"Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just NEVER give up." Dean Karnazes

Yes, I think that's the bottom line, really. And to keep trying, even when I am not budging... which does happen. :o Or maybe that "counts" as crawling. :)

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I read this but I'm not sure I understood what you meant? The article warns against this site not paying and also harvesting personal information to sell off to anyone who will pay for it. :eek:

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try to be patient. you are doing better than you give yourself credit
 

Waves,

I used to consider any day successful when I stayed out of a hospital or jail.
(I probably pzzed off a cop or two, other wise I would not have this in my repertoire.)

You are taking care of yourself and helping your parents and often that is enough.

Something will shift in you or the universe or your circumstances and things will change for the better.

I pray. Sometimes for some specific things. Sometimes For other people. I remember reading Job -- can't tell you why that one comes to me. Others might be better. I like the last part of Job.
Near the end, Job asks God for an explanation for his suffering. God, being an all testament God, answers indirectly and with poetry (in the King James Version) ----- "where were you when I made the heavens and the earth?"
Anyway, I find it comforting that God is all powerful.


Or if not that, do you have any books that you have read in the past and that work for you? I read Jane Austin whenever I cannot handle doing anything else. I practically have the first 10 pages of Pride and Prejudice memorized because I apparently always start at the beginning of the book instead of wherever I left off last.


Here is some Dan Bau Music (The Dan Bau is a one string guitar.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSZLlD8TrIc

or this one

PEACE MANTRA : OM SHANTI OM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?https:...?v=MOlZlXn0KT8

M

i thought somebody posted that as a suggestion but can't find the post now..
love
bobby

ROFL at the idea of you knowing the first 10 pages of Pride and Prejudice by heart. :D

And yes, there is a book. Or set of books. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all five books in the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy). I am actually not sure of having read the 5th book. Also I am missing one of the first three. I would routinely give my volumes away to anyone who hadn't read them, and I forgot to replace this one before I left.

Might also be cool to re-read some Vonnegut. If I didn't give that away, sigh.

Same problem in both cases. All my books are in sealed boxes in piles in the garage. :( Along with the rest of my life. They, like me, have been "on ice" for the past 15 years, except for a short parenthesis when I lived on my own and unpacked everything. It isn't just a matter of unpacking now. We really haven't the room for me to unpack my life into the apartment.

I will think about strategies to "fish out" one or two books. We do need to move things about in the garage as we will have to hire some loaders to haul away some things too large for the trash can. (dead fans, computers, etc). Or not. I have so much stuff lying around, I'm not sure adding to it is a good idea. I need to declutter. :o And perhaps find some things I can throw out.

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Today I was supposed to (in order of priority):

1. call to book ENT (overdue, urgent, important)

2. do at least one thing towards employment. (overdue, urgent, important)
No shortage of small, discrete activities to choose from, such as, download software, install software, look at a job ad, send a resume, call a contact. Many of those tasks can be broken into smaller tasks... eg, find the web page for software download.

3. shower (overdue, important)

4. go to the pharmacy for allergy meds and migraine meds (will be urgent soon)

5. make dinner (necessary)

6. declutter a little

7. wash underwear


I did #3, #5, #7.

I did not call for an ENT appointment which I keep putting off for no good reason. I did not do any sort of job-related anything.
:Sigh:

I have to check in with my friend on my job-search status tomorrow. I set this up with my friend to help me stay on task. Sometimes, but not always, the desire to report somethign positive will spur me to do something at the last minute (tomorrow, 10 minutes before our chat time :rolleyes:).

I am not out of meds so np about the pharmacy. Also, though, I could have survived without doing the handwash for another day or five.

The shower was good (and felt good, and still feels good). I like cooking. If I can find an excuse to cook something, I do. Thank goodness at least this particular time-waster produces results that are valuable to others.

I did not even do stupid stuff today. I literally sat and did nothing :eek: besides drinking coffee and staring out the window at the sky, until I was ready to go take a shower. After that, dinner, dishes, and watched tv. Did the handwash kind of in the background between shower, ccooking and tv time.)

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I don't understand how a human being who isn't, like, laid up in bed with 106 fever or something, can manage to do so little in a day. I mean, who sits and does nothing for like an hour? Most people would get bored -- not me. :o
:confused:

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I posted a link to a site that paid for you to take surveys and she posted this scam so I deleted the link sorry I should have told you what I was doing.
bizi

I think that you did 3 great things today. SHOWERING IS HUGE!
pat yourself on your back, I have to get up early tomorrow and make myself take one.
I have been drinking again too much and it is interfering with my sleep.
good luck with crossing some more things off your list.
((((HUGS)))
bizi