Bee’s Musings

Why is personal responsibility missing in so much of today’s society? I mean, honestly.

At work, one of my co-workers asked repeatedly for the tools to do part of her job. Now that she has them, she claims to not have time to use them. Or can we make them push the information she needs to her inbox, so she doesn’t have to *gasp* take the time to log into a website and find the information there.

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In a nice follow-up to my post about co-workers driving me to drink, I found “Don’t Treat Your Employers Better than They Treat You.” Its great - seriously. I laughed. And I found myself in her shoes.

Its one of my long term goals to finally start my own business, and eventually have my own employees. And when I do, I think I’ll pass this around - and tell them “If you even start to feel like this, come talk to me. Don’t talk to Joe or Sally, come straight to me. Because I’ve been here, and I never want you to be here because of me.”

I am on IM virtually all the time at work. Once in a while, I will turn it off just so I can not be interrupted, but working in the busy emedia world that I do, IM is not a luxury item. My coworkers and I use all of these in-house ancronyms for different things - here’s a good example:

B: Did we do video for ESC?
T: MWRF?
B: ED

Now, to the untrained eye, that means nothing. I guess I work in an ARE (Acronym Rich Environment)

Even more fun than my acronyms though, is the BuzzWhack IM Dictionary. Check it out!

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I’m addicted. I’m addicted to these smutty “Make fun of celebrity” sites like The Superficial and What Would Tyler Durden Do. I’m not a celebrity hound, I can’t tell you who was married to who, who did coke off of who’s chest, and at least half the time I can’t even figure out who these people are writing about.

But… I keep going back to the sites, day after day.

Why?

Because these celebrities, who are supposed to have such great lives, are train wrecks. They’re bad accidents that you dont want to look at, but you just can’t look away. These sites expolit all of the gore, make it digestable, and even funny.

It makes me feel better about my “normal” life - where I dont have to worry about shaving my head creating national news.

I’ve been accused for the past several years of being a workaholic. I do too much, work too late, try too hard, go too far. If someone was chosing words to describe me, they’d probably either call me dedicated or stupid. In the nature of being a workaholic, I’ve learned a lot about setting priorities, and about the things I need to get everything done.

I’ve also learned that sometimes, co-workers can drive you to drink. Sometimes they don’t work when you need them to, they don’t do the things you need them to do, and sometimes they just demand too much.

One of my co-workers today (not the ones who drive me to drink - one who helps me today) imparted a great piece of insight: “Your coworkers should not drive you to drink.” It wasn’t something I had really ever considered. I’ve spent my life around people who are not workaholics - and their tendencies to leave work at the end of the day, leave their laptops at the office, and take long lunches. I just thought it was normal that the 80/20 principle applied to work too. 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people - and I was part of the 20%.

So, the next time I raise my peach martini glass - I’m going to do it because I earned it, not because some co-worker drove me to it.

Ok, honestly - since when is it worthy of front page news because some overwrought washed up former pop star changes her hair? Who really cares? If you do… you can go see pictures, read more about it, etc. on People.com

Edit: And if you haven’t seen enough, check out this page to see some fun photoshopping of how other celebs would look if they were follicley challenged.

Today was my day off. For some reason, my company has decided that they wanted to close our doors in honor of our Presidents. So, I decided to partake of the wonderful world of commerce.

I shopped.

My mom and I trekked down to the Flat Irons Crossings Mall, and shopped and shopped and shopped. And all I bought was… jelly beans. That’s right. Probably a hundred stores, thousands of things to buy, and I bought jelly beans. Granted, they were “Jelly Belly” jelly beans, but they were still not really worth the drive.

And tomorrow, I get to go back to work. I’ll be helping to give a new employee orientation, which should be interesting. Of course, looking at the schedule for this week, it should be a pretty interesting week.

I hate ice. I hate ice that’s outside of the door of my car, that I slip on and contort myself into some foreign position, resulting in sore muscles and bruises.

I hate ice.

Tomorrow, I’m investing in Ice Melt.

I was driving to work yesterday, and thought of a really good blog topic. Of course, by the time I got to work, parked the car, got all of my crap inside the building and got settled in, I forgot what it was. Sorry kiddos. Better luck next time.

In the meantime, here’s a fun wrap-up of what’s new.

• Ionic therapy. They’ve been doing this interesting treatment on my wrist to help reduce tendon inflammation. It basically consists of placing 2 patches on my arm (one with anti-inflammatory medication over the affected tendon), and connecting the patches to a 9V battery, with what look to be miniature jumper cables. 15 minutes later, I have big red spots where the patches were, blister-like bubbles where the medication is being pushed through my skin, and eventually, less pain. After 5 treatments of this, I’m starting to feel more like a human being. However, the skin on the back of my hand is starting to feel more like a lizard.
• Anna Nicole. Ok, so its not really news, but I’m starting to wonder how many days that she’s going to be appearing on Google News. Its very tragic that her bizarre and twisted life came to an early demise, and that 4 or 5 men are fighting over her 5-month-old daughter. The best that we can hope for is that the child will be raised out of the spotlight, and will be able to live as normal of a life as possible, having sprung from Anna Nicole.
• Work. I’ve been at my new job for just over a month and half now. It’s taken some time to get used to just telling other people what needs to be done, rather than just doing it myself. I’m starting to feel like there’s a lot I can learn from this job - and a lot I can bring to it. Oh, and my office got moved - finally. The new location allows me to see a busy intersection in town. Every day I get to see at least 2-3 fire trucks go by, and about twice a week there are ambulances. Its entertaining. We also got a $3500 coffee machine for the office, courtesy of a special bonus that one of the sales teams earned. We all get to partake of the special coffees, teas, and hot chocolate, that come in these super-wastful little packages. But hey, I plan to take full advantage of the machine, especially when the chai comes in!
• Dating. Oh, why bother? Seriously? Its really true that all you do is watch as strange men try to impress you in weird and stupid ways, and then you pick the least disgusting one. So far, I’m not all that impressed.
• Dogs. My mom accidentally got a new dog this week. She’s pretty funny - a 5 lb pomeranian with more hair than brains. We’re calling her Foxy Roxy. Her newest trick is to stand across your foot when you’re sitting down. You can actually lift your leg, with her on your foot, and she just hangs out. She’s entertaining. But Pete hates her. We’ll see how long all this lasts.

You can’t go back to someone who doesn’t want you back. It doesn’t matter how much harder you will try; it doesn’t matter who made the made the mistakes. You can’t want to go back enough for the both of you.