Insane Random Ramblings

The food was good but extremely heavy. We went with an Italian restaurant. We had chicken alfredo, pasta with meat sauce, green beans, mashed potatoes and salad. We also had tiramisu and cannoli’s. Like I said, a great meal but really heavy. I guess it’s a good thing that we had lunch at 11:30am. If we had waited until our normal lunch, which is 1pm for me, we would have not made it through the end of the day.

We also had some word search games and played a “don’t forget the lyrics” type of game. Our management team gave out little goodie bags including candy and lottery tickets. We gave our big boss a candy jar filled with candy. Our immediate manager got lottery tickets and a gift card.

All in all it was a pretty good day.

I use SwagBucks as my search engine all of the time. I never win the contests though. They have a big winner every hour but I’ve never seen my name. I’m not saying that I’ve never been chosen it’s just that if you don’t check your name could come and go before you notice.

They also have a Mega Swag day every Friday where you can win larger than normal bills. I have won a few of those. But what I could never do was get all of the collector bills. They have them for most holidays including the 4th of July and Labor Day. There are usually 5 bills but I never get more than 3 or 4. Until Monday.

For Thanksgiving there were 5 bills including one that was only available on Black Friday. I got all of them except one. Then on Monday night about an hour before time expired, I finally got the last bill. I felt like I had won a marathon or something I was so excited.

For collecting all of the bills I think I got a 10 point bonus in addition to the value of all of the bills. I’m just happy I finally beat that monster!

I earn points for searching and I save them up to buy something big for myself every year.

I have been anxiously awaiting an upcoming concert for a long time. Now that it’s finally here, I’m running around town trying to get everything that I need. I have an appointment to get my makeup done professionally on Friday. I was going to get fake lashes but I found some of the best eyelash growth product on the market and it looks good on me. It really compliments my eyes so there’s no need for more lashes.

I almost have my outfit ready but I need a cute coat now. I am not buying it though. I have a few friends that have really cute dressy coats and I’ll borrow one to make my outfit complete. I already talked about spending to much money last week so I really can’t justify buying a new coat. Besides, since I’m getting totally dolled up, I’m wearing a all leather coat with a fox fur trim. There is no way I could ever afford that right now.

I can’t wait for this work week to end. I’m going to have a ball this weekend.

Almost every good website is blocked at my job. Sometimes it’s games or sweepstakes but sometimes it’s just a news story that I’m looking for.

The majority of the time it’s a weekly feature that I’m looking for. On Slate it would be Dear Prudence (Monday and Thursday), Friend or Foe (every other Tuesday) or on WDAS’s website Patty’s 411 (every Friday).

I used to use the Google cache feature which would bring up a specific page and I could read that even though the site was blocked out. Unfortunately, that’s no longer an option since it seems that Google fazed it out.  It’s not a big deal since I can read everything once I get home. But I used to love reading stuff at the end of the day when I was cleaning up to go home.

Oh well,  just another technological advance.

During this week we’re having a lot of activities here at work. Yesterday was a snack which ended up being a cookie. Tomorrow is a free tailgate lunch and Friday is a “healthy snack” option. I’m not that excited about the food options though. I’m really excited about the other activities though.

We can win free “stuff” all week long. We can win either a 1/2 or a full vacation day off, a free gift certificate for lunch or even a free $25 gift card. At the end of the week, we have a grand prize drawing for 2 gps systems, 2 flat screen tv, 2 Kindles or  a IPad 2. I would love to win any of the prizes and I’m not picky at all.

At least we get a week of fun to try to make this a better work environment. Now let the games begin.

I wouldn’t mind traveling during the holidays this year, especially since I’m not traveling anywhere this summer. I have a few dollars for travel expenses tucked away and I’m trying to decide when the right time to use them is. I could go somewhere and celebrate Boxing Day over the holidays. Or I could wait until next year and go to an island in late spring.

My birthday is in late summer (next week actually ;>) ) and I wanted to go away during this time of the year. It doesn’t matter if it was this year or next, it’s just the time I really want to go. Unfortunately this is smack dab in the middle of hurricane season and if I’m not on a cruise which I’m sure will divert, I’m not traveling.

As long as I don’t spend the money on something silly, I can always just save it and go away next year.

Awww. My coworkers are happy though, haters that they are. There was a candy dish where they had all different sizes of packages of candy and you had to guess how many. I was only 9 off. The winner was 1 off though. There were 3 additional winners, but they weren’t chosen by how close they were, they were just chosen at random.

Oh well it was fun playing the game and officially being allowed to goof off during work hours.

My niece, well great-niece actually, is turning 1 in two weeks and I really wanted to go to her party. They live in another state and I haven’t seen them since my mom passed away. Unfortunately the baby’s birthday is on a Tuesday and her party is on that day. I either have to take several days off and travel down or fly down and fly back on the same day which still entails me taking 1 vacation day.

I really want to go but I don’t think I’m going to be able to swing it this year.

I was sitting on the bus and I hadn’t put my ipod on yet so I could hear the passengers around me. Then I heard the two women next to me talking about how they had raised all of this money and owning their own businesses was hard. Now I know I had heard these same two women talk about their bosses’ in the past so I was curious.

One of them then said that she had closed her bakery and that’s how she made so much money. Then she offered to show her companion other tips and tricks for making more money. She pulled out her phone and started playing on Facebook and that’s when I realized that their “money” and “businesses” were Facebook games.

I had heard that people were addicted to those games and treat them like real life but I didn’t realize just how far some people took it. At least I got a early morning chuckle out of it.

I have so much stuff to do at home, but I’m making time to hit the casino today. I have some “free” cash to play. As anyone who gambles knows, free isn’t always free. It also depends on how much you’ve won or lost at the casino. Hypothetically you could walk away a winner and still get free cash to play but I think we all know that the vast majority of people walk away losers.

I’ll take $10-20 of my own money and then play with the house’s money. Hopefully I’ll bring some of their money home with me.