Thursday Random Thoughts

The book I've been reading for way too long has gotten a bit better. I am no longer screaming at this person as I read her tale of a year of her life.  Maybe by the end I will actually like her too.....doubtful but it may happen. This book isn't thick it's a normal week read but I've been putting it down because the storyteller bugs me and then I pick it up to see if she does better when she knows better. In the mean time....

I made cream puffs last night. The new mommy next door gave Rick some goodies on a beautiful big plate and I didn't want to give the plate back empty.  So I made cream puffs which made my hubby say, "why can't you just make them for me?" 
Good question dear......Bad wife!

So I filled up her plate and brought them over to her. 
Her sister and mom are visiting and I knew the women would especially enjoy a cream puff.  My hubby ate 2 last night and I actually for the first time felt terrible watching him devour them.  I so wanted one.  Damn gluten!!!   I ate some raw almonds - whoopee! 
Normally stuff like that doesn't bug me but last night it sure as hell did.
Right now sitting at my desk on the 2nd floor I hear them in the fridge calling my name....Margaret, Peggy, Peg, someone come eat me I'm delicious!!
....can you guys hear 'em? 

We were thinking of going to the lake this weekend and then we realized that this is the last weekend to finish up our taxes.  So we will be in tax hell this weekend. Doesn't that sound like a ton of fun?  My hubby will eat the entire cream puffs left after this.  He gets enormous stress from the tax man.

A customer asked my husband yesterday while he was at their home what he used to do for a living? Rick responded with, "Why do you not think I've always done this?"   The customer said, "You're too well spoken to have always been blue collar."  So when Rick told him he was a VP in HR in aerospace at his last position the guy goes, "okay that makes more sense to me."

He went on to ask Rick why in the world he would leave that and now do this. The tone implying that was a stupid step backward. Rick told him that he loves what he does now, the freedom, the work, the creativity and the art of making his one of a kind concrete countertops etc and no corporate politics!   The customer then asked him if he was making the same money.  That made Rick laugh and he never did answer him. 

Since I was talking about stigma's yesterday here is another one.  This guy really seemed to look down on Rick thinking he was "just blue collar"  But it made this man feel better to know that Rick was white collar at one point. And why the hell can't you be well spoken if you are blue collar?  What an ignorant thing to say. 

I remember when Rick worked for a popular restaurant chain and he was the HR guy on the east coast. He dealt with such weirdo's and perverts.  There was a lot of sexual harrassment.  A lot of managers of resturants doing such horrific things to young women. 

So because these guys were white collar that makes them better in some way?  Boy people have a screwy viewpoint sometimes don't they? 

I am glad Rick left the corporate world.  He is so much happier.  He is so much calmer. 
He is someone who thrives in their own business.....well, as long as he has someone he trusts to do marketing, sales, accounts payable and receiveable and he can focus on the job and the creativity. So he has me for that and he is a damn good boss to me when I send him to the wrong house as I did last week.  (oooh that was a bad one!) 

Besides where the hell else could I get sexually harrassed and not get paid?