It's just another manic Monday

Today was one doosie! The phone wouldn't stop ringing. Don't remember the last time I was so popular. I've got a project getting into high gear and it's definitely keeping me busy.

Haven't posted in a while. So let's see, what's been going on....

Been busy with work - really busy. I've been trying to work through a crochet cap but the new kid (Milo, pictured below) in the family prefers to play with the yarn and I can't make much progress on it. Just finished reading The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette - interesting, somewhat fictional.

Been stamping a bit. I set up sessions at work to make Valentines and one of the ladies asked to make cards to send to the troops. So that's what we are doing. The first session was last Friday and another one this Friday. Looks like we will be sending about 30 - 40 cards.

Had a stamping workshop for T. at her place in Sebastopol - it's a really nice area and I love her place. Will have to go over and spend some time looking around more.

Smariek asked who those guys on the treadmills were in one of my previous posts - it's a music video called Here it goes again, by OK Go.

Almost time for 24 & Heroes.

Complete light show at Grand Place - Brussels, Belgium

This is a 10 minute video of the Christmas light show in Brussels. The show was spectacular and I had wished I had a camcorder to record it.

I am so happy I found this online to see it again.

OK Go - Here it goes again

OK Go - Here it goes again Check out this video. Wonder how they managed to get this all down without getting straining something

Working with.....

I have long ago accepted that there is no perfect work environment but on some days dealing with things just isn't easy. One can only tolerate so much before losing it. What gets me the cluelessness on the part of the other person - "I blew your job but others could too, so it's OK" - OMG what kind of crazy logic is that??

Found this:

Working With Idiots Can Kill You!
Thursday November 21, 2002
By KATE McCLARE

STOCKHOLM -- Idiots in the office are just as hazardous to your health as cigarettes, caffeine or greasy food, an eye-opening new study reveals. In fact, those dopes can kill you!

Stress is one of the top causes of heart attacks -- and working with stupid people on a daily basis is one of the deadliest forms of stress, according to researchers at Sweden's Lindbergh University Medical Center.

The author of the study, Dr. Dagmar Andersson, says her team studied 500 heart attack patients, and were puzzled to find 62 percent had relatively few of the physical risk factors commonly blamed for heart attacks.

"Then we questioned them about lifestyle habits, and almost all of these low-risk patients told us they worked with people so stupid they can barely find their way from the parking lot to their office. And their heart attack came less than 12 hours after having a major confrontation with one of these oafs.

"One woman had to be rushed to the hospital after her assistant shredded important company tax documents instead of copying them. A man told us he collapsed right at his desk because the woman at the next cubicle kept asking him for correction fluid -- for her computer monitor.

"You can cut back on smoking or improve your diet," Dr. Andersson says, "but most people have very poor coping skills when it comes to stupidity -- they feel there's nothing they can do about it, so they just internalize their frustration until they finally explode."

Stupid co-workers can also double or triple someone's work load, she explains. "Many of our subjects feel sorry for the drooling idiots they work with, so they try to cover for them by fixing their mistakes. One poor woman spent a week rebuilding client records because a clerk put them all in the 'recycle bin' of her computer and then emptied it -- she thought it meant the records would be recycled and used again."

Also found this site: http://www.iworkwithfools.com/

Love their mission statement.

My dominant intelligence.....

Interesting.....

Your Dominant Intelligence is Spatial Intelligence

You've got a good sense of space and how the world around you looks. You can close your eyes and "see" images. You have innate artistic talent. An eye for color and shapes, you're also a natural designer. Since you think in pictures, visual aids and demonstartions help you learn best. You would make a good navigator, sculptor, visual artist, inventor, architect, interior designer, or engineer.

What Kind of Intelligence Do You Have?

I have been tagged

Smariek has tagged me for a meme. I am to list 6 weird things about me and tag 6 others to do the same. I've got a bit a of a problem with both, other than Smariek I don't know anyone else who has a blog to tag and I don't really think about all the things I do that are weird, I just kind of do them.

Here are the stipulations-“THE RULES:Each player of this game starts with the ‘6 weird things about you.’ People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says ‘you are tagged’ in their comments and tell them to read your blog.”

6 weird things about me:

1. I am incredibly compulsive about things I cannot find - it's not that I need them, it's just that I thought of it and must now know where it is. I will know where I last saw it, even if it was years ago, haven't used it since, don't need it know but must find it. I will go through the house for hours looking for it.

2. When I am at home, every few hours I must take inventory of the cats, ie where they all are. I do that before I go to bed as well. Can't sleep unless I know where they all are (they are indoor cats).

3. I am particular about food items and how they are normally used or eaten. For example, I am used to eating rice warm with something, so I will not eat it cold in a salad or as a pudding(not meant to be eaten as a salad or cold), I don't like anything sweet in anything but desserts and occassionally salads - so I won't eat yam, or raisins cooked in with something.

4. I don't like my food to mix, I want to taste the distinct flavor of each without something that shouldn't be there. Some people mix everything at buffet places and that just bugs the heck out of me.

5. I have trouble with throwing things away, I am sentimental and a pack rat and organizationally challenged. I am a bit of a shopaholic with craft things and supplies and buy things just in case I eventually think of something to do with them and between the two problems I am overwhelmed with stuff.

6. ??????

Who would I tag if I could tag them - TF, NP, RH, JE, JW, AH