Look at my pretty shiny site! I picked out a new template and then my husband fixed it all up for me because I am kind of technologically challenged (to say the least – why do you think none of my posts have photos? BECAUSE I AM TOO DUMB TO DO IT). So yay! I like this look much better. Oh, and I also updated the “this is me” page because I had another kid and all that, and I am going to actually try to add a picture to that page later today. Try being the operative word.
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And now it’s time for a movie review! If you look through the posts from the last several months, it would appear that I no longer watch movies at all. This is not the case, I guess what with the new baby and all I just didn’t feel like writing reviews. And this is my blog so I can do whatever I want. Anyway, last night I sat down to watch my latest Netflix pick – Alien. I had seen it before, but it was a long time ago and I don’t think I saw the whole thing from the very beginning. Speaking of the beginning, it started out very sloooooooooooow. Like 2001: A Space Odyssey slow. (I hate that movie, by the way. Boring much?) Also, I couldn’t hear a damn thing anyone was saying at first. I don’t know if it was just a bad disc or what, but half of the dialogue for the first 30 minutes sounded pretty much like this: mghfrnmphmphgfrmemeghrm. Mrpfhm! Finally the sound seemed to even out a little and I could tell what was going on without the assistance of the subtitles. Overall, a very good movie. It has just the right amount of suspense and isn’t heavy on the gore. The one thing I found truly annoying was the character Lambert. Good god woman, you are giving us all a bad name with your sniveling and whining. Shut up already! I may have cheered for the alien a little when Ms. Lambert’s number was up. So in summary: if you like horror or suspense movies at all, this one is definitely worth picking up.
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Question: if the dress code for your workplace is “business casual” – meaning that jeans are only allowed on Fridays – do people try to get away with wearing colored denim the rest of the week? As far as I know, denim = jeans. However, we have a person at my office who wears black jeans AND black tennis shoes every single day. Every single day! It is like a uniform. I am not fooled, I do have eyeballs. They may be black, but you are still defying the dress code by wearing jeans and tennis shoes Monday – Thursday (we are actually allowed to wear tennis shoes with our jeans on Fridays provided they are clean-looking). But for some reason no one ever says anything to this person, who has been dressing in this manner since day one. Why? If I showed up to work in black jeans and solid black tennis shoes (which no one ever should anyway, dress code not withstanding) I would get sent home immediately. Why do the rules not apply to certain people around here but they certainly apply to me? I don’t understand.
There is someone at every company for whatever reason gets away with that crap. We get to wear jeans all week, but at my previous employer we were not allowed to wear jeans ever except on certain days if we paid $5 toward whatever charity they were trying to raise money for. Anyway, one guy wore jeans all the damn time. ALL THE TIME. AND TENNIS SHOES. I had to get a note from my doctor about wearing tennis shoes while pregnant. But him? I highly doubt he was pregnant. Anyway. He also sucked at his job, but they wouldn’t fire him either. I have no idea what kind of dirt he had on the management.
Here…you can wear jeans all the time, but T-shirts are frowned upon except on Club -[COMPANY NAME] days which are like a day before any company event. And the secretaries nearly had to go to a no-jean policy for their department because no one would take the 3 hoochie mammas aside and tell them that T-shirts and disgustingly tight jeans and jeans with holes were not appropriate for work.
People are stupid sometimes. And then no one calls them on their crap and then we have to deal with it.
That was long. Sorry.
I love this template: the colors, design, everything – so nice! (I am in the process of customizing a new template as well, and I am getting SO frustrated because I cannot find the proper place in the coding to change the stupid color of something – aaargggg.)
We can wear jeans every day at work, but at my last job we could only wear them on Fridays. I always got around it by wearing a jean skirt. I think colored jeans were OK as well, as long as they weren’t too faded or had holes in them.
Thanks! I am very, very pleased with the way the site looks now. And there is positively no way that I could even attempt to customize a template myself, so mad props to anyone who can! Although it turns out that I am not as deficient at inserting photos as I thought – apparently the way my work computer is set up I can’t do it from here. Not that I ever blog at work.