Happy 2007!
Well kind and gentle readers, 2006 is soon to be no more. It was a very strange year for me. I finally graduated with a degree, my blog posts were almost non-existent, and I changed jobs three times in as many months. What does the crystal ball hold for 2007?
In regards to writing, I have decided to try and write more Bippy and Carl stories. After the great Christmas story Sam penned a couple of weeks ago, I decided that the world could use more Bippy and Carl stories. After all, the stories virtually write themselves and those two have had so many adventures that it would be a shame to let them all disappear. Like the time Carl hopped the freight train to try to make his way to Alaska to find snow or the time Bippy and Carl helped Jenny the Parakeet find her voice.
In 2007, the company I work for will be one hundred years old. If anyone would have told me in 1978 when I started working there that I would still be working there at the century mark in 2007, I would have told them they were loco. Isn't life strange?
To end this post on a happy note, here is an email I received the other day. Hopefully, it provides a laugh or two. Happy New Year everyone! Be careful out there!
**Twenty Ways to Keep Your Insanity**
1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "in."
5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
6. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for smuggling diamonds."
7. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy."
8. Dont use any punctuation
9. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
10. Order diet water (with a serious face) whenever you go out to eat.
11. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go."
12. Sing along at the opera.
13. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
14. Put mosquito netting around your work area and play tropical sounds all day.
15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party because you're not in the mood.
16. Have your coworkers address you by your wrestling name, "Rock Bottom."
17. When the money comes out the ATM, scream "I won! I won!"
18. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling "run for your lives, they're loose!"
19. Tell your children over dinner. "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go."
20. And the final way to keep a healthy level of insanity ... Show this to someone to make them smile ... It's called therapy.
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