What Game???

I'm going out on a limb and will guess that my family will be among the minority this evening because we most likely will not be watching the UK vs U of L basketball game.  For those of you who have not been near a TV, newspaper, the internet or any other form of media for the past week, UK and U of L will play against each other tonight in the NCAA basketball tournament, and the winner will go on to play Monday night in the championship game.

I just don't like March Madness and all of the trash-talking that goes along with it.  This year, however, I did wear college team t-shirts during this madness.  I had a UK t-shirt that was 4 or 5 years old, as Dad has an old one as well, and he and I started wearing them to church on Wednesday nights out of solidarity for one of the deacons who is a huge UK fan; needless to say Walnut Street Baptist Church is predominantly U of L. One Wednesday night a few weeks ago, one of the little ladies who is a diehard U of L fan was joking me about my UK shirt and asked how come I wasn't wearing a U of L shirt.  I told her that if I had one, I would wear it, as I don't really like or dislike either team; I'm proud of my city and my state equally.  Wouldn't you know that the next Wednesday she gave me a very nice bright red U of L t-shirt. They made me put it on over my Wildcat blue t-shirt I was wearing.  So just to follow the crowds, whenever the two teams were playing during March Madness, I would wear the appropriate t-shirt that day; never mind that I didn't watch the games.  There were quite a few laughs, especially at work;  a few of the women from the Accounting department who are big U of L fans came down to my office and hugged me when they heard I had on a U of L shirt, and they both said they never gave up hope for me. 

The games come to an end on Monday.  But I'll still wear my t-shirts.

Flashback Friday, Sorta

I did something very stupid a few days ago, and today, I wish I could go back to the carefree days when I was a kid and have someone else fix it for me, but unfortunately I can't.  So instead of flashing back and thinking about when Mom and Dad would always take care of things, I'm taking care of things tonight as I wait for the battery charger to get the battery on the Blazer charged up enough so it will start.  I was a goofball on Tuesday evening and left the tailgate window slightly open, just enough for the dome light to stay on and drain the almost-new battery. 

Thursday, Thursday

We interrupt the regularly scheduled TWIT post to bring you news that I am a bit under the weather tonight.  I had some, uh, issues throughout the morning and early afternoon, and it's worn me out. For a couple of hours at work I was just freezing cold, sitting in my office in between trips to the bathroom wearing a hoodie and a demin jacket.   I'm just tired now, but so far haven't had any, uh, issues, in a couple of hours.  Hopefully I'll be back in action tomorrow.  In the meanwhile, I'm going to lay on the couch and take it easy tonight.

Quote Of The Week

Seen on the back door of a big rig trailer on my way home today:

"It started as a dream, and now it's a damned nightmare."

Tuesday Updates

I am very proud of myself for speaking up at work today about our lack of communication in the company. I don't know if it will change things, but at least I cowboy'd up and spoke my mind. And lo and behold, others spoke up and supported me.

On an unrelated note, I ate some bad sour cream at supper tonight, and hope I don't end up at the emergency room later to have my stomach pumped.  I know that this is miniscule compared to what my pal Rachel is going through right now, but it's a concern.  As always, I'll keep you posted.

Rant and Rave Monday

Even though this is my blog and I can talk about whatever I want to any day of the week, you know after the past eight (yes, almost eight) years of blogging that I seldom rant and rave and complain in TWIT.  And you also know that I don't make too many comments in TWIT about my company or my job.  Well, today, that changes.  

It was well into the afternoon today - after 2:00 - when I found out that a coworker upstairs in Customer Support was having brain surgery today.  In fact, she was actually in the operating room undergoing the surgery when we found out.  It wasn't just me - I don't think anyone else knew that this woman was having brain surgery to remove a tumor.  Yet if there had been some scandalous or even near-scandalous gossip about her, we sure would have heard it within minutes of when it was spoken.  When something that we need to know so those of us that pray can pray about, we never find out.  I know that's not something that you publish on the front page of the newspaper, but her coworkers or HR should have let people know so they could have been praying or for those that don't pray, they could have been sending well wishes.  And if that wasn't bad enough, honestly minutes before we found out our coworker was having brain surgery, we found out that her boss was off for a few weeks because she had gall bladder surgery.  Once again, if there'd been some gossip about her, we would have heard it instantaneously. 

It just riles me up. I'll say this publicly: communication has always been a major fault at my company. When we need to know something, we never find out.  Yet when there's leftovers in the lunchroom after a lunch meeting we all know about it as soon as the food is laid down on a lunchroom table, or when someone is selling NASCAR or ballgame tickets, our inboxes are bombarded with emails.  What's wrong with this picture?

Link Of The Week

I've mentioned [quite] a few times in TWIT that I love Little Debbie snack cakes, mainly the Zebra Cakes and the holiday-themed cakes that are similar to Zebra Cakes.  I love a good Nutty Bar, too, but the cream-filled Zebra Cakes in any form are my favorite. Just this week, Diva Stacy reported to me that she saw Little Debbie Tulip cakes while shopping.  I knew I had to have them.  While doing some research about them at the Little Debbie website, I stumbled upon a page where you can find your favorite Little Debbie product in your area.  Visit http://littledebbie.com/product_locator/ and just select the Little Debbie product you want and enter your zip code and then head out the door to the store.