[waves]

Finally i am "allowed" to post again - i was under a self-imposed restriction this weekend, so i could get that employment application done. i'm rather amazed that i actually managed... NOT to procrastinate, and to act on a priority basis, with nobody but myself to dictate the process! wow!

it took much more work than i had anticipated. after looking over the past letters i had, i saw that i really needed to write a fresh cover letter for this position. it needed a lot of new content to render explicit skills and experiences that either do not belong or are not obvious in the resume. My old letters were pretty much useful only for the letterhead, and closing statement. the resume i also had to work on a bit to add in an older but REQUIRED work experience... which meant rewording and layout changes to get things to fit on one page again, sigh.

BUT I DID IT ALL AND NOW.... IT'S IN!!! Yaaayyyy!!!

Now... the waiting for the phone call... gulp.

I didn't get to do any of the other stuff i had "ideally" considered for the weekend - tidying, and that therapeutic dialogue. i may do the dialogue today but i want to see if i can find some writing samples to toss up on the web (that aren't too personal - therein lies the difficulty!) in case i am asked.

i really hope i get an interview.

Sharla,
it's nice to see you and i'm glad you have stabilized; i recall how you had been through a bad phase. hopefully 100mg of lamictal will do the trick, although many of us do go up to 200. it depends on the individual however. anyway, i have missed your funny posts. that was cool about your meeting that guy in Starbucks, and so cute about you both having ADHD and drinking coffee, LOL! I asked myself if you traded info to keep in touch... or maybe you have left it to fate... perhaps you will bump into each other at Starbucks again.

Bizi,
sorry to have disappeared on you ... i did peek in and saw that the LOST thread was active - i don't get that here. however i could not post or anything. no email, no IM. i really needed to focus on the job stuff...

but I am allowed some time on the forum again now so here i am.

it is wonderful you keep up with your yard so well... it must be lovely! Glad yesterday was warm. It was warmER here as well - but not that warm... i only wish...

So... did you enjoy the movie? I LOL'd at the guys watching the two year old. reminded me of the movie 3 men and a baby.

Mari,
how did you do this weekend? Did you get to the gym? I am so achey and i just know it is because i am out of shape... need exercise badly. Hopefully as spring comes in i will be more up for going for walks. Tramping around on ice with bronchitis/sinusitis-leading-to-the-former coming and going is NOT my idea of a good idea, so to to speak!

Donna,
if you are reading this, or anyone is on your behalf... i have been keeping you in my thoughts and sending you healing wishes hope you are recovering well.

and now............... off to dig for some docs... or maybe do that therapy writeup.

~ waves ~

[bizi]

I have to say.
WAY TO GO WAVES!!!!!!
I am amazed and proud of you for staying on the task at hand and getting that done.
Good for you!
Thank you for keeping us posted.
The movie...he is just not that into you was cute and I laughed so hard in some places, felt great to laugh.
After the movie, my girl friend and I talked for along time...she is having marital problems and were talking about divorce....Marriage is work and they are now in counseling, he is stepping up to the plate, he needs to change...and you know how hard it is to change, she is going to give it a year. I tried to support her as best as I can...offered to babysit to give them a date night.
He works off shore so he is gone alot....I could not live that way.... it is extra hard for them.
anyway.
thanks for asking.
must get ready for work now. Long day ahead, work is good.
beth

[Curious]

Bizi,

Monkey butting in here...

But have your friend rent the movie Fireproof with Kirk Cameron.

I just posted about it on the Social forum's sub forum...book and movies.

Hubby and I watched it last night. What a moving movie. A real eye opener. Over and over we both would look at eachother and nod. Yep, we were guilty of the same things and now could see it throughthe others eyes.

Here is a link more about the resources and what helped the couple in the movie.

http://www.fireproofmymarriage.com/

[Yellowfever]

Originally Posted by waves

Finally i am "allowed" to post again - i was under a self-imposed restriction this weekend, so i could get that employment application done. i'm rather amazed that i actually managed... NOT to procrastinate, and to act on a priority basis, with nobody but myself to dictate the process! wow!

it took much more work than i had anticipated. after looking over the past letters i had, i saw that i really needed to write a fresh cover letter for this position. it needed a lot of new content to render explicit skills and experiences that either do not belong or are not obvious in the resume. My old letters were pretty much useful only for the letterhead, and closing statement. the resume i also had to work on a bit to add in an older but REQUIRED work experience... which meant rewording and layout changes to get things to fit on one page again, sigh.

BUT I DID IT ALL AND NOW.... IT'S IN!!! Yaaayyyy!!!

Now... the waiting for the phone call... gulp.

I didn't get to do any of the other stuff i had "ideally" considered for the weekend - tidying, and that therapeutic dialogue. i may do the dialogue today but i want to see if i can find some writing samples to toss up on the web (that aren't too personal - therein lies the difficulty!) in case i am asked.

i really hope i get an interview.

Sharla,
it's nice to see you and i'm glad you have stabilized; i recall how you had been through a bad phase. hopefully 100mg of lamictal will do the trick, although many of us do go up to 200. it depends on the individual however. anyway, i have missed your funny posts. that was cool about your meeting that guy in Starbucks, and so cute about you both having ADHD and drinking coffee, LOL! I asked myself if you traded info to keep in touch... or maybe you have left it to fate... perhaps you will bump into each other at Starbucks again.

