I love reading my morning newspaper… no, not for its in-depth news coverage nor for its entertaining columnists, but for its daily dose of thought-provoking and insightful comics. So when my most recent delivery bill arrived, very wrong again, I was exasperated and believed I’d have to cancel my subscription. So I called expecting the worst. (How’s that for leading with pessimistic, negative beliefs?) And, to my delight, the service rep agreed that the bill was wacko and fixed it. Just like that.
Applaud Our Heroes
So in the spirit of PattiAnn’s post on Encouragement let’s all STAND UP AND CHEER for all the hard working, rational, reasonable and empowered service reps of this world… Hoorah for them!!!
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BTW – How was your day today?
Kick Up Your Heels and Celebrate
As I meandered through this week of annoyingly half-finished tasks, keenly concentrating on celebrating small wins, I stumbled upon a delightful and off-the-wall blog site run by Torley who tells us he’s “a happy human being.” About “micro-wins” he happily recommends:
Continue reading » Kick Up Your Heels and Celebrate: Wins, Contributions, Automagicals & Uncontrollables!

Today is one of THOSE days. For some reason I woke up in the pits. No reason, just a low day and no sign of sun. Since like everyone else I need to get “stuff” done today, I tried to diagnose the problem. The best I could come up with was a yucky case of the blahs!! I get those when we’ve had too many days of “June Gloom” and today is REALLY gloomy. There’s a slim chance of rain today, but odds are, it’ll just be gray – like ME! Given a choice, what I’d love to do is curl up under a blankie with a book and my faithful dog to keep me warm. If the dog ain’t so faithful, I can fall back to the cat. But today is a work day, so no such luck. What to do…

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