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Awaken Your Giant

Happiness is not by chance but by choice.

Hostess does not want me to be great.

Oddly enough, these are only $1.00 in the Sin dispensing robot at work.
They are stamped $1.39 on the package.
Awesome? > Not really. > Ugh. > Fail.

Filed under  //   Snacks   The Office  
Posted November 3, 2009
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Lunch

You see what I did there?

 

Filed under  //   Meals   The Office  
Posted October 23, 2009
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Company conference left over pastries do not want me to be great.

Filed under  //   Snacks   The Office  
Posted October 14, 2009
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The Hong Kong Chef does it again

It is clear that the Hong Kong Chef does not want me to be great.  If he did (and I presume it’s a ‘he’) why would ‘H.K.C.’ deliver all of this to me for $5.25? Where else can you get this glorious bounty of button popping delights for less than a Mc value meal?

  • Orange Chicken with Brown Rice
  • Spring Roll
  • Wonton Soup
  • Chow-Mein Noodles. (A meal in itself with no expiration date…ever).
  • Yi-Pen Hot, Soy & Duck Sauces.

I did it to myself, now I’ve got to dial Ray and see if he will go with me to the track tonight. …Great, he’s not answering :(

Hong Kong Chef
470 Mamaroneck Ave.
White Plains, NY 10605
(914) 948-8045

Filed under  //   Cooking & Food   Meals   The Office  
Posted September 1, 2009
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No Lids :)

If you have the task of delivering bad news, balancing empathy with cheering up the recipient can be a delicate process.

It is my thought, that the person who began this ½ of a happy face suddenly realized something… something that made them stop in their tracks… What was it?

Whatever it was; having no lids for scolding tea or coffee is no smiling issue. Mind you, nearly every 2 months here, the ratio of lids to cups seems to go out of whack. Either we have someone here at the office coveting extra lids or someone just can’t seem to order the right amount or extra lids.

Shit man, why are we always out of lids?

 

 

Filed under  //   The Office  
Posted September 1, 2009
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Fragile

They had a computer that was infested with viruses.
I asked them to ship back the computer carefully packing, padding and securing the tower to ensure its safe arrival.
Please also mark the box ‘Fragile’ and ship it with insurance.

This is how it arrived this morning.
…Apparently, spelling was not the only oversight.
SMH

Filed under  //   FacePalm   Help Desk   The Office  
Posted August 24, 2009
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Decisions

Stormy Day, Snow showers predicted for tonight...Stuck at work...Snack time

Safe to say, the Regular flavor does not have a chance at winning.

*Edit: As it turned out, the Regular flavor served to mix in with the Apples & Cinnamon + 1 sugar packet. Yet another trip to the vending machine has been averted.

Filed under  //   Recession   Snacks   The Office   The Storm is coming  
Posted October 28, 2008
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Fun Sized

Ever notice that when when selling food, all marketers have to do is make it seem exciting?  Fun-Sized Candies, McDonald's Happy Meals, KFC Snackers...

And on the subject of sized, marketers are brilliant.  Instead of small which would denote less value, its 'bite, mini, or fun-sized'.  When it comes to larger its just spirals out of control to 'Jumbo, King, Nephilim-Sized'

Unfortunately, when you go to try on new pants at the store, the waist size is rarely ever as thrilling as the marketers suggested.

With the holidays approaching, I have to watch out for my fun-snacking.  As the office girl who spends the better part of her day doing crafts and refilling candy dishes around the office has begun to leave treats on peoples desks with hand drawn pumpkins that say Trick-or Treat.....

 

 

... I have no more words.

 

 

Filed under  //   Holiday   Snacks   The Office   Tricknology  
Posted October 23, 2008
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Brown-Bagging It.


The funds are low this week.  Translation: I'm brown bagging it all week long.  This is a good thing because daily breakfast & lunch can average $12 easily from the in-bulding cafeteria at work which has never heard of Adobo or any other seasoning.  $60 weekly, $240 monthly or $2880 annually.  Whoa! Kinda makes Peanut Butter & Jelly seem like a viable & tasty alternative. 

But fear not!
Brown bagging (or in this case a plastic target bag) does not have to be a soggy sandwich and dixie cup of water cooler piss...NO!   Why not "take it up a notch"?  Just a tad short of setting up my Foreman grill at my desk, I decided on Tacos.  The bulk of the work was done the night before, that is the meat cooking and then stored into small left over plastic containers.  Cheese, meat, gauacamole, taco sauce & shells along with a Rockstar Energy drink all assembled at my desk.  It can get messy, so I put it all together over someones excel print-outs I took off the printer while returning from the microwave.  Even with a desk full of small containers and and a napkin tucked into protect my shirt, some random co-woker stops by my desk to say "sorry for interrupting your lunch but...".  I pretty much kept eating and pretending I could not speak while grunting at them letting food fall from my face onto what I think was their print-outs.  That image is usually enough to send the message, "not while I'm eating...k? thx! bye."

In conclusion, I may have to do Tacos more often.  The Taco Kit was only $2.69 at Target and a pound of ground turkey was about $2.99.  Only thing I added was an diced onion and some additional Adobo.  All together I had dinner & lunch for under $6.00.  Plus I collected 3 "Box Top$ Education" labels worth .10¢ each for my sons school.
 
Tags: Brown-Bagging, broke = creative, Leave me alone and call the help desk.

 

Filed under  //   Brown Bagging   Cooking & Food   Meals   Recession   The Office  
Posted September 8, 2008
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