Movies yesterday were a success. Free large popcorn because of a coupon, we shared a medium drink, and 4PM tickets...$21US total. Better yet, not a single other person in our showing. All to ourselves!
Today, we've got to start the formal planning portion for our upcoming May anniversary holiday. That means I've got to find a "good" steak/chop house in London, so we can get the table booked, I've got to get a pair (or two) of shoes ordered, and I've got to think about my holiday wardrobe. May on a Norway fjords cruise...
Everyone and everything have gone so casual now, it kind of stinks for those of us who like to dress up a bit. I was checking online earlier today and found all the recommendations for northern European spring cruises to be some variation of athletic-leisure wear, and...yeah, I'll be Darned if I'm showing up in a glorified pair of sweatpants.
You'll need something warmer than that in May. There will still be snow on the tops and potentially during the day as well. Outdoor kit will be your best friend. It can be as smart as you want it to be nowadays with good warm footwear not formal footwear. Definitely woolly hay and gloves though, scarf as well.
Yep, thanks. I'm already planning on he hat, scarf, and gloves. Shoes will probably be a pair of dress shoes for the two formal-ish dinners and I'm shopping for some new weatherproof boots now.
Feel your pain, Tasty! I love (not) waking up to emails sent at midnight with an invite to a morning meeting as soon as you hit the office leaving no prep time. Work Email does have its benefits but, it is also such an unwanted intrusion when you are expected to monitor outside of your normal working hours.. Happy Thursday!!!Well, drove all the way down to the eye doc's and...they were all at a different office, so the location with my specs was closed up tight. We'll try again today.
I also need to run into town and get a new belt. Exciting, exciting!
I'm also highly irritated with work right now. My performance review was fine, but my manager keeps giving me stuff to do, then turns around before I have a chance to do it and does it himself. I seriously think he forgets he's given it to me.
Secondly, and this really annoys me, I was just signing off last night at 6PM, when someone contacted me and said I was needed for a meeting at 9AM sharp this morning. That's bad enough, as I don't like meetings first thing, because it throws off my whole routine, and telling me at 6PM the night before amounts to no notice AFAIC.
But what really cheesed me off is the person organizing the meeting asked me for the name of someone from another team that I sometimes work with, so they could be invited as well. BTW, this is all done through our scheduling software, so it's automated.
I gave him a name, assuming he'd stick them on the invitation. Nope. Up pops the invitation in my email, and then the guy says, "Go ahead and add them on and invite them, it'll look better coming from you, because they know you."
That's BS. He just didn't want to be the jerk surprising someone who was already off for the day with a 9AM meeting request the following morning!
Sometimes, I really wonder why I'm still working. Then I remember this elegant little poem about that very subject:
Why I Work
I like to eat.
- Unknown