One of my pet peeves....

Okay, I was going to post some pics and share some family news but blogger is NOT cooperating with uploading pics. So I'll save that for later. Instead I'll tell a funny pet peeve of mine that repeatedly happened last week.
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So when I'm at work I'm in charge of answering the phones. This situation comes up ALL the time. It ALWAYS goes EXACTLY like this every time.

Situation--

You see a missed call on your phone from an unknown number and there is no voicemail...what do you do?

A) just ignore it and figure they would have left a message or will call back if it is really important
B) assume it was a wrong number
C) call the number back and have this conversation with the receptionist,

"Affiliated First this is Brittani"
"Um, I had a missed call from this number........"

(At this point-- I am like, oh great here we go.)

"Well, like I said, this is a business. We have lots of people working here. Did they leave you a voicemail?"
"No"

(At this point--I am hoping that the person on the other line is getting the message through my tone that this is weird that they called back and even weirder that they are still on the line talking to me.)

"Huh, are you doing title work and expecting a call from us"
"No"

(They still don't get it. They just stay on the line. Now I am PRAYING that they will finally realize they shouldn't have called back....obviously it was a wrong number if someone called you and didn't leave a message. But of course they DON'T get it so I have to suggest this.)

"Well, I guess I can buzz everyone that works here and ask them if they called you. What is you name?"
"Joe Shmoe"

"Great! Hold while I go find everyone that works here and see if they happened to call you Joe Shmoe."

(Now I KNOW that no one intentionally called this person. Still I have to buzz/go find everyone in the entire office and ask them if they called Joe Shmoe. None of them ever did.)

"Joe Shmoe, I have asked everyone that works here and no one seems to have called you."
"Um, okay."
"Sorry, I guess our employees aren't perfect and sometimes they misdial. Bye"

Okay, am I crazy or are people crazy?!?!?! Do you call back unknown numbers that don't leave voicemails?!?!?! If you did, would you make it go all the way to the point of making me find EVERYONE that works in our office?!?!?!

He’s back!

If you're wondering how my Monday mentioned here ended. Well let me just tell you…it ended with the return of this creature originally mentioned here.

When I walked around the corner and caught a glimpse of Andrew and Ernie the Elk…. I almost peed my pants. I was scared. I put my hands over my mouth and said "It's HUGE! It's HUGE!!! It's HUGE!!!!" I didn't even want to go into the room. You seriously can't believe how massive this thing is. Andrew is in heaven. He loves it. I think Ernie is so scary and wherever I go he's always staring at me.

As you can see from the pedestal that Ernie is resting on, he is taller than the garage. So the reason he's on the floor in our house is because he's taller than our ceiling. I have no idea what we are going to do with this thing until we can buy a house with a room, the man cave, where Ernie can live and I don't have to look at him everyday. The room is going to have to have 12 foot ceilings.

Oh man, I wish you could imagine how I feel at this very moment, trying to blog but at all times keeping the corner of my eye on Ernie because he's so lifelike I swear he's going to move. And if he does move I am going to have a conniption!!! I'll be coming to your house for a sleepover.

Wow, I must be the world's best wife.....a NERVOUS wife that is. This is seriously going to take some getting used to.

It must be Monday...

Last night before we went to bed, one of our neighbors set off the panic button on their car and managed to let it honk ferociously for at least 5 minutes before they turned it off. Little did I know at the time....that this would continue to happen ALL night long. Seriously over and over and over again we were woken up all the live long night by this car's panic attack. Rough night ...can't imagine why this kept happening but I hope the problem is solved by tonight. Otherwise I'll be sleeping in earplugs with 10 pillows on top of my head instead of just 3 like last night.

Speaking of car problems, when we got up at 6 a.m. this morning so Andrew could go to class, we go out to the truck to find out that it's apparently locked in the E-brake position. E-brake is off, car starts, but it doesn't move.....(this is my non-car-girl diagnosis). We spend some time trying to roll it out of the stall and then give up and Andrew ends up taking my car and dropping me off at work carless.

Then I get to work and go into the bathroom to blow my nose. I get a little bit of toilet paper and walk away to blow my nose. Then all of the sudden I say, "What is that noise?" Come to find out the ENTIRE roll of TP has just completed unrolled into a humungo pile on the floor and I get to spend the next 10 minutes rolling it back up.

And I've still got the majority of the day to go...including finishing work and then going to calculus for 3 hours tonight. I'm sure my troubles are not over...I'll try to hang in there.

oh baby!!!

congratulations

kelsie and ethan and brooklyn!!!

baby abigail may was born

monday, jan 18th at 1:12 p.m.

6 lbs 5 oz

19 in.

she looks just like her big sis!!

wish we lived closer and could see this little pumpkin

a wedding and 2 funerals

Long story that I don't feel like sharing but I just want to make a quick mention of........we went to Arizona last weekend for my cousin Melissa's wedding.

Our grandpa ended up passing away the day of the wedding. It was a difficult weekend but we are so happy for Melissa and David and we are very sad to loose our gramps who we loved so much!!

He was an amaznig man and will be greatly missed. We're so glad to know that he is with our grandma now and that we will see him someday. Lindsay, Nicole, and I are going to be sharing "Memories of Grandpa" at the funeral on Friday and so we've been thinking a lot about what a great man he was and all the memories we have together.


Here is the link to his obituary: http://ads.heraldextra.com/articles/2010/01/12/obituaries/353426.txt

We also had a death on my dad's side of the family. The day after my Grandpa Schaefer passed, my dad's uncle/grandma's brother died. He was also a great man too!

http://ads.heraldextra.com/articles/2010/01/13/obituaries/353472.txt

Sad week at our house.

{we're tired}

last semester between andrew and I:

38 credits

10 A's

3 B's

2 full-time jobs

1 part-time job

countless hours of homework

and yes i really did an entire college algebra class in 4 days--4 tests, 4 days

didn't make for much of a christmas break

during our 3 day of freedom after all this was done

we decided to escape away

we went to......SLC

big trip, i know

but anything is better than what i just previously described

we stayed here:

we worked out here:

we visited here:

i did some damage here:

we went to the movies both nights and saw

and

and some loser from draper named todd was supposed to meet us at the delta center on saturday so we could buy tickets to see these guys

and he totally flaked last minute.

so never ever buy anything on ksl.com from a todd from draper

then the jazz lost terribly so we were okay that we didn't spend all the dough on tickets

we went and got massages instead (that's a funny story on it own)

well, until we have the time for a real vacay this will have to do.

it was fun to just be with my hubs

now we're already a week into the next semester

here we go again!

today on the blog

i get rid of my christmas background and move on to valentines

just put a new pic on the blog that is black and white

and it makes us look like we have dots/freckles all over our faces

andrew is begging me to come to bed

so i'll have to change the funny pic another day

and maybe i'll blog about something new and excting that day too