Learn Manners

I receive a lot of solicitor calls at work. I try to never be nasty because the callers are only people trying to make a living. I wish they would have the same respect for me. The two calls I got yesterday ended the same way. They asked if I used their product and I said, "I am sorry, we do not use that product". I said it in the nicest way. As soon as I said the first 4 words, the phone was slammed down. Who trains these people?

Who's That?

Yesterday my daughter in law sent me 2 pictures of my granddaughter. They were side by side in different outfits. One was a little grainy. She looked pretty in both. I responded that I loved the pictures. The reply made me laugh. Those were not two pictures of my granddaughter. They were of my daughter in law at 2 years old next to my granddaughter at 2 years old. They were almost twins. For the first two years she had been a clone of her father. Now she is a clone of her mother. It is funny how genetics work. She truly resembles both of them.

What Did I Hear

Last night I thought I heard rain. When I got out of bed this morning I still thought I heard raindrops on my window. I went downstairs to walk Shelby and started to dress him for his walk. I put on his fleece raincoat and made sure that the collar was high to protect his neck from the water. I then got out my raincoat and got dressed. I opened the back door and the deck was dry. No rain. Here we were, the two of us, dressed for a tornado.

Another Goodbye

Today is the funeral of Officer Wenjian Liu, the second NYPD officer that was assassinated. It is sad to see that the mayor of New York still has not changed his views on police officers. All of the words that he says at their funerals mean nothing because they do not come from his heart. They come from his speech writer. If he really cared, he would have tried to come to a meeting of the minds last week when he sat down with top police officials.

Punctuality

Punctuality is consideration. In all phases of life. If you have to be somewhere on time, it is your responsibility to be there. You should never make anyone wait. Whether it is family, friends or employers. Some people have no idea how to gauge their time. If they have to be somewhere that is a half hour away, leave forty minutes early. Not twenty minutes. You can't fool yourself thinking that you will make up time along the way.

Day at the Spa

What could be nicer than a day at the spa? A warm bath. Nails done. Hair styled. Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, someone in my family had a spa day today. Shelby did. What a lucky puppy!

2015

Today is 2015. Where did the years fly? When my older son was born in 1981, the hospital gave a gift bag of various items and coupons. There were Desitin ointment coupons and the expiration date was 1986. I saw the date and laughed. I remember it vividly. 1986 was so far away. My son would be five years old. That seemed like light years away. I held onto the coupons in my coupon folder and slowly but surely 1986 arrived. That was 29 years ago. Like the old saying goes, days go slow but years go fast.