Last Friday night I met the girls for dinner in Fell's Point.
I'll start by saying that any place that allows you to BYOB (or W, in our case) is alright with me.
It's a sushi place called Asahi that is the size of a shoebox but serves out of this world Edamame and Sushi. We had a great meal and a lot of wine and talked non- stop about everything from work issues, to the size of our respective... well...boobs if you must know. And you must. Because everyone else certainly knew.
You see, when we all get together we tend to talk loudly (and by we, I mean ME of course). So there we are sitting, talking, eating, drinking and having a merry old time when the discussion turns from work woes to boob size. And for some odd reason I point across the table at one of my loveliest friends and proclaim her a B-Cup! It is at this point that a small, Asian waiter stops at the edge of our table and smiling widely, yells out, "You not B. You A+!!!"
We dissolved into embarassed laughter, our faces red, and our bellies full.
It's moments like those that I look back on and smile about days and weeks after.
It's moments like those that make me love my friends because of who they are and the knowledge that they love me for (or despite) who I am.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Secret
For a few weeks now I have been working on something. And at first, you may think it's silly but hear me out.
It's the secret of life. And it can be bought for 30% off at your local Borders bookstore. The book is (quite simply) entitled "The Secret." It is focused on the guiding law of the universe, the Law of Attracation. And put in it's simplest form the Law of Attraction states that "Like attracts like."
Basically, your thoughts are what determine the path of your life.
The book is relatively short and is the compiled work of over 50 people who are living the lives they always wanted.
I'll try to sum up the basic ideas:
1. Ask for what you want in your life.
2. Believe that you deserve it
3. Receive it and be thankful for it (to God or the Universe- whatever you beleive in)
Have you ever thought about someone you hadn't seen in a while and then they suddenly call or appear in your life? It's not coincidence. It's the power of your thoughts.
Have you ever faced a difficult situation and the more you thought about how terrible it was, the worse it got?
Conversely, what if you woke up each and every day, and thanked God and the Universe that you are alive, awake, and have numerous blessings in your life? What if you wrote a list of all of the things that you passionately desire and then beleived you DESERVED them and when they appear you are genuinely GRATEFUL FOR THEM.
I guess for me, one of the biggest things I have taken from the book so far (and I am reading and re-reading it every day) is to find the GIFT in adversity. Look at the "problems" in life as opportunities. Change brings new growth. And sometimes, I forget that. So now I'm looking at things that would have normally upset me and finding the flower growing between concrete. There is ALWAYS something good hidden in something that seems bad.
The biggest change I have noticed, is a change in my personal and work relationships. People are suddenly being nicer to me. They are smiling more and I don't think it's because "people" are suddenly nicer, I think they are responding to what I am putting out there.
I've dealt with a lot in my life, and in the past I truly believed I didn't deserve to be happy. I beleived that bad things just kept happening to me. I had a victim mentality. What I've learned and continue to learn is that I was telling the Universe that I wanted bad things to happen. By focusing on negativity, I attracted negativity. I could feel tension in my shoulders and back and my face fell into a frown naturally. Who wants to talk to or be nice to someone who looks like that!!??
So my challenge to you, my friends, the people I love so much is to think positively today and from now on. Ask for what you want. Believe you deserve it. And receive it with gratitude.
And no, I'm not a hippie freak. I just want to be rich, happy, and eat cookie dough for breakfast. What more can a girl ask for?
It's the secret of life. And it can be bought for 30% off at your local Borders bookstore. The book is (quite simply) entitled "The Secret." It is focused on the guiding law of the universe, the Law of Attracation. And put in it's simplest form the Law of Attraction states that "Like attracts like."
Basically, your thoughts are what determine the path of your life.
The book is relatively short and is the compiled work of over 50 people who are living the lives they always wanted.
I'll try to sum up the basic ideas:
1. Ask for what you want in your life.
2. Believe that you deserve it
3. Receive it and be thankful for it (to God or the Universe- whatever you beleive in)
Have you ever thought about someone you hadn't seen in a while and then they suddenly call or appear in your life? It's not coincidence. It's the power of your thoughts.
Have you ever faced a difficult situation and the more you thought about how terrible it was, the worse it got?
Conversely, what if you woke up each and every day, and thanked God and the Universe that you are alive, awake, and have numerous blessings in your life? What if you wrote a list of all of the things that you passionately desire and then beleived you DESERVED them and when they appear you are genuinely GRATEFUL FOR THEM.
