Holiday Crazy

By jen

Today I used one of my floating holidays and guilted a friend/coworker to come and help me get organized.  Let me preface this by saying that this young lady is basically the glue that keeps my projects on schedule.  We are to the point of completing each others sentences and she knows my expressions to the point where she looks  at me as I sit in the cubical with a million things I inherited as PM and she says, “What are you looking for?  You have that look.”  I say what it is she finds it.  I say, “We need a new task list”  She says, “already have a working one…”  I task her and never think about it again because I know she will get it done.  All these are amazing qualities in a team member and very rare.  To make it simple extraordinary she is all of 22 years old.  Amazing work ethic, amazing attitude (she is an OCD bitch like me at work), and she is just fucking hilarious.  I would like to say “Bravo!” to her parents, she is a gem.  I am thinking of changing her title to “Keeper of Jen’s Sanity”.  She also informed me I need a support group because no one needs as many small appliances as I have and she said that it was fucking pathological that I have like 5 crock pots.  I culled down to two..

Last thing we did before she left was put my enormous bird in its salty bath.  She says it was the most disturbing thing she has ever seen done to a bird, but I told her it was worth the work.  Salt, juices, water, brown sugar, a bottle of Reisling and a bunch of herbs… how can it not be outstanding?

I am freakin’ exhausted and need a bath.  Folks are on their way here and I am quite certain I have forgotten something I need for dinner tomorrow.  Thanksfully HEB is open until 2pm tomorrow!  Did I mention I have organized kitchen cabinets?  Outstanding!  Santa will be good to Sarah this year!  Go Sarah! /end exaltation of young co-working.

Tomorrow menu:

• Turkey goodnes


• Cornbread sausage and oyster stuffing goodness


• Peas with way too much cajun rubbed on ‘em


• Green beans


• Demure Mac & Cheese aka Death by Cheese and fat


• Rice and Gravy


• Sweet Potato Balls


• Pumpkin Pie


• Caramel Apple Pie


• Kings Hawaiian Rolls if daughter no. 4 doesn’t eat them all before tomorrow