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So here at my new Dunder Mifflin... I encountered a friend that I already have on the outside.  Nice to have that.  We were conversing the other morning.  She's great.

Nicole            how you feelin today hon

Marie            Hey Nicole...I just came back from the nurse...

Marie            Im feeling a little better, gonna try the meds she prescribed

Nicole            sorry you've been sick  :(

Marie            Thanks...its ok though.  Think I sound worse than i actually feel

Marie            how are you

Nicole            Pretty good.  Wanted to  tell you about Ruth this morning... she was goin OFF about these women who are Sec 8 and unemployed, sitting at home all day while she works hard every day... it was hilarious but she was SERIOUS girl... droppin F bombs and everything!  When she wound it up I said, I don't know whether to run and hide or bow my head for the altar call!!  That is one crazy lady.  :)

Marie            LOL!!!  That is too funny.  Ruth is hilarious. I can imagine her going off about a subject like that. Its near and dear to a lot of folks.  Girl prayer and fasting....Im thinking that might be the best way to go

Nicole            Right on  :) 

Marie            so I see you had a good time relaxing in your new place on yesterday

Nicole            Oh I love it.  Now comes unpacking the boxes and finding places for everything.  I went from a tiny trailer, to a bedroom at Julia and Kathy's, to a house with lots of rooms so it kind of makes me blink a lot haha

Marie            Itsn't it AWESOME though!!!  Trust me, Ive done (something close to that) a couple of times....Ive learned to just get stuff out of the boxes and placed "somewhere" and as I feel my place out I just switch it around.  You're gonna have fun with this.  Did you get your animals back?

Nicole            Brought my dog with me last night, get my cats this weekend.  SOO glad. 

Marie            LOL....yes indeed!  People and their pets.  I know you will be happy to have them home

Nicole            Yes.  Lord Antoinette my mother came over last night and verbally freaked our over every gap in my window blinds where people could look in and see me... you name it... good grief.  It's not Country Club of LA but my neighbors all seem friendly.  She even asked if I was old enough to know not to just open the door when anyone knocks on it.  Really???  I've been living on my own HOW long?  heh... No matter where I live, she worries.  I guess that's just her being a mom.

Marie            Hahaha...that is funny!  She just loves ya. Does she live in Baton Rouge? I tell you Nicole, its wonderful that your mom worries about you like that.  My mom hasn't questioned my decisions or offered advice or told me what to do since I was 14.  And even then it was just a one liner..."You better not be doing no serious kissing".....that was it. So consider yourself lucky.  And don't be opening that door for strangers....LOL

Nicole            You have my solemn word.  :)  And you better not be doing no serious kissing either, young lady

Marie            HAHAHAHA!!!! uummmhhh, yes ma'am (*glancing to the side)

Nicole            'least not with no boys

Marie            HAHAHAHA!!!! Well you have my absolute solemn word on that one!

Nicole            Yes indeed  haha

Nicole            Ruth wants to know who is selling Saints wreaths at the tower

Nicole            She has requested that you email her with all information pertaining per to which.  heh...

Marie            LOL...what in the world??  I haven't heard anything about that.  Was it on employee communications?  I can ask around

Nicole            She just came by and asked me to ask you.  Said someone was selling them and she saw a cell phone pic.  Sorry just tryin to toss around some legalese  :)

Marie            Tee hee hee....you did well and should therefore, heretofore speak as such

Nicole            Whereas I agree

Marie            and thus shall

Nicole            I am laughing so hard.  We have to put on the brakes with this for a minute LOL

Marie            girl i need to be working too.....I'll talk to you later

Nicole            k  :)

Office Space

Though my workplace has once more evolved, I still work in my own Dunder Mifflin... mentally.  Heh.  Lots of great characters here... Ralphie May and others I have yet to name... stay tuned for a soon-to-come post  :)

Turn the Page

So.  It’s been awhile since I’ve posted on here.  My friend Darla has been replaced.  Not sure why and it was very all-of-a-sudden… but at least I am still here.  That is definitely a relief.  I wish I could have been transferred to Darla’s position.  It pays a few dollars an hour more.  Eh, missed out on that one.  But anyway.  I am here, doing my do.

