Day 80 Another Way to Look

I have a little secret to share. Don't tell anyone.

I got written up.  Yep, it's true, I was censored.  Now, if this had happened within the last forty-five days people probably wouldn't be too surprised. I've been pretty darn vocal about my disappointment with United Health Care/Optum core values (Compassion, Relationship, Integrity, Innovation and Performance) and the way this company exhibited those values to the people they let go.

Day 79 Good Bye Yellow Brick Road

Advisory - the following lyrics contain explicit language:

When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man

You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing, the blues

So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough (plow)

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again

Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground

So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough (plow)

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

Songwriters
BERNIE TAUPIN, ELTON JOHN

Published by
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Today, we said good-bye to one of our Quality Analysts, the divine Ms. R.

Day 78 Riddle Me This

I do not have a honed sense of humor. Ask anyone in my family and they will concur.  I get jokes and find them funny, some of

them, but if telling jokes was a requirement for being human, I'd fail, nine out of ten times.

So saying all that, I have a joke, of sorts, and I hope I don't mess it up.  Did you hear about the Irishman killed in his souvenir shop? It was a nick-nack paddy whack.

If I were to follow on the theme of yesterday's post I would tell you my inability to crack jokes is just a part of my personality and it is a trait or talent or skill that I just don't possess.  And that's okay.  Other guys can be the joker and I'll laugh at the jokes that don't offend my particular brand of humor.

But since this is not about yesterday's post, and I don't tell jokes particularly well, this post is about something else altogether. Something that riddles me. 

Day 77 Going Sane

"It is important to remember that at first flush, going sane feels just like going crazy. Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps

forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. A creative recovery is a healing process." Julia Cameron.

All of us are creative. As I've mentioned before, we may or may not know what our creative talent is. That ability can be anything from writing (fiction, non-fiction, poetry) to workworking (toys, benches, cabinets) and just about anything else you can think of that lends itself to creating.

Day 76 Back at It

Every once in a while, while I was growing up I would hear an adult say something like, "His eyes are bigger than his stomach." As a kid I pretty much had no clue what that meant.  Kids are literal, just like people coming to the U.S. from other countries and cultures. Our idioms just don't seem to make much sense to them.

Of course, eventually, you come to know that eyes bigger than your stomach meant you wanted more food to eat than your stomach could handle.

We do that with other things too, especially our time.  We need to make time for our spiritual life, our work life, our home life, our volunteer life...you get the idea.  Sometimes all those lives get to be like that old saying.  We need to do a lot of things, and we also want to have fun and recreation and maybe a little relaxation by way of television or visiting with friends.

It can all get to be just too much.

Day 76 Catching Up

Time for true confessions here.  I took the weekend off. I spent a lot of time in catch-up activities and just resting.

The last week was emotionally exhausting as I am sure many of my co-workers can attest to.

I got off a little later than usual for a Friday, but that all worked out terrifically as I had three doctor appointments in one week and I didn't use any paid time off! I had the official appointment with my foot doctor telling me what to watch out for now that I am officially out of my boot. I'd rather hoped I could toss the thing, but he had thoughts on that and so it will occupy a place in the back of my closet.