"The world is changing at such a rapid pace, if you wait to implement changes, you will always be 2 steps behind. Do it now. Do it now. Do it now."
enough said!
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Last Week of School!!! Teachers, go home and relax!!!
Think you have it hard with your corporate job and it’s grown up problems? Try keeping a bunch of toddlers and tykes in check ALL DAY!!!
You have got to give it up for Teachers!!!
Even the best behaved child is a handful; now imagine 12 to 24 more of that, every single day!!!
It takes a real gift to be a teacher.
Every time I find myself in my son’s school environment I am reminded of this fact.
Coming from a medical background, I know many people who just got into the medical field for the prestige of the title or for the bank account that may come with it.
But teaching…that is something you need to WANT to do. You need to have a passion for these kids no matter how many tantrums they throw. You need to not only be willing to teach, but be able to make them understand you…that is to say…speak their language. You need to remain creative and open minded to be able to see through the eyes of a curious 5 year old and make complex uninteresting learning, fun! You need to be up always, no down days for you…You can’t come into the office with an attitude or make excuses about PMS, a headache or a lack of sleep. You need to care…sincerely and truly, about the welfare of children you did not bring into the world.
Teachers are amazing!!!
And if you feel you have the gift for it....I encourage you to listen ot your inner voice and go teach! We need you! Our children need you! The future needs you!
And if you feel you have the gift for it....I encourage you to listen ot your inner voice and go teach! We need you! Our children need you! The future needs you!
Special thanks to my partner, C.C. for finding and formatting this 80's public service announcement for me
And now it’s the end of another school year.
Please make an effort to thank the teachers who are helping you raise your kids.
A school donation is always nice, but you could make it more personal with a gift, a card, a bouquet of flowers, chocolates, a gift card maybe.
If you are strapped for cash, get busy with your kids, have them make something nice and pop in a note from you. Teachers may be moved to tears when their students present them with pretty homemade gifts, but I can guarantee that they welcome the appreciation from us, the parents who dump our kids on them for 8 hours and run off to work with grown-ups all day. In fact, I can confirm it: today, I gave my son’s teacher a gift basket and a thank you card. She hugged me and said “it feels so good to know that parents know” “Oh, I KNOW!!!” I said, “cos I would surely be in jail by now if I were watching kids.” We laughed.
Teachers deserve our thanks!
Let’s give honor where honor is due!
Teachers, here’s to you!!!
Applause Applause
Good teachers...and parents...give our kids the Greatest Love of All
Saturday, June 25, 2011
...and to the Earth
Yesterday I dedicated a Michael Jackson song to humanity, today I dedicate the song to the Earth....the glorious planet on which we live, and which we sorely disrespect everyday...
but we can make a difference if only we choose to do so....
Today, the second anniversary of Michael Jackson's passing, here's another powerful one...
The Earth Song
Friday, June 24, 2011
Finding Sarah
I was just watching "Finding Sarah"on OWN.
I should be doing a show like that called Finding Susan, cos God knows I haven't found her yet!
Anyway, I think I like that show.
So today is day one of week 4 or is it already week 5 of our fitness challenge.
I did NOT do good this week, I worked out only twice and only one of those times was an 'official' workout.
I did NOT drink enough water. I did NOT blog every day.
Boohoo!!! Shame!!!
Okay...it's a new week of Challenge. Let's get up and go and make it happen this week.
Will call 4everFab for this week's challenge.
In the meantime,just another sign that time waits for no one and never stands still.....it is already TWO whole years since one of the greatest entertainers of all time passed on.
The genius and extremely talented Michael Jackson died two years ago tomorrow.
It's one of those events where everyone remembers exactly where they were that day and how they heard the news.
I remember that I was...where else?...at work, when I got, first a text/email from a friend, then I checked the internet, then I got a phone call and all of a sudden it was everywhere, everyone was talking about it, every radio station was playing his music. It was not a prank. This time it was real. The King of Pop, that he undeniably was, was gone.