It’s not as much fun without Darla, though Jack continues to amuse me daily with his verbal outbursts and… belches… ha… I have actually begun texting Jackisms to a group of friends who get the biggest kick out of them.  One told me I should compile them all into a book.  Then I remembered this blog, and its purpose… to collect and reveal the inner working of this, my very own version of the Dunder Mifflin paper company.  And so here I am, back again.  J

Darla was replaced with a girl named Keisha.  Different personality and not quite as much fun, but then she is her own person and I need to give her credit for that.  Here is an exchange we had yesterday:

Keisha              What's going on? Is it slow over there today? Has it STOPPED raining? It was pouring over here in our part of town.

Nicole              It's rained a little.  We almost got washed away yesterday though haha

Keisha              Welll we got washed away today..

Nicole              Yeah not a lot going on right now

Keisha              It's pretty slow over here to. Don't you feel like going to sleep when it's slow like this. How do you stay up?

Nicole              sheer will power hahaha

Keisha              I am trying my hardest. But I notice people come & walk by to see what people is doing. LOL

Keisha              What's that? An entergy drink?

Last I checked, Entergy was a power company… eh… will let that one slide for now, heh…

Keisha              Girl, it's starting to pour down some more over here.

Keisha              No one is in your office? Because I don't want to be IM'ing you.

No worries.  Keep it minimized.  Sam’s chair squeaks when he gets up; the value of having an overweight boss is that you know when he’s about to enter the room and can take necessary protective precautions, haha…

Nicole              Sam is in his office burrowed down in something... and Jack is in his office, being loud and being... Jack... haha

Keisha              Laughing!!

Keisha              Who is Jack? He is NOT on the phone listing? What did Stacy tell you about that guy?

“That guy” is the other day when Jack went apeshit at me because the copier jammed.  Notice I did not say that *I* jammed the copier… no, no… it was a mimi-drama all its own and I had to run some hard miles after work that day to shake the stress and stomach acid with which the experience had gifted me… A day in the life, I suppose…

Nicole              JACK IS THE GUY!!! HAHAHA  Aw Stacy expressed compassion.  Ha - she knows him.  His box is missing a few crayons.  Bless his heart... heh...

Keisha              LAUGHING @ YOU. So what was her advise to you. Just keep doing your work...

Nicole              She was like, I'm so sorry, do you want me to talk to him about being more respectful to you?  But by that time my fellas over here had handled the situation for me.  :)  I was nervous about seeming... needy?? ... you know?  But they learned of the situation and took action right away.  Made me feel good  :)

They totally did, totally stepped in and quieted the beast.  Jack was called into the conference room.  Akin, I feel, to being called into the principal’s office.  Kudos to my Dunder Mifflin fellas hahaha

Keisha              GREAT! Because I know they want you there & you are a Good Worker but you have to be respected. So I'm Happy everything turned out for the better! Maybe he will stay in his office..LOL. Girl delete this IM, do NOT walk away from your computer screen without exiting out of this IM please..

Nicole  LOL you got it.  Shutting down now   :)

Which I did… but not after first executing a quick copy-and-paste hahahahaha

I’m BAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!  *grin*

Love Can Be So Nauseating... haha

Darla                just wanted you to know that i wont be seeing you at the safety meeting on thursday.  SLAM will be at this office and they want me here just in case

Nicole              ooooh you get to be in CHARGE!!  So they gonna assign you punishwork then like all the other no-shows?  LOL

…Anyone who misses a Safety Meeting has to fill out a fat packet of questionnaire paperwork.  I have come to call this “punishwork” like in elementary school… because that’s essentially what it is.  LOL

Darla                nope :)

Nicole              haha well you make the punishwork anyway  so it wouldn't matter

Darla                yup :)

…As admin at her office, the main office, Darla is responsible for compiling and sending out said punishwork packets to all offenders, company-wide………

Darla                have you been busy over there the last couple of days?

