I haven't read this post yet, but I will in a moment. Maury my son is very excited that his father wrote in his first blog and he's excited because he thinks so highly of his father's work. I'm betting that I will like this entry after reading it ... and I will go on to that next, but Maury asked that I post it in my blog in case anyone would like to read it, and I said I didn't have many readers, but I would do this for him. I also posted in onto my Barack Obama blog and I think I did it right so that it shows up in my group at the Obama blog. I have 11 supporters on that blog and 4 groups I belong to. I don't know how many would read it, but if there's that chance of only one, I'd like to take it and hope for the old Maury the best. I am excited that he's writing again. Maybe he's doing other work, but you know how much we think of Barack - so this has to be a good thing.
Please read either from this link or from pressing the title link - thanks!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/mauricegarvey/gGxB2v
Just getting in a few work thoughts - home computer is down
Good morning. This is me. It’s Monday morning at 9:45 am and I’m at work. We just got done checking through the mail and we did our hour with Group 1. I also stopped to talk to Sr. Theresa for a few moments and we went over a few things. We need to be doing some check up on something called circuit breaker for free transportation for people with disabilities. We also had to let her know that we had two doctor appointments coming up next week. One of them is Tuesday afternoon with our regular doctor, Dr. Albright and the other is to get a mammogram and ultrasound. There was a problem nodule that needs to be checked on now 6 months down the line. Ack!
Sr. Theresa looks very relaxed coming back into her work. When I found her she was shifting around crackers from box to box. She said they learned from St. Paul and the Priest was a musician so that was incorporated into the services. She said that Pennsylvania is beautiful at this time of the year. Good for her. She was also prompt in saying not for me to leave CARF to the last moment. I tried to buy out with work on annuals, but she thought I still have time and should be doing both books at once. That’s my general memory of it too, but you can see how I’m using these moments here with the blog.
Mostly, we like to avoid, but also my home computer went down yesterday afternoon.
That is a big problem. I fell into disrepair. I went from one kids show to another trying to remain somewhat grounded although I can’t say by too much. Rich had left about 10 am to meet his son so they could watch the White Sox. Then they went out and Rich drove his son home. He got back about 8-8:30 pm. We were pretty much weirded out. Not real noticeably except when the movies switched from a calm one on dolphins to another where the little boy got lost in the middle of a stampede of people during the war.
I just remember Rich coming out and scolding us … he turned off the tv and told us we could come in with him and watch football, but then not too late we got better and suggested we watch football out in the living room, but then we fell asleep. Part of it was that we’d forgotten to take our medicine. I should know better than that, but we’d not really moved much from one movie to another. We were ok by the time he took our glasses and tucked us in.
Rich called this morning, because he was going to have a very big meeting with his boss. He asked before the weekend to his boss if he should get his resume in order.
That’s about the status of JVS. As it turns out, JVS is going to close down the Bloomberg Center. That’s the workshop I met Rich at and the center that I learned how to use the computers. That’s where we fell in love. I felt bad that it wasn’t going to be there, happy that Rich still had a job, but not so happy for Sean … Sean is going to lose his job after about 25-30 years with the company. That tells you what an idiotic company it is … Stupid ass thing to put in your whole life and 3-4 years before retirement they lay you off. Sean has been with JVS about 5 years longer than Rich. It’s a bad thing for him.
Rich is already working at getting Sean in at another company he works at. It would be for like 25% less pay. I think that Sean should do better than that … he’s a professional, but Rich says anything is better than nothing. I think it’s a real shame. Sean has a lot of experience working with people. We liked him a lot.
Rich says that in about a year, they probably will close down the other two shops too. They are working on just mental health issues and not rehabilitation. Rich says that 45% of the work he does is for JVS and he’s worked hard over the last few years to diversify himself. He says he’s got 6 months to move things around. I think that if they let go of this facility and people that quickly with maybe a couple weeks severance pay – which they are going to have no bones about letting him go either. Everything is in jeopardy, but Rich is calm. He says he just needs some time to work things around and being able to keep his customers happy at other facilities. He says its going to be an intense 6 months.
Rich is I think 56 or 57. That means he has at least about 8 years left, although he may have looked toward retiring a couple years before that. The trip up north with him Sunday didn’t turn out very well. He wasn’t in the mood for talking and he wouldn’t tell me where we were going or what our objective was, even if it was to say drive for two hours, have lunch and come back. We both got frustrated with each other and then later he told me about this meeting he was going to have this morning.
He was tied to secrecy because most won’t hear about it until Friday or next Monday.
We went out to eat after we got back – we had Italian linguini and meatballs, but we were pretty out of it by then. We were tired and defensive – younger parts. We did somehow manage to come back to our older selves in that someone went to bed with Rich that night. And, I guess I can say that literally too, because we forgot to wake up later to go to our own place. But, Rich had been ancy and ended up sleeping on the couch. My poor baby. He also said something about his wife emailing him at midnight to suggest that Rich shouldn’t have his son on Sunday, because I think it’s today that is their anniversary. I guess that’s her way of saying she’s going to have big problems and needing to put it down on the son. Felt bad for him and them, but it didn’t have anything to do with me. I’m not the one married/divorcing.
Rich seemed to have a better time later after things were settled. We helped him with a couple of loads of clothes before he left and then another one after he’d gotten home last night. He’s a hard worker. I think he’s going fishing this weekend – leaving on Thursday and then he’s going to have to cancel the following weekend he’d been planning to spend with his daughter. He will ask her to move the time up another month. Rich says that he’s got to be around as some of these changes at JVS are happening. I felt bad because I know how much he’s looking forward to seeing his daughter.
