The Story of Simzgirl

To Do:

Read my email
Read my boss’ email
Read daily blogs
Update my charting
Clean my desk
Dust my plants
Clean out food drawer
Update Phone Number List
Update Speed Dials
Dust pictures
Go through pending transactions
Follow up on address changes
Find recipes for cranberry oatmeal bars and meatloaf
Find out if friends actually […]

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This morning when I got to work I found this note on my desk:
Carrie,
If you have trouble with my computer it’s because I renewed my subscription to Symantec and I probably messed something up!
LH
That’s right. Gotta keep ‘em thinkin’ that they can’t do anything right without you. Now that’s what I call job security!

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How to amuse me:
Come upstairs after being quarantined to the family room with the other husband, the children, and the dogs while I was hosting a party upstairs and murmur, “Barney is so annoying.” I instantly ask what he did when it suddenly becomes clear you are talking about the purple dinosaur Barney not our […]

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“Humans should come with ramrods, just like rifles.”
“I’m pretty sure it’s the prostitution.”
“Nick had a pretty good day-he already got felt up by a girl.”
“…And it wasn’t Lindsay.”
“Had that been said by anyone other than her father it would be disturbing.”
“Lights are off: let’s get naked!”
“Get out the Crisco, grease Nick up, send him down […]

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I feel like a bad Harry Potter fan. I have to admit that I haven’t checked J.K. Rowling’s site as often as I should. To be honest, I was getting disappointed every time I checked and nothing was new. (But I still check the CBBC almost daily because they are full of fun, silly info […]

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Phone timer: 00:05:19
Should I just hang up? Call back after lunch….Nah. I am sure it will just be a couple more minutes.

Phone timer: 00:11:28
I think I can actually predict what song is coming on the hold music next. Gimme a minute…

Phone timer: 00:18:43
Oh. Dear. Lord. Thankfully I have a headset. My ear would be bleeding […]

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Simeon is at his CFUG meeting tonight and I have the house to myself. What better time to girl it up, right? So I decided I was going to put on a mud mask. (I try to avoid doing masks when Sim is around because he loves to make me laugh when I have one […]

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It’s hard to imagine that it has been two years since I started keeping track of my daily life via this blog. It seems like so much, and at the same time so little, has happened over the past two years. But I can just scroll through the archives and see for sure. I truly […]

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My youngest nephew just turned three. THREE. Which means that my oldest niece, Maile, is a teenager. My brother pointed out that, between his five kids, he will have at least one teenager in his house for the next 20 years. How insane is that? Luckilly they are all super cute.

If you are Ben, being […]

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Things are quiet. Unnaturally so. To the point that I am almost concerned. At work, this is our busiest time of the year: tax time. Usually I am pulling my hair out, trying to speak through clenched teeth and wondering why I even get out of bed each morning. However, these last couple days have […]

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