Girl Scout, Girl Scout Do Your Duty!

So.The Bee is a Brownie and those in the know knows what time of year means: Cookies!Sunday, The Bee and I spent the morning helping to unload and count 916 cases of Girl Scout Cookies.That’s a lot of cookies!There are eight flavors:Thin MintsTrefolis ShortbreadPeanut Butter PattiesPeanut Butter SandwichesLemonadesThanks a Lots (a chocolate coated graham cracker)The low fat cinnamon daisy days**And…

Faith Walk

In the last two weeks I have been invited to church a total to five six times, inadvertently engaged in three conversations about religion, been ‘witnessed to’ and ‘testified to’. Twice. Each. For the most part I am a rather reserved person (how I got my current job is still a mystery; either they were suckered or I was) but…

The Nitpickers Guide to Customer Service

Don’t know, don’t care and shaddup about how fast the computers are today My previous employer was so focused on customer service that part of our performance evaluation – on which our raises were based – was a customer service test based on these two programs called LIST and Diffuse.LIST stood for L: Listening I: Indicate Understanding S: Solve T:…

100 push-up challenge

Say it Rah-shay By Jan 08, 2009 1 Comment

I have decided to take the challenge to do 100 push ups. I have such a weak upper body!I am up to a total of 9 “real” push-ups in a row.Whew!Unless I am totally doing these wrong I am feeling these in my abs, arms and back. This is the end of week one, five more to go!-r

Tomorrow, January 7th, is

…I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore Day! (Twisted Sister song is going on continuous loop through my head). Wednesdays are generally good days for me so I’m not sure what the ‘it” I am not going to take is. For everyone who is sick of ‘it’, today is the day that you do something about ‘it’. However, a word…