Sweat the Small Stuff: Ranting about the little peeves in life
Posted in General Rants, Pet Peeves on Feb 20th, 2007
There have been so many jokes about the “one upping” habit that I am surprised that it still happens so much these days. There is no doubt it does. I am sure there could be, and perhaps there are, studies on why people feel the need to outdo you even on the smallest of things. [...]
Posted in Family, General Rants on Feb 19th, 2007
I have four kids, all 10 and under. My youngest is one year old, so that translates to early bed time for most of the household. Early bed time is for a few reasons. FKids need plenty of sleep. if you want to have a pleasant following day, you have to get your kids to [...]
Posted in General Rants, Pet Peeves, Tech/Net on Feb 18th, 2007
If you have a mail address and have at least one friend in the world, you likely have had some email joke/story/whatever forwarded to you. We all have done it, and we are all more than likely guilty of at some point having forwarded something that ended up not being true. Yep, Urban Legends, fake [...]
Posted in General Rants, Pet Peeves on Feb 16th, 2007
Back in college I had a professor that loved to use statistics to prove his point. I hated that. In today’s world of twisted politics and biased news reporting, who can really believe statistics? I know that statistical information obviously can have merit, but no longer does the phrase “Statistics don’t lie” have any merit. [...]
Posted in General Rants on Feb 15th, 2007
With the advent of the do-not-call list, telemarketing calls have taken a dive for me. For the most part, telemarketing outfits honor this list and because I rarely sign up for or purchase anything that would lead to a call, I don’t get many calls. There are those that call that are exempt from the [...]
Posted in Holidays on Feb 15th, 2007
I read an article over the weekend that said the average American will spend $127.00 on Valentine’s Day stuff. This web site http://retailindustry.about.com/od/sales_holiday/a/valentines_day.htm has very interesting stats…. Now all that is fine and good but what drives me to want to smack someone with a Hallmark card is this”¦do we women NEED more stress??? Isn’t [...]
Posted in Holidays on Feb 14th, 2007
This morning I experienced something that really made me laugh. I wouldn’t say this necessarily has to be something that has to go, but I couldn’t not share it here. Valentines Day was most definitely invented by a woman. I don’t have any historical research to back this up, but even if you show me [...]
Posted in General Rants, Work on Feb 13th, 2007
Writers’ block, designers’ block, whatever-you-want-to-call-it block; every creative pursuit has their version of it. By trade I am required to do some kind of creative thinking every day. Whether designing a web site or writing ad content, my brain is put through its paces to come up with something original or at least creatively interesting. [...]
Posted in General Rants on Feb 12th, 2007
I received this note from my brother this morning: “From a friend ranting: ‘My favorite Walmart photo story happened a few weeks ago… we sent some pictures over to Walmart to get developed, and they wouldn’t print them. They said, “These photos are too good, so they must be copyrighted.’” I had to laugh because [...]
Posted in Health on Feb 8th, 2007
Now why weren’t our bodies created to warn you that the exercise you are doing will make walking near impossible to walk the next day? Ouch…. Now having recently had a baby (four months ago) I have jumped back on the healthy and fit bandwagon. I have been working out for about 3 months and [...]
