The dumbest thing I ever heard;

"Choose to like yourself and the way you look-even if at first you feel like you're faking it," says psychologist Susan Davis, Ph.D., author of Beating the Body Image Blues. "Through acting, you tap into parts of yourself that truly feel beautiful. Even if those positive qualities seem like a small percentage of who you are, grasp onto them and project them outwards." The result: Not only will you begin to feel beautiful on the inside, but others will see it radiating on the outside-so don't be surprised if the compliments start pouring in! Having trouble? Imagine someone you admire standing in front of you, and step forward into her body!

Todays' retarded quote brought to you by; http://lifestyle.msn.com/Redbook/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=877777
an msn article designed to make you feel better about who you are by pretending to be someone else(?) How does that make you accept who you are, again? Are you telling me that by rejecting your own body and "mentally stepping into someone elses'" you can like yourself better?! Somehow I doubt that will work. It's such a good thing these shrinks get paid so much to be so helpful.

In other news, I heavily suspect that the good people at Starbucks lace their pumpkin muffins and latee with crack/cocaine and therefore make them irrisitably desirable and easily consumable in a matter of mere seconds.

They aparently make a dvd that self loops so your dog can watch a continuous stream of other dogs playing, running in the park, and generally having a much better time than your dog- who is sitting home alone in a confined area. What is worse? Leaving the dog cooped up all day, or taunting it with dogs playing outdoors while he is cooped up all day? Your choice. There's nothing like watching all the other kids go swimming when you want to and you can't because you have a broken arm so...yeah that makes sense.

A new perspective on work; if someone said they'd pay me 50-grand to sit in a box everyday for 8 hours for an entire year, I'd probably say no. It is a whole year. Ok we'll give you 2 weeks off. You have to drive in to get to the box though and dress up. I'd say no.

I don't even know if that is anything up there image-wise. It's been a long time since i've blogged here. Changed jobs, not that I wanted to leave my other job. I loved my job. I loved my co-workers. I loved my carpool/private car service. But, I also like getting paid more so I had to leave since they just would not pony-up. New digs, same type of job. Strangley enough, some of the same co-workers (we jump ship as a team) but new ones too. I like it, but I haven't hit "love" status yet. I think there needs to be a little organization, people don't really know what I can do, I don't really know what they want. Just takes a little while I guess. I'm not too keen on driving in though, little extra stress, could be worse though. The spouse is wanting to look in MD for a house(well townhouse or converted shed by what we can afford) and this would seriously influence my commute. I'm not big on commute, but I have to decide if I like square footage better. I depress myself by looking at housing prices in Syracuse where i'm from. Giant houses with 4+ bathrooms and finished basements and huge yards. Older family members saying things like "just pay cash for it" "what you rentin' for?"
It's not like I want to rent for the rest of my life, or want to be poor. I look at my Amex bill, it's mostly gas and groceries-can't cut too many corners there. I guess the next splurge to go is cable. I like my HGTV though, so I can dream of someday having a home to decorate. I see lots of msn articles about my generation (debt) and our problems of spending vs. saving and living with our parents still or again. No solutions are sticking out. I would love to move back home if I could find a job there in my field. Unfortunately you have to be a nurse or a teacher or you are out of luck. I feel like I whine about this a lot. I have time, I guess, but it just does not appear to be better this year than last (quite the opposite) so I'm wondering how much time I am really going to give it here.
Anyways, office is a doornail today. Apparently there was a golf thing, so that clears out all the people who make enought to golf. Let me tell you about my golf clubs. I got them from my grandfather when I was about 12. They were cut down from my grandma's old clubs (she is taller than I ever will be). They had a bag but it eventually molded and I had to throw them out. My neighbor gave me his old bag (ha ha I just re-read that) when he got a new one so that's nice to have. I have never once played an 18 hole course. I've played a 9-hole course more than once though. That particular course came with a fee of around $3. Yes, $3. So you can imagine my hesitation to pay too much more anywhere else. I think I'm actually pretty decent, I usually beat my husband and brother so perhaps I'll take it up when I get some more time/money. I have lots of things planned for retirement actually. Scrap-booking is one of them. For now, i don't pretend to have time for that sort of stuff.