I have been in sales pretty much my whole adult life. Part of selling someone something is also being rejected. You get told ‘No’, quite a bit. A good sales person looks at the ‘No’ as an opportunity to get to ‘Yes’. Rejections are part of the game of sales. In sales you hope…
DetailsIf you have seen the show Portlandia on the IFC network, http://www.ifc.com/shows/portlandia, you know it is a spoof of my city, Portland, Oregon. It may make fun of us but of course there is truth in jest. Real Life Portlandia moments: A friend of mine owns a small restaurant and buys lettuce directly from the…
DetailsThis is a bloghop post for GenFab “How I met my significant other”. I am not a liberty to discuss in my blog many people in my life. Be it a gag order or witness protection tactic’s, for peace and harmony I comply. I can talk about my cats, they don’t mind, but everyone else…
DetailsBecause of my old lady sciatic issues, I can no longer go to my exercise class. Without a class I easily become a slug. Sure I bike daily but what is my upper body doing? Right now the weather is damp and getting cold and it is not be pleasant to bike outside any longer.…
DetailsThe other day my next-door neighbor asked if I saw the deer across the street. No I did not. We have lived in the same home for 23 years and I have never seen deer. Oddly another neighbor a block away said that the deer keep eating her roses and knocking over her birdbath. Deer?…
Details1.TIMING IS EVERYTHING. GETTING ALL THE FOOD WARM TO THE TABLE AT THE SAME TIME IS YOUR GOAL! 2. WRITE DOWN YOUR MENU AND LOOK AT IT OFTEN. Write it on your arm and post a copy in the kitchen. EVEN Seasoned cooks will forget the salad or cranberry sauce in the refrigerator or Burn…
DetailsA friend of mine recently filed for divorce. Her reasons I have heard before and I expect many women in their 40’s and up have heard the same story. It is not scandalizing like another woman or man. It is not a new awakening to a life being held back by a spouse. It is…
DetailsThis is part five and my final week of blogging about breast cancer for the month of October. This week the subject is alternative care during treatments and after your treatments have ended. As mentioned in part four about help for breast cancer survivors, your oncologist may recommend alternative care. You of course may have…
Details“You don’t know what precinct you are in?” said with distain and a shaking head as the older woman looked up my name on her roster. I was trying to vote and did not bring my precinct card with me and the grade school housed several precinct-voting areas. This was sometime in the early 1980’s…
DetailsThis is part four of my weekly blogs about breast cancer for the month of October. In my previous blogs I spoke of awareness, preparedness and holly crap breast cancer happens. This week I want to talk about HELP. All breast cancer patients and survivors need help. The disease can truly be mind fogging and…
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