so like, mandatory vacation?

for those of you i haven't had a moment to call just yet, i got 'laid off' at work today but it's all good -- i sort of expected this turn was coming around the bend -- and I had been at least mentally preparing for it, certainly financially planning for it.

I'm not sure how this will affect plans to take a real vacation this year, but I do hope I will ultimately find some value in the mandatory vacation that is time off between jobs. and i don't mean goofing around on facebook.

thanks as always for your best wishes and forward those jobs along!
email: larasueg@gmail.com and my online resume:
www.linkedin.com/in/laratherrien

favorite forward of the year

this was in my inbox this morning. my favorite is the "swirl".

Ben & Jerry created "Yes Pecan!" ice cream flavor in honor of Barack Obama. They then asked visitors to their web site to fill in the blank for the following: For George W. "_________" flavor.

Here are some of their favorite responses:

Grape Depression
Cluster Fudge
Nut'n Accomplished
Iraqi Road
Chock 'n Awe
WireTapioca
Impeach Cobbler
Guantanmallow
ImPeachMint
Good Riddance You Lousy Motherf*cker... Swirl
The Reese's-cession
Cookie D'oh!
The Housing Crunch
Nougalar Proliferation
Death by Chocolate... and Torture
Credit Crunch
Country Pumpkin
Chunky Monkey in Chief
Chocolate Chimp
Bloody Sundae
Caramel Preemptive Stripe
I broke the law and am responsible for the deaths of thousands...with nuts

to hell with yellow pages

i remember recently my mom was visiting and asked for my yellow pages and i said - what? yellow pages! what's that? my yellow pages is google. and she was like, well what if the power's out? and i was like, i'd use chris' blackberry...

she has a good point but one yellow pages every 10 years is enough for me to find the emergency number to dial (which i'm pretty sure is 911).

i hate the endless free yellow and white pages that get dumped on our doorstep every other month from various competitors. i just have to haul them to the nearest recycling center in my polluting car. so i was delighted to find an overall opt-out list today! it's a green movement towards less junk mail, just like Catalog Choice. do it!

blue fish red fish grinch fish seuss fish

I love Google today!!!!!! Happy Birthday Seuss!