…ever makes up her mind. I’m not keeping any particular blog template. I’m fucking around with templates until I find the one I like, if that ever happens. I hate the one I had. The cool features stopped working a long time ago and that’s enough to make me hate it. So, blog template: I HATE YOU. Plus the smilies stopped displaying after the 2.7 update so… meh.
…doesn’t know what she means. (Yes, contrary Poppy puts these two back to back. You love that about me.) So, the kid behind the counter at the Columbus Circle Barnes & Noble actually said to me of my Windows Server 2008 Inside Out purchase: “If you find you’ve purchased the wrong book for your server just bring us the receipt with the book.” Yah, no asshole. I really meant to buy that book, hence my schlep in the snowstorm all the way to your fucking store. And when I went back to my office I also really meant to buy Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit. But not from you.
…wants to watch you get your physical on. A few employees were having physicals performed in the lunch room. This included standing on chairs to be measured and HAVING THEIR FUCKING BLOOD DRAWN. One of the IT guys warned me what was going on in the lunch room and I almost fainted at the thought of it. Ask Dawg how I react to needles. Ask Dawg how I react to blood. Do it. Ask him. I think it would be hilarious to hear his side of Sunday’s sugar check.
…cares. Every time the salespeople at my company are absolute cuntyasswhores to me I laugh in their face. I do. It’s deserved. They need to be taught some fucking manners, but I’m not the person for the job, so I insult them by laughing at their abysmal social skills. I already worked another job where the people who made money for the company thought they were above everyone else. I don’t encourage that behavior in the least. Enjoy supporting yourself. Poppy don’t play that.
…hates cookies. I don’t hate cookies, I love cookies! I’d like an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie right now! But I’m kinda on this semi-diet right now (I knoooooow, I knowiknow) because I gained precisely 6.8 lbs over the holidays and when I add weight my back and leg starts to hurt so I need to nip that in the bud.
…doesn’t have healthcare. My insurance card arrived yesterday! w9999009999980000t! Going an entire month without insurance due to a “misunderstanding” was wildly uncomfortable. I was definitely much more careful about what I did with myself, though! And I saved $498! (Some of that was dental, which I also now have, but I think only $67 of it.)
…never thinks about her family. All day yesterday and today I’ve thought about my cousin who used to live in NYC, through college and at her first few jobs after, and who posted a profound piece of information about herself in her 25 random things about her on her Facebook page:
On 9/11 I took the subway home instead of walking across the 59th
Street bridge –neither seemed to be a particularly good option, and I
wasn’t wearing practical shoes. I now keep comfortable shoes at my
desk
Not only do I love how she wrote that, not only is it sound advice, but it brings me back to a day where I was worried sick about her because I didn’t understand how the city was laid out and that where she worked was absolutely nowhere near the towers. Did you know I now ride the subway train that goes to the World Trade Center 5 days a week? I do. And I think about that every day. But not about my cousin, so it’s good to think about her and know she’s safe. I should invite her to read my blog so she knows how much I care about her.
(I had to end my bitter ranty post with a little :love: 
Love the ‘poppy don’t play that’….now all you need is a Poppy sock so you can beat the salespeople with.
I haven’t been here in a while since I didn’t know you were changing layouts (I am totally out of it at the moment).
Comfortable shoes are awesome. You’d think I’d remember to wear them more often since I always get blisters on my heels from my shoes. But I will always go for cute or comfy any day, always.
This was bitter and ranty ? With the cookie love and all ? You seem like a pretty jolly person, then.
This is very pink.
I’d love to actually see you laughing down the goofy sales people–that would be awesome
Heheh. I pissed you off, didn’t I?
I’m sure we could have gotten the cool features working again eventually. I got all of them working on mine even after being abandoned by Programmer Asshole #1.
I do have to say, though, that if the salespeople are responsible for being the ones who keep the company in business, that does put them up a level on the people who support them, doesn’t it?
So if a person is in IT long enough the users eventually band together, drag the IT person into the cafeteria, and start taking blood?
Did this happen after access to ESPN.COM was shut off?
I don’t hate cookies either! I knew we were destined to read each other’s blogs.
I know you luv the cookies… but how do you feel about the cake??? Be honest… its okay…
And next time we do a sugar check… I’m totally YouTubing it… hehehehe…
Oooh- Youtube sugar check?!!!
One of my cousins did work in Tower 1, so I really was worried. But I know what you mean!
Grumpy Poppy is still cute (and I love this layout!)!
One of the funnest parts of my blog reading day is coming here to see what theme you have next. I realize that makes me sad but yanno, themes and colors and all that make me happy so whatever.
*sniff* at the last part. I think it would be on my mind every day too if I took that train. I’m so glad your cousin is alright (and if she starts reading/commenting here, let us know so we can show her some love too).
Bella, this morning I just stared one of them down. So deserved.
Sarah, I’m random like that.
Creature, at work today I was offered cake and when I refused I was called a communist. And then I reminded everyone that I do tend to wear red every day.
Sparky, not anymore!
Turn, I’d love to film their idiocy. Maybe someday…
Adam, there is never an excuse for a person to treat another person like shit for no reason. I don’t care if you make money for a company, own a company, own the world, own the universe, or hold all the world’s cheese supply in your home — treat me like shit and you are going to hear about it. And no.
Delmer, the people in the lunch room were salespeople. Apparently they are such base and vile creatures that they spew their bodily fluids in public areas. I consider that a health code violation. Period.
NPW, yaaaaaay! Quiz Bowl!
Dawg, see my comment above. You know I don’t care for it, you’re just trying to get me riled up.
Sybil, after the event is done it will be hysterical to watch in playback, but while it’s happening the absolute terror it looks like I’m experiencing is VERY real.
Hilly, I aim to please you.
BB, someday I’ll take the line all the way to the end.
It doesn’t give them an excuse to treat someone like shit, I agree. There has to be some level of respect. But it does mean that they’re at a higher level, doesn’t it?
I love the fact that you wear red a lot.
I also love the fact that you will let ME eat cake even when you don’t like it… my little Gorby…
Adam, are you seriously telling me that someone who has been in sales for 6 months, straight out of college, is higher up than I am, a senior professional in the business for 15 years? No.
Dawg, all my cake are belong to you.
No, I’m just suggesting that someone whose job pays the salaries of everyone else in the company is higher up than those people whose job doesn’t pay the salaries.
And, btw, it still doesn’t give them the right to be rude or an asshole.
I will never bow down to a salesperson just because they produce for a company rather than providing for a company. I am a provider. Still no.
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Your back and legs hurt when you gain weight too? Wow. I thought I was alone in that.
Do you get it when you lose weight, too? I do.
The past few days I have been retaining water (lymphedema) and my back has been killing me!
P.S. I read the rest. I just got so focused on the back thing. lol