I have always loved the color purple…Mom said from the time I was born. Several years ago, I became a little obsessive about it.
I only wear purple. Every day I wear something that is purple. Now my glasses are purple too.
I have a purple purse, wallet, water bottle, pens, pads of paper, etc. All purple.
I love any color…as long as it’s purple.
How ’bout you? What’s your favorite color and how nutz are you about it?
As many of you know, I am also an author of Art of Eloquence communication materials. So when I find gems like this Taylor Mali YouTube video, I just need to pass this on. He’s a former teacher turned comedian. It’s called Speak with Conviction and talks about how we are becoming a generation of inarticulate people who add interrogative tones to the ends of our sentences even though they aren’t, like, ya know…questions?
Since I have brain fog so severe, I can’t remember my own address, I have taken up list making. I have a To Do list on my desk, a list of daily tasks in Outlook and several master lists under various categories for things I need to do. I even have a master list of the lists I have.
I LOVE crossing things off my lists. I don’t just check them off or put a line through them. Oh no! Not good enough! I scratch off each task so that all that remains to be seen is a bunch of purple etched rectangles.
And if I remember that I had forgotten to include something I have already done, I HAVE to add it to the list after which I take great pleasure in crossing it off to within and inch of its life!
Hello. My name is JoJo and I have To Do List OCD!
As the TV commercial used to say, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. Unfortunately, after years of Hashiomoto’s Disease, Fibromyalgia, Insomnia, Adrenal Fatigue and some Menopausal issues…
JoJoism#474 “My brain fog is so thick I could cut it with a knife…if I could remember where I keep them.” JoJoisms: Revealing Life’s Truths…as I think of ’em!
Often my mind is hanging on by a mere neuron…so the other day,when they called to set up the appointment to fix the power window on my car, the woman asked me for my address. During that 15 minute phone conversation, I couldn’t remember it! I’ve only lived here over five years!
Thankfully, I could manage my cross streets as well as the city. MapQuest was able to fill in the gaps. Technology triumphs when memory fails…
…I’m sorry, why am I typing? lol
JoJoism#475 “Brain Fog: when thinking becomes a spectator sport.” JoJoisms: Revealing Life’s Truths…as I think of ’em!
If you think about it, Daylight Savings Time really doesn’t SAVE any daylight. It never did. We have exactly the same amount of daylight we had before DST. It’s just distributed differently on the clock.
It’s kind of like that I Love Lucy episode where Lucy changes the clock back an hour to give herself more time to get dressed to meet Ricky’s new boss (pronounced bus-lol). She had the same amount of time, she just looked at it differently. It didn’t work out very well for Lucy. She turned the clock the wrong way and inadvertently wasted so much time they were an hour late for dinner and Ricky put her on a time schedule–hilarity to follow.
We don’t observe DST here in ARIDzona so instead of Falling Back at this time of year, we Spring Ahead to the next time zone. Instead of running around the house changing all the clocks and finding two or three you missed three weeks later, we have to change all of our online event reminders and re-memorize how far ahead or behind each family member is so we don’t call them too early in the morning or in the middle of the night.
With the invention of the electric light bulb, we now have the technology to increase daylight without changing what time it is. I say it’s time to save wear and tear on our clocks and our ever technologically befuddled brains and allow the clocks to be free!
By the way and just to add insanity to injury, this post will not release when I set it to. Since the time change (we don’t observe), I can’t get my posts to release until an hour after I set them to. Even though it says the correct time, correct time zone and the fact that Phoenix doesn’t observe DST. I might try telling it I live in Colorado. ROFL
Don’tcha just hate it when you discover you’re subscribed to something you never wanted? This year, every time I downloaded something, it automatically came with Google Chrome. After a while I’d discover it and uninstall it. Annoying!
Two months ago, I inadvertently signed up for the Crisis a Day Club. Last weekend I unsubscribed.
It took a lot of corporate prayer, but a day or so after asking for prayer on Facebook, I found a decrease in the weird, frustrating, techie and mechanical issues I faced on a daily basis. Thank you to all who were praying for me!
NOTE: Please continue to keep me in prayer, especially as we head into 2014. I have declared it to be The Year of Faith over at Art of Eloquence and we have been under spiritual attack. Thank you!
Tim Hawkins is a Christian comedian with a passion for music. Check out his Corporate Worship Songs.
Last week, I received an email from the admin of the Art of Eloquence website. It said that I owed Art of Eloquence money and to please remit payment immediately. Art of Eloquence is MY company and *I* am the admin.
Don’t you just hate it when you borrow money from yourself and don’t pay you back?
I may have to take myself to small claims court.
Now, would that be filed in Multiple Personality Court? And could I plead insanity?
The Piano Guys cello player Steve makes cow sounds with his cello and the cows answer back.
The other day I was sitting at my computer. It was 3am. One of my Outlook reminders popped up. Admittedly, I don’t schedule all of my reminders for specific times. I just put them there to remind me not to forget…stuff. If one pops up that tells me to call the pool man, I just hit the snooze button and it pops up later.
However, this one said, “Make bed.” It was 3am, but I actually thought about it for a minute. lol
You see, I’ve always been an early riser. Early used to mean about 6am. Today it means about 2am but that’s another post. So when I was first married (almost 27 yrs ago), I got up at 6am and saw that my dh got up at about 6:30 am so I came in and made the bed. When my dh came back in the room, we both had a good giggle. He had just gone to the little boy’s room and wasn’t finished sleeping yet.
Making the bed while your dh is in the potty is one thing, but making it while he’s still sleeping in it, is quite another. I decided to wait. After all, it’s hard to make a bed with a body in it. lol
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