"A journey of a thousand miles must
begin with a single step."
- Chinese Proverb
Friday, August 27, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George F. Will
- George F. Will
Friday, August 13, 2010
something we all wish we could do. this girl quits her job with messages that she wrote on a dry erase board... genius. First of i never heard of this HOPA, but if its Hot Piece Of Ass, shouldn't it be HPOA? And garbage diSPENCER... and then I discovered that is was all FAKE :(
but while looking at that post I found this video... and I started crying... isn't it weird how you can cry about other people's happiness? They aren't tears of joy but not tears of sadness either...
but while looking at that post I found this video... and I started crying... isn't it weird how you can cry about other people's happiness? They aren't tears of joy but not tears of sadness either...
WYSIWYG or who I don't accept compliments well
So one of our procedures at work constantly uses an acronym WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), which I think is kind of hilarious, gotta love the engineers who wrote it. What it means is sort of a "preview" so if you type a message into the printer it will show you exactly how it's going to print it.
This got me to thinking of how awesome this acronym really is... I mean I can totally describe myself with it. I work pretty hard on making sure that my actions match up my words. Simply because it is a huge pet peeve of mine when people don't mean what they say. I hate flaky people. I don't see how you can say something and don't mean it. I guess I'm naive like that. So if you want me to believe something you better show it rather than say it.
I've been told several times that I'm pretty bad at accepting compliments. I typically shrug or laugh them off. And it got me thinking... I think it's because the best compliment you can give to a person is not a verbal one. Words really pretty much mean nothing if there isn't an action to back them up. I have experienced it first hand too many times to actually take what people say seriously. This is not to say that I don't ever compliment people, I definitely do... but I think if I like someone they will know about it far sooner than me actually saying those words. This doesn't apply to just "boys" either, even more so with friends, I hate people who put no effort into friendships and flake out at you at the last second. In the past year or two I majorly weeded out my friends. I pretty much made a vow to myself that I will not associate with people who wouldn't do for me what I would do for them. That being said I consider myself a pretty loyal person and I will go out of my way for the people I care about, no problem. But as soon as I see that the other person is just using it or if I need help and they are nowhere to be found, as sweet as I am I can be a bitch too.
rant over
So one of our procedures at work constantly uses an acronym WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), which I think is kind of hilarious, gotta love the engineers who wrote it. What it means is sort of a "preview" so if you type a message into the printer it will show you exactly how it's going to print it.
This got me to thinking of how awesome this acronym really is... I mean I can totally describe myself with it. I work pretty hard on making sure that my actions match up my words. Simply because it is a huge pet peeve of mine when people don't mean what they say. I hate flaky people. I don't see how you can say something and don't mean it. I guess I'm naive like that. So if you want me to believe something you better show it rather than say it.
I've been told several times that I'm pretty bad at accepting compliments. I typically shrug or laugh them off. And it got me thinking... I think it's because the best compliment you can give to a person is not a verbal one. Words really pretty much mean nothing if there isn't an action to back them up. I have experienced it first hand too many times to actually take what people say seriously. This is not to say that I don't ever compliment people, I definitely do... but I think if I like someone they will know about it far sooner than me actually saying those words. This doesn't apply to just "boys" either, even more so with friends, I hate people who put no effort into friendships and flake out at you at the last second. In the past year or two I majorly weeded out my friends. I pretty much made a vow to myself that I will not associate with people who wouldn't do for me what I would do for them. That being said I consider myself a pretty loyal person and I will go out of my way for the people I care about, no problem. But as soon as I see that the other person is just using it or if I need help and they are nowhere to be found, as sweet as I am I can be a bitch too.
rant over
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Sunday, August 01, 2010
beer for every mile
This guy is nuts haha, he ran half a marathon and drank a beer for every mile. He eventually states- "beer is a very good thing for a run of six miles or less."
I have a very much love/hate relationship with running. If I'm in a bad mood, nothing will make me feel as good as a long exhausting run. I don't really see it as "running away" from my problems, but rather exhausting my mind and body enough to not think about them for a bit. I'm in no way shape or form a good runner. In HS I could barely run a mile. It wasn't until college until I started running and pushing myself. That's the thing about running, you can come up with a million reasons to stop, or to keep going and that is pretty much the only variable, it's so much more mental than it is physical. I know lots of people who are in a much better physical shape than me say that they can't run for more than 5 minutes.
Human body is actually made for long distance runs. So this spring I decided to start running more. I decided I was going to work my way up to a 5k. Which doesn't seem like much to someone who runs on regular basis, but before this the longest I've ran EVER was probably 2 miles. It took me probably 2 months of not very consistent running(damn work schedule) to make it. I found out that I hit a couple of blocks when I run, but as long as I keep going through them they go away and I get the so called 2 wind. Does this happen to everybody? I have no clue.
I am just now realizing that this was a totally pointless post. Oh well, I'm off to bed...
This guy is nuts haha, he ran half a marathon and drank a beer for every mile. He eventually states- "beer is a very good thing for a run of six miles or less."
I have a very much love/hate relationship with running. If I'm in a bad mood, nothing will make me feel as good as a long exhausting run. I don't really see it as "running away" from my problems, but rather exhausting my mind and body enough to not think about them for a bit. I'm in no way shape or form a good runner. In HS I could barely run a mile. It wasn't until college until I started running and pushing myself. That's the thing about running, you can come up with a million reasons to stop, or to keep going and that is pretty much the only variable, it's so much more mental than it is physical. I know lots of people who are in a much better physical shape than me say that they can't run for more than 5 minutes.
Human body is actually made for long distance runs. So this spring I decided to start running more. I decided I was going to work my way up to a 5k. Which doesn't seem like much to someone who runs on regular basis, but before this the longest I've ran EVER was probably 2 miles. It took me probably 2 months of not very consistent running(damn work schedule) to make it. I found out that I hit a couple of blocks when I run, but as long as I keep going through them they go away and I get the so called 2 wind. Does this happen to everybody? I have no clue.
I am just now realizing that this was a totally pointless post. Oh well, I'm off to bed...
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