Random Thoughts

My niece owns and works an organic farm in Florida. I saw her last night and she gave me a dozen farm-fresh eggs from a variety of different hens. Most of the eggs varied in color from beige to dark brown. Two of them were greenish blue. I fried two this morning - a green one and a tan one. They looked different from grocery-store eggs - the yolks were dark, almost orange. They tasted different - kind of richer and eggier. And - they kind of creeped me out.

My daughter's wedding reception was last Saturday. She was, without a doubt, the happiest bride I've ever seen. No tears, no tension. She danced, she laughed, she partied, she truly was the belle of the ball.

Speaking of the wedding, I wore a navy blue dress with a matching chiffon jacket that I thought was pretty and appropriate. Two different people told me they were glad to see I hadn't worn a "mother of the bride" dress. Is that a compliment? It didn't feel much like a compliment. I wore pearls with it for God's sake and if pearls don't say "mother of the bride" then I don't know what does.

Speaking of mother-of-the bride, I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that during the course of the wedding weekend I went off on the father-of-the bride - twice. I was a little stressed, and he was a little obnoxious. It happened once when he suggested a change to the seating chart two weeks after I sent it to him and at the very time I was writing table numbers on the little placecards, and once, at the end of the reception, when he apparently thought because the DJ had quit playing and the lights were up, it was perfectly okay to smoke inside. He said I hadn't yelled at him as much since the day we got married.

Speaking of yelling, a woman I work with was fired Thursday. Let's call her Ann. Ann was not very good at her job, but she made up for it by being bitchy and underhanded. She also had a habit of screaming at people. She'd been talked to about it by her supervisor and HR, she'd been written up for it, she was on probation for it. Wednesday Ann went off on a co-worker - again. HR sent her home for the day, and fired her the next day. Ann texted a different co-worker afterward and said she was "shocked." Shocked? Really?  Note to Ann: YOU WERE ON PROBATION FOR YELLING AT PEOPLE! YOU SHOULD HAVE STOPPED!

Speaking of Ann, she never once yelled at me. Good thing. I'd hate to go all mother-of-the-bride on her ass.