When you work with people for a good while, a bond grows between you and the others you work with. Often this bond resembles a family, even going so far as having people play certain roles. We lost one of our best cashiers today at work. Jan had taken off 6 weeks for surgery, and apparently did some job searching while she was at it. Understandably, she wanted to be closer to home, and she's always lived at least an hour's drive away. The thing about Jan is that her customer service was top notch, plain and simple. A toothy grin and inquisitive, "Hi, how are you?" for everybody, be they crotchety old man or haughty middle aged woman. This departure sets us in a "moving on" mood, and as one employee was heard saying, "Heck of a way to start the year, eh?" Today as the rain fell down and one of our family members departed for the last time, our smiles felt empty, and our greetings as hollow as a rotted out dogwood tree.

Christmas was neat this year. Why, you ask? Because of gifts and free food? No. The big gift for the year was getting to see my uncle again, who has advanced pancreatic cancer. So yay there. On to happier things. Today I'm going to run into town on my one day off of work this week to pay my bills (that's why I work in the first place...I think. It's either that or indentured servitude.) and waste my time somewhere other than in front of the computer. GO ME, ROFFLFOEROLOL!!!!111 And remember, a wet dog might stink, but at least it's cheaper than your stank-ass cologne, biotch.

I had this long and drawn out thing written about how Christmas should mean more stuff to everybody, but this craptastic thing decided to erase the entire post! So I'm just going to put this one up and tell everybody that reads this to enjoy their holiday season.

Okay, first things first. This thing isn't letting me edit ANYTHING. Try to add a link or change the title header, and IE spits up a 404 faster than a frat boy can scream "Whoo!" after downing his fourth....fifth. So, I'm just going to give some homemade links to a couple of friends and their blogs. Enjoy!
Andrea James/ARJlog
Tekniklr/Teri's Blog

I'm already tired of everybody else giving out links to their blogs to me like candy to a sugar-starved Halloween junkie, so I'm going to do something about it! Only this won't stop people from giving me links to theirs. Well....I guess that didn't work. Either way, I'm here to rant and roll. Those of you that know me should read this. Otherwise I might throw a fit until you do look at it, and believe me--we don't want that.