True Crime Aficionado Tendencies...

 ....can take over one's entire existence.

Yesterday my mother asked me to retrieve her letter opener.

I found what resembled a shiv!

I said, "This is a LETTER OPENER? It resembles a murder weapon!"

Her response: "One would have to stab several times..."

Me: "Sure that's what psychotic criminals do when one wants to get rid of a prison cellmate! If management won't agree the criminal has to use whatever is at his disposal, and a lot of times HE constructs a SHIV. AND THE CRIMINAL JUST STABS AND STABS UNTIL THE ROOMMATE IS DEAD....:

Mother eventually realizes that I am "beyond hope" and states: "Just give me the letter opener, dear."

FORMIDABLE!

🤷‍♀️😁😈

In Order To Succeed At Work

MAXIMIZE:

 A) Work Productivity 

 B) Respectful And Dignified Behavior 

 MINIMIZE: 

 A) Smart Alecky Comments

 B) Aggression

 C) Defensiveness 

 D) Paranoia

"And so it goes...."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/apr/15/fiction.kurtvonnegut

Today is December 1st

It is cold here in Chicagoland. Of course I frequently comment on the weather. Currently contemplating my third cup of morning coffee; For the fist year I purchased an Aldi coffee pod Advent calendar! And I retrieved the advent wreath

candles for my mother! Here's hoping she lets me pose one of my Frankenstein decorations next to her nativity manger; for five mintues please. 😉 She is leaving said manger to me in her will; I am now however an atheist! I will treat the possession with respect and subsequently bequeath it to my youngest niece!