Saturday, June 5, 2010
I'm not ignoring you, just writing all over the place
As my posts here have been less than frequent as of late, thought I'd let everyone (ha, there I go thinking people read this again) know why. First, work has just been super crazy and thus taking more of my mental ability than I'd like. Second, I am happy to report that I'm now a paid freelance writer:) Yes, finally. I have a gig with a contractor for http://www.livestrong.com/ and my content has started appearing along with my great picture. I mean, who doesn't want to write about what epsom salt is good for or how music motivates exercise (seriously, those are two of my first published titles). I'm hopeful that this leads to good things. And I promise that I'll pay more attention here starting next week.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Fun Little Fact
Something that most of my friends know about me is that I have the patience of a two-year old. Really. I do not know how I got through life without any form of this virtue whatsoever, but I have. It stinks. Ok, let me take that down a notch and say that for 99.8 percent of things on this planet I have no patience but a few things/people I do and that tends to not work out so well either.
It should not surprise anyone then that I’m an instant gratification person. Think Vercua Salt from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” with the jumping up and down “I want it now”. By no means am I saying this is a good trait but at least I know myself and my limits. Therefore, when I decide a situation should be discussed or a plan made or someone getting off their ass, I tend to want it to happen quite quickly. Subsequently I get upset when said person does not respond in the appropriate fashion or timeline and then I start to lose my stuff.
To me, it isn’t that hard to do something on time, return a phone call etc. Apparently I am in the minority on this one though and that is tough for me (yes, there may have been a slight whine there with that but deal). I’m not really at all like the Depeche Mode song “It’s No Good’ where Dave Gahan so eloquently says he’s gonna take his time, he’s got all the time in the world as, well to be frank, I don’t. Things should be done in a timely fashion and there are very few of them that have to be long, drawn out and not fun for anyone.
That is all. Now back to your regularly scheduled lives while I stew over my lack of patience and the people who are not helping.
It should not surprise anyone then that I’m an instant gratification person. Think Vercua Salt from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” with the jumping up and down “I want it now”. By no means am I saying this is a good trait but at least I know myself and my limits. Therefore, when I decide a situation should be discussed or a plan made or someone getting off their ass, I tend to want it to happen quite quickly. Subsequently I get upset when said person does not respond in the appropriate fashion or timeline and then I start to lose my stuff.
To me, it isn’t that hard to do something on time, return a phone call etc. Apparently I am in the minority on this one though and that is tough for me (yes, there may have been a slight whine there with that but deal). I’m not really at all like the Depeche Mode song “It’s No Good’ where Dave Gahan so eloquently says he’s gonna take his time, he’s got all the time in the world as, well to be frank, I don’t. Things should be done in a timely fashion and there are very few of them that have to be long, drawn out and not fun for anyone.
That is all. Now back to your regularly scheduled lives while I stew over my lack of patience and the people who are not helping.