The situation didn’t come up about money in particular … we figured that from what he was saying that we were going to have to work it out on our own to be paying Thom’s fare. He’s going to be giving me the money for his part of the rent – and instead of school loan which is being deferred a month – we will give Thom $300. And, we will make sure the payment goes through for his Best buy. I looked again this morning and it didn’t go through, so I’m thinking that it didn’t get approved.
We should get paid today or tomorrow, but that money is going for rent and car payment. No way to avoid that. We’re going to have to skimp to get gas payments and money for parking. Rich said that if I ordered my medicine this morning, which I did … he would help me with my medicine. He says that I will have to pay short one of my other payments, so in that respect I might be late with the car payment. I’m not so close to those people. Rich will just give me that much less payment – than he has to make picking up my medicine today. It’s going to be a pretty skimpy month. Just have to be careful with Rich … we don’t want him overwhelmed with us with all whatever going on in his career.
I’m going to try working this morning a bit on CARF … I would like to make it a goal to have something to hand in to sister at the end of the week. I hear the clients in the background … they must be having a very good time at break. Maybe we should stop and have the cottage cheese first before we move on. I don’t however think there’s too much more to write about yesterday. It really was quite blah.
We’re getting out the Paper Tiger now. Hmm, came up pretty fast. We’re going to need getting out the 2008-2009 Survey. I think we left the other records in order.
It just looks like we’re about 5 complete. Maybe we should pull those out to figure out the style we were using.
Ok, we’re stepping out in the right fashion. We’ve gone over what we had worked on and now we’re going over the next question which is How would surveyors see
demonstration of leadership guiding financial solvency?
Survey Resources: St. Rose Center can demonstrate leadership guiding financial solvency through: 1) the James Shaver CARF Survey Report where he states that St. Rose Center enjoys a positive financial status, met fiscal challenges, and has appropriate support and by his stating that St. Rose Center complies with all legal and regulatory requirements, financial-budget(s) that are prepared, shared, and reflective of strategic planning, actual financial results reported and compared to budgeted performance and organizational review as well as the center having sound fiscal policies and procedures (doc353), 2) the Policy and Procedure of the Leadership Guide which amongst other corporate ideals notes that St. Rose Center remains financially solvent (Thin Book- doc339), 3) By the collection of information that can be reproduced, able to measure what it is intended to measure, complete and accurate such as its financial planning records and DMHDD Compliance records (Information Mgt and Performance Improvement 1.3.11.a, b, c & d), 4) the William Adam CARF Survey Report where he states that St. Rose Center has as strengths - diligence, oversight, responsibility and financially stability (doc146), and 5) responding to information from persons served from the performance improvement reports that include outcomes for financial efficiency (doc196).
Survey Resources: St. Rose Center demonstrates leadership guiding compliancy with insurance and risk management requirements by: 1) maintaining a leadership guide policy and procedure where it lists insurance and risk management requirements along with corporate responsibilities and compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements (Thin 13 – doc339), 2) notation in the William Adam CARF survey report stating our insurance orientation and comprehensive insurance coverage and ability to secure assets (doc146), 3) notation in the James Shaver Adam CARF Survey Report stating we have written risk managements plan and adequate insurance coverage (doc253), 4) notation in the Nancy Flax CARF Survey Report stating that we’ve worked through potential risks (doc148), and 5) SWOT Analysis listing as important – liability coverage and coverage of insurance costs (doc206), 6) Policy on workplace wrongdoing – no tolerance listing insurance claim health care benefits and workers compensation benefits program (doc246), 7) a notation in our technology and system plan that our insurance company completing a frequent risk management survey (2005-2006 Survey – 1.C.8.a.4.06, -AA -), 8) written policies and procedures to request reports from Motor Vehicle for the purpose of insurance, 9) policies and procedures concerning environmental management that list needs such as having an insurance identification card and information regarding coverage, procedure, vehicle safety and inspections (Information Management and Performance Improvement – 1.3.12.2.1-8), policy on vehicular accidents requiring that insurance information be obtained from the other driver in an accident (doc96), 9) policies and procedures for reporting investigations and corrective actions when state insurance carriers be notified (doc97), 10) the Board Approval of “CARF checklist documents that ensures proper insurance coverage (doc210), through dialogue with our Risk Management Insurance attorney for gaining procedures on subpoena, search warrants, investigations, or other legal actions, 11) complying with Christian Brothers Risk management services checklist as a part of the accessibility outline (Information Management and Performance Improvement – 1.13.12.5), 12) as noted in our risk management services summary of coverage (Information Management and Performance Improvement 1.3.12.b.6), and in our Business Improvement Report under risk analysis reports (same report – 1.3.12.b.6. 1-9), and finally by sets of reports on risk management under risk severity matrix, risk management, assessment findings and plan and risk reduction in performance improvement activities (doc300-307).
Saturday and Sunday morning
Good morning … this is me. We’re just starting out with the writing and it’s about 10 to 9 am. It’s taken us a while to get started. We got up this morning about 7:15 am. Both Rich and us got up at the same time … maybe because it was time for him to get up. He had to get going because he needed to leave about 8:15 am to go to his football game. I think he’s going to be home about 11 am – so, this only gives us now a couple of hours to write. The plan for the day is to take a ride in the car … and I think we’re going toward the north to check out a couple of boat places. I don’t think Rich jumps into anything, but it’s a good sign that he’s looking ahead.
