WBRepo-Ship of Thieves-Remember the Magic Pt 15

[Tink rules]

Deb & John, have a great trip! Looking forward to seeing the pictures

Deb, years ago I asked my doctor about ear pain and flying, because I'd end up with sore ears every flight. He said to take a decongestant about half hour before the flight and it would help. Maybe that would help you with your head cold

We've been doing that for years... works every time!!!

 

[BubbaGrump]

 

[EllaEnchanted]

Have a wonderful time!!! (and see if you can cut the pill down to 1/4....)

Michelle and Shannon, I ended up taking a decongestant and a half a vicodin. I did fine. Thanks for your great suggestions, they really helped.

IT'S FREEZING HERE and supposed to be even colder tomorrow. FL is just not equipped for this frigid weather. The hotel room is not warm enough and we only brought light jackets.....not heavy duty jackets. I hope it's warmer on the ship.

I'm using the netbook and it takes a little getting used to. It's got a very very small keyboard and screen....very strange.

Monica, Lisa, Darrell I think we'll be sitting inside Fishlips tomorrow. NO outside in this weather. It's way way too cold.

 

[Tink rules]

What's the matter Sweetie Pie... you confused???

Michelle and Shannon, I ended up taking a decongestant and a half a vicodin. I did fine. Thanks for your great suggestions, they really helped.

IT'S FREEZING HERE and supposed to be even colder tomorrow. FL is just not equipped for this frigid weather. The hotel room is not warm enough and we only brought light jackets.....not heavy duty jackets. I hope it's warmer on the ship.

I'm using the netbook and it takes a little getting used to. It's got a very very small keyboard and screen....very strange.

Monica, Lisa, Darrell I think we'll be sitting inside Fishlips tomorrow. NO outside in this weather. It's way way too cold.

Glad to hear you made it ok... Might I suggest you buy yourselves some nice sweatshirts to go with your light jackets??? Then you might be able to sleep in them to keep warm...

 

[LuvBaloo]

Glad to hear you made it safely there

 

[granmaz]

Deb, keep warm. Accuweather forecast sleet for Orlando today!!!

Enjoy the meet tonight.

 

[granmaz]

Ok, little bit of a proud mum alert here. Our son is a deputy headteacher of a primary school, closed all week. He is extremely interested in modern technology so...

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news...olwork_should_not_suffer_despite_bad_weather/

 

[LisaG520]

Michelle and Shannon, I ended up taking a decongestant and a half a vicodin. I did fine. Thanks for your great suggestions, they really helped.

IT'S FREEZING HERE and supposed to be even colder tomorrow. FL is just not equipped for this frigid weather. The hotel room is not warm enough and we only brought light jackets.....not heavy duty jackets. I hope it's warmer on the ship.

I'm using the netbook and it takes a little getting used to. It's got a very very small keyboard and screen....very strange.

Monica, Lisa, Darrell I think we'll be sitting inside Fishlips tomorrow. NO outside in this weather. It's way way too cold.

Inside sounds good to us! See you later today

 

[scottishwee35]

Michelle and Shannon, I ended up taking a decongestant and a half a vicodin. I did fine. Thanks for your great suggestions, they really helped.

IT'S FREEZING HERE and supposed to be even colder tomorrow. FL is just not equipped for this frigid weather. The hotel room is not warm enough and we only brought light jackets.....not heavy duty jackets. I hope it's warmer on the ship.

I'm using the netbook and it takes a little getting used to. It's got a very very small keyboard and screen....very strange.

Monica, Lisa, Darrell I think we'll be sitting inside Fishlips tomorrow. NO outside in this weather. It's way way too cold.

Hi Deb and John

I hope your cruise will be lovely for you both and I told my husband about the weather in Florida, he didn't believe me and he said what ... mmm another crazy weather now...

Enjoy the fishlip and see the disboard people...

