Chix Chat

Hi, Michele!

Oh yes, did I mention? Thank you! I really appreciate you taping Angel for me. I have a feeling that I will also ask you to tape another ep for me.

How is your yahoo-ing going? My advice about that situation would be to try it for a week or two - after your trip perhaps. Then if you still don’t like it, just get another hotmail account and maybe use the yahoo one for storage. When I started using yahoo, it took me a while to get the hang of it. At work I use the very user-friendly Outlook Express. With yahoo I had to search every time I wanted to do anything. When I’d read a message, I’d wonder, "Okay, *now* how do I get back to my inbox? D’oh!" Now, I like the yahoo account at least as well as the work one.

I can relate to your customers-are-so-clueless story where you were struggling with the shelf and that lady was totally oblivious to it. She probably expected you to drop everything to help her - literally! When I was waiting tables, whenever I had both hands full of plates to deliver or take away, some schmoe would be handing me their dirty plate to remove. I’d want to sarcastically say, "Sure, I can get that one too, just stick it in my apron pocket."

That reminds me - sometimes older men customers would try to stick the tip in my apron pocket. (Pervs!) I believe they had the [restaurant] mistaken for a completely different kind of establishment! Let’s stop to praise the Lord that I don’t work there anymore. Woo hoo!

Anyway, no I don’t have any of Jeff Foxworthy’s albums, but I like what I’ve seen of him. I even used to like his sitcom - did you ever watch that? That "I see dead people" kid played one of Jeff’s TV kids, and Bill Engvall was his goofy TV best friend.

You’re not packed yet? Well, girl, what are ya waiting for? I am the same way. Do you ever have those dreams where you’re leaving for a trip and you haven’t packed anything? I usually have those when I’m going somewhere for a visit.

Speaking of dreams, I had a great dream about Keanu Reeves last night! I was over-enthusiastically hugging him and kissing his cheek and, well, his face. I was gushing on about how tall he is ("I like tall men," I cleverly said.) and how handsome he is (Yep, I said, "I like handsome.") The only bad thing was that he seemed to be stealing money from my check book. Hmmm. What do you suppose that means, symbolically?

I can see the packing difficulties because of the temperature difference. I would probably wear layers that I could peel off as the temperature increased. I have before done like you, start off with a long-sleeved shirt or light jacket and then end up with it tied around my waist. If you’re going to the hotel first, you can always change into shorts there. Do you wear shorts? I admit that I wear jeans most of the time, unless it’s about 100 degrees. I would probably wear shorts in Florida; I can handle strangers judging my lily-white legs.

I did hear that rumor about another terrorist attack. Every time I hear that stuff I think, "This is crazy!" I would think if those so-called intelligence guys knew that there was an attack "tentatively" planned, they would know where the bloody planned target is. I *really* do not think that you should worry about your trip though. My bosses have flown safely to Los Angeles and New York several times in the past two weeks. My boss, KA, just got back from New York yesterday and he had no problems. Still, as you asked, I will spend extra time in prayer for both safety and for the Lord to calm your fears.

Did I tell you that my professor is out of town tomorrow? So I will have only one class this week. Woo hoo! AND he only gave us two short problems to do AND I’ve finished one and started the other. But we do have a test coming up, and I absolutely need to start ASAP and prepare for it.

Did I also tell you that my boss asked his friend’s daughter to come sit here while I went to class yesterday? (My boss was out of town, as he returned from New York.) She was a typical teenager, just about everything I said to her, she would look at me blankly like, "Whatever." She said the phone only rang one time and it was her dad. She asked if they would need her every Monday. I replied that I didn’t know. She probably thinks I have the easiest job ever. It’s true, the job is really easy most of the time, but sometimes I do have actual work to do.

That’s it for today. I’ll talk to you soon! God bless!

Anne

God bless the USA!

 Hi Anne!

Well, I taped Angel for you!  I tried to get the picture as best as I could.  It didn’t turn out too bad.  I will hold it for you, as you requested.  You didn’t have to send the postage out to me, but thank you anyway.

I laughed when you mentioned Nora putting down the crack pipe.  Now that’s all I can think about!  Once again last night I worked my ass off!  We had to take a whole card section down because we’re starting to put out our Christmas merchandise (gosh, so soon?).  I was sweating like a pig by the time everything was finished!  People get on my nerves so bad sometimes.  I mean, here I was, struggling with this big, heavy shelf, trying to put it up and trying to concentrate and everything and this lady walks up to me and goes "Where are your get well cards" (or whatever she asked me).  I wanted to say to her, "Hello?!  Can you not see that I’m a little busy here at the moment?  Why don’t you ask Cindy or Sue or why don’t you just try to find what you’re looking for yourself?  I mean, the store isn’t that freaking big!"  Of course I didn’t say that.  I just pointed to where she needed to go and grunted an answer.

I have a question for you.  Danielle and I were discussing this yesterday.  Ok, put your thinking  cap on.  Ok, say you live like in Alaska or somewhere that it gets really cold in the winter.  ANd you’re going on vacation to say Hawaii.  Ok, say the the day you leave for your trip it’s like 10 below zero where you live and it’s like in the nineties in Hawaii. So how do you dress.  I mean, you need to dress warm when you go to the airport but once you get to Hawaii, you’re going to be sweating your buns off!  Danielle suggested that someone would just wear their "Hawaii" clothes under their "Alaska" clothes and when they get to the airport, they just run into the bathroom and whip off their "ALaska" clothes and give it to the person who drove them to the airport.  That sounds like a pretty good solution.  ANy more ideas?

We’ve never really had that problem when we went to Disneyworld.  Last time I went I wore a short sleeved shirt and jeans and a long sleved jean shirt over the short sleeved shirt.  When we got to Fla, I just took the long sleeved shirt off and tied it around my waist.

Speaking of Fla, Did you hear on the news or something that there MIGHT be annother terrorist attack sometime over the next week?  Anne. I am VERY SCARED about this!  Please say a double prayer about our flight!  I mean, part of me is really calm, feeling God’s reassurance, and the other part of me is just freaking out!  And So many people I know have been flying these past few weeks and everything went okay, so why shouldn’t it be okay for me and Danielle?  As I keep thinking about September 11th, I angerily wonder "Why the FU*@ did that have to happen!"

I just got Jeff Foxworthy’s latest concert album- "Big Funny."  I love him.  He’s halarious!  Do you have any of his albums?

Well, I got to get going now.  Danielle and I are both off work today, and we’re off to the mall to get some last minute Disney things.  I haven’t even packed yet!  Yikes!!

see you soon.  Take care and God bless!

God bless the USA!

Michele

Ola again!

My email is freaking out! I wasn’t through typing! I didn’t mean to hit send! And I did put the Yahoo address in the TO section! I must’ve hit reply, so I replied to the email addy that you sent the last email from. So you may have to track down the first part of the email and when you find it, it will still be in rough draft form. Ooops!

Oh me. It must be Monday. My boss is out of town today, but he’s calling periodically to check on me. He’s got their friends’ daughter coming in to answer the phones when I go to class. Speaking of class, my homework is done. Woo hoo! I completed it with time to spare on Saturday.

I was going to add to my email response, that I was having a third wheel day myself yesterday. In Sunday School, it was three disgustingly cute couples and my sister and me. And here’s the kicker, all of those couples are way younger than I am.

I guess I’ll go ahead and send this one. I hate when I interrupt my thought-flow!

God bless!

Anne