Directors.....

I work for a non-profit agency, which I love. My degree is in Criminal Justice, which doesn't exactly fit non-profit, but I'm going back for my masters in School Counseling.... So I guess it fits for now! Anyway! We recently got a new director that is uh.... MAZING! She's great. She's been around non-profit for sometime now, knows the ropes, knows the people and knows what she is doing.... This post isn't about her, unfortunately! This post is about our former director!

I want to give you a glimpse into what we had to deal with for 5 months until he called it quits...

Some of the things about him:

1. He once told us he spent a weekend watching 40 episodes of Andy Griffith while ironing 70 shirts...

2. Friday's was jean day.... He would come to work in a 3 piece suite... Then proceed to tell us he loves denim. He owns a denim shirt, hat, flask?, tie, etc...

3. The first thing he would do in the morning would be to straighten all of our blinds in or office... Because... "We don't want someone from the outside looking in, seeing the uneven blinds and thinking, wow, I guess that's the kind of office they run.....)

4. He checked our e-mail (you need to know, the person in this position, should not have enough time to sit in the office, they need to be out getting to know people & fundraising for us)

5. We were no longer allowed to get the mail, that was his job

6. He told us he was a police officer for 26 years (though we found out he was actually working as an administrative assistance in a police office...)

7. This man never left his office or met with one of us w/o putting his suit jacket on

8. My 2nd day on the job, he came in, sat next to my desk and proceeded to clip his finger nails!!

9. He lied to everyone about everything (Including important school administration that we work closely with)

10. He expected us to know more than he did, though he was the director

11. He freaked out at my office mate and I (threw, what I would call, a child's temper tantrum) because we rearranged our office after being told we could... He suggested that if we had told him, he could have had 3 strong guys there to do the work... (Because we were incompetent??? obviously, we got the job done ourselves)

12. This man lied to our bored about what we were doing, made policies that said we could not use our work e-mail for personal use... Ok fine, but we find out that the only thing he did while he was here besides make these weird policies was e-mail people about personal things... He deleted all of his incoming mail, but forgot to delete all of his outgoing mail.....

13. He changed his name, no, not legually..... But everyone was forced to call him by this new name...

14. He developed his own "fire department"...... Had a sign on his garage and everything. He thought it was "cool"

15. He proudly told us that he owns over 700 pieces of fire equipment, because he collects it... (we're thinking he was a fire-fighter who was regjected when he applied)

So, all in all, this is a very odd gentelman! We were all looking for new jobs at the time, because we were tired of dealing with his crap.... This is just a small idea of what we dealt with on a daily basis...... It was tortue....

How about you, did you ever have any crazy boss or co-workers? Or do you still? Do tell, please! :-)

What is that you say?

The work day is almost over and guess what!!?!?

Tomorrow's FRIDAY!!!!!

I couldn't resist a small celebration at my desk as the clock nears 4:30, the end of my workday on a Thursday!!

Anyone want to celebrate with me?!?! :-)

Weekend post to come tomorrow!

Pictures Pictures Pictures

Jesse & I at a friend's Wedding












My friend Katie, her sister, mom & sister in Law








My good friend Pammy and I!!





Out in Chicago with my husband, Pam's boyfriend and Pam

Photo update...

so, here's all of the photo's I've been promising!! Sorry for the delay!! :-)




















Sorry, I'm having technical difficulties with my pictures.... More will be posted later!

Overdue Post...

So, as many of you readers know (all 4 of you anyway! haha) that I usually do a weekend review... I know it's Tuesday, but yesterday was a long one...

Friday we headed to my hometown to enjoy dinner with my family. It was amazing! It was my brother's birthday, so it was his pick and I was not disappointed. We then headed to the newly remodeled (moved from a boat on the river to an actual building) Diamond Joe Casino. We are not gamblers, but there was a band playing at the Moon Bar, which is located in the casino. The band was great and we got to hang out with my family and my brother's fiance's family. It was a fun night... My mom doesn't get out much, so we had to actually force her to leave! haha, she was having such a great time that she didn't want to leave. By 12:00 we were able to get her out of there, headed back to my parents house for some much needed popcorn and a movie.... Yes we all pretty much fell asleep...


