Find your Grail!

How is it a woman, upon getting in a relationship with a man, immediately become his social secretary? Where is that rule written? Granted, I can understand it if the event is her family, or something she is involved in and he isn't. Than it makes sense that she is the coordinator. But what about his friends, his family, his events? Why is she making the calls for events he wants to do? Even when she isn't going?? For example: I have a friend, a divorced father whose daughter and ours are good friends. All of us enjoy riding horses together. For years we would get together as a group and go on trails rides, an overnight trip to the beach, etc. Now suddenly he is dating someone, (granted, a friend of mine) and she is asking me, for him, if we want to ride this weekend. Understand, she can't go, this is for him, his daughter and us. Are his fingers broken that he can't e-mail or call us? Has he suddenly forgotten our names or phone numbers?? Also, if she wasn't around...

It's Friday, after a very long week of work, rain and stress. I was sitting at lunch with a friend, looking out at the sunshine ( Yay !) and eating a very unsatisfying blah lunch when we realized we both had gift cards for Cold Stone Creamery . It took us all of 5 seconds to decide to cut out lunch short, and dash out to get ice cream, after all, we had gift cards, that means it's FREE! Of course, neither of us knew where the nearest CSC was. but we figured it was close enough to dash out in our 1/2 hour left of lunch and get back. No one would even notice, right? We dashed back up to our desks, and I looked up CRC locations on the web. There was one only 3.8 miles away, and I knew exactly where it was. Since I knew the location, I drove, which meant we took my hulking truck with no air conditioning. Not really a problem, just a quick dash down the road, up two exits on the beltway and we were there. We head out, chatting happily, when traffic slows to a crawl. Road work righ...

I went down to lunch today, and was presented with this: Now this may look innocent, but it brought back disturbing memories of my childhood. Fried chicken, yummy; Mac-n-cheese, yummy; collard greens, nooooooooo! While I grew up mostly in the south, my mother is English. So I got to the 2nd grade before being presented with collard greens as a menu item. My father was in the Air Force, and we ended up in NC where I went to a small town elementary school. Now remember, this was back in the 60's, when there was still paddling in schools. Teachers held the power of God over students and we obeyed them without question. Practically every lunch at that school included greens. They were cheap and easy to serve, but for someone whose only experience with slimy green things was walking through cow pastures, it wasn't appealing. My teacher had a rule, you eat everything on your plate. Period. No arguing. So I would barter my desert to whomever would eat my greens for me. No amount of th...

Ok, there is a crisis..and it's happening in homes and offices across America. This crisis is a severe lack of..Bathroom Etiquette. It's not like there isn't information out there.. Women's Health Magazine Bathroom Etiquette Guide Urban Etiquette Top 5 Rules There is even a website dedicated to educate the world on courtesy in the bathroom The International Center for Bathroom Etiquette Goucher College even published a tongue in cheek version for college students . There is a lot of humor out there, but that often has a grain of truth in it. Male Bathroom Rules Female Restroom Etiquette A lot of the comments are the same, wash your hands, flush the toilet, etc etc. But I have a few especially annoying habits to address. The Bathroom, even at work, should be a haven of peace and quiet. It should be clean, and smell faintly of Lysol or Clorox. Visitors to this realm should be courteous, patient, and neater than they are at home. There should always be sufficient paper pro...