Responsibility 199, what is it?

Responsibility 199 is a belief; I believe that to be healthy and to increase my longevity I need to weigh 199 pounds or less...
Responsibility 199 is a need; I need to reduce my weight, reduce my percentage of body fat, and the elevated threat of disease my present condition presents...
Responsibility 199 is a mission; I recognize that achieving 199 will be a challenge, perhaps the hardest I have ever undertaken...
Responsibility 199 is a commitment; I acknowledge that I must commit to action, commit to change, commit to myself and those I love to achieve this mission, to increase my longevity...
Responsibility 199 is ME.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Day 383 - Happy BDay Cathy

This week my wife has a birthday; Happy Birthday Cathy!

I wont say how old she is, but it is a milestone birthday and it may rhyme with 'orty'. That is all I'll say, don't want to give too much away.

There you see the flowers I sent to her at work this week. Those flowers are impressive if I may say so myself. But not nearly as impressive as her well organized desk.

You can tell allot by looking at a persons workspace, lets take a closer gander at her's shall we...

Photo's on the wall board, photos of 3 of our 4 kids. No photo of me, hmmm.... there is a photo on her desk too, a cool one. It is of her & her workmates standing with the Stanley Cup which visited her work place a few weeks back; so jealous I am.

Behind the flowers is a poster of Matt Kenseth, her favorite Nascar driver. My fave is Greg Biffle, the two are team mates so all is good there.

The wall calendar on the right is a Chicago White Sox calendar. She is a Sox fan, I am a Cubs fan. Somehow, we make it work. There is a desk calendar too, a page-a-day calendar; it too appears to be a Sox calendar. I should know what it is as I gave it to her for Christmas (I know, I am cutting edge when it comes to gift giving).

Stapler, appears to be a Swingline 747 classic model, good choice. Shows a sense of faith & determination, no?

Ream of paper at the ready, she either prints allot or is ready for the coming paper-shortage of 2011.

Is your desk/workspace as organized?

Myself, I can say that mine desk is as organized if not even a bit more so organized than hers. Organization is not always a sure sign of success however. Some of the most successful folks I know are terribly disorganized overall. But somehow when it comes time to perform at what is important, they excel like few others. I envy that mysterious ability. Simply for me, success comes from a organized approach

And enough of the organization sermon; all together now... 

Happy Birthday!

Oh, flowers were not all I got my wife for her birthday, recall this post in March where she got her other present a bit early.


Responsibility 199 - Gotta Do It!!

11 comments:

  1. Happy Birthday to your wife!

    I am uberorganized at work. Everything has its place and if I get laid off, it's a fairly quick pack. My Outlook Inbox is just as organized...a folder for everything and by the end of the week, the Inbox is usually empty. At home...well, that's a different story. My hubby, on the other hand, I don't know how he finds anything on his desk but he does and he can find anything you ask him for.

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  2. Happy Birthday Mrs. Patrick!!

    I'm very organized, but sometimes I have a little organized-clutter going on around the house. At work, I'm very organized. I'm all about going paperless, so I have very few files and folders and paper things floating around. I keep everything immaculately and intuitively organized on the server at work. I wish I had a high-powered, speedy scanner at home; I'd go paperless at home if it was quick and easy to scan my bills and things into the computer!

    At work I live by sticky notes. I can't remember crap on my own, so I have to write everything down on sticky notes. I have about 10 sticky notes taped to my monitor and desk!

    At home I tend to save stupid paper things that have some kind of memory attached to them, like concert tickets, movie tickets, brochures, postcards. I try to scrapbook these items, but more often than not it just clutters up my house.

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  3. Happy bday Cathy! You know, forty was easy for me & fit wise, things felt great! Not like now & the hormone takeover of this bod! ;-)

    I don't do too well with organization EXCEPT in the gym! :-)

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  4. Happy birthday, Cathy!!! Yep... I love organization. Now my husband's desk... Yikes.

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  5. Aww, those are beautiful flowers! Happy Birthday, Cathy!

    I am semi organized. I have good and bad phases, but it never gets bad enough to influence my work in a negative way, so all is well.

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  6. Happy Birthday Cathy! I'm hitting that 'orty in 3 months, I've heard it's not too bad. My kids would probably pitch a fit if the quantity of photos was uneven on my desk. Nice flowers!

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  7. Happy Birthday to Cathy and many happy returns. I' approaching the 'nifty' milestone myself. The flowers are lovely. I'm sure she loved them.

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  8. Happy Birthday Cathy!! Never fear I'm going to be 'ifty' this year :)

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  9. Thank you Patrick, for visiting my blog and for the kind comment.

    I am very picky about my desk. Maybe a little too picky.

    Those are lovely flowers. Happy birthday to your wife!

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  10. HAPPPY BIRTHDAY CATHY!!!!

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