We’ve got CNN in on the background and I’m not sure if we shouldn’t turn that off because it is distracting to us. Hmm, ok, let’s make an executive decision. We DO want to get on with our writing. Ok, let’s turn it off then … Maybe turn on some music instead, k?
Ok, that’s done … listening now to Rhapsody … soft stuff from the likes of Norah Jones. Ok, breath. We can get through this, right. We need to calm down and start thinking instead of responding to the environmental cues. We can do this … shhh let’s just calm down … Let’s see if we can get a coherent thought. Where are we?
What do we want to think about?
Let’s see … how about where are we at this very moment. We’ve alluded to being a little spacey, right? Just got too much going on in our mind.
When we woke up … we sat with our friend for a bit and rubbed his back while we were both watching a fishing show. It was entertaining … the fisherguy was pretty cool and enthusiastic about life. It was an intuit from northern Canada. He was a little nutty which made him fun to listen too. Plus, we got to smoozle with our bunny, which is always a good start of the day. After we zoomed through that show, we followed him into the bedroom and watched him get dressed. He had to go soon after that and we said good-bye bravely knowing that he was going to be home and spending time with us in not too long a time. We’re really looking forward to being with him in the car where our thoughts with his will drift along and go in and out of things that have been forgotten due to our time constraints of seeing each other only after long days when we are both tired.
I so adore him … it’s just incredible.
I think we’re going to not be able to go to the gym today … unless something were to happen and our bunny friend would get tied up. It would have to be though before 7 pm when the gym closes. We didn’t get to the gym over the last couple of days … yesterday being the day that we were with Dr. Marvin. Hmm, Rich said that we have to get the dishwasher started … forgot about that. Maybe we’ll take a second and get that in order. I want to do our part too. Hold on.
Good good … got the dishwasher started and remembering to sync up and charge the devises. Pswhoo - So much to remember in this day and age of electronics.
Waiting now for iTunes to load. Ok, we’re going to slow down here any moment now, right? The air is off so that warmer air is making us a little goofy. We’re going to be ok … shhh..
Ok, let’s get back to where we were before. Hmm, wondering though if we shouldn’t take our shower first so that we’ll be ready for wonderbear.
Hmm, going through something on the iTunes screen about Turning on something called Genius … it has to do something about recommending music based on my interests I believe. That’s ok. Hmm, not sure what’s going on with the sync. There should be some way of getting two things to sync without losing data from the last sync, but for now it’s best I have this one because of the music. I for sure want that from this computer. It’s got our Coldplay, Norah Jones Corrine Bailey Rae and all. If we’re going to be on a trip and have quiet time … we’ll want this stuff. The ideal would be to retain the audiobook I last loaded from the work computer, but even if we don’t get that … we’ll be better set with the stuff from this computer. Just be patient and all will come into form, right?
Ok, did we cover this morning with sweetie? There is one thing that has stayed with me from him being here. He said off the cuff something about that being what made me so lovable – he referred to my floating into his space volunteerily to make sure his back got rubbed. We were taken by the sentimentallness of the statement. Any good reason to love us is a good idea hehehe. That’s it just wanted to say that.
He’s so cool.
As to yesterday … we spent more time doing stuff we shouldn’t been worrying about, got kinda caught up in the news of the day and got through our few tasks, but disregarded following the schedule we’d set. In particular – we’re avoiding doing client goals, annuals and Qnotes. That’s going to catch up with us if we don’t get a handle on it. It should be ok after we get started, but doing that seems to be a real bear. Just don’t have the will to carry through. Not sure how to get past that. It seems that anything to do is better than getting stuff done.
We did have a Dr. Marvin time last night, but we stayed in the role mostly of younger parts. He got attached to the part that has so much trouble coming into his office. And, then it seemed to trigger going to our doctor’s office as a small child. There was stuff happening that we couldn’t tell him from that space.
Briefly now it had to do with underwear and all that might go with that to our particular nightmares. We aren’t going into it now here either … just wanted to leave a marker. We couldn’t talk to him and really froze up bad. We could hear his voice and I think we were understanding his words spoken, but we couldn’t get a grasp of our voice because it was buried below a certain level of guilt and shame.
I remember that he was leaving the space open that we might talk about it later … .reminding us that it was a safe place to talk. To the part that was out … there was no nudging. And, it seemed that she was going through pain or fear or whatever that she’d gone through a long time ago.
When this kind of stuff happens it seems very surreal. I don’t know how to explain it past that … it’s just that we’re feeling old familiar feelings we’ve been out of touch with. We feel as if we’re hearing a voice giving us soft confidences, but we’re so far from being able to speak it’s incredible as if we’ve never done it before. I can hear Dr. Marvin and his soft sighs in the background. I know he doesn’t like it when he’s not able to help, but the part is just so gosh darn lost.
I don’t know if this is the kind of stuff that always happens to people who are going through therapy. I can hear Rich … and we did last night. We told him about the part and we told him the part that we were trying to avoid. He was like – just do this and fix it. But, he doesn’t seem to be in-tune with those parts that are finding anything past breathing shallowly as too much. Somewhere toward the end we said something to Dr. Marvin about Rich knowing something about what we were hiding. He said something about having said something to him, but we said truthfully, that it was something he found out. But, Rich hasn’t got the richer story of what’s happening behind or beyond the piece that’s common knowledge for him. We were seeing glimpses of all that last night and the dread in thinking of it was too profound to delve into. And, then we remember that we were asking Dr. Marvin for the time. Apparently, we had only 10 minutes left and we both seemed to know that wasn’t enough … but Dr. Marvin being himself … left inroads and open doors for something to happen later. We felt sad that we couldn’t tell him … not because of the time, but because it had seemed so horrible to us. Especially on an emotional end – not necessarily a thinking through of it past the short images we were being flashed, especially in the Dr.’s office.
