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Post by chiver78 on Jul 16, 2023 12:33:02 GMT -5
You can also take O negative, the universal donor. I'm O negative and can only take O negative. this. I hate that I can't give blood (way too anemic) bc I'm O-.
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Post by chiver78 on Jul 16, 2023 12:37:29 GMT -5
long ass day today, I'm exhausted. it took me 2h to get to the bridal shower this morning, 3 to get down to pick up the pups, and then another 45min to get home after that. the shower was an um, interesting theme, that I'm not going to detail here in case any of the older generation is a lurker here. I've never been to a dry bridal shower before today, and where I knew just my family there, a mimosa might have taken the edge off the drive up there. jussayin... I saw parts of this state I've never seen before, as the GPS directed me new ways, and I'm okay with never seeing some of them again.... but I will never voluntarily go from very southeastern MA *through* Boston to go to very northeastern MA in the summer, esp when an airport access tunnel is closed for major repairs. cuz is lucky I love them. driving home, I realized that I hadn't really eaten much at the brunch, and was getting hangry/shaky. so I texted mooch and M to ask if they would join me for snacks and a solid cocktail, and we met up at the sports bar. I had a cup of soup and got a small pizza packed to go. pups and I got home about half an hour ago, and I'm about ready for bed. LD went to bed as soon as we walked in, Punk is pouting b/c I'm still up and on this screen here. I just wanted to catch up a little online before calling it a night. I'm absolutely wiped out. So I'm guessing you didn't rip M's head off or vice versa... it was disgustingly hot and humid, and she wasn't feeling great from dinner the night before. so she was subdued and behaving herself. mooch and I had a quick chat when she went out for a cigarette. apparently he's walked out on her acting like a shit a few times in the past couple weeks, and she had another major blood sugar crash at work the day he was here doing the piping for the tiki bar sink. she told me her department got reorganized, and she got dumped into a role she's been ducking since it was created. so idk what that means, but I'm not putting up with that level of bullshit. not enabling, not apologizing for, just leaving. 🤷♀️
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Post by chiver78 on Jul 16, 2023 12:41:06 GMT -5
this Wimbledon Men's final has been something else today. 😯 full-on 5 set battle. I've been tethered to my laptop to watch the whole thing. ALL of the clean laundry is folded/rolled and stacked on my dining room (folding 😉) table, to be put away after the match.
my friend L is stuck in NY as her flight tonight was cancelled this am. I hate that, but it gives me more time to get done the stuff I should have been doing instead of watching this whole match. 😜
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Post by weltschmerz on Jul 16, 2023 13:02:14 GMT -5
I don't kill spiders in the house - the enemy of my enemy (insects) is my friend. I had to shoo one away the other day because he kept walking across the desk while I was working on documents - he was a little one about the size of my pinky nail but he was very persistent I don't kill spiders either. Spiders are our Friends. I have a spider named Grace living in my bathroom. She's very smart. She's a web designer
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I don't kill spiders in the house - the enemy of my enemy (insects) is my friend. I had to shoo one away the other day because he kept walking across the desk while I was working on documents - he was a little one about the size of my pinky nail but he was very persistent I don't kill spiders either. Spiders are our Friends. I have a spider named Grace living in my bathroom. She's very smart. She's a web designer
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2023 13:12:59 GMT -5
AAAAAAHHHHHH! okay, I feel better now. The bylaws thing I'm working on involves a very old Word document converted to a PDF and re-converted to Word. To say the PDF to Word conversion was flawed would be putting it mildly indeed, especially in formatting. After 45 minutes of pounding my head on my desk, I decided a manual red-line was the only feasible solution. Good news is, I've done about 8 of the 15 pages. Tomorrow and Tuesday I'll try to wrap it up, and go over the whole thing one more time before sending it off for publication. I also need to clean up the non-red line version (it was prepared by a geologist) so the two can be published side-by-side. Now, it's junk TV time!
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Post by jerseygirl on Jul 16, 2023 13:50:38 GMT -5
You can also take O negative, the universal donor. I'm O negative and can only take O negative. Not really, only in a dire emergency will use O neg without type and cross match cause there are many more antigens than A,B and Rh
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Post by jerseygirl on Jul 16, 2023 13:58:32 GMT -5
Raining here for few days and more next week. Plus humid because we live 200’ from lake . It feels like a swamp
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Jul 16, 2023 14:04:45 GMT -5
I'm nursing a migraine. Apparently my kid can drink me under the table, but no surprise there, 21 year old me could drink 54 year old me under the table too.
