Top Three Pet Peeves

1. Hearing someone chew, snap gum, chomp ice, etc.
2. People who cut in line
3. People who let their kids eat and drink during church. Seriously, it's a hour, they can make it. And we wonder why we have a generation of overweight kids. We teach them to eat for
entertainment.

However, comment problems on blogger may soon crack the my top 3...

I can't drive 55

or 65, or 45, or anything within 5 miles of the posted speed limit.

Nothing like a newly permitted driver to make you realize how little you really remember about the rules of the road.

Maybe we should get one of these magnets now that Lolly's driving.

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One Week

This time next week I'll be on way home. (Mister thinks it strange that as a middle aged woman (gasp) I still refer to my parents place at home.)

I am looking forward too many things while I am on vacation...an 11 hr road trip with Lolly, a wedding, a 4th of July baseball game, a large does of extended family time...

But most of all, I am looking forward to unplugging from work. I am there. You know, that place where the little things that you normally brush off are now enough to drive you crazy. Ya, that place. I am living in it till the end of business next Thursday. I've told my co-workers if you hear me sobbing in my cube, just ignore it. But, I am gonna be strong. I think everyone is ready for a vacation and I am worried if I start to cry it will set off a chain reaction. You know the kind, like when one baby starts to cry and then every baby in the vicinity joins in... one week...

Top Three Things to Accomplish this Summer

1. Clean out the storage area
2. Lose 5lbs
3. Take a trip to Indiana.

ok so #3's not so hard but the first two - wish me luck.

Anybody else have a to do list for the summer?

Monday Already

Who the hell stole my weekend? Still yawning after 2 cups of coffee.

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Meet the Silver Lady

Seems when the dealership needs to move some vehicles they actually can sell a car for what they once said was not possible.

I am lovin her. She's loaded with all the bells and whistles and lots of safety features. All very nice for someone stuck in traffic 2 hours a day Monday thru Friday.

Top Three Tuesday

Top Three Ways to Relieve Stress:

1. Run
2. Watch movies
3. Read

At first I really thought eating should be on the list but when I thought harder I realized that eating is really a stress enhancer. Eat to relieve stress, then stress about what you just ate and how you're going to lose 10lbs. Vicious cycle.

How do you relieve stress?

In Need of Rehab

I've fallen off the wagon. I am puffy and cranky and craving sugar. I tell you it's like liquid crack to me.

Tomorrow - cold turkey. No diet pop and no sugar, minus the two Newman O's I'll allow myself. (one step at a time)

I should have been a teacher

Not because I love children or want to contribute to the betterment of the world (all of which I do) but because the idea of having the summer off sounds so stinkin awesome.

Momentary Lapse of Sanity

This weekend I thought I wanted to buy a new car. One with everything. One to drive until the wheels fall off.

I started with Honda CRVs but just didn't feel it. If I am going to make a long term committment I have to feel the love. So I moved on to Toyota RAV4s. Found one with all the bells and whistles. Loved it, made my skip a beat.

But alas, 2 dealerships, 2 salesman, 2 managers, and no RAV4 for me. I am a bottom line kind of girl. If you can't meet the price I want to pay there's no amount explaination, sales techniques, etc that are going to work. And I have no problem cutting you off, thanking for your time and getting back to livin life and rollin around town in my used based out Rolla.

Go Big or Go Home

I received a small promotion yesterday at work. I am very happy but feel a little funny about it in that it was long in coming. (Something I should have probably asked for coming in the door, but while I can negotiate for others, I am not that good at for myself.) Yesterday when I was living my boss's office he asked how I'd like to handle the announcement because he'd like to let the rest of the team know. My reply was can we keep it on the down low.

A little hard to keep it on the down low when Mister sent these flowers. And in true Mister style the flowers came with a box of candy, a teddy bear and a Congratulations balloon. I love that man!

How the heck I am getting these out the building without any questions?

