Thoughts on Life purpose

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. ~Leo Rosten

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. ~Jan de Hartog, The Lamb's War

Songs and emotions

This Idea Came from OnemoreMortal, I thought it was a good one:)

When I am.......I listen to......

Blissfully happy:

1. Stumptown; Nickel Creek
2. Forever; Chris Brown

Depressed:

1. Curl up and Die; Reliant K
2. Home; Michael Buble

Longing:

1. Fireflies; Owl City
2. Kokomo; Beachboys

Un-Motivated:

1. Waka Waka (this time for Africa); Shakira
2. Starstruk; 3oh!3

Romantic/tense:

(I tend to listen to Romanic stuff when I’m stressed….)

1.Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai; Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Soundtrack

(Translation: I see God in you)

2. You’ll be in my heart; Phil Collins

3. When you say you love me; Josh Groben

Deeply upset:

1. My Deliverer is Coming; Rich Mullins

Self-Conscious:

1. You are a child of mine; Mark Shultz
2. Fingerprints of God; Steven Curtis Chapman

Inpatient:

1. My Life; Billy Joel
2. Born To Fly: Sarah Evens

Artistic:

1. Sullen Girl; Fiona Apple
2. Tea for the Tillerman; Cat Stevens

What are yours? Send me a link when you post yours!

Poor Esme....Poor Gwen

Today Esme (my Doxie) is trapped in the kitchen. This has been accomplished by propping a card board box at each entrance. She is not pleased. I feel slightly guilty since I really should let her out and pay attention to her. Instead, however, I am writing this blog.

Sometimes I feel as if I, myself, were trapped in the Kitchen of life....held back by my own card board boxes (flimsy at best....but indestructible for me). And the Higher power I talk to so often .....is just checking his facebook.

What Gwendolyn thinks about on monday morings

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars"

-Whoever said this obviously wasn't "shooting" for a science degree

(The moon is very.... very.... far away from the stars)

~Hope deferred makes the heart sick~

~

There once was a girl: Bonnie Lou

Who wanted to go to SAGU

but she has no money

and (no) its not funny

What is our young hero to do?

She decided on art classes this year

but she was still queasy with fear

her heart full of strife

from her dead social life

her future was more than unclear.

So perhaps my dear readers you'd lend

her a shoulder, a hug, or a friend

for don't you all see

that that bonnie is me

so thanks in advance and THE END.

Monday morning Poem

More About People

When people aren't asking questions
They're making suggestions
And when they're not doing one of those
They're either looking over your shoulder or stepping on your toes
And then as if that weren't enough to annoy you
They employ you.
Anybody at leisure Incurs everybody's displeasure.
It seems to be very irking
To people at work to see other people not working,
So they tell you that work is wonderful medicine,
Just look at Firestone and Ford and Edison,
And they lecture you till they're out of breath or something
And then if you don't succumb they starve you to death or something.
All of which results in a nasty quirk:
That if you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work!

~Ogden Nash

Things I'm learning from working In Dallas

• The comic strip "Dilbert" gets more amusing the longer you work at an office
  
• Copy machines are like willful children
  
• Co-workers are also like willful children
  
• While its OK to push ahead when exiting an airplane you have to wait for everyone in front of you when exiting a bus. (this gets old real quick let me tell you!)
  
• It is NOT normal for older male co-workers to hang around your desk and sometimes its considered sexual harassment (go figure).
  
• Sometimes homeless people pee on the street in front of your building.
  
• Sometimes homeless people eat out of trashcans in front of you
• You still shouldn't give them money (this is so hard for me!)
  
• Never wear heels when you have to walk four blocks in the middle of summer in the city in Texas
  
• There is always unhealthy food to be had in the break room if you want it.
  
• Elevators hate me
• Stairwells are scary
  
• Cubicles are soul crushing
• But office supplies are fun! (so are pay checks)
• Two bedroom apartments down town cost $400,000 (and those are the ugly ones)
• If you ride the bus you are a middle-aged, over-weight, white woman or poor. --I have yet to see an urban hipster, obvious tree-hugger, or business executive ---TV is misleading us!
• There are more kinds of paper than you could ever imagine! Cardstock, hole punched, color paper (not to be confused with colored paper), recycled etc.....

I am so thankful to have a job, I really am.

What did you learn at your first real job?

Poem for a Monday morning

"If Rabbit was bigger,
And fatter, And stronger-
Or bigger than Tigger-
If Tigger was smaller,
Then Tigger's bad habit
Of bouncing at Rabbit
Would matter no longer-
If Rabbit was taller".

~A.A. Milne