Robin

First of all- who in the world do you call now adays, and get a BUSY signal??  MY MOM. I’m like, “Wha??”

I’m on my cell, walking and talking to her.  I lose the signal.  I call her back- BUSY signal.  If I think clearly and I’m picturing her at home, with a ROTARY PHONE! 

So I call her back again, and get through, she says, “I just tried to call you back!”  I answered, “I KNOW Mom- I got a busy signal, OMG!”  She says, “how do you want to handle that in the future?”  I replied, “If ever we get disconnected, I will call YOU back, Ok?”  She says, “Ok! Call me back.”

AGAIN- I’m like, “WHA???”  I said, “MOM! We’re on the phone right now! I DID call you back!”  Her response, was to laugh out loud and say, “Oh, haha! I get it!”

And you all wonder why I am the way I am? 😉  Apples don’t fall far…

My youngest came to me last year, with tears.”‘Mommy? I heard that the Easter Bunny, Toothfairy and Santa weren’t real. Is this true…sniff, sniff?”
I had to give one of em’ up to maintain credibility… Bunny? Yer OUTTA’ here!

She STILL wants the eggs hidden. I said, “WHY!?” “Why do I have to get up early in the morning to hide those #$^%^ eggs, when you know there’s no BUNNY??” (and while most of you are thinking to yourselves, ‘ummm, why not hide them the night before?’ It’s because the squirrels get to them first!) She said “Easter wouldn’t be the same without the Easter Egg hunt!” But I had ONE MORE retaliation for her, I said, “but we’re JEWISH!” She just smiled and said, “Mom, it’s tradition!”

So I sent my husband to the store to buy the eggs and the candy. It’s the day before the holiday, and he’s talking under his breath, shaking his head, telling me I’m ridiculous, blah blah…

He comes home with SPORTS Plastic Easter Eggs. What??? He buys all candy that HE likes, not candy the KIDS like, and he doesn’t even buy PEEPS! He’s trying to tell ME, the mom of FIVE, that’s been stuffing these damn eggs for 15+ years, that PEEPS won’t fit in the plastic eggs. I just looked at him, with that look, and pointed to the door. Asked him nicely to not come back until the mission was accomplished. My twenty year old is stifling a laugh, which is REALLY difficult for her, because she’s so damn loud ALL the time, and she follows him out the door, whispering, “Told ya!”

Long story short, he got more eggs, UNsports eggs, PEEPS, and stuffed those eggs with not only the peeps, but to his total amazement, candy fit in that plastic egg WITH the Peep! How ’bout that!!!

So, here I am on the air, while my kids are searching for their soccer eggs, that are,’ by God, stuffed with Peeps! I couldn’t be happier!

I guess ‘tradition’ means something after all.

Forget the ‘spit and polish’.

I wanted to fool around with the instrumental to this song.  It’s for a friend of mine, going through a rough spot. 

It’s totally unaffected, which is what I wanted.  My voice cracks, I did it without listening to the music, just memorized the key and beat, did it dry, and wanted the message to be,  just, ‘let it be.’     It’s just me.

It’s just my way of showing, that things don’t have to be polished if there’s a message to be sent.  Some of us know that, some don’t. But we all tend to get overwhelmed, and at those moments, it’s good to hear someone ELSE say it, once in a while.  “Just Let it be…”

Studies from Cornell University are showing that even in today’s world, the way a woman ‘looks’, can determine her place in the business world.  No matter her qualifications, if she doesn’t STAND OUT, she’s goin’ No where…fast!  So, do we apply lipstick, like a fresh coat of paint?  Maybe high heels, to make us seem taller, more superior? NO!  Because, it’s a “NO WIN!”

If you ARE attractive, men may not take you seriously in business, and women can feel threatened by your beauty!

What do YOU suggest? What’s the answer to getting ahead in the business world as a qualified woman?