Absolution At A Low Low Price

Ross sneezed this afternoon and Jeff said "I bless you my child."  I piped up and said, "So you do blessings, but do you do absolutions?"

Work has been stressful without Dean.  It's easier now that Jeff is available to back-up the warehouse.  Now it's not falling on my shoulders.  But there's still an elevated level of stress.  Ross is stressed out all the time, which trickles down onto me.  But we all just have to manage because Dean has more important matters to attend to.  His wife has now gone into palliative so he has some really real truths that he's going to have to face in the near future.  We're all unsure how we're going to move forward from such a terrible lose.  She's so young, it's too soon.

There's this really freaky thing that happens at our office, that if we say something it will happen.  We mention a customer, they will call and place an order.  We jinx ourselves by wishing something wouldn't happen.  I know it's the whole "Whenever I think about Sim she calls me" thing, where I don't count all the times I think about Sim and she doesn't call (why don't you call me anymore?? lol jk).  But these are very very specific instances.  I said to Ross, "Some of our regular email contacts are going to start asking about Dean's absence.  Like Debbie, or Christina."  That night, Christina called, as the office was closing, and the first thing out of her mouth was "Where's Dean?"  And the other freaky one that just happened was that in the span of two days, we either talked about or had a phone call from four Dennis'.  And I commented to Ross, now we just need this new guy Dénis to call in and we'll have a full set.  And today after a three month silence we had a call from that very Dénis.  In both cases I identified a specific person and within 24 hrs they called.  And in one case I nailed what they would be calling about.  They call me the Office Clairvoyant.  

I'm getting an old Tassimo from my mom's house delivered.  She's dropping it off at my office tomorrow, along with some infamous frozen steaks I recently stood her up on.  She reminded me that the Tassimo had a recall and I'd need to get the replacement part.  And she also told me that she asked Tassimo to send two parts when I was living at home and they refused.  THEY REFUSED!!!  I emailed, and told them what a top notch job they had done.  Super fantastic customer service, job well done.  Needless to say I'm getting that replacement part in the mail, without having to submit my serial number.  Which gives them partial redemption, but not really, given that I could have burned my face with coffee hot water.

One last thing...I wanted to give special mention to a great afternoon out I had with Sim and Sarah just a few weeks ago, before Sim's nuptials.  We had a wicked walk through Kensington trying to find a hair piece for Sim.  And after getting an amazing restaurant reference from a stranger on the street ("It's South of Augusta and Baldwin......those are street names." lol) we ended up at Pancho Y Emiliano.  We both got three very different dishes.  I ended up with the corn tortilla fish tacos and omgggg were they amazing.  Ever since I saw this food show about the best fish taco, I've been making a point of trying them out.  Last time they were a bit too....lacking in sauce.  These ones were sooooooooo good.  Mmm......good food.

That's all.  Stayed tuned for Neighbourhood #9, coming soon.