"Birth" day

http://www.bethanyroberts.com/MondaysChildIsFairofFace.htm

Find the day you were born and what it means.....it's fun!

Hot and dark

BTW, "Easy" ass Tuesday resulted in a power outage on the train I took home. Sat underground for about 45 minutes, in the dark, no a/c, train full of people. Amazingly enough, everyone remained calm and took a nap. I did too! There was nothing I could do about it anyway. (however, if it lasted any longer than that I would have started to freak!) But for that little while, I kept a positive attitude!
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

Awake!

Ok Wednesday! They call it hump day cause it's now the slide down to Friday. I don't particularly feel that it should be called that. To me Wednesdays are the awakening to the week!
Got past Monday...Easy Tuesday....Awake Wednesday!...yeah that's it, AWAKE! I usually can tackle anything on a Wednesday. Maybe that's because I was born on a Wednesday. Altho
"they" say "Wednesday's child is full of woe". Oh woe is me! :-) (not really, or at least not at the present moment). LOAP!

<<<<<<<(The god Woden, after whom 'Wednesday' was named. "Odin, the Wanderer" 1886 by Georg von Rosen (1843-1923)

Here's some facts about Wednesdays:

Wednesday is considered either the third or the fourth day of the week, between Tuesday and Thursday. The name comes from the Middle English Wednes dei, which is from Old English Wodnes dæg, meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden who was a god of the Anglo-Saxons in England until about the 7th century AD. Wodnes dæg is like the Old Norse Othinsdagr ("Odin's day"), which is an early translation of the Latin dies Mercurii ("Mercury's day").

An English language idiom for Wednesday is "hump day", a reference to making it through the middle of the work week as getting "over the hump". It is also unofficially (and with some irony) referred to as "the peak of the week".

On TV's The Addams Family, Wednesday (Lisa Loring) was the pale-skinned, black-haired daughter of Morticia and Gomez Addams

easy

Tuesday! Does Tuesday have a feel? (Seinfeld). I think so. It's better than a Monday, for sure. The tension and the dread of coming back to work on a monday is gone. It feels easy! Yeah that's it...Easy....(not like a Sunday morning easy tho, just a Tuesday EASY). Maybe I'll write a song!!!! HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Thank you Susan!

My friend Susan...who passed away a few years back..sent me this card that I have hanging in my office and I read it when I need it. I need it today and maybe you do too:

May you always have an angel by your side~Watching out for you in all the things you do~Reminding you to keep believing in brighter days~Finding ways for your wishes and dreams to take you to beautiful places~Giving you hope that is certain as the sun~Giving you strength of serenity as your guide~May you always have love and comfort and courage~And may you always have an angel by your side........

Grocercy time

Have you ever observed men at the supermarket? I don't mean oogling over them. (altho that's nice too)...I mean watching how they pick items to put in their carts. They have these painstaking expressions on their faces, as if to say, "is this the right one" "should i get this one"?, often with a list in hand most likely prepared by their better halves. Then the cell phone comes out. Calls are made....with item in hand while they read it into the phone, saying something like "well why didn't you say that on the list"? Geeze....come on men, get a lil educated here.... I mean can't you read the minds of those that prepared the list? When it says, "hotdogs" doncha know it means Nathan's? When it says bottled water, doncha know it means Evian? LOL Poor men!

Actually the only men that DO know what they're doing in a supermarket are firemen. I love watching what they're buying. They're usually great cooks too! I usually ask them: What's for dinner tonite? I've actually gotten some hints from them too! (and some phone numbers! ). ;-)
Only kidding about the phone numbers.....I can dream, can't I?

Btw, HAPPY MONDAY!!!!

Do nothing day

yessss.......it's Saturday morning!!!! No work today! Going to take it easy. Veg out. It's a good feeling!

oh well

Happy Dance Friday!!!! (NOT)

It's been one of those weeks for me. A roller coaster of emotions. I hate when that happens. All the seemingly bad stuff happening at once. Started with Mom falling down and going boom (she 's ok now :-) . Rainy weather cloaded my mood too.

I've also been dealing with someone who is very depressed. Clinically, bad. I'm at my wit's end too. All the anger I've been holding in finally came out this week. Couldn't help it. If it didn't I would have wound up in a black hole too. I've walked away from this before, came back, then walked away. Now I want to run! Where do I go? And how do I deal with the feelings of abandonment that always come up for me? I know the answers will come. I just want them now!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rain

Day 7 of rain....just for your info.

And here's a bit of rainy day humor to brighten up your day...he he he

A physician claims these are actual comments from his patients
made while he was performing colonoscopies:

1. Take it easy, Doc, you're boldly going where no man has gone
before.
2. Find Amelia Earhart yet?
3. Can you hear me NOW?
4. Oh boy, that was sphincterrific!
5. Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
6. You know, in Arkansas, we're now legally married.
7. Any sign of the trapped miners, Chief?
8. You put your left hand in, you take your left hand out. You
do the Hokey Pokey...
9. Hey! Now I know how a Muppet feels!
10. If your hand doesn't fit, you must aquit!
11. Hey, Doc, let me know if you find my dignity.
12. You used to be an executive at Enron, didn't you?
13. Could you write me a note for my wife, saying that my
head is not, in fact, up there?