He went to the county fair and I'm going to kick back and watch a movie and wait for my meds to kick in. I did go and look at that house this morning. Parts of it are even nicer in person than in the pictures. The 4 season/indoor grilling area is phenomenal. I could sit out there with the breeze coming through the windows and the sound of the waterfall 24/7. The gardens are impeccably kept and the yard is a bit larger than I originally thought. I didn't like the bedrooms much though. They are all small with small closets and no master bedroom (which is kind of one of my must haves), and they were kind of spread out all over the house which was a little The basement floor looked so crappy because they had to rip up all the carpet recently due to a freezer breaking and flooding it. The weird bar area in the basement is actually nicer in person and with an egress window the one storage room area in the basement would actually make a really nice sized bedroom with enough room to put in a walk-in closet.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jul 16, 2023 14:14:07 GMT -5
Back at the cabin this morning. The kids are all in the lake, s group went up to the family cemetery. It is way up an a hill, s difficult climb through brush and the last time I went the mosquitoes dined well…..on me!
The haze is down a bit from yesterday, but from my understanding it’s just due to a shift of the winds, not a decrease in the wildfires near Prince George. They are close enough to my SIL that she decided she needed to stay home in case she needed to evacuate her horses.
Yesterday, discovered TD’s cousin is a huge knitter, so she is another great resource.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Jul 16, 2023 14:18:34 GMT -5
This little place I'm in would be nice if we had 2 more bedrooms and a garage.
I told hubs I would have no qualms against a newer manufactured home on a bit of land and him a garage, he wouldn't either.
But our sons neighborhood is out, house next door to him sold for $669k, down the road a beauty is for sale for $745k. His needs work if they ever need to sell. New kitchen cabinets for sure and a new patio, he is looking at that now. They had to tear part of it out as the septic stuff was under it, who does that? It all really needs to go, he is thinking about concrete for it.
It looked good but a lot of deferred maintenance there. I think his dad could work on it for some time.
Ok to the grocer, have my list. Little guy called and wants to come back to grandmas, I asked him if his dad was giving him a hard time, he said yes, LOL! I heard son laughing in the background.
I got all my wants done except the curtain up in the kitchen and my car vacced and cleaned inside, will do that later.
Feel better today, may take the kids out for dinner tonight. I just wear down at times. It takes me longer to recoup than it used to.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jul 16, 2023 14:29:10 GMT -5
Damn! I wanted a small charcoal hibachi from Amazon. July 16, today was supposed to be free delivery, so I waited. I go on Amazon and the item is no longer available.
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Post by teen persuasion on Jul 16, 2023 14:32:18 GMT -5
Church this morning was DS5 was serving, and we finally got our new third priest (we are now a *family* of 7 churches), so it was his first time at our site. Everything seemed to go wrong. Candles weren't lit - send DS5 for the lighter. Wouldn't stay lit (I suspect they were low on oil, wicks were short). Missing linens - send DS5 for those. No one to bring up the gifts, well things were on the altar already. Err, no, vessels were empty - send DS5 for hosts. Over and over. I really felt bad for Fr . Paul, what a poor welcome, nothing was right. After mass there was a coffee/donut social in the pavilion (it was now misting). Everyone was commenting on the performance we'd all watched - lots of praise for DS5's patience sorting it all out. Next on to grocery shopping, ran into a few more parishioners and had to chat some more about it.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jul 16, 2023 14:42:54 GMT -5
This little place I'm in would be nice if we had 2 more bedrooms and a garage. I told hubs I would have no qualms against a newer manufactured home on a bit of land and him a garage, he wouldn't either. But our sons neighborhood is out, house next door to him sold for $669k, down the road a beauty is for sale for $745k. His needs work if they ever need to sell. New kitchen cabinets for sure and a new patio, he is looking at that now. They had to tear part of it out as the septic stuff was under it, who does that? It all really needs to go, he is thinking about concrete for it. It looked good but a lot of deferred maintenance there. I think his dad could work on it for some time. Ok to the grocer, have my list. Little guy called and wants to come back to grandmas, I asked him if his dad was giving him a hard time, he said yes, LOL! I heard son laughing in the background. I got all my wants done except the curtain up in the kitchen and my car vacced and cleaned inside, will do that later. Feel better today, may take the kids out for dinner tonight. I just wear down at times. It takes me longer to recoup than it used to. Two more bedrooms? Doesn't your place have 3 bedrooms? One for you and hubs, one for DD and one for grandson?
