Dear commute drivers

Dear Commute Drivers,

I had the pleasure of accompanying you on an accident-free commute at the beginning of rush hour.  You know what I like about you? 

 

You are not to be messed with.  

You want to go where you need to go and everybody better get out of the way.  

You are the ones that would vote hands down to make causing an accident during rush hour a criminal offense.  

You find little need to weave in between anybody because you all have the same objective.  Get home.  

It was a pleasure to ride home with you today.

Cheers,

:)

Highway Emergency Pull over spots

I am highly amused by those little emergency pullover areas on the interstate.  

I can see it now "Oh hey, I have a flat tire, but there's a pullover in 1/4 mile.  I can just wait til then to pull over" 

Yeah.  Right.  

Ooo Ooo Ooo here's a good one: "I'm out of gas.  My car will surely find some more gas to get me to the pullover"

I'm probably mocking some high-level person who thought of these, but they just strike me as funny.  

Until next time,
:)

Why I deleted Candy Crush

Some of you just gasped, I heard you.  

I was on level 163 of candy crush.  For about oh I don't know, TWO MONTHS.  I like games that are challenging, but I don't like games that are frustrating.  I'm in this to waste some time doing something mindless and fun, not get worked up about something that I failed over and over and over and over.  Definition of insanity.  And kind of irritating.  

So I deleted it.  Off my phone, iPad, and Facebook.  And I found a new game to waste time on that's not stressful.  It's called Triple Town.  You basically group things (grass, bushes, trees, huts, houses, etc.) into groups of 3 and it creates an item of the next highest value.  Grass becomes bushes, etc.  There's no level up, you're basically trying to get strategy to get the most points.  If you hear me refer to my settlement game, this is the one.  

BAM.  No more game stress.  

Until next time,
:)

There's something to this whole stay-at-home-run-errands thing

I used to be one of "those".  Those women who thought staying at home being a "housewife" would be boring.  Well talk about making assumptions with no information!  

Due to a snafu at work, I lost computer access.  I work in IT.  Means I couldn't do....anything.  So for 4 days I ran errands during the day.  I went to the bank, grocery store, car wash/vacuum, post office, voter's registration, did laundry, cooked, cleaned the apartment, on and on and on.  What did I do after business hours?  When I normally do ALL of those things?  I did not one stinkin' thing.  I didn't have to.  I didn't have to do a total schedule rearrange to make it to the bank during banker's hours.  Or the post office.  And going to the grocery store in the middle of the day?  Talk about EASY.  No one there.  Bwahahaha.

I really enjoyed it, and I got to thinking, that it most certainly was not boring.  

So then I got to thinking: What is it with this female mentality that "I want to be equal to men and go to work in an uncomfortable power suit and back-breaking heels for 40 hours a week".  Um how about I got to walk around all day in sweat pants and not care.  Yeaaaaah.  

NOW: I want to put a plug that I understand it can be a lot more stressful when children are involved.  But I really enjoyed the freedom that getting all these things done during the day provided. 

Until next time,
:)

New Year's Resolutions? uh, sure why not?

I think I've done serious New Year's resolutions uh 1 year.  Way back I don't even remember when.  This year I've decided to have one resolution: I AM GOING TO GRADUATE COLLEGE BY GOLLY.  When I graduate this December I will have been in school in one capacity or another for 8.5 YEARS.  Enough already, I'm done.  

Do I want to lose weight?  Sure.  Find financial freedom?  You bet. Maybe I'll do a little of those things this year.  Maybe not.  So long as I graduate, I'll feel successfull for the year.  Kind of low standards.  Ask me how much I care. 

Here's to your resolutions and hoping they are fulfilled. Or not, whatever floats your boat.  It's your boat afterall.  

Until next time,

:)

The gift of fast reflexes

I consider myself to have very fast reflexes, this as well as my brain being programmed right help me out often.  There's a major intersection in Murfreesboro that about 100 feet from the intersection is a train track.  It's actually impressive how the stop light works with the train tracks to prevent a buildup in the intersection, and hopefully keep people from killing themselves on the tracks.  

Well one night I was coming home from work and I guess I hit the intersection just right because I turned right onto the road with the train tracks and barely saw the red flashing lights before I heard the train horn blaring.  Out of instinct I slammed on the breaks and THEN the light bars started coming down, when the train was within 100 yards of the intersection.  Keep in mind it's about 5:30pm, so it's not like anyone was driving home from work or anything.  *sarcasm* 

As I sat there and stared blankly at the train, I couldn't help but be thankful for the reflexes to hit the brakes before the tracks.  Who knows what could of happened.

Be safe Until next time,

:)

Why I'm a better driver when I'm on the phone

A couple things: I know you're yelling at me right now.  Sounds something like you can't be a better driver if you.....blah blah blah.  So...
1. SHUT UP.  Hear me out.  Then you can rant at me...in the comments...which I moderate (muahahahaha).  
2. By on the phone, I mean either bluetooth or with my fancy iPhone headphones.  I DO NOT MEAN HOLDING THE PHONE TO MY FACE.  And I do NOT text and drive.  

OK.  So here's my argument.  Sometimes I can get in a hurry to go to or from places, and so my speed tends to go up.  But if I'm on my headphones chatting away, I'm less likely to notice that I'm going the speed limit behind another car.  I'm also less likely to weave in and out of traffic.

Maybe it's not the end of the world if only 90% of my focus is on driving.  I'll admit to being capable of aggressive driving.  And I'm easily annoyed by "stupid" people "in my way".  

Maybe I'm wrong.  I don't know.  All I do know is I'm a calmer driver when I'm a)on the phone or b)listening to Christmas music.  Imagine my calm state doing both :o

And as for the comment moderation, I really only moderate for spam and appropriate content/language.  So opinion away.  Even if I disagree, keep it clean and I'll post it.

Until next time,
:)