Post Ike Photos

I don't have time right now to blog about any of this but I have promised many people at look out the husband and my house following Ike...so here you go. These are not for the those with a weak stomach!

Frustrations

So the last few days have been very frustrating...both internal and external groups have pushed me to the brink of screaming at work. I take my job and responsibilities very seriously... sometimes maybe too seriously.

I find it interesting how sometimes that when you are in the moment of frustration, or in my current case the days of frustration, the universe or a higher power (which ever you happen to believe in), steps in and repeatedly hits you over the head until you finally start to listen. That is how I am beginning to feel.

The husband and I are still trying to figure out some of the things that go along with being a married couple and coming from different religious backgrounds (I am Methodist and he is Catholic). Neither of us were very good about getting to church before we got married, but are making a concerted effort to go each week to some sort of service. Right now we are doing the one week Methodist, one week Catholic thing trying to see where we fit.

Anyway, the point is that this weekend we attended a local Catholic church and the priest spoke about not dwelling on the negative and not tearing down other people to make yourself feel better. He might as well of started the sermon with "NDC please listen to the following closely as it is very appropriate to your current situation!!!!!" As I said above there have been a lot of frustrations at work and I have noticed that my "venting" is focused on identifying what everyone else is doing wrong and dwelling on everything bad the people I interact with are doing. I do acknowledge my lack of perfection, but again the point is I am dwelling.

Then today at the gym I was watching TV while riding the stationary bike and just flipped through channels and ended up on Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture." And he was at the point where he says that he was inspired by a gentlemen with the Disney Imagineering company that used to say "Wait long enough and people will impress you." What a positive way to look at things...I am going to have to learn patience. I have decided to read the book based on Pausch's lecture as my next book, one of my best friends gave it to me for my 30th birthday. I think it is perfect timing.

So between the book, the priest, and the professor I think the universe is telling me to take a deep breath and follow the infamous words of the serenity prayer...change the things you can change and accept those that you can't.

I am definitely a work in progress, but hopefully I can learn to slow down and not get as frustrated by those people that I find difficult to deal with at times...here's hoping!

Also I am very excited about blogging before the 10 on Tuesday (even if it was on Monday).

Ten on Tuesday

Ok, so I continue to be a bad blogger, and as you can clearly see from the previous blog that I have not in fact blogged since last Tuesday.


But alas, I am back to the 10 on Tuesday.

"10 People You Wish You Could Meet"
(I am making it dead or alive...just for the record)

1. Michelangelo--cuz really has there been a more "savantish" person ever!
2. Ronald Reagan--I was not a big fan of his politics, but the things he helped to accomplish on the global scale are truly amazing
3. Alexander Dumas--I love his books and think he would be intriguing
4. Victor Hugo--ditto to #3
5. Clay Walker--if you know me you will understand
6. Jesus--to ask him a couple basic questions that are currently a topic of discussion in my household
7. John McCain--I have liked him long before he was running for President and think I could learn from him
8. the person that invented cubicles---then I could hit them and explain what a terrible idea it really was! (by the way I work in a cubicle and it can be miserable!)
9. the Founding Fathers--I know that is more than one person, but it seems wrong to break them up. I would like to ask them questions, specifcally "what did you really mean by the 2nd amendment" and why did you include religion is places but not in others.
10. Franklin D. Roosevelt- Again I think he had a huge impact on this country, most I think very positive, but some in the long run no so much.

By the way these are truly not in ANY order...just what popped into my convulted thoughts! I have also realized that it is very politically charged...I guess that is what happens when you ask a political science major to list ten people to meet.

So that is all for now, hopefully I will have something for you before next Tuesday.