Your words are a choice

Every one. No matter what you may think. Every word that you speak is a choice you make. Now to make it a conscious choice.

Here I sit, listening to hold music, waiting to see what has occurred that is causing my catering order to have not shown up. It is now officially 50 minutes late. When it was 20 minutes late they called to tell me 10 more minutes. That would make 30 minutes (for those math inclined). Now I've been on hold for 6 minutes.

This is decision time, choose my words. Tendency would be to use angry ones. So instead I choose to use few. And a patient tone. I wonder how this would go if I went the other way. I know I would leave the conversation angry. I might leave it angry anyway. But what about the other person. I could effect their entire day by not yelling. Instead of being the angry customer who ruined her day, I could just be another customer.

"Winning"

So I have always been curious about the quick to sell superbowl shirts (and other sporting events). As soon as the last second is completed, the winning team already has t-shirts and hats on. Obviously they make them for both teams and just pass out the ones for the winners. Who wants a hat that claims your team won a championship that they never did? If you do, you are cheating yourself and too involved with your team... just my humble opinion.

Well if you are like me, here's the answer. Http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1416353120080215

A moment in time

My wonderful sister had a beautiful baby this week. We all texted whlie we waited for the baby to be born. We all called and chatted when we found out she was a girl. We all are still waiting for a name.

But this morning I realized that it was just a moment in time. It put everything else on hold for a few moments (a few hours) and our focus was changed. But the next day.... back to normal. Daily life. Routine. There are many events that occur putting everything on hold for just a moment in time and the next day, sometimes the next hour, we look back and wonder if that was really just last night.

In a society where we leave our family home to find our path and our fortunes in life it seems that the earth shattering events although effect an entire family for a moment only shatter the earth for one person.

Photos?

So I came across this cool blog: http://beeboppinnyc.blogspot.com/ about two girls who hop around New York City and take photos and blog about them. I like taking photos. I now have a digital camera (actually, I have had one for over a year!) and I thought hmmm. Why don't I do photo blogging?

So to the rare visiter of this blog (do I have any? I wonder that every time I write) I'm going to try it. I'll post the url when I set it up. I think I'll have to go back in time to the last fun trip I took and just randomly post and back date posts and all kinds of crazy stuff like that to have it all occur in the past until I take a new trip. We'll see, won't we.