Today vs Yesterday

Today I wanted to stay in my nice warm bed.

Yesterday I was up with the sun and the chickens.

Today the alarm screamed at me, to get out of bed.

Yesterday, I was up! Cleaning the house and making breakfast, before the chicken woke.

Today my hot shower did not last long enough.

Yesterday-I should of slept in.

Today...I had to go to work. Today was MONDAY.

Yesterday was Sunday, the day of rest. And I was buzzing around like a bee.

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Spring Break is nearing! Hope your travel plans are in order. Including your passports.

Girls if you recently married, make sure you changed your name not only at your local Department of Motor Vehicles, (or Secretary of States) but also Social Security Administration Office, see Social Security Card Application.

While I was cleaning yesterday I came across my "BIBLE". If you haven't read this book, please do. Please go to the library and borrow the book. Go to the bookstore --sit in a comfy chair for a couple of hours and read these words. They are very important...and these words will put you on your road to DEBT REDUCTION and "FREEDOM"!

Yesterday I ran out to the store for toothpaste, toothbrush, and crackers. I ended up getting-toothpaste, a toothbrush, crackers, a phone, vicks rub for my cold, and a new book. I normally purchase books from the bookstore. Not the grocery store. In addition, I am normally able to control my spending. Not so--last night. Toothpaste, toothbrush, crackers, and a phone??? What was I thinking??

Well I guess it was this book. I read the first couple of pages and laughed so hard in the isle that I needed the vicks for my throat. Take a peak. I can't wait to review the other books in the series.

WimpyKidBooks

Time to go read. Talk to you tomorrow!

Things and Stuff

• A friends 15 year old teenager stole a car today!

What changes a kid? A teenager?

Parents are so excited about the birth of their child, the piddle-patter of their little feet on the hard-wood floor. Parents are excited about the child's baseball games, and stories their child has to tell....and then one day--he steels a CAR! Why? What happens between innings?

I am so afraid of parenting and parenting wrong. That is why I don't want to raise children of my own. With the world changing so quickly today--

• Work frustrating and demanding
• My dog is frustrating me. She is requiring me to go to all lengths of 'dog-parenting', in order to keep her safe.
• Totally crazy in love!
• Sick twice in the last month. Once with the flu and once with the cold. UGG
• Some days, actually most days I don't want to answer another question, after 5pm! I don't even want to use my noggin. I just want to relax.
• I "really" need to complete the flex-spending refund papers to withdraw my funds! However that requires a completion of a several page documents finding receipts, and mailing the forms. Blah!
• I am officially over the government helping or providing tax relief. I am working on my taxes and discovered that because of my Adjusted Gross Income, I don't qualify for some tax relief, cut, discounts etc... I am more frustrated about my student loan interest and not being able to claim all my interest because of Adjusted Gross Income and single. I obtain my education, borrow extensively for my education, earn a good living and now the government 'gets' me. NICE.
• After I eat, every time, I wonder if there is food stuck between my teeth.
• I am in the process of being debt free--2009
• I chew gum. To mask the coffee breath. To help my cotton mouth and to prevent me from grinding my teeth.
• I would like to devote a more time to this site....

New Year-Transformation

2009 will bring a year of decisions.

Will bring a year of change. And will bring a year of paying off debt.

By the end of 2009: I WILL BE DEBT FREE EXCEPT FOR MY STUDENT LOANS!!!

2009 will bring a year of self reflection and more-self-discovery.

2009 will bring listening to my inner self--the "inner-voice" more often. Listening to the voice and the feeling felt. I will not disregard my thoughts or emotions...I will listen and pay attention, MORE.

2009 --means traveling. .More Adventures.

What does 2009 bring for you?

Decision

Ever feel too much time is spent making a decision?

Ever feel like a decision, a choice is labored and belabored "to-death".

I wonder if decisions could be made with a little less, intensity, and with a little more haste. If decision were made with more haste would/could the same result happen, as if they were labored? If there wasn't a slue of individuals to consult, obtain their opinion in order to make an "educated decision". What would happen...if we took the facts presented and "just" made the decision.

Just the facts and the decision. Easy? Right?

I having been wondering the above---because I am reading BLINK. An interesting book about decision making, or lack of decision making abilities some people experience. 

I work with people daily, who have to make decisions. Some individuals are 100% positive with the direction they are going, while others, are very unsure and looking for advise. Any advise. Willing to take a complete strangers advise and suggestions over their own gut feelings. Or even unwilling, uneasy about taking a some time to consider their options.

In my experience past and present: if individuals "listened" to the facts, looking at the pros and cons for just a moment . Before making a decision, would we better off? Rather than asking a complete and total stranger what "they think?". Or making a decision in haste.

I have a friend who can't make a decision to save her life. Seriously she consultants everybody on her contact list: Cell phone and email regarding what she should do and then she's confused and frustrated by everybody's responds. I have learned with her, not to give her an opinion. Instead I ask her what she thinks she should do.

As wonder through life, more seriously now that in the past. I have started to become serious about my decision making. I used to make decisions without much thought. Whatever struck my fancy--change jobs, buy a house, sell a house, relocate, change schools, get a new car --not a problem. All in a days work. Now, not so much. I don't want to move. To scared to buy a new car when mine is running perfectly, sell my house...are you kidding me? And the odd thing is...I make like 6x more money now, than I did then. It is because, I had nothing to loose, then? Or is it because I have everything to gain, now?

Maybe I am be-laboring my decisions now--ekk :) For some reason...???

Decision making and the time it takes us to make a decision is interesting to 'reflect on".

Has your decision making process changed? How do you make your decision?

Perspective--

Have you ever felt so drained that you have no more there?

Needing an over due recharge.

Work has been full on stressful. As stressed as I am, I am trying to keep everything in perspective. I feel like I give my job everything during the work hours, and that my employer does not give anything back in return...other than my paycheck every 2 weeks.

That is not enough.

Is it management's job to make "wee little one's job" difficult and frustrating?

Is it management's job to sit back and watch the work happen and complain when it's not happening fast enough?

The life is being sucked out of me.

My position, my role, my future and what happens today just doesn't matter. Just doesn't matter--I am a drone doing the best that I can do to complete the job. I need to remember that the road blocks and detours that are placed in front of me, make me a better worker, a better employee...more over a better person.

I need to keep everything in perspective, and not get bogged down emotionally. That it's okay if management asks and requests me to do one more task or duty in an eight hour day, and I feel like my head will explode! That if I see management in "yet" another meeting, talking about meeting again...I will just smile and know I am doing my job. That I am earning my paycheck. Rather than being unproductive, like some individuals.