Old Chinese Proverb

There is an old Chinese Proverb which states "He who leaves his Abstract at his ex girlfriend's house is not terribly bright"

Dumber is the dumbass that gives his current psycho wife the ex-girlfriends phone number and allows her to call the ex in an effort to collect his abstact.

I wonder if that Abstract will ever be seen by anyone ever again....

LOL

Gold Cancers??

I enjoy reading my horoscope. I don't put a lot of stock in them, I just read them for fun. In fact I look at two different ones each day... I figure if they are similiar - maybe I should pay attn that day LOL. (not really)...

Somedays though they are SO FAR OFF that im reminded just how silly and non impactful these things are. It doesn't help that while i'm a Cancer - I don't act or feel like any description of cancer that i've ever read.

I digress... My blogging point was that my horoscope for the day IS SOOO NOT ME AS TO BE LAUGHABLE...



Following a rigid schedule might seem like a good way to keep yourself on track now, but it could have the exact opposite effect. If one appointment runs late, then a cascading effect could cause the rest of your day to tumble out of control. Paradoxically, a little less worry and a lot more flexibility early in the day could put a proper spin on it all


I just have to say - following a rigid schedule ANYTIME sounds about as good an idea to me as having a pin shoved in my eye!!

Things to be grateful for!

Bad Mood

I've been in a bad mood lately... Nothing in particular has been fueling my bad mood, I just wake up annoyed. I'm cognizant of the fact that my bad mood is random, and have been trying to combat it. It amazes me that my mood can be so persistent when I'm making actual efforts to recognize my negative energy and re-route it. Isn't it suppose to be easy to change your mood. Listen to some music you like. Think about positive things. That's what all the "advice givers" say. I do that, and it works for a short while but then I find myself distracted from my positive thoughts by life, work, etc and then shortly i'm annoyed again.

I guess it just takes more work some times than other times, and this is apparently one of those times.

One thing i'm trying to incorporate more into my life is Gratitude. I'm trying to take it past the list of things I rattle off at night during my prayers that I'm thankful for. I read a passage the other day from this book that suggested that you actually make lists of 5 things that you are grateful for every day. If you have a horrid day you can always be thankful for the old standbys like friends, family, pets, shelter, and your work. That's how I always tend to think of my list. But this book suggested really going through your day thinking about your list, looking for things to put on your list and for you to look at the everyday things in your day as potential list makers. Your list would then be more like that you were grateful for a certain song, or a kind word from a friend, or a flower you saw that was beautiful or a sunrise or that you made a big dent in your to do list today.

Things I'm already grateful for today.

1. Rain, we really needed it - and we got a little.
2. For hearing first hand about how certain others have soooo much more to deal with than I do.
3. For the gift of today, may I have the grace to unlock all of it's pleasant suprises.
4. For smiling horses that are happy to see you (okay yes I did have their breakfast)
5. For working in an evironment where my talents are appreciated

Mo has met someone

short update

I got hit with fever / bronchitis / pnuemonia - or as all king fans refer to it - Captain Tripps!!! It hit me like a mack truck on friday and I had to go home early and crash.... i've been down pretty well ever since.

I know i'm not special in that everyone has had captain tripps at some point recently or continue to battle it.... but i'm a mysery loves company, whiney kinda sick girl so there is no way that anyone can possibly be as miserable as me!!!!!

i had to venture outside for more drugs today, I've gone thru an entire bottle of tussin since Friday night (not the recommended dosage) and needed more if there is any possibility of sleeping tonight. What I found when I got outside was that it was a most glorious day. I'm sad I didn't feel like enjoying it more. Course if i'd been well i'd been in my office cave so it's just as well.

I felt like I was sleep walking around Walmart - you know the feeling where you are thinking you really shouldn't be out in public (and prolly not driving) cause you just feel bout 1/2 high... maybe it's just me.... anyway I manage to find some stuff and made it safely back home. Then I cooked dinner (in so much as opening a can of chili & bag of fritos is cooking) and after I ate I went and sat outside to watch the ponies.... the sun felt sooo good on my face i could almost have fallen asleep. Nick was mowing the front yard for the first time this season and it smelled so good.....

Okay, i must still be high if I think this would be entertaining to anyone... so i'll shut up and go back to my whooping cough!

(cough, snort, hack,)

one thing i like about my job is....

