The Color Swatch Guy Saga...

A little bit of an update…

The guy that I mentioned in a previous post at work (out with cancer) is returning Monday and we are all excited to have him back. I know his family has been having a rough go of it and I hope this gives them the comfort and support they need.

The eating lady hasn’t been at it lately but we haven’t really had any food in the office either. However, I know over the next 3 weeks we will have plenty of goodies for her to munch on for days on end.

The day job is getting a little easier as I sort of feel better about knowing where things go and how they do things. Today was spent in a friggen Excel spreadsheet that went on for EVEH! By 3:30 my brain was jello and I was ready for it all to end.

I came home and cooked to help relieve some tension. I made a batch of sausage balls to take to work tomorrow and torture the lady of food! I think I will just go in and put the bowl on her desk and walk away…that would be cruel but really funny. No?

I do have a little bit-o-update on the Depot guy…Last night I met my parents at the Cracker Barrel for dinner and after that I decide to go to the Depot to see if my schedule had changed (which this happens almost on a daily basis and we are told to check in often because of the frequent changes). I enter the building and go straight to the break room where the schedule is located and find that I am still on for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

However, I decided that I also wanted to go check in the department to see if there was going to be a class tonight (ever so often they offer a tips class to show customers better ways of doing things). As I approach the counter, I look over my shoulder and whom do I see? You guessed it! The color swatch guy (his new nickname) was standing there on his cell phone and we sort of locked eyes with each other at the same time…whoever he was talking to wasn’t that important as he looked at me and immediately told them that he would have to call them back later. We chatted for a few minutes as I was asking what colors he had used and what was left to paint and when I got ready to go he told me that I would definitely see him this weekend as he had a lot of stuff to buy…

The color swatch guy saga continues!

I Hope Everyone Had A Great Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone had a great and safe Thanksgiving!

Last week went so fast, I can barely remember what happened. However, I will try and recall a couple of highlights. First, we (my day job) were given the opportunity to take off any days we wanted to (as long as we had the time) but we had to make sure there was at least one person there to handle any emergency. I took Wednesday and Thursday because I wanted one day that others prolly wouldn’t have off.

Wednesday was a blast as I met friends (that I hadn’t seen in months) for lunch. We at a little local place called A Taste of Thai (we call it “A Taste of Thigh”) and I got a spicy rice combo dish that was just deelish! After that, we all went running around to different places to see if we could determine (by looking in overheads and storage areas) what would be on sale for the black Friday rush! All-in-all we had a great time.

Thursday? It was a day of resting and eating and then eating again. The entire family was together and we had a fabulous time!

Time now for a Depot update! I have told the story of the AC look-a-like and how no one can address a man with salt-n-pepper hair unless I have been notified first. Well, things are starting to look a little differently with this latest little game of cat and mouse!

A couple of weeks ago a young man (late 20’s to early 30’s) came in with his mom and dad and they were collecting color swatches for the rooms in the guys first home. It was a night when we were completely dead so I took some time to talk with them to get an idea of what he/they were looking for. Well, it turns out that the guy wants to go with all Earth tones for the walls and bring out color with accessories, furniture and pictures on the walls. I took time to get some of the magazines/books we have showing rooms decorated with many different styles but mainly concentrating on walls of color (I am not afraid to paint walls with bright colors). I basically just showed them different things and wanted them to think about it.

About a week later the guy came back in was looking at color swatches as the guy had said he was taking into consideration some of the things I suggested and entertaining using color. We talked a little about the room but the entire time my gaydar was pinging BIG TIME. So, I got a little busy and the guy left but not before saying goodbye.

Wednesday (the day before Thanksgiving), I went into to see if I could find out the layout for the sale items on Friday (as I was going to be there when they opened to buy a couple of things) and whom do you think I ran into? The young guy! We talked for a little while and I had the same gaydar pinging thing and before I left, I told him that I worked all weekend and hoped to see him soon.

The guy came in Saturday and Sunday! I guess we will have to follow this to see how it plays out!

Why-oh-why can't she loose weight?

Just another weekend and start to another week! * YAWN *

My day job is really beginning to pick-up and I have been extremely busy. However, there is one thing that I have to get off my chest. Keep in mind…I know that I need to loose a few pounds and will be the first to tell you but I don’t go around complaining all the time.

A lady that I work with is constantly talking about how she HAS to lose weight and that she tries and tries but never can. Well, I am going to explain to you why she MIGHT not be losing weight but I won’t draw a picture…let’s see if you can figure it out.

SIDE NOTE: There is a young man that used to work in our department…actually he is on sick leave and has been gone since February of this year. In February the doctors found a huge tumor on his thigh and it was cancer. He has been through numerous rounds of treatment but seems to be doing much better. My department has been doing monthly fundraisers to help buy groceries and things that he and his wife and 2 children need just to survive.

