In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Just posting some daily things - I'm slowly, very slowly, chipping away dealing with the 'stuff'. But it seems like everything ends up taking at least an unanticipated extra step or two. For example, I live in an extremely dusty neighborhood and dust and junk ends up getting tracked all over the house. I'm helping mitigate the problem by putting entryway-mats in the doorway of every room (so all I have to clean off frequently is the mat, instead of he entire floor), starting with the office I'm working on cleaning out and setting up. But as I unrolled the mat I bought at Lowe's, the chemical fumes coming off of it were unbelievable. So I'm having to air it out at least overnight before I put it down. Or, in the office I wanted to reinstall an air cleaner to help keep dust out of the computer. But I had to get a power strip first because I need to plug multiple things into that outlet. And so on. Now, each one of these is no big deal. But it's an extra circle to run in which takes extra time, and when you have them at every step, it becomes kind of irritating.
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Man, I am beat. This week- four doctor appointments. Three for family and one for me. This is the second round of antibiotics for me, the first was too short to kill all the little buggers. Previous week, no doctors appointments, but week before that three more.
I keep trying to push ahead but between being sick and running people back and forth to the doctor's plus all of the "chores" that keep piling up ... Painting has been stalled out at "just" the window and doorframes and some wall touch-up to go for about a week. Today - no doctor's appointments - I hope to finish the painting. Also help drag more crap down from the garage rafters. But right now I'm just taking it easy and working my way thru FFF.net.
SIX, BRENDA and KIKI ... keep on keeping on!
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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
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Quote:SIX, just some random questions: Do you feel best when you have a goal to work towards or a project to work on?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good first night back at work. I'm going to miss hearing how much people missed me while I was gone. Guess I'm going to have to get another job real quick so I don't go too long without hearing it.
All I have to say is that I feel really sorry for everybody who NEEDS the job and has to stay with all the changes being made. At least half of them don't even need to stay there and would probably make more money jumping ship and finding employment somewhere else, but like one guy I talked to tonight said "it's the devil you know".
I've seen this twice before at much better jobs. It's really sad that in 2019 shitty wage retail jobs are being six sigma'd to the point that they're going to treat everybody like robots too.
Oh well. Not going to worry about it. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
If so, what is the length/scope that you feel best with? One month? Six months? (In another words, when does it go from being exciting to being tedious?)
Do you feel best working by yourself, or with others? Or does it not matter as long as you see progress?
The reason why I'm wondering is because you have labelled yourself OCD more than once, and you also seem to be worried about getting stuck in a rut. Maybe the answer to both is to be enaged in projects which you can complete in a month (or two) and then move on o a different project. That way you can accomplish things without getting stuck.
I'm just being nosy, so feel free to tell me to buzz off.
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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
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SIG,
Hope you and your family feel better soon.
I got more stuff to do over this weekend along with chores too like laundry.
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Quote:You too Signy ... keep on keeping on! ... but don't forget to give yourself a break.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Man, I am beat. This week- four doctor appointments. Two for dear daughter and one for me and one for hubby - we are sick with the same thing and both got azithromycin. This is the second round of antibiotics for me, the first was too short to kill all the little buggers. Previous week, no doctors appointments, but week before that three more. (Two for dear daughter and one for me.)
I keep trying to push ahead but between being sick and running people back and forth to the doctor's plus all of the "chores" that keep piling up ... Painting has been stalled out at "just" the window and doorframes and some wall touch-up to go for about a week. Today - no doctor's appointments - I hope to finish the painting. Also help hubby drag more crap down from the garage rafters. But right now I'm just taking it easy and working my way thru FFF.net.
SIX, BRENDA and KIKI ... keep on keeping on!
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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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Quote:No, my login problems are not resolved.
Originally posted by 1kiki:
Signy
OK about the root barrier. I'll continue to keep it till I need it!
"I don't know about you guys, but I kind of informally divide my work between daily/weekly chores and "projects"."
My divisions are similar: things that I call 'tasks' that are repeating daily / weekly actions one can easily complete in a day, and 'projects' that are rare or one-time multi-day (-week, or -month!) actions. It helps me with organizing my time. I usually bundle my 'tasks' into one or two days if I can (given the state of my energy level), which gives me larger chunks of time to plan projects around. But with you daily helping DD with medical care, and also cooking, and walking the dog I can see your time organization around chores is very different from mine!
What are your energy levels issues? Breathing labored? Just feel pooped? Ailments?
Have you tried Boost? Do you practice Breathing Workouts (for endurance/stamina, lung capacity)?
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DANG about the login issues! That's too bad. :( I thought that since you could log in from a generic library computer you could log in from anywhere.
Just very, very low in physical energy. Not sleepy, not depressed. I have all sorts of interests and mental energy, I just don't have the steam for anything physical. Thanks for asking.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX, just some random questions: Do you feel best when you have a goal to work towards or a project to work on?
Absolutely.
When I look back on those lost years drinking, not only didn't I get anything but the absolute bare necessities done, but I didn't achieve a single goal, and I didn't accomplish anything. It was literally 3 years of Groundhog Day.
