Archive for November, 2007

Is it sad that I am looking at pan on my dinner table and I all I can think about the pan is, I should go buy more marshmallows and rice crispy treats so that I can use that pan for making them. And I also cant help but to think that I will definitely be getting the Christmas marshmallows that I had bought for Hot Chocolate last week. I should so not be thinking about food I have been talking about going on a diet so this totally different than what I should be thinking. But of course when it comes to dieting or even attempting dieting I have zero amount of will power. Well I am thinking that all of that stuff will have to wait until after Christmas of course because I might as well hang it up right now. A friend and myself are planning on getting memberships at a gym and working out together after work everyday, so dieting is definitely in my future, but for the present it is Rice Crispy treats for me.

~sharon

I really do not think that prank calls are in the least bit funny, they are annoying and a waste of time. I just got a call at my home job from a kid and he I read the little spill the whole “May I help you?” since there was no product associated. Well the smart ass child tells me “help, help billy is the well.” I am just thinking oh great. Well I finally say the “May I help you?” and they say no, I say is there a product you were calling about, they say no I don’t like you tone. Whatever kid my tone your a prank caller. Well I ask them one more time and they say no again so I say well I will get a supervisor and maybe they can help you, so the smart ass says ok. And I put them on mute and act as if I put them on hold to get someone and I guess they finally were scared of the idea of a supervisor and hung up. I kind of wish this one was like my at home job were most of the time their home phone number pop up and you can start reciting it back to them and that really freaks them out.

Please no more of these idiots.

~sharon

In the next few months we are planning on upgrading and purchasing a new bigger flat screen HDTV, and like most people we are doing most of our research online trying to figure out what brand and size we want or the features of all the different models. Our top two choices brand wise are a Sony or maybe a Phillips, out of all the ones I have looked at a sony 60 inch LCD sounds really nice and I think that our games systems and movies would look great on one. And to help with the search and locating a specific Krillion is here to help. The website gives a buyer product information and then tells them how much to get it for and where to get it. I did a search for my own town and a TV that I was interested in and it told me where I could find it at a local store how much they were selling it for. This is a very helpful service for buyers because personally like most shoppers looking for products of this kind I do my research online but would rather look at the product in the store before I buy.

A phone conversation my husband and myself just had earlier has led me to the conclusion that one of us has to go back to college and finish. There is no question about it one of just needs to, it is necessary I believe for our future. And I know as my mother in law always points out that it does not guarantee a job, maybe not but I feel like it does give someone an advantage over other applicants potentially who may not have a degree. He says that I should go back because I do already have some credits toward a degree plan, but I honestly do not feel as if I can handle going to school, working full time and taking care of our children. So I am either going to have to go to school and work part time. Or I can go to school and work full time for my at home job which would be easier because of the flexibility in shifts that I can have.
I just hope that we can figure this out so that it can work out in an advantageous way for us with our future and financially.

~sharon

I wrote a few weeks ago about the red ring on our XBox 360 console. Well it took less than a week after we sent it to them for them to ship it back to us. The only reason why it took so long to get back to us was because of the Holiday and I can say that I am really impressed by the quality and speed of service of Microsoft in these matters. And I am mostly glad to have my XBox back so that I can watch dvds on it again. Silly reason but I just like it best for that just like my husband and son like it best for their games.

~sharon

My husband and I are planning a trip for our family for the middle of next year. We are looking for different options for our stay away from home. We are looking at Hotel Reservations and trying to find the best deal. HotelReservations.com has offers reservations for all different kinds of stays including hotels, motels, resorts and even vacations rentals. I just did a search for our destination and the rates were very competitive even though our destination was here in the states they also offer discounts on world wide destinations. I just did a search for London, England and very thrilled with the rates that came up, prices like that will make it even more likely that we will get to go on a trip there in the future.

My mother in law recently bought the boys some Christmas DVD’s to watch now that Christmas is on us. She bought them the Wonder Pets Christmas and she also bought them two sets of shoes that were like the Christmas Television Specials from when Jason and I were kids or even I think from when she was a kid. They include “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” Frosty the Snowman” and my most favorite ever “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” They have been great to watch, I am about as bad as the boys about wanting to watch them, they are getting us into the Christmas mood just like the Town Christmas Parade will tonight when we go. Which will be fun since it will be dark and the floats will be lighted.

~sharon

Whenever I have something going that I am passionate about I tend to talk about it quite a bit. Right now one of those such things is my blog, I am always talking to my friends about it and they are always like, “what are you talking about?” And now that Ooprint has their “Business Card 2.0″ I can get 100 FREE business cards from them and pass them around to everyone I know or meet to check out my blog without getting a confused look. All the blogger has to do is pay for the shipping and the cards are free and what is even more awesome is that they a cloud tag where key words can be placed that focus on your blog. I am off to order myself a set and get my blog outside of the digital world.

The quality of calls at work yesterday wasn’t the best, I struggled throughout the day to get back my conversion rate which is applications to calls and it was hard a lot of people trying to get through to customer relations and not really liking that fact that we couldn’t help them. Well around 3 or so I got my conversion back up and decided that it was time to go home. Well earlier I had called Jason to see if Pizza sounded good to him for dinner and we decided that I would stop and get some on the way home. Well I get to the pizza place get my pizza and low and behold I lock my keys in the car. I am forever notorious for this but it is just frustrating all the same, I always try to make sure I have them but sometimes it slips my mind. Well I am able to call and while I am waiting for him to get there with his keys the pizza gets cold, which really sucks. So when we finally get home we and the boys have to warm up our pizza before we can eat it. Oh well today was a lot better work wise, no big problems thankfully. I did get my requests off for the week of Christmas turned in so hopefully that works out ok.

~sharon

Where I work we deal with a lot of sensitive information social security numbers, and even financial information. Well up until recently they had been higher high school kids for the late afternoon shift which from what I understand is disastrous from what I have heard from people who have worked. Well I am not trying to offend anyone but a supervisor told us earlier that they weren’t going to hire anyone else for our area unless that at least had a GED or high school diploma. I am so relieved about this because I don’t feel as if many of the ones that they have hired in the past have the maturity to deal with the job nor the respect for people or even other peoples belongings to handle the job. While I know that this doesn’t apply to all teenagers or high school kids it just seems like we have gotten a lot of immature ones, who frankly need to learn some respect. So hopefully when they start to hire more people that the environment will be getting better and it will even be quite in the evenings for the people that have to work that shift.

~sharon