Brain Fail

/ January 22, 2010

 Alicia’s Week in Review Image compliments of verydemotivational.com My brain is fried after an extremely busy week. To be fair, it’s been a busy week since January 1. (Who knew that the sales cycle picks up after the holidays?) Monday Holiday. Birthday lunch with good friend and blog reader, D. Tuesday My work Monday – the busiest day of the

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Tacky Reindeers

/ December 21, 2009

In continuation of last week’s celebration of holiday tacky, I’d like to examine reindeer decorations. The reindeer has sort of become the new staple of holiday tackiness. We see it on our cars. People used to just put a wreath on the grille of their truck, but now we have the reindeer car kit. (If you click the photo, you

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Personal Email for Work Purposes: A Tale of Mis-sent Emails

/ November 25, 2009

About a year ago, I worked part-time as a customer service representative where I now am full-time. Even though I’m full-time, I’m still a temp. If you’ve been a temp at a big company, you know that things have a way of not always working. This thing in particular was my email. HR had forgotten to approve my extension so

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Waffle Me This

/ November 20, 2009

First, a big thank you to Miranda for yesterday’s guest post. I hope you all enjoyed it. This post originally was going to be about how different musical genres work with different writing genres, but now I’m thinking it should be about food. That I’m thinking food isn’t surprise. At times, it runs my life. This week is a prime

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Fire Hazard?

/ November 6, 2009

The product development and QA department in our office in populated by rabbits. Because of this, we’ve had to get creative with space. Stage One of Create-a-Space was taking our 4 person cubes and making them capable of holding 6, but only in certain spots. When all was said and done, we acquired maybe 10 more spots.What you see on

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