Vacations have an odd effect. After the third day, responsibilities, both social and professional, start to fall by the wayside. Ideas and activities that would otherwise be taboo suddenly seem less risky. They suddenly seem like they might be a good idea. By the fifth night of vacation, especially if you are more than 752 miles from home, things can get sketchy.

So, spillit! What is the wildest thing you have done while on vacation? Our readers would love to hear it. Call us at 206-888-4001 and let us know!

Humans are a funny bunch of characters. When faced with an unsavory task, a task that no one is directly standing over us until we complete it, we are very much tempted to procrastinate. The funny thing about it is that when we procrastinate, a good deal of the time, we substitute another activity that we aren’t too crazy about for the one we are supposed to be doing.

Sometimes we procrastinate when we don’t even know we’re doing it. I can usually tell that I am procrastinating when I find myself doing something that I really don’t like without looking for something else to do. If I find myself methodically cleaning the kitchen, or the bathroom, or my work area, I know that I am just putting off some inevitable task. I try to put this out of my mind until I finish the task, in the hopes that I can get even the slightest thing checked off long ago lost todo list.

I don’t want to directly spill the beans on myself, since you all know who I am, but I thought I would give the pot a stir. So, this week’s theme: what are some of the things you methodically do to procrastinate, and even more juicy, what is the whackiest thing you have done to procrastinate the inevitable?

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There are so many types of crushes. You can have a crush on your best friend, your boss, your best friends’s sister, etc. The thing that these crushes have in common is that they are all on people that we have some connection to. We may see them every day, talk to them at length, and are intimately familiar with (as much as we can be) their back story.

There is another kind of crush we’d like to explore this week. I don’t know that I would even classify it as a full crush, so for lack of a better name, I am going to call it a mini crush. A mini crush is a crush you have on someone you have never even spoken to, and may have only seen once or twice. It may be someone you see every day, or someone you find yourself crafting your day for in the hopes that your schedules will collide. It’s not that you would drop your life and run off with them, it’s just that brief hope that you will see them and flutter a bit. It could be the person who delivers your mail, it could be the one who collects tolls on the bridge, the one who makes your coffee, or even a complete stranger that walks by at 2:18pm every day.

So give us a call at: 206-888-4001 and let us know about your mini crush!

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In the spirit of this week’s theme “Lies you’ve told your boss when calling off work,” I have used Your Open Book to do a few different searches related to calling off work. This is to demonstrate a few things:

• Your secrets are not so safe on facebook. Using this tool, anyone is able to search for and grab status updates including the associated username. Kinda scary, isn’t it?
• It’s always a good idea to assume that things you say in private are going to be readable by the world at large at some point. Did I say always? Yes! I mean always!

In the spirit of anonymity, I am not going to post the usernames of the posters of these status updates, but I will most certainly tell you that I know who they are. Facebookers, if you are going to post things that you don’t want the world to know, you should probably adjust your privacy settings. This isn’t a sure thing, but it will get you one step away from wide open.

Without further delay, Here you go:

• called in sick today so I can play a little bit of MW2 b4 I go back in the garage for the dryer project. hoo!!!
• I called in sick to work today. Even though I actually was sick, I still felt the need to overdo it so my boss wouldn’t think I was lying.
• called in sick today coz I can’t hook up the new dryer yet, get, veggies for my baket, return my dad’s truck and can’t play cod mw2 until all is done! I should call in 2morrow too.
• Umm so why are my co workers trippin and txting me cause I called in sick ? You guys never say anything when boss don’t come in ?sooooooo yea gotcha
• is very angry at W.C. and Walmart insurance. I am still fighting not giving up. GRRR at them.. I still talk to them and not give up.. That is why I called in sick today so I have time to call both of them and debate with them.. They wont pay for MRI which the bone dr request…
• Finally day off. Called in sick; going to a concert. Haa
• Called in sick to eat brunch @ Denny’s in slo, just picked up a used COD MW2 for PS3 @ gamestop.
• called in sick today to borrow my dad’s gas card and fill up the RAV4 @ chevron, heading out to slo with my baket and rj.
• Thanks for all the Happy Birthday wishes I really appreciate them. Called in sick for work again today.
• Have u ever called in sick to work and then INSTANTLY felt better? Then ya feel guilty all day for callin in!
• 9 years ago today I faked being sick and stayed home from school (sorry mom). When I turned on the tv the first tower was already in flames and minutes later I watched as the second plane was flown into the second tower. I’ll never forget it. I can’t image how horrific it must have been. Everyone pray for the lives lost and for the lives of those still fighting to insure this never happens again.

Keep in mind that these posts only span a 12 hour gap in time. Wow!

photo: niznoz

This week’s theme, lies that you have told your boss to get out of work.

you know you’ve done it. Sometimes, you wake up in the morning and know it’s not going to be a work day. Sometimes, it’s midnight, and things get rolling, and you know that tonight is going to bleed into tomorrow morning. When that happens, it’s always best to come up with a good excuse for your boss before the liquor hits your head. It’s even better yet if you can rehearse that call a few times.

You know that whoever you speak to in the morning will be doubting your condition, so your excuse should be short, sweet, and minus the overacting. Also, you can be assured that the office will be abuzz with questions of the validity of your excuse, so even if you are sick with ebola and bleeding out, expect scrutiny.

So, tell us. What is the most outrageous lie you told your boss as an attempt to excuse your absence. More importantly, did it work?

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hell, i made up sins just to pad my confession!