Sevens for sale on Ebay - Flying A

For sale on ebay again...my $225 "Flying A" jeans - Seven for all Mankind

I think I might relist another pair, if the buyer falls thru (imagine that, happening on ebay?!) *eyeroll*

Click here to see my auction

MacGruber!!!

But in better news, I heard they are making a movie out of the MacGruber character!

Random workplace rant

This mug does not represent me.

I really hate being a supervisor. Frankly, my role is pretty useless. I do the crap work that the upper level managers don't want to do. It's like Office Space. So I get to deal with the annoying direct supervision issues, but I have zero power to actually fire anyone or do anything more than just write them up and have uncomfortable performance meetings with them. When it comes to actually having to take it further, upper management does nothing, and basically tells me to "fix it."

I'm not good at dealing with these situations. I come to work, I do my job, I do it correctly and in it's entirety. I don't understand why other people can't do the same. It's not like I work at Burger King, I don't supervise a bunch of 17 year olds. I work with people who have years of education, experience, graduate degrees, are older adults, etc. I have no strict rules, I don't care - as long as people are doing their work on time and doing it correctly, I couldn't care less what else goes on. But that seems to be too much to ask for 75% of the population. Not just in my office, but everywhere.

Years ago a co-worker and I had these same issues with people in a former department. We started to use the Nike phrase "JUST DO IT" all the time when talking about people. Your work - just do it. Showing up on time, everyday - just do it. The things I met with you about 42352343 times already this year - just do it.

Sigh. What I need to do is call the Bobs in to help out.

I Twit, do you Twit?

Just for kicks and to see what it's like, I joined Twitter.

If you're on there, give me your name (screen name? handle? whatever it's called...) and I'll add you on there! You can leave it in a comment, or email me at esbaum1@gmail.com I'm still getting the hang of it, so I'm not too swift with it yet.

It's neat to follow some of my favorite celebrities, however most of them appear to be almost as boring as I am. I think Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute) posts about 392039023 times a day. That's the main thing I've seen so far. :)

New Kids on the Block had a bunch of hits...

Thursday night was the most awesomest concert I've been to in a while (that's a word, right? Awesomest?). New Kids on the Block, NKOTB. I never got to see them when I was a kid, so it was pretty darn cool to see them now. And frankly, how much could a 10 year old really get out of a concert? I think I appreciated it more as an adult.

It was here in Memphis, at Mud Island. An outdoor venue, in the middle of the Mississippi River (seriously).




You can see here, the arena is on an island in the river, between TN and AR. Part of the Memphis skyline is in the background. (Note the unusually high percentage of neon colors seen in the audience...)

Joey and Donnie talking about how awesome we were. Joey used to be my favorite when I was a kid, probably because he was the closest in age to myself.

Donnie pointing me out in the crowd.

Group shot as they came out on stage.

As an adult though, my favorite is Jordan. Did you ever hear the song "Give it to You" that came out in 1999/2000? I was in college then. We used to listen to the song at full blast in the car as we did "drive bys" of the fraternities on campus at UI. Ahhh, to be in college again. And that was 10 years ago! Even at almost 40, Jordan is still pretty darn good looking and a great dancer. He was singing "Give it to You" in this photo. *sigh*

It was a fun night! I went with my friends Jen and Sara. We had a good time reliving our childhoods together :) I took 421 pictures and videos. I obviously did not post them all here :)

Now when is N'Sync going to go on tour???? (No worries, I already saw them in concert, in college. We tailgated in the parking lot before the concert. We were the only ones who could legally drink there, too. Other than the parents.)

P.S. - Kembree and Megan - I think I saw you both there! I was in a bit of a daze though and I've always been bad at walking up to people and doing the "Hey are you....?" thing. If I did see you, I'm sorry I did not say Hi!

Happy 4th of July weekend!