I guess for me, one of the biggest things I have taken from the book so far (and I am reading and re-reading it every day) is to find the GIFT in adversity. Look at the "problems" in life as opportunities. Change brings new growth. And sometimes, I forget that. So now I'm looking at things that would have normally upset me and finding the flower growing between concrete. There is ALWAYS something good hidden in something that seems bad.
The biggest change I have noticed, is a change in my personal and work relationships. People are suddenly being nicer to me. They are smiling more and I don't think it's because "people" are suddenly nicer, I think they are responding to what I am putting out there.
I've dealt with a lot in my life, and in the past I truly believed I didn't deserve to be happy. I beleived that bad things just kept happening to me. I had a victim mentality. What I've learned and continue to learn is that I was telling the Universe that I wanted bad things to happen. By focusing on negativity, I attracted negativity. I could feel tension in my shoulders and back and my face fell into a frown naturally. Who wants to talk to or be nice to someone who looks like that!!??
So my challenge to you, my friends, the people I love so much is to think positively today and from now on. Ask for what you want. Believe you deserve it. And receive it with gratitude.
And no, I'm not a hippie freak. I just want to be rich, happy, and eat cookie dough for breakfast. What more can a girl ask for?
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Kindness
Events of late have made me examine the topic of kindess, and the epidemic that is nearly bringing it to extinction (or so it seems).
Without going into specifics I have talked to many different people, both personally and professionally, and have come to the same conclusion: for the most part, kindess is being forgotten.
I'm not talking going out of your way, or grand getures, but the general day to day kindess that can really change the tide of things on that Monday where a smile, or hello makes all the difference.
I'll elaborate.
When picking up the phone at work, I am routinely interruped by this, "Let me speak with..."
Excuse me? Did you mean to interrupt me and then demand I "Let you speak with..."
I believe there's a better way.
How about, "Hi. How are you? May I speak with...?"
A few more words, but a huge change in tone, meaning, and my desire to help you.
It's the small things, like turning off your cell phone when it's not appropriate to have it on. Unless you are a Doctor with a patient on death's table, it's not necessary to be attached to your phone. You aren't that important. Give respect to the person in front of you. And they should do the same.
When you walk into a room, acknowledge people. Say hello and smile. You may be surprised at how much it changes how people see you and how they respond.
Think about how your actions affect others. Like a stone being thrown into a lake, the ripples reach far and wide. Do you want to be known as selfish? Do you want others to see you as the person that brings negative energy and makes life more difficult or do you want to bring joy and laughter where you walk?
Ok, so I can't be serious for long:
Look people. Don't be assholes. I mean serioulsy. Didn't we learn all of this crap in kindergarten? Let's leave the world a little bit better than we found it.
Without going into specifics I have talked to many different people, both personally and professionally, and have come to the same conclusion: for the most part, kindess is being forgotten.
I'm not talking going out of your way, or grand getures, but the general day to day kindess that can really change the tide of things on that Monday where a smile, or hello makes all the difference.
I'll elaborate.
When picking up the phone at work, I am routinely interruped by this, "Let me speak with..."
Excuse me? Did you mean to interrupt me and then demand I "Let you speak with..."
I believe there's a better way.
How about, "Hi. How are you? May I speak with...?"
A few more words, but a huge change in tone, meaning, and my desire to help you.
It's the small things, like turning off your cell phone when it's not appropriate to have it on. Unless you are a Doctor with a patient on death's table, it's not necessary to be attached to your phone. You aren't that important. Give respect to the person in front of you. And they should do the same.
When you walk into a room, acknowledge people. Say hello and smile. You may be surprised at how much it changes how people see you and how they respond.
Think about how your actions affect others. Like a stone being thrown into a lake, the ripples reach far and wide. Do you want to be known as selfish? Do you want others to see you as the person that brings negative energy and makes life more difficult or do you want to bring joy and laughter where you walk?
Ok, so I can't be serious for long:
Look people. Don't be assholes. I mean serioulsy. Didn't we learn all of this crap in kindergarten? Let's leave the world a little bit better than we found it.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
This Weekend
I should have known it would be like this.
When my Friday night started out with a customer's ten year old son telling me he was a secret agent and then proceeded to execute a karate spin and kick followed by a PUNCH TO MY STOMACH AND RIGHT BOOB - I should have gone straight home and to bed.
But I like punishment.
He punched me twice more, and his unexcusably rude mother did nothing about it. She did however, go over the vehicle we SPECIAL ORDERED for her with a fine toothed comb and proceeded to tell me that she could go somewhere else for a better deal.
