friday

Hi today is a great day it is Friday. Today kicks off a week long weekend for me...I get to sleep in on Monday...I get to go back to bed after getting the kids and hubby out the house...Yay!!!
This week will also be when I get all my stuff organised, sit down and do alot of writing and did I mention sleep in?  I think this week I will not leave the house until I absolutely have to...

I read, I saw, I conquered

Writing a book has always been a dream of mine.  I love books...I love books even more because you would not really guess it but they are the perfect subject to use when trying to hit on someone...that's right I used a book to flirt with my now husband of eight years, when we first met...lol...I met him in the library, for some reason people are always surprised when I say that...

It started simply enough, I was doing research for a paper on depression...what can I say I was new to the city and knew a total of three people, all family...and it was cold...anyway, so I braved the cold to the then Centennial Library and was making my way to the appropriate section when I spotted him...Long hair, intense eyes and the kicker? he could read, because he was, and also what he was reading, one of my all time favourite authors Dean Koontz...that was pretty much the clincher...So I approached him and asked him to show me where he got the book...lol...yah I am slick like that...

pic of the book that started it all...taken from Google images

 I dont know if I would ever self publish anything that I write, I would want to go the more traditional route of being turned down, over and over agai...why/? well i think that being able to convince someone that your writing is worth printing gives you a much btter sense of accomplishment...thats my personal feeling...I would however, use a book for shameless 'self-promotion' just ask the hubby ;)

Action Over Word Me Say...

                                                                                                      



Aesop fables were a staple of my childhood...I loved to hear these stories while sitting with my Grandma who was well over 60 by the time I came around.  There was nothing better than listening to her shaky voice as she told me stories that sometimes gave me nightmares or made my sides hurt with laughter...She was quite the storyteller...
Although not one of Aesop's as far as I know...The one that I remember most and try to apply to my everyday life as well as impart to my own children is..."Empty vessels make the most noise."

Throughout my limited years on this planet I have found this message to hold, oh so true.  I am fortunate enough to have been able to travel the world starting at an early age but, a passport stamp alone does not qualify one as experienced or worldly...I try to learn something everywhere I go and also to take away from every encounter something worthwile...whether it be righteous anger or genuine pleasure...Having lived in quite a few different places I have met alot of people and made alot of friends...and enemies...now that I am older though the enemies are dwindling because I just do not have the energy to spare...or the care...

What does grind my gears though? People who seem to think that they can disguise being abnoxious and rude as competitive and outspoken...As an adult and as a direct result of spending the past 9 years in North America, it took a concerted effort from me to curb my tongue and fall into the PC status quo that is so prevalent in this culture...You simply cannot say what you think and feel all the time...that's not the way the adult world works...(but oh how I wish it did...)


                                               

People that feel the need to put other people down to satisfy their own sense of self worth, or to just be plain old mean, those people I try to avoid...But sometimes you just can't...These kind of people are everywhere. Products of poor parenting? Maybe...but some people are just made that way...As I go through this course I have learnt to just 'do me'...To just pretend that those people don't exist...but it gets hard at times because...they are LOUD...lol...yup these same people need to be the center of attention or need to remind people that they're simply there...True empty vessels...They never take responsibility for their actions...it's always someone else's fault...They can't play fair or on a team...in short they are overgrown 2 year olds...And did I mention they are LOUD? lol... But , there is an upside...I  look at them and try harder with my kids because I do not want to ever knowingly unleash a child like that onto society...it's unfair to them and the people they may encounter...


Now I will freely admit that I do not have what anyone would call an inside voice...My laugh is generally the way you locate me in any building...I do speak my mind, but generally not to be vindictive...but it has been known to happen...But I hope that I am fair, honest, but most of all full...yup full, I don't feel the need to be seen or heard...it kinda just happens...there goes a bit of the modesty I keep hidden away... A friend said to me today that I have a temper , then she added that it's warranted when I blow...That makes me  happy because I like to think that there is some method to my madness... I want my actions to speak for me, my character...not my gums...to speak to others on who I am... I want the aspects of my personality that set me apart to be regarded in a positive way...But I guess that is all up to me...I am in control of how people view me to a degree...I hope that even though on the surface I may share certain traits with the less desirables that I have the charm to do it with grace...

Actions speak louder than words...