January 24, 2008

How nice!!! What a way to perk up a not so good week.  

Saw this in Data’s site.  It was very very touching.

It’s the happy that comes from working on something you believe in, and knowing what you do matters. It makes you love what you’re doing. And that love propels you on to something greater.

Like loving yourself and believing in yourself again. I think that’s one of the best things to be happy about.

 It’s nice to see people who love what they do and are passionate about it.  I have felt this way about my work, my company and my team practically every day for the last 40 months.  It’s become the norm for me to think and feel this way that I begin to panic when I sense the feeling slipping away.

I cannot imagine having to drag myself to work every day. I can’t imagine dreading the thought of Monday’s because I don’t like my job.  It must be tough…

I wish Ruy and I can spend the coming Valentine’s day doing something fun like vacations, it could be as menial as just going walking somewhere (yes I like strolling) or as far out as an Alaska cruise vacation. Okay, if I consider a trip to Alaska far out, I think I need to get more excitement in my life. 

In my defense, I know how fun cruises can be when you go into it with a good attitude and disposition and with the perfect companion you can be up for something wonderful.

I do know that we don’t have the budget for that right now so I’ll settle for a stroll.

I heard something over the radio this morning. It’s a wonderful quote on criticism (they said it’s from Pope John Paul). The gist is that we seem to be more open to being destroyed by praise than by being molded by criticism.  I love love love the idea behind the quote. I am one person who really really really craves for criticism…so much so that I criticize myself…ROTFL! 

 Has anyone heard of this quote? Can you give it to me verbatim?

I’ve tried searching online and I can’t find it, I did come across another interesting one.

If you are not being criticized, you may not be doing much — Donald H. Rumsfield

Doesn’t it drive you nuts having a million small bills to pay every pay day. The worst part is you have to go to different places just to pay them. It drives me insane as I don’t have that much time to go places and most of my free time is consumed by having to go to different places, different ATMs, different centers for paying. 

In my ideal world, I could cut up most of my credit cards and just pay one bill every month. I know that debt consolidation is the answer to my situation. That’s the only way for me to streamline my monthly budget and also to end my debt woes. I guess we can be considered quite lucky as we now have this option available to us. I know for a fact that our parents or grandparents weren’t as lucky (well, come to think of it, they probably didn’t have as much debt as we do now). I guess it’s just important that we review the contracts of these companies very thoroughly and read the fine print over and over again.  That way we can see if this option is really the most cost effective route to take for us.