It's the age old battles with men vs. women... the Battle of Toilet Seat Downs, the Whyistheflooryellow Inquisition, and the unforgettable War of Ohnoshesatinpiss Runforyourlife. Many men have lost a limb over these things, and many women have experienced rage and fury beyond what she ever imagined she was capable of. And all for what?
Flush toilets date all the way back to the 26th century BC. The ones we use today date back more to the early 1900's but still... nothing has really changed at all since 1980, and the basic design hasn't changed since the early 1900's. That is a problem.
Here's where I think we solve the battle... Recognition that toilets were not made for men. Not for peeing anyway. If you understand the anatomy, you'd understand that peeing, for a guy, isn't as simple as point, shoot & aim. It's actually more unpredictable than that... the "stream" is different every time (just like it is for women). So women have to try to understand that it's not that he's necessarily being a lazy pig when he pees. If he's going to be a lazy pig, it's going to be when he fails or refuses to clean up after himself when he's done.
My big frustration is that men refuse to just SIT DOWN. It comes down to one of two things... their idiotic notion that it somehow threatens their manhood (in the privacy of a bathroom where no one can see them), OR the notion that it's less convenient to have to take another 5 seconds to sit down, and then stand up. Sitting down would solve everything.
But they won't do it. Most men are too lazy to lift the toilet seat & put it back down, much less actually sit down & stand back up (ugh what a nightmare!). It makes no sense, but whatever. We still love them in spite of their horrible bathroom behavior.
So back to my solution... toilets weren't made for men. What we need is something that attaches to modern toilets, that can be easily installed, and that is intended only for use by men. I'm thinking some kind of awesome funnel/hose design that attaches to the side of the toilet, "stretches" & is hand held when in use, and is reattached to the side of the toilet when not in use. Something that keeps clean & is easy to clean...
Something that is made for men, and that can attach to existing toilets would revolutionize in-home toilets, and would make for much happier men & women! So there it is... now someone needs to go out & invent it. Kthxbai.
1.27.2013
1.06.2013
Day 5: Good News All Around!
The last bit of news I received from Jay was that he managed to recover almost 5 GB, and it was trying to pull down the "broken" files. 525 of them. He's managed to recover a tremendous amount of files, and I only ended up losing a fraction of them, so I'm thrilled about that! My only last hope now is that the "lost" files are ones I didn't care about or need anyway :) Did I mention he's a god!
On another note, I've just been offered an opportunity to join the Meeting Play team, which is an incredible opportunity. Meeting Play is pretty much a separate part of the company I work with, and it's growing like a weed. We're looking at having to begin hiring on a bunch of people to support it.
I've been asked to come to the February 5 - 8 meeting for Worley in Dallas / Ft. Worth, TX to be trained, and see if it's something I might want to do. I was hesitant at first, because I've traveled on business a lot before, and it gets very old after a while. It's definitely got is perks though.... being paid to travel can certainly be fun, too :) I guess it just depends on where you're traveling to, and how often you're traveling.
Although I do have to give my former boss, Art, some credit... back in the day, when we were traveling so much on business, he did always try to take at least one afternoon to sight see or do something entertaining. We had a lot of fun on a few of our trips, but nevertheless, it ran its course after a while. Plus, the idiotic gossip back at the workplace just got to be unbearable anymore. That place was full of miserable gossips, with their Queen at the helm. Art always said it was fueled by jealousy, which I think is just as idiotic. It really was so much like high school. Everyone was always so cut-throat and out for themselves. It was just the culture there. Thank god those days are behind me. My life is SO much better now that I work with an entire team of such intelligent, talented, driven, and kind people. I couldn't ask for a better dream team!
Anyway, we apparently just landed our first white label enterprise account... Pepsi. This is huge. Really, really huge for us. We trusted Joe from the beginning, and this just goes to show exactly why. He is so ambitious, and he's a genius... he is destined for success, and we're so honored to be a part of the team from the ground floor. He's also such a great guy to work for in general. I really, really love my job.
So, after Dallas, if I decide it's something I want to continue doing, I'll basically have the opportunity to choose several meetings / places I'd like to be included in (to travel to & work at). It sounds like an awesome opportunity!! So I'm very much looking forward to seeing where this leads.
