Just watching that makes my back hurt. I am all for short cuts though, and use a plastic snow shovel to “plow leaves” in addition to raking and a blower, especially on harder surfaces. Maybe a hybrid of both would be good and tape that broad cardboard to the shovel with handle so you don’t have to bend over to use it…

I had never seen the “Will It Casserole” series so now I am super excited as I love casseroles, not just for their wonderful taste and combos of food varieties, but many can be made or partially made/prepped earlier which is nice for after work cooking. The coming cooler weather always inspires me to see what I can…

I do, and salesmen (and their managers) try to talk me out of it, which does not one bit sway me and I get what I want. I think their motivation is buy something off the lot, but I want what I want, and I will order it and wait for it and be just fine with that.

After Sandy Hook, there was a movement to honor the dead by doing “27 random acts of kindness” (one for each victim) and I started doing little things, like letting people in front of me in line at the grocery check out, etc. I had under estimated the good it would do me. In a world of hate, it feels like a tiny act…

Colloquially known as End-of-Summer-Bummer.

I have sadly found that common sense is not at all common and less so every day. It may be that some women prefer d-bags, but the reason they dated the d-bag in the first place may well be because the d-bags actually communicated with the women, even in d-bag speak. Also sad, is that some women believe the myth that…

A woman may have posted it here on Lifehacker, but if you actually read the article, it comes from a man, Dr. Greg Matos writing in Psychology Today.

Well they have made the site so hard to navigate and view, it takes a lot of effort to see and most people just get tired of trying. I don’t really care about the numbers, just the opportunity to release some snark.  :)  Thanks

A good lawyer should be able to plea them down to a manslaughter of crows.

“Asshole” is too kind. I worked for a guy who called someone in to write him up 2 hours after his mom passed. Poor guy was wearing sun glasses and had tears running down his face and boss thought nothing of doing his “improvement plan” right then. I have been through a bunch of stuff like this in my position but that…

Those bad news meetings tend to come on Fridays, later in the day, and usually someplace not visible or within ear shot of other workers and usually with a boss and someone else (a witness). I have been on both sides of these meetings, good and bad, and I always take a pad of paper and a pen to jot notes, since it is n…

And for heavens sake, no porn or emails/chats with your side piece. I see it all the time, (a couple times this week alone) the employees wife (partner/husband) has the access code to their personal equipment, so they use the company equipment since the wife (husband/partner) would assume they were smarter than to use…

I don’t have ADHD so I do not know if it would help, but trying to stay on top of tasks I do regularly works best for me if I assign them a day/date. I pay bills (or at least review them) every Saturday. I water the plants and sort of plan the weekend menu (when I do most of my cooking) on Fridays. Grocery shopping is…

Here is an article on the findings in case you want to do more reading (free version so you don’t have to subscribe to the NYT):

I actually (voluntarily) participated in this study, and I am here to tell you it is 100% not in your head. When I had issues, I went to the internet to see if anyone else had such symptoms and found this study and was vastly relieved when all my tests came back as ok and that it was not just me.

When I would go to a beachy destination with my daughter, I just put her swimsuit and towel on top of everything, since there was no waiting after we arrived for her to run to the beach. Everything else came after that. There is no unpacking near an anxious child with a sandbucket in her hand and sandcastles in her…

I might also suggest that you get the names and personal numbers and emails of people/supervisors you work closely with (and/or connect on LinkedIn), so that you will have references from people that actually worked with you or you worked directly for, as they may be out of a job as well. Most companies will only give…

When this happened to me, I did have to call the dreaded repairman, but it was going to be a couple of days until we could schedule a time. I got the dishes out, washed them by hand, and then used my trusty wet-dry vac (named R2D2) to get the water out. I knew after a few days not only might it leak, but it would have…

I do not have enough stars for this comment.  I see this every day, from both sides and its spot on true.

Thats a really good idea.