Bawk bawk bawk bawk....

Public Notice: If you love me, you will buy these for me.

Lots of people were talking yesterday and today about the possibility of more protests and upheaval today because of continuing developments with the Freddie Gray case.  The corporate communications at my company sent a blast e-mail to all Maryland associates, so now people who don't even work at the Baltimore office are in a tizzy.  It's so silly.

Jennifer 3:56 PM:

sooo... we are scared to come downtown tomorrow

lol

Veronica 3:57 PM:

ohhhh

Jennifer 3:57 PM:

haha

Veronica 3:57 PM:

....bawk bawk bawk bawk

Jennifer 3:57 PM:

But seriously... do you think it would be better if everyone came to Owings Mills?

My boss wanted me to check with you before we came down

Veronica 3:58 PM:

LOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk

Jennifer 3:58 PM:

My boss knows you control everyone's calendars.

I mean, I will run people over in traffic, if necessary :)

 Veronica 3:59 PM:

I am checking with my main dude

Jennifer 3:59 PM:

Ok thanks

Veronica 4:04 PM:

Okay, I'm back.  He also called you poultry.

To be fair, he didn't literally call her poultry... I was summerizing.  That's my job, after all.  I believe his actual words were, "What? I don't have time for this in my life..." which made me very happy...  The complete brush-off. I love my guys. 

Speaking of work conversations, there are a couple I have been saving for you.

There is a new subscriber to my blog who, bless him, e-mails me almost every day if I don't blog.  Some days he is more violent in his notes to me than others, from a gentle "Good morning, Ms. NonBlogger" to this:

Neil 1:52 PM:

So is it safe to say you've quit blogging?

No "Good morning" or anything.

It's funny when people try to force a blog entry upon me. It usually doesn't end well (for them.)

Neil 4:00 PM:

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on the Republican debacle last week.

*debate

Meh...whatever.

Veronica 4:01 PM:

This is exactly how I feel about it:  

Neil 4:03 PM:

LOL

LOLOL

I'm crying!

 Veronica 4:03 PM:

:-)

And let us not forget The Temp, who is like my kid brother, hates that I call him "The Temp," and who thinks that I am Mallory from the show "Archer."  

He's not wrong.  See previous posts. 

Veronica [9:37 AM]:

Hello The Temp.

The Temp [9:37 AM]:

Hello Veronica

 Veronica [9:37 AM]:

I just had to throw a Mallory face at someone, and it made me think of you.

That is all.

Temp [9:39 AM]:

had to throw a Mallory at someone?

You are always Mallory

Meaning you are always throwing Mallorys at people

In every conversation

that you ever have

Veronica [9:40 AM]:

Hearing you say that brings peace to the spot where a human heart should be.

And finally, let's talk about how to deal with stress, okay?  This can apply to anything in your life.

Gym Rat 8:37 AM:

Btw, working on the governance report right now- got some slides yesterday so hope to have Prism updated today

Veronica 8:37 AM:

Ok.

G.R. 8:37 AM:

Do you have a date that you want it by so you can get it to print on time?

 Veronica 8:39 AM:

Not yet

I'm not a goal oriented person like you!

G.R. 8:39 AM:

lol

I wanted to stay home today so badly

Veronica 8:40 AM:

Because you were scared?

Of coming to work

because there's work there

and then you'd have to do it

G.R. 8:40 AM:

basically lol

Veronica 8:40 AM:

I go through that every day

G.R. 8:40 AM:

What do you do to motivate yourself?

Veronica 8:41 AM:

I'm amazing at breaking things down into bite-sized pieces, which is basically the opposite of being goal oriented.

Goal oriented - everything you are doing, you are working TOWARDS something... there is an achievable goal.

There is a thing that becomes complete. Boxes are checked.  You go to bed at night counting things you've accomplished.

I do not do that.

I break things down into one million tiny successes.

I'll be like omg I do not want to go to work today.

If i have to go to work, I have to do things.

I wont even eat lunch today, I know it.

People are going to talk to me,

and expect things of me.

Well, whatever; that's their problem.  For right now, I am going to work on looking amazing.

And then I am going to shut down the house.  Okay that's good.  My house is amazing.  Are the cats ok?  Oh yeah there they are.  They are good.  MAMA IS GOING TO GO MAKE MONEY SO THAT YOU ARE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE LIVING HERE

They don't care.

Well whatever. Ok here I go.  I'm in my car.

My car is cute.  I love my car

Dude, I am such an adult.

There are people without a car.

They take the bus.

I am too pretty for public transportation.

Well let's see what the road is doing.

Veronica 8:45 AM:

And see... just like that... you are not even thinking about work any more

G.R. 8:45 AM:

I need to subscribe to your thought train

I feel as though this is blog worthy

I hope you're copy pasting this

South Carolina Trip and Other Shenanigans

I feel like we have not talked in FOREVER!!!

Since I have so many things to tell you, I’ll just have to tell you in small doses, since I don’t want to overwhelm you, and because I have a hot date in a couple of hours.

I have two happy things to report.

Number one, I have finished writing the MD Archery Guide!  Hoorayyy!!  I was staying at work till 9 PM 4 nights a week the past few weeks to write the darn thing.  (Okay, sometimes I left at 8.)  (And sometimes I went to happy hour and had a few beers, and then came back to work, so hopefully that made for an interesting guide.)

Number two, I changed desks at work, so now I am so far away from chewing and clicking.  It is wonderful.  Others are envious and sometimes just come and stand at my desk, because they are going through withdrawal.  And I get lots of e-mails.

