04.19.2006

Horoscopes For Today: 4/19/2006
Today you take the reins. Maybe you're on a carousel riding your favorite lilac horse next to your sweetie pie, who is riding their favorite sea-foam green dragon. Maybe you're the office's version of an old-fashioned stagecoach driver. Either way, you've got everything (including your trusty steed) under control. The golden ring is going to hit its mark! The carousel bell is going to ring! The mail is going to arrive! Whew.

Here is further proof that the author of my horoscopes is taking a lot of Prozac. Lilac horse? That makes me giggle in a not so good way. It smacks of Alice in Wonderland. Leave it to me to follow around a stupid rabbit. With that said, I wonder if they have a lilac horse on the carousel in the plaza?

What could be better than imagining myself on a lilac horse? FRANK DOES IKEA!

I feel about a million times better after hearing the following:

Frank also got lost and ended up all the way at the Mace exit before turning around. Frank only lives 10 minutes from Ikea, but managed to screw it up just like me.

Frank also had problems purchasing any actual items and will have to make another trip for replacement parts. He bought a bed and dresser for his sister (I made sure he didn’t buy my bed, because if I can’t have it no one can) but when they took it home to put it together it was missing many screws. Ikea was ‘out’ of screws…

Frank got lost inside of Ikea. They do provide you with a map when you walk in for a reason. That place is like the Disneyland of homemakers.

Frank was too ‘disgusted’ to try out the restaurant. Every time I go it is already closed and it’s not like I would eat a Swedish meatball anyway, but still.


Did I mention Ikea has childcare? Yeah. I’ve considered going there when I need alone time and dropping my kids off in the play area and taking a book upstairs to one of the model homes and pretending I lived there. It could work.

Other things of note:

Yesterday, April 18, I received a birthday card from my work. It’s one of those cards that gets passed around and signed by everyone. Other than being a few weeks late…I noticed that it was signed by someone who hasn’t worked here since March. Also, it’s a Christian card. Hrm. Regardless, I am somehow thankful. It makes me laugh to know that my office has a ‘birthday committee’ and they still can’t get it right.

This morning Frank and I were taking boxes downstairs so that I can hole up in the storage room for the rest of the day and as soon as we stepped off the elevator we ran right into the middle of a job fair in the lobby. Neither one of us is invited or allowed to attend. The job fair is for ‘effected employees only’. Also, we were not allowed to attend the interview sessions (where they practice interviewing with you) nor the resume writing workshop thing. I could have benefited from both. I interview prospective employees but I haven’t had to be on the other side of the table in a long time. I also have no idea how to include the gigantic amount of functions that I currently have into a readable resume. What bothered me and led Frank and I to a 30 minute bitch session, was that by the time we get our pink slips these things will no longer be offered. Our HR rep is being laid off effective July 1, so who will organize a job fair for us? Who will create snazzy binders with our resumes? No one.

Enough venting, I should do some work.