31 posts tagged “random musing” (page 2)
Couldn't resist sharing this email forward that I received today:
Handle every stressful situation like a dog would:
If you can't eat it or hump it, just piss on it and walk away.
I'll about not offending women, but give me a break!
Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday.
I had THE STRANGEST dream last night... Adam came out of the closet!!! He told me he was GAY but still wanted us to have kids... didn't want to shatter the facade of our marriage and tell his parents. Beyond weird!
I woke up all stressed out this morning..... so, that's one way to start the day.
Here's a photo of one of the {many} panhandlers we saw in Seattle - he certainly was the most creative!
I've seen this commercial multiple times and it always infuriate me. Allow me to get up onto my soapbox.....
Isn't one of the main points of these family games to help kids learn under the premise of fun? Electronic Monopoly???? We are creating a lazy generation that will rely unnecessarily on electronic gadgets for even the most basic functions!!!!
Stumbled upon this website that allows you to take a photo and turn yourself into a Simpson character. Having so much fun with this. I realize now, that this is how my friend Jen changed her gmail buddy icon. I don't think mine looks like me, she did great with hers. Here are Adam and I "Simpsonized"!
My sister Nicole moved to Colorado in early June. This weekend we got a letter/bday card for Adam from her... in it, she gave us her Top 5 Things she misses about NJ. It has been cracking us up for days. Here's her Top 5:
1) Pork Roll (aka Taylor Ham) -- too funny! We had it for breakfast on Saturday morning and sent her a photo with the caption "Wish you were here"
2) Z100 - A NYC radio station that plays current hits and skews hip-hop
3) The Beach (also known as "The Shore" in Jersey-ese)
4) Guidos - Can't quite explain this one. If I never see a wife beater again it would be too soon.... must be backlash from all the hippies she sees.
5) Big Everything. Big hair, big sunglasses, big bags...
Then she wrote that somewhere down the list were the two of us... I'm looking forward to visiting her soon - either piggie backing off of work-travel, or in December after I take this stupid exam....
Its a ghost town in the office today. Attendance was sparce this morning, but is practically non-existent now after 3pm. We have two interns that couldn't believe it was so empty, and I love the analogy I came up with to explain it.
The office on a Friday is the equivalent to having a substitute teacher for studyhall. Attendance is optional, and even if you show up, you don't have to do anything....
Random, I know.... just thought I'd share.
What other names did your parents consider for you?
If I was a boy, I believe I would have been named Mark Ulrich.
Not sure what other girl names they were thinking of.
Update: I learned from my mom that she wanted to name me Julie or Julia because I was born in July. My dad really liked the name Stephanie.
I know they really liked Melanie, which is my middle name. Had my father known that "Heike" is so damn hard to pronounce in America, I'm sure he would have insisted on naming me something else. Heike is actually the name of my dad's first girlfriend, which is a little weird. My mom loved the name, and having grown up around a bunch of German-American's it never really occurred to her that others might have trouble pronouncing my name. They gave up with using ethnic names the second time around (we had already moved to the States) and named my sister Nicole, which is practically impossible to butcher.
Prononciation is a funny thing - When I meet people for the first time, and I'm worried that they are going to forget my name 5 seconds after I say it, I over-pronounce an "A" at the end, out of fear that they will forget my name and call me Heiki - UGH, it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand straight up!
I give Adam crap when he misprounces it, because I feel that at the very least my husband and family should be able to say it correctly!!! I remember it being a hard thing to bring up with my in-laws. They have already forgotten in, and I've resigned myself to them never saying it correctly - which makes me a little sad.
I'm always torn over who I should correct and at what point its appropriate to say, "By the way, you pronounce my name wrong". When I was younger, I tended to do it pretty quickly with people I was dating, because I thought it would make things easier around my parents if my boyfriend was at least pronouncing my name correctly. I didn't start correcting friends until recently - I don't think I ever did it in high school and rarely in college. It's probably the hardest to tell friends, because no matter when you do it, they always feel like you waited to long and they feel bad for having inadvertently mispronounced my name all this time....
OK - I went off on a tangent that was completely off point fropm the QotD - Time to get some work done.
I feel like a YO-YO when it comes to figuring out when the best time to have kids is - this Cathy cartoon goes a long way in expressing my back & forth. I want Adam to be on board when I feel like I am ready, but can't seem to figure out when that is. We just hired a new Associate at work to join our industry team. It suddenly dawned on me that having a junior underneath me (finally) would make it a whole lot easier for me to take maternity leave, from a workflow perspective, and maybe now is a good time to start thinking of that.
But then we have a weekend like we just had - out with friends till all hours of the night, and I think, "I'm not ready!" Although, there isn't really anything from stopping us from dropping the kids off to stay with grandparents to enjoy some fun, once we do take the plunge.... back and forth I go... we want to travel, we want to buy a house first, I need to take that damn "exam" - when do we have time to raise kids? we aren't ready for the committment a pet entails... BUT, I don't want to wait too long either.... and Adam's brother is expecting now, and it makes us stop and assess where we are.
Anyway... that's my random thought of that day!
