Feel-Goodery

Today’s email contained the slang word of the day of feel-goodery. I can honestly say that I don’t think that I have never heard of this word, much less used it, maybe a variation of it some time, some where, some place but not that I can remember. According to the Online Slang Word of the Day Dictionary the definition of feel-goodery is:

• a place that offers little of substance, instead focusing on making people feel good about themselves.

It’s a good thing that I didn’t make a promise of using each word of the day at least once a day like so many people do with their “words of the day” I do believe that I would be stumped on this one.

This word really reminds me of Tom-Foolery, remember that one?  I looked it up and was surprised to  find it to be all one word - Tomfooleries: mischiefous tricks, very similar to “shenanigans”. Live and learn!

Teaching The Teacher In Back To School

From what I hearing the amount of people taking advantage of all the Online Degree Programs that are being offered more and more these days for people that for what ever reason choose not to attend the regular/standard class room classes that most of us attended back in our formal education days.

My good friend Skip, I just recently found out, has always wanted to be a 3rd grade teacher, not 2nd grade or 4th grade, it has to be 3rd grade, for reasons that he is keeping to himself at this point. And now that his kids are grown and out of the house and he and his wife split up, he is all about what HE wants and what He needs, and I think He is crazy! No not really, well maybe just a tad, it’s just that I never knew that he had always wanted to be a teacher. I know he is good with kids, but teaching them every day, day in and day out, week after week, month after month, ugh it makes my head hurt just thinking about be stuck in a classroom with 20 or 30 loud, wild and crazy 8, 9 and 10 year old kids! He really must be committed to this dream in order to be seriously talking about and checking out the online degree programs in education with The University of Phoenix which is a very well known school that offers accredited online and campus programs in education as well as numerous other programs as well.

I’m assuming that he has the money all ready saved up to take these courses, if not there is ample assistance for today’s students to aid in the cost involved in obtaining these degrees. But I’ll send him a few links that I have come up with, like the one http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ which will take him to a Free Application For Federal Student Aid, ’tis the least I can do for the guy at this point.

Online Slang Dictionary

I don’t have many things that come each day to my email’s inbox, but I did sign up for the Online Slag Dictionary to send me their “Slang” word for the day. It’s educational and entertaining as hell. Today’s word is Joe Schmoe, which is a noun and the definition is: used as a stand-in name used to represent the everyman. Always wondered how to spell that guys last name!

Pretty Nurses In Their Pretty Nursing Uniforms

We have all been seeing more and more folks turning towards the medical field. They are assured that there will always be a need for medical assistance, so it is a very safe field to get into and stay in for the long run. Many people are going back to school in order to further their education for financial reasons that are completely due to the economic mess that our lovely government has gotten us all into and deep.

To hear the news telling us that the unemployment rate has dropped and that so many jobs have been opening up in many fields that were really hurting from this crisis, you would think that everyone would be so much better off. Not the case, what a joke, and not a funny one. But there is absolutely no one that I know or am related to could tell any positive difference in their lives. In fact the stories are getting worse and worse from what I’m hearing.

Anyway, the one good thing about more medical jobs being offered is the amount of pretty nurses that I get to see around the part of town that the hospital and medical offices are mainly located in. Seeing pretty nurses in their pretty uniforms get put a smile on this guy’s face that will possibly last for almost an hour. There is just something about a woman in a nurse’s uniform that just floats my boat, much like the a woman likes to see a man in uniform.

I dated a woman not too long ago that always turned me on when she can over straight from work in her nursing scrubs. And there was a nice looking broad that a few houses down that looked pretty darned good walking to the bus each morning and back again each evening that looked hot in her nursing uniform. Always a pleasant site for these tired old brown eyes. I haven’t seen her a while, don’t know if she is still living there or if she found a new job, or possibly she got a new car for Christmas and she no longer needs to ride the bus.

CES – Consumer Electronics Show

There was an awesome electronics show held in Las Vegas a few days ago. CES has the best to offer in today’s newest technology and gadgets. One year I’d love to be able to attend one of CES’s events. You just never know what you will find in an area as big as 35 football fields filled to the brim with technology. Overwhelming comes to mind with something that big, but I think I could handle it for a day.