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What Are You Thankful For This Holiday Season?

Posted by Sean on November 22, 2009

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I posted this same blog post last holiday season, and I feel and believe it is such a great cause, that I’m posting it again.

Xerox has a website where you can send a postcard to our military personnel over seas FOR FREE. The website gives you a list of pre-made postcards made from children from around America. You get to pick from a list of pre-made messages or you can create your own message to include in your postcard. Unfortunately you don’t get the designate the recipient of your postcard.

This is an all around GREAT thing. How better of a way to show our love and support to the men and women who are giving the ultimate sacrifice so that you can celebrate the holidays with your loved ones.

I checked the validity of this service here.

Do you have 5 minutes during this holiday season to thank those who are providing you with the opportunity to celebrate your holiday?

The Holiday season is the one time of the whole year we are the people that we always hoped we would be.

I Thank You.

Carpe Diem

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Freedom Is NOT FREE

Posted by Sean on November 11, 2009

Happy Veteran’s Day to all those who have served, to all those currently serving. Thank you for your ultimate sacrifice. My life is possible because of you.

Thank you.

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Here is a small slideshow of pictures we took when we visited Washington, DC:

 

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Never Forget

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Happy Labor Day!

Posted by Sean on September 7, 2009

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Like most of society, my view of Labor Day has always been “Aww.. the end of summer”. I thought I’d enlighten just a few of you us on how significant Labor Day really is.

“Most of us regard Labor Day as the last “hurrah!” of Summer—a three-day weekend to make one final getaway before autumn encroaches, or at least an excuse to fire up the grill one last time. But Labor Day was originally founded in 1882 as not only a celebration (with picnics and parades in New York City’s Reservoir Park) for the working man, but also as a public rally to gain support for an eight-hour work day. (Thanks to the Industrial Revolution, it was not unusual for companies to require workers to stay on the job for 10 to 12 hour shifts with no overtime pay.) For the next few years, workers who chose to march in parades on the first Monday in September took the off without pay in order to participate. Oregon was the first state to recognize Labor Day as a legal paid holiday in 1887.

via mental_floss Blog » Happy Labor Day!.”

A big Thank You to the folks over at Mental Floss.

Enjoy your Holiday!

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Happy Father’s Day Dad

Posted by Sean on June 21, 2009

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Happy Father’s Day Dad. This was an old post as well as a copy of an email I sent my father for Father’s Day last year. I feel inclined to share it again since it speaks volumes about how lucky I was and am to have this man as my Father.

THINGS MY FATHER TAUGHT ME:

  • How to pull his finger
  • How to appreciate everything I have or own
  • How to look something up in a dictionary
  • How to box
  • How to hit a baseball.. By practicing with a ping-pong ball.
  • How to fish
  • How to hunt…. And how not to scratch my cornea on a tree twig
  • How not to slide down the windshield of a car!
  • How to do backwards math
  • How to stick up for myself
  • How to have self-reliance
  • To be accountable for my actions
  • How NOT to play with a Rubik’s race.
  • How to moon your family on Christmas morning
  • To reap what I sow
  • How drinking alcohol is not all it’s cracked up to be… especially the morning after.
  • How to be independent
  • How to trust and be trust worthy
  • Learn the difference between what is good and what is right.
  • How to be humble.
  • How to never take anything or anyone for granted
  • What it means to be a friend
  • How to treat others
  • How to be yourself, not someone else
  • The difference between arrogance and courage.
  • How to never give up, and never quit
  • How to kill a raccoon in your attic with a compound bow.
  • How to feel safe.
  • How to change the oil in my car
  • How to install a car radio
  • How to properly install a new light switch

My father taught me that we all get one chance to make our mark on this world, and if there is anything worth doing, it’s worth doing right.

I am the man I am today because my father cared enough to teach me how to BE a man.

He taught me how to become a man and he still teaches me every time I see him or talk to him on how to be a better man.

Everything that is good in me, is a direct result from the man who calls himself my father.

Chance favors the prepared mind, and my father never wanted me to be ill prepared.

Thanks dad for being you.

I am proud to say you are my father, and I brag about being your son.

Carpe Diem

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More On Memorial Day

Posted by Sean on May 25, 2009

Ten facts about Memorial Day – CNN.com.

Here is just a little bit more information regarding such an under-appreciated holiday.

Thank you again for all that you do.