I think in general it has to do with our uncomfortableness of being exposed … especially to the doctor/nurses and or our mother being there. But, we are already going further into it now than we want considering we don’t have an entire day to process things. Maybe something will come up with Rich later down the line and we’ll be able to work a little more of it through with the talking. We want to make sure that we have time to listen to Rich though too.
We had a very bad nightmare last night that involved being tortured inside and out.
I am fighting not to regain all those thoughts. Quickly things insert into our brain that we don’t want and again like so many other things we work hard to avoid.
Too much, too much! Then we remember what Dr. Marvin said before about us not going into a lot of this before because we were so overwhelmed by it. We really want to get past all that … just we have to have safe places for our feelings to go so they don’t take us down with the ship. What’s inside of us is a very incredible wake of feelings of Tsunami strength. Just it’s all hard.
I think we need to leave that space for a bit … glad to have captured something … thinking now that the avoidance at work is an avoidance of a lot of things and maybe after we get past some of the hard stuff we’ll stop avoiding in the general run of things. Maybe we should ask Dr. Marvin about that. There was some other stuff too toward the end, but mostly a part of getting some other kind of doctoring work done. We need to see the mammogram people because it was set up from some other caution to be tested in 6 months again due to a question on the last reading. We talked to Dr. Allbright’s office about getting that paperwork in to make the appointment. Their office forwarded it to Dr. Marvin’s so that I have the order I now need to make the appointment. In the process we made an appointment at Dr. Allbright’s too, because it’s been 6-7 months minimum since we’ve been in. Figured we were about due. Never went back for the last “month-level” surgeons’ appointment … felt like we were getting in over our head at the time and we were fine in general … no complications from surgery.
I think we’re also going to need facing trips in to the dentist soon before the year is up to take advantage of our dental insurance of $1500 to be used in 2008. I don’t think we are going to have to need extensive work, but we’re afraid the repercussions of leaving our device in our mouth so long without taking it out to be cleaned daily. It’s just our habit and routine, but I don’t look forward to being yelled at for it and I don’t want to get into more dentist bills we have to struggle to pay. We had too bad an experience with the last time. Stupid doctors charging us for nothing just because we were late in paying the bills. That happened at the time we made our last payment – they stuck $200 more on the account. Idiots.
That’s our favorite word of late for people who do dumb things that come out as negatives in our life.
But, then we look ahead of our screen to a picture of Isa holding her chin in her hands … and we’re pretty much amazed at how simple and content she looks with life.
God bless her for being so wonderful. Just love her to pieces.
Ok, now it’s an hour before … we better think of getting ready to go out with Rich … better get that shower in and get dressed. BRB.
Hmm. That’s better … it’s about 10:10 am now. We’re showered, dressed, and we’ve picked up the living room. Ready for smooch pie to get home. I doubt he’s going to be in on time within about 45 minutes, but we’re ready nonetheless. Good girls!
I hope that his car is clean enough so that we can drive it today … It will be nice and comfortable and air conditioned with cool slippery seats. Hehehe yup yup … the little things in life count.
Just wanted to add one more note about yesterday before we go on. The Thinking Group turned out pretty good. We had been into news for the day, so we collected about 18-20 pictures of stuff going on and we went through it to find out what they knew or could be taught. One thing for sure … they sure are Obama voters! Good for them. I tried to convince them to listen to the debate, at least give up the TV so someone in their family could be watching, but I don’t know how good I was at doing that. They seemed to stay interested in the news stories. We went through them for about 40 minutes. We were up and walking around so we could show all the tables the pictures that we had collected. There were two occasions when two people who I don’t consider right on top of things – new the answers to something going on in the news … and for that we gave them a round of applause. I was pretty proud when they knew people that were difficult to know.
That’s pretty much all I want to say on that topic. I felt glad to be doing the meeting and happy that I had so much energy to be up and around them. Toward the very end someone from CSO came by while we were going through a quieter period of looking for news at the center. But, that seemed to be a good place to let things go. Everyone helped with the chairs, and then they found themselves out by the doors getting ready to leave.
Holly called about 3:30 pm to tell me she was leaving and I was alone in the building. I guess sister Florine had gone out. I spent another 10 minutes finalizing things. I had been listening to Pelosi and someone else in the Senate giving the economic news of the day. I finished with just enough time to get to Dr. Marvin’s. There weren’t too many seconds to spare though. You already know how that went … so I think now you are brought up to the present.
I’m thinking I might want something small to be eating … I don’t know but think we’re going to have lunch with Rich so I don’t want too much … Hmm, what could I have? Maybe some pineapple? Hmm, we’ve still got that big REAL pineapple to carve up … Maybe we can do that tonight. BRB though. Ahh that tastes good. Sweet and tart at the same time. We’ve been eating the small cans of dole pineapple chunks in juice. Sweet! They are just the small 8 oz cans. Ok, you … nuff of that.
Trying not to turn on the AC. Feeling a little warm though … It will be ok, right?
Hmm, why am I so unsure of myself this morning? That seems like a bad deal.
