check in thread for weekend 2-6-09
 

Hello!
What is in store for the weekend?
I am getting my hair colored, long over due tomorrow morning.
Lots of reading to catch up on, our computer is back all fixed up and ready to roll.
It took forever to fix and lots of money too....but we are back.
I could not stay away, I miss you guys.
sorry for the drama.....
beth

Beth!
 

Hi,
It is great to see you.

I'm not sure what I am going to do this weekend.
I am free except for my gym date with my girlfriend on Sun. And of course I have lots of paperwork for work.

Yesterday I called the maintenance people at our apt complex and got them up here to fix the heater.
(We had no heat working last winter either.)
It's fixed and I hope for nice warm days from now on.

M.

lotsa stuff
 

Beth :D

http://dl3.glitter-graphics.net/pub/...odh1gt6qun.jpg

hair coloring... sounds exciting... i keep mine as it is, but i do know how fixing up or changing one's hair is one of those "refreshing things" :) in life.

i'm glad to see you back. no worries for any drama as far as i'm concerned. always some drama going on, besides... lol. what's life without it?

Mari,

COOL (or better yet, WARM!) on getting the maintenance ppl in. i hate doing stuff like that. "other" ppl in house etc etc. glad you will be warmer. i hear it has been colder than usual in FL this year. or perhaps that is simply an impression... every time i talk to ppl back there it seems to be exceptionally cold. here we are in the 40's today - great, relative to how it's been :) still too darn cold for me, and worthy of glove-wearing. i was one of few when i lived in FL that would wear gloves when the temp dropped below 50. not always lined, depending on how cold. but i would wear them.

Here's to an early spring but i hear the groundhog announced it wouldn't be. well... one can hope.

good luck with your paperwork. i know how you must be looking forward to that:o:rolleyes:!

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as for me,

i have my "work" cut out for me this weekend, "literally" (puns intended).

last night, i finished a book i was reading: Riding the Bus with My Sister, by Rachel Wilson. Excellent. Extraordinary and touching tale, and very well written. a tear-jerker in places, but in a good way.

my "work" yes... i found an ad for a content/intranet writer... for a UK company. The role requires writing exclusively in english! :trampoline:

...and the ability to search the web and gather info from foreign (presumably english-speaking) contacts.

although i am excited as i believe i can do this job, i have yet to "move" on it. for once in my life, wouldn't i, couldn't i, pleeeeeease, Not Procrastinate and get the application docs (cv & cover in italian) done asap. priorities considered, perhaps even... :eek: Before Anything Else? Certainly not wait till tomorrow night at 9pm?? I have various CVs and letters to choose from already that, at worst, might require minor changes. so we are not talking writing my whole life story here! just some editing! i want the app to be received first thing monday. time is always of the essence for such things. i "should" (translate into therapeutic wording: "need to") be doing everything in my power to seize the chance at an interview, step one.

ideally i would like to send two parallel docs in english too... to show initiative as well as proof of writing ability, but....... ok this might warrant a thread. but not now. i had told myself, no posting or emailing or IMing, let alone playing games or fiddling with artsy sites, till i'm done preparing at least the 2 necessary docs for the job application. but i snuck in here... and then made exception to welcome Beth back here, and just had to check in, and of course just couldn't keep my mouth shut about this, lol!

i devoured my book on purpose so it would be one less thing on my mind. of course, i could have done the two docs first, couldn't i?:rolleyes: and now here i am. see what i mean? what IS wrong with me???? i want to shake myself harddddd!!!!!

i also plan/hope to tidy a little more of my area, but that won't take long, and i've told myself i can just do a little - i don't need to "finish."

this weekend i would also like to write up a dialogue that frequently invades my head, for use in therapy. writing it would give it structure and allow me to explore all the nooks. the dialogue/debate/struggle is about my inability to make decisions, set goals, turn things in... they are all related. the decisional aspect and perfectionism are at the core, but it's kinda hard to set a goal if one has many "wanna be" goals and can't choose between them.

now dad is home. goodbye privacy. hello feeling "observed." sigh. off i go to try to do the right thing, regardless. will check in later.

