diet cherry coke, cookies, and everything else that's bad for me

why not add blogging?? :)

i love to write, always have. my father was a journalist for associated press, and the best editor a whining elementary and high school kid could ever know. i didn't WANT to retype my papers and homework after he edited them. funny.. i never capitalize now, in the casual setting. (but professionally, it's a MUST). so, because of him, my grammar and spelling are top notch (john can't spell for nothin' yet he always wins at scrabble.. what IS that?? but ever played cranium? i bat 1000 at the gnilleps categories [spelling backwards].. i've never ever missed one.)

so.. when i'm lucky, a really beautiful poem will come to me, but never if i'm trying. i'm usually driving or trying to sleep when they come to me. i will slowly add them all here because if i may say, they are all worth reading.

can you name the grammatical error in this sentence? (taken from myspace):

"None of your friends have a birthday this week."

if you can, i will buy you dinner. seriously.

unless you've ever misspelled your, you're, there, their, or they're. come on. that's second grade. and by the way, TYPOS, or typing short-hand or being lazy (like i am with capitalization) are different from grammatical errors. everyone makes typos. but if you make an error with something like your and you're, not because you made a typo but because you just don't know which one is appropriate, there is just NO excuse for that in my book. it drives me bananas! i am aware that it's wrong not to capitalize or to use "..." in spots instead of the certain colon, semicolon, or comma that might be correct; in a professional letter, it would be correct. but your and you're are too often misused unbeknownst to the typist. so STOP. it makes one look uneducated!

well i didn't really mean for the first blog to be a rant, but while i'm at it... my pet peeves, in order from least to most annoying:

1 - please don't read over my shoulder, unless i've invited you to.
2 - when there is a long line, and a cashier opens up a new register and says "can i help whoever's next?", if you are in BACK of the line, you are not "next." UGH! it's so RUDE! the person SECOND in line is the one who should go to the front of the new cashier. if you're in the back, you're not "NEXT!"
3 - please don't let your small children walk behind you. why aren't you watching them?! someone could easily grab them and run the other way, and you'd have NO idea. small children should walk IN FRONT of their parents.
4 - and finally.. stop complaining about having to do work while at work. that is so ridiculous a rant that it doesn't even make sense. you're at WORK. you're not home napping and being lazy. get up and do what you're suppossed to do and stop complaining. everyone has a personal life and somewhere else they'd rather be. it's not just you. i don't want to hear it and i've dealt with this at every job i've ever had!


so let's end on a high note, with some things i love! i can make way more than 4 to beat the rants!

1 - a baby laughing. well, anyone laughing, really!
2 - how i feel after a heartfelt prayer! it really works!
3 - a warm dinner at the table at home with my husband. it's too rare an occurrance! doesn't matter who cooked.. i just want to do it more often!
4 - a cool fall breeze after a hot summer
5 - my nephews calling me on the phone.. they are so precious, and so grown!
6 - my niece learning something new. she's come so far past her disability!
7 - photo albums
8 - hugs and kisses hello
9 - diet coke from a fountain, with a splash of cherry coke or mr. pibb.. it makes it so subtly sweet and it is my vice!
10 - not being in school anymore.. my time is mine again!
11 - making a patient or parent feel better
12 - flip flops, year round
13 - conversation with good friends
14 - knowing and trusting THE LORD!

thanks for reading. love ya!
-BD