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SURPRISE! I can hear you.

So yesterday I had to go on a telephone conference and I called in first because they always tell you the phone conference will fill up fast, which it doesn’t. Then I find the best thing to do is to push mute the second you enter the phone conference.
Well not a lot of people feel the same. So as I’m sitting there waiting for the phone conference to begin, this Southern woman comes on and starts to fight with her husband while she waits for the conference to start. So she is screaming at her husband with me and I think 15 other people listening.
I really hope that he doesn’t follow through with that divorce threat.

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About One in the Afternoon

Is it just me, or at about one in the afternoon every single day, you start to get tired. Like suddenly your energy is all spent and it’s Nap Time. I swear, I feel like I’m going to pass out right now. I need my second wind, or to get up and stretch or something.
I have two theories:

  1. Well, lunch just happened. And usually being full makes people tired and lethargic. It’s science. Although at lunch you get free rein and you can talk and joke around and break up the work day, so maybe that theory doesn’t work. Or maybe all that joking around at lunch is what makes you tired?
  2. I also think this is a direct result of upbringing. Think about it, from the moment we are born til we go to kindergarten, we get a nap time. In the early afternoon, we get to lay down and regain our strength so we can make it through the rest of the day. We did this for about 5 to 6 years, don’t you think that became a habit? I say yes. And even though it’s been awhile, I still would be willing to start-up that habit again.

Basically I’m just super tired right now, I’m gonna stand up and stretch for a moment. Hopefully that helps. It won’t help with the itch on my back though. Dangit.

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There are words for this.

I’m working on a theory, and it is a theory that can only be worked on in this moment. The theory is this: After having the best night of your life, Life turns around and works extra hard the next morning to bring you back down.
This is what I imagine having a One Night Stand is like. Everything was beautiful last night. EVERYTHING! Last night was filled with so much excitement and so much splendor. I was literally high. I didn’t take drugs and I didn’t drink, but I was high. Everything was beautiful.
This morning was an unexpected crash and burn. Worse than Pearl Harbor.

First off, you are tired from the night before. That much happiness is tiring and it causes you to not sleep. I woke up to a text from my sister once again asking me why I didn’t take one of her sleeping pills. I’m sorry Blood Relation, I was high on life last night. You can’t sleep during that. You lay in bed and fantasize about things that keep your high going. You are too good for dreams. And you don’t need them in that moment.

Now there is something in my family that I would like to call “Heat Seeking Gaze”. Let me elaborate.
You can hear Heat Seeking Gaze and you can also feel it through the wall. It’s easily detectable and extremely hard to maneuver around. Best thing you can do is just prepare yourself for it.
What is it? Occasionally one person in my family will get in a mood where they just go from one person to the next, looking for flaws and starting fights with them about it. I call it Heat Seeking Gaze because I feel like they are searching through the house for a sign of life that they can attack. I feel their gaze through my closed-door, waiting for me to emerge, in a manner much like a vulture. If I don’t emerge quick enough, they will come get me. Impatience is key.
There are three ways that Heat Seeking Gaze is settled.

  1. They pick at every single person until they finally get all their anger out. I thought I would mention this one first because it is so rare.
  2. Even more rare, they get over what they were mad about and apologize. Then they make us all an “I’m Sorry” cake. This has never happened to me, but I like to keep optimistic.
  3. Not so rare, they will run out of ammunition on people and retreat to like their room to either create more or to calm down. The happens a lot, I can’t say it’s a good thing, because even after the War, you gotta deal with the damage.
  4. This is the most common end to Heat Seeking Gaze. One person will rise to the occasion, much to the Seekers delight, and both of them will duel it out. That sounds really epic, but it’s mostly just screaming.

Sunday is a great day for Heat Seeking in my family. My mother had Heat Seeking Gaze this morning. I knew she had something on me, it was a matter of time. If I stayed in bed, she would have come and got me about over sleeping and staying out too late. If I left, she would get me about staying out too late or cleaning. It was a matter of time.

So how is Life trying to bring me back to reality? My leg hurts from dancing. I have to do the dishes. I’m not so tired anymore, but I could relapse. My Goggles are off and everything is not beautiful.

