I hate snow....

Today started out beautifully...the sun was shining, the weather was relatively warm, it was very pretty.....

Then within 10 minutes, the snow was dumping down (actually sideways) and sticking to the road. My wife says there are several fatalities and overturned tanker trucks/semis, etc...

Isn't Utah weather the best?

Unfunny jokes...

Here are two jokes my daughter thought would be funny to play on my wife...

#1: Call her on the phone...worriedly ask to buy her a pregnancy test...hang up and not answer the phone when she calls back...

#2: Come home from school, quickly tell her that she is getting married, run downstairs and go to bed...

If by funny, she means watch my wife have a conniption fit, then I suppose it WOULD be funny...but I think it would turn ugly. :)

Bald Eagle

I went to get my haircut around 4PM today...then I realized I was almost out of sunlight for the day. I ran up a nearby canyon to get a few pictures. I ran into a bald eagle and took over 1000 pictures of him...this is my favorite so far... :)

Psychologist Pet Peeve #4

Another pet peeve...lack of a specific referral question when psychological testing is ordered. I receive forms all the time that say they want psych testing or neuropsych testing with no other helpful information. I have three catalogs full of psychological testing materials/tests in my office...they test a wide range of symptoms. I need to know specifically what needs to be answered by the tests to determine which tests to give. You could literally spend thousands of hours administering psych tests, and if the question is something obscure, you might still not answer the referral question.

Scary Thought #1

I was thinking today that it is scary that 50% of the people in the world have an IQ of 100 or lower...

The implications are scary...think of all those drivers on the roads, all of those jurors on a jury, etc... (I couldn't come up with a third scary example). :)

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Selling T-shirts...

I have sold 5 t-shirts and a poster since starting on RedBubble last week...that is encouraging...Even my 7-year-old daughter earned $4 because one of the t-shirt ideas she came up with sold. :) Check them out at the link below if interested...

http://www.redbubble.com/people/photoforyou

Reprimand...

Today I got home from work and I was relaxing on my bed. My two little girls were playing with their Littlest Pet Shop toys. I started singing a stupid, made-up song, as I often do, and the lyrics jokingly turned into something about kicking the 7-year old in the head (it rhymed with something). My 3-year old got very upset and said, "That's not in the game, Dad!!!"

Psychologist Pet Peeve #4

Psychologists who try to put a positive spin on all feedback they provide a client...

For example, "If you were sitting in a room with 100 people, you would probably think to yourself, 'Man, I am the dumbest person and worst reader in the room.' But that isn't true. You are at the 2nd percentile and that means that there would likely be at least one other person in the room that read worse than you." :)

Psychologist Pet Peeve #3

Therapist and The rapist are spelled the same...

RedBubble T-Shirts

I know I am weird, but I have been having fun designing random t-shirts for the past 2-3 days...It is kind of fun...Check them out at:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/photoforyou/clothing

Psychologist Pet Peeve #2

Having someone ask you what you do for a living...

Responding, "I'm a psychologist."

Hearing, "Oh no! Are you psychoanalyzing me right now?"

This one counts for tomorrow... :)

Psychologist Pet Peeves #1

I think I might start a new daily entry called Psychologist Pet Peeves...

#1. Reading reports that say that someone "overdosed on heroine" or experienced a "heroine overdose."

They say it like it is a bad thing.... :)