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Post by bookkeeper on Jul 16, 2023 15:34:13 GMT -5
The wildfire smoke is terrible here. We just drove home 200 miles through the smoke. I bet we don't see a sunset.
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Post by bookkeeper on Jul 16, 2023 15:45:54 GMT -5
I am home from my husband's 3 day family reunion. He is from a large family and they do this every two years. I hosted last time. One of his brothers was more interested in alcohol than his family and pretty much ruined the party for several people. Not the first time either.
It is a difficult thing to have to distance yourself from a loved one because of their alcohol problem. I had to go no contact with my dad at times because of how outrageous his drinking had become. I did get the opportunity to spend time with my dad without him using alcohol during the last few years of his life. As I always hoped I would.
I think DH is ready to limit contact to this brother to telephone only.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jul 16, 2023 15:49:40 GMT -5
I donated! Got queasy though. I can give the second batch as soon as Wednesday but I think I'll wait till Friday.
I get now why I need to be 110 lbs. More would be better.
Not sure I want to make it a regular thing. Maybe a couple months then lay off.
I'll do blood drives instead.
I did it. I accomplished a goal.
Well half a goal. I need to do it twice for it to be used.
It feels good to finally do this.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Jul 16, 2023 16:20:18 GMT -5
Something happened this morning. God showed me that He is still here with me, in a way that couldn’t have been any clearer if he’d stood in front of me and tapped me on my forehead and said “Ummmm, remember Me?” I will leave it at that, because I know that’s not for everybody. So anyway, of course that got my attention in a major way, because just a few days ago I upset my Mom’s nerves during a conversation about God, and I’ve just been so angry lately. So this afternoon, instead of playing on my IPad, I picked up my Kindle, in hopes of finding something to read that I could actually learn from. I have a lot of unread books on my Kindle because I basically suddenly stopped reading several years ago, after having been an avid reader since I was a young child. “Avid” as in reading 2 or 3 books/week and not feeling “right” if I didn’t have something to read, even if I reread a book I owned, because I didn’t have something new to read. But I still bought books on my Kindle sometimes, I just didn’t read them. So there is a young lady on FB that I started following, I think in 2017. I probably found her through a makeup group, she use to go live while she beat her face. She was a whole vibe and I liked her personality, but she was also kind of a ratchet mess, her lives were her way of trying to deal with her Mom’s recent death. At the time, she was a federal employee like I am, and married with 3 children. Since then she has become an entrepreneur with a successful, multimillion dollar business, and has grown SO much that I am proud of her like she’s my younger sister and I’ve never even interacted with her lol. She is still on her personal growth journey, but some of the books she’s shared along the way, that helped her on her journey, I bought. Others I just made a note of. So today, I started reading one of the ones I bought, and I was like nope, not ready for that. Then I chose another one, and so far, I’ve stopped reading several times and just stared into space for a while, thinking about what I’d just read. I’ve had tears running down my face, while thinking about what I’d just read. Because it made so much sense to my current frame of mind and gave me so much to think about. The funny thing is that apparently I’d started reading this book before, my Kindle told me how much progress I’d made with it when I opened the book. But starting where I left off whenever that was, wasn’t making sense to me, so I went back to the beginning. I don’t think I will forget what I’ve read this time. I am reminded of the last time I made some big changes in my life, how I came to believe that “when the student is ready, the Master appears”, and I had started thinking and believing that because of what was happening in my life at the time, a lot of it kind of strange (in a good way, like confirmation that I was on the right path), before I even knew it was a real saying. So now, I am reminded of why I wanted and worked so hard to be the “zen like” person I mentioned yesterday. I WAS that person for a while, but I guess I got off track, by reverting to old behaviors and getting confused again about my responsibilities to myself, and how to handle people that I care about when their wants from me don’t align with my needs for me to be good to myself. I have been simmering for a few years now, trying to keep my cool and just let a lot of things go, but recently, I just got plain old angry, and that hasn’t gone away. I HATE being angry, and actually am afraid of getting very angry, because I fear I will lose control and do something crazy if I get too angry, but that’s another story. I understand that my current anger is telling me some things, and those things are bigger than the things that I have allowed to piss me off so much lately. So today has been a kind of strange day, obviously lol. But I think that maybe today is the beginning of a new journey for me, that is just as important as the last big one I experienced. I have not had a day like this since way back then. The student is finally ready, once again. Y’all know I can’t just tell y’all something without going through the woods and across the river and making it a long story. My bad.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 16, 2023 16:20:40 GMT -5
giramomma , are you sure about the Ph.D? Is there no way in the future that you can leverage the work you've already done? That is hurtful, definitely. Right now it's not worth it. There is exactly 0 room to grow in my workplace. Even though I personally am responsible for a whole lot of change in our unit, I am literally passed over. Because I am not in the top leadership circle. The jobs I'm applying for aren't curriculum contributors, which is what I can offer. They are just do-er jobs. I think the plan is to ease out at 56. I can go from two jobs at 60+ hours to two jobs at 30 hours. That's 8 years away.
