Kalediscope

Cell phones

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:44:36 GMT

I have to admit, I'm a cell phone virgin. That's right in this day and age, I don't own or use a cell phone. I don't have a mate, or kids. I don't drive, often. I think there are times that you need to be unreachable. My friends can call me at home or work and leave a message....they don't need me to reach me 24/7. With the weather being horrible and my having to drive on the holidays, I'm actually thinking of buying a pay as you go phone. Of course, I'm doing it at the last minute.

Comments trouble

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:55:46 GMT

I can't seem to fix the commenting problem..if you're having problems try my livejournal. http://dianthias.livejournal.com/

Return to earlier punishements?

Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:53:52 GMT

A revival of sorts is occuring, from the return to homemade christmas presents to older punishments. This was in our local paper.....

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg court has given a serial car thief a sentence right out of the Middle Ages: banishment.

Judge Janice leMaistre on Friday approved what�s being billed as a �very creative� last-ditch effort to try and rehabilitate the 16-year-old thief.

Under the sentence, the teen will be sent away from Winnipeg - a bid to help him escape the negative influences in his life - and will serve a period of probation in Yorkton, Sask.

Full story

A last ditch effort? Why not just throw his sorry butt into jail? Another pass the buck, let someone else worry about it attitude. If they wanted him to suffer, they should have sent him to a Hutterite farm where it's isolated and he has to work his butt off.

Way to true....

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:28:34 GMT

Your Spiritual Number is Six

You bring communication and empathy into people's lives.
You are very open and understanding. You can accept difficult people.

Right now, your life is about being understood. You have trouble with your own vulnerability.
You end up playing the role of therapist in relationships, and it's hard to get people to ask about you.

You will take time out for those you love, even if you don't have much time. You can't help but be nurturing.
You are very responsible and ethical. You deliver on your promises.

What's Your Spiritual Number?

bus rides

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:26:43 GMT

Public transportation can kiss my big white ass. 30 freaking minutes in a mini blizzard waiting for a bus that was supposed to come in minutes and it never did show up. GRRRR. And the public freaks who pull pages or entire phone books out of public phones, next time I'm going to beat them with it. Needless to say, I was 10 minutes late for my eye appointment, had to stand and wait for over 5 minutes before they told me ...oh he's gone home.....next time don't put me on freaking hold when I call to say I'm running late.

bdays

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:57:30 GMT

I freaking hate December, I hate my birthday and I hate the holidays.

"friends"

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:13:29 GMT

An old friend of mine came to town. Our friendship ended very badly years ago. (She tends to lose herself in whatever the man she's with and treat her friends how he does, needless to say he didn't like me.) She got in touch with me about a year ago after she got divorced from him and apologized. I just haven't been able to fully trust her again. She illustrated a book which was just published and was so excited. It's great that's she's finally getting somewhere with her arts, she's very talented. We had coffee and lunch at a resteraunt for a couple of hours, then she came to my place after dinner for a couple more hours. Not once in all that time did she ask me one thing about how/what I was doing etc. It was all about her, her new boyfriend, their swinging lifestyle, her sister, her brothers, her new place, her pets, her job, her career etc etc. *sigh* I'm such a scmuk. How can you call yourself a friend of someone and not be the slightest bit interested in what's going on in their life?

What colour is your workshop?

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:04:38 GMT

Every couple of months the latest and greatest in self help work trend comes out and everyone jumps on board raving about how insightful it is. Over the years, I've been subjected to everything from moving my cheese to the 7 habits of effective people. I have coloured my parachute, discovered my colours, dissected difficult conversations, found the power of positive thinking, tuned in, tuned out, found the secret to success, built teams, embraced change and organized my attitude; often, multiple times. Each time I go to the workshops and smile, laugh, cry, dance, sing, improv, act and build whatever is the flavour of the month. For the next couple of days, everyone talks about how great it was and then everything goes back to the same as before. This time it was communication and power. We tossed balls, we played hallway chicken, we danced, we made fools of ourselves all in the name of communication. All hail the latest fad. The afternoon was devoted to body language and power. We did improv, we stood in a giant circle and mirrored each other. All the time listening to the faciliator tell us how by asking if we can help someone we are saying we are lower in status and only people who associate with those in higher status get promotions; how support staff like me have the lowest status; how to improve communication we should use body language to show lower status to make the other person feel better oh and support staff can never say no. By the end of it, I felt totally worthless. So, I learned that I'm the lowest of the low and should demean myself even more on a daily basis to make everyone else feel better, I will never have the authority to say no to anyone and helping people is destroying my career, as is talking to my coworkers.

Searching

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:10:45 GMT

This happened Thursday night. www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2008/11/21/meteor-close.html It was surreal, loud, bright and fast. At first I thought it might be an airplane, but it was moving too fast. Hmmm...Area 51 may have some new material. I love the comment by FVastronomer in response to a religious comment about the end of days...."I dunno Rusty, I've been doing Astronomy for 42 years now and I've seen millions of things happening in the night sky. All I have to say about your comment is...HE'S LATE! Real late...so don't fret. "

Sad news

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:55:16 GMT

My 18-year old baby, Tigga died today. She had a seizure and the vet said she'd never recover from the damage.