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About Me

I love to laugh...I love music...I love my beautiful and talented daughter and my faithful friend and puppy, Ceilidh.I respect people who stand up for themselves and for others. I fight for the 'under dog' and am a hopeful optomist.*************************************************** **********I've always loved tall ships. I think a lot of my interest comes from all of the books I read when I was younger, like Kidnapped, Treasure Island and Moby Dick. I grew up in the mountains and didn't get to be near the ocean much, so it was a mystery to me. I was facinated by tall ships. One of my hobbies is genealogy. About 3 years ago I found some old family records and was able to trace them back to 1620 and I found out that my 9th and 10th great grandfathers were on the Mayflower and that my 10th great grandfather was the 11th signer of the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower was a fairly famous ship, so I sort of got excited about the whole thing.*******************************************Signing the Mayflower Compact ***************I've had two dreams since I was a little girl...to sail on a tall ship and to visit Ireland and Scotland. The summer of 2005 I was able to volunteer on some tall ships during the Tall Ship Festival and had the opportunity to sail on the ships. Amazing! I'll never forget it.The other dream? Well, that's being planned for the very near future...a trip to Ireland. I'm of Irish heritage and although I'm an American and proud to be called that, I'm also proud of my Irish ancestors and their conributions to Ireland as well as America.I'm glad you've come to visit. Write a line or two and say "HI".

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Any family that might still live in Ireland.I would also have liked to have met my 6th Great Grandfather, Adoniram "Teges" Allen, a true pioneer and a man not afraid to fight for what he believed in.....

My Blog

What do you want me to do with this dead bird?

That's what one of the employees at our Memphis facility asked me today. She called to ask, "What do you want me to do with this dead bird?" "What dead bird?" I asked."This one that our supervisor, ...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:59:00 GMT

If I didnt know better...Id think they were serious...

So, our government cracks me up. Seriously cracks me up. Two ridiculous items to share. First, quite a while ago in my HR history, we had to discharge an employee because he was alw...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:14:00 GMT

Thoughts to ponder...

We've survived the next round of layoffs at work. Not my favorite thing in the world. Every department in our company was hit, except for the production areas. I lost 2 more employee...
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 04:46:00 GMT

Bomb Threat No. 2

You might remember that last May I blogged about an employee of ours who called in a bomb threat. He called the police department in the same town as our company, from the mall located 3 blocks ...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:38:00 GMT

Austen studied...

My daughter has been talking about Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility' and the possibility of the Attic producing it this next season. Since she always studies every role she ever goes out for, this...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:11:00 GMT

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Posted by on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:44:00 GMT

DENTISTS

You just cringed, didn't you? Just reading the subject of this blog made you cringe. Can I just add that I do NOT like to go to the dentist!?! I had to go to the dentist today...it w...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:42:00 GMT

What century are we in anyway?

My daughter and I flew to California to spend the weekend with family. I purchased the tickets online from Yahoo travel, which was pretty simple. When you purchase the tickets online thoug...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:21:00 GMT

Gone to the cats

The federal law provides leave for employees due to illness, injury, surgery and recovery for themselves and/or family members. It's called Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). What it actuall...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:55:00 GMT

Do Employees Pray for Supervisors?

So, I'm sitting in my office today and a supervisor comes in and says, "I have a complaint and I need to know how to handle it". I asked him what the complaint was. He said, "I have an emp...
Posted by on Wed, 31 May 2006 22:34:00 GMT