Twisted Kismet

The sometimes crazy road from here to there

Archive for October, 2013

A Permission Slip

So I’m reading this book, Introvert Power, right now and I have to say I am loving it.  It is rare when a book makes me want to do fist pumps.  If you – or someone you love – have introvert tendencies, I highly recommend it. The premise of the book is that about half the […]

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Why are you single?

Otherwise known as “What is WRONG with you?”  Ah, so much to write about this topic, will have to break it down into pieces. This is probably my #1 hated question to be asked.  Number 2 hated question is “what do you like to do for fun?” but that will have to wait until a […]

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The negativity factor

Here’s some not so shocking news – we live in a fairly negative focused world, probably more than we realize and appreciate.  “News” is now presented in a way that is supposed to shock and anger us.  That’s what gets the ratings.  And the twitter re-tweets or whatever it’s called.   And usually the most […]

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I am “Enough”

I am hoping this doesn’t sound like too much of a rant even th0ugh it sort of is. I’m not sure if this is a female issue or a non gender specific issue but I tend to believe women are criticized far more than men.  Yeah, I know, I’m not a man so how would […]

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Do you feed your soul?

I sort of didn’t know what title I wanted to use, mainly because I don’t know where this post will go. It has been a somewhat long week for a variety of reasons.  One of those soul searching kind of weeks which I am partially attributing to a mid life crisis of sorts. I have […]

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The Purge

So I decided to start clearing out some unused, old, collecting dust clutter today.  It was either that or yard work but yard work won last weekend. Over the past ten years or so, I have gained and lost 40 pounds.  Twice.  The last time I lost weight (almost two years ago), I cleared out […]

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The demands of life…

Or maybe this is about the pace of life, I’m not really sure.  How do we end up with days that seem to spin out of control with time just flying by? My day job is fast paced and fairly intense most of the time.  There are deadlines that are not under my control with […]

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