Bizi,
sorry to have disappeared on you ... i did peek in and saw that the LOST thread was active - i don't get that here. however i could not post or anything. no email, no IM. i really needed to focus on the job stuff...

but I am allowed some time on the forum again now so here i am.

it is wonderful you keep up with your yard so well... it must be lovely! Glad yesterday was warm. It was warmER here as well - but not that warm... i only wish...

So... did you enjoy the movie? I LOL'd at the guys watching the two year old. reminded me of the movie 3 men and a baby.

Mari,
how did you do this weekend? Did you get to the gym? I am so achey and i just know it is because i am out of shape... need exercise badly. Hopefully as spring comes in i will be more up for going for walks. Tramping around on ice with bronchitis/sinusitis-leading-to-the-former coming and going is NOT my idea of a good idea, so to to speak!

Donna,
if you are reading this, or anyone is on your behalf... i have been keeping you in my thoughts and sending you healing wishes hope you are recovering well.

and now............... off to dig for some docs... or maybe do that therapy writeup.

~ waves ~

I tried to get his email. But he was really hesitant. I think he was shy perhaps. But anyways so I told him bye and left it up to fate. His college is practically next to mine anyways so we probably will run into each other reguardless!

Hey I hope everyone had a great weekend! It sounds like everyone has watched movies this weekend. I went to see Coraline. It was a bit dark for a childrens movie. I could not believe how scary it was to me for a child's movie. Either that or I am just one big panzie! LOL I do not do scary movies.

hugs for everyone!

I need a coffee

[bizi]

HI sharla,
It does sound like you guys will bump into each other again.
Yes I do believe in fate of sorts.
curious we watched fire proof last week and I recommended it to my girl friend last night.
not very good acting but excellant story.
thanks for mentioning it.
beth

[Mari]

Hello,

Sherla,
That's great that you see yourself getting better. That's amazing actually.

I work with a few people who have Aspergers-type traits. (Yes, that is my official diagnosis and I am sticking to it )
And truthfully, they are the good ones to work with. They are not the ones making life hard for the rest of us. Whoops! Now I am getting side tracked. My point was going to be that I work better if I expect people to each bring different talents and different weaknesses to the work place. Work wouldn't run very well if everyone had the same talents and weaknesses. We'd have to outsource to some other group to cover our deficiencies.

I'm surprised that you people posting here see movies.
I have not gone to a theater in years and years because it was unpleasant / traumatic. At home when I watch I have a tiny tv and I watch in closed captions. I turn down the volume to almost nothing and read the show. The small screen and low volume do not overwhelm me. Even so, if the scene is intense, I cover with my hands or change channels.

As I write this, I remember that my darling hubbyh as not set up the new 23 inch HDTV. I don't get it. (I WANT MY HDTV!) Maybe I'll try to set it up without him. Or stop watching tv altogether.


Beth,
It sounds like you are surrounded by flowers. What is especially cool is that they seem to take turns blooming for you so that some one is always peaking. That's beautiful.
Are you really supposed to paint pesticide on individual blades of grass? Or do you spray and try to catch every blade?
I know nothing about lawns.

If I had one and had it in me I would do something as natural as possible like Xeriscape ( http://landscaping.about.com/cs/chea...eriscaping.htm ). My mother is active in her county Master Gardeners groups. They teach each other about plants. (I guess I don't pay attention when she talks if that is all I remember from myphone calls. ) Anyway, she likes working in the dirt to get things to grow.
She and my dad pulled up the grass in the back yard and planted a good sized vegetable garden. I think that much of the year at least something is growing and ready to be eaten. They live in a similiar climate to you.


Waves,
I know that dealing with papers is a bugaboo for you because I have a reaction that is similar to yours. What you describe is magnified of course because you are looking at a job possibility.
The job you describe sounds interesting and exactly in the area of your talents. I hope that you hear good news from them soon.

Cool about your writing a dialogue to use in therapy.
I'm not sure if it would work for me if it involved extra work beyond having to show up for therapy. But then, anything that enriches therapy would be worthwhile once I got over the resistance to it I suppose.


=-=-=-


I'm low energy tonight.
I stayed up almost all last night putting off something important that I had to do. I got around to it close to sunrise. I knew better because I had to get up and go to work -- and yet I stayed up and paid the consequences by feeling grouchy all day.
I'm really grouchy tonight at the idea of two (2) freaking meetings tomorrow. . . . Two meetings -- neither of which is useful and both of which are two early in the day.
I have to get myself to bed.

My sis had some unpleasant excitement at her h.s. Friday when one of her students told her that he had a gun and was going to use it. She reported, the school went on "lock down," (doors locked, lights out, students sit on floor against the wall in case someone tries to shoot through the door window . . . ) Then the cops came, took her statement, and took the kid off to alternative school (yes, that's its name) for a month-plus. She feels that she, admin, and cops handled the situation right. Some of the other teachers, however, . . . not so nice about it. That's ok. She did her job.
I talked to her again tonight and she sounds ok.

I'm going to bed.
I wish I liked bed.
It's great to talk to you all.
Get well. Feel good.


I think that I am going to take a break from the board.
I'm grouchy right now.
I'll be back in a few days or a week.

Mari

[bizi]

Dear mari,
thank you.
Rest and restore....catch up on your missed sleep somehow.
of course, WE will be here when you feel llike posting again.
(((((HUGS)))))
beth