Things That Make Me Jolly:
- Dinner with Friends.
- Going to the Movies
- Late Night Sleep Overs (that involve wine and lots of laughs).
- Alone Time with the Hubster (watching Wedding Singer and playing Rummy, ha ha)
- Watching A Christmas Story (it never stops being funny. “You’ll shoot your eye out!”)
Things that Make me Feel Non-Jolly (or ready to pull out my hair)
- Crazed shoppers (who don’t think twice about bodily harm in order to grab a gift someone might return anyway).
- The Gift Card Fiasco- (as it will forever be known). EVERYONE and their mother came into work today to use their gift cards. That’s usually not a problem, except half of them had STARBUCKS gift cards. We are a B&N Cafe. We DONT accept Starbucks giftcards. Sheesh. If I had to say that one more time today, I thought I’d pop a capillary.
- Cranky Days when NOTHING goes right. (See also, Today. *le sigh*)
- Working on a Deadline with a story that won’t cooperate. (*loses a second capillary*)
I think it’s a good sign that the positives outweigh the negatives. It means I haven’t succumbed to the dark cynical anger that bites at me this time of year. Not yet anyway. There’s still a little bit of merriment left in my heart. 
Ha ha.
I hope you all enjoyed your families and friends. I know I’m thankful for mine.
You know what? Add one more thing to my Jolly list.
- The people I work with. I really love my job. And the people I work with make it a great place to be. Thanks guys. (Melissa, I know you might be reading this, so just know that this especially includes you. Thanks for today. Sorry I was such a grouch. Ha ha) *HUGS*
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Isabelle
December 29th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Two things:
You guys are the best.
A) AWE. You were so not a grouch! I felt so badly for you and Shannon… Silly, stupid, grouchy customers. “Are you guys okay? Do I have to throw down?!”
B) I have a really pressing question for you, okay? Are you ready? Ready? …. Are you or were you at any point a Boyz II Men fan? Because I’m betting that the answer is “yes,” further establishing our roles as kindred spirits. lol
December 29th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Well now, Melissa… HOW DID YOU KNOW!? Ha ha! Of course I was a Boys II Men fan! In fact, my hubby danced to “Momma” with his Momdukes at our wedding! And my karaoke song of choice, when I first started to really belt it out, was Water Runs Dry! Ha ha. How weird. Kindred spirits, indeed.