April 2011
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“Worrying is like praying for the things you don’t want.”
– Stephanie Powers
Oops.
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The Agenda
Another great one from Seth’s Blog:
“The job of the CEO isn’t to check things off the agenda. Her job is to set the agenda, to figure out what’s next.
Now that more and more of us are supposed to be CEO of our own lives and careers, it might be time to rethink who’s setting your agenda.”
Time to do some examining.
Source: http://tinyurl.com/3ojov2b
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via quote-book)
Perfection.
(via thegreensandyellowsofhappiness)
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Sometimes the best date you can go on is with no... →
This made me smile. Wonderful advice. Stop freaking out about finding “The One” and just enjoy your life. :)
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“Energy.
It’s 75% of the job.
If you haven’t got it, be nice.”
– Paul Arden
This reminds me of my roommate: she with boundless energy.
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“If you think you’re unable to be on the cover of Time magazine, make it...”
– Paul Arden
Awesome.
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“Talent helps, but it won’t take you as far as ambition.”
– Paul Arden
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Grammar tip
In my effort to help humanity sound less dumb, I offer a quick and easy grammar tip I learned a few weeks ago.
It concerns in to vs. into.
If you can put “in order to” in your sentence and it still makes sense, you should use “in to”.
Example:
He went into the bar.
(“He went in in order to the bar” does not make sense.)
He went in to file his papers.
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“Pent up energy. Feel like a mountain needs moving somewhere. Ambition but no...”
– Eric Proulx (@eproulx)
This is a perfect summary of my life, particularly in the past 3 weeks.
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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
This is great. I firmly believe you’re never too old to reinvent yourself.
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Do you ever commit an action and then IMMEDIATELY think,
“Why did I just do that?”
Like throwing your phone onto your bed.
But missing and it crashes to the floor.
Who was I trying to impress?
My computer?
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“Don’t be afraid. Believe in yourself, then back it up.”
– Ozzie Guillen
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Furry creatures, cover your eyes
I don’t know who pisses me off more: vegetarians or vegans.
Vegans have that whole “go big or go home” stance going for them.
But really, animals have rights?
They have the right to be cooked medium well before being placed on my fork.
Don’t get me wrong.
I’m one of those people who’s more likely to cry when the dog dies in the movie than give a shit about the suffering people, but come...
“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
– Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Gimme some 'za
My friends won’t let me order the pizza at the end of the night.
They used to hand me a coupon - $7.99 for two medium pizzas.
40 minutes later, 4 large pizzas for $40 would arrive at the door.
Domino’s giving their customers the ability to order online is the single biggest moneysuck they put their company through.
I’d try to order a pizza at 3:30AM, clearly see that the arrival time...
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DAD, the ROBE
I imagine I got my strong sense of control from my dad.
He thought his best course of action after getting home from my sister’s engagement party would be to:
put on a robe,
do a poor job of tying it,
turn on the sound to the TV,
but skip the projector,
and pass out with a jar of peanuts at his side shortly thereafter.
At least he’s not a destructive drunk.
(It is both imperative and...
http://stumbleupon.com →
If you haven’t already heard of it, this is a really sweet random site finder. You check your interests, press ‘stumble’, and it will choose a random URL on the web for you. If it bores you, stumble again.
Great for random inspiration or a fresh look at things.
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Tri to hold it
I’m interested in the popularity of amateur races.
I guess the closest some of us will ever get to pro sports is via one of these pointless athletic endeavors.
I’ve taken on races of this nature before, most recently in the 2009 Chicago Triathlon.
3 hours and 17 minutes spent alone with just my thoughts.
My biggest fear was the pee situation.
What if I really had to go at a time where nary a...
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Soooooooooooo drunk!
Here’s something else you and I have no need to discuss:
How totally, mindnumbingly, fucktardedly waaaaasted you were on Friday.
We all get drunk.
We all do stupid shit.
If you have a story that involves taking your pants off in the Ladies bathroom at a pub in London and demanding your friend, Matt, give you his shorts right then and there because you’re feeling a little overheated,...
O's
One of my favorite phrases ever:
“Who shit in your Cheerios?”
Memo to self: start using this more.
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“Without having a goal it’s difficult to score.”
– Paul Arden, excerpt from “It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be”
Whenever I’m having doubts about my abilities (which is any time more than 12 hours pass between the completion of a school program and the procurement of a job), I turn to this book.
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Small talk
I hate small talk.
I think we should all introduce ourselves as follows:
“Hi, my name is Fred, I like Bob Barker, have Ewok bedsheets, and steal babies in my free time.”
Great, Fred, now I know who I’m dealing with.
You know what I never wanna discuss again?
THE WEATHER.
Wait. There are four seasons and polar bears being left homeless on your planet too?!
Gosh darn you, Global...
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Cats
Let’s just get this out of the way: I have hated cats with a fiery passion for all 23 years of my life.
I expect to do so for another 23.
Cats have glared, scratched and peed on me.
Quite frankly, I dream of returning the favor.
If you consider the feline a friend, a) don’t read the following story and b) you really have no business reading this blog.
My grandma’s cat used to...
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“It doesn’t cost any more to dream bigger.”
– My dad
I find most of my dad’s sayings quaint at best and annoying at worst. But he has said this one hundreds of times and I never get sick of it. I don’t know who said it originally, but it always keeps my skepticism and doubt in myself at bay.
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Just like your dad
I have a hard time seeing how people in families look alike.
I mean, MaryKate and Ashley, nailed it right away.
But people have always told me I look like my dad.
As a kid, this used to really upset me.
I thought it meant I looked like a huge man with too much nose hair.
Then I realized it was just the lack of emotion and inability to answer a question without some form of sarcasm.
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I'm a Mac
I made the switch from PC to Mac 4 years ago.
My piece of shit WinBook (yes, that’s a real computer manufacturer) had been blacking out without warning (not unlike Kelsey’s on a Thursday night).
Some days it wouldn’t even turn on.
I’d had enough.
I’d heard nothing but good things about Apple and like most fed-up PC people, was ready to give something new a try.
And I’m proud to say I’m a...
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Genevieve
Sometimes I like to fuck with people based on a quick, two-second judgment.
You see a person or group of persons heading over and there are two routes you can take: a) they seem fun, I will behave normally or b) this is going to be dreadful, I might as well make the most of it.
On one Black Wednesday spent in my hometown (mistake #1), a particularly gruesome twosome was headed our way and I...
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“If you told somebody in 1978, ‘You’re going to have this machine,...”
– Larry Page, Google cofounder
What a cool way of describing Google. Renewed my fascination with it all over again.
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I'm not real
Has everyone seen Inception?
What a total mindfuck.
By the time I got used to the different dream layers, the movie was over.
I sat in my living room, freaking out, wondering if I was really sitting in a cryogenic tank somewhere, living my life out via some weird virtual reality world.
My roommate tries to pull something similar on me on a weekly basis.
She’s a school psychologist and she was...
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Where's your boyfriend?
One of my biggest pet peeves is people asking questions and then offering their commentary on my personal life.
At my younger sister’s engagement party in January, the most important question everyone needed answered was:
“So do you have a boyfriend?”
Most of them had the common sense to frame it as a “you’re too young, who needs one!” upon hearing my response.
Which is more than I can say for...