With that said, I suppose today I'm grateful for options, opportunities, and anticipating the future! Life is good :)
On another note, I've just been offered an opportunity to join the Meeting Play team, which is an incredible opportunity. Meeting Play is pretty much a separate part of the company I work with, and it's growing like a weed. We're looking at having to begin hiring on a bunch of people to support it.
I've been asked to come to the February 5 - 8 meeting for Worley in Dallas / Ft. Worth, TX to be trained, and see if it's something I might want to do. I was hesitant at first, because I've traveled on business a lot before, and it gets very old after a while. It's definitely got is perks though.... being paid to travel can certainly be fun, too :) I guess it just depends on where you're traveling to, and how often you're traveling.
Although I do have to give my former boss, Art, some credit... back in the day, when we were traveling so much on business, he did always try to take at least one afternoon to sight see or do something entertaining. We had a lot of fun on a few of our trips, but nevertheless, it ran its course after a while. Plus, the idiotic gossip back at the workplace just got to be unbearable anymore. That place was full of miserable gossips, with their Queen at the helm. Art always said it was fueled by jealousy, which I think is just as idiotic. It really was so much like high school. Everyone was always so cut-throat and out for themselves. It was just the culture there. Thank god those days are behind me. My life is SO much better now that I work with an entire team of such intelligent, talented, driven, and kind people. I couldn't ask for a better dream team!
Anyway, we apparently just landed our first white label enterprise account... Pepsi. This is huge. Really, really huge for us. We trusted Joe from the beginning, and this just goes to show exactly why. He is so ambitious, and he's a genius... he is destined for success, and we're so honored to be a part of the team from the ground floor. He's also such a great guy to work for in general. I really, really love my job.
So, after Dallas, if I decide it's something I want to continue doing, I'll basically have the opportunity to choose several meetings / places I'd like to be included in (to travel to & work at). It sounds like an awesome opportunity!! So I'm very much looking forward to seeing where this leads.
With that said, I suppose today I'm grateful for options, opportunities, and anticipating the future! Life is good :)
1.05.2013
Day 4 - HOORAY!!!
So far, so good with the hard drive! Jeff's genius brother was able to extract the ONE crucial file that I couldn't recover from losing. I couldn't be happier about that :) So, we're off to a good start.
The last thing I heard was that he was going to try extracting the rest via brute force, and basically just let it do its thing until it dies. I'm not sure if he was able to recover additional My Documents data (that was my 2nd primary need... the remainder of my work files), so I'm still keeping my fingers crossed. If I had my way, I'd at least get the rest of the My Documents data - all of it. Not just work related.
It goes without saying that I've lost my music, photos and video library, which crushes me, really. I had some great stuff in there. Some of it was at least backed up on my external hdd... maybe I'll get lucky and discover that the majority of it was backed up :)
I can always recover my movies & music... that won't be a problem. Just time consuming. The good thing is that Jeff has a LOT of the same movies & music that I did, so probably half of what I want is already on his hdd. The photos? I am not sure. I know I emailed myself a lot of my photos, to ensure I would never lose them, but I'm not sure I emailed everything. I'll lose some here & there in the process, but I still consider myself SO lucky that I didn't lose the most important things.
Anyway... Yesterday, I wished to blog about good news today. And I am. So for that, I am grateful :)
The last thing I heard was that he was going to try extracting the rest via brute force, and basically just let it do its thing until it dies. I'm not sure if he was able to recover additional My Documents data (that was my 2nd primary need... the remainder of my work files), so I'm still keeping my fingers crossed. If I had my way, I'd at least get the rest of the My Documents data - all of it. Not just work related.
It goes without saying that I've lost my music, photos and video library, which crushes me, really. I had some great stuff in there. Some of it was at least backed up on my external hdd... maybe I'll get lucky and discover that the majority of it was backed up :)
I can always recover my movies & music... that won't be a problem. Just time consuming. The good thing is that Jeff has a LOT of the same movies & music that I did, so probably half of what I want is already on his hdd. The photos? I am not sure. I know I emailed myself a lot of my photos, to ensure I would never lose them, but I'm not sure I emailed everything. I'll lose some here & there in the process, but I still consider myself SO lucky that I didn't lose the most important things.
Anyway... Yesterday, I wished to blog about good news today. And I am. So for that, I am grateful :)
1.04.2013
Day...3? God help me....
