Thursday, May 1, 2008

May Day!

It's May 1, 2008, and what is the temperature at my house? 34, thank you very much. I even woke up to a dusting of snow. Now that I'm at work, I look out my window and I see dark gray clouds and some snow falling. Did I mention that it's May? Oh ok. Eight years ago, when my wife and I woke up the day after our wedding (which was May 10), we woke up to a few inches of fresh snow. It melted later in the day, but still... I guess it's not too weird to have snow in Utah in May, but it's not what we want right now. Talk to me in six months.

I guess it could be worse, though. Here I sit in a comfortably-heated office, while my sister is riding with her son on a big yellow school bus to the zoo. They are going to freeze!


Anyway, a new month is here, so that means I need to change the page of my Demotivator wall calendar. Do you know about Demotivators? Th
ey are pretty pictures and nice sayings designed to give you less reason to work harder or be more productive. This month's is called "Customer Care." I'm not necessarily saying that this is my company's unwritten motto...


I think Demotivators are hilarious. My wife introduced me to them when I was in college, and she has given me a Demotivator calendar every year for... how many years now? At least our entire marriage, I think. There are more than 90 different de-motivating thoughts. I dare you to read them and not laugh out loud. I thought about typing them all out--or posting all the pictures--for your enjoyment, but when you read the one called "Procrastination," you'll see why I didn't.

Okay, I'll post one more picture. It's one of my absolute favorites. My mother-in-law works in a high school career center and likes to put this picture on the wall...


Some kids don't get it. They're the same ones who will soon be asking you, "You wanna super size that?"

3 comments:

tammy said...

I love demotivators! Taylor would look at that last pic and say, Mmmmm......fries. Then he would launch into the I work at Burger King song. He's not even here, but I know that's what he'll say. I'll test it out when he gets home.

Wow. 34 degrees. I think we're going be about 85.

tammy said...

And ahhh....laziness...

tammy said...

Yep. That's what Taylor said. He also said you're funny.

(and how funny that your word verification thingy said "tdogslw" for this comment since I was talking about T-dog. T-dog slaw.)