In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
How you doing Brenda? Haven't hear from you in a while. Hope everything is okay.
I'm usually alright in the cold, at least until it dips down into the double digits negative. But it was almost seventy degrees just a short while ago and it was ZERO with the windchill last night at work, and the wind was howling.
So glad to be home now. Especially since I stopped being such a cheap ass and I've got the thermostat at 65. Not exactly toasty on the 1st floor where I sleep at around 60 degrees, but nothing a blanket won't fix. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Hi Jack. I'm doing okay. Just tired and wanting to decorate for Christmas can't really around here. Frustrated too and sometimes just down.
Cold in here now and little to no heat where I am. Hence the frustration.
Also thinking about getting Christmas cards into the mail because Canada Post has decided on rotating strikes a month or more before December, which is probably why the last birthday card I received from the UK was so late in reaching me.
Also Remembrance Day seems to be hitting me a little harder than usual this year. Will be posting my piece on it later.
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And yes sports fans, you read my reply to Jack right.
Canada Post has indeed gone on strike. At least out west anyways.
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I feel ya. Got a bit of the SAD's right now myself. In a few more day's I'll have a long string of days off and I'm not really even looking forward to them. I'm going to have to find some motivation to do something when I'm not working because last time I was off I literally did nothing productive. I'm not giving myself too much crap about that since it's been over a year since I did something like that, but I can't start making that a habit in between work stints.
Hope things start looking up for you. The best thing about winter is that it always ends. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I feel ya. Got a bit of the SAD's right now myself. In a few more day's I'll have a long string of days off and I'm not really even looking forward to them. I'm going to have to find some motivation to do something when I'm not working because last time I was off I literally did nothing productive. I'm not giving myself too much crap about that since it's been over a year since I did something like that, but I can't start making that a habit in between work stints.
Hope things start looking up for you. The best thing about winter is that it always ends. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I can appreciate that Jack. I'm sure you will find something to do.
So do I. And I am trying to keep good thoughts in my head and maybe I will find something to decorate this dump with. Never know.
I am part way through making another handmade scarf for myself. I can't find scarves in stores that I like so I make my own. I knit them and they do come out pretty good if I do say so myself.
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Weather had finally gotten more reasonable here. In the summer, I just kind of estervate. But the heat and humidity has kind of abated, and this past week was sunny, breezy, and cool-to-warm. So I've been spending an hour or two most mornings whipping the landscaping into shape .. digging and raking out the weeds, planting even more plants!, taking out some of the plants that failed or that aren't garden-worthy, raking up all of the leaves and in general tidying up. (Making up for not having done a thing along those lines over the summer). Filled up my two greenwaste bins, again, so no more gardening until the bins are emptied on Monday. I suppose tomorrow will be mail and bills and pre-filling out the paperwork for window permits and in general taking care of the INside of the house for a change!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I feel ya. Got a bit of the SAD's right now myself. In a few more day's I'll have a long string of days off and I'm not really even looking forward to them. I'm going to have to find some motivation to do something when I'm not working because last time I was off I literally did nothing productive. I'm not giving myself too much crap about that since it's been over a year since I did something like that, but I can't start making that a habit in between work stints.
Hope things start looking up for you. The best thing about winter is that it always ends. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I can appreciate that Jack. I'm sure you will find something to do.
So do I. And I am trying to keep good thoughts in my head and maybe I will find something to decorate this dump with. Never know.
I am part way through making another handmade scarf for myself. I can't find scarves in stores that I like so I make my own. I knit them and they do come out pretty good if I do say so myself.
Keep your head up. I know that is much easier said than done sometimes, but I can say from experience now that once I started making a real effort to do that myself that good things started coming my way. Nothing overnight, and nothing mind blowing when you just look at the little things by themselves, but when I look back on the last 1 year, 11 months and 11 days of my sobriety and all the stuff that I've accomplished in that time I'm in a much better situation than I used to be in.
It's always going to be an uphill struggle since my days of making "easy livin" money are over and I'm not getting any younger, but to look at things positively that just means more opportunities to learn new things like all of the stuff I've learned about cars this summer instead of just taking it in to get it fixed or buying a new one.
That's awesome that you can make your own scarves (and I'm assuming other things as well?). I know how good it feels to create something of your own and sit back and say "I did that" when it's done. Maybe there's something else you can find to add to your hobby list in the cold months?
I've got to get back into my big project myself. It's been about a month since I worked on it at all, and even though last week off was my first time where I had absolutely nothing pressing to do I couldn't even find the desire to work on it. I think I've just got to adjust to the cold again. I think maybe I'm just a bit mentally exhausted after the mid-terms too. I spent too much time paying attention to that, and I really don't know why I bothered really.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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So how's everyone doing?
