Proper Responses

On this episode of proper responses....I actually needed a proper response...

For those of you who don't know I'm a staffing specialist for a temporary staffing company.  Part of my job sometimes involves checking people in at jobsites.  Well, last week one morning I was checking some people in at customer and was walking down an aisle full of product.  A supervisor spotted me, turned his forklift around and came down my aisle.  He approached and the following convo took place:

Supervisor: You've lost weight!
Me: No, I've probably gained about 10 (hey I'm just being honest).
Supervisor: Oh well you look different.
Me: Thank you though.
Supervisor: I hope you aren't offended by this, but...
Me: *gives a worried look*
Supervisor: For a chubby girl, you have a nice shape to you. Your'e very curvy.
Me:*blank stare...didn't know what to say*
Supervisor: You just have boom (big boobs pointed to), boom (average waist pointed to), boom (big butt pointed to).
Me: hmm..*still didn't know what to say*  Thanks......*said pensively*

What's the proper response here???

Thursday Words to live by

For this week's words to live by, I chose an excerpt from one of Og Mandino's fables that was sent out by the president of the company I work for.  I found it to be wonderful.

For the Rest of My Life (by Og Mandino)
 

For the rest of my life there are two days that will never again trouble me...
The first day is yesterday with all it's blunders and tears, it's follies and defeats. Yesterday has passed forever beyond my control...

The other day is tomorrow with it's pitfalls and threats, it's dangers and fears. Until the sun rises again, I have no stake in tomorrow for it is still a myth...

With the help of my family and friends and only one special day to concentrate all of my efforts and energy, I can win! Only when I add the burden of yesterday and tomorrow, am I in danger of faltering under the load. Never again! Today is all there is! Today is the rest of my life and I resolve to conduct myself through every waking hour in the following manner...

For the rest of my life, on this very special day, I will:
- Heed the wise advice of those who care about me and treat everyone I meet, friend or foe, stranger or family, as I would want them to treat me.
- Greet all those I encounter with a smile instead of a frown, and a soft word of encouragement instead of disdain or even worse - silence.
- To make haste to be kind to others, understanding that life is too short and too soon ended to be petty or unkind.

For the rest of my life, on this very special day, I will:
- Understand that life always rewards me on the terms that I establish, and if I never perform or deliver more than that which I am paid, never will I have reason to demand or expect any additional gold.
- Always do more than is expected of me, whether at work, at play, or at home.
- Labor with enthusiasm and passion, no matter what the task at hand may be, realizing that if I cannot secure happiness out of my work I will never know what real happiness is.

For the rest of my life, on this very special day, I will:
- Realize that no path to success is too long if I advance bravely with relentless optimism.
- Remind myself that success has it's price and that I must be willing to balance it's joys and rewards against the precious piece of my life I must always exchange in order to achieve it.
- Never lose faith in a brighter tomorrow, for I know I must use that energy to fulfill the best that is within me to accomplish all my goals and dreams.

For the rest of my life, on this very special day of all days, I will do unto others as I would have them do unto me, to give more of myself every waking hour, to set goals and hold fast to my dreams, to search for the good in every adversity that befalls me, to perform all my duties with complete devotion, and above all, to be true to myself.

For the rest of my life, I will be the best I can be!

Thursday Words to live by

Each week will feature a quote with words to live by.  This week...

Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.  Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.  Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements for the future.  Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.  Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you! 

-  Christian D. Larson

Just keep drawing

My latest piece in art class.....100 points if you can guess who it is.  HINT: She's on a tv show...

How HOT is IT?

• Hot enough to fry an egg on your head.
• Hot enough to make you sweat like Richard Simmons.
• Hot enough to cause spontaneous combustions.
• Hot enough to make you not want to go anywhere.
• Hot enough to even melt all of Christian Aguliera's makeup off her face.
• Hot enough to make you think it's okay to eat an entire carton of ice cream.
• So hot that you begine to become delusional, and see things that aren't there.
• HOT ENOUGH to think that maybe Al Gore was right.....maybe there is some fact in global warming....

It's so darn hot lately.  Then we got 2 days of crazy unusual cold weather - like my sister and I had to sit outside with blankets while we were watching Charlie play (Charlie, who also had a sweater!?! on). Crazyness.

Banner Giveaway!

So Summer of Athena in the Middle.  My favorite blog to read...is giving away a bloggy banner, like the one that she is currently sporting.

So go on over there and enter to win (CLICK ME TO BE MAGICALLY TRANSPORTED TO THE GIVEAWAY!!)...and while you are at it....click to follow her, because she is FABULOUS!!

I'm back

Took a little break from the blog-o-sphere, and the internets for that matter.  1. I took a LONNNNGG vacation, and 2. Some days after staring at glowing squares all day long, the last thing I want to do is go home and do it some more.  I much prefer the white dullness of pages in a book these days.  But none the less I'm back.

What I did on vacation:

• Ate at all the places I'd been longing for that I don't have here in the 'Burg...PG's, Shiso Sushi Bar, Fridays, Broadway Pizza, Boston Market.
• Had an AWESOME Birthday with all of my friends.  Drank way too many buckets and bones ;) and enjoyed being silly and singing songs poorly while wrapped in a arm chain.  I wish every night was like that in life.  At one point I just stopped and took it all in - making note of everyones faces, and trying to take in the warmth and happiness I was feeling at that moment.
• Took a rainy, but wonderful trip to Jensen Beach with my mom.  We had some YUMMY food, went to an auquarium, and also to Blowing Rocks.  We also tried (key word TRIED) to fly a kite. We swam in the ocean and mom tried to get me to touch something slimy and disgusting. I saw my mom in a whole different light this trip.  I saw the young girl she used to be when she would go to the beach every weekend.
• I went to a place called the Lodge.  I did not like the lodge.  It was filled with crazy white people dancing poorly to bad music.  My besties love it though...and I would go anywhere with them.
• I dug for change for what seemed like an ETERNITY at a toll booth on the way back from the lodge, afraid that we would be there all night.  We came 3 pennies short, and it lifted the electric arm and just let us go.
• I ate AREPAS for the very first time, and oi are they delicous.  They kind of melt in your mouth.
• I went to an amazing July 4th party at Ashley and Lacey's house.  I played beer pong and flip cup, and volleyball in the pool.  I felt like I was in high school again...partially due to the fact that most of the people that went to my H.S. were there.

All in all I had an AMAZING time.  I miss the people in Florida so much!!