Patience Is A Virtue

I wanted to make a new post about patience. Lets look up the word patience in Wikipedia.
According to Wiki, the definition of the word Patience is as follows it is the ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset, or to persevere calmly when faced with difficulties

Now by definition it means not to be aggravated, upset, or irritated when dealing with problems of human nature I am assuming. But with human nature comes all kinds of problems. Not just as adults but as children too.

Do you think that dogs or cats have patience. Do you think that when they are sitting in the veterinarians office they are sitting there tapping their foot waiting for the doctor to see them and continuously asking how much longer will it take. I do not see this happen very often. When someone is working on your car and they are trying to figure out what is wrong with it, do you see the car tapping its tires on the ground saying to the mechanic "Hurry up man! I got places to drive to and I have to escort these people around all over the place!" I don't see this happening very often.

Now again, when someone is working with you say on a computer problem which many of have in our daily lives, would it be rude to be standing over someone breathing down their neck while the technician is working on the issue? I am not one to complain about people or about rudeness of people because thats just the way some people are. They are just rude. But that would be another topic for another day. In the line of work that I deal with, I have to be patient with my customers as I would refer them to, as much as I can. Even if they are crabby pattys, I will be as kind and friendly as I possibly can. As for myself, I want to ensure that before I leave my job, or any projects that I am working on, that I complete them in full. And even if it takes an extra couple of minutes to make sure that I have all the paperwork, telephone numbers, names and addresses, thats what I will do. I don't care if you have to wait an extra few minutes for me to finish this up. This is important to me.

There is one more issue I would like to bring up in this post. say when a woman is in labor, delivering a baby, do you think that she would say to the doctor, "Get this freaking baby out of me now because I have errands to run and I have to be back at work within the next two hours!"
I don't think anything like that would happen. But hay, you never never know!!

Farting Chair

Have you ever wondered? Have you ever thought?

Well I have. I have thought about it a lot of times. When I am getting up and down and moving all around. I have thought about "The Farting Chair". The idea here is that, when you sit down in your chair, will you fart on it? Will you blow whole on it? Will you peep one out?

Most likely Yes. You will fart in your chair. Think about how you would lean, left or right up or down to push that stinker out. How much noise you can make to make sure no one else in the office can hear. Oh wait the best is yet to come. And often times, if they have been NAKED in that chair. AND FARTING OOO LA LA!

And as for me, I have to sit in other peoples chairs that they have most likely farted on. Yes doesn't that sound like tuns of fun? The Farting Chairs!

There is one resolution although. You can get a small patch that prevents and soaks up your farts in the chair. This patch is called a Flat D. How it works is that it is supposed to soak up all flatulence that the person will let out through charcoals. Here is a link to their website where you can actually BUY this product. Link

But imagine this, for me. I go into someones office to do the daily or basic things that I need to do. They are there or hanging around the office, doing what they need to do. And I place this mat down in front of them. Well what in the world do you think that they will think? Oh you don't trust me enough not to fart in my own chair? Oh thats gross. Well, sometimes when you gotta go, you gotta go!! And yes it does happen when you do gotta go!

There were a few more pictures from the website that is offering this small product that I wanted to share.

Basically this small pad is portable. You can take it where ever you go. You can store it in your wallet, your purse, your back pocket as depicted in this picture. Yikes you actually have to touch it. Gloves please!

The best part about this whole situation is thinking about this next part I will bring up.

Airplanes and Flatulence. Just imagine who has been sitting in that seat before you and before that person. Are you sitting in their flatulence? And the person before them? Yeah you know you are, and you are trying not to think about it. But we can still "Ha Ha" at you for doing so.

Then again I guess that this little Flat-D Piece would come in handy at this point in time. Does it really work? Couldn't tell you. I think I will stick in my own chair for the time being. Besides, who's going to be sitting in my chair and farting besides myself. I could care less if some flatulence gets on someone else's pants or legs or skin or muscle or hair or nose.

