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Post by wineallthetime on Dec 13, 2017 9:40:46 GMT -6
I love me some Biebs, but I don't want to have sex with him.
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Post by peachsmama on Dec 13, 2017 9:42:36 GMT -6
lfig how did S sleep last night? Was the blanket a miracle? wineallthetime I’m happy you had a good scan. She slept great till 7:15! It might be a miracle! We will find out if it is a repeat tonight! Maybe Your S needs one! All the kids of N13 are getting one for Christmas now lol. The weighted blanket people thank you for the endorsement!
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Post by mwhip on Dec 13, 2017 9:45:52 GMT -6
tgrimes how do they police the 2 drink max? Our company Christmas party is Friday. At 5. We work until 4:30. I have to pick Evie up, get her to MILs, change my clothes and make myself presentable, then drive 20 minutes. I told my boss I need to leave early. Last year our party was at a country club. Later in the night, the bartender disappeared for too long, so I went behind the bar and poured myself a beer. There are pictures. The bartender caught me and laughed, then taught me how to poor beer properly from a tap. They changed the location this year, I'm sure me pouring my own drinks had something to do with it.
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Post by peachsmama on Dec 13, 2017 9:48:49 GMT -6
I'm in RMD hell. My goal today is to get all the post its off my desk.. I leave at 3 to volunteer at the food pantry so I don't foresee this happening.
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Post by klong11 on Dec 13, 2017 9:50:10 GMT -6
tgrimes how do they police the 2 drink max? Our company Christmas party is Friday. At 5. We work until 4:30. I have to pick Evie up, get her to MILs, change my clothes and make myself presentable, then drive 20 minutes. I told my boss I need to leave early. Last year our party was at a country club. Later in the night, the bartender disappeared for too long, so I went behind the bar and poured myself a beer. There are pictures. The bartender caught me and laughed, then taught me how to poor beer properly from a tap. They changed the location this year, I'm sure me pouring my own drinks had something to do with it. Drink tickets? That's how they would do it with mh's band. They only got a certain number of free drinks from the bar, so each member got tickets to give the bartender, after that they had to pay.
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Post by wineallthetime on Dec 13, 2017 9:51:57 GMT -6
It's snowing hard here, we're supposed to get 7 or so inches. I'm sure it'll be a fun drive home!
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Post by wineallthetime on Dec 13, 2017 9:52:27 GMT -6
Our work holiday party is mid January. It's on a Saturday this year. Do not want to give up my Saturday.
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Post by mwhip on Dec 13, 2017 9:52:58 GMT -6
tgrimes how do they police the 2 drink max? Our company Christmas party is Friday. At 5. We work until 4:30. I have to pick Evie up, get her to MILs, change my clothes and make myself presentable, then drive 20 minutes. I told my boss I need to leave early. Last year our party was at a country club. Later in the night, the bartender disappeared for too long, so I went behind the bar and poured myself a beer. There are pictures. The bartender caught me and laughed, then taught me how to poor beer properly from a tap. They changed the location this year, I'm sure me pouring my own drinks had something to do with it. Drink tickets? That's how they would do it with mh's band. They only got a certain number of free drinks from the bar, so each member got tickets to give the bartender, after that they had to pay. Ah, that makes sense. Couldn't you just buy more drinks though, if you wanted? I mean, I don't want to pay for my booze at a company party, if that shit isn't free, don't expect me to stick around long, because I won't be any fun.
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Post by klong11 on Dec 13, 2017 9:54:17 GMT -6
Drink tickets? That's how they would do it with mh's band. They only got a certain number of free drinks from the bar, so each member got tickets to give the bartender, after that they had to pay. Ah, that makes sense. Couldn't you just buy more drinks though, if you wanted? I mean, I don't want to pay for my booze at a company party, if that shit isn't free, don't expect me to stick around long, because I won't be any fun. Not if they have given the bartender strict guidelines to only serve people with tickets.
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Post by wineallthetime on Dec 13, 2017 9:57:46 GMT -6
We don't have a limit on how much we can drink at our holiday party, but it is a cash bar.
