What do you think the consequences would be if I pulled the fire alarm at work?  I mean at school it was expulsion, but I mean is it worth firing me if I pulled one at work?  I think that would probably be the consequence, not that I’m going to pull it to find out, but let’s all admit that there is that innate urge inside us that when there is something to pull or push we just have the urge to try it.  Maybe that is just me, but you have at least, if you haven’t pulled one, considered it.  But it got me thinking that it was a common occurrence in school, kids were always pulling the alarms.  At what point did everyone grow up and decide that they didn’t want to pull them?  It’s kind of an interesting thought if you think about it.  I mean can you imagine if you were at work and the fire alarm went off every couple weeks because some office co-worker was playing a prank or while perusing the aisles of the super market the alarms going off is a regular occurrence.  That would be pretty funny, or sad I guess!  But something random to think about!

Weekend Update tomorrow!

(photo by me)

Feeling sentimental lately, probably due to to much time left to my own thoughts, which can be a good and a bad thing I think, you have days like that, right?  Not that I’m dwelling on anything in particular, my mind is just full for the day.

Another batch of great rain storms to follow this week, I’m loving it.

You may, or may not, have noticed that my post as of last week were a little, well non-existent.  As I wrote at the beginning of the week, last week, my health was well not so great.  And though the 102 degree fever abated and I was slowly on the mend from that, I was battling the green (yes lovely) goop, pain and MASSIVE headaches that seemed to have seeped into my eye sockets at some point during the long lovely weekend.  By Wednesday my eyes looked like they were right out of a horror flick, no photo guys, it was too embarrassing, I even wore my sunglasses inside at the Dr. office so I wouldn’t scare the children.  So with my zombie eyes in tow it was off to see Dr. M and get his take on the eye situation.  He took one look and said; in a very serious and YES scary voice, “I’m EXTREMELY worried about your eyes, you are in DANGER of loosing your eye sight.” I freaked out inside, going blind was not exactly something I wanted to mess with.  Dr. M prescribed some fantastic eye drops and told me to get to the eye Dr.

I hurried and got an appointment to see Dr. Eye.  Dr. Eye came to the same conclusion, though he said with rest, the medication, and some other drops (steroids, nothing like building eye muscles!) there would be no permanent damage, but I really needed to rest Rest REST, keeping my lovely browns shut and on the repair.  So I followed his instructions, going outside was out of the question anyway, I was practically like a vampire by this point, my eyes being so sensitive to bright light, yes even that of this computer monitor, so my activity was limited.  Which all leads back to the reason for my absence as of late.  But my eyes can stand the monitor, as long as I don’t look at it for more than a few seconds at a time.

So I’m returning to the world of the light and color this week.  With hopes that in the weeks to come I will have gotten rid of this nasty eye infection entirely.

Thanks to my sweetheart for his constant help.

Well after the long weekend packed full of activities by the end my body succumbed to a 102 degree fever and 2 swollen eyes, from who knows what.  My body is on lock down and all I can do is lay here with my eyes half open and burning, my throat on fire and the hope that this Excedrin PM will finally kick in and knock me out so that I can get over my misery.  So I apologize for my lack of posts, but there is my excuse.  Here is hoping I’m better tomorrow.

I have been through the ringer.  I work in a job where I am regularly and without care verbally abused.  No, not by my employer but by my customers.  And after yesterday I’m about done with it.  They yell at me and treat me poorly, and then I’m just suppose to shake it off and act happy for the remainder of my day.  AND You know I’m finding it hard to just shake somethings off.  I know it’s not personal, but it’s not my fault they are in that situation and still they treat me badly.  I thought coming into this job I had a thick skin, I could stand up for myself and take it, the customer is always right, NOT.  But this job has taught me that as thick as I thought my skin was, it’s thinker now, and needs to be even more so.  Men seem to be better at brushing this stuff off, I think we women are emotional but I don’t think that is a bad thing.  We have heart and emotions so that we can be more understanding of those around us, I think we were made this way for a reason.  I just wish I could turn a key and shut it off for my work day and forget it even happened.
You remember that talk or story where it talks about a father coming home and he stops by a tree everyday and gently touches the leafs, letting all the cares of his job go away, you remember that story?  I wish I could do that, it takes a lot of courage and self discipline.  I’m not good at that.  I hurt for the things they have said, that they yelled at me or treated me like I was an idiot.  It’s quite hurtful.  I need to find ways to get over it, so that I don’t internalize it, so that I can move on and be happy when I get home.  Any ideas of how to get over a no good rotten day?  And how to do it constantly?
So yesterday I burst out of my office in tears felt the sun on my face and dashed for the car, it was a bad day and you can only take so much of a bad day like yesterday.  I cried all the way home and as I plopped down on the sofa my phone rang and it was my Dad.  His cheerful voice rang over the phone asking if I was coming over tonight, even at my age and married he still looks after me.  His sweetness, made me cry more, he knew to call me when I was really down.  I recounted the day and he listened, and loved me, I needed that.  Then he said “come over and get some fresh air, we’ll garden, you’ll talk, and we’ll have some dinner.” The day was better from there, Thanks to my Super Dad, and a side of my Super Mom.  They have given me the strength to face the morrow, they were my leafs and I really appreciate that.

I don’t know if I’ll ever get over the unkind words of the day before.  But at least I have the courage to face the new ones that may come.  On to life.

Happier Posts for the rest of the week, I promise!