12:34 PM  Colleague

hello

if you're interested in hearing food being chewed

please drop by 

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From: Miglin, Veronica 

Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:44 AM

To: Same Colleague

Subject: Hello.

Do you want to join Leo and me for lunch at Brio?  We are leaving in like 15.  Hello.

From: Same Colleague 

Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:45 AM

To: Miglin, Veronica 

Subject: RE: Hello.

No, I’m poor.

And I want to listen to food get macerated here.

Hello.

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Also the temp that used to be here misses me, too.  Sometimes he just IMs me random yelling.  They all have a weird way of showing it, but the boys miss me when I am no longer available.

9:45 AM Temp

Ugh [[ new temp ]]  got an internet posting of his arrival

I ONLY GET A WELCOME BREAKFAST

you guys really rolled out the red carpet huh

9:46 AM Miglin, Veronica

You are ridiculous

9:46 AM Temp

I see how it is

9:47 AM Miglin, Veronica

you are lucky you got a welcome breakfast

I don’t think he got a welcome breakfast

9:47 AM Temp

On my first day, I got asked if my family was in the Salem witch trials.

I hope you know I’m kidding.

My bagel was delicious.

9:49 AM Miglin, Veronica

btw, WERE your ancestors in the Salem witch trials?

9:49 AM Temp

We’re done here

9:49 AM Miglin, Veronica

still never got a solid answer on that

I went to South Carolina.

I saw on my handy-dandy custom-made-by-Kake calendar that Melissa’s birthday was coming up, and so I asked her what she was doing for her birthday.  She said she was watching TV and working.  Realizing that this was a milestone birthday, I found this to be completely unacceptable, so I rounded up some Maryland folks, and we went down to South Carolina to surprise her.  It went off really well, and it was really awesome of the other Maryland folks to take the time/money to fly down to see her, and to The Boyfriend for helping coordinate. 

Kate and I drove down from Maryland.  It took about 10 hours and it was a beautiful drive, complete with a stop at The Apple House and a beautiful sunset.

Not to mention, a definite vocal workout due to having Pandora set to Disney songs for 6 hours straight. 

It turned out that all of us, the drivers and the flyers, arrived at the same time.  Kake and I picked up the friends from the airport and went right to Melissa’s and it was awesome.  We went out to dinner, and had a great visit.

  

Kake and I did some exploring while we were there, and ran into a little town that has my alias’s namesake.  

We found a park called Paris Mountain, and did some light hiking.  And selfie-ing.

 As we were driving down Paris Mountain, repeatedly singing “Colors of the Wind,” (naturally,) there was a very Kate & Veronica moment.  We were mid-word in the song, (I believe it was right after, “how high does the sycamore grow, if you cut it down, then you’ll never know, and you’ll nev…..”) and we both turned into Twilight vampires when at the same exact moment, we both caught a waft of a campfire fire. 

Then we laughed and we laughed and we laughed.

When Melissa got off of work, we went out for dinner and I will bless your eyes with the sights of our food, you're welcome

Definetly a better way to spend your birthday than on the sofa watching TV.

And then we finished the evening by playing a bunch of rounds of Cards Against Humanity, which btw is hilarious.  I believe Kate went home and ordered her own set immediately.

I will say that the popcorn game is real in South Carolina.  They have a couple of popcorn stores who sell every flavor of popcorn you can think of: watermelon, sour cream & chive, jalapeno, cotton candy, birthday cake, and on and on.  I walked away with some pizza popcorn, and it made the boys at work very happy.

It was a very nice little weekend road trip, fueled by the largest cups of coffee Sheetz sold.  I think we each had a cup of coffee in our hands all of the waking hours.  Well, coffee or beer.  You know how it goes.

Here’s my conclusion:

I do not want to move to Greenville, South Carolina.  There are lots of reasons, but it’s enough that there is no alcohol served on Sundays.  

It's okay for a short visit, but we were ready to get back to Maryland.

The ride home was just as beautiful, paired with hours of praise and worship and Britney Spears and Disney.   Alas, home is where the Smidgen is. This land feels like home to me.

So does Washington State.  And a few other places.  But not SC.    

I have not received your text messages, and I am sorry.

I don't know how long this has been going on, but my suspcian is that it has been at least a month and a half.  My phone has been receiving about half of the messages that people have sent to me.  I am so mad about it that I just want to scream and punch things.  I also am missing calls, and people are being sent directly to voicemail.

I tried to do a hard reset while I was in South Carolina, because I was missing important texts from the people I was with in SC.  

So, I lost all of my contacts, for naught, as it were, because it did not help at all.  I just got a ton of text message notifications at the same time that said this:

I am allegedly getting the replacement phone in the mail today, and my hope and prayer is that all of the messages that I have not received are still alive in cyberspace, and they will all be delivered to my new phone.  I know it won't happen, but I can dream.  After all, I am now on bad terms with a lot of people, and it's possible that it is all over not having received some important communications.  

Therefore, if you have sent me a text in the past two months, and I did not respond, it's because I never got your message.  Please try again.  

On the ride back, Kake and I discovered that this song should be my Tinder tagline.

Btw, as Melissa's birthday present, I reactivated my Tinder, and let her play on it for a while.  NEVER AGAIN.  :-x

But there will be more Tinder episodes on this blog in the future, based off of your feedback of wanting more.  :-)

Until next time... take care of yourself.  <3