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Post by tgrimes on Dec 13, 2017 10:00:52 GMT -6
tgrimes how do they police the 2 drink max? Our company Christmas party is Friday. At 5. We work until 4:30. I have to pick Evie up, get her to MILs, change my clothes and make myself presentable, then drive 20 minutes. I told my boss I need to leave early. Last year our party was at a country club. Later in the night, the bartender disappeared for too long, so I went behind the bar and poured myself a beer. There are pictures. The bartender caught me and laughed, then taught me how to poor beer properly from a tap. They changed the location this year, I'm sure me pouring my own drinks had something to do with it. They don't. That's why I will not be abiding by that. The way I see it, is if my glass is always half empty, it will look like my same glass from the last time they saw me. There will be over 1000 people at the party and it's open bar. There's no way they'd be able to police employee's drinks. I have been at parties where they do the drink tickets though. I scope out the people that don't drink to get their tickets because I'm RESOURCEFUL!
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Post by guster on Dec 13, 2017 10:01:49 GMT -6
I've been a plus one to a bunch of Christmas office parties, but I've never had one of my own. It was always the happy hour at the local bar the day break started. We had a good stretch with a principal who would throw down his credit card and tell us that everything was on him. Those were a good seven years.
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Post by klong11 on Dec 13, 2017 10:03:23 GMT -6
lfig what brand is that blanket?
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Post by sands42 on Dec 13, 2017 10:11:40 GMT -6
I have never heard of Christmas crackers either! It sounded weird when you said your kids would have fun with crackers when i was picturing actual crackers guster lol I love team greens wineallthetime but I’m having a really hard time waiting between you and xolastunicornxo! 😉 inthekitty Hahaha! I wouldn’t hate a Bieber sex dream either vino..... That ain’t right tgrimes.... fill up your flask! Hope X feels better quickly! cagoldi
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Post by guster on Dec 13, 2017 10:13:35 GMT -6
I have never heard of Christmas crackers either! It sounded weird when you said your kids would have fun with crackers when i was picturing actual crackers guster lol Josie spent the morning playing with the lids to the disposable coffee cups (for some reason we always end up with more lids than cups), so playing with crackers would almost not be surprising to me.
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Post by cagoldi on Dec 13, 2017 10:14:24 GMT -6
Thanks, inthekitty, that helps. I notice this picked up after his BFF moved away so I think it's a stress related thing. I always second guess myself like maybe he has a Vitamin deficiency? But, I pay a lot of attention to his diet so I feel like we're really okay there. And I suspect it wouldn't just be on that one side he pulls on.
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Post by klong11 on Dec 13, 2017 10:17:04 GMT -6
cagoldi, mh started doing that recently due to stress/anxiety. He either pulls at his hair or bites his fingernails.
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Post by wineallthetime on Dec 13, 2017 10:18:15 GMT -6
cagoldi, I've heard of that a lot due to stress/anxiety. Or pulling out eyebrow hairs. Poor Dude!!!
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Post by peachsmama on Dec 13, 2017 10:18:34 GMT -6
cagoldi , mh started doing that recently due to stress/anxiety. He either pulls at his hair or bites his fingernails. Yea A bites the skin around his finger nails. He's not going to have fingers by the time we leave my parents house..
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Post by nam2013 on Dec 13, 2017 10:19:39 GMT -6
Off to my office party, with an unlimited, no cash, bar. It is only between 5-9 though.
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Post by wineallthetime on Dec 13, 2017 10:21:56 GMT -6
Off to my office party, with an unlimited, no cash, bar. It is only between 5-9 though. That means by tgrimes work's standards you can have 1.33 drinks in that time period
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Post by trtlcrzy on Dec 13, 2017 10:24:50 GMT -6
My work does a Christmas party...at 2pm. They give out Christmas cookies and a can of soda, so as you can guess it’s pretty hopping. I haven’t gone since I stopped working full time, it’s not worth it to drive there just for a couple of cookies.