Thats their problem for not wearing a gas mask.

http://www.flat-d.com/chairpadblack.html

Shopping Cart Bells (Ding Ding)

You ever get stuck in the grocery store and having problems finding your way out? How about having to PUSH your way out. Well I have come up with a new concept.

A Shopping Cart Horn. (Or Bell)
The idea here is that if your stuck in some of the more crowded isles in the grocery store, well some people don't like to move. Not to mention to move their buns or the cart itself. What I have been doing in the past is doing the usual "Excuse Me" routine. That doesn't always work. Well, in my concept, we would have a small bell, like you would on a bicycle or a trike. Hey easy to put on and assemble right? Well where I live a lot of people are hard of hearing. So in this case a horn would make more sense. They would be able to hear the horn as I am continuing to say "Excuse Me" routine over and over again. Oh wow you have moved out of the way. Hey that sounds like a good plan, lets roll with it. Trust me, a lot of people can't move out of the way for whatever reason or another, but if you BEEP or DING at them, I think they would get their buns moving.

And for some of the more scary folks out there, they might need some helmets to go along with the bells, for safety purposes.

Snakes On A Plane!! Oh Wait! It's Just Mice!

I thought that this article was hilarious. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22591304/)

Not only because it was mice, but on a plane. THAT GOT LOOSE!! HA HA!. So I have linked the article below for fellow readers to read and comment on.
The only difference I see between the hungry flesh human eating snakes is that they are mice. I suppose they aren't hungry flesh human eating mice either.


It is kind of funny when you do think about mice being on an airplane. What kind of images would your mind draw up? I checked Google and found a few that might interest my readers:









Next thing you know, it will be cats!
EEEKKK!

New Years Resolution

Well You know how everyone decides to make new years resolutions and never keeps them.
Dieting, smoking, "I swear I will quit today and this year never to do it again!"
Drinking and driving" I swear I will quit today and this year never to do it again!"

So I have decided myself to make my own new years resolution

Yup you guessed it, never again and always this year!!

So this year you can call me corny all you want.

I have decided to give back, as much as I can this year. So my new years resolution has been more of that flavor, a pay it back. I will be nice this year. I will be polite and courteous
Think about when your driving and someone has their signal on and boots right in front of you, or cuts you off while driving maybe. Hey thats ok. no big deal

Increase in Oxygen

I found this interesting article about how you can offset the reduced amount of oxygen on a airline flight by drinking carrot juice for several days.
Interesting thoughts

Carrot Juice

UK: Carrot juice and bananas - new antidote to jet lag. - Global travel is now a normal part of corporate life, with many company managers now taking it for granted that their portfolios stretch to faraway shores. Managers are able to nip off to Singapor

Global travel is now a normal part of corporate life, with many company managers now taking it for granted that their portfolios stretch to faraway shores. Managers are able to nip off to Singapore or Australia for a couple of days and still be back in time for their weekly meeting.

And yet the effects of jet lag on personal performance are rarely admittted openly by the globetrotting executive. When asked for their views, many executives were terse on the subject, others openly hostile, while yet others obviously considered the whole subject too frivolous.

Frivolous it is not. Perhaps it is a stiff-upper-lip culture that stops jet lag being acknowledged as an issue. This may be a mistake, if dismal reports of the health risks of constant long-haul flying are to be believed.

Last year, lawyer John Eaton ended up in hospital suffering from fatigue, disorientation, dehydration and irregular heartbeat after 22 trips to the Far East. Three of his business partners had died after spending most of their careers travelling overseas.

His experience, and that of others like him, has prompted a new research programme at the Aviation Health Institute (AIH) in Oxford.

Farrol Kahn, the institute's director, points out that we are only now seeing the first generation of regular business travellers approaching retirement, and suggests that a lack of oxygen in aircraft cabins can over a long period of time cause blood disorders and heart problems, while cabin pressures and enforced immobility drain the body of vital minerals, cause disorientation and loss of muscle strength.

