Meetings, Meetings, and more Meetings

I wanted to share a funny email conversation I had at work.  It is about naming the new conference rooms.

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From: Uncreative drone

To: Director of Peons, Director of drones, director of Lackey, director of minion, director of dwarfs

Subject: Conference room names for IT building  

HI,

We would like suggestions for the naming of our new conference rooms.

If you or your teams have any suggestions please provide me a list of themes/names.  Please provide your feedback

Thank you,

Uncreative drone

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From: Manager of Peons

To: Peon 1, Peon 2, Peon 3, Peon 4, Peon 5, Peon 6

Subject: Conference room names for IT building  

Team,

Please feel free to let me know if any of you have any more suggestions or like one of the below.

How about Vegas Casino Theme (Can you name 12 vegas themes?  Because I can't)

Aria

Bellagio

Venetia

MGM Grand

Luxor

Planet Hollywood

Or a Disney Character Team? (Works if you had children and I would giggle if I saw pooh in a meeting request)

Mickey

Pooh

Tiger

Pluto

Goofy

Donald

Thanks,

Manager of Peons 

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From: Peon 3
To: Manager of Peons, Peon 1, Peon 2, Peon 3, Peon 4, Peon 5, Peon 6

Subject: Conference room names for IT building  

Mascots of the teams in Stanford’s athletic conference (PAC-12)?

(Only works for the guys and some of women but really, I don't really care)

1.       Cardinal (Stanford)

2.       Wildcat (Univ. of Arizona)

3.       Golden Bear (UC Berkeley)

4.       Etc.

Sincerely,

Peon 3

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From: Peon 5

To: drones 2 , Lackey 5, minion 3, dwarfs 4, peon 6

Subject: Conference room names for IT building  

Do you think management would go for my idea for the new conference rooms?

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From: Peon 5

To: Manager of Peons
Subject: Conference room names for IT building  

What about X-men characters :D (I thought it was genius and we are a bunch of IT nerds, who would not know all of these characters)

Angel/Archangel	Warren Kenneth Worthington III
Banshee	Sean Cassidy
Beast	Dr. Henry Philip "Hank" McCoy
Colossus	Piotr Nikolaievitch "Peter" Rasputin
Cyclops	Scott Summers
Gambit	Rémy LeBeau
Iceman	Robert Louis "Bobby" Drake
Jubilee	Jubilation Lee
Marvel Girl/Phoenix	Jean Grey-Summers
Nightcrawler	Kurt Wagner
Professor X	Professor Charles Francis Xavier
Rogue	Anna Marie "Darkhölme"
Storm	Ororo Monroe (formerly Iqadi T'Challa-Wakandas)
Wolverine	James "Logan" Howlett

Peon 5

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From: Lackey 5

To: drones 2 ,  minion 3, dwarfs 4, peon 6, Peon 5

Subject: Conference room names for IT building 

Restaurants or chains

Starbucks

Chillys

Mama Mia Restorante

A manager will say ...  we meet tomorrow in Starbucks at 10

Next thing you know someone will drive off … LOL

(Would be funny since I know a few people that would go to the restaurant.  I feel I would become hungry everything I look at my calendar.  Island status here I come.)

Lackey 5

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From: Lackey 5

To: drones 2 ,  minion 3, dwarfs 4, peon 6, Peon 5

Subject: Conference room names for IT building 

Also from some horror movies : (This may work well) 

Room at the end of the street

Last room on the left (imagine describing that to someone)

Rosemary’s room

Room of the Living dead

Sleepy Hollow

Panic Room

1408

Zombieland

The fourth Kind

The Dead Zone

Room in the woods

Meeting room on ELM street

 

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From: Peon 5

To: drones 2 , Lackey 5, minion 3, dwarfs 4, peon 6

Subject: Conference room names for IT building 

Suggestions from one of my friends (some of you will know who this is from) (I think these are genius but  I feel management wouldn't go with them.  They are pretty accurate when you think of a meeting)

dungeon

cave

prison

torture room

pit of dispair

lair of neverending meetings

bog of eternal stench

hell's waiting room

room with no view

fishtank

detention

principal's office

Jail

Life’s rubix cube

Meeting of no return

Feeding time at the zoo

meeting cage match

purgatory

dark circus

blackbox (like the thing on the plane they look at after it crashes)

iron maiden

the stockade

  

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Other suggestions

Conference Room themes suggested by team 1 

Theme:  Celestial (If you actually knew them or heard of them before)

Theme: World Rivers (I would get lost because I suck at geography - never really learned the capitals and hardly know all the states) 

Theme:  Northern California Beaches (Same issues as above)

Theme:  Movie Heroes (List orginally had marvel comics combined with disney characters - I find that wrong and both should not mingle)

The last weekend in my crazy world

I was stuck working from home with the spawns while Grandma and Grandpa went to So.Cal for a party.  I like working from home except I am working from home.  It makes it a bit difficult with the kids. 