And life goes on. But it is interesting, that every time you do hear a song of his, it hits you again - He is really gone. There will never be another song. Another video.
I admit I was a fan. I got to see him live on September 10th, 2001, that was the night before the terror attacks of 9/11.
It was the Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary Celebration at Madison Square Garden.
I was as intrigued by the audience as I was by the King himself, because looking at the audience showed what an impact this man had on music and on the world.
There was every age in the house, every gender, every color, every language, every culture.
We all looked at each other in excitement, knowing we all felt the same no matter who we were or where we came from. Then, when he came on stage and sang we all screamed the same, waved and clapped our hands to the beat the same, danced like crazy the same and sang along to every single word the same.
For those brief moments we were - the same!!
I marveled at how music could cross bridges in a way that other means could not. In my idealistic self, I felt sure that somewhere in the future there really was the hope of a world with no discrimination, no hate, no wars.....
...and then the next morning....the unthinkable.
Today I heard this song on the radio played in tribute to him, and I'd like to play it here as a reminder to us all that a world free of hate, suffering and war IS possible, but it starts with each of us....
remember to listen to the lyrics...
I should be doing a show like that called Finding Susan, cos God knows I haven't found her yet!
Anyway, I think I like that show.
So today is day one of week 4 or is it already week 5 of our fitness challenge.
I did NOT do good this week, I worked out only twice and only one of those times was an 'official' workout.
I did NOT drink enough water. I did NOT blog every day.
Boohoo!!! Shame!!!
Okay...it's a new week of Challenge. Let's get up and go and make it happen this week.
Will call 4everFab for this week's challenge.
In the meantime,just another sign that time waits for no one and never stands still.....it is already TWO whole years since one of the greatest entertainers of all time passed on.
The genius and extremely talented Michael Jackson died two years ago tomorrow.
It's one of those events where everyone remembers exactly where they were that day and how they heard the news.
I remember that I was...where else?...at work, when I got, first a text/email from a friend, then I checked the internet, then I got a phone call and all of a sudden it was everywhere, everyone was talking about it, every radio station was playing his music. It was not a prank. This time it was real. The King of Pop, that he undeniably was, was gone.
And life goes on. But it is interesting, that every time you do hear a song of his, it hits you again - He is really gone. There will never be another song. Another video.
I admit I was a fan. I got to see him live on September 10th, 2001, that was the night before the terror attacks of 9/11.
It was the Michael Jackson 30th Anniversary Celebration at Madison Square Garden.
I was as intrigued by the audience as I was by the King himself, because looking at the audience showed what an impact this man had on music and on the world.
There was every age in the house, every gender, every color, every language, every culture.
We all looked at each other in excitement, knowing we all felt the same no matter who we were or where we came from. Then, when he came on stage and sang we all screamed the same, waved and clapped our hands to the beat the same, danced like crazy the same and sang along to every single word the same.
For those brief moments we were - the same!!
I marveled at how music could cross bridges in a way that other means could not. In my idealistic self, I felt sure that somewhere in the future there really was the hope of a world with no discrimination, no hate, no wars.....
...and then the next morning....the unthinkable.
Today I heard this song on the radio played in tribute to him, and I'd like to play it here as a reminder to us all that a world free of hate, suffering and war IS possible, but it starts with each of us....
remember to listen to the lyrics...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
How do I suck?...let me count the ways...
...NOT!
Meaning that is NOT the right thing to say to myself!
I must remain positive and encouraging, remember?
Yes, but all I can think of right now is....I suck!
Did I even mention what our challenge for this week was? er..NO cos I have hardly even blogged this week.
4everFab and I decided to go back to basics. Maybe we were incorporating too much too fast. So here was the challenge this week (ends tomorrow)
7 days of working out - anything
6 glasses of water daily
7 blog posts
now let me see...how have I fared??? well needless to say, if it was a school test paper it would be scribbled over with RED and a big fat F!!!
BUT!!!!!....I shall remain positive, for instead of telling myself that I just can't do it and so just stop, I shall just pick myself up and continue where I left off.
