Happy Anniversary!

No, every day is not perfect and rosy but life isn't. No matter how the past three years have turned out with, highs and lows, ups and downs, good and bad I am thankful! Thankful for my job and thankful for the decision I made in July of 2007. Today is my three year job anniversary. Other than school it's the one thing I've been most committed to my entire life. Sorry to bore you all--I had to take an opportunity to give myself a pat on the back.

It doesn't add up....

Some funny math for a Thursday....

If.....

One of my favorite poems....

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn out tools;

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If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

by Rudyard Kipling

G to the U to the M to the....

Today, please remember to have a little gumption and stick to your guns once in a while. One of my favorite movies, The Holiday, reminds viewers of this when Iris tells her way-faring male acquaintance," I don't know, but I think what I've got is something slightly resembling... GUMPTION!"