Tale of a Shooting Star…

A couple goes on a vacation to a fishing resort in Northern
Alberta. The husband likes to fish at the crack of dawn. The wife
likes to read. One morning the husband returns after several
hours of fishing and decides to take a nap.

Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take
the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors and
continues to read her book. Along comes a game warden in his boat. He
pulls up alongside the woman and says, “Good morning Ma’am. What are you doing?”
“Reading a book,” she replies, (thinking “isn’t that obvious?”).
“You’re in a restricted fishing area,” he informs her.
“I’m sorry officer, but I’m not fishing. I’m reading.”
“Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could
take it out and start at any moment. I’ll have to take you in
and write you up.”
If you do that, I’ll have to charge you with sexual assault,”
says the woman. “But I haven’t even touched you,” says the game warden.
“That’s true, but you have all the equipment. For all I know
you could take it out and start at any moment.”
“Have a nice day Ma’am,” and he left…

MORAL: Never argue with a woman who reads. It’s likely she can think.

It’s true, I enjoy the Dr. Phil show. I’ve liked him since he started out on Oprah. I have to admit, though, that what I enjoy the most is watching him really dig into people’s stories and dragging the truth out of them. It’s refreshing to see someone who’s able to get to the heart of what people are really about.

So, naturally, when I saw that Dr. Phil was going to be drilling Omarosa today, I was a little excited. I’m one of those people who thinks that Omarosa did women (and black women, in particular) a serious injustice with the persona that she adopted on The Apprentice. The first thing she did on the Dr. Phil show today was to admit that she made a conscious decision to play the “naughty” girl so that she could get more airtime. So, I thought, “Great, she’s actually going to be honest and taken some ownership of her actions.” WRONG!

Dr. Phil asked her repeatedly why she is badmouthing Mark Burnett, Donald Trump and others associated with The Apprentice, saying that they need to be careful of their portrayal of black women on the show, when she chose to become who she was on the show. She skirted the actual question each and every time he asked it, claiming that she is not criticizing them, but that she’s doing research for her dissertation on the patterns and portrayals of black women and reality TV. So, in essence, she blames others for her own damaging actions.

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Honestly, I have no idea where that subject line came from. I was just sitting here, contemplating a blog entry and that solitary thought popped into my head. What it is and what it means are not currently within my grasp. Perhaps that’s why I had the thought? My brain is currently filled with fluff?

It’s been a rough day so far. I woke up in the middle of the night with painful stomach cramps which had me doubled over for a while. Once I returned to bed, I was able to sleep with a heating pad which helped, but much to my dismay they started again when I awoke in the morning. No time to just lay in bed with the heating pad again, so I forced myself to get into the shower and keep moving. Why can’t I seem to remember that I have medication for these cramps? Duh!

So, now I’m sitting here in front of my computer, my belly happily (and drowsily) digesting lunch and my brain fogging up. I guess it’s the post-lunch slow-down.

And now this post has been sitting in limbo, unfinished, for a couple of hours. And now the stomach cramps are back and it’s time to go home. Fortunately, the fog did end up lifting a bit, but I’m still tired. If the cramps persist, I’ll be working from home tomorrow. Which probably isn’t a half bad idea since I’m trying to work my way through a technical manual with tutorials that I need silence for so that I can concentrate.

Yup, working from home in my pajamas, or at least some sweats, is starting to sound better and better. It’s just too bad that it means I have to lug extra weight home in the form of large books and my planner, plus my new laptop which is at least 1 pound heavier than my old one…

Here I am, running though the various, seemingly infinite number of tasks that are required when you acquire a new computer and have to move all of your data, programs, etc. to the new machine. My new laptop for work came in nearly two weeks ago and was just sitting around in the back, so I finally went out Wednesday morning and just grabbed it and all of the stuff that came with it. I only have so much patience, so when our desktop support guy (and yes, I should have sympathy for him, since I used to do that thankless job years ago) didn’t have a chance to get to it for a week and a half, I just had to take matters into my own hands.

I’m still pondering whether or not that was an intelligent decision. This is now day two of wasting time to get everything setup just the way I like it. Because I went from one monitor to two, I completely cleared my desk off and then started from scratch this morning. I think people thought I was either moving or had gotten fired! It is Friday, you know, and stranger things have been known to happen. Hahah! I’m still feeling my way around having lost a big chunk of desk space on the extra monitor and also the laptop. I wanted to set it up so that I could easily get to the laptop because the new docking stations are difficult to plug into. So now that’s taking up space, as well. It always feels nice to clean, though.

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Try this one on for size and see how you do: http://www.njagyouth.org/colortest.swf.

Make sure you REALLY read the instructions carefully! The first time I went through it, I got halfway and realized I was doing it wrong… whoops!

It’s quite an odd feeling to struggle so hard against your instinct to pick the right answers. You’ll be amazed. 🙂

Since I cleaned out my closet a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been trying to find clothes that will fit to re-stock it. You wouldn’t believe how many things I put in the donation pile because the arms or legs were just too short…

I placed an order at Chadwick’s last week for starters. It arrived on Friday and most of the items fit except for one pair of pants, so I now have two pairs of pants that are the proper length, a cute pink gingham skort and a nice little dressy outfit with silk georgette skirt that’s just for the heck of it.

Last night, I placed a whopping order at Land’s End for 5 pairs of pants, 3 turtlenecks and an exercise outfit. Set me back $250, but with any luck all of the pants will fit and I’ll be in much better shape with my wardrobe. If that works out, I think I’ll place an order at Newport News for just a couple of pairs of soft, colored jeans to round everything out and I’ll be done. At least until I go to find some shorts and some more shoes to go with all of these pants…