Rain, Rain, Go Away

It was a dark and dreary night.......Oh wait, someone wrote that already, huh?
How about "singing in the rain............." (nope someone did that one too).
Rainy days and Sundays? (already taken)...........

Well...day 6 here of rainy, cloudy, humid weather...Kinda goes with my mood...or is it vice versa? Actually I like rain in warm weather. What I don't like is the mile walk from the train to work in it. Have to try and stay a lil dry for the office ya know? Although there are some who would wish I would arrive with a wet T-shirt....but that's a story for another day! Have a good one! ;-)

To My Friends ;-)

Are you tired of those sissy-ass "friendship" poems that always sound good, but never actually come close to reality? Well, here is a series of promises that actually speak of true friendship:

1. When you are sad -- I will help you get drunk and plot revenge against the sorry bastard who made you sad.

2. When you are blue -- I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.

3. When you smile -- I will know you finally got laid.

4. When you are scared -- I will rag on you about it every chance I get.

5. When you are worried -- I will tell you horrible stories about howmuchworse it could be until you quit whining.

6. When you are confused -- I will use little words.

7. When you are sick -- Stay the hell away from me until you are wellagain. I don't want whatever you have.

8. When you fall -- I will point and laugh at your clumsy ass.

This is my oath..... I pledge it to the end. "Why?" you may ask;"becauseyou are my friend!!!

Send this to 10 of your closest friends, then get depressed because youcanonly think of 4.

Red Faced

So I went to see Mom in the hospital tonight. Asked the nurse, very indignently, why my mom was sharing a room with a man! Nurse said: "That's a woman". Me: "Oops".

Seeing the Light

Sometimes life hands us dirt. By that I mean sometimes things don't go exactly the way we'd like them to and it seems so unfair and it hurts, hurts real bad. Seems like it'll never get better. So we lash out and hurt those things or people that hurt us. In effect, all this does is make the cycle of hurt keep going, when all we want is for it to cease. It can stop, you know. I've found that I must take responsibility for my part in it all and acknowledge that it's not all one sided, take a deep breath and then become grateful. Yes be grateful for it because once i've crossed over to the other side of the pain and darkness, things look and feel so different...brighter even.
I have found that when I go through the pain, I grow. Lessons are learned because now I have it in my experience. I know at my very essence what it feels like. So now, I don't fear the painful times so much, I look at them as my growing spurts! And if I don't learn any lessons, then shame on me!

Quick Thoughts

Not to go on about the sunglasses thing...but.....Why do people wear them when it's raining out???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Anyway...HAPPY MONDAY !!!!!! A new day, a new beginning!

Came to work to get some rest...lol....spent the weekend visiting Mom at the hospital and arguing with stubborn people about the simplest things.....(more of that later).

One of those days, pt.2

so, is it the hot weather that causes this?

Need I Say More?

Ta Ta For Now

Well.....I finally got around to uncluttering my clothes this past Monday. The "hot" weather brought it on when I suddenly realized that I had no "hot weather" clothes readily available to snatch up off one of the chairs in my bedroom. Not only did I put away my wintery type clothes, I let go of lots of that "stuff" that seemed to be accumulating and multiplying like rabbits. Put them right into big black garbage bags and marked them for donation to a local church. And no, I didn't go thru the "maybe" or "recyle" piles advised by those "experts". Just chucked them in there and closed up the bags! Maybe a year from now I'll wonder "what ever happened to those purple flip flops, or that tee shirt I spent all night tie dying? Right now, tho, no attachments for me. Bye Bye...old clothes....as I revel in my newfound spaciousness!!!!!

OK EVERYONE: I'll admit, I stole the following from my all time favorite blogger: BOONDOGGLED (go there, you'll love it)..........very funny.


Why did the chicken cross the road?

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on "THIS" side of the road before it goes after the problem on the "OTHER SIDE" of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his "CURRENT" problems before adding "NEW" problems.

OPRAH: Well I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road...ANDERSON COOPER - CNN:We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY:To die in the rain. Alone.

JERRY FALWELL: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth in front of your face? The chicken was going to the "other side." That's why they call it the "other side." Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like "the other side." That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and simple as that!

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2005, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra...#@&&^( C \ .... reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN:Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

BILL CLINTON:I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE:I invented the chicken!

Sunglasses Indoors

Do you ever wonder why people wear sunglasses indoors or on a subway???? Then try to make you think they're actually reading a newpaper? How the hell can they see? Do they wear them because they think it makes them look cool? Or perhaps they're hungover and bright light hurts their eyes? Or maybe they live in such dark worlds they don't even realize they have them on! Well if you ask me, I think it's really dumb looking....makes me think they're trying to hide something....and please don't talk to me, indoors, with sunglasses on! If you can't let me look into your eyes, don't even bother thank you!

It's a workday?

I can't believe a new week is upon us once again. This weekend was fabulous....weatherwise, company wise, food wise.....etc. You couldn't beat it. Perfect! But I hate hot weather when I have to work! Don't like dressing for work....rather be on the beach. My brain is still in the weekend. Well...happy Tuesday!!!!! Now get to work!