Ok, here we are … what’s up next to talk about? We’re still worrying over Thom’s ticket home. I think that will probably come up today. We figured we’ve got to work that through with Rich yet. Hmm, remember what we just talked about last. I have a card for the second account I opened for his interests, though it only has $10 in it now. I also have checks for that account. It seems that I have to go into the bank to activate the account code. I’ll try to do that today before heading out of town. That way I can mail Thom the card and some signed checks to him so if I can get some money – I will transfer it immediately to that account and he can draw out the money at a box.
Hmm, we’ve got $67 in the account now … It seems that everything is going through except the $140 we paid for Thom’s Best Buy Account … for some reason that’s not showing up. I was hoping to get that in – maybe as a paid overdraw. We’ll have to figure out what happened there. But, it looks like we’ve put $100 on the Dell account, $100 on the kohl’s … some little stuff, but then $100 on a Chicago ticket and $80 to the secretary of state for our sticker. That’s the extra money we didn’t want to spend, but had to pay off … I think we’ve got an extra month extension where we don’t have to pay school loans. So, we’ll take that money $400 and put $100 toward the Best Buy and $300 toward Thom’s ticket. It might cost like $350, but that’s about as much as we can cover and still get in the Best Buy. Oh Lordy I hope this works out. It would have been much more simple to have Rich help us with the Air flight. Just want to get Thom home. Even if we only see him once while he’s here that four days – if he can get the four days off … then I’ll feel it’s worthwhile getting him in to see Alexis – maybe even once with his brothers? Not sure.
I think today is Alex’s wedding. I would have liked to give him $100 too. You just don’t get married everyday. I’ll have to work things out though. I’m going to be short the money I need for medicine. Maybe there Rich will have mercy on us. It’s just we had extra expense of ticket and sticker. Well yes and then we’re trying to subsidize Thom. But, you gotta understand the way mothers work. They’ll do anything including sawing off their right leg to make their sons and daughters happy. We’ll just have to talk to Rich today to see where we are going. It’ll be ok, right? At least I got some bills paid and that was something. We better wait though until he’s in a REAL good mood. He’s not going to like helping out Thom when I can’t keep up with myself. I really hate money … it’s so limiting.
It’s after 11 now. Maybe we should put our hair up. I know Rich is going to want to take a shower when he comes home and then we are going to get going, I’m pretty sure. I don’t know what he has in mind for lunch though. Not sure what he has left here that won’t take up too much time. I could get by on a optima shake though so I’m not worried, besides we just ate that pineapple.
Rich forgot his phone at home that means that the first part of our trip will be him making calls. I’m sure by now that Chris has called. Not sure who else. Rich is going to a ball game with Chris tomorrow. Not quite sure what I’ll do, but should at least get to the pool before it closes for the week for cleaning. That’s about as far as we’ve planned.
Ok, good … we’re ready to walk out the door just grabbing keys, sunglasses, our purse and a bottle of water. Maybe I should grab a bag … hold on I’ll fix that.
Ok, we’re all set. Hmm, One kitty in the back bedroom and the other kitty sitting under the purple flowers on the balcony. I guess that’s a good reason to keep the door open… She does like to get out for a little fresh air. I think we’re a little unsettled about the money situation, but other than that we’re doing ok.
We haven’t been losing weight lately … probably too much eating and not enough exercise … about 4 days and only once in the gym. That’s not good. It’s going to be ok, right?
Damn why are we so unnerved? Maybe if we could get into something where we were ahead instead of being behind the 8-ball we would feel better? About the only thing we’re fairly good at now days … is figuring out what’s going on in the campaign.
We’re still trying to understand the economy. I get as far as the casual mid-range earner. I don’t have much to my name I’m afraid, but it’s allowed me to not fear the market. At least I’m not losing anything. Though my “little” dollars aren’t going to go as far as they once had.
I’m really scared about the bail-out. My feeling is if it is an emergency do what you gotta do. Obama seems to be for it, but I don’t think many are as convinced as the politicians how much this is needed. I’m kinda with the little guys thinking that this is money going toward people who already have secured their houses. I’ve been trying to figure out how much money they are talking about … what exactly is $700 billion. I don’t think they’ve put $700 billion into the war yet, but maybe I’ve got that thought wrong. I know it could cover entire programs for up to ten some years or more. I don’t think they’d planned on that much going to health. So it’s very hard to understand what is going on with it. They keep saying that it’s going to buy confidence. Well, as to my last best guess you can’t package confidence – it’s an ideal – and I don’t understand paying an ideal … why that amount, why now … who’s hands is it going to. And, how does it directly affect humans. Will my life touch that of the money? I’m pretty sure that raising taxes enough to earn that money is going to sting and it’s going to sting bad. Plus we’re back to just the part about … so what exactly are we getting from it? Enough time’s gone by to let the public doubt. Especially, if they are losing their homes already.
I feel pretty good about the fact that its impossible for me to lose our home.
Don’t got one! I know that Rich has a home and we’re hoping that’s going ok for him. I don’t know what is happening with him as to the divorce lately. I think he got something in the mail the other day that he hasn’t opened. I wish he’d just get it over with so I could legitimately be in his life. We’re still at the point now almost 16 years later where he’s not admitting his daily living contact with me to his mother and children. Kind of makes me invisible. There is some safety to that, because I only know them through his shelter. They could hate me and I wouldn’t know it … it would be harder later when they know me to hide their anger with me.
Or, even if they’d accustomed themselves to their parents’ divorce, they just might not like me on the basis of not being good enough for their father.
