Using Facebook for Good

As my dear friends know, I don't use facebook for social purposes. That's way too much personal information to put out there. Me? I just pour my heart out into 11 carefully crafted blogs. LOL3

Anyway, I don't use facebook (other than for work), so all you facebook users, which is basically EVERYONE ELSE in the world, please do me a solid.

I want to get 100 responses to my healthy living habits survey. The responses are still trickling in, but I think I still need about 40 more to reach 100. Will you please post a link to my survey on your wall?Come on, all the cool kids are doing it.

Here's the survey link: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB229B23QZ9QJ

THANK YOU!!!

(And yes, to my most loyal readers who noticed, I did post this same post on 2 blogs. That just means I really mean it. :))

I'll sleep when I'm dead

Tom and I landed a new client yesterday. They are a really great organization, and I'm really looking forward to being a part of their foundation. They basically need an entire HR function set into place for them, and they are a global company, so this will be a fun challenge.

As my loyal readers know, I'm already quite busy with my current work and project load, but I will find the time to squeeze this in. They have some very aggressive deadlines, and Tom and I have 2 weeks to accomplish a big portion of the work they need done.

I anticipate very long hours, but I'm going to try to make it as fun as possible - working outside or out of restaurants/cafe's... Between my full time gig and this, I won't be surprised if I need to put in 80 hrs/week for the next few weeks, so I'll need to change up my scenery.

Today I'll spend 10 hrs on site working for one client, and tonight I'll work 4-5 hrs outside by the water, where the waitstaff (aka - the Darce) at 11 AH will attend to my every need. LOL. See - I have it all worked out. ;-)

Photo shoot - by popular demand :)

They took over 1,000 photos - Kitty was kind enough to narrow them down to 150 for me to choose from - here are about 10 for my fans. (LOL)

Putting on a happy face

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So yesterday I was feeling slightly miserable between the exhaustion, 3 day headache, knee and eye issues, and rain, but I had blogged about trying to make the best of the day...putting on a happy face...choosing joy over misery...

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I did my best, and I ended up having a perfectly fine day. I made sure I took a few moments to laugh with people in the office, I focused on the positive, I avoided situations where I would hurt my knee more (which I should have been doing all along - I'm stupit), and so yes, my day was perfectly fine. It wasn't a great day or an awesome day - it was just a normal day.

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I think we control so much of our outlook in life. Somethings and some emotions may be out of our control, but the way we handle and respond to things makes the difference in our journey. I always hear the phrase, "It's not the destination, it's the journey." I don't know who said it - I've seen it attributed to many different people, but the point is so true.

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So many times we are just waiting out our current situation, hoping to get to our goal because then we'll be happy or comfortable or satisfied or rich or whatever it is we're looking for. If we can realize that each step along our journey is truly part of what "it" is all about, we will be more inclined to focus on making each day count.

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Today is a new day. I'm pretty sure it's a cloudy day. I would prefer a sunny day, but a cloudy day is better than a rainy day. I have someone coming to take my boat out of the water, and he's going to try to fix it today. He can do that on a cloudy day, but not so much on a rainy day. I'm hoping he can fix it today or tomorrow because it's supposed to be sunny this weekend, so it would be fixed just in time.

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Sometimes when I'm sick of being stuck in the house, or I'm sick of the rain, Darcy and I have theme nights to try to change it up. We don't do it as often as we used to, but we may have Chinese night where we order or make Chinese food and have Chinese drinks and play Chinese games, or we'll just have a game night or a monte carlo night or just something to change it up to make an overcast blah Thursday night a fun night. We always have a blast, and I think tonight is going to be a theme night. It's been yucky all week (again), and I've been tired - we've both had headache's all week, and I think this is just the thing to change it up and to spike the blah with a little fun.

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I better give Darcy some notice so she can get Henry the appropriate attire! ;-)

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LOL - enjoy your day, be it sunny or gray.

You go, Manchvegas!

Forbes Magazine just named Manchester, NH the cheapest place to live in the US! Well, not exactly... They rated Manchester, NH the *best* cheap city to live in, in the US. You can read the full story here.

The honor was bestowed upon us based on the following criteria: low crime rate, best employment opportunities and best over all quality of life. Booyah! Oh yeah, and we don't have any sales or income tax!

Take that TJ - maybe flannel isn't so bad after all??!!

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I think Forbes figured out something I've known for a long time. Manchester has great restaurants, great sports teams, a lively downtown, super easy accessibility to Boston, the White Mountains and the ocean, plenty of entertainment, and you don't stick out if you're a bit overweight. ;-)

Can't you just feel my Manchester Pride??!!!

Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get Me Down

You kids are probably too young to remember the Carpenters, and their songs.

It's a rainy day...I'm exhausted - I was in the office from 7-5 yesterday, and then I had to rush home, get changed, eat dinner, and head over to a ball game for work. I didn't get home until 10. Normally, that wouldn't be too much of a challenge for me, but I'm still recovering from pneumonia so I need a lot more rest than usual.

So yes, it's rainy, I'm tired, my knee hurts, my eye is bothering me, I've had a headache for 2 days, and I have a ton of work to do, yet all I want to do is curl up on the couch and watch tv with my puppy.

No such luck!

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I'm going to do my best to choose joy today. I'm going to think positive, make the best of my situation, and I'm going to choose to have a great day. :)

I'll let you know how that goes.

I love summer

Yesterday afternoon we had friends over, and we paddled over to cupcake island since the boat hasn't been fixed yet. We had such a nice time, and I can't believe it was the first day we'd been out there since 2 months ago.

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I had a blast, and I want to make sure we get back out there soon!

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Tomorrow morning, we are heading out to the ocean for my photo shoot...at 4:30 AM! It's for my CD cover, and we're going to be there for the sunrise. Kitty took care of all of the details, but it was a last minute arrangement, so I'm not extremely prepared.

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I'm very glad to have this scheduled, because that's the last piece (aside from the CD cover art/design that Kitty will do once the photo shoot has been completed) that I need to do before I can order copies of the CD. I had been too sick to do it sooner.

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Darcy and I will be getting up at 3AM to have time to get ready and get to the ocean for 4:30. I hope I wake up when the alarm goes off! The life of a rock star is quite challenging! ;-)