I have been toying with getting my teaching license teaching in the public schools. My income is going to be cut in half though. So, i have to wait until more kids get of my dime. Right now, i'm burned out at trying to move up. I mean, I've proved that I could for 2-3 years, and it's still not good enough for folks to find something better for me. Why would I go to school for another degree, that could absolutely be useful in my current workplace, but no one will do anything to ensure my growth. And frankly, it's the season to spend on my home. Like DS is sleeping on a mattress with a spring that has poked through. He said something. Probably while I was getting treated for cancer. I need to spend the time on my house. It can't be neglected forever.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2023 16:22:00 GMT -5
I polished my MIL's engraved sterling silver makeup set. It's remarkable-a lipstick case with built-in mirror, a compact for loose face powder complete with sifter and puff, and a little perfume vial with a miniature funnel to fill it. She got it when they lived in Japan after WWII. You can still smell the perfume in the vial.
I made out our menus for the week - it's so darned hot but we have to eat.
Tomorrow is a grocery run and more work on the bylaws project. I guess I'll clean the kitchen Tuesday.
Thursday is a seniors trip to the National Museum of Funeral History (yes, that's a real museum and really cool too). I'm getting a new "Any Day Above Ground is a Good One" t-shirt and probably some other stuff too, like the sign "The Only Difference Between a Rut and a Grave is the Depth"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2023 16:23:55 GMT -5
Something happened this morning. God showed me that He is still here with me, in a way that couldn’t have been any clearer if he’d stood in front of me and tapped me on my forehead and said “Ummmm, remember Me?” I will leave it at that, because I know that’s not for everybody. So anyway, of course that got my attention in a major way, because just a few days ago I upset my Mom’s nerves during a conversation about God, and I’ve just been so angry lately. So this afternoon, instead of playing on my IPad, I picked up my Kindle, in hopes of finding something to read that I could actually learn from. I have a lot of unread books on my Kindle because I basically suddenly stopped reading several years ago, after having been an avid reader since I was a young child. “Avid” as in reading 2 or 3 books/week and not feeling “right” if I didn’t have something to read, even if I reread a book I owned, because I didn’t have something new to read. But I still bought books on my Kindle sometimes, I just didn’t read them. So there is a young lady on FB that I started following, I think in 2017. I probably found her through a makeup group, she use to go live while she beat her face. She was a whole vibe and I liked her personality, but she was also kind of a ratchet mess, her lives were her way of trying to deal with her Mom’s recent death. At the time, she was a federal employee like I am, and married with 3 children. Since then she has become an entrepreneur with a successful, multimillion dollar business, and has grown SO much that I am proud of her like she’s my younger sister and I’ve never even interacted with her lol. She is still on her personal growth journey, but some of the books she’s shared along the way, that helped her on her journey, I bought. Others I just made a note of. So today, I started reading one of the ones I bought, and I was like nope, not ready for that. Then I chose another one, and so far, I’ve stopped reading several times and just stared into space for a while, thinking about what I’d just read. I’ve had tears running down my face, while thinking about what I’d just read. Because it made so much sense to my current frame of mind and gave me so much to think about. The funny thing is that apparently I’d started reading this book before, my Kindle told me how much progress I’d made with it when I opened the book. But starting where I left off whenever that was, wasn’t making sense to me, so I went back to the beginning. I don’t think I will forget what I’ve read this time. I am reminded of the last time I made some big changes in my life, how I came to believe that “when the student is ready, the Master appears”, and I had started thinking and believing that because of what was happening in my life at the time, a lot of it kind of strange (in a good way, like confirmation that I was on the right path), before I even knew it was a real saying. So now, I am reminded of why I wanted and worked so hard to be the “zen like” person I mentioned yesterday. I WAS that person for a while, but I guess I got off track, by reverting to old behaviors and getting confused again about my responsibilities to myself, and how to handle people that I care about when their wants from me don’t align with my needs for me to be good to myself. I have been simmering for a few years now, trying to keep my cool and just let a lot of things go, but recently, I just got plain old angry, and that hasn’t gone away. I HATE being angry, and actually