"A" is for Accomplishments and Angela's Irritations

Things I am proud of this week:

During a conference call, when the speaker began saying ummm ... so much that it was all I could hear ( in 15 minutes, I counted 135 ummmms,) I resisted the urge to begin gargling my diet coke to drown out the sound of her voice.

When a co-worker stood over me and forced me try a bite of the cake she made and brought in to share, I didn't vomit and yell, "This tastes like feet!" I chewed it, swallowed it without gagging, thanked her politely, and tossed the rest in the garbage AFTER she walked away.

When tech boy ( the vote is in, he stays,) came to my desk and interrupted me in the middle of a major project that I was working on to say that he and the cheating wife were going to have dinner this weekend and to ask my advice on a good place to take her, I maintained eye contact and listened instead of using my scissors to stab him in the heart.

When my boss pulled everyone into the conference room for a "short" meeting that lasted an hour, I sat quietly and listened to what he was saying instead of pulling out my nail clippers and trimming my split ends in the hopes that that would speed him along.

And finally, the thing that made me the most proud today was that it was jeans day and I wore my Mullets: Business in the Front. Party in the Back. t-shirt. All I had to do was read it and I'd smile.

Happy Friday!