I can be very opinionated. A bit bossy. So I love things like "my 2 cents." (And for someone so bossy, I can be easily swayed. I also don't mind submitting to someone else's plan if I think it's up to snuff.) So here are some random bullets of things that recently have been whirling around in my pondering brain.
- Family businesses - don't do it. If it's good, it's very very good, if it is bad, it's tremendously awful. The holidays are hard enough as it is, do we really have to look forward to shifting visits to Grandma's now?
- Still thinking about the family business? STOP. Now go find some non- relation to employ you.
- There is nothing better than a kid running down a slippery hallway towards YOU and YOU ALONE. It's better than every romantic movie montage you've ever seen, people running through airports, across golden plains - it's just better. It's especially hilarious when she slips halfway there and gets back up and keeps running.
- If someone has shown you they can't be trusted, believe it. It doesn't mean you can't like them, laugh with them, but for the sake of all that's holy don't trust them with any state secrets. Especially any of your own.
- See above. About five times.
- Did you know that you could be holding a cup of coffee and the cup could totally BREAK AWAY from the handle? And you could be left holding the handle and then have coffee all over your lap and keyboard? Yes, it's true. It happened to me this morning. I'm typing all of this on a brand new keyboard. One that I don't have to slam against the desk every so often to make the space bar work.
- My husband is more handsome and lovable with every single rise and fall of the sun. He is simply the bees' knees. He hates being complimented, so I thought I'd tell you instead.
- Six o' clock comes far too early. And sleeping between hitting the snooze is the best sleep of all.
- Being entraced with Hugh Hefner's girlfriends doesn't mean that you have lost touch with reality. It only means that you are very comfortable with pasties.
I've had that happen with a cup handle...freaky. And the running down the hallway to you? It's only better when they reach an age where they can leap under their own power into your arms. ;)
Posted by: Marilyn | Monday, July 31, 2006 at 12:48 AM
Some excellent points, punctuated with amusing observations. Well done!
Posted by: Paris Parfait | Monday, July 31, 2006 at 07:42 AM
Pasties are so, so, Janet Jackson. I think everyone should watch Hugh Hefner's girls at least once a week. Why? Just so you can see the way life will never work for everyone else.
Posted by: keith | Monday, July 31, 2006 at 09:47 AM
pasties??? hmmmm.... how do those things work?
although i'v never had a coffee cup break off in my hand (not a coffee drinker) i have had the handles on a plastic bag give while i was walking to the car from walmart. luckily they replaced everything that broke...
Posted by: la vie en rose | Monday, July 31, 2006 at 02:00 PM
Mine was a big mug full of hot soup. OY!
Posted by: lizardek | Monday, July 31, 2006 at 03:30 PM
My de-handled cup held tea many years ago - fortunately there was a table blocking most of the hot liquid from my lap and legs (and no keyboard to get splashed) - but I still remember that split-second of jaw-dropped, non-comprehension: where it seemed like someone had clicked my life over to the cartoon channel. Hope you didn't get burned badly - by the coffee or family business or whoever can't keep secrets.
Wishing you many more hallway moments :)
Posted by: tinker | Tuesday, August 01, 2006 at 12:57 AM
This is a great post - anything that causes laughter out loud at work is truly great.
Posted by: Roadchick | Wednesday, August 02, 2006 at 03:18 PM