Randomly, on the way home from the dentist today, Carter says, "Mom, I want another fish."
"Carter, you know you have bad luck with fish."
"I know. My last one was dumb. He swam into the wall over and over and over. I think he got some kind of brain disease, and then he died."
"Exactly. So why in the world do you think you want another fish?"
"Because - the next time my fish dies, I'm gonna dissect him."
Aren't 8-year-old boys just the greatest??
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Friday, October 29, 2010
Lessons Learned
I'm reflecting back over the week tonight (rough work week) and decided I would post a quick and dirty list of some of the things that I have learned in my professional life over the past 17 years. I'm sure you have learned many of these same lessons, some the easy way and some the hard way, just like me. If not, maybe reading it here will keep you from having to learn it the hard way!
-People are always down on what they're not up on.
-Anyone named Agnes is just a little bit crazy (sorry to all you Agnes's out there, but this has been my experience)!
-Some people will give you just enough rope to hang yourself.
-A little bit of knowledge coupled with an ego can be really dangerous.
-Never play leapfrog with a unicorn (threw this in to see if you're paying attention).
-No job is worth crying over.
-Seize every opportunity - it's a habit of successful people.
-The devil IS in the details - but he's also in the big stuff!!
-No good deed goes unpunished - so true!
-No matter how many times you check and re-check the microphone, when the speaker gets to the podium, it won't work. Therefore, find your hiding place before the event begins.
-Everyone needs a mental health day every once in a while.
-Loud music and an open sunroof can almost always make you feel better.
-Simple is almost always better.
-You can't do it all and you can't do it all by yourself.
-Things change - deal with it.
-Eating at your desk every day is a bad habit.
-Know everyone's name because everyone is important.
-Conversation truly is an art.
-Balancing work life and home life is one of the hardest things you'll ever have to do. You won't always get it right. Forgive yourself and move on.
-Everyone needs an atta-girl every once in a while.
-Put on your big girl panties every day!
-People are always down on what they're not up on.
-Anyone named Agnes is just a little bit crazy (sorry to all you Agnes's out there, but this has been my experience)!
-Some people will give you just enough rope to hang yourself.
-A little bit of knowledge coupled with an ego can be really dangerous.
-Never play leapfrog with a unicorn (threw this in to see if you're paying attention).
-No job is worth crying over.
-Seize every opportunity - it's a habit of successful people.
-The devil IS in the details - but he's also in the big stuff!!
-No good deed goes unpunished - so true!
-No matter how many times you check and re-check the microphone, when the speaker gets to the podium, it won't work. Therefore, find your hiding place before the event begins.
-Everyone needs a mental health day every once in a while.
-Loud music and an open sunroof can almost always make you feel better.
-Simple is almost always better.
-You can't do it all and you can't do it all by yourself.
-Things change - deal with it.
-Eating at your desk every day is a bad habit.
-Know everyone's name because everyone is important.
-Conversation truly is an art.
-Balancing work life and home life is one of the hardest things you'll ever have to do. You won't always get it right. Forgive yourself and move on.
-Everyone needs an atta-girl every once in a while.
-Put on your big girl panties every day!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
God Knows That We Have Bunions!
Verse 6 pretty much sums up my feelings about this passage of scripture (one of my very favorites). This just blows my mind. . .
Psalm 139 (New King James Version)
Psalm 139
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.2 You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
3 You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
5 You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Things I Miss. . .
Robert and Ruby
A pointer named Two
Granny’s biscuits
Papa’s sense of humor
Figs, plums and hot peppers, picked fresh from the yard
The front porch swing
An old black upright piano
A light you turn on by pulling a string
An old claw foot tub
An old black rotary dial telephone
The train
Green Street
A rusty bell by the front door
A slamming screen door
The Price is Right (with Bob Barker)
Tussy cream deodorant
A bowl of fake fruit, especially the rubber grapes
Fish fries
Denim overalls
Pigeon and Bill
A husky mix named Diamond
Dirt roads and wooden bridges
Barbed-wire fences
Rocky Sinks
The old house
Bitties under a heat lamp
The fish pond and old bread
The little house
The old basketball rim with no net
Picking tomatoes
Hiding Easter eggs
Pretty bird
A freshly-powdered bottom after bath time
Nehi soda with an ice pick hole in the bottle cap
Paint by numbers on TV trays
An old blue Chevy pickup truck
Slopping the hogs
Bottle-feeding the calves
Gospel music from the old radio on Sunday mornings
The smell of granddaddy’s aftershave mixed with the smell of shoe polish
Sleeping with grandma
Shucking corn and hulling peas in red plastic washtubs
Hee-Haw
The big old tree out back
Watermelon and blackberries
Electric blankets
The old breadbox
The big freezer
Granddaddy’s recliner
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