Darla                ive been buried 6 ft under

Darla                just when i start to come up for air, i get my head shoved back under

Darla                CRAZY i tell you..  K A H R A Z Y !!

Darla                and in all the stress today i placed an order for workpermits

Darla                            and all it said was qty 50 and knowing that 50 come in a book i ordered 100 books.  Well when the confirmation printed it said "carton"... meaning i ordered 100 friggin boxes of workpermits.  I called immediately and tried to cancel the order but they tell me there is still a slight chance it will come.  I sure the heck hope not.  I dont have room for 100 boxes of permits

…Yeah sometimes I just let her go on ranting for awhile… she doesn’t seem to mind, haha…

Nicole              too awesome.  we will get permission to do unlimited numbers of projects with that many forms.  Vee vill take OVAH THA WURRLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Darla                they will look at me like im a retard if they come here with all that..

Darla                I called in 2 cancellations to try to double up

Nicole              when I said that, I was thinking of the little woman on the Incredibles...

Darla                cant dont not need no so many

Nicole              the one who made their costumes... 'member?

Darla                lol.. i remember

Nicole              ok

Nicole              yes then I hope they acknowledge your cancelness

Darla                so if 50 come in a box and i receive 100 boxes ....  thats 5000 permits.... um...  AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Nicole              yes yes... someone's typing fingers are bigger than their storage space...

Darla                we would be good til 2015

Nicole              fo shizzle

Darla                slade met rae

…Her previously-mentioned-new-boyfriend-even-though-she-is-technically-still-married… met her 8-year old daughter this past weekend.  J

Darla                saturday

Darla                and spent the last two days with us

Darla                well actually

Darla                friday, saturday, sunday, monday and this morning

Nicole              das fore daiz

Darla                yizzle manizzle

Nicole              tightly tape, said Jack.  tightly tape it

…Sometimes I just have to randomly insert off-the-wall stuff I hear Jack spewing out from down the hall… just can’t resist… haha……

Darla                spent friday with me, spent the night, stayed saturday, brought him home.  saw him sunday, spent the night, brought me to work yesterday and kept my car all day doing manly maintenance on it, and stayed last night and went home this morning.  I probably wont see him til this weekend

Darla                its getting pretty serious

Darla                PRETTY SERIOUS

…Ya think??  LOL

Nicole  ya think  LOL

…Like I said, ha!

Darla                nah

Darla                were just friends

Darla                lol

Darla                thats what we used to say back in the day anyway, when we denied it like stinkin skunks

Darla                neither of us could muddle up the courage to tell the other how we felt

Nicole              you said he freaked you out

Darla                for 5 long years

Darla                he did at first

Darla                really did

Darla                but the more i thought about it, i owed this to myself to see

Darla                and hes still in there

Darla                the guy i knew years ago

Nicole              no I mean in high school

Darla                his eyes and laugh and smile havent changed a bit

…OH FREAKIN’ BARF!!!!  But whatever… she’s happy… so I just let her go on and on.  That’s the good thing about instant messaging… you don’t have to pretend to be paying attention, ha… you can even minimize the conversation window and do something else, only popping in again every here and there to lend counterfeit affirmation to their rantings… ha ha ha…….

Darla                well

Darla                heres the thing

Darla                he did freak me out

Darla                he was very mature for his age

Darla                had lots of testosterone flowing through his pores

…PORES??  Oh good gravy…………

Nicole              you said he was funny lookin  LOL

Darla                and i was meek and shy and godly

Darla                Funny lookn?

Darla                i dont recall that

Darla                he was a nice looking guy

Darla                a VERY nice looking guy

Darla                had an 8 pack

Darla                was 175, 6ft tall

Darla                beautiful hair

Nicole              ok ok ok  LOL

Darla                but anyway

Darla                i didnt know how to take him back then

Darla                i absolutely loved his company and we were without a doubt best friends

Darla                but i didnt know how to be a girlfriend to him because he was already ready for the ultimate.

