Empress Sassy

posted by EmpressSassy on Dec 31

Do you guys ever eat these cookies?  If you live in Indiana the BEST place to buy them is William’s Bakery in Clarksville(which by the way is one of the best Bakeries around).  They make them in various colors and they always coordinate them for the holidays. 

Jerry bought me some for Christmas and of course they were red, green and white icing.  On Valentine’s Day I always try to get up there to buy the red, pink and white ones too.  I LOVE them!  They are simple, yet delicious.  One of my favorite cookies actually.  I’ve never really seen them too much in the Kentucky bakeries, but maybe you guys have them, I’m not sure. They are great for kids too because they are small, not messy and just fun with the colors for parties.

If you do, try them they rock.  If not, let me know and I’ll pick up some for you so you can try them.  Maybe I’ll let you be my Valentine!  Too late on the Christmas cookies, I’m SO not sharing!

posted by EmpressSassy on Dec 31

What the heck was I thinking?  You’d think it was getting ready to snow or something!  I honestly just needed some cat food or I wouldn’t have even went to the grocery so it didn’t dawn on me that the entire city would be shopping for New Year’s Eve.

I guess my thought process was that more folks go out to parties.  Guess I was wrong on that one.  Kroger was a mad house.  The lines were back in to the aisle.  I was cracking up.  People were all stressed out, as I guess they had places to be and they were angry at each other, it was hilarious. 

I did see one guy that had a worse chip habit than me, his cart was just LOADED with chips.  I was wondering where his party might be happening.  I thought this might be a party I could actually have some fun!  Once I was in line I did start to notice all the different items in people’s carts.  You had ranges from lower class carts of chips and salsa with soft drinks all the way to shrimp trays and champagne.  I guess you can get it all at Kroger with one stop shopping. 

The lines did move fast, I have to give them that, they were prepared.  They had almost every line opened and were herding them through like cattle.  I was in and out of check out in about 5 minutes.  The parking lot was packed too.  Huge mistake, but then again I just didn’t think it through.  I guess I will prepare next time!

posted by EmpressSassy on Dec 31

As some of you have noticed and commented my blogging has slowed down during the day and that is because we are very busy at work AND because I have a real job again!  For those of you that know me, you know that I have had some struggles in the past, but buck up my lovely friends I do believe those days are behind us.  I didn’t want to be bored at work and it certainly wasn’t my choice.  I could only beg for work for so long without giving up right?  After that what else can you do?

I truly like my job, I’m not saying that to suck up, give me a break, it wouldn’t do me any good where I work anyway!  My company pays you a paycheck to come to work and do your job and they expect you to do just that, and I get it AND I agree.  OK, that being said, I like what I do and I do like the people that I work with (OK, yes we all have a few we don’t like, get real).  However, when you are not allowed to be who you are, or use your talents it tends to make you feel useless and I had felt that way for a very long time.

Lately thanks to some great people who believe in me I am able to be the person I am and hopefully let others be who they have needed to be for a long time too.  Today for example I was actually given responsibility all on my own, I know to most of you that have real jobs that sounds so lame, but to me it was a milestone.  It was HUGE.  I was grateful to be given the opportunity! 

It’s never easy when you downsize because it means more work for less people, but when you have talented people who want to work AND have talents that they haven’t been able to use - well guess what, that work won’t be so bad.  Yep, we are going to roll into 2009 kicking some tax, 403b, customer service butt and I’m proud to say we won’t be stopped by anything!  OUR TEAM ROCKS!   

posted by EmpressSassy on Dec 30

Are you making plans?  Do you already have plans?  Do you just ring in the New Year at home?  Regardless it’s time to ring in the New Year and get ready to forge ahead to 2009. 

I hope everyone is ready and has their plans complete.  We have some of our plans worked out, but not all of them of course.  We have to work until around 4PM so that makes it a little bit of a rush but that’s OK.  It is what it is right?

Still plenty of time to get home and get ready to bring in the New Year with the ones you love.  Are you thinking about resolutions for the New Year?  Don’t believe in them?  Mine are a little different this year actually, a little deeper and serious this year and not the general ones that I usually make.  I think I have some things I want to really try to accomplish this year so I thought I’d start off fresh!

Well good luck to everyone and I hope you get your plans lined out!  It’s almost time to start all over again with a clean slate!  ha ha.  Some of us need it right? 

posted by EmpressSassy on Dec 30

Thanks to my recent stomach virus I won’t be visiting Bonnie and Clyde’s for a long time!  Don’t you hate that?  We had went there for dinner that night before my demise because we were sick of Christmas leftovers and of course the following morning I’m as sick as a dog.  Now all I can think about is being sick and that pizza.  That totally sucks. 

We had leftovers in the fridge and the smell of the pizza just made me sick to my stomach.  I love that pizza, but the thought of going there just isn’t something I see happening for a very long time - how sad.  Have you ever given up a place before because you got sick?  I remember I gave up KFC for almost 2 years due to food poisoning; I couldn’t even go near the place.  It was awful.  I think I gave up McDonalds for about 2 years when Amanda was getting older for the exact same reason.

