Thursday, June 20, 2013
Happiness
I was reading the article "9 Simple Step to Happiness" on cnn.com today, you can find it here. The comments really captured my attention. One person comment really intrigued me:
okel1
You only need three things for happiness:
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Good Morning; let's start the day right with some of my Favorite Reading/Writing Quotes!
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx
― Groucho Marx
Which one is your Favorite?
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. -Franz Kafka
Have you seen any beauty today? I know I try to everyday but sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the ugly of this world. Stop and notice the beauty the world and its people have to offer!
You should do for a living what you do when you procrastinate.
If this is true,which I feel it is, then I should be a writer.
How a bout you guys? How do you Procrastinate and would it make a good career?
How a bout you guys? How do you Procrastinate and would it make a good career?
Monday, June 10, 2013
My bedside books
This week the books on my bedside are:
Harry Potter and Goblet of FireEnder's Game
The Other Boleyn Girl
And there is one more but for the life of me I can't think of its name.
What books are on your bedside table?
Venti Vent
My Venti Vent day. Knowing this week is sure to be a tough one, I decided to treat myself to a venti coffee at Starbucks! Is delicious and really started my day off great. I am the first into work. I turn on the lights, make some coffee, unlock doors. I start immediately on the duties I know need to be done ASAP. Make packets for new hire orientation, set up our new computer in the conference room, make employee files, stock supplies. I am rushing around the office in a good mood and good pace when my phone rings at my desk. Knowing the ring tone I Know it is someone with in the office, so I ignore it. I know if someone one really wanted to talk to me they can come find me. I continue with work. Again the ring. I ignore it. And again. And again. I run to my desk and pick it up on the last time....
"hey Kim, is there coffee ready?"
NOW let me give you some background...this happens almost EVERYday. The same person either goes, "hey, you gonna make coffee this morning?" OR "Hey, Kim did you make coffee yet?"
So the devil on my shoulder explodes...You called me four times over and over again to ask if there was Coffee? When you could have gotten off your butt and walked to the lobby yourself, is that right? You made me stop what I was doing run to my phone to listen to your question...did you make coffee? REALLY?
Of course I didn't say any of this. And I could just be over reacting because this drives me nuts.
"Make coffee every morning for the whole office" is not in my job description.
"Yes, I made coffee."
"Oh okay, thank you!" *click*
Because I would rather not lose my job. I am venting here. And because I am trying to get it out so I can continue with the rest of my day as normal.
Does anyone have those employees that just one sentence from they can send you over the edge?
"hey Kim, is there coffee ready?"
NOW let me give you some background...this happens almost EVERYday. The same person either goes, "hey, you gonna make coffee this morning?" OR "Hey, Kim did you make coffee yet?"
So the devil on my shoulder explodes...You called me four times over and over again to ask if there was Coffee? When you could have gotten off your butt and walked to the lobby yourself, is that right? You made me stop what I was doing run to my phone to listen to your question...did you make coffee? REALLY?
Of course I didn't say any of this. And I could just be over reacting because this drives me nuts.
"Make coffee every morning for the whole office" is not in my job description.
"Yes, I made coffee."
"Oh okay, thank you!" *click*
Because I would rather not lose my job. I am venting here. And because I am trying to get it out so I can continue with the rest of my day as normal.
Does anyone have those employees that just one sentence from they can send you over the edge?
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
The Final Piece of the Puzzle
When we are young with our fresh, eager minds we begin to ponder about what we want to be when we grow up. A princess, a knight, maybe an astronaut, actress or a doctor. We are told we can be what ever we want to be. We go to school to learn, become educated beings. Probed with test, and question; to grade our ability to listen.
If you figure out what is really going on you have two choices, one, play along. Be the best possible student you can be; get good grades and move up into college. Becoming the perfect piece of the puzzle. Say the right things, at the right time, the right way.
Two, give up; you know how the system works and you despise it. Not wanting to be put into the prefect mold to become a "model citizen". The type of person that sees the sign "Do not sit on this chair" but you sit anyways, grinning that you beat the system. It is a small fight to win but by golly you won.
