My Management & Organizational Learning class has three required texts:

1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
2. The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
3. The Leadership Handbook by Peter Sholtes

While getting my undergraduate degree (a BBA), the 7 Habits was so frequently referenced that I thought I had a stronger familiarity with ( Read more... )

...how sick and tired I am of supervising people? Yes. Yes indeed. Oh yes indeed I am.

The holidays have passed since my last post. They were eh.  We had a good time visiting Dave's parents and a good time at the NYE dinner bash at Jim & Mel's, but everything inbetween just seemed sorta boring. I was always just a little too busy to really just enjoy the R&R, but not busy enough with fun things to say that I had that much fun, either ( Read more... )

$400 spent
+4 days of preparations
+1 trashed house
+3 beer-soaked christmas gifts, along with tree and curtain
+2 raw, scaly hands, cracked and bleeding from cleaning
+68 invited

=19 showed

The math just doesn't add up. We will definitely do some scaling back next year.  Although the crowd that came was great, we just had apparent delusions of grandeur ( Read more... )

I'm reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and I'm totally loving it.

I had heard about it a while back, just that it was about a hermaphrodite growing up in mid-20th century Detroit.  Ho-hum, the Detroit part sparked a momentary interest, but it quickly died out with other books at hand.  But I was at Borders recently, looking for new reading ( Read more... )

Victoria's Secret Vanilla Blackberry Bliss products smell just like those chewable vitamin C wafers tasted that my mom used to give me as a kid. I loved those vitamins ( Read more... )

Not necessarily in this order:

• Stay in and watch Christmas movies with Dave on Friday night
• finalize guest list and menu for our Holiday Party and buy everything
• return the millions of cans and bottles in our garage to help fund said party
• maybe Noel Night on Saturday. I feel lukewarm on this and I'm not sure why cuz it sounds cool.
• sign off on all ( Read more... )

Had a good/bad week ( Read more... )

This morning has been a perfect example of my favorite time of the week. I love waking up at leisure, rather than to an alarm clock, and then sit curled up on the couch next to Dave, cuppa joe in my hand, and Max & Eco cuddled up next to us. Dave & I never turn on the TV or the radio. We sit and talk and laugh for a couple of hours like this, until ( Read more... )

The slumber party with old HS friends was a blast. They all arrived within minutes of each other around 6:30. We talked and drank right up until 3 am.  I had a pitcher of cosmos chilled and waiting, and they brought a ton of booze and snacks too.  Amici's frou-frou pizza and  Rachel's Yucca concoction were the big hits. We just passed it around the ( Read more... )