Seaweed, sand & the sun setting...

Our office is located about 100 feet or so from the beach in Garapan. When we closed office yesterday at 5:30 as we were all leaving, the tide was very low and you could distinctly smell the saltwater and seaweed in the air...My co-workers were all complaining. "Ewww, the water stinks", "Smells like dead fish", "I hate low tide"....I turned to them and started laughing and took a deep breathe! Mmmmmmmmmm! One of them looked at me like I was crazy..and said, "boss, whats wrong with your nose?" I replied, "nothing is wrong with my nose. I love that smell. That smell reminds me that we live within feet of a beautiful ocean. A place where millions of people would love to live and many people pay thousands of dollars to see. And for us it's there, right in front of us, everyday and it's FREE! It reminds me of how lucky I am. So breathe it in girls and stop complaining." They all paused for a second in silence. I know they were thinking about what I had just said, because the complaining stopped and the silence was only broken when my favorite employee exclaimed, "No shit!" (ha, ha) And then we all walked to our cars to leave...I took the long way home, drove slower than usual, turned my ac off and rolled my windows down and breathed in the beautiful saltwater n seaweed smell. As I watched the sun set in the lagoon, it actually brought tears to my eyes thinking about how lucky I truly am...

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."- Abraham Lincoln

Bev???? Brad??? Tami????

Bev, I totally thought of you while browsing "post secrets" this week....Hmmmm!

ha ha ha...then immediately after that I thought about Brad and his PSP ....too too funny!

and before I finished, I found a post card I could have sent myself...

tee hee!

Thursday Thoughts- The End.

I'm getting bored with "Thursday Thoughts". I'm on the search for a new Thursday Meme.
So, today's my last one...

If you were a scent what scent would you be?


Do tell!

Today is an amazingly gorgeous day and I hope everyone is enjoying it in their own little way...

POEMEME

A Poememe is the internet version of the game telephone. The name is a compound of the words poetry and meme and was inspired by a scene from the movie The Princess Bride. The object is to write the first few lines of a poem and then send it out into the webernet to be completed.

For example, you start the poememe:

There once was a priest from Nantucket.

You send it to Mary who adds:
He walked by a petunia and plucked it.

Mary sends it to Tom who adds:
Inside was a bee,

Tom sends it to Roger who adds:
That stung him on the knee

And so on and so forth.


Here's how to organize a Poememe round.
1. Pick a theme/tone
Just like poems, the types of Poememes can traverse the range of human emotions and poetry formats, from funny limericks to a thoughtful Haiku. In the Poememe instructions, write the theme you are going for (funny, romantic, holiday) and the format (Rhyming, Limerick, Haiku).

2. Pick a length
Decide how long you want the Poememe to be and how many lines you want the blogger to contribute.

3. Tracking contribution

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4. Send it out
When you are ready to send out the Poememe, pick blog friends who are most likely to participate, tag them and have fun.

5. Bringing it home
When all the Poememes are done devote a blog to showcasing them.

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Sounds like fun! Who wants to play???? I want to do a funny Rhyme about your body. I will do the first four lines and you do the next four..just post them in my comment section...here we go...

Oh, Dear Lord,
each day I pray
Why, oh why did you create
my body this way?


OK, whose next?????? Come on, play along with me!

In the span of a couple of weeks several people I know or have come in contact with have passed away some expected, most unexpectedly...There was the former owner of coffee care who was killed in a freak automobile accident, a young girl from my church, only 25 years old who went into a coma from an aneurysm and has since passed on. She was wayyyyyy too young! My employees grandfather, and just yesterday a nun who drowned just hours after I left from swimming at the very same beach...very, very sad!


You just never really know when your time's up....life really is too short! You have to savour every moment and appreciate everything you have...*sigh*


Quote for the day :

“I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?”

:)

A new favorite

Curry vegetables with tofu @ Truongs! Mmmm, mmmm, good!