am afraid of getting very angry, because I fear I will lose control and do something crazy if I get too angry, but that’s another story. I understand that my current anger is telling me some things, and those things are bigger than the things that I have allowed to piss me off so much lately. So today has been a kind of strange day, obviously lol. But I think that maybe today is the beginning of a new journey for me, that is just as important as the last big one I experienced. I have not had a day like this since way back then. The student is finally ready, once again. Y’all know I can’t just tell y’all something without going through the woods and across the river and making it a long story. My bad. [img alt=" " src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/embarrassed.png" class="smile"]
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Post by giramomma on Jul 16, 2023 16:29:41 GMT -5
I polished my MIL's engraved sterling silver makeup set. It's remarkable-a lipstick case with built-in mirror, a compact for loose face powder complete with sifter and puff, and a little perfume vial with a miniature funnel to fill it. She got it when they lived in Japan after WWII. You can still smell the perfume in the vial. I made out our menus for the week - it's so darned hot but we have to eat. Tomorrow is a grocery run and more work on the bylaws project. I guess I'll clean the kitchen Tuesday. Thursday is a seniors trip to the National Museum of Funeral History (yes, that's a real museum and really cool too). I'm getting a new "Any Day Above Ground is a Good One" t-shirt and probably some other stuff too, like the sign "T he Only Difference Between a Rut and a Grave is the Depth" I love it. I'd get it too, but I think it would set DH off. He doesn't like it when I mention the cancer could come back and my mortality.
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Post by Opti on Jul 16, 2023 16:31:19 GMT -5
The wildfire smoke is terrible here. We just drove home 200 miles through the smoke. I bet we don't see a sunset. Sorry for you and everyone dealing with it. Wildfire smoke is intense and tough on one's health. I hope these fires get fewer and the air improves.
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Post by chiver78 on Jul 16, 2023 16:33:26 GMT -5
I donated! Got queasy though. I can give the second batch as soon as Wednesday but I think I'll wait till Friday. I get now why I need to be 110 lbs. More would be better. Not sure I want to make it a regular thing. Maybe a couple months then lay off. I'll do blood drives instead. I did it. I accomplished a goal. Well half a goal. I need to do it twice for it to be used. It feels good to finally do this. thank you
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Post by chiver78 on Jul 16, 2023 16:39:01 GMT -5
Something happened this morning. God showed me that He is still here with me, in a way that couldn’t have been any clearer if he’d stood in front of me and tapped me on my forehead and said “Ummmm, remember Me?” I will leave it at that, because I know that’s not for everybody. So anyway, of course that got my attention in a major way, because just a few days ago I upset my Mom’s nerves during a conversation about God, and I’ve just been so angry lately. So this afternoon, instead of playing on my IPad, I picked up my Kindle, in hopes of finding something to read that I could actually learn from. I have a lot of unread books on my Kindle because I basically suddenly stopped reading several years ago, after having been an avid reader since I was a young child. “Avid” as in reading 2 or 3 books/week and not feeling “right” if I didn’t have something to read, even if I reread a book I owned, because I didn’t have something new to read. But I still bought books on my Kindle sometimes, I just didn’t read them. So there is a young lady on FB that I started following, I think in 2017. I probably found her through a makeup group, she use to go live while she beat her face. She was a whole vibe and I liked her personality, but she was also kind of a ratchet mess, her lives were her way of trying to deal with her Mom’s recent death. At the time, she was a federal employee like I am, and married with 3 children. Since then she has become an entrepreneur with a successful, multimillion dollar business, and has grown SO much that I am proud of her like she’s my younger sister and I’ve never even interacted with her lol. She is still on her personal growth journey, but some of the books she’s shared along the way, that helped her on her journey, I bought. Others I just made a note of. So today, I started reading one of the ones I bought, and I was like nope, not ready for that. Then I chose another one, and so far, I’ve stopped reading several times and just stared into space for a while, thinking about what I’d just read. I’ve had tears running down my face, while thinking about what I’d just read. Because it made so much sense to my current frame of mind and gave me so much to think about. The funny thing is that apparently I’d started reading this book before, my Kindle told me how much progress I’d made with it when I opened