The Redemption? I’m going to see everyone that made last night beautiful later on and it puts a smile on my face. Will it still be as beautiful as last night when I see them? Probably not, but now we have a great memory together. I’M KEEPING THAT FOREVER!

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Yeah Yeah Whatever

Hey There. I know this message is going to seem weird, considering we haven’t spoken to each other in over a year, but I still think about you a bunch.

Actually it’s not that weird. Apparently this is how a Facebook message sent to me always starts. I’ve been getting this quite a bit lately. And by quite a bit, I mean about 2 times so far in the month of April. But that’s still a lot of reconnection going on.

I have to admit though, I wouldn’t think a message like this would be weird in any sense. Not even if I hadn’t been getting messages like this before the one sent to me today. I don’t think it’s weird to miss and want to reconnect with someone you once knew. In fact, I think it’s great in some cases. I’m always down. Even though I love messages like these, it always takes me awhile to think of a good response to them.

I feel it’s important to add, I’m not the one losing contact with these people. In most cases, we simply just stop talking. The friendship dies down. Or they do something that really makes me mad, which is kinda hard to do. They deserve a medal.

I believe that everything happens for a reason of course. And I do have to say though, I only need one more specific person to try to reconnect with me, and the gangs all back together. Of course this gang didn’t really talk to each other, just to me. It’s not a gang together, just the gang of people who talked to me. That’s not really a gang, is it?
And luckily the last person who needs to reconnect most likely won’t. It’s almost impossible that he will.

OH! And by the way, the person who reconnected with me earlier this month, they aren’t really interested in talking to me. Why did they reconnect with me then? Pff, Everyone’s insane.

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Another first time in my life.

Remember this? Probably not, I didn’t have subscribers back then. But I have had another first. I just got asked if I have met someone. First time ever.  A family friend came over and asked if I have met someone. It was so shocking I had to ask if she meant a guy. I feel so old with these questions about whether I’m married or whether I have met someone. I’m growing up.
Again, I had to post it. It’s another milestone.

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Public Restrooms

So, I’ve been in meetings all morning. And with me I had my handy-dandy bottle of water. Cause I get thirsty and one of the side goals of Commit Me was to quit drinking soda.
Well, I drank the whole bottle. I’ve always been a Camel in the fact that I can really drink ALOT. Well I find it awkward to get up in a meeting and go to the bathroom. But it was even worse with this meeting because I had never been in this persons office before and I didn’t want to ask them where their bathroom was and what not. Just didn’t feel like the right thing to do.
So I held it until after the meeting, which lasted two and a half hours. Afterwards I stopped in at a fast food place to use the bathroom. Now my mother has always been afraid of public restrooms, but for me it’s always been if I gotta go there really is no choice. So I go into this public restroom, and it wasn’t the kind with the stalls but the kind where it’s just one room. But it had one of those button locks that are very unreliable. It’s like one touch and anyone can come in. I still locked the door though.
So I’m in there taking care of business and next thing I know some lady comes walking in on me. It’s an awkward situation in which I should have been embarrassed. And what do I say in this awkward situation?

“Oh Hey.”

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Example Names

So I was just in a meeting. And as the meeting progressed, my father decided to use an example. Which brought to my attention how uneffective examples can be in a meeting. Everyone uses examples when they are presenting something, I do all the time. But in this particular meeting, examples came at me like a glaring ‘WOAH! DONT DO IT!’.

It went a little something like this, my father said ”And say we had a client, Amelia Wycenski…”
I’m sorry, did I don’t remember what else he said, because I was extremely distracted by this. My mind immediately gets shut off from Meeting Mode and starts thinking this like “Amelia Wycenski? Is that a real person or did he just come up with that? How did he come up with that name right then? That’s crazy!”

Now there is another way that this example could have gone which I find to be easily less effective in getting a point across. He could have said, though he did not, “And say we had a client, Bob Smith…”
My mind then turns to thinking things like “Bob Smith? Lame. Everyone uses Bob Smith as their example. Think how the actual Bob Smith feels. He probably isnt happy.”

Now, maybe I just have ADD (I dont) and I am easily distracted. But if I can get so quickly distracted by things like this, so can anyone I’m sure.
All I’m saying is, when deciding to give an example in business, maybe we should all think it through, because examples can be just as distracting as they are helpful.

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