Monday, May 7, 2007

Half way through a deck of Cards

Being 26 feels a lot like being 25. But now I feel like I'm half way through a deck of cards.

Work today was busy. I barely sat at my desk all day. Because of a system error we had to mail out 699 books by hand instead of sending them to the Work Opportunity Center (who does all our mailings) so today I finished mailing everything out. Each book needed a sticker and a reading guide put in it. It needed to be put in the right envelope and then needed postage. HG hadn't signed the check to the post office so we only had about 500 dollars worth of postage on the postage machine. I used about 300 of it. The other 800 dollars was in stamps. Thank goodness they are self sticking. of the 699 books to be mailed 180 of them needed $1.35 and the rest needed $1.59. The $1.59 was 5 stamps - 1 $1, 2 $.24, 1 $.10 and 1 $.01. The $1.35 was the same only one $.24 stamp instead of 2. When Janna was helping me we had to hand stamps back and forth sometimes so we called them: man ($1), butterfly ($0.24), clock ($0.10) and bird ($0.01).

The weekend was exhausting, but here are the highlights that pretty much only effect me:
  1. I got the name for this blog
  2. I decided I might take a class or 2 to see if I like accounting before I decide if I want to go to grad school to get an MSA
  3. It turns out I do not have to buy a new outfit for the black tie wedding in 2 weeks, I just need to buy fancier shoes and a "ridiculously sparkly" necklace
My very exciting plans for tomorrow at work:
  1. Break down some boxes
  2. Clean up the area in front of the book shelf
  3. Put together and mail out national marketing kits
  4. Do a mail merge (people keep talking about this as if it will be very time consuming. I keep trying to tell them that a mail merge is easy. I guess tomorrow is the day of truth)
I know you all wish you were me and got to work at my picnic table.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi Lauren! Nice blog! Just wanted to say hi. Hope I see you soon. :)

Anonymous said...

Lauren! Welcome to the blog World!
You're now a link on my Blogroll, i can't wait to read up on your life from the picnic table!!

Rachel said...

Fortunately all those stamps probably gave you ample opportunity to say "This is me sticking."

Happy new blog!