I took the day off work but somehow managed to wake up earlier than I normally do when I have to go to work. I tried to fall back asleep but I only made it to 8am. :/

Busy weekend.....first of all, and most importantly is the New Kids concert tonight. Here they are now:

And here they were back in the day:

Back then, Joey was my favorite. Probably because he was the youngest, and the others seemed almost weirdly old to me (they were maybe 15? 16?) But now, Jordan is the best. I think his song "Give It To You" sealed the deal for me on that one.

The concert is outdoors, but luckily the weather has cooled down a little, it's only supposed to be 92 today. I know, you're laughing - at least those of you who don't live down here are :) But compared to 100, it's a cold front. And there is a big difference between 100 and 92. By the time the concert starts, it should be in the lower 80's. Brrrr! :)

I got my Rue La La purchase in the mail - a sequin Alice + Olivia dress. It unfortunately did not fit my husband, so I'll be forced to wear it.

I think I might wear it out to dinner Friday night. But, as with most nice clothes I have, I get scared that I'll spill something on it and it sits in my closet, unworn, collecting dust. I am determined not to do that with this dress.

Saturday my neighborhood does a 4th of July parade and potluck. The parade starts right outside my house at 10:45, so I suppose I have to go :) Just need to figure out something to do for the potluck.

That evening we're going to a friend's house. They just moved to a lakehouse outside of town. I don't think this photo is their house, but it is a picture of a house on the lake out there. I guess there is some sort of boat parade and fireworks over the lake. Should be a busy weekend for once! Of actual fun things, not just working on the house. I'll finish with a random photo of one of my cats. They love to sit, stand, and lay on my treadmill. I've never been able to get them to walk on it though.

Does my blog format look screwed up to you?

Question -

when you look at my blog, do my side items actually appear at the side? Or at the bottom? Like the Profile, my designergals girl, the "Follow Me" thing.... ?? When I look at my blog at home, it looks correct, but when I look at it at work, all those things get smooshed down to the bottom for some reason. Maybe because of the monitor size (but my monitor at work is bigger, so that makes no sense).

If it's not looking right to other people, I need to fix it....

Pink Palace Museum

I went to the Pink Palace for the first time in years this weekend. They are doing free memberships this summer, if you want to check it out. Membership to the Palace also gets you in to the Lichterman Nature Center, as well as a couple other places (I think).

Due to financial stain, the planetarium is now closed on Sundays and Mondays. We'll have to go back to see that. They also have several Imax movies playing now, but we didn't go to any of them. Next time!

For anyone not in Memphis, the Palace is a museum now. It was originally built as a house by the founder of Piggly Wiggly. (The last picture explains it all....) It now houses permenant Memphis related exhibits, as well as traveling exhibits. The house still has a pink hue to it, although the stones have faded some. It's set on a huge treed lot in the middle of Memphis (near my home) and is sort of a forgotten about museum for a lot of Memphians.

Check out all the details on their website here.

Ebay listings - Seven for all Mankind, Rock and Republic jeans

I have listed 4 pairs of jeans on ebay - Seven For All Mankind and one pair of Rock and Republic. Great jeans - but I've lost weight and these are a bit too big. I'd rather make some money off of them, and also it's great motivation to not gain the weight back when I get rid of these :)

Here's the link to the ebay listings (click here)

And here are pics of the 4 pairs:

New "Poppy" Coach line

First of all, to anyone who works for Coach: I hate the new website. I consider myself to be exceptionally internet saavy, yet I can't manuever around that crap they call a site. Too many flash players all playing at once, you can't turn the Intro off...I just want to look at the bags!! Not see photos of what I could potentially look like carrying the bags if I was 50 lbs skinnier and a foot taller. And carrying a dog in the bag, while wearing large pink sunglasses and jumping in a puddle.

I digress.

Here's their new "Poppy" line. I find it fun, yet more classic than some of the other crap they've come up with recently. (For the most part.) (Okay for maybe part part.)


That rhinestone thing at the end though....yikes.