Question of the day?

Where were men like this when I was single and dating? - Sigh, slurp!

Innocence Lost, Paradise Regained

I raised my hand, pointed the gun, closed my eyes and squeezed the trigger.

I wasn't prepared for the loud explosive boom; nor was I prepared to absorb the seismic force of the recoil as it rocked through my prepubescent frame. I dropped to my knees and covered my face but I could still hear the horrible sucking sound of the air being dragged out of the room; then the ear shattering sound of falling glass.

We could now clearly hear the cacophonous sounds of the looters interspersed with the sounds of bullets seeking, then finding their unintended targets. As we shrank back into the shadows – me clutching the gun, my grandmother clutching me – we softly began to recite Psalm 23 - The Lord is my Shepherd.

So peeps - I've done it. I've started to take a creative writing class to see if I've got what it takes to maybe write a book one day. I had an assignment where I had to describe a childhood memory in half a page with 12 font and that's what I wrote.

Thoughts???

When does a strategy become a stragedy?

About 15 mins into a meeting if you work where I do....

I was sitting in a meeting yesterday listening to the buzzword king go on and on about setting a strategic course for the direction of the rest of the year activities. In 7 minutes the word strategy was mentioned 9 times and throughout the entire 60 mins he kept stressing that he wanted to keep the discussion focused on strategy and not about tactics - then he proceeded to get into the proverbial weeds.

It was at this point that the whole meeting devolved into a stragedy. Thanks for word Chris.

Between the low hanging fruit and being really determined to focus on strategy and not tactics I managed to write down at least 34 words that I could use to create a new meeting game that I'm planning on introducing tomorrow - buzzword bingo.

During one of his four soliloquies, I started surfing the web and came across a site that tells you how to create a bingo card from overused buzzwords. According to the site

Buzzword Bingo is a fun game to play during meetings at work (but don't blame anyone but yourself if you get fired). Each member of the team takes one card into the meeting, and discretely ticks whatever words on his card that your boss says during the meeting. Whenever a player achieves the agreed upon bingo (such as a line of 5, or two overlapping lines of 5), depending on how brave he is, and whether he wishes to keep his job, he can either stand up and yell "BINGO!" or give a more subtle pre-agreed signal to the other players.

Buzzword Bingo is of course popular for those working with software and computers, but there's nothing to stop you playing the game in other industries that are full of jargon... Although, if you do work in the nuclear-power or aviation industries, perhaps it might be better to forego the game, and actually listen to the meeting.

Advanced Rules: Most meetings involve a two way conversation with the boss. Skilled players, will steer the boss towards saying the right target words. In the "Advanced Rules" version, this is encouraged, but you may only claim words that you have not said yourself during the meeting. Thus the challenge becomes (1) to get your boss to say "Erlang" without saying it yourself, and (2) to survive the meeting without saying too many buzzwords and killing your chances. In this variant, you can also manoeuvre your co-workers into saying the buzzwords and reducing their chances of winning.

I downloaded the instructions and we are SOOO playing this tomorrow and I'm determined to be the first one to yell BINGO!!!!!!!!!!

I will never leave my house without makeup again......

To punish myself I'm outing myself so that others may be learn. There is quite simply no excuse for it, especially cause I live with a major shutterbug so I've got to be on at all times. Trying to look all all cute in a club without a scrap of make-up on my face is not priceless.

Thank God - when I've got my act together I think that I clean up pretty nice :)

99 Red Balloons go by...

Well my grand plan for tonight was something like this.

Come home, do some light vacuuming, finish the laundry, download some new songs on my ipod, make a fabulous dinner for Mr. C, walk TJ, go to the gym, read a couple of chapters from the latest Christine Feehan novel and settle in to watch TV while finishing the bottle of Crianza that we opened a couple of days ago.

Then I came home...

I started dinner and had just put the chicken in the oven when... there was a knock on the door... it was angelic-faced circus freak dropping off a bouquet of 99 red balloons ... the evening went downhill from here.

I then spent the rest of the evening running around trying to keep the balloons in check while, searching high and low for a piece of paper that was just determined not to be found, dealing with an angry LARGE dog who was not pleased to have missed his walkies, answering calls from telemarketers trying to sell me duct cleaning that I really don't need.

THEN to top it off, I kept getting emails from people at work asking me completely random questions about stuff that I REALLY don't care about after 5pm.

I'm heading to bed now hugging my bottle of crianza, only stopping to grab a straw cause that's how really classy people drink wine.

Later ya'll

I'm back or at least most of me is...

It has been a while but I'll be back to my regular posting soon. I'm so exhausted right now I'm about to fall over and while I'd love to use the excuse that Mags is using, I tend to fall asleep once I start taking my allergy medicine.

So I've been all over the world recently (well not really the world but most of the tristate area) and while I was there I saw a couple things that I coveted.

I tried this dress on and it looked fab - shoulda bought it but though it'd be too much clothes for partying.


Who am I kidding, I don't party... May have to order it online, unless... a trip to Buffalo may be in my future.

Tried these on and damn near broke my ankle walking to the mirror to see how good they looked and no big surprise here - looked fabulous.


Note to self take lessons from Mags the Queen of the CFM shoes...then order shoes online.

Absolutely fell in love with this bag but considering it costs more than my monthly mortgage payment, I figure it's going to be part of my wish list for Xmas 2018!



Unless I can find in on ebay in a couple of months for a much more reasonable price....