~ waves ~ excited worried and confused :rolleyes:

Go waves go!!!!!
You can do this!!!!!:yahoo:

feeling much better after a cut and color and hand massage...it is a school so much more reasonable than a full salon.

read at risk? I am doing well btw :)
 

Hi everyone it has been awhile since I have been on here. I just want to let you all know that I am doing better and better. The Meds are working. I am on 100mg. I feel more balanced as can be. But I have been more of an air head than usual. Is that considered normal for Lamictal? I am also taking an abnormal psychology class. One of my classmates spoke against the ECT. I told her that ECT has saved lives and helped people in many ways. My professor was impressed by my opinion. When certain friend explained to me how it helped it made everything less scary. I learned a lot from this forum and I have benefit from this forum a lot. I have had friends here who educated me and I appreciate it. :)

Yesterday I went to the book store to get a starbucks. This guy open the door for me and my friend. He went in line for coffee as well. He talked to me a lot but very loudly and even invaded my personal space a bit. There were signs I was really familiar with. I was not really alarmed considering the fact that my research project is on Aspergers disorder. He shared with me how he has ADHD. I told him so do I! lol We both laughed because we are drinking coffee and it was funny. The people around me stared at him like he was nuts. I kind of got angry about it. All because someone is different or has a disorder does not give you the right to stare at them like FREAK or WEIRDO. He with out a doubt had aspergers disorder. He is a nice guy and I do not think that people take the time to socialize with him because if how he interacts. I am glad I interacted with him because he was a very funny guy. He told me about some jokes and it was really cool to hear them. He told me what school he went to. He is going for his Degree in political science. That is so cool to me. I hope he enjoys that field.
I get fed up sometimes because of how he and I are societal rejects I am abnormal so people tried not to associate with me. I know for a fact that no one else would talk to him. My friends were really nice to him. My friends accept me for who I am and my condition. What I can not help but to notice is that in California people are more open to talk to those who are different from them versus Michigan where I currently live. People here in Michigan are not that open to much i guess. California was easier to make friends because I guess people were more educated to certain disabilities and mental disorders.

I now know why it took me 2 in a half years to make friends here in Michigan. It is all making more sense now.











alarmed about it because I knew

Well it was kinda quiet in here this weekend, hopefully folks are out having fun. enjoying the weekend as much as physically possible, painfree as possible.
If not then I am sending some warm wishes your way to those unspoken needs...and hugs of course.:hug:
Getting ready to see the movie "he is just not that into you" with a girlfriend of mine.....and her mother in law.
The guys are baby sitting her 2 year old...she is a doll.
worked in the yard...rather used round up on a bunch of weeds that have accululated in the cracks on the drive way and the side walks....sigh
there is so much crab grass in my saint augustine grass, I was supposed to paint it on each blade of grass, I jsut couldn't...don't have the patience for that today. maybe another day.
I know there are places in this country that are dealing with snow and cold weather...probably hard to think about killing weeds for them.
Our azaleas were blooming at the same time as the camilas, the paper whites have come and gone, now the japanese magnolias are blooming as well as the yellow jasmine are stated to bloom as well.
There were a ton of small sunflower plants that had sprouted under the bird feeders...jsut needed to pull them up before the lawn guy comes and mows the grass. Decided to save a few plants as they already seem to have small heads forming....It is crazy in the south. We had some nights in the 20's and even had a few inches of snow which had not happened in 30 years. but It has been lovely today 70 degrees.
WEll I had better grab a sandwich to snack on before the movie.
Hello to whomever follows me this evening.
beth

Hi again
 

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!!! :Dancing-Chilli:

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

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 :o... 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. :D

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. :hug:

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

~ waves ~

I have to say.
WAY TO GO WAVES!!!!!!:yahoo:
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

Bizi,

Monkey butting in here...:p

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/

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 ;)

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

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. :eek: ) 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.


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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. :mad:
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

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