Apathetic Passion or Passionate Apathy

Apparently, I missed work day at the church yesterday. I was holed up inside my own house working, cleaning and such, and while I am enjoying the lilacy-clean goodness resulting from my day of labor, I kind of wish I could have helped out. Cell phones are great and all, but mine does not work very well in my house, and that's where I was when I missed the work-day informational telephone call.

In other news, my brother-in-law drew up the papers for the sale of the house and we are in process of getting all the necessary signatures. I always thought that when I finally owned two houses, one of them would be a nice vacation house on a lot surrounded on three sides by trees and a lake on the fourth. This is a far cry from that. I would mention how happy I am that we are only fixing it up and selling it, but it sounds as though there will be many long nights spent working on it, and we have even discussed the necessities that will need to be left there (of which our air-mattress was mentioned) for those nights when it is just too late to go home.

Maybe I will stay out of trouble this winter.

Legal speak

The following is a true and correct portion of the Code of Federal Regulations:
d) All public agencies are covered by FMLA regardless of the number
of employees; they are not subject to the coverage threshold of 50
employees carried on the payroll each day for 20 or more weeks in a
year. However, employees of public agencies must meet all of the
requirements of eligibility, including the requirement that the employer (e.g., State) employ 50 employees at the worksite or within 75 miles.
29 CFR 825.108
So… the company is covered but not the employee? What?
While I find humor in listening to conversation after conversation between my boss and other attorneys as they discuss laws they cannot figure out (Before you think it--I am not technically eavesdropping as the reason I sit where I do is because I have a knack for hearing conversations when I am working, not realizing it, and being able to remind or follow up on some of her discussions and she likes that), after two days of phone calls and unreturned phone calls from federal entities to clarify the above, I am as frustrated as she is. Do they mean that the employee is covered as long as the agency employs at least 50 people regardless of the number of weeks? Or are they just outright contradicting themselves?

Food

It's Saturday. It's cold. I am getting ready for dinner tonight. One of the companys that Heath's company buys from is having a we-rented-out-the-Musuem-of-Science-and-Industry-tonight dinner and we are going. I am wearing my fancy dress that I just bought for Nick and Kathy's wedding this summer. I also just bought a pashmina to go with it. I did not even know what a pashmina was until a few years ago. (Is there anything we did not learn from Friends?) Off I go to prepare!

Beginnings

Amidst my daily duties of supporting my husband as he plans and prepares to flip a house, take care of my house (not because my husband does not do it, but because I have an unnatural love of cleaning and organizing that seems to have sprung upon me since moving out of my parents house, all those years of telling me to clean my room finally paid off), manage a staff of four (two of which do well on their own; two of which need babysitters) and make sure I do not miss my Thursday night 1 ½ hours of tv viewing (The Office and Grey’s Anatomy--and now I await the phone call which will come from someone in my family Thursday night), creating long, unending sentences that annoy anyone with any grammar skills (oooh that reminds me of a story), I often forget to keep in touch with those that I should (and want to). So here is my attempt.
But first, my story--I recently saw a job ad on-line which read “Organizational and good grammer skills a must”. Grammer. Does anyone else find it amusing that while good grammar is important (which I can only assume they mean as any searches on the word grammer come back with “Did you mean 'grammar'?”), but spelling apparently does not.

Also, I am planning my second cookie party. (MMmmMM Cookies)

Thought for the day: Generally speaking, after a certain amount of time, most people can tell when someone does not really like them. My family is pretty smart like that.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. ~Matthew 12:34.
Selfishness can only be hidden for a brief amount of time.