It’s not so bad when you don’t really like the place, but Bonnie and Clyde’s?  That is a killer for me.  Thinking of it still makes me sick right now so I guess it will be a while before I can try it.  Dang this stupid virus! 

posted by EmpressSassy on Dec 29

Well at least I didn’t ring in the New Year with it!  I had the misfortune of getting this stomach virus that is going around.  I got it yesterday morning and it hit me like a Mack Truck.  I woke up around 5:00 AM and thought for a second, “Gee I don’t feel so well.”  Within seconds I was totally sick.  I went to the Immediate Care Center with my mom and they had to give me a shot so I could stop getting sick (which the shot actually made me throw up so that was worse!).

I went home and slept the entire day away in a drug induced coma so that was OK I guess, but this morning I felt awful.  I had to come to work because we are already short staffed due to holidays and bad management decisions so that being said, I’m here and not feeling too great. 

If you get this you might as well plan on at least 24 hours and a trip to the Dr. because you can’t stop the sickness yourself, it’s too harsh.  Just deal with it and try to get medicine fast! 

posted by EmpressSassy on Dec 27

Lately I have noticed something that I know I DON’T do, but most others do.  It’s something that I think people should think about when you work in a cubicle environment.  Even though where I work, it’s a very small group of people and we feel safe, I started to think about large customer service teams at massive companies and thought this could be an issue.

Over the holidays I have overheard several people give out their personal, security information over the phone for various reasons.  I have heard social security numbers, pass codes, passwords, mother’s maiden names, and I have even heard one particular individual give instructions as to where she hides her house key.  Why, because we work in cubicles and we have no privacy. 

However, here is the thing, we have offices and conference rooms and we also have lunch hours.  This is when I would give out this information and handle this type of business.  You will never hear me give this personal information over the phone so anyone can hear me do it; even in our environment.  Why, well for a couple of reasons actually but still, it’s just not what you should be doing so others can hear you.

Just think if you worked at a very large company with people coming and going, mail people, service people, repair people and you have no idea who can hear you.  There you are just giving out information and you don’t who might over hear you and do something with your information.  Is this cynical of me?  Perhaps, but with so much fraud in the world today should we be so careless?  I think not. 

It’s just an observation because when it does happen then you always hear the person say, “I don’t understand, I’m SO careful.” and the thing is, I don’t even think people realize how carefree they are sometimes with that type of call or information when they are calling their bank or maybe a relative to give out information.  I think we should be because of some much fraud in the world today.

posted by EmpressSassy on Dec 27

I got the Official GT Xpress 101 for Christmas.  Has anyone seen this on the Infomercial?

It’s one of my favorite Infomercials and I always wanted to buy the thing, but of course I didn’t.  Well Jerry got me one for Christmas.  I was so excited.  Yes, I’m going to use it and yes, I’m going to make exciting meals in 7 to 9 minutes and some are going to be from leftovers.  ha ha

I have already started memorizing the cookbook that came with it and I am going to the web site tonight to get more recipes to try.  I swear, I have watched the infomercial probably 20 times, how sad is this?  It’s mostly because I can’t sleep late at night and I’m flipping channels but I always seem to stop and just get hooked by this thing for some reason.  It just sucks me in but NOW I have one and I’m so ’cited I could pee my pants! 

I told Jerry we could ring in the New Year just making 7 minute meals.  OK, so I’m not the most exciting gal in the world, but this is my life so let me live it alright?  I’m excited that Santa had one in his bag.  I told the girls at work they’d stop making fun of me around the middle of January when it’s freezing outside and I bring it to work and whip out some great lunch in 7 minutes, yes I said 7 minutes from leftovers.  ha ha.

If you want to try it out, just give me a call and I can whip you up something in a jiffy moment!  I can’t wait to try it out and when I have my top 10 recipes I will blog them for sure!   

posted by EmpressSassy on Dec 26

Don’t kids just crack you up? All we have heard for months now is, “I want a yellow bike”, “I’m getting a yellow bike”, we’ve told friends, family members, strangers and even the big man himself.  It was a done deal.  We’ve been good, Santa was bringing the yellow bike, all was right with the world.  I even ask if he wanted ANY, OTHER toys and the answer was always the same, “No thank you, I just want a yellow bike.” 

Big morning, big moment, drum roll please……….he walks out, he looks at the bike (very seriously as Noah is always serious), and he says, “please take off the streamers (which we forgot and they were kind of girlie), then he says, “the water bottle needs to go on the side, not the front” (with which we reply, OK we can probably fix that) and then without a moment’s hesitation his eye catches the race track set up in the corner and he screams, “A race track, I really like this race track” and from then on out it was all about the race track.  So much for the yellow bike.

He did get on it later for a few moments, but not the reaction you’d think seeing how we had talked about it for MONTHS ON END!  He was even more excited about his yellow, rain boots because, as he told us, “He had wanted them for a long time!”.

Kids crack me up!  It was a great day and he was an angel until he fell asleep.  He loved everything and my living room currently looks like a damaged ToysRUs store!  It’s sad!  It was a great day and we will need the weekend to recuperate. 

PS:  The Flippin’ Frog game was fun and Noah did love it.  We played and of course, he was the yellow frogs!

posted by EmpressSassy on Dec 26

A very special thanks to Jacob for my special Christmas gift.  I loved my bracelet and without your help it would not have been possible.  It made me cry (as if we all knew that wasn’t going to happen since it was about Noah) and it was awesome.  I will cherish it forever!

I also loved my Mr. Darcy t-shirt, by the way, that made me laugh out loud. 

You rock Jacob!