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Office Rants

If I take a look on the bright side…

May 29, 2007

I’ve often complained to my coworkers about the dim lighting in our communal bathroom at the office.  The flourescent bulbs seem to be from an era past, casting my beautiful spring whites in nasty shades of yellow.  My skin, which is already sallow to begin with, seemed ever more orange in the atmosphere of the bathroom.  [...]

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Lunching with BlackBerrys

May 15, 2007

Whenever I get to go to lunch for work and someone else pays for it, I get a giddy feeling inside. Buying lunch is expensive, and since I’m making a lot less money than I used to by working part-time, and I am way too lazy and disorganized in the morning to make my own lunch, [...]

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“Lunch and learns” – working mom style

May 1, 2007

I haven’t really ventured into luncheon-land since I’ve been back to work.  For the past 8 months (20 if you count when I was pregnant), I’ve avoided the “lunch and learn.” You know, those two-hour-long guest speaker PowerPoint snore-fests at fancy restaurants where you have to eat family style Italian and make small “business” talk with the person next [...]

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Things I did today after my computer crashed…

April 19, 2007

Bitched and moaned for 20 minutes about how much ”this sucks” until I remembered this is “no whining” week. Pleaded in a very nice tone to our IT department that My. Computer. Needs. To. Be. Fixed. Now. Got lunch. Pasta e Fagoli soup. Yum. Read some stuff. Nothing terribly exciting. Bothered my colleagues. Went to Starbucks. Twice. [...]

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The art of repetition

March 27, 2007

They say that skills you use at home being a mother translate well into the workplace.  I’m in even more agreement with this fact in light of my business trip this week.  A business trip which actually required me to speak on camera in front of a live audience.  I should add it was an [...]

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Pregnancy chasers

March 12, 2007

When I think back to “the good old” days of my pre-pregnancy (even pre-married) self, I think about my no nonsense career attitude, my ability to make plans at a moment’s notice and having no excuse for being late or being brain-dead (you get the drift.)  Fast forward to the present and you’re more likely to find that [...]

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I’m off to a great start today

March 8, 2007

First my nail chipped.  You heard it here first, I’m swearing off dark nail polish forever.  Or at least for the next manicure. Then my fab $4 headband from Target snapped in half during my mid-morning tea break.  At least I had some extra bobby pins in my make up case. What’s next?

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Working mom business travel at its worst?

March 1, 2007

Martha of Silicon Valley Mom Blogs posted about an upcoming business trip this week that she’s really looking forward to.  And my recent jaunt to L.A. was a business trip to remember (except for the hotel.)  I’m all for going away for work, provided it’s to a good destination, I can stay at a luxury hotel (who could say no to 500-count [...]

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Signs you’re ready to tell your boss you’re pregnant

February 18, 2007

While reading the UrbanBaby Message Boards (one could really get addicted to such activity) this weekend, I came across a woman who was about 6 weeks pregnant and posted the question of when she should break the news to her boss.  This is definitely a gut-wrenching decision.  You don’t want to disclose your pregnancy too soon [...]

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The need for “kid” days

November 27, 2006

Sometimes you just can’t make it out the door to get to work.  Your nanny just got in a car accident and can’t make it to your house (true story), you’ve wasted half your day at the doctor’s office waiting for an appointment for your child (true story), or your kid is too sick and needs the [...]

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