It's that time of year again......I'm another year older and I'm reflecting on lessons in life that I've learned so far:
~~~The
only thing more embarassing than having a booger hanging out of your
nose is sneezing and hurling a wad of snot across the room
~~~The
only thing worse than sneezing and hurling a wad of snot across the
room is when you can't FIND where it landed until the day is over and
you realize it landed on the collar of your shirt
~~~People who
have stomachs that are sensitive to diary products should not stop at
Burger King and order a double Whopper with extra cheese at the
beginning of a car ride that is going to take an hour
~~~Getting
so drunk that you have to puke is not a good thing....especially if you
think that your car window is rolled down...and it isn't
~~~When
you're a teenager and your mom doesn't know you smoke, it's generally
considered poor manners when you throw a lit cigarette into your
friend's lap when mom walks in on you unexpectedly
~~~The only
time that your fart smells like eggs that have been sitting in the sun
for 3 days is when you bend over to tie your shoe and you fart in the
face of the person behind you who also just bent over to tie her
shoe....making her face eye level with your ass
~~~The ONE time that you decide to go 85MPH in a 65MPH zone on the highway you whiz right by a State Trooper
~~~When
you're just a nickel short on your purchases at the grocery store, you
will leave the store humiliated and then find a nickel in the parking
lot on the way out of the store
IN OTHER NEWS:
>>>Work
today turned out to be MUCH better than yesterday. My boss was NOT a
happy camper when he found out what happened to me yesterday. He was
even MORE livid when he found out that the field guy's supervisor was
accepting of the way that I was treated. My supervisor and I ended up
on a conference call with the area manager and laid down the law on a
few things. I somehow suspect that I won't be treated like that again.
My boss may irritate me at times, but he's a pretty awesome dude! I've
never had a boss who has stood up for me the way that he does. The last
dispatching job that I had was a constant struggle with my supervisor
there because he ALWAYS tried his best to make me look BAD!! I think it
bothered him that I was better at my job than anyone else in the
building and never asked him for his advice or input into most of the
situations I dealt with. My take on the matter is that by the time HE
darkened my doorstep I'd already been doing the job for almost 2 years!
I didn't NEED his input or advice! My current boss is completely
different though. HE actually gives a damn when I'm frustrated or
having a hard time with one of the guys in the field or their managers.
Not only does he give a damn, but he jumps right in and takes care of
the matter immediately. You just don't find that kind of boss anymore!
>>>Speaking
of work, I almost had a stroke when I was leaving the parking garage at
the end of the day. I had pulled out of my space in the parking deck
and was heading out. As I was driving, my cell phone fell on the floor
and I bent over to pick it up...when I looked back up, I was about a
quarter of an inch away from another manager's Beemer convertible!!!! I
shudder to think what that guy would have done to me if I had crashed
into his car!!
>>>Cindy's
new vehicle was delivered a little earlier this evening. It's a VERY
nice truck!! I'm so jealous!! Cindy did NEED something
though.......she's 3 other vehicles but they're all starting to show
their age, so it's just better to find something now rather than risk
being broken down on the side of the road when she's going to her beach
house or something.
>>>I
ran into an ex-girlfriend of mine today at lunch. This is the one that
I met when I was 15 and dated for most of my high school years. She and
I shared a lot of "firsts" with each other, if you know what I mean!
I
was so in love with this girl that I literally couldn't see straight
when she was around!! It was pretty much love at first sight because
the day that we met you could almost hear the fireworks going off! Much
like those fireworks, our relationship fizzled out and we broke up
before we graduated. Two years later she came back into my life and we
discussed getting married for the second time (the first was in high
school).....after a few months things fizzled out again. It would be
another 5 years before we'd run into each other again. Naturally we
were both skittish about getting back together because of past events
between us. We discussed these things shortly after doing the
humpty-hump on our first date in those five years!
We had decided that THIS time we'd get it right because we truly did
love each other regardless of our history together. The biggest
struggle that we faced that go-round was the fact that by this time my
mom was in the very last stages of her illness and a lot of my time had
to be spent trying to have time with the girlfriend AND take care of my
mom. Up until about 3 days after mom died she was wonderfully
supportive of me and what I was going through. In fact, she was SO
supportive that she went to a rodeo with another guy on the day that I
buried my mom. Oh and did I mention that she'd told me that she had to
work the day of the funeral?? I dumped her faster than you could count
to five that time. It's been almost 15 years since that happened and
I'd not laid eyes on her since then. So when I saw her today we chatted
a little bit and she had the gall to ask me why I made such a big deal
of her going out with that guy to the rodeo all those years ago!!
Yeah...I couldn't believe it myself. It was then that I told her that
it was pleasant seeing her again and left. I'm SOOOOOO glad that I
ended things with her BEFORE we got married because I'll tell you
this...had I gone through with marrying her I would most likely have
divorced her within the first two years.
Well,
that's all I've got for now. TOMORROW IS
FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
