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I’m posting these as I actually agree with them. Always good to recognise what life is really about…

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Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

Adam Uncategorized rants

and i’m now officially on a diet…..

Here’s to more tuna, less carbohydrates and no more beer during the week… *sob*

Adam

Adam Uncategorized rants

So……

Rumour is that I haven’t posted in ….. say 3 months? (2 months?) ….. and now i’m standing here while Lucy stands over me like a nagging mother (literally, it’s scary) threatening me all kinds of mortal pain if I don’t write something of certain caliber.

And I have five minutes before I have my next (marathon) meeting…. so let’s hope the caliber status is that of ‘gnat writing bullshit about his life for 5 minutes or less’….

So moving in with Jules has been great, great enough that it’s all felt far too relaxed. And yes Lucy is correct, 9pm sleepy-time followed by 5am-oh-my-god-what-the-fuck-am-i-consistently-waking-up-at-this-time for is pretty much the norm. With living with Jules has become, i’m sure, an unhealthy obsession with TV Shows on DVD. Scrubs, Greys (all three seasons), Dexter, Entourage, House, American Dad, Family Guy, Mash (don’t ask, it’s Jules!) are all on rotation and purchase schedule on a regular basis.

This means our unit looks like a dogs breakfast but we’re happy…. and yes, i’m fighting the urge to fix said dog’s breakfast by fastidiously cleaning… it’s the small progress items that keep me going on most days.

Work continues to challenge and interest me. While there are moment when I feel somewhat lost being in the role, I see more and more that the experience and two years of (dare I say it) grooming is showing me that my ability to adapt and change is important and is starting to show some returns.

Other than that, life is pretty darn good.

More to come… promise

Adam

Adam Uncategorized rants

I’ve asked politely, nagged, demanded, threatened and then out and out blackmailed Adam to update this damned site.

Instead it appears he is far too busy and important to write a few paragraphs here.

I threatened to post incriminating photos of him. Unfortunately when he behaves the worst I’m generally there with him. I threatened to post incriminating stories. Again, see above.

What I will say instead is since his 30th birthday his hair is going greyer at an incredibly fast rate and now his ears are sprouting hair. He goes to bed at 9:00 p.m. and gets up at 5:00 a.m. to *shudder* go to the gym and he eats a lot of steamed vegetables and grilled meats.

It’s a sad existence but he seems to be enjoying it.

So what I really wanted to say is if he doesn’t update by tonight the stories and photos are coming out.

So Adam, think of the world having to hear those stories and see those photos. Think of the children…………

Lucy Uncategorized rants