Where have I been? Lying in weight for Ellen to reveal herself. My trap isn't working for sh!t, but that's my business. Thanks for those of you eternal springers, especially if you've been posting updates in the comments. It's not that I haven't been reading Ellen, it's just a bit of a girlcott.
I interrupt my protest to bring you the below news because the INVESTEMENT BANKER may be heard from again. Also a bit concerned that food from 2011 is still to be found in Ellen's residence...
Sowing the seeds of discord between Lynn and Mason? This can't be good for the office--but then, neither can their current relationship with all its dirty clothes, takeout, water cooler groping etc.
I agree that the rationale for scarf reimbursement is FINTASTIC. MP's not the most discerning one anyway.
I promi'sed to post about the sit-down with Lynn, and here we go.
I actually don't follow Ellen's reasoning at all (a first, I know!) If ultimately she plans to detach from Lynn's marriage and weight dilemmas, and accepts with serenity about the worst possible findings from this conversation, then why did she bother initiating it at all? "Oh ok--you're just having a lot of sex now and hoping he prefers your moves and cooking over other women's over the long term, even as you're gaining weight by the day? I should probably focus on myself right now anyway." Who is porky and over 30?
Yes, I already pointed out that Ellen might as well have staged this dialogue with herself. I was about to nominate a thin, securely married woman from this narrative as a better person to issue Lynn's warning, but come to think of it we do not have such a person. Lorrie/Laurie, in DC, is divorced, and we all know what Ed's "working late" means for the pregnant Rosa.
Yes, I skipped (at least) one. Lower the bar on your least favorite blog, loveys!
I can't wait to hear about this girl talk with Lynn--assuming the agenda items are: being used for sex, getting fat prematurely (prior to marriage), and obtaining a meal ticket man. Ellen actually isn't in a position to give advice on even a single one of these areas, and I doubt that fact is lost on Lynn either!
Don't you all just have the patience of saint's!!!! After an unannounced multi-week hiatus, ELLENWatch is risen. I can make no excuses. (Though, for all you know, I was just waiting to see when Anonymous would finally break down and post a long backlog for me!) For the record, I did not spend the time in bed with Gonzalo, Alan, or Harold. Any other guesses, though?
Looks to me like the critical updates are: 1) Willem is tired of the runaround and rescinded his offer to marry Ellen after she decided not to go to Belgum to meet his fam; 2) Ellen still needs to loose some waight; 3) Ed is even more reasonably suspect as cheating on Rosa. Extra long hours at work? Mmmmhmmmm.
I'll try to do better, but I know better than to over-promise. Who knows what else I may have in this little life of mine?Thank's again for baring with me, though.
Willem made a logical decision, with all this stalleing from Ellen. How else was he ever going to get an answer? "A littel pressure" was precisely his intent, but he's tried everything else, for month's, so no fault.
I actually think Myrna's openness to Harold is the bigger story here, though (see bottom). Sure she says she's kidding, but these jokes demonstrate a fair bit of imagination--as to how she would power through the dread assignment of sleeping with him. What's going on?
EXPERRIME'NT!!! I am leaveing out Ellen post's that I missed! Can you possibly handel it, readers? I know just about everyone who is real and can walk through the world will forgive me, but I have some extremely persnickety phantom readers (all employed at S&S--huge firm that it is). For those of you who do feel this might bring about the world's end, please post either neglected material or editorial's on same in the COMENTS! Yay!!!
As to the text at hand: gross but predictable that a judge is hitting on Ellen. More surprising that she thinks he's a prospect for Myrna--how so? If anything, Myrna has more leverage on the dating scene, and unlike Ellen she has nothing to gain career-wise by cozying up on the bench.
Thank's, Nora. Nora was hitting it pretty hard on ELLENWatch today as well.
Are we actually thinking about meeting Harold at Crumb's this weekend? Baked goods with this guy were never a good idea before! And I thought he'd been disqualified, as they say, six ways from Sunday anyhow. Young, bald, unemployed, heedless, related to her boss...I'd say you were right the first (and third) times, Ellen. There must be other men in New York. Indeed I think you know a few of them, some offering to whisk you away to distant land's!
I never knew that Ellen wanted an SUV to go with her suburban home, family, and job-free second lease on life! I don't believe she has a car at all right now, but this dream, at least, is attainable by merit.
Dad's freind's son has yet to make his official entrance, but again I say...give this guy a name! Remember, Frank is taken by two characters at this point. Try something else. Like BROCK or ROCK.
For anyone who missed it, and while we're talking about tax probelems, here is the background on why Ellen's firm owes so much. No surprise that she's expected to take the fall now, and Dad is of course full of tough talk now that his consulting fees are locked down and he's safe from all other blowback. My outlook on this prospect for a raise is dim at best, too--though it seem's Ellen earnestly wonders whether keeping the clotheing allowance is more important anyway.
So tentatively I'm going to say that Ellen's actual birthdate is 3-28-81. This is the best information we've ever gotten on it.
Waiting to hear what happened, if anything, with Dad's freind's son.
Grrreat, Ellen and Mason are the web design team at Manageing & MANAGEING. Where are the ooogleing, stinky TECK guy's? This sounds like a job that would at least keep them in their own office's.
I beg to differ--I think Bragging come's pretty easily to Ellen and she likes it fine. Anyway, this store is kind of a weird choice and I hope the embedded link appeared automatically...
Here's the latest on the Mason-Lynn romance, as well as the latter's weight gain. I agree it looks like a pretty dire situation, hurtling quickly toward her, and that's even allowing for the possibility that "chunky" is actually pregnant.
What did I tell you? Even Rosa cannot stay young, hot and continuously pregnant enough to guarantee her husband will not s'tray. You heard it here first, not even in this post either!
My only comment on the second post, below, is that the name Frank is being re-used. This is a first; usually we have a new name for every new character. I assume this government lawyer is not going to make his way onto Ellen's schedule, because if he does it will be difficult to easily distinguish between him and Frank the accounteant with whom Ellen works. Unless one or both gets a last name...
I knew it! Last we knew, I inferred that Lorrie (that's how it has historically been spelled) was in marriage counseling with her high-earning doctor husband. I decided he had been having an affair with the nanny, and I bet I was right about that too. The backstory is that Lorrie was Ellen's shineing example of a gal who didn't stress too much about school, and focused instead on, you know, security of a different kind. But it looks like that path doesn't work either! Now Lorrie is actually in a position to envy Ellen, and no young married mom is safe.
Including Rosa.
As for this little plan to distract Sam by making him interested in Myrna: if that was going to happen, it would have already--before he even met Ellen. These two work together, REMEMEMEMBER???? Maybe if one of them switched jobs, a romance would suddenly bloom. But my guess is that regardless, Myrna is too slim and quantitatively competent for Sam's taste.
Probably true, tesyaa. Thanks for calling this to my attention. I've seen a few other likely Ellen affiliates overusing the garden metaphor, and in this case it even looks like the alias could be referring to Alan. He was, after all, by some reports a rather lackluster lover, and he has indeed been trying to get back in touch this spring (via phone, his mom, and Corporette).
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Orangerie 
The obvious response