Monthly Archives: November 2010

I Blog Therefore I Am

I joined the blogging world three and a half months ago. My life has forever changed because of it.

Hence, I now present you with…

THE TOP NINE OR TEN WAYS BLOGGING HAS CHANGED MY LIFE (depending on whether you count No. 6)

No. 10: It’s even more fun than a courtroom. And that’s pretty fun, especially when I win.

No. 9: It allows me to express myself freely and openly and without fear of…

My Childhood Christmas Card Obsession

I remember when I was a kid we would receive one quadgatrillion Christmas cards every year. I was in charge of opening them and sticking them up on a wall dedicated to their display.  It became the highlight of the holidays for me.

I even had a title: Card Opener. It sounded so official back then.

That the tips of my fingers were slashed with paper cuts from opening all those envelopes was a small…

I would walk for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles… oh yeahhh!

Back in “the olden days”, as my cherubs like to refer to my youth, I had to walk back and forth to school twice a day (including home for lunch), one mile each way. That’s four miles of walking a day! I don’t think school buses were even invented back then. Kids walked. No matter how far.

Believe me, it was treacherous. There were many of us who didn’t make it.

Yes, it was hard…

Boldly Going, Going, Gone!

Captain’s log, stardate 62825.4 I am lost in space.

Do you remember how Captain Kirk was always demanding the impossible from his chief engineer, Scotty? Sometimes I feel like Scotty. Try as I may, I just cannot defy the laws of physics.

So, I ask you: why do I keep on trying to go faster, do more, AND be in more than one place at the same time?

Why do I forget that…

I. AM.…

I Have Invented A New Language Called Talk-Texting

Raise your hand if you thought a cell phone was meant to be used as a phone; that is, to talk, as in, to have an actual conversation with someone; i.e., to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking, which means to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice.

If your hand is in the air right now, all I can say is: you must be old. Really old. As in,…

I am NOT a Dummy!!

I am reading Organizing for Dummies.

It’s my Hail Mary attempt to get my life in order.

Because Everybody says I’m disorganized.

Since How To Get Organized Without Resorting to Arson didn’t seem to work (my planner caught fire) and How to Get Organized Without Losing It was a waste of time (of course I lost it, I lose everything!), I kept searching for the answer, not realizing that the answer lay…

The Wimpiness Trap

When I don’t do my job, it sets everyone else up for failure. And it sets me up for The Wimpiness Trap, which I believe would make an excellent sequel to The Happiness Trap, which is all about taking responsibility for your own happiness. The flip-side is to recognize and take responsibility for being wimpy.

The Wimpiness Trap

I have decided that whenever I am feeling ‘unappreciated’, I need to let my feelings be known, calmly, and maturely.

Yes, well… my version of calmly and maturely needs some work. I would like to be able to tell you this was merely my impersonation of a teenager in the throes of a hormonal surge of sarcasm but, alas…

As I was saying…

alas, I admit, every once in a while, I digress into a  whiny, wimpy, mess…