I wake up every morning with good intentions and go to sleep every night with guilt.
BUT!!!...yes, I shall continue. It is hard to be honest and to tell you and especially my work out partner, who is probably jogging round the park right now, that I have not kept to the challenge. I could easily say, and who would know any different: "Hey I ran a mile or was it more? I benched 100lbs, wow! and I drank a whole bunch of water and the only reason I have not blogged is cos I was either in the bathroom letting go of all the water I drank or I was at the gym of course, where else would I be?"
But I guess that would help noone...cos I'd still be looking pregnant and probably feeling even more guilty.
So here I am...honest.
BUT!!!!...honesty alone is not going to get me there either! I have to do the work...there is no escape. If I want a certain result, I must do what I must to reach it...and besides...have we forgotten about the dreaded C word??? I made a COMMITTMENT!!!!
OK...So I don't suck...well, maybe just a bit...well, yeah I do...Susan, Get your butt up and go work out!!!!
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Meaning that is NOT the right thing to say to myself!
I must remain positive and encouraging, remember?
Yes, but all I can think of right now is....I suck!
Did I even mention what our challenge for this week was? er..NO cos I have hardly even blogged this week.
4everFab and I decided to go back to basics. Maybe we were incorporating too much too fast. So here was the challenge this week (ends tomorrow)
7 days of working out - anything
6 glasses of water daily
7 blog posts
now let me see...how have I fared??? well needless to say, if it was a school test paper it would be scribbled over with RED and a big fat F!!!
BUT!!!!!....I shall remain positive, for instead of telling myself that I just can't do it and so just stop, I shall just pick myself up and continue where I left off.
I wake up every morning with good intentions and go to sleep every night with guilt.
BUT!!!...yes, I shall continue. It is hard to be honest and to tell you and especially my work out partner, who is probably jogging round the park right now, that I have not kept to the challenge. I could easily say, and who would know any different: "Hey I ran a mile or was it more? I benched 100lbs, wow! and I drank a whole bunch of water and the only reason I have not blogged is cos I was either in the bathroom letting go of all the water I drank or I was at the gym of course, where else would I be?"
But I guess that would help noone...cos I'd still be looking pregnant and probably feeling even more guilty.
So here I am...honest.
BUT!!!!...honesty alone is not going to get me there either! I have to do the work...there is no escape. If I want a certain result, I must do what I must to reach it...and besides...have we forgotten about the dreaded C word??? I made a COMMITTMENT!!!!
OK...So I don't suck...well, maybe just a bit...well, yeah I do...Susan, Get your butt up and go work out!!!!
End of Story!!!
Yay!! I did a blog post today...on the right track here. :-)
Monday, June 20, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Sunny, Sunny, Wherefore art thou Sunny???
June 15, 2011
It’s been FIVE long days since my last post. And I have really missed writing.
4EverFab and I revised the fitness/weight loss challenge for week three which started on Friday and I can’t say that I have done any of what we are supposed to do.
Welcome to my life in an average working week. There is not enough time or energy for anything!
When I began this blog, and also the challenge, four of my managers were away on business for three delightful weeks. Work was a breeze and I came home to work out and write. But since they have all come back, it’s been back to the craziness. It is non-stop from 9 – 5pm then it’s homework, dinner and bedtime and back to the laptop to finish off some work….and then a workout??? A blog post???
I was able to squeeze in a work out on two of the last few days, but not the blogging, my brain was too fried!
Then I crash, and then I wake up the next morning and do it all again. I always have my laptop on standby on the subway incase I can do some writing during my commute, but I invariably fall asleep and wake up, luckily, right at my stop.
This is why I need out!
It takes way too much out of me, I get too tired and it makes me too miserable.
I was able to blog today, but it is 9:31pm, I didn’t get to work out and after I click on the “publish” button I am going straight to bed.
Having said all that (boring) there are
days left on my countdown of working days!!!
Does David Beckham represent a possible move to L.A.???
Why not? Why limit dreams???
Have a Great Night Folks!!!
I'm DONE!
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