Oz,

So sorry to hear of your lay off; I know how much you loved that job.  Keeping my fingers crossed for your new opportunity.

cocookie

FANTASTIC!!!  Wishing you all the best in your new position.

No harm intended -- I was born a blonde -- this was just too funny to keep to myself.

The Blonde Painter



This blonde decides one day that she is sick and tired of

all these blonde jokes and how all blondes are perceived

as stupid, so she decides to show her husband that

blondes really are smart.







While her husband is off at work, she decides that she is

going to paint a couple of rooms in the house.

The next day, right after her husband leaves

for work, she gets down to the task at hand.



Her husband arrives home at 5:30 and smells the

distinctive smell of paint. He walks into the living room

and finds his wife lying on the floor in a pool

of sweat. He notices that she is wearing a ski jacket and

a fur coat at the same time.



He goes over and asks her if she is OK. She replies yes.



He asks what she is doing. She replies that she wanted to

prove to him that not all blonde women are dumb and

she wanted to do it by painting the house.



He then asks her why she has a ski jacket over her fur coat.



She replies that she was reading the directions on the

paint can and they said....



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I didn't have any problem doing this!  Does that mean that I am very strange or very talented???

Inperspective,

Thanks, but I've placed the order through the Fannie Mae website.  There wouldn't have ever been any problem at all except for the summer delivery restrictions.

Marie,

They're called "Pixies."  I've never had them but I'm told that they are similar to turtles but "a million times better."  Bossie is not a chocolate fan but he says he can eat a whole box of these.

Have you had them?

I also thought of the courier and FedEx First angles and I've been trying those options all morning.  No Fannie Mae store near me (and I'm really bummed because I had visions of getting to leave early and  indulging myself with something in the very high calorie range).  Struck out in NYC also --- one place I called told me in a very SUPERIOR voice that Fannie Mae is only popular in places like Chicago (implying that Chicago is inferior) -- I'll give his name to any of you Chi-town admins who want to beat him up.

Anyhow, now I have my sister in Phila working on it.  If she can get her hands on the candy -- and manage not to eat it -- we'll fedex from Phila to Manhattan.

Oops - that was my sister on the phone - can't do it via the Phila connection either because the specific kind of Fannie Mae chocolates we need are on backorder and will not be delivered to the Phila stores until Friday.

Seems like I've spent a lot of time finding out that I am just going to order from the website and have the candy shipped from Chicago on Monday.  At least the quest was fun; I love a challenge.

Any of your NYC admins know how I can get Fannie Mae chocolates delivered to an address in Manhattan tomorrow or Friday?

Information on their website says that their normal "leave the warehouse date" is one day after the order; however, in the summer they will not ship on Thursdays or Fridays.  That means the 1st possible ship date would be Monday, Aug 4th.

Any ideas on a way to get chocolates delivered this week?  If it's not possible we'll just wait for the 8/4 ship date, but it would make me look good in bossie's eyes if I could pull off a miracle.

Congratulations!!  Wishing you the best of everything on the new job.

cocookie

Let me echo Gerald's recommendation of MapPoint.  I use it in the USA and find it to be wonderful!  You can put a ton of information in an Excel database and map the locations instantly, etc, etc.

Thanks for your replies.  I found out that his meeting is in the northern part of Houston and his contact recommended Intercontinental.

Fantastic.  You can walk into that interview with your most confident attitude and it will come through wonderfully!

Hi ya'll (Texas people, that is),

Very quick question --- If a traveler just says he wants to go to "Houston" which airport should I use?

Thanks in advance,
cocookie

OK, I've had my lunch and time to breathe.  I'm calm now.

I've read your responses and I completely agree that it is often easy to misinterpret the tone of e-mails, or notes on fax covers.

As tempting as it is to use Michelle's response I think I'll back off this time; I sent a similar reply to a different issue awhile back and it only lead to another nasty comment from her -- and that one was a very direct statement that could not have been interpreted in any other way.

Right now while I am calm I am going to ignore her and tomorrow it will all be forgotten.  It's wonderful what time and a little bit of venting can accomplish.

Thanks for your help!

How do you handle the office bit** (rhymes with itch)?  No matter what I do she has some snappy, snide retort that, bottom line, translates to, "I know what I'm doing and you don't."  I've only been with this company for a short time, so some of those little love letters are truly helpful to me, but it's the tone that just sets me off.  Like on my 1st week on the job when she faxed me a note that began "FOR THE SECOND TIME ----" in 1-inch high lettering.

Yesterday the BIG bossie asked me to copy a flyer from a professional organization and overnight it to selected VP's.  Of course I did as he asked.

Today I got an e-mail from "Betty the Bit**" saying that her boss is on the mailing list for this same organization so, "it is safe to say that you don't need to send him any information from this group."

I want to reply, "Just doing what bossie told me to do -- as I always will."

My better judgement tells me to just totally ignore her e-mail.

What would you do?  I want to be professional and I truly want to get along with this person but right now I am screaming inside.