Vacation and the Transguide Signs on the Highway

The Queen was away on vacation for a few...uh...months but she is back now. She took a fun trip to the Renaissance Festival in Plantersville, TX and is back with a few more random thoughts. So here's one, as I was driving down IH 410 the other day, I started thinking about those signs that are over the road which tell us "Congestion ahead, use caution." I starting thinking that maybe there really wasn't any congestion ahead but the people at the transguide place might just be performing the ultimate experiment in human behavior. You know, the power of suggestion. If there isn't any congestion, but you tell the drivers that there is, does it create congestion? If I worked at the Transguide office, I would want to play games with the drivers, say something like, "It looks hopeless, take the next exit and go back to whence you came." Or maybe I would say, "Shouldn't you people be at work?" That would be funny. Oh well, just some random thoughts for today. Now that the blog is up and running again, I hope to post my random thoughts more often, but since they are random, I can't make any guarantees about when they will occur. Until later.

QRT

Moving Day

Murphy's Law of Moving (According to the Queen of Random Thoughts):

• Even if it hasn't rained in three months it will probably rain on the day you want to move.

• Even if gas prices have been dropping in the last month and a half, they will probably spike on moving day when you have to drive a gas guzzling moving truck across town.

• Even if the temperatures have been very mild for this time of year, a heat wave will probably strike on moving day. (This happened to my sister, she moved to Montana from Texas and the entire drive up there the temps were in the 90s which NEVER happens, now, a couple months later, the temps are in the upper 30s) .

• Even if you try really hard to label everything that is fragile, something is bound to get broken.

Can you think of any other Murphy's Laws of Moving? Please post them.

Hopefully more random thoughts later...

A

Do noisy shoes = noise issues?

(This post is best when read outloud)
I have a shoe problem. I like shoes, especialy ones that are unique to my outfit or that coordinate well, but I have found that the shoes I wear are slightly noisy. Now, remember in one of my previous posts where I said I didn't like all the noise outside my office? Well, I was applogizing to my "pod mate" about my noisy shoes and he said, "I know you have noise issues." It took me about five minutes to catch on to his joke. But I thought it was hilarious because that's just the type of joke I would make. So, in the end, I suppose I have both, noisy shoes and noise issues. Well, that's my random thought even though its a couple of days late. Maybe I'll think of some other random thought tomorrow. Bye for now.

Silence vs. Noise

In the office where I work, there are several smaller offices which have doors that open to a large common room. Recently, I was moved to an office that faces the common room (the office I was in previously just faced a hallway.) I am amazed how noisy it gets in the common room! I am a self professed auditory person, which means that I am very sensitive to noise, I prefer silence while I am trying to work, although I don't mind music without words. I also get distracted easily by noises. Well, at my work place it has been requested that we do NOT close the door to our smaller offices. I understand that the boss wants to promote unity and cohesivenss in the office place but the noise in the common room really gets to me! I also consider it rather rude that people like to go stand in the common area and chat. This wasn't as much of a problem when I was in this same office about three months ago, probably because I faced the wall that did not look out the door and I was able to tune out the noise. Perhaps I will have to move my computer to the other desk which faces the wall. Hmm... there's an idea. More random thoughts later, hopefully they will be happy thoughts...

An apple a day...

An apple a day...

keeps the apple farmers happy.

keeps the doctor away.

makes the teacher happy.

Where do I come up with this stuff?

When I taught kindergarten and pre kindergarten, we would teach an entire unit on farming and about the farm. We would read books about the farm and about growing apples, in particular. The students thought it was fun because we got to visit a pretend farm that is in the city that has animals that they have never seen in their short lives. Most children at the school where I taught thought that milk and eggs came from the grocery store (instead of from cows and hens). I didn't grow up on a farm but growing up we did visit Iowa a lot and you can't visit Iowa without learning about cows and hens. One of my aunts actually lived on a small farm and kept some sheep which we would try to play with (they were rather shy though). I thank my parents for always striving to give me a well rounded education outside of my public education. More later...

Queen of Random Thoughts

At my job, the other workers I shared an office with called me the "Queen of Random Thoughts." I guess its because I hate to just sit in silence and work at my computer. I constantly want to fill the void of silence. I wonder why that is... Now I am in a new office and I already miss my "pod mates" as they are called here. That's why I created this new blog, so that I can post my random thoughts and my old pod mates can still receive them, and post their random thoughts, should they have any. More random thoughts to come later...althought I can't say when.