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If so, what is the length/scope that you feel best with? One month? Six months? (In another words, when does it go from being exciting to being tedious?)
I never really thought about that much. I think it depends on the type of work it is. The "project" I've talked about here vaguely from time to time is something that I worked on for many years in the mid 2000's. It's also the crutch I used to pull myself out of my drinking to fill up the time and at least feel like I was accomplishing something. If I could ever find a way to monetize it, or if I didn't have any financial responsibility at all, I could probably work on that every day for the rest of my life knowing that I'd probably die before I ever finished it.
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Do you feel best working by yourself, or with others? Or does it not matter as long as you see progress?
That depends on the work too. At my job job, I prefer to work alone. Working with people face to face is more of a distraction than anything else. I'm usually in my own head space at work... it's kind of a flow of consciousness from mapping out my work for the night, adjusting for new things that pop up along the way, to hearing lyrics of songs I like or what I'm going to do when I get home. It's not that I don't like talking to people... I have plenty to say on break. But I get annoyed when people try talking to me when I'm working unless they're one of the few that I'm fond of.
But working on the project I often got a lot of help from other people, some of them halfway across the world. Rather than learning how to do complex coding or graphic art skills, it was always much easier to enlist the help of others who had the know how already. The fact that it was online interactions that were usually forum based like here probably made that much easier for me to do. We could always reply to each other when we had the time and were in the right frame of mind to do it. Instant messaging was extremely annoying when I tried it for a brief stint.
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The reason why I'm wondering is because you have labelled yourself OCD more than once, and you also seem to be worried about getting stuck in a rut. Maybe the answer to both is to be enaged in projects which you can complete in a month (or two) and then move on o a different project. That way you can accomplish things without getting stuck.
Yeah. I say I'm OCD all the time. I don't know if I really should say that though. I definitely have something eccentric going on in this head of mine, but my half-brother is like full fledged OCD and had had times where he did weird shit like taking 10 showers a day and freaking out that he got lead poisoning anytime he touched something that was metal. I've got compulsive behaviors for sure, but I've never had to circle my block 10 times to make sure I didn't run somebody over or something extremely weird. Nobody would ever know I have problems from the outside. At least up until this point my coping mechanisms cover well for me, except of course for the compulsive drinking I was doing...
I had to let people I interact with on my project know that I'm taking a hiatus for an indefinite amount of time and I hope they're still around whenever I get back to it. No time for that in my life right now.
For now, I have to look at this house as my entire project, and to find a way to make some acceptable level of cash to pay the bills in the mean time. I will have to break things up into more digestible goals on my to-do list so it's not so ove
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Oh... and BTW, the job is officially over late this month. I've already accepted that in my head for a month or so now, so I actually had a little fun with the Six Sigma prick they've got running the store the last few days.
I avoided any eye contact with him and completely ignored his presence when he strolled in a half hour late yesterday. Instead of finally introducing himself to me and asking if I was on still on the clock to have a meeting, he had somebody else ask me while he was standing 20 feet away. I said "nope!" and grabbed a cart to do my shopping.
I had heard that all the other meetings he had, he would come in and do the entire walk through the store to point out everything my manager and our crew did wrong for the night and then he'd have his meetings. He told my manager he was coming in early for our meeting this morning. I wasn't going to hold my breath...
Lo and behold, I got a page from my manger to the office at 5 after 6:00. This was it. 
I came into the office and he was standing there. He said "jack" and extended his hand. I shook it and said "and you are?" lol. I'm sure that had to piss him off.
He asked me if my manager had told me what the schedule was going to be going forward. I said "I've heard your terms, and I reject them".
He then started telling me about the severance process and I cut him off and said "I don't give a shit about that. I get it when I get it.".
Then I said "I've been through all of this Six Sigma bullshit at jobs making a lot more money than this before. It's unfortunate for you that you reject my terms because you're going to be losing the hardest working employee in your store".
He said "It's not my terms. It's corporate".
I said "It's all the same thing, isn't it? I'll tell you what... If corporate ever lets you off your leash and circumstances change, you've got my number and you can call me."
To which he replied "I appreciate that."
I then said, "In the mean time, I trust that corporate isn't going to fight me on unemployment?"
And he said "[The Company] never fights unemployment claims."
"Well alright then. I think we're done here", I said.
I then wished him and my manager luck and told them that I didn't envy the cluster fuck that was ahead of them.
I've never been so happy after losing a job before. I f'king love the freedom owning a house and not having outside obligations brings.
You have no idea how satisfying that meeting went.
There was that little bit of rage I had to push down into my gut through the whole thing though, although I maintained my cool and my grace through it. All the while that was going on I had to keep reminding myself this was just a human being being told by his own corporate masters what he had to do...
...because punching him in the face would have even been twice as satisfying.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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LOL! I hear ya Jack about wanting to punch someone in the face.
I felt like that yesterday at work after my boss said something stupid. The comment was that 2 recipes should have gone together as one. Well that wasn't what she had written down then she got a little upset. My fist started to curl but I didn't say anything because she wouldn't have listened.
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