed colleague Jacob submitted the following writeup on my behalf. I really hope I win, because I need a new travel coffee mug.
"Week of January 24, 2011- It was during this week that i witnessed a focused and highly efficient spearheading effort by Examiner Seed to get our Seattle Field Office DFI HP Color LaserJet 5550b printer fixed. When another examiner messed the printer up but had to leave right away to go on another exam, office productivity ground to a halt. There were at least two teams in the office prepping for multi-week field jobs, which require extensive printing of documents that need to be reviewed on-site. That is the only printer we have that will cooperate with PDF files or print in color. Several examiners tried their hand at fixing the printer, but the printer dispatched them handily with otherworldly noises and error messages. Everyone was paralyzed by fear and confusion…. but not Sara Seed! She sprang into action and coordinated the timely repair of the printer with not only Tumwater, but the HP technician who finally came and worked on the printer. It turned out to be that we had mistakenly put legal size paper in a letter size bin…whoopsie! What an appropriate problem to be tackled by our larger than life colleague and friend, Sara Seed."
Flaming Patriot
Obviously loved this during the Super Bowl...
It is unfortunate that the bison's name is also Sara. And I think the custom constitution paint job would look pretty sick on my car. Or my house.
It is unfortunate that the bison's name is also Sara. And I think the custom constitution paint job would look pretty sick on my car. Or my house.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Costco
During a trip to Costco today, my friend Jolene said "Costco is like driving down the freeway, you just want to shout out everything you see as if you were reading billboards." Which she did.
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