My T-Mobile Top 5 Fave!

My T-Mobile Top 5 fave then:
Deborah
Parents
Nicolle
Julie
Madelin

My new T-Mobile Top 5:
State unemployment agency
Local unemployment agency
Unemployment payment control
Unemployment overpayment department
Unemployment new claim department

Deborah’s response:

What about your union rep?

Then working woman, now Poure homemaker

Now that I am home I am going to use my time for good. I am going to finally accomplish those home projects that I wanted to start by actually starting them. Best of all, I am going to be a domestic goddess. I told DH all of this. I told him I was going to truly commit to being domestic engineer extraordinaire. And I had plans (big ones). I was going to start off by doing a deep house cleaning. I mean every room, cabinet, drawer, closet, nook and cranny. I am going to organize the pantry. I am going to clean out the garage and organize it to DH’s liking. I am going to clean out my desk and junk drawer. I figure I am home no need to have a junk drawer because they will be no junk. I am going to scrub the floors of the house that one will be able to eat off them.

And the most exciting part? I am going to have gourmet meals waiting for DH when he gets home. I want him to walk into a palace and be greeted by the wonderful smells of the meals so lovingly prepared by his truly. Of course, all of the above was not going to be accomplished in one day but when it finally does, that is what DH would come home to every day. I wanted everything to be perfect for my first day as Jennifer Homemaker by starting off with a gourmet meal. I asked DH to call me fifteen minutes (as a warning for myself) before he got home just to make sure everything will be perfect for his arrival.

That first day I planned and thought of the perfect meal and told him what the plans are going to be for dinner. My plan was fully into action (in my mind). Everything will turn out perfect but there is always the unfortunate mishaps that could occur.

Thank God for that fifteen-minute call ahead that I requested from him. He asked me if dinner is going according to schedule. I told him of course. I also told him to please stop by the Chinese Restaurant to pick out our take-out order. We will try to attempt the plan tomorrow.

P.S Thanks to my friend Lynn for suggesting www.flylady.net.

To bridesmaid or not to bridesmaid?

When your friend comes up to you and shrieks in a high pitched tone that only hyenas can understand, you generally want to cover your ears. When, however, this kind of reaction is followed by her showing her you a new ring on her left hand and you start shrieking just as loud as her: WE (the ‘we’ in this picture is her and all of her close friends) are having a wedding! Yes, she and the fiance are getting married but WE GIRLS are having a wedding!

After the excitement and the yelling, the bride then pops the question, “Will you be my bridesmaid?” Let the shrieking begin all over again!

I love weddings but better yet I love wedding receptions. The food, the decor, the music, the dancing, and to many THE OPEN BAR! Going to wedding receptions are fun but being part of the wedding party, that is a whole another level! A whole another level that is going to leave you BROKE!

There are bridesmaids that complain about how much money they have to shell out for this type of event. But when you are asked, remember your role is already stated in your job’s name. You will be a BRIDESMAID, as in “maid of the bride.” So expect to be told what to do, what to wear, where to go, what to eat for months before, right through the day of the event. Then, after you have safely walked your boss, I mean the bride, down the aisle your will be told bluntly, “Thank you for all your hard work. Your services will no longer be needed.” If you feel you can’t hack it – or afford it – you should bow out now because you know the saying, “Hell hath no fury like a Bridezilla scorned.”

I have been a bridesmaid three times. Whenever I am asked the procedure is always the same. I start making mental calculations as to how much I am going to spend. The dress, the bachelorette party, the bridal shower gift, the hair, the makeup, the accessories, the wedding gift. Break out the hives! How am I going to pay for all of this?

I know what I must do. I run over to the mall and fill out an application for a part time job! When asked, “Why do I want to work at such and such?”

“Because I just became a bridesmaid!”

I do know that on my friend’s wedding day, the look on her face and how beautiful she will be in her wedding attire will be worth the sacrifices I will make. Even the lime green suede shoes I am forced to buy/wear/keep in a closet for the rest of my life because no one on Ebay wants to buy them and the Goodwill refuses to accept them as donations.

Deborah:

Weddings are scary. Brides and mother-of-the brides even scarier. The cost of being in a wedding: priceless (as in so high there is no numerical number to represent its cost.)

But still its fun and we do love our friends and family and the open bars they provide!