Weird things...or randoms

[sapphire bou]

Because there's NO action on this board this week...

At a wedding this weekend, I had a gossip session with my high school boyfriend's mother. Then when I offered to get her and her husband cake, she told me "That's why you were always one of his favorites" referring to her husband. I'm not sure if she was talking about being one of his favorite of his son's ex-girlfriends, or one of his favorite former students. (He was my junior high principal.) Weird.

[OrangePixyStix]

Hey, there!   That is weird.  I saw it was quiet here and I know some people are busy with work and vacations, but I'm still checking in when I can! 


Work Random -  our system had a crash on Friday, so we are delayed with the April month closing processes.  Still recovering some data and we lost an entire day of postings from last week, so there was a lot of backtracking and re-postings done yesterday, which has been tedious and exhausting.   But YAY that I went home super early on Friday last week due to the server having to be restored and backed up, lol. 


Personal Random -  I am on my last week of the 60 day fitness challenge I was participating in, and I do feel like it was a success.  Lost about 3.5 inches around my waist and hips, and lost almost 2 inches around each thigh!    Ideally I still have about 3-5 pounds I would like to lose, which won't happen in this final week (averaging about a pound-loss per week), but I'm considering just repeating the second month of workouts to try and get those last few off before our big vacation in June.   


Weirdness (sort of) -   It's disheartening to read the new studies on the Biggest Loser contestants related to the long-term abnormally slow metabolisms they have been facing due to the body's reactions to the extreme ups and downs.   I have watched that show pretty much since it started and they all work so very hard to reach those goals, only to make it harder on themselves later with slowing metabolic rates, based on the new findings.   I always thought this show approached weight loss with a goal of sustaining and continued success, but the fact is that isn't happening in 90% of the past contestants.   I hate to see that the cause is totally out of their control when they had put so much trust in the program.    :?

[duff]

OrangePixyStix, just reading your work random makes me feel sick. Good luck with the delayed close!

There's a manager position posted in a different department at my work. I've been approached about it, but I don't know what to think. I've only been in my current department for 8 months, and it'll just be a lateral move for me. Thankfully I have until the 12th to decide.

[sapphire bou]

OrangePixyStix, great job on your success with the fitness challenge!

[sapphire bou]

May 3, 2016 12:59:46 GMT -5 milsaroo said:

Work random: There's been many changes while I've been gone (some I knew where happening) and I'm disappointed I've had to hear about it through coworkers, instead of a supervisor. I don't go back until the 19th, although I think I may casually start to look elsewhere. It'd be pretty hard for me to leave though.

Coming from a supervisor who has been dealing with a lot of internal issues while one employee is out on maternity leave, we walk a fine line between keeping new mothers informed and allowing them to have the time at home with their baby without having to worry about work. 

I say this because, if it's going to be hard to leave (for whatever reason), don't hold that against your supervisor too much.

Signed,
Supervisor walking on eggshells no matter where she goes

[glw]

I'm back at work after vacation and draggggging. At least I get to leave early on Friday!

[OrangePixyStix]

Welcome back, glw! 

I saw Jazzfest was a bit muddy.... was the same way last time I went.  You made that poncho look great, though!  Looks like you had a great time! 

[OrangePixyStix]

You guys, I poked around and found the "after wedding" photos for my sister (you know, the re-do shots she apparently got for "free" from her photographer?). 
I'm dyyyyyying at the strangeness some of them.   

First, there's reenacted photos of a champagne toast and of the cake cutting... just them, alone, no people.   Different looking cake, but it's tiny one like they had at the real wedding.   They did not have a tiered cake, so I know there was no topper or anything they had used. 


Second, there's a pic of her holding up a small menu, and also separate pictures of just the menu card, of a "Feast" that was not at ALL what they actually served at the wedding.  I mean, the Feast menu looks great, sounds yummy, and included 3 courses.  However, the real food at the wedding was a burger food truck that we had to stand in a line out in the rain to get our meal in a paper bag and go back inside to eat with our hands while looking around for paper napkins that were not already on any of the dining tables or placed in the bags at the food truck.   I would have LOVED the feast meal that would have been presumably served on the nice white and blue china dishes in her recreated photos, where silverware and nice cloth napkins were apparently set just right.