Carpe Diem

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Don’t Forget

Posted by Sean on May 25, 2009

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Be sure to remember this when you take stock of your day today.

Happy Memorial Day to you and yours. Thank you to all who have sacrificed for me and mine.

Take a few moments and learn a little more about this special holiday:

Wikipedia

Memorial Day History

History Channel

Take care yourselves and yours.

Carpe Diem

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The Master 'Why Holiday Shopping Sucks' List

Posted by Sean on December 22, 2008

I’ve decided the majority of my holiday gift shopping will be conducted on-line from this point forward. Shopping malls and departments stores are a breeding ground for tension headaches and mass hysteria during the holiday shopping season. And this environment only increases in severity exponentially as you draw nearer and nearer to the actual holiday.

These stores and their employees are not the only holiday half-wit’s out there. Your fellow shoppers out there add insult to injury with their equivocal tom-foolery.

Here is a list of why holiday shopping has become what Bobby Boucher‘s mom (Mama Boucher) would call, “THE DEVIL” :

  • Shoppers stopping in the middle of an aisle to talk (bringing traffic to a shocking stop)
  • Shoppers stopping at the entrance of the store to talk ( I mean seriously. Do you think you’re the only one in the store shopping?)
  • Shoppers leaving their shopping cart in the middle of a walkway that stops traffic
  • Parking space vultures (circle the parking lot looking for that ‘good’ parking spot)
  • Parking lot thieves (someone who darts into a parking spot you were approaching)
  • Turn-signal sitters (yeah, you know who they are. They sit and wait while you load up your car, de-ice your car, clean the snow off your car.. So they can have your parking spot. All the while holding up traffic down that lane of the parking lot)
  • Self checkout’s that never work properly (defeats the whole express concept)
  • Shopping carts with the one SQUEEKY WHEEL, or one bum wheel that doesn’t spin or turn
  • How about no shopping carts AT ALL in the store?
  • Shopping carts spilling out of the shopping cart coral into the parking lot (and into the side of your car)
  • Over-aggressive kiosk salespersons wanting you to try their product that don’t understand the words “No Thank You”
  • Stores that blare music so loud in the store you can’t hear yourself think
  • Stores that have so many clothing racks in one area you can’t navigate or walk properly, in an effort to maximize sales

Please feel free to add to this list in the comments section or email me directly. I will GLADLY add your item to this list.

HAPPY HOLIDAY SHOPPING!

Big Grin

Carpe Diem

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My Weekly Weak Sense of Humor

Posted by Sean on December 17, 2008

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We had to ‘kitten’ proof ours!

Carpe Diem

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Heavy Hearted Holiday's

Posted by Sean on November 27, 2008

I wanted to take the opportunity to recognize the sacrifices that we healthcare professionals endure during the lengthy holiday season(s).

We don’t get to close the Hospital for the holiday

We can’t tell our patients, “Can you be sick after the holiday?”

We each have made, and will continue to make those personal sacrifices. It’s not always voluntary, in fact if we had the choice, we’d choose not to work on the day of the holiday.

We have each made additional plans and arrangements to see and spend time with our loved ones. We can’t see them because we are working, so we attempt a gathering before or after the celebrated day.

I know how it feels. I know how frustrating it can be to miss out on all those lovely annual festivities. The loved ones you haven’t seen in so long. The stories. The laughing. The crying. The love-filled rooms of warmth and comfort.

And lets not forget about the FOOD. Oh.. Everything from the main dish to all the decadent desserts.

If you’re lucky, some of you will work with a group of fine individuals that will have their own ‘work-family festivities’ at work (I know I did/do). It’s not home, but it’s equally as significant.

We all have families. Some of us have children. Some of us live too far away to visit. Some of us are managers of a unit that is short staffed. We all have made the sacrifices.

I’m here to tell you it matters.

I’ve been in your shoes, I’ve walked in those trenches.

And I appreciate all your efforts.

Just remember..

When you reflect on how discontent you are about having to make those sacrifices.

Please keep in mind:

Today you’re not the patient.

Thank you again for all that you do.

Carpe Diem

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HOO RAH!

Posted by Sean on November 11, 2008

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HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY

Please be sure to thank and recognize any and all veteran’s you know or know of. We all reap the benefits of what our veteran’s have sowed.

Freedom is a privilege that they fought for, and continue to fight for everyday.

HOO RAH!

Carpe Diem

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