Sunday, July 1, 2007What's Holding YOU Back?Partol Sargeant... I mean Success Warrior... asked a very interesting and thought-provoking question in his blog yesterday, and it sparked the following ideas for me. The question was "What is the biggest obstacle holding you back from success?" My first thought was, "Duh! Murphy moved into my spare... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, June 30, 2007What a Great Idea!I have been listening to a radio show off-and-on for years. Its time slot makes it hard for me to catch it, but, when I do, I always enjoy the show. I learned about two years ago that the host of the show is my father's boss's cousin. And for the past couple of years, the host (Mr. Horrell) has been... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, June 28, 2007An Odd Way to Watch TelevisionMonday night is all about Hell's Kitchen at our house. It's one of the few shows I will actually record if I can't be home to watch. This past Monday, though, presented us a real problem in getting to watch our show. Hell's Kitchen comes on at 8. On Monday at 6:30, a severe thunderstorm moved... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, June 13, 2007Keep Your Hands Off My Car!I got something in the mail yesterday that really has me seeing red. Apparently there is a bill making its way through Congress that seeks to limit the type of vehicles we can drive, the type of engines we can have in our vehicles, and the gas mileage of those vehicles. Whatever happened to the land... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, June 7, 2007Put the Pampered Princess Back in the Clink!Paris Hilton wouldn't stop crying, and, in a mere 72 hours of lockup time, was "sinking into a deep depression," so they let her out. Sure, she's confined to home, but, crikey!, have you seen her home?! Look, the spoiled little brat broke the law. And she needs to pay the penalty. And she needs to... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, June 4, 2007Hell's Kitchen -- the "Kitchen B--ches"Gordon Ramsay has his work cut out for him this go-round on Hell's Kitchen. Now, I want to say first off that I find Chef Ramsay's foul-mouthed ranting to be very unprofessional and off-putting. But with the stress and pressure of running a top-notch fine-dining establishment, I suppose one's... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, May 28, 2007Memorial DayIt's Memorial Day here in the States, and I'm off work. Seemed a good time to catch up on a lot of tasks, and since I haven't been able to blog for a week, writing a few posts was top of the list. It's Memorial Day. I remember. My brother, who was in Marine boot camp at Parris Island during the... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, May 15, 2007Want a Good Laugh?This made me laugh so hard I almost fell out of my chair. You must use an address in North America for this to work. If you live elsewhere, pick a random US address like 200 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, USA. First, open Google Earth on your computer. If you haven't already done so, you will... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, May 7, 2007Lessons Learned at a Baseball GameWhat they say is true: you can learn a lot of important life lessons playing baseball. Here are some lessons that my children learned this weekend. On Saturday, we got to the field about 15 minutes early. The rest of our team trickled in over the next ten minutes, and by game time, we had ten... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, May 3, 2007Tax Credits for Stay-Home MomsIt's an idea whose time needs to come. And come soon. Salary.com's most recent survey quantifying the wage equivalent of a stay-home mother's work shows that stay-home moms log 92-hour work weeks, and perform at least 10 discrete jobs, including day-car teacher, cook, housekeeper, and CEO. Yeah, you... Sign in to see full entry. |