Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

My sis beat me to it….well, she is a day ahead of me.  I want to put up a post for my dear mom for her birthday.  I found this picture sitting on my desk, of course cropped to just get her picture.  Looking at her is just like looking into a mirror except I don’t have the cooking, baking, creativeness and intelligence of my mom.  She is one great lady – smart and always full of ideas.  Like what my sis said, she can drive me up the wall, but I think of her every day.  Absence makes the heart grow fonder.  Happy Birthday, dear Mommy.  I want to be with you on your birthday, but I can’t.  I called to hear your voice.  That call was good enough but I am always with you in my heart.  Hope you have a good one!

Oh yes, I want to go to Orlando, visit the Disney World, Universal Studios Sea World, or the Discovery Cove.  I know SD and her BF are dreaming of going to Orlando, too.  Nadine and Mark are still coaxing DB and I to make a trip to Orlando with them.  It would be nice if we are are able to go as a group because Orlando.com offers group hotel bookings at affordable prices.   It has an extensive choice of hotels, car rentals and flights.  I know DB is not a fan of Disney, well, SD and I told him he has to think about it as we will be going as a family!  How about that, a family vacation.  Moreover, with Orlando.com, it has a wide range of travel arrangements and entertainment if he is not into Disney.  I am sure there are travel guides on hand to show us the wonderful oceanfronts with amenities like restaurants, broadwalks, or maybe places where he and BF can go fishing.  Oppss, and I forgot to buy a Powerball ticket today :(

On my way to work yesterday listening to my usual morning talk-show, 92KQRS, the talk host announced they will be interviewing, Jake, who is the fiance of Mercedes Gorden, a victim of the collapsed 35W bridge.  Once I got to my usual parking spot, I had to listen to the interview.  It was the most moving interview I have ever listened to.  He described how Mercedes was on the bridge and felled nose down 60 feet to the bottom of the bridge and landed on the bank of the Mississippi River.  Her legs were pinned to the front of the car, in excruciating pain, unable to move and was still able to make a phone call to him informing him the bridge had collapsed and he cannot come to her.  He created an online journal all about her time before and after the collapsed.   The website also has pictures of her how her car landed on the bank of the river and also the 6 surgeries she had to go through to reconstruct her feet.  Yes, I cried when I read what she and Jake had to go through.  Now, this is all behind them, looking towards a new life ahead of them.  There will be a benefit held for her tomorrow at the Fine Line Music Cafe.  Wish I can go.

Being addicted to drugs whether it is legal or illegal is a disease.  When I was attending the Alanon meetings 3 years ago, I found out about many people can be addicted to narcotics.  I was so naive on this subject matter.  Breaking a drug addiction is difficult, but not impossible.  Families of drug addicts need to give these individuals support and should consider checking them into drug rehabilitation centers.  The objective of the Rehab centers is to put the patients in a detoxification therapy as quickly and safely as possible. In addition, they also help the patients to figure out the problem as to why they are addicted to narcotics.

My company has a compensation group to deal with the entire corporation’s compensation.  I think the corporation will not audit the strategic business units by the OFCCP (Office of the Federal Contract Compliance Programs) that often if we have use Halogen eCompensation’s pay for performance.  This product is a web-base solution that will make things easier and restructure the compensation for the organization.  It is easy to use with tools to assign merit-base compensation, bonus pay, stock options, to name a few.  Now, this is what I call efficiency!