Darla                he says to this day, all he wanted was to love me and know i was his, and he would never have pushed himself on me

Darla                and would have waited 10 yrs if thats what it took because i was it for him

Darla                but then, all i saw was pecks and devonair smile that would melt steel

Darla                and didnt trust myself AT ALL

Nicole              haha

Darla                and was trying to uphold the "daddy's little girl" show

Darla                i knew i would be a gonner once i kissed him

Darla                and to this day, that still rings true3

Darla                im putty in that man's hands

Nicole              well shucky duck

…This is where Nicole has had just about enough of all this mushy fairy tale melodrama… ha ha…

Nicole              LOL

Darla                LMAO

Darla                u made me spit my drink

…And you made me lose my lunch…

Darla                Just got a call confirming the cancellation of the 5000000000000 work permits

Darla                YAY

Nicole              nice  LOL

And that was that for the day.  Good Lord.  I don’t even offer advice because #1, I have not been asked for advice.  #2, she most likely wouldn’t listen anyway because she’s so enraptured in glittery fluff over this guy.  And #3, what do I know about guys anyway… I’m a woman’s woman.  J

‘Nuf said.  Be back soon enough I’m sure!

Another Day With Darla

Darla           your buddy Mr. Sam just walked in like he owns the place :)

Nicole         just got here... ma bebeh kitteh is gittin him leg amp-a-tated...  :(

Darla           Oh NO

Darla           what happened?

Nicole        big nasty diagonal fracture... they think he must have gotten hung up in a tree or fence or something

Nicole        they COULD put a rod inside the marrow, etc... but that would cost oh $1500ish

Nicole        I love him but I can't do that

(My sweet Mr. Hippie...)

Nicole        I keep wondering why I hear my cat jingling when he is obviously not here... I have his collar in my pocket hahaha........

Darla           OH HA HA

Darla           thats funny

Nicole        I put your picture away... I wonder where you been...

Darla           i cant look at you while im lying ... next to him

Nicole        ahhh... Samtunes!  :)

Nicole        Sam-Jivin

Darla           we will be back right after these messages

Nicole        haha

Nicole        yes indeed.  now he's in there swooning to "I Am Beautiful" by Christina Ag.  :) :) :)

Nicole        WORDS CAN'T BRING ME DOWN...!!!

Darla           oh lord

Darla           sorry ive been “Lost, in eyes, and i feel... my spirits rise”

Darla           in your eyes

Darla           cant type today

Nicole        'sokay

Nicole        COME ON... I'm talking to you... COME ON

Nicole        LOL

Darla           HOLLA

Nicole        SHOUT, SHOUT, LET IT ALL OUT

Darla           SORRY WAS JAMMIN

Nicole        so is Sam LOL

Darla           THESE ARE THE THINGS I CANT DO WITH OUT  COME ON

Darla           bleeding love by leona lewis3

Nicole        Oh I LOVE that song

Darla           you cut me open and IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Darla           oh i keep bleeding Loooooove

Nicole        hell I bled all my love out...

(It's true... I did.  At least for a while, anyway....)

Nicole        not into the love thing anymore

Darla           i did at one time, now ive been revived and i have all new blood

Nicole        well... for a while at least  :)

(Like I said, haha...)

Darla           well, whats right for you is whats right for you

Nicole        *puts pinky to corner of mourh*  Hmm... yes... I suppose you are right.

Darla           lol

Darla           Yeah BABY ... YEHHEAH

Nicole        um... hon... um what are you doing?  LOL

Darla           having phone sex

Darla           jk

Nicole        ick

Darla           :)

Darla           i would never

Nicole        hur hur  LOL

Nicole        not at work anyway huh  haha

Darla           no... not anywhere

Darla           EVER

Nicole        k

("k" means... I don't believe her.  LOL)

Darla           just cant do that

Darla           but anywho

Nicole        mmm hmm

(same meaning...)