However, she looks happy and smiling in the other 60+ photos they took, so I guess she got what she wanted.  I just think it's funny how she has pics of stuff that wasn't even at her wedding at all.   ^o)

[blondemoment123]

This week has been so busy. Is it Friday yet??

I'm watching the Hulk and the guy that plays Phil on Modern Family is in it.

[glw]

OrangePixyStix-- That is SO STRANGE. I just...I don't even know what to say!

[OrangePixyStix]

milsaroo & glw , I don't even understand and we share the same gene pool! I would share some of the ones that are making my nose crinkle up, but I am too scared of someone recognizing one of them from my post or something.
 


I messaged my mom about it and she hadn't seen them yet. Her response was, "maybe she rented a new family to make her revisionist photos more perfect". I just had to laugh and respond with "nope, just hundreds of photos of just them with props, which is probably how it should have happened in the first place since the actual event you spent thousands$ on wasn't even good enough to remember".


It was definitely more detailed and elaborate of a photo shoot to just be a "rock the dress" type of session, which is kind of what I was hoping was really going to be the case.  There's recreated photos of the vows, "first kiss" and ring exchanges, them holding up their arms facing the aisle after the "Mr & Mrs" announcement would be (with a white carpet rug on aisle split between empty chairs with absolutely NO other people in the photos).   

I am just going to button my mouth and keep in mind the phrase, "To each their own" and hope to GOD the photographer did get fully compensated because it obviously was a few hours of shooting based on the proofs.    Just a total head-scratcher, for sure, but I think I will just look at the photos when I'm having a bad day and be thankful I'm not that crazy or convinced I need to re-do events in my life that may not have turned out "picture perfect".     

[glw]

It really shows that the photos are somehow more important than the actual wedding (and, dare I say, the marriage?). I mean, I guess I could understand re-shooting if the photos were not taken at all, or were terrible (I missed this-- did she just not like them?), but to make up elements that didn't even happen is BIZARRE.

[OrangePixyStix]

May 5, 2016 9:49:40 GMT -5 glw said:

It really shows that the photos are somehow more important than the actual wedding (and, dare I say, the marriage?). I mean, I guess I could understand re-shooting if the photos were not taken at all, or were terrible (I missed this-- did she just not like them?), but to make up elements that didn't even happen is BIZARRE.

This is probably the issue, but it was not the photographer's fault if that is the case.  Her original pics are VERY nice, and captured the moments perfectly, with nothing wrong with the quality as far as I can tell.  She never really did share more than 2-3 of them on her FB, so maybe she really didn't like them to begin with, though it seems like they took a lot of the same shots in the second shoot (only difference being the DAY OF shots were indoors and all the new shots are outside in the nature setting).     


She did jump on my case a few months back about sharing 2 photos from her photographer's gallery on FB (that she was not even IN at all), about how her photos weren't "released" yet and not to post any more.   (They were pics of me with family members only, some of the best shots of "other people" in the entire wedding day gallery and I loved them - but of course she text-yelled that they were not my pics to share).
I did delete the posts from my FB wall to appease her but saved a bunch on my own computer while I had access to view them, since I looked fantastic and wanted to keep the pics even if she didn't like them.    

Lord help her future child(ren).... she is one hard-to-please perfectionist and I am a bit worried how that may affect the kids she plans to have.  

[glw]

Yikes
I'm glad you were able to grab a couple of the originals for yourself.

[sapphire bou]

May 4, 2016 16:55:51 GMT -5 milsaroo said:

sapphire bou , there's some stuff I can agree with not telling but my stuff was moved to an empty desk that's not the desk I will be working at once I return. Luckily I took all personal stuff home so any papers that were taped up were work related but still. Also, there was a new job created and you needed to let them know if you were interested by Monday. My coworkers asked my supervisor if she would inform me, and she told them she would call me about it but never did. Thankfully I don't want to apply for that position but I feel like I would've missed out on the opportunity. Stuff like people leaving is nice to hear about but wouldn't be as big of a deal.

Well that's pretty shady of your supervisor to say she would call and then never did.

I hope it's not totally crazy when you get back to work!

[sapphire bou]

OrangePixyStix, it sounds like she's trying fabricate her wedding memories to be a fancier affair than it actually was.

And I love what you're mom said!