For your entertainment, I present you with another round of randomness spewing forth from my brain (a brain with ADD, I might add):1. A brief discourse on Facebook: In short, I'm thinking about giving it up. It's a drama-creator and time-sucker. If aliens wanted to take over the earth, they'd just friend everybody, take over their profiles, and assume our identities through our online profiles. Okay, it's not that bad. What bothers me is the sheer time and thought people put into this. And for what? When are you going to look back on the 392 hours you recently spent on FB and say, "Oh, that was even better than the time I went snorkeling in the Cayman Islands!" My other beef is with status updates. I do this myself...when I think I have a status update worthy of gracing my 220+ friends with, I repeat it in my head several times to make sure it is communicated well (lest I have a typo or grammatical error!). I even think about the audiences represented in my "friend" base and quickly assess whether the status would offend anyone. I wouldn't have wasted the mental cells on this dilemma in the pre-FB era.
2. On the necessity of frequent vacations: As one who's been blessed with almost more vacations than I can count, I'm at that point in my life where my body, mind, and emotions are threatening to crack apart like grains of sandstone. I've been pushing myself harder than I ever have before and the uncertainty of my life situation is grinding me to a pulp. While it's only a couple weeks until we leave for a gloriously relaxing vacation, my mind is already transporting me to a land of sunshine, sunscreen, ocean waves, pool frolicking, and frozen margaritas. On Thursday (am a bit ashamed to admit this), I sat in a big executive meeting and planned out the rough agenda of our vacation and, more importantly, which sundresses I want to pack for the trip. I think it's my brain's defense mechanism. If it shuts down and visualizes chaise loungers and fluffy beach reads, it won't crumble. Plus, I get to go on vacation with Jack and spend an entire TEN days with him!
Of course that meeting was important. But I'll have to check the meeting minutes to see what was discussed! Wait, I think I'm responsible for that meeting's minutes!
2. On the necessity of frequent vacations: As one who's been blessed with almost more vacations than I can count, I'm at that point in my life where my body, mind, and emotions are threatening to crack apart like grains of sandstone. I've been pushing myself harder than I ever have before and the uncertainty of my life situation is grinding me to a pulp. While it's only a couple weeks until we leave for a gloriously relaxing vacation, my mind is already transporting me to a land of sunshine, sunscreen, ocean waves, pool frolicking, and frozen margaritas. On Thursday (am a bit ashamed to admit this), I sat in a big executive meeting and planned out the rough agenda of our vacation and, more importantly, which sundresses I want to pack for the trip. I think it's my brain's defense mechanism. If it shuts down and visualizes chaise loungers and fluffy beach reads, it won't crumble. Plus, I get to go on vacation with Jack and spend an entire TEN days with him!
Of course that meeting was important. But I'll have to check the meeting minutes to see what was discussed! Wait, I think I'm responsible for that meeting's minutes!
3. On the forgotten "coolness quotient" of my family: on Saturday night, SkyBlue and Lou hosted the First Annual K'vas party. K'vas, for you non-Eastern-Europeans, is sauerkraut soup and it's pronounced "Ka-vass." It sounds worse than it is; it's actually a soup made with ham and kraut juice. Line your bowl with polish egg noodles and you're set. We all grew up on this unique soup and through marriage (and repeat exposures), Jack even relishes K'vas.
Since SkyBlue didn't make K'vas all winter, she offered to make it this weekend before it got too warm outside. Sensing the opportunity for a party, she invited everyone over...Mom D, my aunt, Zibby and Brady's girlfriends, and of course, us. So it was a fun party that was highlighted by the Wii and Wii Resort. Have you tried the canoeing game on that? It's HARD. After doing our usual run at 100-pin bowling, everyone tried canoeing, cycling, and even basketball.
I woke up with sore shoulders and arms on Sunday morning; now I remember why!
Since SkyBlue didn't make K'vas all winter, she offered to make it this weekend before it got too warm outside. Sensing the opportunity for a party, she invited everyone over...Mom D, my aunt, Zibby and Brady's girlfriends, and of course, us. So it was a fun party that was highlighted by the Wii and Wii Resort. Have you tried the canoeing game on that? It's HARD. After doing our usual run at 100-pin bowling, everyone tried canoeing, cycling, and even basketball.
I woke up with sore shoulders and arms on Sunday morning; now I remember why!
4. On the realization that this, too, shall pass: I worked 14.5 hours today and I keep wondering if my body will ever adjust to these long days (yawn...taking 5 seconds to swig warm milk to counter balance the Diet Mt. Dew. In fact, is it bad when your dinner meeting runs so late that you are actually starving when you get home and eat a second dinner? I'm just sayin'!)To cope, I'm still reminding myself that this crazy time in my life isn't going to last forever. In fact, I will look back on this time with nostalgia and gratitude, that I survived and sometimes flourished in the process. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. And whatever does kill you, well, you can probably sue them for medical malpractice or negligence!
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