Only one or two of Britain's bosses were prepared to break their silence and talk honestly on the subject. 'No allowance is made for jet lag. No matter how hellish you're feeling, you just have to get on with it,' complains Richard Keith, managing director of Scottish & Newcastle's international division. Keith believes that jet lag is not just a minor irritant but a serious impediment to good work performance. 'I am very careful not to make any important decisions after a long flight,' he says: 'Emotionally I can feel a bit strange at first and, coming back from the US it can be five or six days before I feel myself again. I've been conscious of going straight into a meeting and giving a report, and then later wishing I hadn't.'

It's difficult to stop or even cut down on the amount of travelling if that is what the job demands, and our more forthcoming respondents say they have tried everything as a cure - drinking water but no alcohol, alcohol but no water, eating, not eating, and an array of herbal and homeopathic cures. Kahn advises that while adequate sleep is the main cure, drinking several glasses of carrot juice for four days before a flight is a good idea, as this helps offset the effects of reduced oxygen. He also suggests drinking a glass of mineral water every hour during the flight and rejecting airline food and alcohol in favour of pasta or bananas.

This is dismissed by Sir Nigel Mobbs, chairman of Slough Estates. His antidote is to eat and drink everything that is put in front of him. 'It is supposed to be against the rules but it works all right with me,' he says cheerfully.

Mouseaphobia

I found this article that was interesting. Fun stuff

Mouseaphobia. Afraid of mice

Phony Mom

I have decided to make some posts of some
interesting stories for 2008. And I will bookmark them here and copy in the article since some news articles tend to get lost.


The following article is about a mother who has decided to lie for her child to get Hanna Montana Tickets. Hanna Montana is a popular show for children from 6-13 years of age. I have never seen the television show on Disney or ABC, wherever its aired. The television show depicts a young girl living a life of a normal girl by day and by night shes a rock star but no one knows about it because she wears a wig. Corny right?

Well mom here decided to write a phony entry to a contest to gain tickets to see Ms. Montana. She had her child write about her father being killed in the Iraq War and how she has missed him.

What happened is the girl had won the contest for the entry, and was going to get some tickets and a makeover. When the media arrived, they said hey wait lets get some dirt like we always do on people and dig it out of them. When they questioned the child, the mother had pushed the media aside. In more details, they found out that the child's father was never involved in the war, but doesn't even know where the father is in this whole picture.

I am very surprised at the mother. She first said that she wanted to win. She would do whatever it took to win the contest, lieing to the media, newscasters, her children. Then later she revoked that statement by saying that she had no intention of hurting anyone and how it was not right.

Now which statement is true. Did she intend to lie to the American public or did she want to win the tickets for herself and for her daughter? Freaking fools.

Now poor mom has been forced out of her home, her lifestyle. Her boring life. What did you think lady? You screwed up and you are now paying the price and so are your children. Your children should be taken away by child services so they don't have to deal with your stupidity. Maybe they can be favored by wolves or monkeys better.

You know if there was a contest for the best stupid people of America, you would be in the top five. I am sorry. You don't do these kinds of things to the American public, the media, or even ME! If you are going to be having children, and raise children, GROW UP!! You wanted to play the game of going through the media and you won it. GRATS!

Nice eyebrows btw!

Phony Mom
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22502162/

By Mike Celizic

TODAYShow.com contributor

updated 8:55 a.m. ET, Fri., Jan. 4, 2008

The Texas mother who helped her daughter win a “Hannah Montana” essay contest by making up a story about the girl’s father being a soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq says she made a terrible mistake and hopes she can be forgiven.

“I meant no disrespect. I just made a bad decision which I sincerely regret,” Priscilla Ceballos told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer in a prepared statement she read from Friday. “I apologize to my daughter for getting her mixed up in his mess. I wanted to help my daughter realize her dream of seeing Hannah Montana. Instead, I brought so much negative attention to my family. Please accept my heartfelt apology, and please, do not punish my child for my mistake.”

The 25-year-old Ceballos, who has two other children, said that the negative publicity and public scorn heaped on her since her ruse was exposed three days after Christmas has forced her out of her home and destroyed her life.

“I’ve had to move out of my home,” she told Lauer. “I’ve received a lot of bad — a lot of harassment all over the Internet. I’ve been forced to close down my MySpace page. I have not been able to eat or sleep well. I have been very depressed.”

“She’s been constantly harassed,” her attorney, Frank Perez, added.

“There’s been all types of shows and panels saying she’s not a good mother, when, in fact, she is. Priscilla made a mistake. Priscilla wanted her daughter, Alexis, to see Hannah Montana and didn’t have the means to do that. She used poor judgment in what she did.”

At the center of the controversy is the essay Ceballos helped her 6-year-old daughter write last year to win a princess makeover and a trip to Albany, N.Y., to see a Jan. 9 Hannah Montana concert.

The contest was sponsored by Club Libby Lu, a national chain that sells princess makeovers and pink and purple clothing to “tween” girls.

The winning entry, submitted in the name of Ceballos’ daughter, read in part: “My daddy died this year in Iraq. I am going to give mommy the Angel pendant that daddy put on mommy when she was having me. I had it in my jewelry box since that day. I love my mommy.”

Ceballos identified the allegedly dead soldier to contest organizers as Jonathan Menjivar, who is alive and well and has never been in the military.

Story unravels
More than 1,000 girls entered the “Hannah Montana Rock Your Holidays Essay Contest.” Hannah Montana is the fictional teenage singing star of the hit show by the same name on the Disney Channel. Montana is played by Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old daughter of country music star Billy Ray Cyrus.

Ceballos’ daughter had already received her makeover and was at a Dec. 28 party thrown in her honor at a local Libby Lu salon when it all unraveled with stunning swiftness.

The media had been invited to the party, and when the girl was asked about her soldier father, her mother interrupted, saying the girl didn’t want to talk about that.

When reporters attempted to check on the story, they discovered that no soldier named Jonathan Menjivar had died in Iraq or was even enlisted in the armed forces. Confronted with that information, Ceballos said she thought the task was to write a compelling Christmas story. “We wrote whatever we could to win,” she said at the time.

The news that the essay was not true was relayed to Libby Lu CEO Mary Drolet, who later that day issued a statement that read: “We regret that the original intent of the contest, which was to make a little girl's holiday extra special, has not been realized in the way we anticipated.”

The tickets and another makeover were awarded to another contest entrant, whose name was not released.

Ceballos told Lauer that the tickets weren’t taken away from her. Rather, she said, when the deception was revealed she refused to accept them.

In the statement she read on TODAY, she also said, “I sincerely apologize to those people who feel misled because of my bad judgment. I helped my daughter write an essay that was not true. It was not my intention to mislead. I just wanted to help my daughter write a compelling story. There is no more compelling story than the struggle and sacrifices of our military and their families. I apologize to our military and their families.”

Asked how she explained the events to her daughter, she said, “I told my daughter the truth. I told her we wrote an essay and they said it was a lie. And I refused to accept the tickets. I told her there will be another time.”

Psychiatrist Lisa Clayton said that the story Ceballos made up struck a nerve with Americans.

“I think the country is very raw right now with young soldiers being killed in Iraq,” Clayton told Lauer. “Priscilla does have a young cousin who was killed in Iraq. She’s been in contact with his family. As an extended family, they know the pain of losing someone in Iraq.”

Clayton repeated Perez’s plea for forgiveness.

“Hopefully, the public out there can realize she’s a young mother who made a horrible mistake,” Clayton said. “She’s coming clean. She just wants to move on with her life so that she can raise her three children.”