Well, that didn't take long. I got 2 days into 365 Days of Gratitude before failing to write (lol). In my defense, it's because I had no PC to blog with. My hard drive died on me. And I could just about die because of it... my whole life is on that PC. And of course it was one of those things where I kept thinking "I really should do a backup." Yeah.... too little, too late. Can we say cloud storage anyone? You better believe I'm already signed up for Dropbox... .
So, Jeff's brother is taking a look at it tonight. I hope beyond hope he can recover the data. At least SOME of it, anyway. There are several things on that HDD that will be very difficult to reproduce. I can recover from this, but it won't be easy. I will be devastated if I can't get some of that data back :(
And these are the exact types of days 365 Days of Gratitude is good for. The bad days. The days where it's really difficult to find something to be grateful for. I REALLY hope I have something to be super grateful for after Jeff's brother looks at my hard drive :)
So for today, I"m going to say I'm grateful to even have someone to hand my hard drive over to. I wouldn't trust it more in anyone else's hands. If there is a way to recover that data, Jay will manage to do it. He's a PC guru.
Fingers crossed! I hope I have something really, really good to write about tomorrow :)
So, Jeff's brother is taking a look at it tonight. I hope beyond hope he can recover the data. At least SOME of it, anyway. There are several things on that HDD that will be very difficult to reproduce. I can recover from this, but it won't be easy. I will be devastated if I can't get some of that data back :(
And these are the exact types of days 365 Days of Gratitude is good for. The bad days. The days where it's really difficult to find something to be grateful for. I REALLY hope I have something to be super grateful for after Jeff's brother looks at my hard drive :)
So for today, I"m going to say I'm grateful to even have someone to hand my hard drive over to. I wouldn't trust it more in anyone else's hands. If there is a way to recover that data, Jay will manage to do it. He's a PC guru.
Fingers crossed! I hope I have something really, really good to write about tomorrow :)
12.30.2012
Day 2: I Am Grateful to Be Trusted
I have the best job ever. Best boss ever, too! Both Jeff & I love working for Joe, and I've been trying hard to get on a full time, employee status with eXcelaweb.
Tonight, we had a team meeting, and discussed a new client and project that we're starting right away. In a nutshell, Joe explained that there is zero room for error with this client, and that we must deliver our best work, as always. I knew I was acting as Project Manager, but because this project has so many crucial deadlines and expectations, I expected Joe to want to be very hands on with it.
Instead, after briefing us on the high expectation level with this client, he proceeded to hand the reigns over to me, and let me know that it's 100% mine to oversee and run. THAT is a good feeling. Considering there is no room for error, it tells me Joe trusts me enough to take on such a serious client, and for that, I am so, so grateful :) I just have to do whatever it takes to deliver, and exceed everyone's expectations now, which I'm more than confident I will do.
2013 is looking good , work-wise! I can't wait to jump in with both feet on this project and blow everyone's minds :)
Tonight, we had a team meeting, and discussed a new client and project that we're starting right away. In a nutshell, Joe explained that there is zero room for error with this client, and that we must deliver our best work, as always. I knew I was acting as Project Manager, but because this project has so many crucial deadlines and expectations, I expected Joe to want to be very hands on with it.
Instead, after briefing us on the high expectation level with this client, he proceeded to hand the reigns over to me, and let me know that it's 100% mine to oversee and run. THAT is a good feeling. Considering there is no room for error, it tells me Joe trusts me enough to take on such a serious client, and for that, I am so, so grateful :) I just have to do whatever it takes to deliver, and exceed everyone's expectations now, which I'm more than confident I will do.
2013 is looking good , work-wise! I can't wait to jump in with both feet on this project and blow everyone's minds :)
12.29.2012
Update: Bentonite Clay is Awesome!
Well, I did the whole Marvin the Martian (bentonite clay) mask and WOW.... Morgan, and all those Amazon reviews were not exaggerating. This stuff is incredible! I LOVE it. I will definitely be using it every week now. And it's incredibly inexpensive, too, which is what caused my skepticism to begin with. Something like $10 for a year's supply I think.
I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for amazing-feeling (and looking) skin! There were a couple areas, like just under my chin, that have been kindof "rough" feeling for some time now, and they are as smooth as they could possibly be after using the bentonite mask. Really, I'm sold!!
I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for amazing-feeling (and looking) skin! There were a couple areas, like just under my chin, that have been kindof "rough" feeling for some time now, and they are as smooth as they could possibly be after using the bentonite mask. Really, I'm sold!!
Day 1: Our Imperfections Make Us Perfect
So here goes... I'm going to try my best to list at least one thing I'm grateful for each day. 365 Days of Gratitude :)
So today, I'm grateful for an imperfect complexion. My boyfriend's roommate, Morgan, bought bentonite clay, which is apparently some kind of amazing 100% natural Aztec clay that women use as a facial mask. Since Morgan, and all the reviewers on Amazon.com have raved about this product, my boyfriend purchased a jar of it for me, too. He's so thoughtful :) (Another thing I'm very grateful for!).
I have never tried a facial mask before, and am not particularly looking forward to resembling Marvin the Martian in the process, but I do tend to favor clean, smooth, exfoliated skin, so it's worth a try! There are 333 five-star reviews & 94 four-star reviews for this product on Amazon, out of 484 total. That's pretty amazing!
So, before sitting down to write this, I washed my face & used my trusty exfoliating glove, which I have sworn by for probably 10 years now... I love that thing! My face feels soooo smooth after using it, so I figure I might as well use it before applying the mask. And as I'm looking in the mirror, I immediately notice every imperfection on my 30-year-old face.
I have a couple of little scars... no big deal. A few bumps... not ideal, but they'll go away. One or two tiny, broken blood vessels... I hate those things. They won't go away. And my least favorite, a brown sun spot just under my eye, thanks to spending a couple of years visiting the tanning bed on a regular basis. It's my permanent reminder of befriending vanity, and allowing her to influence my life when she did not enrich it in any way. The tanning bed damage ruined several areas of my perfect skin, the name brand crap that I bought was both useless and a complete waste of money, and the things that were important to her are shallow and vapid, which I allowed to influence me for a short while back in the day. I've moved on. Lesson learned.
So, as I notice all these "flaws" in my reflection, I realize two things: (1) how quickly my mind goes to that place of discouragement and negativity upon the discovery of such minor blemishes, thanks to our awesome culture of nurturing low self esteems and chasing the illusion of perfection. Once I acknowledged that, I let it go. So naturally, I realized (2) I am so blessed. I had beautiful skin my whole life, and any imperfections I find now either serve as little memories of the past (like the itty bitty scar above my lip where my kitten accidentally scratched me while playing) or are completely fixable if I really wanted to go to those lengths. In other words, my so-called imperfections are so minor, and for that, I feel so blessed. It could be so much worse... And the cherry on top is being with someone who cares about me regardless of how my appearance might change over time.
So, today, I'm grateful for an imperfect complexion, to remind me that vanity is reserved for those with much deeper emotional issues, and to remind me that I am blessed in so many ways. Our "flaws" really are what make us perfect!
So today, I'm grateful for an imperfect complexion. My boyfriend's roommate, Morgan, bought bentonite clay, which is apparently some kind of amazing 100% natural Aztec clay that women use as a facial mask. Since Morgan, and all the reviewers on Amazon.com have raved about this product, my boyfriend purchased a jar of it for me, too. He's so thoughtful :) (Another thing I'm very grateful for!).
I have never tried a facial mask before, and am not particularly looking forward to resembling Marvin the Martian in the process, but I do tend to favor clean, smooth, exfoliated skin, so it's worth a try! There are 333 five-star reviews & 94 four-star reviews for this product on Amazon, out of 484 total. That's pretty amazing!
So, before sitting down to write this, I washed my face & used my trusty exfoliating glove, which I have sworn by for probably 10 years now... I love that thing! My face feels soooo smooth after using it, so I figure I might as well use it before applying the mask. And as I'm looking in the mirror, I immediately notice every imperfection on my 30-year-old face.
I have a couple of little scars... no big deal. A few bumps... not ideal, but they'll go away. One or two tiny, broken blood vessels... I hate those things. They won't go away. And my least favorite, a brown sun spot just under my eye, thanks to spending a couple of years visiting the tanning bed on a regular basis. It's my permanent reminder of befriending vanity, and allowing her to influence my life when she did not enrich it in any way. The tanning bed damage ruined several areas of my perfect skin, the name brand crap that I bought was both useless and a complete waste of money, and the things that were important to her are shallow and vapid, which I allowed to influence me for a short while back in the day. I've moved on. Lesson learned.
So, today, I'm grateful for an imperfect complexion, to remind me that vanity is reserved for those with much deeper emotional issues, and to remind me that I am blessed in so many ways. Our "flaws" really are what make us perfect!
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