Top Three Tuesday

Give me your top three places you love to vacation.

Mine:

1. Indiana - seems lame but there really is no place like home.

2. New Orleans, actually make that the French Quarter with a drink in my hand people watching.

3. I'd like to say Florence or Paris, but I've only been once. So I'll go with some place on the water - I am not particular, or in a particular hurry to get back to the water since putting on a swimsuit seems far from relaxing these days.

Man, I want a vacation!

Memorial Day

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

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Top Three Tuesday

What are your top three favorite ice cream flavors?

Mine:

Chocolate Chip (old school chocolate chip, not chocolate chip cookie dough)

Extreme Moose Tracks (Kroger Private Selection)

Strawberry (preferably with chunks of real strawberries)
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Small Message, Big Impact

I just finished reading Small Message, Big Impact by Terri Sjodin



I was interested in this book because it's about how to put the power of the elevator speech effect to work for you. You know the elevator speech - the three minute spiel to sell yourself, your services, your ideas, etc. The elevator speech makes me uncomfortable because selling anything makes me uncomfortable.


While I was interested in the book it took me a while to actually pick it up and start reading. I didn't have to read far into the book to realize I should have picked it up right away.


This book is full of valuable information and helpful tools, whether you are developing an elevator speech or a longer presentation. I can count at least three missed opportunities where I could have benefited from the information in this book the week before I started reading this book. From the basic of how to have structured a presentation I gave down to how to determine the amount of time spent of each area of the presentation to how to define my intention when presenting an idea to my boss for buy-in.

Good for anyone in sales, anyone who presents, and more importantly anyone who is not comfortable with either of those situations.

The day after

Top Three Tuesday

My top three movies (at this time) are....

You've Got Mail, Beautiful Girls, and Torch Song Trilogy

Now tell me what movies make your top three list.

The Beginning and The End

It started like this

and ended like this

more to come...

Warrior Dash

Next Saturday at 8:00am Lolly and I will be running the Warrior Dash in North Georgia with a dear friend and her daughter.

There's been no prep and I don't like to get dirty but I do believe I am mentally tough. I hope I am not proven wrong...

Good Riddance

Something tells me that there weren't any virgins waiting on him...











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Royal Wedding

The wedding, Will, Kate, they're all fabulous but what I want is more of him.Everything about him says "Let's get in some trouble". If I was young, single, and located in England I'd be crushin all over him.

Adele - Rolling In The Deep

Man, I wish I could belt out a song like Adele!

Quinze

Lolly turns 15 today. Which she told me means that she's half way to 30 and 5 years from 20.

I now need a slice of cake, or a drink...

Detroit Comes to the ATL

August 28 I want to be sittin on the lawn at Lakewood Amphitheatre watching Don't judge...I have a 20% chance of talking Mister into joining me.

First Thoughts

When I saw this at Walmart today my fisrt thought was "suck it SI" Not sure if it's the ice cream high I am coming down from or if its the picture of "beauty" their trying to sell us that pisses me off.

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Reading Instead of Writing

Lately when I am not working, I can be found sitting and reading, and re-reading. Books, magazines, blogs. Well maybe not enough blogs. See, I do my best blog reading at work. I've been busy at work so busy I haven't been able to stop by all my favorite blogs. I am not a slacker at work, really I promise. Whenever I need a brain dump, say after veiwing a couple hundred resumes, I will spend a few minutes catching up on my favorite blogs. It energizes me. Clears my head. Enough about me, I am off to read about you all...

My Head is Pounding

All day long my head has been killing me. I couldn't drink enough coffee to get the hurt to go away. I tried all day long. Finally it dawned on me, it's not a lack of caffeine. I am going through sugar withdrawls. I probably should have figured it out sooner but it's hard to think straight when you're strung out on sugar.

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Fat Tuesday

Happy Mardi Gras Y'all! Rest assure I will do my best to put the Fat in Fat Tuesday. Enjoy your day to the fullest!

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