the book. But starting where I left off whenever that was, wasn’t making sense to me, so I went back to the beginning. I don’t think I will forget what I’ve read this time. I am reminded of the last time I made some big changes in my life, how I came to believe that “when the student is ready, the Master appears”, and I had started thinking and believing that because of what was happening in my life at the time, a lot of it kind of strange (in a good way, like confirmation that I was on the right path), before I even knew it was a real saying. So now, I am reminded of why I wanted and worked so hard to be the “zen like” person I mentioned yesterday. I WAS that person for a while, but I guess I got off track, by reverting to old behaviors and getting confused again about my responsibilities to myself, and how to handle people that I care about when their wants from me don’t align with my needs for me to be good to myself. I have been simmering for a few years now, trying to keep my cool and just let a lot of things go, but recently, I just got plain old angry, and that hasn’t gone away. I HATE being angry, and actually am afraid of getting very angry, because I fear I will lose control and do something crazy if I get too angry, but that’s another story. I understand that my current anger is telling me some things, and those things are bigger than the things that I have allowed to piss me off so much lately.So today has been a kind of strange day, obviously lol. But I think that maybe today is the beginning of a new journey for me, that is just as important as the last big one I experienced. I have not had a day like this since way back then. The student is finally ready, once again. Y’all know I can’t just tell y’all something without going through the woods and across the river and making it a long story. My bad. [img class="smile" src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/embarrassed.png" alt=" "] this is a lot of why I still needed to sell my last house, even after I threw mooch out. he made that house toxic, and he brought out the worst in me when he lived there. he still pisses me off here and there, but we don't share personal space anymore and I can just walk away. I absolutely understand where your head is, as far as this particular point is concerned. I'm glad you got some peace today in the form of enlightenment. you need the universe to cut you some slack rn, with everything you've been dealing with lately.
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NastyWoman
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Post by NastyWoman on Jul 16, 2023 16:39:53 GMT -5
Today I joined the Mad Dogs and Englishmen society. This is an expression that was used a lot in Singapore and, applied to people who would go in the middle of a hot day. Now I did have a, in my opinion, good reason. I wanted to go swimming but the pool in my complex is small. And with the temperatures in the 90s people bring their kids to play early-ish, leave when it is really hot, and return when it cools down a bit. Now small pool and a bunch of kids means no way for me to swim. So today I got out my SPF50, cover me up, swimwear. Slapped a cap on my head and went swimming in the heat -> and I am now a certified member of the above mentioned society. But it felt good and I did not get a sunburn so there is that.
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Today's Mood: Full of piss and vinegar
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jul 16, 2023 16:46:38 GMT -5
Got home an hour ahead of a severe thunderstorm. At least my timing does not suck. Got the car unloaded and the trash out. Just fixing dinner, now that the worst of it has passed.
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Post by giramomma on Jul 16, 2023 16:54:15 GMT -5
Ok. I have to get back at it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2023 17:04:27 GMT -5
I polished my MIL's engraved sterling silver makeup set. It's remarkable-a lipstick case with built-in mirror, a compact for loose face powder complete with sifter and puff, and a little perfume vial with a miniature funnel to fill it. She got it when they lived in Japan after WWII. You can still smell the perfume in the vial. I made out our menus for the week - it's so darned hot but we have to eat. Tomorrow is a grocery run and more work on the bylaws project. I guess I'll clean the kitchen Tuesday. Thursday is a seniors trip to the National Museum of Funeral History (yes, that's a real museum and really cool too). I'm getting a new "Any Day Above Ground is a Good One" t-shirt and probably some other stuff too, like the sign "T he Only Difference Between a Rut and a Grave is the Depth" I love it. I'd get it too, but I think it would set DH off. He doesn't like it when I mention the cancer could come back and my mortality.
Yeah, DH is sort of that way too. He had cancer back in the early 2000's.
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Post by cooper88 on Jul 16, 2023 17:06:40 GMT -5
I made peanut butter cookies. Then I ate a lot of peanut butter cookies. Life is good sometimes.
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