Because I am not busy enough

And my boss highly recommend I work on my communication style, I joined the ToastMasters Club at work couple months ago. And because I don't know how to say No, I am currently serving as the club's secretary. Sigh.. but it will look good on my resume.

So far I have given two of the 1o speeches I need to do to achieve the Competent Communicator level. My first speech, The Ice Breaker was named.. Three Things.. which if I say so my self was a pretty good speech.. I had people laughing and I won the best speech of the day award.. there were 2 other speakers that day. My second speech, Organize your speech was the project.. and my speech was named, vacations... and I don't think I did nearly as well.. as I did not prepare as well.. and I felt very rushed at the end. .. but I also had people laughing and pretty good audience participation. And I was very surprised to also win the best speech of the day award. There was only one other speaker and I thought he did a much better job.. and that he was much better prepared then me.

So far my feed back has been that I am pretty funny.. and I appear relaxed.. and I amazed that I am not using as many filler words like umm or like.. or so...

I am going to sign up for my next speech, and it is going to be call... Fighter.. Hopefully I can take some of the humor out.. because I need to work on not using humor. (This is my own goal.. not a toastmaster push.. I tend to use humor my communication style.. and humor is not always the best communication style for the work place, and I need to work on my work place communication.)

but it is fun.. and they are right when they say that the first is the hardest.. I was not that nervous at all this afternoon.

I was right all along

If you have known me for any length of time.. you know that I get car sick.. I have always gotten car sick .. and per Dr Gupta.. I have been doing the right things all along to make car trips bearable.

"The treatments are fairly simple. Always look outside and into the distance preferably. Use antihistamines to prevent and treat nausea, vomiting and dizziness. Ginger and soda can both help settle things down. Simply opening up the window and getting fresh air can help as well. Always sit in the front seat if you can. Even better, drive the car. That will be your best shot at eliminating a mismatch altogether." Granted I don't take an antihistamine.. but those either make me drowsy or feel like I am on speed.

And I have always been jealous of people that could read in the car.

Though I did feel guilty when I hogged the front seat in Merida.. but the team was very nice and let me in the front seat often. If it were a short trip or at night I tried to encourage others to take the front..

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/

Sunburn

Sigh..

So I went up to Lake Lanier this weekend..

and the water is very low..

I guess the corps of engineer let those fish have too much water down stream.

And me in a brilliant move.. got a sunburn so bad that I blistered.. not as bad as the burns I got from canoeing or the blisters BPH got on his back at the pool party in Orchard Park when he was in the 6th grade. But still painful.. luckly only a little patch of blisters..that is spread across the tops of my arms and my cleavage area... makes shirts a bit painful.

Which Star Trek Charcter are you?

Good.. because The Next Generation was always my favorite.




Your results:
You are Jean-Luc Picard

Jean-Luc Picard		70%
Chekov		65%
Deanna Troi		65%
Will Riker		60%
An Expendable Character (Redshirt)		60%
Beverly Crusher		40%
Mr. Scott		35%
Geordi LaForge		35%
James T. Kirk (Captain)		30%
Spock		30%
Data		25%
Worf		20%
Uhura		15%
Mr. Sulu		15%
Leonard McCoy (Bones)		0%

A lover of Shakespeare and other
fine literature. You have a decisive mind
and a firm hand in dealing with others.

Sad

I found this blog a while ago when I was blogging around...

I checked it again this past weekend.. the blogger.. a mother of 6, age 37 died of inflammatory breast cancer. She has some pretty good lessons about life.. and death.

http://punkrockmommy.org/blog


It reminds me to not sweat the small stuff.. and to try and to simply live in day in wonder of being here.

July 4th

JS and I went up to our friend's Christie's cabin for July 4th.. and it was very interesting. Christie's cabin is on a very nice mountain about a 10 min drive from Blue Ridge GA.. so it is very nice.

I have been up here a couple times.. and usually we just hang out at the cabin.. since Christie does have a very nice house.. and we dont really meet the other people that live up here.

This July 4th.. we went out and meet the natives.


There are two types of people on this mountain.. people with money that have bought second homes.. (christie falls in to this category.. )and people that are from this area and have money. (rednecks with money).

In the afternoon we went to a bar b que up the road.. and it was cute.. calm.. good food.. and ok singer.. and relaxing. The mix at this party were people with money that have bought second homes.

Around 7 that night we went to the redneck party. The music was better.. and the food was OK.. but my god.. the people were sloppy drunk. They were all super nice.... and the view for the fire works was great. The best visual of the night was the 18 year old pregenat girl drinking wine and beer.. and no one was batting an eye over it. But we had a fun time.... We had a perfect view of the fireworks that were going on at Lake Blue Ridge about 10 miles away. It was a very interesting way to spend the day. But most important part of the day.. relaxing..