***December is serious business time to get your holiday shopping done (sorry gift cards don’t count).  Today’s Friday Email is all about “Serious Business” (as if the Friday Email could ever be that “serious”).  Have a great weekend!***

Sometimes someone will say something is serious business.  Joshua and Abby wanted pizza.  A pizza chant erupted in the car.  I laughed.  Abby said it’s not funny.  Sorry Abby, I understand how serious pizza is to you (it is to me as well).  Junior went to get some coffee in the kitchen with me but then said he had tea earlier.  Should he really have coffee and tea on the same day?  It is serious business how some people are coffee drinkers and other people are tea drinkers (yet Junior is a rare person who seems to be both).  Keep your tea, Junior. I’ll stick to my (iced) coffee.  Moise was calling Junior over for an idea.  Junior this is serious business.  Go to Moise.  Before even getting up, Junior says are you going to listen to my idea?  Moise says I always listen to it.  Yeah, he just never takes it.  A salesperson emailed me 5 options to choose from.  I chose the 5th to sum up my interest in them.  “I was abducted by aliens, and they don’t care about your company.” I’m not sure if they take the people who choose that option as being serious, but E.T. always seemed friendly to me not too serious.  Junior was talking about food shopping.  I went with Moise a few times we just pick up the first item we see when it’s on the grocery list.  We don’t take it seriously, but Moise does examine the price seriously.  If an item is 12 cents cheaper but says it may cause ‘side effects’ Moise will be like let’s get it!  Moise asked me a (serious) question.  I was not listening.  When he’s done, I said I didn’t hear the last part.  Moise asked what about the first part?  Ok that part I didn’t hear either.  Abby was on the phone, so I asked what did you do in school today?  She said A, B, C, D, E, F, G (she got to Z quicker than I could).  She takes the alphabet as serious business (instead of just saying ABC’s she recited the entire alphabet).  We take our Thanksgiving Eve tradition seriously, so I text Junior per his request to remind him to bring in a dozen bagels on the day before Thanksgiving.  He texted back a thumbs up…I had to check twice and make sure it was indeed a thumb (and not a different finger) and saw that yes it was a thumb.  Junior complained that I only bought 6 donuts and he spent so much on a dozen bagels and cream cheese.  And I didn’t buy him a drink.  Every year I ask him and he says he doesn’t want a drink but now he wants one?  Junior got mad, I ordered a special bagel just for Moise to pick up.  Moise said he is seriously mad over that?  Then order 2 in that case (make him extra mad).  Joshua and Abby’s cousin was counting the hairs on my head.  She got to 20 and said Moise and I both have 20 hairs.  She must have counted every single one.  Then she told me I have a big nose.  I guess I went over to get insulted that day.  Moise’s friend the car mechanic Doctor Joe called and told Moise straight out you’re too cheap.  Moise told me I should get a new car.  He said do you want a 2 door or a 1 door car.  Uh Moise is this a serious question?  A 1 door car sounds like after Doctor Joe gets done “fixing” it that is what is left.  Now when it comes to doing your timesheet just remember it is serious business.  Please do your timesheet on time today and remember if Moise asks you how many doors you want on your car, never say 1 (even if you get a good deal on the car).

Have a great weekend!

Anthony