Thursday, November 26, 2009
Cream Cheese and other Assorted Reasons to LOVE the Holidays!
But today is Thanksgiving and I'm working in a community hospital ER (ok, I'm writing this so working might be a stretch) with people I genuinely like and care about. There is a ton of food (it's 838am and I've already had pumpkin bread and I'm eating cream cheese stuffed Skyline chili dip), people are looking at the paper for their Black Friday ads and there is, in fact, a sense of merriment.
I just got my Christmas decorations packed back up from LAST Christmas about 3 months ago (shameful) and I may not pull them back down again. But regardless, I'm feeling joyful. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in a Box from Kroger and 2012 with Ryan and M. Then Ryan will be here for the rest of the weekend and we'll gorge on movies and junk. Old clients have popped back up, existing clients are warm and wonderful, I am blessed with awesome friends and family and I have an overall sense of peace. If you are reading this, I hope you have it too.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Tim Burton and the NY MoMA!
Even if I have to walk and sleep on the street, I've got to get there. It opened yesterday and ends April 26.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Is Health Care Coming? Barack at the Great Wall of China
I suppose the people fighting health care legislation are all either insured already, have never faced being uninsurable, forget that most of our financial support has gone to bailing out large corporations (not people), and that every other industrialized nation on the planet has some type of health care option for its citizens. They consider that an act of compassion (via a Dubai citizen). Regardless, it passed a major hurdle yesterday thanks to this magnificent man.
Did George W. ever even LOOK presidential? I can't remember that day.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Thought for Today
“When one loves, one does not calculate.”
Thank you to Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project for pointing me to this quote from St. Therese of Lisieux.
Not much more to add to that, is there?
Friday, November 20, 2009
Newsy Newsletter/E-zine Coming Soon!
Some of you received an email invite to my upcoming newsletter. Look to the right and you will see a new sign-up form (all of this setup and design was tremendously easy...and fun! The newsletter runs off Mail Chimp which is free if you have less than 500 subscribers and there will be a link on the site if you want to try it yourself).
Mostly I want to use the newsletter to inspire others. I'm all over the Web, see and read a lot of really awesome stuff, some for work, some simply because I love it and I do so love to share the juicy goodness that I find. I get twice as many readers here as I do on the business blog so it will be a tricky businesses to keep both groups happy...but I'm going to try.
It won't be annoying or long or terribly frequent. Probably once a month, maybe twice. Easy to unsubscribe. I think it will be juicy, but hey, it's one of my babies so I would...
Try it for an issue or two. If you don't like, unsubscribe. No harm done, eh?
Have a lovely weekend. I'll be hanging with my peeps in the ER!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Zooming Right Along...
Bright Star, a lovely, lyrical (and some would say slow like my friend Steph-oh! SHE'S not slow, but thought the movie was) movie about John Keats and his love affair with Fanny Braun is worth your time if you love a costume drama. It is NOT for your average viewer (a few people were yawning massively), but if the visuals are important to you in a film, I recommend it. I imagine heaven looks a bit like some of the English gardens in this film.
I started reading Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison. I don't recommend it. The author is Augusten Burrough's older brother who chronicles his life with Asberger's syndrome. And I do mean chronicles. There is little flow to this book, just anecdote after anecdote. I realize that could be because of the author's unique vision, but it still made for a pretty boring read. Stick with Burroughs...
I have been rocking out to a song that's been out awhile: Paolo Nutini's "New Shoes". It just now started getting local radio play and I heard the words. Not too many truly happy songs that don't sound sappy. This one is just plain fun. Definitely going on my Motivate Me! iPod playlist.
Anything new with you?
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
A couple of things
Post about Patti Smith here. Clearly I was affected. See next line.
A couple of decent poems here and here.
Mad Men is absolutely tearing me to pieces. If you haven't watched, get the DVD's and catch up this winter! Flash Forward is good too (NOTHING on television compares to Mad Men, though. Everything seems amateur in comparison).
Sunday, November 01, 2009
OMG! A Classic "Tool"
When Ryan was a teenager, he taught me the word "tool". I save the word "tool" because I think it is so special and fantastic. Per Ryan's definition a "tool is generally male, the guy who thinks he's funny but no one else does, the guy every one tries to get away from but he never picks up on their not-so-subtle clues". A tool differs from an asshole only slightly but there is a slimy quality about the tool that the asshole may not have (after all My Russell Crowe and Colin Farrell have both been referred to as assholes. I don't think they are tools).
I work with a real tool. I MEAN CLASSIC. He is an ex-Marine. He is the guy that has so many nervous tics and subtle (or not so) issues that when he had a minor blow up at work, everyone was afraid of what was in his backpack. He goes up to all men and shakes their hand, looks them in the eye and says "I'm a tool, nice to meet you." (He really gives his name which of course, I cannot) as they stand there going "why are you talking to me?".
You can't say anything to him without him getting painfully defensive and agitated so constructive criticism is out of the question. He lies chronically, takes excessive lunches and is always schmoozing with someone. He has a cruel streak and his sexism is dripping out of each pore. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
Why do these people last in any business? Why do we cower to these kinds of people who cause our whole culture to stink? FIRE THE TOOLS OF THE WORLD or threaten them with therapy.
End of rant (I'm working with the tool today. It was this or have a conniption fit.
Singing High Praises: The Bloggess
NOT me! Her.




