Drive Thrus'

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A modern convenience? or a traditional setback?

Let me start off by noting that I'm not talking all drive thru meals. Of course there are circumstances where you are just getting a quick meal/drink on the go. Or its easier to go through the drive thru lane instead of getting all of the kids out of the car just to put them back in. I get that. I'm not even talking about that!

What I am talking about is everyone being so engrossed in the everyday things in life that people don't even slow down to eat together anymore.

Instead I've seen and heard of so many scenarios where parents are grabbing quick meals for their family and dropping it off to each kid wherever they are.

Wasn't that the one thing you could always count on? Sitting around the dinner table eating (whether it was home cooked or take out) and catching up on the day's worth of events?

At least for me, it has always been the one part in the day where it seems everyone stops whatever was consuming their time to eat together... because before you know it, everyone is much older and has a million things pulling at them for attention (school work, work-related stuff, or whatever it may be).

Isn't it time we all slow down a little? If not for own health's sake, at least for the sake of maintaining some family time values?

 P.S. Don't forget to leave me a comment below on your thoughts! As always, I'd love to hear from you.

Cricket

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The sport, not the insect.

I don't understand it, I don't like it, and I certainly don't have the patience and/or attention span to watch it. Do you know how long those games are? 8 HOURS! Sometimes, they take FIVE days!

That means 8 hours X 5 days = you must be crazy if you think I'm going to watch that.

The rest of my family LOVES the sport. The World Cup just ended on Saturday and so around my house it was cricket time, all the time lately for quite a while. Pakistan (where I was born) lost in the semi-finals, and the final game was between Sri Lanka and India.

All I've heard lately is about cricket, and frankly I'm over it!

Before I end for the day, I'll share a related joke my dad shared with me yesterday -- Just saw a Sri Lankan drinking tea from a plate, he said the Indians took the cup.


P.S. Don't forget to leave me a comment below on your thoughts! As always, I'd love to hear from you.

B is for ...

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If you saw my tweets yesterday, you would know how difficult of a time I was having coming up with a prompt for B. Then I came up with a couple of them... and couldn't choose between them. Finally, I narrowed it down to 2 (or 3?). You'll see what I mean.

1. Bracelets. I LOVE them. I don't think there's even such a thing as too many bracelets.

Here's a picture of my Bracelet Tree that sits on my dresser. This is by no means all of my bracelets (they overflow into the drawers).

My Bracelet Tree

What's one thing you can't have too many of?

2. Isn't the blogosphere a cool thing? Just think about this currently activity alone - there are almost 1000 individuals, most of whom don't know each other, who have formed a community taking part in this one activity. The chances of us connecting otherwise are/were very slim.

Blogosphere. A cool thing indeed.

Oh, and I have to throw this in :) Do you know I design blogs? Hey it's a B, isn't it? :)

P.S. Don't forget to leave me a comment below on your thoughts! As always, I'd love to hear from you.

Anonymity

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As I said yesterday, I wasn't sure what I was going to talk about today to start off the challenge (some start, huh?). So I used the first A-word that popped in my head... and it happened to be about blogging :)

What do you think of Anonymous commenter's who leave negative comments on blogs?

I personally haven't had such an experience, but every time I read one on someone else's blog it makes me cringe. If you don't have the audacity to take responsibility for what you are saying, then you lose your credibility.

You have something to say on the contrary to what you read? Fine, but take some ownership for what you are saying!

Don't you think it's fair to say that when people know their identities are going to be kept anonymous (whether offline or online), they behave much worse than they would have otherwise? Or when dealing with someone on an one-time basis that you know you'll never see them again?

P.S. Don't forget to leave me a comment below on your thoughts! As always, I'd love to hear from you.