A Day At My Office

I work in an office of twenty-two people between the ages of 18-64 years old. It is hard to put yourself at YOUR age because you are never really sure how you should be acting. We all get along with each other for the most part. One of the girls just celebrated her 41st birthday. She is a wife and mother of three but doesn't feel 'that old'. She said she feels like she is in her 20's.
I sit next to a 23 year old guy and across from a 64 year old woman. Suzanne will retire this year and wants to spend it playing with her grandchildren and running around the yard with them. Grandmas don't run-do they?! John is our 'token' male. The only one we have in the office. He says there are days he likes it because he gets answers to alot of questions about 'females' he wanted to know. But, somedays there are things he DOESN'T want to know.
Today we used John as our test subject. Avon has a cologne for men called 'DRIVEN' which smelled pretty bad on the sample card. But, he decided it would smell better on him with his added pheramones (sp). So he wiped the card all over him and they told us to 'smell' him. HAHA
You know-he was RIGHT. I could definitely think of a few other guys, perhaps in Branson, that I would like to hear them tell me 'smell me'. But, that is a whole other blog. LOL
One of my supervisors had rotar cuff surgery (hope that is right) today with a few extra repairs and will be out for some time. She doled out her work to us and then called in today to add some to my list. There are days I don't like being efficient enough to have more work added to the pile. Before she left I told her 'you're going to owe us BIG TIME when you get healed-maybe some fudge.' ha She makes the best fudge in the WORLD!!
We had a Blizzard storm warning and my duty is to listen to my radio and inform all the parents which schools are letting out early and update everyone on the weather. We had a few leave because they live pretty far out of town. I live in town so NO DICE-I was stuck there.
I have taken Jason's story to work so they can read it. They asked 'so when are we going to meet this writer friend of yours. He seems like he would be fun.' I told them at least not until Summer because he lives in Texas and would be a 'WINTER WOOSE' and freeze coming here now. Then I called him and told him the same thing. haha Several people in the office have told me MY friends seem more interesting than theirs. But, most of my friends are out of the state so they seem more mysterious and fun to them.
Kelly got a call from a patient and was told WE were incompetent because her insurance was filed incorrectly. She didn't seem to feel it was her fault that it was wrong. Even though she got THREE statements and never called us to fix the problem. She said we could turn her over to the collection agency and no one was going to get anything out of her. We laughed when she hung up. For every ONE like her we get TWO or so that make us laugh with them. Another lady called us and told me she had Medicare primary and her husband's insurance secondary. The insurances think she is not old enough because her husband doesn't have it. She said they have been married for over 45 years and she is 19 years OLDER than him. She said she got her man way before Hollywood thought is was fashionable. LOL We LOVED her call and laughed the rest of the day about it.
There are days that I really want another job. I like being with the people but I want to do something I know I am good at and would enjoy ALOT more. Maybe someday this will happen. Until then I just continue with the daily adventures of the Lab.

What is God's VALENTINE? John 3:16

For God so loVed the world
that He gAve
His onLy
begottEn
SoN
That whoesoever
believeth In Him
should Not perish,
but have Everlasting life.


Happy VALENTINE's Day all year round.

What's Your Sign?! haha

Do you ever feel like you have a sign on your forehead. Mine says 'Talk To Me.' haha
I can be standing in a crowd or by myself and will find someone that wants to chat. Most of the time it is okay. But, occassionally there are some interesting conversations. When we go to Nashville for Fan Fair and are helping Sawyer Brown at their booth we have found that WE have our own fans. lol They come up to the booth and are excited to talk to us. Not sure why-but it is amusing. I can be at the grocery store, shopping center or a concert and have a complete stranger come up and act like they have know me for years and start chatting away. I guess I should be grateful that I have the ability to put people to such ease they can do that. At some of the Haygoods concerts this year the same thing happens. I had been on stage during 'My Girl' and afterward people kept coming up saying how funny I was. When I was talking to Pat after the show, in line, a lady came up and tapped my shoulder. "Honey, you did such a good job." She looked at him and said 'you did good too.' haha
I love this most of the time.
Sooo, what does your sign say?! LOL

Is it wrong?!!

Yesterday I was talking to a friend and looking at Country Weekly magazine. They had a full color picture and article on George Strait. I told my friend, 'you know, for an older guy (56 yrs old) George looks GOOD!!!' Then I was in the chat room with some girls and we were talking about TV shows. I told them there are four reasons to watch CSI:Crime Scene Investigation and CSI:NY-Gary Sinese, William Peterson, Carmine Giovianozzi and Eddie Kahill. Then, of course, there is NCSI with Mark Harmon.
Don't get me wrong-all the shows have younger actors alot closer to my age and they look good as well. But, why can men age so charmingly and women seem to not be able to hold up as well. Don't get mad at me. I know there are women that look nice older but it just seems men have the market on maturing more gracefully.
But, just something to ponder since my other blogs have been so heavy lately. ENJOY!!

Their Favorite Aunt

I was out of town from December 27th until January 2nd. My mom spent most of her time with her grandchildren taking turns spending the night. Tanner, 7 yrs old, decided he didn't want to spend the night until Aunt Annette got home. My sister told the kids they could tonight but didn't tell them I was back.
She said I should have seen their faces when she came up the street and they saw my car in the drive. She said they kept screaming 'AUNT ANNETTES HOME! AUNT ANNETTES HOME!!' and ran out of the van when they got here.
I LOVE being the favorite aunt. lol So now we have three of my nephews sleeping in inflatable sleeping bags and watching 'Underdog'. Earlier we played Battleship and Evan, 8 yrs old, sunk all of mine before I could get his last one. Dang kid! HAHA
So, now I am back to my reality and enjoying this part as well.