Daily Archives: October 3, 2011

7 posts

Time To Start Halloween Planning

According to Moneyland, we Americans are going to collectively spend just a little less than seven billion dollars on Halloween this year. In 2005, planned spending for Halloween was just north of three billion dollars. These figures are courtesy of a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation. Even accounting for inflation, it seems obvious that we, as a country, are addicted to Halloween. Continue reading

Seeing Healthcare from the Other Side

Recently, I had the eye-opening experience of being in pain and entering the emergency room as a patient.  I didn’t inform the triage nurse, nor my assigned nurse that I was a fellow RN, as I have found that there can be a negative reaction.  Sometimes, they can feel threatened and that you are judging how well they are doing their job.  Other times, they can view you as being a pushy know-it-all.  Knowing that these reactions exist, I have taken the approach of pretending that I’m your average patient. Continue reading

Arrested Development Fans Rejoice! New Season and Film in the Offing

Fans of America’s favorite dysfunctional family (no, not the Lohans) are in a much better mood this morning, as word out of  series creator Mitch Hurwitz is that Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi and the rest of the Bluth clan will return to the air sometime in the summer of 2013. Though, the show that Fox couldn’t figure out how to keep on the air will be a little more difficult to catch when it does air in the summer of 2013. Continue reading

Easily Embarrassed? That’s a Good Thing

“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.” – Mark Twain

“Blushing is the color of virtue.” Diogenes Laertius

According to Edward Gross,PhD, a University of Washington professor who has studied embarrassment for decades, embarrassment has four key elements:

– There must be a failure for which you feel responsible.
– Usually it happens suddenly, or in a way that doesn’t give you enough time to adjust.
– It must be in public or take place in a manner in which the public is aware of the situation
– One must value the opinion of others who witnessed the ‘goof’ Continue reading