Kari,

Nice goal...and the story of IPAP made me smile. I've noticed over the years than when something about someone bothers me, it can be a mirror...something in me that I need to take a look at.

What a brave co-worker to point this out to you...a real friend / a keeper!

Colette

: My breakfast timing has been off and
: so has my breakfast brown. My
: coworker today said that I have
: been IPAPing for the last three
: weeks. (that is our term for
: talking about nonsense, being all
: over the place, being disruptive
: about things and not being able to
: focus. It stands for I Pulled A
: Paul. We have a guy at work named
: Paul that does that all the time
: and it drives me crazy. One day I
: realized I was doing the same
: exact thing that he does and I
: told my co-worker 'Oh no I just
: pulled a Paul' And the term IPAP
: has stuck ever since)

: Well the last three weeks my
: breakfast has been off. I get up
: grab my shake and am out the door.
: I get to work and my shake sits
: there. Sometimes I might have a
: brown and sometimes not. But lots
: of times I don't get to my
: breakfast until really late - like
: today it was 10:30 when I started
: drinking it.

: My co worker pointed out that when I
: ate breakfast at home before
: coming into work I was much more
: focused and did not IPAP. I came
: in said good morning and was heads
: down working the whole day.

: Why am I telling you this? Because I
: want to announce my goal to the
: world and hope it will help me in
: doing it. My goal is to get up
: earlier so I have time to sit down
: and eat a full breakfast before
: coming into work. Doing breakfast
: and all it's parts. I was so good
: for so many years not too sure
: what happened.

: Kari - Here is to no more IPAPing
: