Thursday, March 19, 2009

Grosgrain: Baggu GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Grosgrain: Baggu GUEST GIVEAWAY!!!!

Cheese - I may never do #2 again...

Dave Ramsey said to read the Cheese book again, so I went a few steps further, and did some Cheese Research.

iCheese

These are from the book "Who Moved My Cheese?" by Spencer Johnson, M.D.

Change Happens
They Keep Moving the Cheese
Anticipate Change
Get Ready for the Cheese to Move
Monitor Change
Smell the Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old
Adapt to Change Quickly
The Quicker You Let Go of Old Cheese, The Sooner You Can Enjoy New Cheese
Change
Move with the Cheese
Enjoy Change!
Savor the Adventure and the Taste of New Cheese!
Be Ready to Quickly Change Again and Again
They Keep Moving the Cheese

These are some real-life cheese rules.

  1. Never give your old cheese away in anticipation of finding new cheese.
  2. Never turn down cheese offered to you, even if you already have too much.
  3. Never turn down cheese offered to you just because you've never seen that kind before and have no idea what to do with it. When someone brings unfamiliar cheese to you, your response should be "I've done this many times."
  4. Don't let anyone else know you've found some cheese.
  5. Don't share your cheese.
  6. Cheese can go away at any time without notice, hence #5.
  7. Cheese can go bad at any time. When this happens, disregard #5 and go ahead and share your cheese. An added benefit of this is that it will appear as if you're finding cheese for others (Hey? isn't this what the managers are supposed to be doing?) and you'll be a hero.
  8. Do not ask for tools (e.g. software, or a computer that is at least as fast as the secretary's) that will help you bring in new cheese.
  9. Do not expect your head cheese (i.e. manager, but we wanted to use the word cheese as much as possible) to find you cheese. You are expected to find the cheese. (Just where did you think they get their overhead?)
  10. If you let your head cheese find you some cheese, it will be out in the desert*, or maybe even out of state (remember - out of state, out of mind. Umm, actually I just made that up).
  11. Be careful. Just because it looks like cheese and/or smells like cheese, it may not actually be cheese.1 (This reminds us of the Cheech2 and Chong3 dog story4. If you don't know who Cheech and Chong are then go to an antique store and try to find one of their records.5 Or you could look at their website. - editor)
  12. If you run out of cheese you'll be assigned to do self-assessments until you learn not to run out of cheese.
  13. The self-assessments will take all of your time so you will not be able to look for new cheese.
  14. Did you ever think that maybe they keep moving the cheese because they don't want you to find it?
  15. And finally,

  16. Never cut the cheese (oh come on, you were thinking this yourself).

Other Cheese-Related Thoughts

  • Always activate your screen-saver when you walk away from your computer. This will prevent others from entering your office while you're out and discovering that you actually have cheese.
  • Remember, cheese spelled backwards is eseehc.

*Okay. This is actually pretty specific, referring to a fictional business that is located near what is sometimes referred to as the desert. The point is no one really wants to go out there and if you don't find your own cheese they'll find you some so that you have to ride the bus 1½ hours each way, everyday, to your new job at this fictional business.
1 Submitted by Ron S.9 (Ron is now on the list of people who can’t report this website.)
2 Cheech Marin is on some show with Don Johnson, if anybody cares.8
3 Tommy Chong makes irregular appearances on That 70's Show.8
4 Okay. It goes something like this. "Looks like dog , smells like dog , feels like dog , tastes like dog , it must be dog . Good thing we didn't step in it." (Hey, come to think of it, this is exactly like some cheese I've come across.)
5 record (rêk’erd) n. a disc, usually made of vinyl, designed for playing on a phonograph6
6 phonograph (fo’ne-graf) n. An instrument that uses a vibrating needle to reproduce recorded sound from the grooves of a disc (i.e. a record). Commonly called a record player, (or turntable by an audiophile7).
7 audiophile (ô’dê-a-fïl) n. A person who calls a record player a turntable.
8 Cheech and Chong, neither of who (Or is it whom? Whom cares.) have provided any cheese-related quotes, both are still alive, and both make more money than you ever will.
9 Stewart

Friday, March 13, 2009

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Reading

Well... I was reading Through a Glass Darkly, but it sucked, and it fell in the toilet. :) So after it dries out, it goes in the recycling. I just finished Maeve Binchy's Whitethorn Woods, so many characters, and she tied tham all together so well at the end, took care of everyone!

I just got Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager from Paperback Swap - woohoo! So I guess those will be next. I have been PBS, DVDS and CDSing everything lately, just to lighten my load to get ready to move. fun fun fun

JOY walks here... PEACE follows... COMFORT saves...

This is where life should be lived