Last week was the big push to get enough money to buy food for the family for Thanksgiving. The first two days of the week we all brought in baked goods for sale during breaks…we had two cakes sold by the slice, brownies, two types of fudge and home made caramel cookies (I have no idea who made them or what the recipe was butt they were deeelish!). Wednesday and Thursday were breakfast days and we had biscuits with jelly, and some biscuits with ham, bacon, sausage, egg/bacon/cheese, egg and hash browns. Friday we sold tickets for a drawing for a home made quilt. The week was a tremendous success as we raised over $750! We are all excited because we will be able to feed the family through Christmas. It is truly a blessing!

Back to big hips lady that HAS to lose weight. Well let’s see, here is what I witnessed her consume:

Monday Breakfast: Slice of cake and two brownies
Monday Lunch: Two huge pieces of fudge, a brownie and another slice of cake.
Tuesday Breakfast: Two brownies and a piece of fudge
Tuesday Lunch: A huge slice of cake and two more pieces of fudge (granite these were smaller than the one she ate for breakfast).
Wednesday Breakfast: Biscuit with no jelly and a sausage biscuit
Wednesday Lunch: Ham biscuit with jelly
Thursday Breakfast: Biscuit and jelly (she seemed to eat light)
Thursday Lunch: She ordered out for a quart of Sweet/Sour Soup (we had Chinese)
Friday Breakfast: She pulled two pieces of fudge from somewhere!
Friday Lunch: A burrito (we ordered Mexican)

I have no idea if she had any afternoon breaks, as my afternoons tend to get hectic and I am all over the place not in my department. However, do any of you have any idea why the hell she can’t lose weight?

OFFICE ROMANCE ALERT! Well almost…there is a guy in the building that just gets my engine running BIG time. The funny thing is that he isn’t what many of my friends would call “my type” butt there is just something about him. I can’t figure out if he is family because at times I get a vibe but other times I think my vibe is WAY off. For once, my gaydar batteries must be dead! So, I have to decide what to do from here…do you think this approach is too straightforward?

Me to cutie: Hello! How are you?
Cutie: Fine and you?
Me to cutie: I am doing fine…wanna fvck?

Couple kewl stories

Hello all! At first, I didn’t think I had much to offer for this posting butt I have found a couple things to share.

Life over to the Depot has been plowing right along and I haven’t had as many hours lately butt I can’t bring myself to do the blogland tour that I need to do in order to get caught up. However, something did happen at the Depot this weekend that I wanted to get you all caught up on. Remember, I have trained everyone in the paint department to NEVER approach a man with salt-n-pepper hair until I have given final approval. I am supposed to be the first contact for said males. Also, I hope you remember the guy that came in three-four weeks ago looking at the paint sprayers and then he came back about an hour later to “ask me another question”. Well, to make a short story even longer, the guy bought the paint sprayer and is a fairly regular to the store. However, I haven’t worked when he has been there since he bought the sprayer until Sunday (yesterday).

Keep in mind that the young guy in the department (gay of course) and I have nicknamed most of our regular and the guy mentioned in the previous paragraph has been given the nickname “AC” due to his likeness of Anderson Cooper. He is so much Anderson it isn’t funny…the guy is very slender like Anderson and is almost a dead ringer for him. Well Sunday, I am mixing paint just minding my own business when the young guy comes running up to me and asked what “AC” wanted. I am almost carped my pants because I hadn’t seen “AC” walk through the department. The younger guy said “AC” walked passed the counter and looked over at me butt I had my back to him. I didn’t see the guy again butt hopefully he will be back to “shop” real soon.

I thought I had told this story to you guys butt I looked on the first page of my blog and don’t see it so I will share it as well. If I have told this story and just didn’t see it…feel free to skip over the next couple of paragraphs.

It was a stormy Thursday night a few weeks ago and many people had gotten “stranded” in the Depot. To give you an idea…it rained 3.5 inches in little over an hour. People were literally standing around looking outside to wait for the rain to slack up before they would leave. When the rain slowed down, there was a rush for the door and I took a much-needed break.

I go to the bathroom and take the second stall (middle of the room as well) and start doing my business when I notice something sort of “flopping off the side of the wall”. I start to investigate when I realize that it is about 20 pictures of someone. At first, it appears to be of a female lying on a bed fully clothed and as I begin to flip through them I realize that I am looking at some home made porn/pictures. The woman appeared to be in her twenties with a couple of tattoos and the pictures got very explicit towards the end.

After realizing what I had found I immediately called the manager (I was working alone and had to take the department phone to the can with me) and explained that I needed him in the men’s bathroom. I showed the manager where I found the pics and he took them to dispose of them. The funny part? The manager said he got a lump in his throat when I told him I “needed him in the bathroom”. I never thought of it in any other way than I didn’t know what to do. That is now our running joke…”do you need me in the bathroom?”

I have a day job story to tell and will get that later as I have written WAY more than I thought I would.

*strips off and waits for nutz to streak through blogland*