I am not necessarily political, but seriously Republicans, get the fuck over yourselves. The Affordable Healthcare Act is a fucking LAW.
I have never been embarrassed to be an American until now. These fuckers that run our country have shut down our government (whilst getting paid their own salaries mind you) and 800,000 federal workers are either furloughed or being told they are going to work without pay.
Blows my fucking mind how obviously racist and classist this country still is.
Just see this, people. And do it if you can. The Bloggess puts it together so much more eloquently than I ever could.
On a personal note, went to visit my sister this weekend to celebrate what my niece claims is her 8th birthday, but you never know with this child, everything that comes out of her mouth I take with a grain of salt.
Don't trust those baby blue eyes
It was a good visit. It's been a good week, actually. Good to have one before the pre-op (boo!) stuff next week.
Oh, and we had a potluck at work, and I took the infamous pickle dip, and it went over like gangbusters, so here is the recipe. You can thank me afterwards.
8 oz cream cheese, softened
16 oz sour cream
1 tsp garlic salt
1 jar refrigerated pickle spears (preferably Claussen)
Whisk together room temp cream cheese and sour cream until smooth. Roughly chop pickles (do not use a processor; hand chop into bite sized chunks). Add chopped pickles to sour cream/cream cheese mixture.
Refrigerate overnight; serve with sturdy plain potato chips. Stand back and prepare to be in awe.
Cheapest, best potluck recipe ever.
Until next time, here is my Mood Ring(tone) of the Day:
And also good to know it's not entirely period, job or life related. It's those god dang planets. And the weather.
So you know how you start a new job and you have high hopes that this is going to be the ONE? The life changer, the new career path?
Yeah, me neither. Well actually that's not entirely true. I had a job once where I had high hopes that it was the ONE. Well, it turned out (through both its fault and my own) not to be, so I floundered around for a while (you know, almost dying, wasting my life, working retail...actually those three things could be one in the same couldn't they?) until I found this one and I thought...
Okay. I can do this. It's a job, pays pretty well, good benefits, kinda-sorta similar to what I've done before, low key and low pressure, I'll take it.
Well, it's kicking my ass. And it's not even the job yet; it's the training of the job that I'm finding hard to deal with so what the HELL is going to happen when I actually start the job itself? I dunno...I hope I can handle it. I'm filled with self-doubt, not necessarily about my abilities...well, that's not true. I do doubt my abilities.
I hear all the time "you're smart, you'll get it, you'll catch on, you'll be fine" but I'm not as young as I used to be kiddos, and my brain realizes this. Unfortunately.
It doesn't help that my trainer sucks and even the people who claim to be struggling and not "getting it" seem FAR more advanced and further along in their knowledge and abilities than I.
And it doesn't help that the one guy who started with me, Little Man Tate, certified idiot, has done better on our assessment test than myself. It sucks. He sucks, he doesn't give two shits about this job, and is excelling. What...The...Hell...I don't get it.
I have my second test next Tuesday. And I hope I'll be fine. It's not the "if you fail, you get fired" biggie exam, but it's still pressure.
So I'm glad to know it's the planets working against me. And I'll be happy for the long weekend...that I'll probably spend studying.
Is it Friday yet?
Here's this, which I thought of when I titled this post; I'm probably the only person on the planet who remembers and loved this show (Seth Green can do no wrong).
My Mood Ring(tone) of the Day:
Quick aside: this is my 100th post. A minor milestone of sorts. Hurrah. Wish it wasn't such a downer.
