Dragon Con

Dragon Con has hit Atlanta, meaning there's lot of interesting sights to see downtown. At work, I sit on the side of the building that overlooks many of the hotels. My aisle was a popular place today as you could see the line of convention goers that measured many city blocks. The men on the floor couldn't get enough of it. They were looking for binoculars...

I am not sure if Ishould be distrubed or impressed that Hello Kitty is everywhere.

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It's For A Good Cause

How hard could it be? I volunteered to be the HR Team Captain for my company. My task - recruit 15 walkers (out of a large HR organization) and raise a total of $3,000.

I completely underestimated my co-workers and fellow HR colleagues ability to ignore me.

Things That Make Me Happy

A clean house. Saturday is my cleaning day. By Sunday you wouldn't know it. But this past Saturday, I cleaned everything. I mean a "on your knees scrub the floors clean" clean. It was especially gratifying because Mister worked all day Saturday. I wan't cleaning around him, it was a full on clean.

The happy part is that we've managed to keep it clean ALL week long. And by clean I mean everything in it's place. Nothing laying around. Bliss.

I am not sure everyone was on board at first or realized the happiness it was bringing me until I got up out of bed on Sunday night to clean up the kitchen, which is usually left a mess, when Mister came to bed. I think the clanking of dishes said all there was to say and it's been clean sailing since...

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It's the Little Things

Blogger access from work! Hap, hap, happy! But nothing to say. Gotta take the good with bad.

Focus on Happy

Do you ever feel that way? Like they just don't get it. I do quite a bit at work when we're talking about recruiting (that's what I do)

But I feel it even more when I think about how I structure my days, my weeks, my months. Like I don't get it.

I feel like I spend the majority of my life hurrying from one thing to the next; on the way to the end of the day, the end of the week, the next year, something different, the next stage of life...I have a great life and I am hurrying through it without evening noticing what makes it good.

If I look back on my week, it looks like this - work, traffic, work, traffic, work, traffic,work, traffic, work, traffic. It goes without saying traffic sucks. Work, is work. It keeps me busy, pays the bills. I work for a great company but at the end of my life I am not wanting to remember traffic and life in a cube.(cubes also suck). It's time to add a whole lot of happy into my days, weeks, months. Man, it's easy to get lost in the rat race. Do you have any secrets to finding balance? to not living on autopilot? to getting the most out of life?

Conspiracy

See that little swirling circle in the middle of the picture? It stops me from being able to post. I only get it at work. I think its a conspiracy.
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Eat Pray Love

Is anyone going to see the movie today/tonight? Anyone read the book? I was invited to go see it with a group of ladies tonight who I always enjoy their company but I lack Time Energy Sleep.

Dancin Shoes

The dress for the reunion didn't matter. It was the shoes that got all the attention. Worth every inch and every cent.

The reunion was a ton of fun.

The Breakfast of Champions

or the breakfast of someone who went to the informal class reunion get together and realized an extra pound or two is no big thing. Just about everyone has one or two. Plus I can only get these doughnuts at home.
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Cashin Out

My parents idea of fun. Playing the slots. My fun, people watching.

I smell like a cigarette and I saw a lady carrying her phone in her cleavage. Quite an afternoon.
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Indiana Bound

11 hours in the car with Mister. Not sure why we need the GPS when we clearly know where we are going. From what I've seen so far I the better driver and that's not saying much. Wish us luck.
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Schools In

cue Josie Cotton singing Schools In (any Valley Girl fans out there?)

Lolly starts high school today. Fingers crossed it's a drama free4 years. Who am I kidding, I'll be happy with an easy transitition for Freshman year.


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Hating Julie

Seems like this has been on tv a lot lately. I only like to watch the Julia parts. The Julie parts just make me want to kick the crap out of her.

I am trying to ignore analyzing what that says about me...

Mister Mister

Happy Anniversary.

Thanks for 6 interesting years!

TGIF

I've tried unsuccessfully to post through blogger for the last 30 mins and I am tired of fighting with it.
Thank goodness it's Friday... I just have to get through my mid-year performance review today. In light of recent events I am really hoping to remain silent, smile, and ride out the rest of the work week.
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Conversation Hangover

Yesterday started bad and ended worst with me raising my voice to my boss. Not my finest moment. Today I have that yuck feeling. The did I really do that feeling. I can't wait for it to pass.

Thank goodness I am heading out of town next Thursday for my reunion. Obviously a break is needed. Even better Lolly returns home today after spending the summer with her dad. Soon work will seem less important and my perspective will be better centered. If I could only shake this yuck feeling.
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Some Days

It's just one of those "I want to punch somebody in the face days". You know those days when you feel like if just one more thing irritates you, you are going to go all Michael Douglas in Falling Down . I am having one of those days.

In a case of I don't know if I should laugh or cry , today I've reviewed resumes of people with the following first names, and I promise I am not making this up...

Sparkle

Princess

Lovely

Lasagna

so I guess I should just consider myself lucky and go on with my day. It could be worse I could be named Lasagna Fowler. Oh and thanks Mom, I'll stop complaining that I only got a three letter name.

edit 2:40pm - add Tangy to the above list, seriously.

Next Saturday

I will be running the Flamingo 5K. It's for a great cause but to be honest I was sold on the pink and green. So sold on the pink and green that I am ignoring the fact that I may have run this course on Thanksgiving a couple of years ago and found it less than flat!

Curosity Can Be A Good Thing

Yesterday Mister instructed me to go to his facebook page to get the funeral arrangements for a friend's mother so we could send flowers.

While in there, I ended up in his messages (don't judge).Now I don't condone snooping but if you do I hope your lucky enough to see something like this...

"...I married the love of my life..."

Don't tell Mister but that just bought him a whole lot of husband points. I think I'll be way less annoyed by him for awhile.
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Record Time

In an attempt to broaden my horizons, I went to a near by farmer's market this past Saturday morning. I saw these...

Beautiful, no? ...Not if you saw them today. 3 days flat and their just about dead. Not sure what I did wrong...

Sad. I am not sure what I miss most, the beautiful flowers or my $10...