I just wanted to send a shout out to my dad. Happy Fathers Day. Thanks for all you do. Love you.

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I have just spent 2 weeks of pure hell trying to get a Java stack to install on a production system for one of my customers. 2 weeks of system restore, stress, pulling my hair out, emotional breakdowns and self doubt. Finally I had to lower my pride and admit to myself that I am not a stud and I need help. I had to reach out to my team members (who are virtual) and ask for help. Within minutes they were on the phone with and their extra set of eyes helped me fix the problem.

This was a huge lesson for me to learn. Since I started working at SAP I had been very self reliant and have been able to resolve all my problems on my own. I forgot I had an entire team I could turn to for help.

I realize that this is a huge character flaw for me. I often try to handle everything on my own and usually when it gets to be too much I have a meltdown and my poor husband is usually on the receiving end.

When I started traveling again I asked my husband to help out more because summer is here and I will have to fly out on Sunday night. To my surprise he has. He has been a great support over the last 2 weeks and has been extremely helpful around the house. I tease him and ask where my real husband is. Maybe his selfishness was in the lens they took out of his eye or maybe it is because I assertively asked for help.

No man is an island. Everyone needs somone they can reach out to for help. That is why we should always try to be a good neighbor and look for those who may not have that support system that is so important.

Thanks Steve. Without his help or the help of my family who knows where I would be today.

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I just got home from my nephew Tyler’s Eagle Scout Court Of Honor. Above is the slide show I put together for him. I am very proud of him. So many young men come so close and never achieve this and others don’t even try. Tyler is the first of my nephews on both sides of my family. I only with that Girl Scouts would be pushed a little more.

However, the BSA is a really good program that can teach really good values to help develop really good men and that is what this Country needs.

The Scout Law: Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean and Reverent.

Traits we can all strive towards.

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Well I spent another Memorial Day weekend in Cleveland, Ohio. I was here last year at this time doing and R/3 upgrade and now it is a BW upgrade. The customer I have worked with has been great and they have let me work the entire project from home. But I had to be onsite for the production upgrade.

Truthfully, I did not like working from home. Yeah, it was great to just jump out of bed and not have to worry about how I looked. But after a couple of weeks I realized that the interaction with other humans is an important part of happiness. Not that my husband and parents weren’t enough interaction but sometimes you really need more. As the plane took off last Thursday I slowly started thinking I really don’t want to travel again. I missed being around my home. I guess you just can’t please me.

But after a few days of being back on the road again I realize that most weeks won’t be so bad, so I will grin and make the most of it. I may get a few more weeks of working from home but there is also a chance I will be heading to Fargo for a few months. I am torn. Not sure if I want a long term assignment of Fargo or if I want to risk it. I guess I will find out tomorrow. But with all this said I realize that on this Memorial Day, it is often nice just to remember your home and where you come from and reminisce about happy memories. It is also great to remember the reason for such happiness and be thankful for all those who have served this Country and protected the freedoms that lead to such happiness.

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I have to admit that I love Dancing with the Stars. I have realized that that it mirrors reality better than any other reality show out there. The best talent doesn’t always win. It is very much a popularity contest. It is painful when you favorite is voted out: much like our elections. I found myself saying, “If Gilles is voted off I will never watch this show again.” Similar to the way the governor of Texas is acting and many others in the GOP.

The week that the top contender Lil Kim was voted off instead if the horrible dancer Ty Murray I realized I wasn’t as upset at the injustice because my guy was still in it. I think that is how all Americana act towards their President. If they voted for him they forgive his failures. That is truly bipartisan. I just think it is ridiculous that one should believe that the United States should break up over it. If you are that unhappy leave don’t expect your whole State to follow and become their own country. Hell that would be like me starting my own dance show just because Gilles got voted off. Get Real. Oh yea and vote for Gilles.

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Yesterday was a beautiful day and I was stuck inside having to work. Sometimes you just have to do maintenance on systems during the weekend to prevent any undue downtime. But Steve and I did go around the corner to Gardener Village to look for pictures. This has become a new interest to me and a new obsession to Steve.

I found that I was stuck. I just couldn’t see a great picture. I took quite a few with my new camera. Yeah the sun was shining but the leaves were just barely starting to bud along with the tulips. I don’t know if that is what was causing my block but I went home discouraged. As I continued to baby-sit my conversion Steve edited his pictures (something we have learned in our photography class is just as important as taking the pictures). Steve agreed to edit my pictures for me also since I was busy. He actually found some decent compositions. He said my skills have improved.

I suddenly realized that I think there is an artist in me that I never nurtured. I used to love to dance. I played the piano and I always wanted to be an actress. I tole paint pretty good and seem to have a good eye when it comes to home interior. But none of these skills did I ever seem to truly nurture or obsess over. Maybe that is the key to becoming a great artist. Maybe with my new camera I can start looking around with the eyes of an artist and soon I may have beautiful pictures that are worth framing; plus I will also be able to feed the artist in me that is dying to come out.

You can see the rest of our pictures HERE.

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I live in Utah and today they held their ‘teabagging’ party.   Now I am annoyed by this because:

a.  I know at least 95% of the people there do not make over $150,000/year.  (it’s Utah for hells sake).   Not only has no one in this Country seen their taxes raised, they are not going to see the 3% increase when Bush’s taxcuts expire. 

b.  They had to high jack the Libertarian party’s idea. 

c.  Where were they for the last 8 years when the the Rebulicans were running up the tab.

d.  Utah is one this Country’s leaders in bankruptcy and they are protesting fiscal responsibility??????

They hypocrysicy is too much.   Off course Glenn Beck is now the face of Faux News and he is Mormon and has been leading the charge on this project ‘teabag the Whitehouse’.   Now it is starting to make sense.  

I only wish the Right Wing Nuts who started this so called grass roots movement would have looked in the Uraban Dictionary or Wikipedia to understand the meaning of ‘teabagging’.

Teabagging is a slang term for the act of a man placing his “Scrotum” in the mouth or on or around the face (including the top of the head) of another person…

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I don’t want to throw out too many Youtube videos but this was pretty good.   Britains Got Talent:  Everyone was pretty much pre-judging Susan Boyle before she even had a chance to open her mouth.  Maybe there really is a lesson to be learned here.  I too am guilty of jumping too quickly to judgement and I need to work on not allowing my pre-conceived notions to guide my judgement.  Also, it really proves it is what is on the inside that counts.

UPDate:  The owner of the Youtube clip has disabled embedding so you will have to double click below in order to watch but it is worth it.

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My hubby and I have decided that since we are planning on going to Italy in 2010 we better just have a ’staycation’ this year. We are actually excited about it because we both bought new Cannon SLRs. We decided to each get one because we see things differently and we like to take different types of pictures. It will be kind of fun rediscovering Utah this year. It will also be fun to see it through each other’s eyes.

Spring has been very cold this year, so yesterday when the sun was out we headed downtown for a chance at some pictures. I had forgotten there is some real beauty in Salt Lake City. If we were from out of town we would probably be amazed. I think as humans we tend to take our surroundings for granted. It will be fun to try to see our home state from a tourist’s eye. I have never really done that before. The only downer about yeaterday is that the trees and flowers are still thinking it is winter. Hopefully in a couple of weeks there will be prettier scenery going on. Can’t wait.

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