rants and raves

I am ranting. I am raving. I am ranting and raving.

Usually, I am a pretty level-headed person. I am a little spazzy sometimes, but usually, I can keep my cool, even at the more irritating things. Well, not today. So I am going to rant and rave.

How did this all come about? To make a long story short, today was the day I was supposed to notify everyone at work about the upcoming "social" event to be held next week. You ask, "but I thought you were a (insert occupation here),".. yes, I am that too, but for this go around, I am also in charge of the latest social event at work - courtesy of my "voluntary membership" on the social committee at work.

Anyhoo, so we are putting on a spaghetti luncheon/fundraiser and need to tell everyone about it so they can come and eat donated food and socialize for a few minutes during lunch. Since we have a work policy to not "spam" everyone in the building (there are other groups besides us), we have take care to use the correct listserv address. So yes, I search my Outlook address book for the correct listserv address, check spelling, grammar, dates/times, etc.. and hit SEND. Oops, I forgot the attachment... that listserv email can't accept attachments anyway...oh, well, no biggie if people get a duplicate copy...

So I copy/paste the info into a new email, check formatting, etc...when one by one, that little new mail notification pop-up box shows up in the right-lower corner of my screen...we have Win 2003 so I can see the 1st line: "Laura, there is no attachment.." yes, yes, I know, I know.. I grumbled to myself. So I open up the email, start typing a reply to this person...new mail notification pops up again...ugh...(who is it now?).. "attachment?"...ugh.. yes, I KNOW.... ugh...grumble grumble...So now that I have three different emails open, the Outlook main screen, and the Adobe Acrobat screen that I was working on, and the copy of email from my sent mail box, .... new email notification....Message from Laura Chen re: Spaghetti Luncheon....YES, i KNOW! i SENT THAT EMAIL! ugh! I KNOW that I'm on that list.. grr!!! Damn-it! I just hit the sent button.. without the attachment.. but, hey! to the correct Outlook Group so they can actually see the attachment... if I had attached it, that is...

Okay..calm down.. your officemate already thinks you're a bit loony for talking to yourself...but dude, people C-H-I-L-L! C-H-I-L-L! ... new email notification... Message from Laura Chen re: Spaghetti Luncheon...... YES YES YES... GRRRR... (what is it with *#$&!@!!) ... new email notification... Message from so-and-so re: Spaghetti Luncheon..."What attachment?"....(ARG!) ....NEW EMAIL NOTIFICATION....MESSAGE FROM some-other-so-and-so RE: SPAGHETTI LUNCHEON............

(insert expletive here(insert expletive here)(insert expletive here)(insert expletive here)(insert expletive here)!!! (insert expletive here)(insert expletive here)!!!

copy/paste/spell check/check email address/check attachment/ SEND

ahhhh......(*sigh of relief*)........