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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

Success

There, we’d spend the holidays together, as a family, without the overgifting and overdecorating and overeating of a typical Christmas. On Christmas Eve, she’d cook pigs in a blanket and we’d head over to the neighborhood holiday party. The plan was to fly to Miami, rent a car, and drive to Key West. But she made the best of things.

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Happy Halloween Assistants!

Practically Perfect PA

Over the years I’ve come to respect any holiday that allows people the opportunity to eat as many sweets as is humanly possible without the stigma of binge eating and also, you know, you get to wear some crazy outfits and scare small children – what’s not to like about that!

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Happy Halloween Assistants!

Practically Perfect PA

Over the years I’ve come to respect any holiday that allows people the opportunity to eat as many sweets as is humanly possible without the stigma of binge eating and also, you know, you get to wear some crazy outfits and scare small children – what’s not to like about that!

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The Annoying Comma and Other Administrative Headaches!

Office Dynamics

Staple that little note you made right there on the page. And now relax and enjoy your holidays with friends and family, knowing that in a little while, you’ll turn to that page and when you do, you’ll commit to learning and growing in those areas so that it never has to bother you again. That’s no way to work!

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The Annoying Comma and Other Administrative Headaches!

Office Dynamics

Staple that little note you made right there on the page. And now relax and enjoy your holidays with friends and family, knowing that in a little while, you’ll turn to that page and when you do, you’ll commit to learning and growing in those areas so that it never has to bother you again. That’s no way to work!

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Green Gift Giving: Great Eco-Office Gift Ideas

Eco-Office Gals

Check out Trees for the Future or Tree People to learn how you can adopt or plant a tree in your co-worker’s name. These crafty office staplers use no metal staples to hold pieces of paper together. Make the world more sustainable by planting or adopting a tree in your co-worker’s name. You can also simply donate money in your.

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Colour Coding Works.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I was in back-to-back Committee meetings and I decided to use two different colours of folders, a blue one for the Committee members, with an attendance sheet stapled to the inside cover for my purposes, along with their meeting packages, and a red one for the Chair with everything the Chair was going to need. Excellent material!