I wish it would be like with my kids. They’ve taken to Rich very naturally. I know that Maury in particular looks forward to getting to talk to him. I don’t know what his specific draw toward Rich is. I know that he looks up to him, but I’m not sure why. Rich does come across as a pretty solid guy. I think that Maury wants Rich to like and respect him, but that message has gone through all along. Rich has always respected my kids. Maury likes the part where he gets to talk to him, especially about the poker though he’s cooled of late to that. I think he just uses it as an excuse to get to know Rich. I’m not sure if the other two are as curious as Maury, but I know they hold nothing against him. I would like that to be the same for his kids, but I think Rich’s kids have more reason to be distrustful.
First their mother’s hurt is involved and they’ll be protective of her. And, second they are going to need to grasp their father’s dishonesty with them. Why has he been not telling them the truth. That’s going to hurt personally. They will think that their father didn’t trust them. I don’t know if he could make them understand that he’s always been protective of me and the sensitivity of our love for one another. I’m not sure how to exactly put myself out there so I can understand that new set of relationships anyway. So, I suppose the best thing to do is just calm myself and bide the time.
I hope that one thing come through and that is other than having a basic relationship with their Dad … that I’m not invasive of his life with them. I don’t look negatively of the kids either, because I see them through the love of their Dad and them. It’s a good screen whether or not I’ll ever be included more directly in their life.
I do worry about the health and balance of Rich’s mother. I’m afraid that something could happen to her and I will have never met her. I’m pretty sure she would like to meet me and to know that her Ricky is safe with me. I know she’s going to ask if I cook for him, and it will have to be known that he does all the cooking. I hope I will survive that moment. But, for now … we just have to imagine that we’ve survived the first meeting and will be ok – you know survive through it. I can’t imagine how scared silly I’m going to be one day to be meeting his family. We haven’t even gotten to the point yet of going out socially with Bob.
Rich is scaring me with him a bit now. Most often he paints a picture of Bob as complaining about one thing or another or of being aggressive. I know if I keep my wit and humor about me it will be ok. There’s no doubt Bob is going to read a bead on my nervousness around him. I’m really going to be happy one day when Bob is allowed to drop on over at the house at any time. It will be so strange one day to have relationships with Rich that aren’t hidden and secret.
AHA! It’s 11:38 am and Rich has just come in better go check on him, BRB
To Alpha Company MarineParents.com
Hi this is me. Well, and me and me and me. Tough being a multiple – I find we don’t know where we are or where we are going most of the time. I’m so extremely sorry I cause you all to wonder. It seems that some weeks are harder than others and for long periods of times I get lost in my concerns of various directions. I can’t tell you what it means to return here and find you all. I’ve read up on the entries since being here.
My prayers to all who have physical problems – specially you JuDee … I’d be worried sick. It seems too like there are quite a few going through changes in location while still trying to fit some home time in before going on. God Bless those who get to connect up and for those missing their sons and wishing they were with them.
There are hard days ahead, but then there are those days where you hear information about progresses and those times are oh so special. Congratulations also to those who have graduated – Lynn that boy of yours is a bear!
As to Thom – he’s been switched from 2621 to 2651. I think officially, his new duties are called, “Special Intelligence System Administrator/Communicator.” He’s supposed to know all aspects of special Intel communications including utilization of equipment. They give support to the intelligence network. There’s a bunch of fancy stuff that comes after that, but we haven’t grasped the bigger picture yet.
From what we know he will finally class up after these last lost months by October 6th. I think it’s about 2 ½ months of training. Not sure on that part. He should stay at Corry Station in Pensacola for the training.
I think this is a more responsible position than even the last couple they stated he would be in. Thom has been working on his physical condition to get back as strong as he was during bootcamp. Unfortunately, he’s now on light duty because he’s developed the dreaded shin splints. His spirits are still good and he’s happy to be moving to a space where he’ll share a room with another person who is going to be classing up with him.
Thom’s talking about a 96 about the time of October 10th-13th. We’re hoping that he can get off base to fly home. He’ll naturally stay with his new bride. I’m so proud of the two for being together. We’ve gotten several chances to talk or work with Alexis and she’s incredibly nice. I look forward to excuses for texting or calling her. It also gives me greater confidence knowing that Thom has a strong relationship to depend on emotionally. We all hope for our sons to be happy and in love. Gives them a nice contrast to all this war stuff. Shoot … just figuring out Iraq and now we’re needing to concentrate more on Afghanistan – plus … what the H*** are those Iranians thinking?
We’ve been lately spending time at work – regrettably … rather think of being at the gym, or at home writing. We bought a new iPod Touch and have been using it somewhat for music, but mostly listening to audiobooks and podcasts mostly on the economy crisis and in our support of Barack Obama. I’m not stating a political platform just stating the guy has captivated us and we find ourselves drawn deeper and deeper into the processes of the world and government. I think that’s because we have sons who are now serving – we want more to understand the world and circumstances in which they’ll work.
It seems that while we push for more understanding in one avenue or another – others get put aside as we argue amongst ourselves for every free moment. Rich comes home late many days from work or other obligations personal and professional and we’ll realize that we’ve watched hours of CNN or the military channel without realizing time’s gone by. I think if it were possible for someone to be in shock I would claim it for myself. That and we’re going through some heavy duty stuff in therapy. Trying to grasp the depth of melancholy. A majority of the time I’m feeling overwhelmed. Keep thinking if I understand more or understand better, I will be able to pull myself through things. Somehow we’ll move forward … Just right now nothing seems really safe. I want to withdraw into my thoughts and work on putting together ideas at my own slow speed.
