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Daily prompt: Sixteen tons

27 Thursday Mar 2014

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How do you feel about your job? Do you spring out of bed, looking forward to work? Or, is your job a soul-destroying monotony of pure drudgery, or somewhere in between?

Sixteen Tons; one of my all favorite songs to dance to with my father. I remember dancing what the French call the “rock” to Sixteen Tons, I suppose it was some bastardized version of the Jitter Bug, I think? My father danced so well, just thinking about it puts a smile on my face.

When I used to work outside of the home, way back when, I never found it to be dreary or monotonous. I worked primarily in the retail and the restaurant business and trust me, those two industries are never boring. I was very lucky to always find myself surrounded by talented, creative and very nice people, even the customers were often wonderful and engaging people.

I can’t even complain about my time at the law firm because it wasn’t your run of the mill stodgy law firm. Dolgenos, Newman and Cronin was located in the heart of SOHO, New York, sharing space with an art gallery that the partners themselves owned. They were also very welcoming and loved a good party. On the day that I was hired as a part time file clerk, they threw a party in my honor. When I left to go back to work at Conran’s/Habitat at Astor Place, they threw me a party to wish me well. You can’t beat having employers like that.

Actually I have to say that of all of the jobs that I have held over the years; full-time or part-time, being a stay at home mother is, for me, the hardest one that I have ever had. Having said that, being a mother has definitely never been boring; it is by far the best thing that has ever happened in my life. The house work part of being a stay at home mother, not so much, that is definitely the most boring and uninspiring job that I have ever encountered and for me, the only drudgery that I have ever known. Being a mother HOORAY, housework BOO. 😀

Daily prompt : Yawn

09 Friday Aug 2013

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What bores you? Photographers, artists, poets: show us DULL.

What bores me, good question. I have to say that I am not a photographer, but I would be very interested to see what photographers would interpret through their pictures as dull. Anyway, that will be for me to find out, now back to my question. I am not easily bored. I never have been. My saving grace has always been reading and I will read anything to either learn something or to be entertained. I know that there is a saying that if you are intelligent you can’t be bored and I see the wisdom in those words. In effect they are saying that boredom is a choice and you can always find something to occupy your mind, your body or both if you like.

My own imagination keeps me from getting bored, I will think of my favorite soap opera, General Hospital, and rewrite a scene or try to imagine where the storyline is headed if I find myself sitting waiting on someone. I try to not do what I see everyone else around me do and that is to go instantly to my iPhone to entertain myself. I don’t know exactly why I choose to go old school with occupying myself, technology isn’t bad, but I like the way we used to entertain ourselves organically; with stories made up in our heads that didn’t need charged batteries or internet connections, the stories only needed brain connections to work, very self-sufficient if you ask me.

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