When my expectations don't match reality...oh, wait, that's my definition of stress.
Nothing pisses me off... except me. I'm the only reason that I can ever have any reaction. That reaction may not be conscious - but I'm still responsible for it, no?
I'd love to point outward and say that other things have the power "to make me angry". Unfortunately, I'm certain that I'm the only thing that can make me angry.
3 Billion? Not...
Forbes.com http://www.forbes.com/careers/2004/03/05/cx_pp_0305marthanetworth.html
NEW YORK - The jury's guilty verdict deprived Martha Stewart of not only her credibility but of approximately $85 million. When she woke up this morning Stewart was worth about $420 million. When she goes to sleep tonight--assuming she can sleep--her net worth will be around $335 million. And her fortunes aren't likely to improve upon the markets' opening next week.
Shares in her namesake firm Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia closed down 23% at $10.86 after Stewart was convicted of obstructing justice and lying about her sale of 4,000 ImClone shares.
The verdict is clearly a shock to Wall Street, which had bid Martha Stewart Living shares up by as much as 22% before trading was halted in the late afternoon. That indicates that traders expected the jury to go easy on the domestic diva.
Alas, things may get worse for the company that briefly made Stewart a billionaire. While it's not clear just how badly the company that bears her name will be hurt as a result of the bad publicity, shares of Kmart, which sells Martha Stewart-branded sheets, towels and paint, also traded down on the news, closing at $32.51. Clearly, investors expect the verdict to put a dent in those sales.
Definitely not a good thing for Martha Stewart.
Great point, Badger... too bad Eliot Spitzer hasn't targeted Enron. I suspect that that would require the Texas Att'y General to go after him.
I like how the federal government can make a bigger deal over Janet's boob than over Ken Lay ripping off the federal government and its investors... there's no way Lay is innocent. This whole thing is going to be stalled til after the election.
i think she's not ready to let go of that.
i told her if she really felt she had to go, i would go with her at a different hall.
i don't want to go!!
Not counting funerals, that's true for me as well.
i think she's not ready to let go of that.
i told her if she really felt she had to go, i would go with her at a different hall.
i don't want to go!!
min, as you requested, I've re-read my post. There are times when I purposely challenge you, and I suspect that you were expecting that from me on this one. False alarm.
All I intended to do (and on re-reading, all I see in my post) is supporting you in what you say you want, and supporting you in seeing your wife as capable of doing what she needs done. Isn't that how we want to see all the people we love - as being capable of doing what they want and need to do?
It's possible that you'll decide that you do want to go to the memorial...just for personal family reasons, not for religious reasons. Because, as adults, we never do anything we don't want to - we may want it more than the consequences of not doing it - but we still want to do it, or we wouldn't. I find that being clear about why I'm really doing things is a great stress reducer/remover - and that's where my recommendations come from.
Regards, best wishes
PS
time to pick on the guys!
i was an adult when i was conned into the corporate cult known as jehovahs witnesses.
before that time i hung with a rough crowd of guys who carried guns and did bad things to people they didn't like, or who were stupid enough to let these guys know they disliked them.
I can't wait for some of the women to comment on this one...
No, I never got that feeling.
but frequent, apparently...
i think she's not ready to let go of that.
i told her if she really felt she had to go, i would go with her at a different hall.
i don't want to go!!
Hey, min, calm the hell down. So what you're saying is that she made it clear to you without being specific - got it.
Are you telling me your wife is incapable of handling it? It's been my experience that people, especially males, tend to underestimate the capability of others, especially when we care about them and want to "take care of" them (when they often don't need it). I'm not saying that you shouldn't do something for her, silly - just complimenting your wife, and you get all aggro about it.
a friend of mine gave me a free ticket to a lap dance club tonight, and ive just got back from there.
its the first time i've ever been to one so i was intrigued as to what it was all about.
after going there i dont know what to make of it.
My feelings on strip clubs...
Well, I'm all in favor of nudity, but in the Olympic we're-all-amateurs sense. I like the idea that someone likes and trusts me enough to let me see them naked, not that they need money badly enought to let me see them naked.
It's about as distant as you can get from actually relating to someone...and about as far as you can get into objectification without touching.
Is there anything wrong with it? No... not in that sense. But in my opinion, it gets in the way of actually connecting with another person as an individual... it's a financial relationship, not a personal one.
Of course, this is from the guy who has never had an SI swimsuit issue, had a pinup poster, or even a Snap-On calendar - so I am probably some kind of deviant.
hey folks.
last night i went to my first "meet-up" sponsored by our friend, meetup.com.
and -- surprise, surprise -- it wasn't an ex-jw meetup.
Apparently all of you need to come to Portland and cram into craig and kate's house at one time...they know how to have a party.
