Julie Pyatt

I hate being sick… yuck! :-p

Thanks to my good friend Tracey for sending me some really good laughing material today.  I miss your daily comics Tracey! 

- The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work email with the phrase “Regards” again.

- Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.

- There is a great need for sarcasm font.

- I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.

- The only time I look forward to a red light is when I’m trying to finish a text.

- Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.

- Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”.

- How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?

- Every time I have to spell a word over the phone using ‘as in’ examples, I will undoubtedly draw a blank and sound like a complete idiot. Today I had to spell my boss’s last name to an attorney and said “Yes that’s G as in…(10 second lapse)..ummm…Goonies”

- While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it…thanks Mario Kart.

- MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

- Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

- I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.

- Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

- I would like to officially coin the phrase ‘catching the swine flu’ to be used as a way to make fun of a friend for hooking up with an overweight woman. Example: “Dave caught the swine flu last night.”

- I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.

- Bad decisions make good stories

- If Carmen San Diego and Waldo ever got together, their offspring would probably just be completely invisible.

- Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I’m from, this shouldn’t be a problem….

- Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don’t want to have to restart my collection.

- There’s no worse feeling than that millisecond you’re sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

- I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.

- “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this ever.

- I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

- Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

- I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

- Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn’t know what do to with it.

- It really ticks me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.

- I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

I’ve been slowly but surely working through the boxes and piles of clutter in our house.  I’m starting to make some really good progress.  It feels SOOOO good to get rid of stuff I don’t use and make room in our house.  Yes!  I’ve already taken two Suburban loads to Goodwill and thrown away a ton more stuff.  I love making progress!  Woohoo!

I just ordered tickets to see Lang Lang live in concert at the Schermerhorn in Nashville.  I am SOOOOO excited!  Woohoo!

We have basic cable and I was watching the Arts channel.  Lang Lang was playing the piano - a piece by Franz List.  Wow!  It was literally one of the most amazing things I have ever seen.  His fingers were flying so fast across the keys that his fingers were blurry.  I thought they were speeding it up at first so I turned the volume up and, no, it was real time.  And I didn’t hear a single mistake or even the slightest faltering by him at all.  I think he could have played Mary Had a Little Lamb and it would be awesome.  Absolutely incredible!!  I HAVE to see him live before I die!

So far I’m keeping really busy with marketing for my business, Those Darn Books.  Please continue to pray for me.  I have a few clients but nothing substantial yet, so I’m still in need of new clients.

If you know anyone that needs help with their business finances, please let me know.  My rates start as low as $49/month.  My services are extremely affordable.  If you hire a CPA firm, they will have someone just like me do the work for double the price I will charge you.  Also, if you need some information about my experience, here’s a little blurb about me:

Julie Pyatt graduated from Regents College in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Cum Laude.  She has over 12 years of accounting experience with CPA firms, private companies both large and small and non-profit organizations.  She has extensive experience in various industries including website design, computers and the technology sector, aviation, churches, construction, property management, renovations, retail and distribution.

Something the preacher said yesterday really got me.  I’ve heard this a million times but the way he put it really made it sink in this time.

“Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”  Deut. 8:3

The preacher said, “A lot of you have already made plans for what you are doing for lunch today.”  And, of course, I had made plans the night before with some friends to go to lunch and we knew exactly what time and where we would be meeting for lunch.  I even knew exactly what I would be ordering.  Then the preacher said, “We put so much thought, time and effort into feeding our physical man.  But we also need to feed our spiritual man.”

I guess it just hit hard that I really had put a lot of effort into my lunch plans, but how much effort had I put into feeding my spiritual man??  So last night I started a Bible journal and have decided to put some more time and effort into studying the Bible, not just the cursory reading I normally do.  My spiritual man is more important than my physical man and I need to start actually acting that way.