Saturday I got to spend most of the day with my mom, while Jesse spent it with my dad. Then we headed home to play (attention: I should receive the wife of the year award here) Call of Duty on our PS3. Yes, ladies and gentelman... We played that game for about 2.5 hours.... Until I was too tired to hit the buttons any longer. Needless to say, Sunday was spent relaxing and catching up on the house work that I should have done the day before!

It was a great weekend, next weekend up: A visit to the In-Laws..... I am looking forward to it, as I actually get along with my in-laws and it's great! :-) Hopefully I'll get some pictures posted here soon... I'm so gad at uploading them.

I have pictures from our visit to see my old roommate in Chicago that I have yet to post.... Ahh someday :-)

Happy Tuesday!

8 Things/Crazy 8’s:

While looking at A NYC Housewife-In-Training post here: I noticed that someone tagged her in 8 Things/Crazy 8’s. Well since I don't know many people in the blog world, I've decided to do this anyway and tag a few of my own followers! Here goes:

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To:
1) My best friend, Katie's wedding!!!
2) Our 1 year anniversary
3) Visiting the In-Law's
4) Going back home to visit family
5) My brother's wedding (though it's another 15 months away)
6) Starting our Running routine
7) Summer
8) The Bix 7 (our first run together!)

8 Things I Did Yesterday:
1) Slept in with my hubby
2) Did laundry
3) Made cookies
4) Listened to the thunderstorm
5) Went to my favorite store Target!!
6) Caught up on my shows, thanks to the lovely DVR
7) Cuddled up on the couch with my hubby
8) Made dinner

8 Things I Wish I Could Do:
1) Move back to DBQ in a heart beat
2) Be finished with Grad school
3) Run 7 miles (getting ready for the Bix!)
4) Open up my own Scrapbooking store!
5) Travel the world for the next year (for free :-) )
6) Eat whatever I want and not gain a pound
7) Have more free time to do what we want, when we want
8) Not worry about little things and focus on the bigger picture

8 Shows I Watch:
1) One Tree Hill
2) Brothers & Sisters
3) Desperate Housewives
4) Grey's Anatomy
5) American Idol
6) House
7) Prison Break
8) Private Practice


Now I tag: Taryn over at The Colorado Desert Lucy Marie at Lucy's Life and Emily at Emily had a little Lamb

Yahoo!!

I've really got to get back into the swing of things..... Work has been crazy, as well as, I'm sure you all know..... The weekends even crazier! Ahhh I have just a second to breath.... So I thought I would update from last weekend.....

My weekend all home alone was not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but still long and lonely.... I give those of you props who live by yourself, I don't think I could do it anymore.... There's nothing more comforting than waking up with my husband right next to me in the middle of the night...

Anyway! Friday night was spent eating take-out Chinese by myself, followed by working on my presentation for class on Saturday.

Saturday we woke up at 5 am to (another classmate and I who lives somewhat close) drive the 3 hours to Storm Lake for our class... Spent 5.5 hours listening to presentations from other classmates (each of ours was about 15 minutes) So it was a long, tiring day..... Then we drove the 3 hours back home. After that, I hung out with my wonderful office-mate.... We went to Texas Roadhouse for a margarita!!! And dinner, which was amazing. Then we headed back to my house to watch Rachel Getting Married (Which, I know some of you enjoyed... But I have to say I was not entertained in the least.... It was very longgggg in the fact that I kept asking, is it over yet? The camera angles were awful (I know, I know... It's an independent film).... Actors were not that great, with the exception of Ann Hathaway.... She did a fairly good job, but I was just so disappointed with the rest of it that I would not recommend it to anyone. Sorry guys....

Anyway, Sunday was spent sleeping in, finally! Then I got ready, did about 3 loads of laundry, cleaned up a bit, and waited for my mom to be there. She came for the day to go shopping with me! What a great Mom! :-) She knew I was lonley and needed some company, so she drove the 1.5 hours just to shop and have lunch. It was great. I got a lot of great deals shopping here, here and here.

My Yahoo title is all because "I AM NO LONGER A 1ST YEAR GRAD STUDENT ANYMORE!!" I am very excited by this because it has seemed like such a long year! But now I am a 2nd year grad student, so that light at the end of the tunnel is starting to become a bit clearer.

Happy almost Friday!!!! :-)