Barb, you are so funny – and so right. I once worked with a chap who made it through every day by walking around the offices with notepad and pad. No one knew what he did exactly (we were in the Civil Service, after all) and his favourite phrase, when asked about a particular problem was ” if at first you don’t succeed – give up”. This has become a family saying much in the way “JFDI” has become the opposite (don’t ask – it’s rude). Thanks for all the laughs in 2015.
[repost while I’m traveling!]
A new year is about to start and that can only mean one thing. (Or two things if you include trying to figure out WTF “Auld Lang Syne” means…) All over the world, people are about to go to a lot of time and trouble to come up with New Year’s resolutions and then they will actually try to keep those resolutions. This is so wrong in so many ways:
- You have to list the things you don’t like about yourself and your life.
- Even though it makes you and everyone around you miserable, you have to attempt to achieve your resolutions.
- Eventually (often helped along by marital references to divorce attorneys, speculation about life insurance purchases, and the suspicious appearance of a long, narrow, deep new flower bed) you admit that you are a total failure and abandon your resolution.
- Then the next…
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Judith Barrow 