Both of these people are wonderful, we need both of them in this world in order to function. It is easy, too easy to get lost in this world. Take me, for example, I would draw in the side lines of my paper all class or come up with exciting stories about how the school was being invaded by alien forces. Passing in the halls I would make up stories in my mind about how I might have been a spy placed in the school to watch the teachers. I was passionate about creating; creating worlds to be free in or characters I could portray to express myself. Looking in the mirror, today, she is still there but she stuck in a businesses world like being in the middle of a lake. Her feet are swaying back and forth though the murky water, attempting to stay above the water. She is calm, collected; she doesn't show her fear; she hates lakes. The way she can't see the bottom, how things wrap around her toes and brush against her legs, or the way she has nothing to hold onto in the murky depths of the lake. Nothing to save her if she sinks. She doesn't fit in this puzzle.
Looking across the lake she sees the kids that were the ones to "play along"; the ones that listened well. They were not in the lake, they had shiny boats and jet skies. Riding around the lake in fits of laughter. This was their element. They fit perfectly in this puzzle. I am the piece that you think fits at first but the more you look at it you realize it is only acting like the real thing. The lines do not line up as perfectly as expected. This puzzle piece is then set aside, maybe even forgotten about or pushed aside, while the rest of the puzzle is constructed. Life goes on much like the puzzle being finished. Pisces come together and life is exciting! The end of the puzzle is in sight but wait, there is one piece missing. Look frantically for this one piece, it may take days to find. And when it is least expected there it is. The last Piece, the missing forgotten piece of the puzzle; the girl in the middle of the lake, struggling to keep afloat. The one that didn't fit in the beginning but now it is the final piece, the most important piece. The piece that will make the image flawless. She is rescued from this lake and joins in on the laughter.We are all apart of this puzzle,at times it may feel like we have been pushed aside or forgotten but in the end we are all needed to complete it.
It is important to remember that you may not feel like you belong in this puzzle of life but you do. We all do. We just have to find our place, maybe wait our turn, but in the end we all come together to create the final picture.
If you figure out what is really going on you have two choices, one, play along. Be the best possible student you can be; get good grades and move up into college. Becoming the perfect piece of the puzzle. Say the right things, at the right time, the right way.
Two, give up; you know how the system works and you despise it. Not wanting to be put into the prefect mold to become a "model citizen". The type of person that sees the sign "Do not sit on this chair" but you sit anyways, grinning that you beat the system. It is a small fight to win but by golly you won.
Both of these people are wonderful, we need both of them in this world in order to function. It is easy, too easy to get lost in this world. Take me, for example, I would draw in the side lines of my paper all class or come up with exciting stories about how the school was being invaded by alien forces. Passing in the halls I would make up stories in my mind about how I might have been a spy placed in the school to watch the teachers. I was passionate about creating; creating worlds to be free in or characters I could portray to express myself. Looking in the mirror, today, she is still there but she stuck in a businesses world like being in the middle of a lake. Her feet are swaying back and forth though the murky water, attempting to stay above the water. She is calm, collected; she doesn't show her fear; she hates lakes. The way she can't see the bottom, how things wrap around her toes and brush against her legs, or the way she has nothing to hold onto in the murky depths of the lake. Nothing to save her if she sinks. She doesn't fit in this puzzle.
Looking across the lake she sees the kids that were the ones to "play along"; the ones that listened well. They were not in the lake, they had shiny boats and jet skies. Riding around the lake in fits of laughter. This was their element. They fit perfectly in this puzzle. I am the piece that you think fits at first but the more you look at it you realize it is only acting like the real thing. The lines do not line up as perfectly as expected. This puzzle piece is then set aside, maybe even forgotten about or pushed aside, while the rest of the puzzle is constructed. Life goes on much like the puzzle being finished. Pisces come together and life is exciting! The end of the puzzle is in sight but wait, there is one piece missing. Look frantically for this one piece, it may take days to find. And when it is least expected there it is. The last Piece, the missing forgotten piece of the puzzle; the girl in the middle of the lake, struggling to keep afloat. The one that didn't fit in the beginning but now it is the final piece, the most important piece. The piece that will make the image flawless. She is rescued from this lake and joins in on the laughter.We are all apart of this puzzle,at times it may feel like we have been pushed aside or forgotten but in the end we are all needed to complete it.
It is important to remember that you may not feel like you belong in this puzzle of life but you do. We all do. We just have to find our place, maybe wait our turn, but in the end we all come together to create the final picture.
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