What was that?

Just overheard, "multiple counts of manslaughter." That's when you hope that someone who doesn't know us walks by.

Semi-Colon

Kandi Jo: Laura is prejudiced against semi-colons.
Jenni: I have a semi-colon.
Laura: Sounds like a personal problem.
Jenni: I do. I had six inches of it removed.

What did you say?

Me: I'm looking at a webcam of Prague.
Kelsey: Why are you looking at a webcam of a frog?

Mock turtlenecks

Kelsey:  So what you're telling me is that a) there are sleeveless mock turtlenecks and b) you choose to support those?

It doesn't need to be complicated

An unnamed person on our team summed up our frustrations about the view that the latest shiny object = the silver bullet that will make our product more popular, effective, what not.

Making things complicated makes them more effective.

Paper clip remover

Laura: Does anyone have a paperclip remover?

Jenni: Yes, my fingers.

Jumbotron

Laura:  My #1 goal is to be on the Jumbotron at a Twins game.

Jenni's picks, week two

This week, learn about my uniform picks on my husband's blog. Next week: helmets.

Thad: The cafeteria needs to learn how to make bread or something.
Kelsey: I like raisin bread with peanut butter. It's like the jam is in the bread. Little pockets of jamminess.

I care a little about football. Week 2

Pixie League week 2. I posted the guessionale (guess + rationale) on Sophzilla. Why put worthless content on only one place? Also, I don't want the five readers of my blog (two are my parents) to miss it.

My picks

Since it's kind of a long blog entry and something that I think will be fun to share with my family, I've created my Pixie League blog entry at my family blog site, The Eclectic Mix. The first post will be a double post for you guys since I had to recap what was going on. I'll let you know each week when I post my new picks over there!

Pixie League

So, I am in a football picks league thingy. Yes, I'm sure that is the official name. How did this come about? I was just joking around with Maria, Laura and Pastor Mary Brown about this league and next thing I know it was decided I was going to play. Let me tell you why that's funny.

1. I don't understand football. I've tried, but I just don't get it. I think the game is really silly. Down belongs on a duck.
2. I don't like football. Know how sometime when you play a new game and you don't know what you're doing it's fun to join in anyway, maybe cheer a little? Yeah, I don't see football that way.
3. I don't like the Vikings. I'm a Minnesota girl, born and bred, and I have never liked the Vikings. No real reason, I just don't like them. There, now you know my dirty little secret.

So, now I'm in this league which Pastor Mary Brown calls the Pixie League and Maria decided that I have to pick the winners each week based on something graphic related and then tell you why. Gotta do what the boss says. (Just to give you some art, too... My team name is Pixel Pixie and I had my son draw up a team logo for me. left. Thanks, Patrick!)

Tonight I made my first pick: The Saints over the Vikings. The reasons? Neither logos are much to write home about (I don't like the angry viking guy, though), but I think black and gold can be a sharp color combination and looks good on TV. I also think the Viking road uniforms are as unflattering as you can possibly get (white bottom, white top) and when wore skin tight on large, round men... Let's just say my eyes need to be cleaned if I accidentally catch a game. And really, read number three, above. I think that says why I will usually pick the other team over the Vikings all season long.

Zaccheus

Today Kelsey told us that "Wee Care Daycare" was named after a professor named "Wee," which no one knows. We all think its because its for little children.

Kelsey then said, "I wish his first name was Zaccheus."

New member!

Jenni will now be providing updates to this blog. Hooray!

A dancer, really?

If you gave our co-workers a quiz, 'who said this,' I'm pretty sure his name wouldn't have come up.

Overheard conversation between Kelsey and one of our favorite male colleagues.

K: You were a gymnast in college?
Colleague: Yes. But in high school, all I wanted to do was dance.

Relevant

Laura to Jenni while working on a "hip" project targeted toward a younger audience.


Laura: "You're so relevant."

Jenni: "I'm so relevant I'm irrelevant."

Love it. 

Pregnant pauses

"That pause was pregnant with twins." -- Kelsey

Sky Talking

In response to an e-mail from Kelsey asking a question about if we'd ever had conversation about a project the other day, Laura wrote back that the idea had been discussed, but instead of saying that it was a "high end discussion," Laura chose to use the phrase "sky talking" and the proceeded to send the e-mail, and quickly send a follow up e-mail to say, "I have no idea what I meant by that." It is now a phrase that we are going to use to talk about when people make really lofty statements or sound pompous. "Oh, they were just 'sky talking.'"

Things you don't expect to hear at work

Overheard Kelsey on the phone:
"Do you see any tree waste or just a chain saw?"