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Post by slenle on Dec 13, 2017 10:29:46 GMT -6
That's awesome lfig! Glad she got a good night sleep! Yay for a good A/S wineallthetime! I also thought edible crackers and was very confused until I googled. Those look fun!
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Post by slenle on Dec 13, 2017 10:33:27 GMT -6
My boss usually takes us (3 employees) out for lunch for Christmas. He always takes the guys that work in our IL office out for a fancy dinner and drinks. But that's fine, because I'd much rather just do a quick lunch. He told me yesterday that they (he and his wife) Are thinking of having us and our families over to their house for wine and hor d'oeuvres instead of lunch... on maybe the friday or saturday of new years weekend. Ummmmm no thank you!
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Post by inthekitty on Dec 13, 2017 10:38:42 GMT -6
My main work party is this Friday and I'm ditching out. No alcohol and forced karaoke just wasn't enticing enough for me. The office should be dead and I'm going to try to get some homework done for my class before ditching out early. Our instructors were so thoughtful that over the holidays they scheduled 5 quizzes, a 10-question essay test, and a presentation with an essay on top of all the reading.
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Post by flamingo on Dec 13, 2017 10:38:47 GMT -6
My boss usually takes us (3 employees) out for lunch for Christmas. He always takes the guys that work in our IL office out for a fancy dinner and drinks. But that's fine, because I'd much rather just do a quick lunch. He told me yesterday that they (he and his wife) Are thinking of having us and our families over to their house for wine and hor d'oeuvres instead of lunch... on maybe the friday or saturday of new years weekend. Ummmmm no thank you! Ooh fun, you should ask his wife about that apartment ‘for business’ and the 4.95/min calls he texted you about. 😉
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Post by mwhip on Dec 13, 2017 10:41:18 GMT -6
Speaking of all these work holiday parties, what is the worst bonus you have received?
My first job out of college I worked for an insurance company. They were pretty big in KC, so I was excited for our holiday party. They catered lunch and then gave us all a 5lb block of swiss cheese. I think I got $25 as well, but swiss cheese? Why? I am pretty sure we didn't even use it all because that is a lot of swiss cheese.
My last job, they gave everyone, regardless of tenure, a $25 gift card to the local grocery store. I used it to buy beer.
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Post by xolastunicornxo on Dec 13, 2017 10:42:59 GMT -6
Yay for a good scan wineallthetime! Hi, I’m at speech therapy with Lucas and I have a dr appointment later today. I’m getting a growth scan so I’ll get to see the babe, which is exciting, but I’m always scared they’re going to slip up and tell me/show me the gender and we’re so close to the end! I always tell them like ten times I don’t want to know! I’m also meeting with the doctor and dietician and I’m hoping they are going to downgrade me to just a glucose intolerance instead of gd. I haven’t had a single high number since I started testing, regardless of what I eat and she’s already moved me down to only having to check my sugars 3 days a week. I guess we will see. Anyway, there’s really no point in me driving all the way home before me app so h is working from home and I have a full 4.5 hours to myself! I’m going to try and finish Christmas shopping, grab lunch and maybe just go relax at Starbucks!
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Post by klong11 on Dec 13, 2017 10:43:22 GMT -6
mwhip, not a bonus, but a boss once gifted me a box of pears. I hate pears. And it was a big box, it had like 12 giant pears in it. I took it to my Dad's house and gave them to him.
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Post by tallb on Dec 13, 2017 10:45:02 GMT -6
We have a holiday department party.. yesterday it was catered and we all got boombas socks as gifts (an alumni started company and donated 250 pairs to a DC homeless shelter).
Tomorrow we have a team lunch and we will reveal our secret santa..we have to pay for our own lunches though, humph.
My SM is taking her employees to the Bruno Mars concert next week, last year they did a surprise trip to a fancy cooking school for a lesson during the day. Other years they do lunch and then take them to the mall with a few hundred bucks to finish shopping. She's all business at work, but she does do fun surprises for the holidays.
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