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Extreme Approval Addiction

Personally, I like to receive approval. It's part of my personality. Recently, my very loving husband pointed out that perhaps I've taken my desire for approval into the addiction realm. He repeated to me a conversation he overhead me have with the cat. It went like this:

"Hey, girlfriend. What cha doin'?"

 "Meow."

"Are you my girlfriend?"

Meow."

"Am I doing good?"

"Meow." [Translates to "You're the best."]

So is training the cat to respond to me in the affirmative an approval addiction problem?

 

©2009 Shonda Savage Whitworth

An Errant Keystroke

I had to laugh and I'm sure you will as well.  Here's the short article:

The Associated Press
updated 6:23 p.m. ET, Fri., Sept. 26, 2008

PORTLAND, Ore. - A patient treated for agonizing abdominal pain received this surprising news in the hospital’s paperwork: “Based on your visit today, we know you are pregnant.”

Surprising indeed for 71-year-old John Grady Pippen.

The staff at Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach gave the retired mechanic and logger the ridiculously happy news this month, along with some pain pills.

Hospital administrator William McMillan says an errant keystroke caused the hospital’s computer to spit out the wrong discharge instructions for the grandfather.

© 2008 The Associated Press
All rights reserved. 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26907144/

"An errant keystroke caused the hospital's computer to spit out the wrong discharge instructions..."  Can you imagine?  Think about the consequences if this had been a situation where the hospital staff treated him for an illness he didn't have, or gave him medication to which he was allergic simply because of "an errant keystroke"!

Blog Tagged

I was Blog Tagged!
Current mood:  amused

Author: Noelle

Once you've been 'tagged', you have to write a blog of 10 weird / random facts/ habits/goals about yourself.
Go ahead- list out your 10 as a comment- it really is fun to let go and spill it!

What do you have under the exterior??

OK- so here are MY 10 weird / random facts/ habits/goals about myself...

1) I love fast cars and wanted to be a dragster!

2) So- because of that, I LOVE putting the pedal to the floor (in Jose's beemer) when I am 1st in line at a redlight or ramp on i-4 or whenever I can! (NEVER with anyone else in the car)

3) ...which leads to the ticket I got for doing 120 on an open road somewhere in like Wisconsin when I was singing on the road. (before having kids)

4) Major night owl- mornings are for sleeping. (I think that happens to all musicians!)

5) I get nachos at the movies and during the previews I use my clean fingers and spread the cheese on each one and stack them in the box so when the movie starts they are like soft and don't need to dip them.

6) I am a total mac addic - My son turned me about 6 years ago and will NEVER go back to windows- EVER!

7) I want to be able to drive a harley on a beautiful day out on an open rode and go as fast as I can and KNOW I wont crash!

8) I am getting a little iffffyy about this whole mid life thing- I have ALWAYS felt so young. I am starting to really realize- I'm not. And I am doing reality checks of where I am headed with the second half of living.

9) I have a huge burden for the youth of today and their perception of life and what it has to offer. That they don't miss what God has for them.

10) Would ABSOLUTELY live somewhere else if all my family and friends were not here.
NYC-right in the center of it all- LOVE the city- in a brownstone on tree sheltered brick street.