PipneyJane

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PipneyJane replied to the Budgeting board. 7:37 AM

Re: help with setting up initial budget

I include AAA in the car insurance category. I regard it as insurance for roadside breakdowns, dead batteries, and the like.

I'm thinking AAA might be a nice thing for us to just give him. Probably something I will also be giving [more]

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PipneyJane replied to the Imp This Ride board. 7:53 AM

Re: So...

Congratulations on the new job!

- Pam (weeks behind)

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PipneyJane replied to the Imp This Ride board. 8:52 AM

Re: Head is spinning.

There have been waves of re-orgs going on in my organization for quite some time. Ours has been sword hanging over our heads for about the last six months.

Yesterday, the "mandatory half-hour one-on-one" meeting notifications [more]

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PipneyJane replied to the Imp This Ride board. 8:37 AM

Re: The baby

hey- Balloons!

peace & observances
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Thank you! I totally missed them.

- Pam (What? Is it March already???)

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PipneyJane replied to the Imp This Ride board. 9:01 AM

Re: The baby

When did you - and Imp - borrow my husband? DH can sleep for England. His alarm goes off and, eventually, he hits the snooze button. 6 minutes later, it happens again. And again. And again. And he never registers it. Does it in his sleep. Usually [more]

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PipneyJane replied to the An Open Letter board. 4:18 PM

Re: An Open Letter

The trouble is the destruction that goes with it. So, a few thoughts. I recognize that your brain is already a bit high on this guy (literally -- the chemicals are the same as the really good drugs), but I hope that some of it you'll remember when [more]

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PipneyJane posted to the Imp This Ride board. 2:36 PM

Friday night dinner

Guess what we're having? Tamarian's Gingered Beef, made with the final remains of Sunday's roast beef. The recipe is here: [more]

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PipneyJane replied to the An Open Letter board. 1:39 PM

Re: An Open Letter

A very thoughtful response. Thank you.

There is one thing I'd like to clarify, though, I am not a factor in their desire to move my Commercial Director into Sales. Thanks to my employer's matrix structure, the Powers that Be can only be [more]

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PipneyJane posted to the An Open Letter board. 10:15 AM

An Open Letter

To the Powers That Be:

Why are you so determined to move my Commercial Director to Sales? He's doing the job he loves; he's brilliant at it and he doesn't want to go. Yes we need someone competent and he is very competent, but there is no [more]

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PipneyJane replied to the Imp This Ride board. 7:32 AM

Re: Socialized Medicine

Would he have been tested more quickly under the American private system? I doubt it. In fact, I can envisage delays while his HMO or health insurance argued about whether he needed the tests.

Socialized medicine works, particularly the [more]

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PipneyJane replied to the Queen D's Musings board. 2:44 AM

Re: Some days are just hard

(((((((((((D)))))))))))

- Pam (knows the feeling well)

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PipneyJane replied to the Imp This Ride board. 2:39 AM

Re: Work is insane.

INSANE

impolite
gah
MOI (so what else is new?)
RJ (If I don't find something to work on I am going to lose it heh heh)
Pam (the only point of sanity is my Commercial Director. Without him, I'd be screaming.)

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PipneyJane replied to the Imp This Ride board. 8:05 AM

Re: That as the week that was - an update on me

This: We're good friends. There is an element of attraction there (we flirt a little but we both know there are boundaries that will never be crossed, since we are both happily married to other people. And we both want this relationship to [more]

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PipneyJane replied to the Imp This Ride board. 7:21 AM

Re: That as the week that was - an update on me

That sounds like a full-bottle-of-wine-on-Saturday-night kinda week.

It was Imp. Although, in my case, I hit the chocolate first then savoured the wine. (One of my favourite sayings is "it's bad enough to drive a girl to [more]

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PipneyJane posted to the Imp This Ride board. 4:37 AM

That as the week that was - an update on me

I just realised that I've spent a total of 10 minutes on TMF in the last week, instead of my usual half hour a day (i.e. my lunch break). It's been that sort of week. I thought I'd moan to you all about it here, since it's one of the topics I can't [more]