April 15, 2002

[General] 5 Good Things.

Since I have been kind of down lately, I thought I would take a couple of minutes and jot down some good things:

Fresh Strawberries
We got some really good fresh strawberries the other day at the Giant. Probably the best I have tasted in 3 or 4 years—since the last time I was in Florida. I made some homemade, biscuit-style shortcakes and whipped up some fresh cream to go with. It was pretty extraordinary.

Mariners Baseball
My Mariners are 10-3. ‘nuff said. :)

Pink Sunglasses
Last fall, in an attempt to use up the rest of the money in my flexible spending account, I went to Lenscrafters and went a little crazy. One of the things I bought was a pair of prescription sunglasses with pink lenses. The “rose-colored glasses" jokes not withstanding, I think that they are the coolest glasses I have ever owned.

Spinner
Internet Radio. Okay, so it’s owned by AOL/Time-Warner. Isn’t everything? Anyway, I listen to it all day, usually to the “unplugged” channel until they play Dave Matthews and then to the “90s alternative channel” until it annoys me and then it’s back to “unplugged”. It can be a little repetitive, but that’s why they market something like 200 different themed channels--Pop or Rap or R&B or Country or 70s or 80s or 50s or 60s or 40s or Jazz or Folk or Blues or Reggae or Doo Wop or Cuban or Disco or about 185 more—so, getting bored is really your own fault. It’s www.spinner.com, if you are interested.

My ‘Things I Am Not' list
This one requires a little more explanation. See, in my current job, I am frequently asked to do things that are so far out of the scope of my job that they are actually funny. Except I rarely laugh about it, especially since I am frequently not good at the things I am being asked to do and not being good at something annoys me. So, I have started keeping a tongue-in-cheek list on my white board of all the things I am not. Many of these things are hats that I am asked to wear every day and many are just silly things designed to take the bite out of the list so that I don’t actually piss anyone off. There are 10 things on my list today:
Souffle chef, technical writer, astronaut, DBA, circus freak, web designer, saloon singer, talk show hostess, professional figure skater, process engineer

I will leave it to you to figure out which ones are real and which are decoys. :)

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Posted by Lori at April 15, 2002 4:43 PM