Rubey Rambles

I am not sure how to start this post but I will be honest, this post isn't going to be satirical, or full of pictures of me slamming my butt against things, I think this post is a long time coming. Today I ran in the "Sandy Hook Run For The Families" in Hartford.  Myself along with 15,000 other runners were huddled in the streets of Hartford on a VERY cold morning, for one purpose, to remember 26 angels that were taken from this earth way too early. I ran this race because I am an avid runner and I have a goal of running 100 races in my lifetime.  Today marked race #27, which is fitting because 27 people died in Newtown on December 14th, 2012.  20 beautiful children, six amazing facility members and one mother who did the best she could raising a child who would turn out to be something bigger than she could handle. Without getting into politics and creating a hole I may have to dig myself out of, I will leave it at that. I am an assignment editor.  I am an a...

So....three days after I exposed the world to my now "World Famous Booty Bump"....we got new ID Badges. RIP Key Fob RIP KEY FOB   It would only be fitting that after I expose the world to my Fob-Lem shake that I now must come up with some more new and exciting ways to scan my new ID Badge....and trust me...I will. This post will not contain pictures of me dropping it low to scan my badge, although this may have just sparked a new post for next week, we will see. Regardless, on Wednesday we got new ID Badges, and thankfully my picture was taken after working an overnight shift so my picture will not only be my new Facebook default but I plan on using it in every way possible, that is sarcasm, I look exhausted, hopefully we have picture day every year so I can actually be prepared for it and maybe my Mom will want to purchase a 8.5x11 for the mantel. New Badge Everyone in the newsroom was puzzled when we were handed just the badge, no laynard, no s...

While preparing for this blog post, all I could compare my crazy antics to is the latest worldwide trend known as the "Harlem Shake".  If you have been living under a rock and don't know what it is, check out You Tube, you will spend the next 3 hours debating whether humanity is doomed or brilliant.  Anyway...onto the good stuff. So, to get into our building you need a key fob...which looks like this.... The Fob Being a female, we are breed to be able to juggle many things at one time, ergo why we do the hip shift when holding a baby while flipping some pancakes, folding clothes and putting rollers in our hair, all at the same time. Now, on any given morning/afternoon when I am coming into work I have at least 2 or more bags on my person which include but not limited to, a lunch bag, work bag, gym bag and/or any type of bag. So trying to scan a key fob to get into the building while holding all those bags is almost next to impossible...unless you are a profes...

Late last week I was paroozing my latest edition of "All You", a magazine I get every month filled with great recipes, coupons and how to enjoy life for less, (I just made myself seem 40 years old instead of 23).  Anyway, I was scanning through when I came across an advertisement that I knew was just too good to be true... White Chocolate Carrot Cake M&M's? "This had to be a dream, no way are these real", I said to myself, no no Elanna, they are real, and soon enough you will be tasting the delicious morsels come hell or high water. So, I scanned the QR code and saw that they only had them in Springfield, Windham or Old Saybrook.  Tracy, my fellow desk groupie, realized that one of our co-workers lives in Windham so we asked him to swing by Wal-Mart and grab a bag for us, but he had no luck. That was until Sir Francis Glowski came along.  Franny, as I like to call him, lives in Old Saybrook so we sent him on a second mission to attempt to retrieve th...