Happy REALLY late in the day birthday to Jodi/Jojo

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

Happy REALLY late in the day birthday to Jodi/Jojo

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Where've you been?? We've missed you around here!

I hope your day was spectacular, and that all your birthday wishes come true.

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

Hope you had a fabulous day, Jodi!

Sundancer · Soap Dish Diva/Divo

When was Jodi's birthday? I hope it was a happy one!

-- Edited by Sundancer on Thursday 30th of July 2009 10:41:21 AM

jojolin · The Naughty Bad Girl

Hey gals! Thanks! It was a low key day. Jackson happens to think 30 is ANCIENT, but I don't feel old.

Sorry I don't come on that much. I'm just always so tired these days with work. It's been so crazy busy that by the time I boot up my computer, I go to facebook and that's about it.
I haven't been getting on the computer at home much lately anyways.

jojolin · The Naughty Bad Girl

Odd, it wouldn't let me edit my post! I wasn't finished and accidentally hit post.

jojolin · The Naughty Bad Girl

Crap! Did it again!

I hope everything is going well for everyone here. I need a good long break, and my coworkers and everyone finally convinced me to take an entire week off work. I've been there nearly 2 years and have only taken one or two days off here and there. So I'm taking off the last week of August, which is the week before Jackson starts up third grade. Fun times. Nothing special planned...just lounging around!

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

So good to hear from you, Jojo. Life changes things, doesn't it? It managed to get in the way of all of us talking soaps much of the time, lol.

Happy holidays to you come the end of August! Two years already? Wow. Tempus fugit.

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

I am so glad you popped over to say hello. You have been missed. I miss the days when we could all talk about soaps. Now even if we could most wouldn't because I don't know if there is a soap that all of us watches anymore.

jojolin · The Naughty Bad Girl

I love chatting with you all, and keeping up with everyone.

And I do not watch soaps anymore. I gave up completely. I discovered I slowly stopped watching them more and more, until I wasn't watching altogether. I made the mistake of watching the week marathon of AMC on soapnet, and was completely lost. They lost me at the prego chick playing Liza. No thankyou.

Yep, 2 years this September. It feels weird. My boss told me the other day in the evaluation that I'm good at what I do, I just need to trust myself more often and stop relying so much on management to have direction. And he's right. I know what needs to be done often, but I'm afraid of my own ability I guess. I'm told there's not much I can do wrong that can't be fixed.

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

Listen to your boss, jojo! He IS right -- most anything that isn't fatal can be fixed.

Think of it this way: if you have to rely on management's direction, then why would the company need to employ you? They could just let management follow through, and save a salary, even though someone else would be a bit overworked.

Go with your gut, which is apparently very good, and prove to them that you're an absolute necessity to the company, NOT an expendable back-up!

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

Jojo, Moore's so right! Go for it!!

I don't really watch anything regularly other than Y&R which I really do like, most of the time. I sort of watch the 2 ABC soaps but I'm not invested in them any more and never bother to record them now.

Thank goodness we have Moore here so that I can ask the odd question if a plot has escaped me. I will from time to time get my interest piqued but it sure isn't as it was a few years ago when we all first came aboard.

jojolin · The Naughty Bad Girl

I've already started! Friday I made numerous decisions that I would have had my team lead look at before I committed them, and I went ahead and made them. It actually felt really good!

While I don't watch the soaps, I do oddly keep up with spoilers here and there. But I guess I missed that Guiding Light is going off the air? Weird. I think one day there will be only one network that shows soaps, and there will only be 2 or 3 at most.

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

YAY, Jojo. That's the spirit!!

I still watch AMC and OLTL, and lately I've enjoyed OLTL more. There are portions of AMC that I still love (like the dynamics between Erica and Adam, and Tad's humor), but both shows frustrate me sometimes.

I've noticed lately that I've been Tivoing OLTL, though, so I can watch it at a more convenient time. Sometimes, I have to catch up on a couple of days all at once. If I weren't moderating the AMC board, I'd probably do the same thing with it!

KaeEll · Original Soap Dish Diva

Jodi, that's awesome! Congrats!!

We just got home from running a bunch of errands, not the least of which was taking all the empty bottles back for refunds - enough to pay for a week of parking downtown. YAY for Ted! But what a pain in the rear after 4 trips into the Beer Store where they give back the deposits. We really need to do that more often so there isn't such a huge load of the darn things.

Caribana is going on here this weekend, biggest Caribbean festival outside the islands. The city is packed and noisy. We went to see the parade a couple of years ago. Nice if you love crowds and noise. I'll see if I can find a pic of it somewhere to post. It's kind of spectacular.

Caribana pictures

-- Edited by KaeEll on Saturday 1st of August 2009 02:40:10 PM

Moore ideas · Moore Ideas Not More Ideas!

Congragratulations to Ted!!

The festival looks like fun...

shellyinphx · Long Lost DiMera Daughter

Hey ladies, Jojo I am so glad you went ahead and took charge. I bet you will like your job more if you get more comfortable doing things.

Today was an odd day. Another one where the girls didn't sleep much. Good news about that though is they will sleep most of the night now.

Anyways, I have a moment of peace. Jolene is in bed with her daddy watching tv. He leaves at like 3 in the morning for a week in Florida so she is spending some time with him before bed time. She spent most of the day on a play date so she is pretty wiped out.

jojolin · The Naughty Bad Girl

I wish I could ship Jack off for a day for a playdate.

I love festivals! that one looks like a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I don't get around to too many of them.