31 posts tagged “women”

Daughter1 just sent me the following quote of the day. Needless to say I agree with it!

'Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of sh-t.'  

There are days in the life of a long marriage when you look out the window and wonder if life had ever been different. Or if somewhere in the vast distant past things may have gone to a different view. A woman gets to a certain age, when the time of mothering and nurturing are passed their heights and life is winding down into the last half, and there are times when one wonders...when one wishes for  something...

A little something what though?  A totally different life? Or a life more well lived? A long walk along a wide white beach, arm in arm, with ...someone else, or no one at all?

The older one gets and the more complete a woman becomes, sometimes a small yearning opens. It can be rent wide open with indiscriminate care or violent disregard, but that brings no guarantees of satisfaction. She can beat her breasts and cry into the day, but the emotion may stay the same.

Night falls and the view is no longer outward, for the darkness draws it inward now. The lights are lit in the house and the curtains drawn on the world.  A woman’s gaze is brought back to the near and close, to those loved long and best.  A sigh may escape her lips. A sigh of contentment,  a sigh for  the wondering that may remain, a sigh for a life well loved together.

Nearly one out of two women would rather give up sex for two weeks than go without the Internet, according to a survey released Monday.

Far fewer men would choose to go without sex, according to the survey of 2,119 adults carried out by the online research firm Harris Interactive and sponsored by Intel Corp., the world's biggest computer chip maker.

Forty-six percent of the women polled said they would rather go without sex for two weeks than give up access to the Internet for the same period of time, according to the survey, "Internet Reliance in Today's Economy."

Only 30 percent of men said they would rather forgo intimate relations than cyber ones.

Ninety-five percent of those surveyed said it is "very important, important or somewhat important" to be able to access the Internet.

Sixty-five percent of those surveyed rated Internet access above other discretionary spending items such as cable television subscriptions (39 percent), dining out (20 percent), shopping for clothes (18 percent) or a health club membership (10 percent).

Sixty-one percent of the women surveyed said they would rather give up watching television for two weeks than give up access to the Internet for one week.

Harris Interactive and Intel said the survey was conducted November 18-20. They did not provide a margin of error for the results.

I COMMENT NOT....

Between the ages of 45 and 55 women on average can expect to gain at least 5.5 kg.

I am just over the 50 mark…. And statistically speaking I should have only gained an extra 2.75 kg by now

I must be in the advanced class…

Came across this today - perhaps someone can develop a theory from it!!!

Abstract:

Women who were first-born and only children reported liking their first names better than later-born women liked theirs. Also, women who liked their first names tended to be less lonely and have fewer siblings. Women with more siblings tended to be more lonely.

Title:Relationship of liking of first names to birth order and loneliness.

Author(s):Charles E. Joubert. 

Source:Psychological Reports 66.n3(1-2) (June 1990): p.p1177(2).  

Ok – I am youngest of three children, don’t really like my first name, but don’t hate it either, was lonely as a child but never lonely now….

What does it all mean? Nothing at all?

I just noticed that the Thinking Women's group has 480 members.

On the other hand the Thinking Men's group has 5 members...

 No need to explain ....

deflated and abused

Feeling a bit down and badly abused this evening. I wrote a very carefully worded, professional memo to  Mega Boss today about the ongoing IT problems. She agreed with my concerns and said she had many of the same ones herself. She then forwarded my confidential email on to DumboIT but, more upsetting to me, was that she prefaced the whole memo with the sentence : I know FD can at times be emotional and prone to over-exaggeration....

This gutted me because I am very professional at work. I have been able to introduce new processes which have meant we have been able to decrease staff numbers and have them redeployed to other parts of the company. MegaBoss is always telling me that she doesn't have to worry about my area because she knows it runs so well...her excuse for not being involved and ignoring us I know.....we aren't exciting or glamerous, we just do the actual work. I also rarely speak one on one with her...  Anyway I was gutted for a couple of resons. The major one was that it gave DumboIT the perfect excuse for not doing their job and just declaring I am a silly emotive women....

Her words had no real role in what was being discussed and I know that she did it just because she could. It would be funny if it wasn't hurtful, because everyone knows what a Drama Queen she is and how she throws temper tantrums at the drop of a hat, and over reacts to high heaven. That is one reason that no one tells her anything, because she makes things worse usually.

So all she achieved was to kill the last remaining shreds of loyalty and motivation I had. So from now I play by the rules and just go through the motions....

Why would a woman do that to another woman? It was such a put down, especially from another woman. So dismissive, and belittling.

I was upset so shared the email with two colleagues. Bless them they crowned me the Drama Queen and said that they would be my Door Bitches, gatekeeping who entered my realm! Yes, we have to laugh at the stupidity of it all.

Once I would have walked on fire for MegaBoss but as time has gone on I have seen what a shallow, self-seeking woman she is and all that is gone....

and so passed Thursday in the Basement of Discontent