I don’t mean to seem overly complicated … just finding ourselves struggling along. I’m so grateful to knowing each one of you and finding you still here when I surface life. Love you guys to pieces!
WooHoo ... we're back on-line!
Good morning … this is me. I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to post. I only have about 15 minutes, but it seems that I can’t get the Internet up. Yeeks! Don’t know what to do about that! I don’t have enough time or patience to mess around with it right now. I know that my Comcast bill is paid and that would be the worst thing. Maybe just an irritating glitch that will sooth itself out.
Ahh, I got an advertisement … that’s half the battle … must be getting something. I know let it go.
As to the morning … we’re all here and dressed and all that other stuff. Rich is in the kitchen with his computer and he says he’s going to go out with his cousin-in-law tonight *sigh* I guess it’s another night alone … Not that that’s a bad deal.
Last night he went to a meeting and he met with his son Chris. He got in pretty late … I know that it must have been after 10 … because the president had spoken and so had Bill Clinton and although late Anderson Cooper was on when he came in. I had dozed during parts of it, but had taped it so I didn’t miss anything. I’ll play it perhaps tonight when I get home.
Yesterday I went to the pool and did pretty good. I swam 41 laps, got out and did the sauna, then went in the pool for a few more minutes to just play around, and then I had some time in the whirlpool. It was a pretty good deal. We met one lady who took over our spot, because she needed the guide rope to pull her. She couldn’t swim, but had a flotation device. And, then there was this other girl in her 20’s who actually was talking to me. For the most part we just did our thing, but she was the friendliest person we’ve met there so far. She and us and the lady on the ropes worked it out so we were splitting 2 aisles … there were a couple of other guys in there too. It’s hard not to get crunched out at the 5 pm time. But, after that … especially toward 5:30 - 6 pm there’s like no one.
The hardest thing about the pool is holding your ground. Sometimes people like to get in after you and take over your space. So you gotta be tough and hold on … that means continuing going straight down the line even when someone’s entered your space. If you veer off … then they think they got you. It’s tough stuff –especially because there are so many middle-aged men who think they are on the top of the food chain. Hmpf!
Yesterday we had a pretty good day, but I think we’ve already written about that.
Today we’re going to have another staffing. I think this one is for a client in group 2. Fortunately, the meeting isn’t until about 1 pm, so I have some time to prepare.
ARGH … still no Internet OR printer. I guess we’re going to need to problem solve this later … but for now … gotta get to work. We can do this, right?
Good morning … this is me again. We’re still having problems connecting to the Internet at home. This is the day after, but I think we’ve written something in-between from work. I’m really not sure which way to go with it, but figuring maybe a little that I’m going to need trying to disconnect the hard wiring and try to reset it … hmm, just tried resetting the cords … AHA! I got it! WOOHOO!!!
And, you know what? We’ve met another multiple! Just like others of you here … we aren’t going to be able to talk about that part for confidentiality, but she’s got permission to read this blog if she chooses. That makes 9 people with permission – but only this one other like us. We’re getting up there! I will say that if she’s here reading – we’re pleased as punch to have you!
Hmm, as to moving on parts … it’s about 6:30 am now. We’ve taken our shower, medicine, packed and well almost dressed … at least we have our clothes here. We’re wearing the teddy bear shirt with a jean dress today. I guess I don’t often let you know what we’re wearing, but this choice makes SOMEbody so happy that it spilled out. I think the teddy bear shirt is actually more pajamas, but because we’re getting by with wearing it out of the house … Somebody is as pleased as punches!
Yesterday went by sort of as it did. We started in Group 1 of course, and we were again taken advantage of by Sr. Florine for 15 minutes time where she didn’t ask, but just took. I have to let it go though, because she probably won’t do it next week because Sr. Theresa will be back and won’t let her get by with that … AND because Friday’s the Priest comes in so she doesn’t get to leave her group to go to church. Hehehe with all these religious people and circumstances, some might believe we’re pressing the cloth, BUT I’m still of the sound faith in saying … if you want to utilize my time – just ask, don’t be sneaky about it. One thing I know of nuns by now … they can be pretty gosh darn sneaky! HMPF!
In other news … we prepared for our staffing yesterday, but then it turned out that we didn’t have one. We found out through the client, but not the mother who had told her daughter she wasn’t going because her arm hurt. I wish also that she’d called directly. What happened if I hadn’t stopped to talk to the client. She hadn’t thought to come to me with that news. After we found out we quickly called the CSO person so she wouldn’t waste her time. We’re going to need rescheduling and we’re not to happy about that, but at least we got the time off to work on other things yesterday. We still did prepare the paperwork, so we’re ahead of the game there. Good girls!
What else did we do? Hmm, that might be harder to think through. I remember we wrote a schedule, but then … oh I know what happened … we started working on bills finally and that took up a good portion of the afternoon. In the process we had texted Alexis and talked to Thom on the phone. But, Thom was later after working at the gym. Yesterday was a walk, bike and circuit training day. Hmm, a second on that … We did 31 minutes walking, and 21 on the bike. So we made a slight improvement there … it’s still hard. The hardest part on that though is that we’ve got the bike set up on fat burning and so about 1/3 of the way through it decides we have to get up our heart rate to like 137. YIKES that’s putting some stress on the body. But, after that the bike gets easier to peddle so we’re much better then.
Believe me though … heart rate 137 – you’re definitely sweating!