Scottishwee35

 

[scottishwee35]

Ok, little bit of a proud mum alert here. Our son is a deputy headteacher of a primary school, closed all week. He is extremely interested in modern technology so...

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news...olwork_should_not_suffer_despite_bad_weather/

That is brilliant and you must be proud mum

Scottishwee35

 

[scottishwee35]

Last Wed to Friday, our local school was opening and Keith was very upset yesterday after finish school ... as boys put the snow on his head and hold it until snow went through his jumper...

He came and shouted at me, I got a fright and don't know what happened he run to his bedroom and sob sob.... I had to phoned school to findout and told them that Keith don't want to come back to school

Teacher asked me to come on Monday to talk about it...

When he calm down and told me about outside and he start hate snowing... as boys throwed snowball then put snow on his head.... Keith said he don't know them as same school...

Scottishwee35

 

[granmaz]

I hate bullying. That just wasn't fun for Keith! I hope you can get to chat it through with school.

 

[iankh]

Ok, little bit of a proud mum alert here. Our son is a deputy headteacher of a primary school, closed all week. He is extremely interested in modern technology so...

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news...olwork_should_not_suffer_despite_bad_weather/

And you have every right to be so proud.

 

[iankh]

Deb & John - I hope you have a fabulous cruise!

 

[iankh]

Good Morning and Good Saturday All!

Sort of rough having a full week back at work. Things are also being ratcheted up a bit by our new company in NY. We are all suffering from culture shock. The only way to describe it is to think of oneself as a refugee who suddenly has to live in a new strange country.

The culture of the new company is very odd and often quite dysfunctional. It is exacerbated a bit because we are all here in Chicago and looking from the outside in. To them in headquarters they're behaving normally. We, looking inside see things differently.

It's going to be a very rough adjustment for all of us. There are things going on for me that are just so damn odd, but I don't want to go into them here. However, by comparison, I have it very easy, there are others in Chicago how are experiencing things much worse.

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Here we are on a very cold and frosty day in Chicago. I went to bed after 1:30 am and did not get up until 7:30 am! I feel like the entire day is gone.

Sukie and I have our normal errands to run today, Costco and the supermarket. We did some shopping yesterday evening and I got a new ceiling light for my office that I have to install today.

Some good news here is Chicago is that Sukie had some good news from the newspaper for which he writes a column. They have asked him to become an associate editor for their entertainment/what's on section. It means covering club events, and will also mean that I need to start looking at buying that new camera because he will have to be out taking some photographs.

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For me, I am starting on my new year's resolution today. My goal is to launch a blog in March. I don't want it to be on someone else's blogging site, such as Blogger. I want it to be on my own domain (site). So my goal is to spend 2 hours a weekend learning Wordpress and get ready for a launch.

I have a domain name that has been unused for many years, Oz Has Spoken, which will finally be getting used, but I've got a lot to learn, since the software will be on my own domain.

The plus side is that I don't have to worry about anyone else's rules and will be in complete control.

So, busy day ahead!

 

[granmaz]

An excuse for a new camera there Ian!!! Enjoy the research, though i guess you already did that for GrumpyJohn's camera!!

 

[HollyTyler]

Ok, little bit of a proud mum alert here. Our son is a deputy headteacher of a primary school, closed all week. He is extremely interested in modern technology so...

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news...olwork_should_not_suffer_despite_bad_weather/

Wow, what a great idea! And it sounds like it's fun for the kids too, instead of just work.

 

[HollyTyler]

Last Wed to Friday, our local school was opening and Keith was very upset yesterday after finish school ... as boys put the snow on his head and hold it until snow went through his jumper...

He came and shouted at me, I got a fright and don't know what happened he run to his bedroom and sob sob.... I had to phoned school to findout and told them that Keith don't want to come back to school

Teacher asked me to come on Monday to talk about it...

When he calm down and told me about outside and he start hate snowing... as boys throwed snowball then put snow on his head.... Keith said he don't know them as same school...

