Today I bagged all the leaves. I raked the front yard while the neighbors mowed up theirs and bagged it. I figured that was a good idea. It was but it still took a long time. I could barely make one pass up and down before the bag was full. By the time I was done, I only had 3 or 4 bags left. The neighbor's trees still have some leaves so hopefully that's enough to cover it.
Nana and papaw are here. They took the kids trick-or-treating. Daniel was a dinosaur and Lila was a ladybug. Both were super cute. We went to Famous Dave's afterwords and ate enough to puke. Now I'm super tired since I've been sick for a week, walked over a mile last night and tonight, and raked leaves all afternoon.
And now a poem I will try to remember that I came up with yesterday:
What is woman that she is so desirable?
Is it her curves?
Her breasts, her thighs?
Or the velvet between her legs?
No, it is her mind.
Everything else is skin and fat and tissue.
Her mind is what controls her, what makes her sensuous,
What takes that flesh and turns into femininity.
Wars have been fought over the beauty of a woman,
But only her mind can make a man complete,
Can challenge you, inspire you, love you,
Life you higher than you can dream,
Make you feel wanted, strong and desired.
It can also tear you down,
Make you feel lower than dirt,
Make you feel unwanted, alone, and miserable.
This world is still ruled mostly by men,
But women will always be there to make men rise and fall in their own minds.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
my day
Today, I found out I have astigmatism. Crazy, eh? Probably have had it for ten years and just finally noticed. Now I need glasses apparently. I was always fine without them and little worried that I wouldn't get used to them if I ever needed them. I guess I'll found out now.
Still not doing real well with keeping on track at work. It's to tempting to look up stuff to read on the web. I am literally addicted to it. I pray that I get over this soon, before my performance at work is noticed to a greater degree. My new boss, John, has already picked up on my lack of motivation. He has managed to see more clearly into who I am than Stewart or Dan. Must be why he has been relied on for important positions. He has finally shown me that when faced within ambiguous tasks, I check out. I shared my "revelation" with Karl, who immediately empathized with me. He is the same way. We analysis, we take things apart and dissect the meaning. Taking the abstract and pinning it down is synthesis. Something that I'm terrible at. Cris had an interesting point that the higher you go in management, the better people are at doing this. There is no task list for Vice-Presidents only vague conditions to follow, principles not tasks. Another few points Cris made where that the only way to get better at things is to do them. I will need to push forward on vague tasks. Do them first in the day instead of leaving them to the end. Also, effectively communicating is another weak point of mine, so I need to present more. I'll get my chance Monday when we present to the steering committee.
More tomorrow....
Still not doing real well with keeping on track at work. It's to tempting to look up stuff to read on the web. I am literally addicted to it. I pray that I get over this soon, before my performance at work is noticed to a greater degree. My new boss, John, has already picked up on my lack of motivation. He has managed to see more clearly into who I am than Stewart or Dan. Must be why he has been relied on for important positions. He has finally shown me that when faced within ambiguous tasks, I check out. I shared my "revelation" with Karl, who immediately empathized with me. He is the same way. We analysis, we take things apart and dissect the meaning. Taking the abstract and pinning it down is synthesis. Something that I'm terrible at. Cris had an interesting point that the higher you go in management, the better people are at doing this. There is no task list for Vice-Presidents only vague conditions to follow, principles not tasks. Another few points Cris made where that the only way to get better at things is to do them. I will need to push forward on vague tasks. Do them first in the day instead of leaving them to the end. Also, effectively communicating is another weak point of mine, so I need to present more. I'll get my chance Monday when we present to the steering committee.
More tomorrow....
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