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Recycle, It's Good the Can or Something Like That

I recycle my empties, and about three times a year I put all the bottles and cans that have accumulated in my desk drawers at work in a plastic bag.  Said bag then gets taken home and given to Pkin for final disposition. 

I've helped, once I think, take them to the recycle place in the parking lot of the grocery store.  It's a messy job, one which is much better suited to Pkin's temperament.  I always help spend the money!  (How my desk would look.)

Moose's Ultimate Adventure

I find it very difficult to write about this.  Moose has moved on the next level.  It was time and Pkin is doing alright, not great; he has some feelings, I know he does regardless of what he admits.  He's a pkin after all.

Rosey, on the other hand, has no feelings at all, unless you count the unrelenting joy.  I don't think she's realized that she's alone.  She's never, ever been alone.  We had, first, two cats and added Rosey, then only one cat, then two dogs and no cats and now it's just Rosey.  I do hope she stays in her yard.  She's going to realize there isn't another heart beat in the house any day now. 

Enough about the cute but clueless Rosey. 

Moose was a good dog who had a hard life.  I wish I could have known him in his prime.  I hear that he cut a fine figure, swimming in any depth of water.  He was kind of like my Grandfather later in life; they both shunned baths as they got older.  Oh well ... to Moose and the good things!

Hate the Second Hand Smoke, But Really Now!

J&J and many other companies are smoking-free environments, but it's getting ugly now.  Have you ever walked into or drove by a smoke-free business?  You walk through or drive through a cloud of smoke, and it is so very inspiring to see people sitting in the gutter smoking in the rain. 

I don't know what the answer is.  I do know that I'm against an entirely non-smoking world because the next step is a non-fat world and I really don't want to sit in the gutter to eat my chocolate.

Miss Austen Meets Doctor 90210

The Bean Counter shared this, see the attributions:

Jane Austen is too homely for the 21st Century and her editors have gone to the doctors of Beverly Hills for a makeover.  Did you see the Sex & The City episode where Samantha puts Carrie in caribou panties and hooker shoes? 

Jane, resist!  Your work is too good and timeless.  If people cannot value your contributions to literature and to true love without a plastic surgeon then those people do not deserve to read your books.

Health Surveys

I just took a health survey that rated me as "having a bad body" (no surprise) but that my sleep was fair.  Oh my goodness, I have never had fair sleep.  My entire life is about not sleeping or sleeping too much, which is another story.

Because of this rating I'm wondering about the validity of the entire survey.  Do I write to the online survey makers?  It's an organization focused on healthy living, it's not a "Cosmo" quiz. 

The other option is that compared to everything else my sleep is the least messed up part of my life.  Now I'll really depressed and will probably loose sleep over it.

Pkin Loves the M&Ms

He's not a big fan of nuts in chocolate.  In fact, he's against it overall with one, one notable exception.  "The only good nut is in an M&M!"

Here is Pkin as his fav snack:

He is truly larger than life.

Immediate Email

How fast should you reply to emails?  You get an email, and you respond between meetings, other work and lunch.  But sometimes you're at your desk and the email comes in, you respond and then other person responds immediately.  Do you have to do the same?

From a time management perspective, you should be bucketing your email and/or phone time so that you can focus on one task at a time.  But from a multi-tasking world, you're doing it all, all of the time.

Just curious, if I respond immediately, will people think that I have nothing better to do than emails?

Rainy Day

I was going to write about how it only rains in LA during rush hour but it stopped raining. 

Once again insomnia has reared it's ugly head in our household.  We're trying to decide if Pkin's insomnia is waking me or my insomnia is waking Pkin.  I think Pkin started it all. 

Tuesday AM I woke to a blazing emergency broadcast message at two o'clock.  He didn't turn off the TV when he came to bed.  This morning I woke to a 3:00 AM bad, horrific dream with traveling salesmen and dead aunts who were alive an dying.  (I blame it all on the Girl Scout cookies.  Thank goodness I ate all of those bad boys yesterday!)

The benefits of a sleepless include being up at five AM when the rain starts to pour buckets.  You know, I should have put my houseplants outside for the early morning rain instead of filling an old milk carton and watering them around the house.  One's mind is not the most acute with 5 hours of sleep, two nights in a row.  I was able, though, to get the newspaper inside before it's double wrapped-ness was fully soaked.

See benefits upon benefit.

Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office

I think the song says, "Good girls don't, but I do."  Now there's a book telling us to be bad to get what we want, Good Girls Don't Get the Corner Office.  Just yesterday I read a survey report that said people do not have an aversion to having a male bosses any more than having a female boss, which is a change from past findings.  And now this!  Do only the Witches with a capital B make it to the decision-making table?

Yikes, I read another something about bad bosses, let me find that one to share.  Here it is, from the Human Equation.  Some of the results were: 

• 39% noted that their supervisor failed to keep promises;
• 37% reported that their supervisor failed to give credit when due; and
• 31% of respondents reported that their supervisor gave them the “silent treatment” in the past year.

Sheesh!  Why come to work?  Your family can give you the same level of support, or not.  Just kidding.  I'm going to library and steal this book.  Now that would make a statement and move me on to my path of non-nice-girl-ness.

Drink, Drank, Drunk

"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this wine, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this wine and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."  ~ Jack Handy

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may leave you wondering what the hell happened to your bra and panties.

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"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. " ~Frank Sinatra

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, smarter, faster and better looking than most people.

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"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."  ~ Henny Youngman

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are  laughing WITH you.

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"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?  I think not."  ~ Stephen Wright

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause you to think you can sing.

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"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.  When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!" ~ Brian O'Rourke

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause pregnancy.

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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." ~ Benjamin Franklin

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like a
moron.

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"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza." ~ Dave Barry

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell your friends over and over again that you love them.

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To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a Support Group. Salvation in a can! ~ Dave Howell

WARNING: The consumption of alcohol may make you think you can logically converse with members of the opposite s e x without spitting.

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And saving the best for last, as explained by Cliff Clavin, of Cheers.  One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff Clavin was explaining the Buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm.  Here's how it went:

"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine."

That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers!