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About This Author
A changeling spirit,
constantly evolving,
revolving around an inner core,
spinning forth legend and lore,
stories and lives
as I come to grips
with who and what I am,
have been and may be.
I am a phoenix:
rising ever above and beyond!
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The White Board
The White Board
 
For meandering thoughts, and mindful walks...for rants and pouts, and blowing off steam. For happy days and sad days, for crazy adventures and delightful victories! :)
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Some oddball thoughts I've had today that translated into some , well, I'll call it poetry for lack of a better word. Just doodles, really. Reactions to things I've stumbled across or seen while out ...mind's in a weird place I suppose....
there is something intrinsically sad
about seeing a grave festooned
with gaily flying helium balloons.
Set loose the balloons, be glad
and let them soar to heaven's height
don't keep them earthly bound, tied tight.
For what there was they one time had
is no longer there, their soul is free,
it 's long since flown beyond earth and tree.
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It is said by experts of bamboo
and as they study it, i expect it is true...
the straighter grows the shoot
the more complex the root.
It seems as if there's an analogy here
but just what it is, isn't yet quite clear.....
ah...some other day.
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the very first corn on the cob of the season loses something when it needs to be cut off the cob. It just is not the same. *frown*
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If one is going to spend a Sunday painting the bathroom a type of color/paint requiring 2 coats, 2 different rollers and 2 types of brushes, one should start in the morning...not after the wall and floor tile suddenly demand being laid and grouted.
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Sometimes, being the boss is hard. I love my job, but I'm not so thrilled with the 'occasionally you have to play hardball' part of it. The majority of my employees are an excellent team. At one point i thought they all were, but now one of them seems to be not pulling her weight. Everyone else gives 110%, but she doesn't. I've talked to her, but there's always the excuse. So I'm holding a meeting on friday and (at my request) my disctrict manager will also be there.
The stuff that is not getting done, the jobs being done half-assed, the attitude is beginning to affect the rest of the team and I need to nip this in the bud. Nothing thus far that is 'fire-able' thus the meeting which I'm hoping will get the point across for once and for all. Point is, we (with the one exception) are an awesome team. Our store can be one of the best in the district...but it will take all of us pulling our weight. The sense of pride and joy in the store is there for the rest of the crew...but the rumblings are getting louder and I need to find the words to convey this to the group as a whole in such a manner that a) they have the opportunity to speak out and b) not alienate her because I don't want to fire her, just get her on board and with the rest of the team.
Any and all ideas would be appreciated. I need to handle this right. This then, is the hard part. |
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Ever have one of those days where it seems everything isn't going quite right, and then it starts to go downhill...and then it just flat out goes bad? Been one of those days although none of it is all that terrible. But it was just a slew of little miserable things. Work over the weekend (which I didn't) didn't go as well as I expected. That is some of the folks who worked....didn't! It should have been the same old, same old routine...but things weren't done for some odd reason.....no biggie...like coffee not made.....smokes not counted... I mean, Hello? Now this wasn't new people or folks who didn't know any better...this was just not being bothered. Sigh. We have a meeting come friday and the velvet gloves are off and Fyn's going to start playing hardball. A shame really...these aren't kids. Adults. Mature adults. Argh!
Then there is the soap opera that some folks seem to feel the need to be a part of. Some folks apparently have no lives of their own or are pathetically bored and just like to jump in the middle of stuff and then react without sufficient information to make the judgment calls they are making. All of which results in upset people, indignation and more definitions of integrity and honor that have nothing to do with any denotation or connotations of those words that I've ever heard of. So sad. So needless. So stupid!!! Soap opera belong on tv. Drama queens and kings belong in...um...what is the name of that 'tabloid?' Sure hope none of those people ever are called to be on a jury. I would question their veracity, heck I wonder if they'd have the capacity to make a good judgment call even when presented with both sides of an issue.
Worse, I simply do not understand why some people feel the need to create scenarios that are completely false! For example. A phone call to work with someone calling out because they had a child at the emergency room with a badly broken leg. Ok....sure, I'll get someone to cover. No problem. Then not three hours later said kid goes riding blithely by on her bike. Same person, different day. 'I can't come in because I'm really sick. and I need to go to the hospital because they say i need some big tests...and OHHH I'm so worried cuz they think I might have cancer or something.' Sure (What else can you really say) We'll cover for you. This, of course being the last day they work before 4 days off......A week later...I ask....so...'how'd the tests come out?' 'What tests?' 'At the hospital.' 'Oh those tests.......*you can see wheels turning as they try to come up with something to say*....'we don't know yet'. Really.....hmmmmm........ok.......
Problem is....another employee saw them at the fair the afternoon they should have been at work.......
Why not just ask if there was any way they could get the afternoon off to go to the fair...or get someone to work their shift? Why the elaborate lies? The mind games? The flipping bullshit? I do not understand why folks feel the need to create such stuff.
Anyway...that's been my day...sure hope yours was a heck of a lot better.
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starts today! Loved it last time and expect she'll push, shove, thrust and threated (lol) us to new levels this time around! She is awesome and this will be quite the challenge! |
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| I neither know nor care what the temperature is!! I'm blue! Beautifully, bodaciously, blissfuly, cobaltly, periwinkly, navy-ily, royally, azurely, sky-ly, federally, aqua-marine-ily, ceruleanily, denim-ly, midnightly, persian-ily, sapphire-ily, prussianily, tiffanie-ly, idigo-ily, smurfily BLUE!!! |
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| but who cares! The fireworks were awesome! I live in a really tiny town and the next tinier town 5 miles west of us just had the greatest 20 minute fireworks display! People were parked all along the road and we sat there in the car ooohhhhing and ahhhhing as we watched....it was such fun!!!!!!! |
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quick comment from my better half....
words of wisdom!
He who has a fifth on the fourth, rarely goes forth on the fifth. ( especially if you are on the firth of forth) |
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Happy 4th of July to all my American friends! This is another one of those holidays that means a lot to me. Maybe it is because I grew up near Boston and American history was something I lived and breathed for many years. Perhaps because I served in our military and because I'm a Navy Mom and Army Mom-in-law or because my dad fought in WWII and my grampa in WWI.
I learned the words to 'Paul Revere's Ride in 4th grade...one if by land, two if by sea' and the 'freedom trail' in Boston was a regular walk.. I've traveled much of the world, and seen pictures of another huge chunk that my daughter took or my son-in-law in Iraq took...and being an American is a darned special thing to be!
An Asian man and his family came into my store yesterday. He had two little girls with him that were totally precious. (perhaps they were 5 and 6...or twins possibly) and they were so excited to see the balloons I had gotten to decorate the store.
The littlest one, jumping and pointing almost yelled, 'Look at the American fag balloons!!!! ' Her sister immediately said 'American FLAG! fl fl FLAG!'
'American FLag balloons!' her little sister dutifully repeated. I gave them each one and they were SO excited to have 'American flag balloons.' Their father said this was their first 4th of July that they were celebrating as Americans as he and his wife had just taken the US Citizenship exam and passed it with 'flying red, white and blue colors'.
How very awesome!!!!! And it got me thinking...how many American could actually pass the exam? Why don't you try!
http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_14/U_S_Citizenship_Test_Could_You_Pass.html
Yes, this is more than just a day for b-b-qs and fireworks....it is a day for pride in this great country, for being proud to be an AmerICAN!
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. But I also am at the point where I don't know how to feel or act. I hope you are doing well, and I also hope to see you around the community soon.
Remember, 60 is the new 40. I consider age to be really reverse logarithmic. 
I am beyond excited for you and can't wait to get my hands on a copy for niece and nephews .... 
umm .. okay ... and ...errr ... for myself because I'm just a big kid at heart. 
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