Stress, Disco, BM's, Ninjas, Face Stabbing

We are so busy at work. The amount of work I might have to do in a month all happened in one week. Right before a holiday where we were off for four days. I loved my four days, do not get me wrong, but DOOOOD. It's so crazy. I had to go to the doctor because I kept having these headaches. She thinks I'm too tense, and my blood pressure medicine wasn't working so she had to switch it. I've also been having what I think could be panic attacks.

This? Has NEVER happened to me before. I've always been entirely too cool to be this stressed out. It's weird. It makes me feel like a real adult, that my body could be falling apart because of stress. I'm one of those people now.

But luckily, I work in an environment where things like this happen....

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We listen to XM radio at work. Every single day, they play "Band of Gold". I love this song, and every time they play it I sing. However, this song drives Wendy & Daphne crazy. And it drives Dana Dane crazy because we keep talking about this song and she's never heard it and so she doesn't recognize it when it comes on XM.

So, I burned it on a CD for her. 25 times in a row. She kept listening to it on and off today during the day and every time I heard it, it made me laugh. Mainly because every time she played it Wendy would say things like "ARE YOU KIDDING ME??"

Hee! That's just how I show my love, is all.

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We have to make comments in our internal system everyday, about almost everything that happens. It's pretty annoying but since the files change hands over and over, we must. We always abbreviate "voicemail" as "vm" in our internal system. Today, Dana buzzed me:

Dana Dane: I just had to tell you this, because it made me laugh and I need to laugh.

Me: Okay

DD: I just typed "BM" instead of "VM" in the notes.

M: Ha

DD: I left him a BM, is what it says.

M: hahaha

DD: He left me a BM so I called him back and left him a BM

M: I have a lot of BM's today. I have 7 BM's

DD: That's a lot of BM's

M: I asked Sara to help me with my BM's

DD: HAHAHA

M: But I only asked her to do the easy BM's.

DD: HAHA You should've gotten her to do the hard BM's!

M: I only wanted to send her the BM's I thought she could handle

DD: You don't want to tire her out, doing all your BM's for you.

M: I couldn't handle all of them myself. Whenever I finish a BM, two are there in it's place.

DD: BM could stand for Big Mac.

M: You could have your BM in the bathroom.

DD: It's the only quiet place in the office.

M: You need quiet to really enjoy your BM. And I know you think you know what's smeared on the stall wall, but really it's just ketchup

DD: Giiiiiiirl, that's just unsanitary~

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Today we got this marketing ploy doo-dad for a website that will supposedly make your life easier. They sent these boxes and each one had a little sucker-dart-gun-thing and 4 little ninja action figures, all marked as different people that may annoy you. Since it involved toys (and ninjas! NINJAS!!), Jenny brought me one of the boxes so Dana & I could play with it. I took out the ninja labeled "boss" so Dana could shoot darts at it, but we couldn't get the gun to work.

I threw the ninja down in the floor to vent my frustration, because that's what grown-ups do.

It busted into pieces. We gathered them up, and took them to Mike's office to lay them on his desk. You know, as a warning. He was on the phone but when he saw the Boss Ninja in pieces it made him laugh. We ran away before he could hang up.

Because, again? Grown-ups.

A few minutes later he shot me.

Normally? I might be upset.

But last week I told him I was going to stab him in the face. He replies "I bought you lunch!" and I said "Those will be the last words you gurgle as you're dying. ~Quiznossss~"

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This is why I haven't had a stroke yet. Because I work at a place where things like that happen everyday. And because I have a boss that doesn't get mad when I tell him I'm going to stab him in the face.

What more could you possibly ask for?

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