Song Meme - Day 2 - Song that Makes You Smile

2. 𝐀 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄

You know you have too many songs on your MP3 player, when you can't find just one.

I'm going with... Say A Little Prayer For You by Aretha Franklin

Also... Treat People with Kindness by Harry Styles

( the rest of the days )

Mondays...(for want of a better title)

I forgot to mention that I saw Ms Marvel over the weekend. Or rather the first episode. Disney doesn't drop them all at once like Netflix - you have to wait. I'm tempted to let them all pile up and then watch.
( vague spoilery review )

Crazy Company

Has decided we need to have training in a few more items. But it's not really training - it's more sit and watch a video with close captioning on your computer for fifteen minutes. Voila. Done. So, I now know how to safely handle mail, what internal controls are, what toxic substances to avoid, and my right to know that they exist. Also how to avoid physically threatening people or being physically threatened in the workplace.

Crazy workplace also felt the need to inform me of all of the feats of wonder that senior and executive management have accomplished - most of whom I barely know, and none that I've met in person (nor particularly want to).

Over the weekend - I saw this speech by a guy whose name I've spaced and can't begin to spell - it was on youtube and aired after one of the promos that a friend had posted in her DW journal. In it - the guy spoke about how toxic our culture has become. Decisions about our lives, work, benefits, sick leave, vacation time, pay, etc are made by people that many of us have never met nor seen. And who don't know our names or that we even exist. And more importantly do not care. The thrust of our society appears to be on materialistic gain, acquisition of awards or trophies, and a view of "achievement" or "accomplishment" - with success having a monetary value or materialistic one. Over 50% of the population has various chronic diseases - such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, arthritis, all of which are caused by or increased by stress, and anxiety. And 50% of us have mental ailments - depression or anxiety or both. We are alienated from each other, isolated, and alienated from our natural world. We are meant to be custodians or stewards of it, instead we are destroying it for our own materialistic gain.

This toxicity is killing us. It permeates everything in our culture. But we have choices, we can change things. (And then of course - he gave the information on how to get the materials to do just that.) But the gist is correct. I think. And it haunts me. I feel I have no control.

Today management asked me if I was close to awarding a project. I informed them that I was basically waiting on their management and the funding - and their guess was as good as mine. "It could be next week, tomorrow, the end of the week, next month...we really have no way of knowing."

Family

Mother keeps regaling me with stories about her mean girlfriend. She also called me at 9, so as a result I'm up later. (There's only so many hours in the day - today, I... commuted (3 hours round trip), worked (8 hours), went grocery shopping (1 hour), took a shower (15-20 minutes), called mother - who'd called me when I was getting out of the shower (45 minutes), cooked dinner and made lunch (20 minutes), eat and watched soap (2 hour includes cleaning up), started writing post and got interrupted by mother (45 minutes), finish post (30 minutes). Sigh.
( Mother and her mean friend )

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Here's a picture of an impromptu concert yesterday in front of the pharmacy and fruit & veggie store (which I learned never to buy chicken from - I did and well, never buy chicken from it again).