This child is strange and he likes to wear headbands (see exhibit 1 and exhibit 2)

He was happy about this cinnabon

Buddha and his new "pet". 

He is strange and has to hold an ear when he drinks his milk.  The other half was the source of his comfort.

She is a BEAST...Diva ate almost all of this food.  She just kept going the whole time.  She was eating longer than any of us.

Diva and her Activities

This summer, I am keeping Diva pretty busy since she is not in school.  Instead of doing nothing all day, I have her in an activity almost everyday.

Monday: was her old ballet/tap class (which just ended this week) and piano lessons

Tuesday: Hip hop/Jazz/ Tap class

Wednesday: Swim

Thursday: Karate

Saturaday: Tennis

If this child becomes bored, she turns descructive so I run around taking her to all these places.  Buddha also has some activities: general sports class, swim, and dance but not as much.

Yesterday was Diva's dance recital and her recital pictures.

Dancing Diva

Here are some pic GM took at their recital picture session.  There is actually 6 girls in her dance class.

Here are some pictures right before her recital.  She loves standing like this.  I don't know why.

We couldn't take a video at her actual recital but this is during the rehearsal (she did better at the rehearsal).  Want to guess which one she is. 

Fighting Diva

The other side of Diva - the fighting side.

Diva in her karate class

Her in Action

some entertainment from Buddha for Hump Day

Yes he is wearing a girl's shirt.  We couldn't find his after his swim class.  Of course I couldn't help taking a picture for future blackmail.

Angry Buddha

Happy Buddha

 

Self Reflection :D

Pica Boo

Cheese.....Wait why am I wearing a girl's hat

Another Blackmail piece.   Diva is practicing her recital piece while Buddha is immitating with Diva's old tap shoes. 

OMG, he smiles

The other half graduated yesterday (finally!)  I'm so proud *tear.  In his email, he received the proofs from the photographer.  I have never seen him so cheesey. Look he SMILES!  I must order a poster of one of these.

I`m a liar and a jerk

 

So I'm a jerk, I know that.  I also get enjoyment in picking on my family members like my kids, husband, and my parents.  Grandma is best person to pick on.  I blatantly lie to her all the time and see if she believes me.  This normally lasts a couple of hours or even minutes. 

One story that tends to come up is when I was a teenager and I told her I am partially deaf.  She was calling me and I wasn't paying attention but watching TV. 

M: Didn't you hear me calling?

Me: Don't you know, I can't hear that well.  I can't tell if it is on my left or right side

M: OH really (thought for a while).  They didn't have those hearing tests when you were little and you were so sick.

Me: Oh yeah, sometimes I have to look at you to know what you are saying

In the background is Grandpa cracking up

D: If she was deaf, she wouldn't hear her phone on the other side of the house

I got in trouble

This time I had the corporation from Grandpa.  I took the kids to a children's party and in the goodie bag was a toy sting ray that grows in water (See picture above).  We put it in water for the kids to see and according to the directions it takes about 3 days to be fully grown.  The grandparents came home and grandma saw it.  She asked where we got it.  I told her we got it at the birthday party while Diva was trying to tell her it is a sponge and it grows. 

Grandpa on the other hand went in a different direction and told her it was real.  She continued the conversation asking if the fish will be OK.  Grandpa told her that it is a special species and that it is very dormant and just say on the bottom of the tank. 

Diva on the other hand kept insisting it was a toy.  This lie went on for about 24 hours until Grandma found the packaging  She even asked if there was other colors and what did they eat.  The rest of the day, we would  bring it up.  Even when we were trying to get her to drink a bloody Mary and told her it was tomato juice.  My reasoning was "Well if you believed the toy sting ray was real, you could believe that was tomato juice". 

Here is another view of the "sting ray"

 

She even had me put it in the fish tank because she felt bad it was still in the bag (her thinking it was in those clear bags used for fish but it was the goodie bag).

Those little legs are Fast

Over the weekend, I found myself with some downtime (a miracle).  We had some time before a father's day lunch so myself and Grandpa took the two spawns on a walk.  I know my kids so I had them take their riding toys.  We were walking and I couldn't stop laughing at Buddha....he was fast knowing how pudgy he is.  Here are some videos for your enjoyment.  Sound is not required unless you want to hear me yelling at him on the last video.