…And

17 more wakeups until school is out!  And then I’ll probably be training…and teaching for two more weeks…and working at the Chicken & Egg Festival…and going to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Department Convention…and Jesi’s ballgames…and Non-Traditional Class for three weeks…and professional development workshops…and getting ready for the Fair Pageant…and when does school start again?

I really shouldn’t complain; I do it to myself.  Always have. 

…And

17 more wakeups until school is out!  And then I’ll probably be training…and teaching for two more weeks…and working at the Chicken & Egg Festival…and going to the Veterans of FOreign Wars Department COnvention…and Jesi’s ballgames…and Non-Traditional CLass for three weeks…and professional development workshops…and getting ready for the Fair Pageant…and when does school start again?

I really shouldn’t complain; I do it to myself.  Always have. 

I am a Special Character

Apparently my mother didn’t think about the fact that computer programmers/web developers are lazy when she named me.  About 80% of the time, when I try to type in my full name for a display name on a web site, I get the error message, “Display names cannot include spaces or special characters.”  This is really frustrating to me because my name is Brie’Anne, not BrieAnne or Brieanne or even Brie.

I am not sure why my password must contain special characters or numbers but my display name cannot.  There must be a reason that I am not allowed to put an apostrophe in a web form other than the laziness of the programmer/developer.  If anyone knows and can explain it to me, I am willing to listen to reason, otherwise, I will continue to blame it on laziness.

Failure

I know I never post to my blog, but tonight I feel betrayed and also like a bit of a failure. Therefore, I must get this out so that I can sleep.

You see, I've been the President of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars for one full term, and tonight we had our meeting to nominate and vote on officers...

A bit of back-story: when I first became a member of the Ladies Auxiliary, I was inducted on election night, which meant that I got to vote. Well, the lady who was really nice to me that first night asked me to vote for her for President and I did. Now that I think back, it seems like the same thing that happened to the sitting President that night just happened to me.

We received two petitions for membership tonight and one of the new members just happened to be there at the meeting (which rarely happens, most people join and never attend a single meeting). So she was able to come in and vote. Well, we get to nominations for President and a member nominates my opponent, then a member nominates me. Since the myself, the secretary and the treasurer were not expecting there to be any opposition, no one was prepared with slips of paper for a secret vote, except for my opponents mother, who happens to be that "nice" lady from when I was first inducted.

Please keep in mind that the only complaints I've had during office have been about a sign I repainted that was taken down at the Commander's request, and the fact that I am in the mens' office too much (I am the person the men selected to be Bingo manager and I also use the computer in the office for Auxiliary business, designing and printing flyers, etc.) Not one person has come to me with any complaints besides those two things, which I thought were taken care of.

I have worked very hard over the past year as Auxiliary President, making sure to fill out and send in our reports to State so that we get credit for all that we do, attending district and state meetings, learning all that I can in order to do justice to the job of President. I've also had some good fund raising ideas, patriotic ideas and youth activities ideas I brought to the meeting room and which were turned into reality.

I lost the election for President this year, but I feel like I was betrayed, stabbed in the back, talked about but not talked to. For these reasons - not because I lost the election - I cried tonight in the meeting and when it was over. I do not understand the need for someone to be so sneaky. Had either my opponent or her mother come to me and told me that she wanted the office, I would have been happy, even relieved. But to lose it the way I did...the way it happened...was just shady.

I may confront them about the way the elections were handled tomorrow night, I may not. I think it would make me feel better to point out the fact that I know. Shady shady people, and now one of them is in office.

Website

Okay, so I am going to try to update more often AND publish this blog as well as Hurry Up and Wait to my website, brieanne.net. Wish me luck on the site design! Happy New Year, Happy Valentine's Day and Happy Birthday to me soon!

Ranting about my store

First of all, I understand that my store is not organized right now, so complain all you want about that. But when I hear someone complain about a price, it makes me so upset. $19.99 for a pair of fuzzy Wanted boots that are still on the market and have probably only been worn 3-5 times is not outrageous. I wish that people would understand that I not only look at the quality of the item, but the brand name and how much it originally sold for when I price things.

Also, if people would check my sign (which yes, I've yet to change this month but it doesn't matter because nobody ever looks at it anyway) for the sales, they would know that each month, a certain color tag goes on sale for 20% off and then in another month, that color tag is 40% off. So even if a customer thinks that a price is high, the item they are complaining about is probably actually on sale!

Amazing

Today the hubs asked me if I would like for him to go to the store and me to stay at home. Well, yeah! So I called Heather and asked if I had any appointments on my book for this afternoon and I didn't. HOORAY! I am now doing the Fly Lady thing and trying to get my house a little bit cleaner. You see, I am not a BO (Born Organized) person, and Michael and I have severe CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome). If you are like me, check out the Fly Lady website. She offers tons of free help and guidance.

Now, I must get away from this computer and FLY!