I had a dentist appointment today, I was conned into going!  My Mr. needed to go it to check up on his teeth and so he made the call to schedule himself an appointment.  I have been avoiding the Dentists office like a plague, every time, NO MATTER how well I brush, floss, poke, whatever I always have a cavity without fail.  My Mr is cavity free and always has been, so he doesn’t understand my pain.  It’s so bad I have the dentist phone number in my phone and yes, OH YES I screen that call every time, they have been leaving me messages for a year now and I just can’t bring myself to return the call.  So I have done pretty good to avoid them.  It all came to an end with My Mr’s call, he found out he already had an appointment for later in the week, but while he was on the phone with them he SNEAKILY scheduled one for me, and not just for any day but the very next day!  Devastated, I even tried to get out of it saying, “they won’t want to see me I have bronchitis!’ But My Mr wasn’t having it and he called and asked all the questions and they said “come on in!” So I was bummed.

The X-rays were taken and I sat in the chair as the hygienist went to work sparkling up my pearly whites and giving me the low-down on what extra stuff I could do to make my teeth better.  Then the moment of truth came as Dr. B walk in, in his sky blue scrubs and shining smile.  She looked over my X-rays and teeth, then poked around a bit, I sat silent waiting for him to say, “when should we schedule your filling?” But it never came and at the last moment as he hit the button to return me to a seated position he said in what seemed to me to be a heroic voice “And NO cavity’s for you!” I quite literally threw my fists in the air, almost hitting the mouth light thingy, and rejoiced!  They handed me my bag of goodies, they always give us a bag of goodies (dental goodies but free loot non the less) don’t you love that, and I walk to my car in triumph!  Perfect way to start my day, and the is the first time I have ever said anything nice about the dentist!

I had a rather interesting experience at Walmart recently.  As I got to the checkout the young man checked my stuff out and handed me the pen.  I grabbed it and saw that it was a University of Utah pen, handing a pen like that out in a Utah County Walmart is asking for those comments (which is probably why he did it, anyway).  In my joking I said “what’s with this pen?” and then laughed.  The young man no older than 20 look at me, straight faced and said “I don’t like BYU, in fact I hate everything about BYU!” Shocked by his seriousness I looked down and finished signing and said “Oh well I’m sorry about that.” To which he replied “I’m not I hate them!” Then I walked away.  I was really shocked by this kid and his rudeness in my attempt to make a joke and a connection.  Now please forgive me if I don’t take the BYU UTAH rivalry very seriously I just think it is fun to have a rival.  I also happen to have a few relatives who attend the U and I personally think it is an amazing school.  They have fantastic national ranking programs and offer neat opportunities to there community I have nothing bad to say about the school, it is a quality institution.  However it is again the “ULTRA” fans of the school that really frustrate me.  Other than the sporting events what else do the fans dislike so greatly about BYU?  I’m sure other than the rivalry games there is nothing else they would even know about the actual school.  No doubt the infamous comments by Max Hall last year have only given fuel to the “ULTRA” fans fire, but again forgive me, after my experience with the young man at the check out I couldn’t help but think “Does Max have a point here?”  No I don’t agree with what Max did, he was hopped up and adrenalin and said somethings he shouldn’t have, I’m not defending nor agreeing with him.  But I do think that fans, on both sides need to view this rivalry in a different perspective, that it’s a GAME, that it’s fun and it’s meant to be.  Beyond that both schools have a lot to offer academically and there origins (if people believe it or not) are the same.  We should be looking at the schools as family, with a little sibling rivalry here and there to make it interesting.  But being rude to a total stranger is completely inappropriate and let’s face it TACKY, none of my Utah family members say anything like that to me.  So I guess I will chalk it up to the fact that the young man at Walmart had a Max Hall moment and sadly the cameras weren’t there to catch it.

Interesting article below avid facebookers!  And I have to agree!  No comment, text, or tweet really makes up for the face to face.  I will even accept a personal email to a facebook message.  There is something about the site that doesn’t feel sincere.  Being personal doesn’t mean that you put it out there for all to see in a relationship.  Somethings are meant to be personal and private.  I think it helps them to mean more.  We can share on facebook and blogs some experiences but it takes actual interaction to make those moments happen.  We wouldn’t blog around how we thought about going out with friends and having a picnic, it wouldn’t mean anything, but actually going out and doing it gives us all the sensory stimuli we need to make lasting and enduring relationships.  It is in the face to face time spent that real relationships are made, not over a networking site.

Read the article here!  Or check below for a copy of it.

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) – Nothing makes us happier than our families and loved ones, a new study shows, with face-to-face socializing beating reaching out to people online hands down.

The Happiness Barometer, conducted in 16 countries across the globe, was based on the Coca-Cola Happiness Index, which surveyed between 500 to 1,000 people per country.

Almost two-fifths, or 40 percent, of those surveyed said catching up with their loved ones after work was the happiest time of their day, while more than 20 percent said they were happiest when eating with their families.

By contrast, only 5 percent said they were happiest when connecting with friends online, and even less — 2 percent — said the first text message of the day made them joyful.

Families and partners were, by far, the biggest source of happiness for almost 80 percent of those surveyed, with friends coming up next at 15 percent.

“Despite our celebrity driven culture, fame is not likely in itself to be a primary source of happiness. Instead, real happiness depends on our connecting with people, especially through love and kindness,” the study said.

Hugs and food also made a lot of people happy, especially in Britain and Russia, where almost a third of people said they are likely to find comfort in a hug or seek it in food.

The countries surveyed were France, Italy, Spain, Britain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Russia, South Africa, China, Philippines, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and the United States.

(Writing by Miral Fahmy; editing by Bill Tarrant)