The Busyness of the Week

just started my week,
and it's Friday already
where did the week go?!

so much to do, and
hardly anything gets done
work is piling up!

but my desk is clean...
I've managed the clutter out,
moved them to my head

Please don't forget
to visit other
people's wonderful haiku
at A Mommy Story!




Happy Friday to all of you!

Friday Fill-In After A Fun Crazy Week!

As what I tried to spell out in my haiku above...my week just passed me by. Not sure if it was the busyness of the whole week that made me lost track of time or I just simply lost track of time. (((SIGH)))

Anyway it's Friday and as always...I'm in love! So many things happened this week...some a little crazy...some half crazy...and the rest were completely crazy...all for good reasons I hope. Ha!

So to add to the craziness and fun of my week here is my Friday Fill-Ins!




1. It's time for my shower.

2. Wherever we are; it's not a bad place for living our lives to the fullest.

3. I must be HIGH.

4. LOVE is the best thing I have ever known.

5. My life is simply amazing.

6. The last time I laughed really loudly was at work few hours ago.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to finalizing some business concept with a friend, tomorrow my plans include getting drunk and Sunday, I want to rest!

Wish you all a kickass weekend!

5 Things About Mariposa

I'm joining another fun Friday activity this week and thanks to Jean for hosting 5 Things Friday. This week she wants to know 5 Things About Us...so here are 5 Things About Mariposa!

1. Mariposa is not my real name.

2. Mariposa is the spanish for butterfly and I am crazy with butterflies. That explain why I use Mariposa as my pen name. It's been my pen name for years now...as early as when I started writing for my school paper in high school.

3. Process improvement, quality assurance and operational excellence are things that I do beyond this blog.

4. I love children so very much. (And my greatest dream is to be a Mom!)

5. Life for me begins after coffee...especially at work!

That's it! 5 Things About Mariposa...if you want to join please visit Jean!

MS Word 2007 Workarounds

How many of you have shifted to MS Word 2007? Well I did...or IT Guy did for me...months ago, without even informing me!

Can you imagine the hills and mountains I climbed when I was using it the first time?! And rest assured when I open MS Office at home it is because I am rushing some stuff at work. So there I was finishing some important papers in an unfamiliar WORD. LOL

Anyway...2007 offers some better features, just that getting familiar with its tools and the fact that it shifted to ribbons instead of the classical tools is kind of hard for people like me to adjust.

So...while familiarizing myself with it...I complain to IT Guy...every time I use MS Word at home. (At work I have the option which one to use!)

Today...I woke up and saw IT Guy using my laptop grinning. (He can barge in to my home office anytime you know.) I was like...and what's that look about? And he said...come here! I got you something and you will love it.

He got me Ribbon of Microsoft Word 2007 to Old Classic Menu and Toolbar of 2003. Yes it's a software that makes my life easy! I love it.

The software brings back the classic menus and toolbars of Word 2003 to ribbon of Microsoft Word 2007 letting you work with Word 2007 as if it were Word 2003. How cool is that? Add to that the fact that all new features of Microsoft Word 2007 have been added into the classic menus and toolbars of 2003. So while you are looking at that old familiar classi menus, rest assured 2007 icon ribbons will still be available at all times.

You may want to know more about the software and see if it works for you as it did perfectly for me!

13 Excuses For Falling Asleep at Your Desk

Header from Samulli

I'm so happy to be doing Thursday Thirteen again!

This week I'm going fun moments at work...which happens to be the topic for breakfast at home. As most of you know I work in the evening and we were talking about possibilities of "sleeping at work". Then we went on with some crazy ideas...13 crazy excuses for falling asleep at your desk!

(1) "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."

(2) "I wasn't sleeping, I was trying to pick up contact lens without hands."

(3) "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work-related stress. Are you discriminatory towards people who practice Yoga?”"

(4) "I wasn't sleeping I was doing 'Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan' (SLEEP), I learned that at the last mandatory seminar I was made to attend.

(5) "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm!"

(6) Raise your head slowly and say, "...Amen."

(7) "This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in the last time management course you sent me to."

(8) "Whew! Guess I left the top off the liquid paper."

(9) "I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance."

(10) "This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!"

(11) "Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off!"

(12) "Darn! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem."

(13) "Ah, the unique and unpredictable circadian rhythms of the workaholic!"