Been sick at this end with a (so far) two-week cold. These respiratory viruses always wind up in my bronchi, which (aside from my sinuses) seem to be my really weak point. So things have been going slower than they should have, here. Plus, dealing with city permits is a thing that bothers me but needs to be done. It's funny, but I used to work in a government agency and yet I hate dealing with regulatory agencies, insurance companies, and other consequential bureaucracies.
I'm definitely feeling my age. Sometimes just standing up is a problem!
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There's rain in the forecast for Wednesday. Promises, promises. How much do you want to bet it evaporates before then?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
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Doing well. Got to hang out with my bro and niece today. We finally got to play with a new toy that I bought a few months ago but haven't had a chance yet. Advertised as "promotes interest in STEM", although I'm sure all the toys say that these days.
Whenever she comes over she likes building "castles" out of a few random coushins that I have, but they were really small and I didn't have a lot of other stuff to build with. I saw this thing online that was kind of like a giant erector set with 40 sticks with 20 balls that can all be connected and you can throw a sheet over it. I wasn't sure what the quality would be like or if it would work like I hoped, so I only bought one at the time. It was great though and we had a lot of fun building it. It would have worked better if she let us build it shorter and wider, but she wanted it tall, and she's the foreman, so I pretty much had to hold it up while she was playing in it. Extra sets aren't super expensive, so I'm planning on ordering a few more maybe for a Christmas present or something. Make something huge and a little more sturdy out of it.
I thought it was pretty funny that the Engrish instructions showed 3 samples that you could build with it, and all of them would require more pieces than came in a single set. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I feel ya. Got a bit of the SAD's right now myself. In a few more day's I'll have a long string of days off and I'm not really even looking forward to them. I'm going to have to find some motivation to do something when I'm not working because last time I was off I literally did nothing productive. I'm not giving myself too much crap about that since it's been over a year since I did something like that, but I can't start making that a habit in between work stints.
Hope things start looking up for you. The best thing about winter is that it always ends. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I can appreciate that Jack. I'm sure you will find something to do.
So do I. And I am trying to keep good thoughts in my head and maybe I will find something to decorate this dump with. Never know.
I am part way through making another handmade scarf for myself. I can't find scarves in stores that I like so I make my own. I knit them and they do come out pretty good if I do say so myself.
Keep your head up. I know that is much easier said than done sometimes, but I can say from experience now that once I started making a real effort to do that myself that good things started coming my way. Nothing overnight, and nothing mind blowing when you just look at the little things by themselves, but when I look back on the last 1 year, 11 months and 11 days of my sobriety and all the stuff that I've accomplished in that time I'm in a much better situation than I used to be in.
It's always going to be an uphill struggle since my days of making "easy livin" money are over and I'm not getting any younger, but to look at things positively that just means more opportunities to learn new things like all of the stuff I've learned about cars this summer instead of just taking it in to get it fixed or buying a new one.
That's awesome that you can make your own scarves (and I'm assuming other things as well?). I know how good it feels to create something of your own and sit back and say "I did that" when it's done. Maybe there's something else you can find to add to your hobby list in the cold months?
I've got to get back into my big project myself. It's been about a month since I worked on it at all, and even though last week off was my first time where I had absolutely nothing pressing to do I couldn't even find the desire to work on it. I think I've just got to adjust to the cold again. I think maybe I'm just a bit mentally exhausted after the mid-terms too. I spent too much time paying attention to that, and I really don't know why I bothered really.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Congratulations on the almost 2years of sobriety.
That is great. I try to look forward to learning new things. Like picking up words in different languages. Lady that I play mah jong with has taught me how to say thank you in Filipino as that is her nationality and duck. I've also learned to say thank you in Korean over the last year or so.
Let's see. Over the years, I have made blankets both knitted and crocheted. Once I made a pair of mittens for my mom.
I am still trying to get back to finding a publisher for my book. I do mean to but I do and then I stop and stall.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So how's everyone doing?
Been sick at this end with a (so far) two-week cold. These respiratory viruses always wind up in my bronchi, which (aside from my sinuses) seem to be my really weak point. So things have been going slower than they should have, here. Plus, dealing with city permits is a thing that bothers me but needs to be done. It's funny, but I used to work in a government agency and yet I hate dealing with regulatory agencies, insurance companies, and other consequential bureaucracies.
I'm definitely feeling my age. Sometimes just standing up is a problem!
*****
There's rain in the forecast for Wednesday. Promises, promises. How much do you want to bet it evaporates before then?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876
*Hugs* Sig on the sickness.
*knock on wood* I'll stay healthy this winter. Though right now I am trying to figure out how to stay warm without my landlady finding out what I am doing.
Weather is still hopping between dry and rain. Suppose to rain later this week.
Hoping to get one Christmas card into the mail this week and the rest by the end of the month. Hopefully that goes smooth with Canada post and striking workers.
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