Scottishwee35

Aw, poor Keith, that's terrible. I would have been upset if it had happened to me too. Kids can be so mean. I hope he feels better about it before Monday.

 

[HollyTyler]

Good Morning and Good Saturday All!

Sort of rough having a full week back at work. Things are also being ratcheted up a bit by our new company in NY. We are all suffering from culture shock. The only way to describe it is to think of oneself as a refugee who suddenly has to live in a new strange country.

The culture of the new company is very odd and often quite dysfunctional. It is exacerbated a bit because we are all here in Chicago and looking from the outside in. To them in headquarters they're behaving normally. We, looking inside see things differently.

It's going to be a very rough adjustment for all of us. There are things going on for me that are just so damn odd, but I don't want to go into them here. However, by comparison, I have it very easy, there are others in Chicago how are experiencing things much worse.

-------

Here we are on a very cold and frosty day in Chicago. I went to bed after 1:30 am and did not get up until 7:30 am! I feel like the entire day is gone.

Sukie and I have our normal errands to run today, Costco and the supermarket. We did some shopping yesterday evening and I got a new ceiling light for my office that I have to install today.

Some good news here is Chicago is that Sukie had some good news from the newspaper for which he writes a column. They have asked him to become an associate editor for their entertainment/what's on section. It means covering club events, and will also mean that I need to start looking at buying that new camera because he will have to be out taking some photographs.

-------

For me, I am starting on my new year's resolution today. My goal is to launch a blog in March. I don't want it to be on someone else's blogging site, such as Blogger. I want it to be on my own domain (site). So my goal is to spend 2 hours a weekend learning Wordpress and get ready for a launch.

I have a domain name that has been unused for many years, Oz Has Spoken, which will finally be getting used, but I've got a lot to learn, since the software will be on my own domain.

The plus side is that I don't have to worry about anyone else's rules and will be in complete control.

So, busy day ahead!

Wow, I don't quite understand all the work issues, but really hope the adjustment will start smoothing out for you. A complete change is so hard, so I don't envy you that at all. But it sounds like it could be worse, so you do have that in your favor. Hang in there!

CONGRATS to Sukie on the associate editor role, sounds like it will be fun!

Good luck on the website, it will be nice to be able to run it however you want instead of following somebody else's rules. Very nice!

Stay inside and stay warm!

 

[nskjerven]

Ok, little bit of a proud mum alert here. Our son is a deputy headteacher of a primary school, closed all week. He is extremely interested in modern technology so...

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news...olwork_should_not_suffer_despite_bad_weather/

It's great to see a teacher thinking out of the box for his students win-win in my minds eye. The icing on the cake is that he is your's Marilyn moms never get over having the best job in the world, do they

Ian as Willie says "sucks to be me right now" Work is just the means to an end. Keep it in perspective and don't let it get in your head. It's a shame that the old exec team didn't seek a better fit for you guys in corporate feel, but I'm sure it was a numbers decission, as M&As usually are.

Work for me is intense, in that when I'm there I'm engrossed from the minute I walk in ~9am until I head home ranging from the earliest of 6pm latest of 10pm. More work this weekend, going in within the hour. I never get to my forecasting and planning role during the week, so that's the late hours and weekend work. If it doesn't get done I could find myself in a bad spot as the weeks/months roll on. Lots of growth for us, we've gone from brand new in Nov up to 11 people today adding more as I tell everyone we can afford them. I'm missing my life as a mom - I see the kids for an hour or less and have been replaced (gratefully) by Paul. He is scheduling playdates and making sure they get homework done and to scouts and rehersal on time. Paul also is doing a bang up job of making my life easier. When I work late he brings me a plate of dinner and lugs his laptop into our conference room and works on his contract work stuff. I think our roles have reversed for sure and figure it will be this way for a few years to come. I'm feeling okay about it for now. But working full time is a hard gig in Silicon Valley that's for sure