the ghosts of Christmas soon to come

They've been decorating the store for Christmas and yesterday they put up these ornament displays.  This morning I glanced up at them and suddenly saw dozens of ghoulish faces and thought they had put up nightmare before christmas ornaments or something.

Do you see the faces in the silver ornaments?  The best are the clusters balls, especially at the bottom left.  I finally figured out that it's just the way the the hallway is reflected in the silver that makes it look like an evil smiling face, and now I can't unsee it.

I kind of love it though.  My little demon friends that will watch over me for the next two weeks.

rabbit rabbit rabbit

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Found that after google searching for "thanksgiving rabbit".  Not sure why that showed up in the results but I like it.

Can't believe it's November already.  Laura went to make the schedule for the coming weeks and noted that it was the last schedule she'd be making with me on it.  : (

I'm excited for the new adventure but I'm also sad to be leaving Boca.  At least it's another feather to put in my cap.  If I hadn't worked there, who knows if I ever would have even gone to Boca Raton.

It's funny the timing of things.  Just as I wrap up all of my many many troubles from the past year I get ready to start a new chapter.  Crazy to think what my life could be like a year from now.  But I've learned not to get ahead of myself.  For now I'm just going to enjoy the ride for a bit.  The only thing I have on my to do list will be finding a new calendar for 2014.

some good screen caps

Earlier in the morning Jon sent me a text asking, "Do you know how they get maple syrup from trees?".  I thought he was joking at first but then he assured me that he was asking genuinely.

Later he asked me what would happen if you put a cough drop up your butt.

I'm going to guess he was wasted that day.

My other screen cap is far less amusing and much more RUDE

I discovered this DEFACING tonight at work.  I'm not sure when it was done but I've got my eye on old Dona Pepa.  She's just jealous that she didn't get top sales and isn't the employee of the month.  That picture is old anyways, I still have to take my September AND October employee of the month photo.  

Maybe this time I'll request they be laminated so nobody can do such a horrible thing again.  

Boca sunset

The sky was actually blood red but my iphone camera couldn't pick it up properly at all.  Still, Angely made me go out to take a picture because her phone was dead.  When I showed her that it didn't show up she insisted she could do it better, but she could not.

It was just too marvelous to be captured.  I think we all learned a valuable lesson that day.  I learned that sometimes beautiful moments are meant to be captured in your memory, not on your iphone.  And Angely learned never to look through the photos on my phone haphazardly, cause you never know when you'll see more than you bargained for.

back to work

My three day weekend is coming to an end today and I'm looking down the barrel of an 8 day work week.  At least I got something accomplished, and made it to the beach not once but twice!

No complaints either way.

And I know somebody who is looking forward to some uninterrupted time to sleep.

sorry to abandon you

My life the past week has been work and draining my leg hole so I think you'll agree the less I share the better.

I've also just been really focused on getting through this week, and tomorrow morning.  I feel like it will go something like this:

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and I'm very excited.  It's kind of incredible to think that I got through everything I got through in the past year.  It reminds me of my approach to college.  Just load up as much as possible on my plate and I just put my nose to the grindstone until I'm done as quickly as possible.

On to the next one.

Not yet sure what that will be though.  I'm glad to have a new adventure at work to look forward but that won't happen until next month at least.  I do feel like my job is a good fit for me though after we did an exercise today that involved identifying different body types.  You can imagine my reaction when I turned the page to:

I don't even care that they took french liberties with her first name.  It's like, finally, somebody who speaks to me in a language I understand.  I have no problem staying with a company that expects me to know what Mariah Carey's body type is.

So my on to the next one will have to be something in my personal life.  I have some ideas knocking around in my head but I haven't come to any decisions yet.  Miraculously I have a long weekend ahead of me after a very long day tomorrow, and I plan to have a plan for my future.

In the meantime I'm going to bed early tonight for my A.M. appointment.  Talk to you in the future.

we're having a slight issue

I don't want to get in to too many of the gory details (email if you want them) but as some of you may know I've had a weird spot on my leg for a really long time.  Long story short, it kind of exploded the other day at work.

It's been a pretty wild ride the past few days, still not convinced it's worth going to the hospital over but I'm definitely keeping my eye on it.  Also, that cat is helping a lot with the healing process.

I'll update on my condition when I know more.  I have a feeling it will either be, "everything's A-OK" or, "I'm getting fitted for a peg-leg".