I told her where she could go.
I realized just now, at 3:40pm that I haven't eaten in almost TWO DAYS. How that is possible confounds me.
My body is running on fumes, water, and the sheer determination not to D.I.E.
When my Friday night started out with a customer's ten year old son telling me he was a secret agent and then proceeded to execute a karate spin and kick followed by a PUNCH TO MY STOMACH AND RIGHT BOOB - I should have gone straight home and to bed.
But I like punishment.
He punched me twice more, and his unexcusably rude mother did nothing about it. She did however, go over the vehicle we SPECIAL ORDERED for her with a fine toothed comb and proceeded to tell me that she could go somewhere else for a better deal.
I told her where she could go.
I realized just now, at 3:40pm that I haven't eaten in almost TWO DAYS. How that is possible confounds me.
My body is running on fumes, water, and the sheer determination not to D.I.E.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Remodeling Canada
Oh boy. The office remodeling began today. Below I've posted pictures for just a little taste of the fun we're having.
I compare the noise to that of a hundred car accidents happening simultaneously while God's Trumpeters play in the background. It's that loud.
At one point, my customer looked at me, said something that I couldn't hear, and my reply was:
"I eat babies."
Because it didn't matter what I said, she couldn't hear anyway.
During the demolition this morning they tore off a portion of the wall by my desk and "discovered" mold. Not just a little mold either- an entire mold colony, with little mold people and a Super Mold Target.
I say "discovered" because if you recall a few weeks ago I had a run in with a lovely contractor and told him alllll about the mold. Why he was surprised today is beyond me. But I digress.
I compare the noise to that of a hundred car accidents happening simultaneously while God's Trumpeters play in the background. It's that loud.
At one point, my customer looked at me, said something that I couldn't hear, and my reply was:
"I eat babies."
Because it didn't matter what I said, she couldn't hear anyway.
During the demolition this morning they tore off a portion of the wall by my desk and "discovered" mold. Not just a little mold either- an entire mold colony, with little mold people and a Super Mold Target.
I say "discovered" because if you recall a few weeks ago I had a run in with a lovely contractor and told him alllll about the mold. Why he was surprised today is beyond me. But I digress.
CurrentlyI hear a lot of sawing, vacuuming, sawing, vacuuming, and what sounds suspiciously like bodily functions. Fun!
(pictures coming soon)
Friday, March 7, 2008
Insomnia
For the past two weeks or so, I have suffered with a bout of insomnia that has rendered me almost useless in this world. Between house hunting, working 70 hour weeks, being attacked by some sort of west nile flu and etc, I can't seem to make my body calm down and rest.
I wake up at 2, 3, 4am and make list after list of things I need to do. The only problem with this is that the list isn't always coherent. When I go back to read it later in the day I get something that looks like this (from last night's list)
make pineapple at work
dog
dry cleaning- pants black no button, suit butt
red shoe
mrs. jackson- stain
Katie needs that paper with the thing on it
And reading through it, after a little research, I can figure out what most of it is except the red shoe.
Damnit.
That was probably the most important one.
I wake up at 2, 3, 4am and make list after list of things I need to do. The only problem with this is that the list isn't always coherent. When I go back to read it later in the day I get something that looks like this (from last night's list)
make pineapple at work
dog
dry cleaning- pants black no button, suit butt
red shoe
mrs. jackson- stain
Katie needs that paper with the thing on it
And reading through it, after a little research, I can figure out what most of it is except the red shoe.
Damnit.
That was probably the most important one.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
DC Traffic
Yesterday I had meetings in DC all day. The traffic was the worst I've ever experienced. At one point I was yelling out my window something along the lines of "I'D RATHER EAT A LIVE DUNG BEETLE NAKED IN TIMES SQUARE THAN SIT HERE ONE MORE MINUTE!!!!!!!"
There were streets closed, accidents, conventions,and some sort of official government transport for a few Senators. It was the perfect storm.
As I watched a bike messenger fly between cars, his legs pumping through and around traffic I suddenly felt like a monkey in a cage- trapped between huge metal bars with nowhere to go.
So I did what any good monkey does, threw some poop and took a nap.
There were streets closed, accidents, conventions,and some sort of official government transport for a few Senators. It was the perfect storm.
As I watched a bike messenger fly between cars, his legs pumping through and around traffic I suddenly felt like a monkey in a cage- trapped between huge metal bars with nowhere to go.
So I did what any good monkey does, threw some poop and took a nap.
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