Darla           what Samtune is on now

Nicole        ok

Nicole        he actually turned it down for a phone convo

Nicole        ya know... gotta keep it cool and macho with his boyz on the phone LOL

Darla           oh darn

Darla           LOL

Darla           thats awsome

Darla           then he will crank up phil collins and do the macarena

Nicole        LMAO you got it!!

Nicole        hey how's the house search?

(She has to find a new house, something to do with her divorce.)

Darla           oh i didnt tell you

Darla           ive already found one

Nicole        last I heard you had a few you liked best

Darla           so many friends, so little time

Nicole        but no choice

Nicole        I know right

Darla           well the one i really wanted didnt work out

Darla           but the one i got is great, the only downer is that Rae will have to change schools next year

(Rae is her daughter)

Nicole        what grade next year...

Darla           3rd

Nicole        ah she'll be fine... from what you've told me, she has a real winner personality and will make tons of friends in like the first day

Nicole        and

Nicole        have a whole new set of teachers to pull the bathroom stunt on  LOL

(Rae got in trouble earlier this year for asking repeatedly to go to the bathroom and staying in there forEVER just playing around.  I have to respect that.  I never would've had the nerve to do that when I was in elementary school but you know she's just having a little fun.  More power to her!  *grin*)

Darla           yeah i know she will be fine, its just infamiliarity

Darla           she knows EVERYONE at Glenside

Darla           all the teachers adore her

Darla           LMAO

Darla           yep,, she will

Nicole        so is it Walker? Watson?  I can't remember

Darla           still watson... will be South Glenside

Darla           which is less than a mile away

Darla           from her current school

Nicol           how crazy is that

Darla           i know

Darla           shes litterally 100 yds over the district line

Nicole        tsk tsk

Darla           im thinking of getting a giant stretch machine and trying to stretch the ground so i can put the line in my front yard

Nicole        hell bring it to state congress... they're all about redistricting and redrawing lines these days

(Truly, Louisiana's state congress just went through this whole big redistricting ordeal.  Fewer people live here since Katrina.  And of course, no one is happy with the results of the new districting plan.  Of course.)

Darla           that could work

Darla           i could just say it would give more money to the rich and they would approve it immediately

Nicole        tell them you need them to earmark your daughter  haha

Darla           earmark?

Nicole        that's what they call it in congress when they set aside special money for a special project

Darla           OH..didnt know that

Nicole        that's what I'm for  :)

Nicole        to teach the un-taught

Darla           And so good at it you are my friend

Nicole        Jack quote of the day:  "East Feliciana... is known for the... number of ant mounds up there...."

(He really does just spout off random things like this throughout the day... interspersed with the belches... makes for an entertaining workday, I'll say...)

Darla           UH HUH

Darla           interesting

Darla           will note that right now

Darla           guess what?

Nicole        tell me

Darla           i have a date tonight...

(Oh yeah, she's already found a new boyfriend.  Astounding.  But hey... if she's happy, go for it, you know?)

Nicole        how shocking

Darla           even though we have seen each other several times, we have yet to go on a date

Nicole        well cool then!!

Darla           yup

Darla          

Darla           its an official Date

Darla           though we kinda put the buggy before the horse

Darla           but oh well

Nicole        well downtown new orleans you can actually ride in a buggy PULLED by a horse... in the right order even

Nicole        just a thought to file away.......

Darla           yeah ive done that before..froze my ass off

Nicole        haha

Nicole        Don't wanna leave you really... I've invested too much time...

Nicole        WEEEEEEEEEE BELONG!!  We belong, we belong togeeetherrrrrrrr.......

Darla           i like that song

The end.  :)  Not much going on lately on the workfront... well other than... work.  LOL  Off tomorrow for Good Friday.  A long weekend will be NICE.  :)