The February 8th Sweet Shoppe "From Our Blog 2 Yours" featured a V-Day quiz they asked us to take. I did surprisingly well, considering I guessed on half of them, LOL.
St. Valentine's Day quiz
Correct! Your final score is 8/10. Thanks for trying the quiz.
This was the last question...
10. Mixed messages
In early nineteenth-century Britain, a new type of valentine became trendy. Nicknamed the “vinegar valentine”, it was characterized by a particular type of message. What type?
A) An apology
B) A break-up message
C) A lecture on the evils of alcohol
D) A series of insults ü
One vinegar valentine began, “Miss Grey hairs and wrinkles, don’t look quite so cold.” Age was a favorite target, but anyone was fair game — teachers, spinsters, barbers, bakers, doctors, lawyers, cooks — anyone you disliked could be targeted by your “vinegar”. Until the advent of postage stamps in 1840, there was financial injury to go along with the insult, for postage was paid by the recipient!
Very interesting!!!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Me, Politically
So the most recent "From Our Blog 2 Yours" at Sweet Shoppe Designs is about your political beliefs as a woman. I think that this little quiz has me dead on...
Yeah, we have the Democratic vote next week and I can honestly say I'm relatively undecided. I'm tending towards Obama, except that I'm not sure about his foreign experience (I know Hillary has some experience, albeit somewhat limited). Decisions, decisions...
You Are a Moderate Mama |
 You're not overly political, and your views fall more with the American mainstream. In fact, it may be difficult for you to decide who to vote for at times! Your approach to politics is reasoned and well though out. |
Yeah, we have the Democratic vote next week and I can honestly say I'm relatively undecided. I'm tending towards Obama, except that I'm not sure about his foreign experience (I know Hillary has some experience, albeit somewhat limited). Decisions, decisions...
Monday, February 25, 2008
Me and my Job
So, I'm catching up on a few challenges on "From Our Blog 2 Yours" at the Sweet Shoppe. This one is about our occupation and how we spend our days. I could go sweet and simple or long and brutally honest with this. Hmmm...
My job title is Senior Financial Analyst. Most people think that what I do is analyze the stock market or business trends. But I really don't do that. My dad always had trouble understanding what I really did, I think because it is hard to understand coming from the academic/non-business world. My days consist with different kinds of tasks depending on the time of the week, time of the month or time of the year. During the last couple days of a month and the first couple days of the following month, I work on closing the books for the areas of the company I'm responsible for. Currently the two areas I support contain 20-25 accounts; that's a lot compared to my peers, but they are smaller than the majority of what my peers have as well. Closing the books entails reviewing the numbers and how they match against expectations, making sure there's nothing missing that needs accounting entries for and making those entries, and providing explanations for differences between the actual numbers and what was expected. I then also give the reports each month of the numbers and explanations to the service managers so they can see how their accounts performed.
At various times throughout the year, I need to make forecasts and provide budgets for each of the areas and accounts. This means having to look at the trends as well as trying to predict where the customers will be months or a year or more from now. This is hard giving the changing economic and customer environments.
Other things I do for my job are creating pricing for new or renewing customer deals and contracts, review prospective changes to employees or other impacting costs, track how our accounts receivables are doing for each of the customers and assisting to pacify any potential issues there, and doing ad hoc reports for the company at various levels (German corporate, US corporate, service management, financial management, etc.)
There are things I like about the job, especially being able to help managers run their business and solve issues for them. But there are times I don't like the job, particularly when we do the same basic report ten times ten different ways because of a lack of standardization and communication.
So if you haven't fallen asleep by now, that's my exciting life... Now you know why I scrapbook!! Got to do something interesting each day, LOL!
My job title is Senior Financial Analyst. Most people think that what I do is analyze the stock market or business trends. But I really don't do that. My dad always had trouble understanding what I really did, I think because it is hard to understand coming from the academic/non-business world. My days consist with different kinds of tasks depending on the time of the week, time of the month or time of the year. During the last couple days of a month and the first couple days of the following month, I work on closing the books for the areas of the company I'm responsible for. Currently the two areas I support contain 20-25 accounts; that's a lot compared to my peers, but they are smaller than the majority of what my peers have as well. Closing the books entails reviewing the numbers and how they match against expectations, making sure there's nothing missing that needs accounting entries for and making those entries, and providing explanations for differences between the actual numbers and what was expected. I then also give the reports each month of the numbers and explanations to the service managers so they can see how their accounts performed.
At various times throughout the year, I need to make forecasts and provide budgets for each of the areas and accounts. This means having to look at the trends as well as trying to predict where the customers will be months or a year or more from now. This is hard giving the changing economic and customer environments.
Other things I do for my job are creating pricing for new or renewing customer deals and contracts, review prospective changes to employees or other impacting costs, track how our accounts receivables are doing for each of the customers and assisting to pacify any potential issues there, and doing ad hoc reports for the company at various levels (German corporate, US corporate, service management, financial management, etc.)
There are things I like about the job, especially being able to help managers run their business and solve issues for them. But there are times I don't like the job, particularly when we do the same basic report ten times ten different ways because of a lack of standardization and communication.
So if you haven't fallen asleep by now, that's my exciting life... Now you know why I scrapbook!! Got to do something interesting each day, LOL!
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