Product of the week that gets my endorsement: Coffeemate Vanilla Chai Creamer. Excellent in coffe, but not so great in chai tea. Good stuff. So good that when I brought my own bottle to work, it was almost all gone after 1 day.

I get the Spirit Air weekly specials e-mail. Their sale last week was called “Return of the Mullet.” Their ad read, "Business in the front and party in the back? Well, the Mullet is back in style at spiritair.com with great fares in both business class and coach class. The Mullet Sale is back and is better than ever!"

Last week, I was busy channeling my inner Whitney. I should have been channeling my inner Tiger because our work group's golf outing was on Friday. (I thought about wearing a red shirt and black pants but I thought that would be too cheesy.) It was a really challenging course and I lost 4 balls, but that was very good compared to the rest of the group. I haven't golfed in about 4 years but I had a really good time and I wasn't too bad. It's nice to know that I could be better if I spent more time on it.

Let me repeat that: I could be better if I spent more time on it. That could be the story of my life. On Thursday, I'm giving a talk at Marian's leadership day. I've been pondering what to tell these amazing girls and really, the best I can come up with is that it's so awesome to be an adult and not in school because now I have time to focus on things that are important to me instead of things that are important to other people. The entire time I was at Marian, and even Case, I felt like there was always so much that needed to be done and that I never had time to pursue what I wanted to do. Don't get me wrong, I have deep love for Marian, I'm just not quite sure how I'm going to put a positive spin on how great it is to be in high school on Thursday...

Every now and again, I’m good for a profound thought. My most recent ponderable is the key to living a happy life versus living an unhappy life. I think the secret to a lifetime of discontentment is always wanting what you don’t have. These could be material things (nicer car, bigger house, faster internet connection), life things (a job that pays more, is more challenging, or more fulfilling) or personal things (a relationship with a significant other, with friends, or with family). By choosing to focus on the things I do have, and the things that make me happy and bring me fulfillment, I’m choosing to be happy. And it has to be a choice that I make every day. At Jenny's wedding, the priest said, "I don't know many people who want to be unhappy for the rest of their life" and I thought to myself, "Really? I know a few...." I want to elaborate on that at a later time.

I saw a young couple making out in the carpeting section at Home Depot on Saturday. Blech. I was just trying to look at paint chips for my basement (one of my favorite activities) and got a little lost and then I almost vomited.