The New Forty blog is the realization of a promise I made to myself upon my entry into the new forty. Now with only six weeks left in year one of the new forty, I have to confess that I am surprised as anyone that I fulfilled my promise to self to write a little [...]
Author: Ms. C
Fargo Marathon – major props!
Today I want to give props to all the folks locally and from across the country who are participating in the Fargo Marathon events of today and tomorrow. I am not a runner, but I appreciate the commitment that is involved in preparing for and participating in this event. So major props go out to [...]
Mojo missing – reward offered.
At some point over the past few days I lost whatever work mojo I had left. I suspected that I was going to be completely sans mojo soon after I got past getting my grades entered - I had heard the forecast for the rest of the week and the words sun and nice were [...]
I can hear it now…”OMG Ethel! What have you done??!!”
Tam & I in Florida in 2003 Today is my friend Tam's birthday. I cannot tell you which year this is for her lest she kill me, but suffice to say she is close to a couple of decades younger than me. In the great pairings of mischief making women in the world - Tam [...]
A proponent of warning labels…
Something set me off kilter yesterday - actually someone - and that had a downhill spiral effect on my mood for the rest of the day. So the person who set me off kilter created a pay-it-forward movement wherein I shared my downwarding spiral mood with the rest of my world which then undoubtedly rippled [...]
Lost and found…
Have you ever lost something important to you and then turned your life and everyone else's around you upside down looking for it? I am not typically one of those people, but regretfully, yesterday I was. It was at about 6 PM yesterday that I discovered that the notebook that I carry around in my [...]
Grocery Store Size-ups 101
I discovered quite by accident last week that the place to meet single men worth meeting was actually in the produce aisle at Sunmart shortly after the five o'clock hour. Not that I was unaware that the grocery store was ripe for pickup lines after years of comedy sketches on the topic, but I never [...]
THE NEW FORTY 