I never know from day to day what "issue" might come up. For instance - it's not every day that your boss ask you if you can do some research about Studs!

Okay, maybe in your line of work - but it's a first for me.

Wanna know what I learned? Oklahoma still has laws on the books about what one can and can't do on Sunday. (though filled with enough caveats to allow people to do whatever they want now - for instance Horse racing is strictly prohibited, except as otherwise approved by the racing commission) Apparently until 1923 letting your horse have sex for the purpose of creating a foal was a crime against religion and morality.

Don't you feel more enriched having learned this tidbit???
Okay, back to work with me.
Carry on....

FWD:

I feel compelled to say.....

I don't know who these people are "shaping" the new Republican Party.... BUT they must Go. Over the last few weeks every time I turn on the TV I see someone in My Party making a complete ass of themselves in one way or another. Apparently they feel that the general public ranks near "moron" on the intelligence scale. I'll grant you some times that feels like the case - but there are those of us out here with a few working brain cells. It seems like the actual Republican platform has been lost in their hip make over. They grab the nearest republican with some color and throw them on camera as if to say "look we got that too." And watching five minutes of the CPAC made me want to slit my wrists or at least disassociate with those people. We are the minority party - DEAL WITH IT... It's not a death sentence Everyone has their turn at it.

Suddenly when asked my party affiliate I feel the need to hand a copy of the original republican platform to the inquirer - as a caveat to my reply.

I guess this is like being a football fan of a team that hasn't been to the superbowl in a quarter century.... Buckle down - stick to your guns and pray for a miracle.

(Tammie - no comments are required)

Okay, I'm trying to stay generally positive and to get any more specific or delve any further into this commentary will send me spiralling into negativity....

So... thank you for the indulgence... Carry On...

What's Mo been doing you ask?

Well, I have had an opportunity to snap of few shots of Mo living his daily life. It's easy to see that Mo is a guy... In fact, He is a pretty typical guy......

Mo LOVES hanging out behind the bar - and he's catching on to the drink recipies pretty quickly.... Don't tell him I said this, but he's a lush....

That's when Mo's not hanging out with MY boyfriend "TiVo"....

And in this picture.... in this picture Mo tells me that he is scratching his foot... Really... he swears.

creating a better year

and by extension, a better life.

It's Sunday morning (okay technically not anymore) and I'm not in Church, but a new ritual i've started is that I like to spend my Sunday mornings finding inspiration for my week - whether that be reading something inspirational from the Good Book or other sources or on the net or watching some john edward or other program. Not that it's the only time in the week I do anything like that - but I make a concerted effort to start my sundays off this way in an effort to keep me on track.

The second half of last year found me yearning for the year to simply be over. Come January, I began voicing my hopes for a better year. It certainly wouldn't take much to improve on 2008, but the more that have thought about it the more that I contemplated whether or not I wanted to sit by and allow 2009 to simply serve me up something or if I wanted to take some positive actions to try and create a better year - the answer became clear.

Having a clear answer did not provide me with clear "right actions" but it provided the fuel to send me down the path in search of the right actions. I've been doing a lot of reading and thinking about things which is a good first step. I've tried to focus on my attitude towards things. There will always be things that I may not have control over but one thing that I will always have control over is my reaction to those things. It's the one thing no one can influence more than me. And if you understand that principal that "perception is everything" you realize that there is real power in simply choosing to control how you react.

I am embrasing change. I am on the cusp of some very real change in my life and I have no firm grasp of where that change will take me. How exciting is that? Instead of worrying or fretting about how things will likely not work out - I have decided instead to wonder about what cool things are in store. How I will enjoy the new changes and what doors of opportunity they will open.

Does that mean that I have zero anxiety or worry about things. NO. I haven't yet become a master at this - but it means that when those negative and worrysome thoughts creep in I make an extra effort to be aware of it and change my thinking pattern.

I can already see the results in certain areas of my life which of course gives me more inspiration to double my efforts.

I am also trying to remember daily to be grateful for the miriad of stuff that is right in my life and for the stuff that I have been blessed with in the past, believing that no extra goodness comes to the ungrateful heart. Sometimes it's easy to forget to remember to be actively grateful so that's another area to which i'm trying to focus my attention.

So these are a few of the things I'm doing to make 2009 a better year..... What about you???

Okay, that's all for now - Carry On.....