Category: philosophy

Joyce Meyer – Be Careful What You Say

I’m not outwardly religious most of the time, but I find these videos of Joyce Meyer to be quite helpful sometimes.

“You need to love yourself, because wherever you go, you’ll always be there..”

What I like about Joyce Meyer is that she is strong and confident in what she’s saying.    As she speaks, I think, “Ahh… I am not the only one thinking or doing this”, and I feel good about life and myself.

“I have gifts and abilities”.   Say it every day, even if you don’t know what they are yet.

“I’m not where I want to be, but thank God I’m not where I used to be.”  (Thank God I’m not where I could be, I would like to add)

I’m off to “Living Without Frustration”, because.. you know… It’s almost Monday.   🙂

A Quote From The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. ”

This movie… highly recommended.     It’s hard to keep me riveted to a movie, especially with my laptop sitting nearby, but this movie was fascinating.  I even took batteries out of my camera and stuffed them into my DVD remote so I wouldn’t miss some things when I absolutely had to walk out of the room for something.

You’ll be snapped out of the plot quick enough to think, “How did they manage the special effects and make-up” before you’re taken back into the storyline again.

Stuff

My dad wrote something on Gem’s site that I had to read in two parts, basically because I was sobbing one paragraph into it… one sentence into it.    I am trying to think of a fitting thing to do with this post, as I think it’s quite touching.   Any ideas?     

Tears seem to be the way of my day for the last few days.   Yesterday, I had a bad day.   Everything was going wrong, really.    People accused me of potentially ruining their training for the next day.    People were picking on me for not getting things done, when I was constantly busy.   I missed Ian.   

When I heard Ian’s voice, I burst into tears in the middle of work.    “What’s wrong?” he said.   “I don’t know!”, meaning I had a hard time picking the most upsetting issue at the time, but it pretty much narrowed down to one thing:

I had a doctor’s appointment and felt crappy because I knew I would have to get on a scale and didn’t want to.   It’s like an annual competition for me.   I actually postpone my doctor’s appointment until I know I weigh less than the year before.  

So I got to the doctor’s office and he started talking about diet… just because he’s chatty and he picked that topic because he’d been doing research about carbs and losing weight.   He said, “But you don’t need to know that.   Whatever you’re doing is the right thing.   Keep it up.”   

I just stared at him as if he was psychic.

Evidently, I’d lost a decent amount of weight over the last year.     I’m on the “but I don’t WANT to exercise, maybe I’ll try Tae Bo, or maybe not” plan.    It’s not that quick.  Trust me.

I left feeling quite a bit happier.  I think I’m the first person to ever have a breakdown over an annual doctor’s exam for reasonably silly reasons.

Today started out with the more-than-lovely post by my dad, a talk with my boss about dealing with coworkers (a good one) and two training classes that I lead that went quite well, thankyouverymuch!  The best part was nailing the training that was SUCH an unintelligible (in someone else’s opinion) mess yesterday, and watching it work perfectly for everyone except the person who complained.

And……… We’re off!

Mondays SO stink!   

  • Coworkers gone haywire
  • Self gone haywire
  • Coworker gone haywire (wait……)
  • Computer hardware knowing when its keeper has gone on holiday (when the cat’s away… and all that)
  • People with arbitrary deadlines
  • Somebody stealed my lunch from the fridgerator (evil bastards)

You know it’s an odd day when the trip to the doctor is the highlight of your day.   Thank God (my handsome poet) for people calming me down.   😀

I have had my corresponding 1/2 bottle of wine, thankyouverymuch.

It’s Almost Friday, Innit?

Most of the week, I’ve been hard at work, working on a new Intranet site I’m trying to get finalised for work. I found a template I love. I’ve moved stuff around on the template. I’ve uploaded loads of forms and I’m just checking through it now to see what I’ve got left to do. Then it’s off to my manager and the VP to look over.

I am not the Employee of the Year, but the good news is that our DBA is, and so is one of the clinicians. I did not have to speak in front of 300 people. I did not get $1000 (who knew there was a monetary prize?). It’s all ok.

I missed Ian more than I expected to today. I always do miss him, but for some reason, it was just more today. We try to keep this kind of “what can we sell for a plane ticket” feeling at bay, because, well, we have not won the lottery, and I’ll see him soon, I know. 🙂

I found another swine flu map. There has been a confirmed case in Omaha; a traveler from California.

As they said on the news this morning, it was bound to happen: “With a pandemic, it’s not a question of ‘if’, it’s a question of ‘when'” some people will get it. I’m not freaked out. It’s times like this that I’m glad to be working in a health care environment. We get daily mail from the Douglas County Health Department with updates and notes from the head of “infection control” at our office.

I’m ready for the weekend, even though I don’t have much planned. While someone is carting all his belongings across town, I am not really sure what I’ll be doing. What will YOU be doing?

You know there’s a problem

when you read your child one of her spelling words and she says, “WHAT??”, not like she didn’t actually HEAR you, but more like she has never heard the word before.

Or, more like she can’t believe she has to spell that word.  AKA… “Where did you find THAT word??”

Me:  “Ummm… your spelling list?!”

This has been the first week in awhile where the words’ meanings weren’t readily apparent, like “legislature”.

Me: “Do you know what a legislature is?”

Her:  “No”

Of course, it didn’t help that spellingcity.com said that “fiction” was a “large division of something”.   “Faction”, I could see.   I suppose “fiction” COULD be a large section in a library… depending on the size of the library.  

Ergh

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