The walking was ok … but we didn’t do so well with the circuit training. We got about 2/3’rds through and had to stop … it was at a very high difficulty level. We were not able to press the kind of weights we had been. I’m not sure why we were so weak or tired, but we decided eventually to cut it short. This is the first time we’ve done that, but I don’t want to make the experience so unenjoyable that we don’t want to go back. I’m thinking that pushing it on the walking and bike is pressing on our strength. That’s not such a bad thing. Just gotta work our way through it.
As we were saying … we talked to the kids. Alexis helped me to get a couple numbers I needed and we worked it out to be paying a bill for Thom on his Best Buy to keep him out of trouble with the creditors. I think in general the kids just don’t have a lot of money coming in. The Marines pay like $1400-1500 a month for Thom’s services. Alexis is working now, but I don’t think she’s worked long enough to collect much money. I feel bad because they have their living needs and Thom has school to be paying. I’m not sure, if Alexis is paying student loans too, because she’s just finished her BA. But, money is strapped for them.
I’m trying to work it out with Rich. Basically, Thom is going to need some help getting home. He wants to come about October 10th-13th. That’s the same weekend I think that Rich is going to be going to see his daughter and Aunt/Uncle in New Mexico. I guess our logic was that … if he’s seeing his daughter than I should see my son. Thom’s going to need about $300-350 for airflight. I’m thinking that Rich is $500 up because he’s just gotten my insurance check for the deposit on our minor accident. But, in fact that was really his money so I don’t have a real reason to get that money back. I really want to be able to help out Thom … I know he doesn’t have the money and it would be a very good thing for him to get some family in.
Besides just being newly married … he really deserves some time with his new bride. We’ll see how that goes.
As for the rest of our night … we got into watching CNN for the best part of the evening until Rich came home about 9:30 pm. He had a fishing trip with his in-law cousin. I understand that he didn’t catch any fish, but he still needed his massaging *giggle* Yah, right … that guys got it made in the shade!
I’ve been following along with the news on political and economic circumstances. I feel more and more sure every day of the importance of having Barack Obama in the leadership position. I think that from what I saw last night – that McCain is just postering … it’s Barack that’s going to be able to take on the tough stuff. We also saw an interview with Sarah Palin and Katie Curak. Palin was terrible. Rich saw that part too. I hope it helps him in making the decision to be voting democrat.
It’s the same with the boys … they are of their father’s influence in being bent more towards republican. But, I want them to think harder of it and the fact that Barack is the superior candidate. Well at least that’s a mom’s opinion. If I could persuade the 3 boys and Rich … that be like my vote plus 4 more … Yup yup that’s what we gotta do!
Ok, enough of our politicking. It’s about time we get to work. See you soon … And remember … do some good work today!
Jogging through the work day
Good morning … this is me. I want to say first off that my thoughts are still with Vickie, but we’ll give her her privacy – just want to say if you have extra prayers send them to her and the other hurricane survivors. This is a good deal. God Bless!
Ok, with all that said … we’re going to need figuring where we’re supposed to be thinking this morning. We’re already at work, so I know that I won’t be able to think too much before we get moving, but there is a little time … It’s still early.
I was a little disappointed in that Sister Florine might have taken advantage of me this morning. She let me work 20 minutes longer than she should have because she didn’t come right back to her job I was covering for right away. There was also a little problem yesterday that was more Holly orientated. Neither sister or Holly covered the first 20 minutes after the lunch time when first Sister, and then Holly was supposed to be watching a group. I had covered for the back half of lunch and I felt taken advantage of for having to sit an extra 20 minutes with the group – where in both situations someone took time without talking to me or thanking me for it.
HMPF!
But, we’re going to need letting that go … because we have too much to think about.
Just have to watch out for that. If it happens again I’ll have to talk to her. Oh oh … hear one of my clients crying … I’m going to need finding out what just happened there. BRB
Ok, that wasn’t too hard. One of the girls was crying because someone was telling the girl’s teacher something that was not true. So we went over how often this other girl does this kind of stuff and that she has to trust the staff isn’t going to believe things that are not true. There’s actually a pretty good staff system – where things that happen with one person should go directly TO the staff in charge of that person and when that happens things work out better. Things that go on at home, really aren’t the business of staff and staff knows not to be dealing with other staff’s clients who step out because they don’t know the full story. For this client … it was mostly … umm, don’t we know that about the other girl she is like that it won’t affect your relationship with your own staff. K?
It got better in a couple of minutes. She just needed reminding.
*Sigh*
Let’s be moving on … have we gotten anywhere quite yet?
Let’s see … as far as Rich is concerned … he remains entirely kissable. Hehehe… That’s my first thought at least. He was using his computer in the living room this morning so we got to be a little in his presence. We only had about 20 minutes at the computer – not enough time to write – just look at mail. Coming into work was nice. I listened to Anderson Cooper’s podcast from last night. It’s really a relaxing time. I didn’t mind the bead job for most the time except being used.
On the other hand I had volunteered to help sister Florine last night. She didn’t ask, I did. And, we somewhere went in there with Holly not to be going to Sr. Theresa with the news I was talking to Sr. ESPECIALLY because it was already after 4 pm and I felt off the clock. Sister had plenty of beads for me to count, but I think the nicest part is the camaraderie … it’s like the olden days when women got together to sew patchwork quilts. Your hands stay busy and in the meantime you get some important talking in. WOOHOO!! Plus there was another thing. At the end Sr. gave both Holly and me some chicken soup she’d made. That was really nice. I ate mine in the first 10 minutes after leaving the center. It was really useful to have stop signs hehe … It was one of the best soups I ever ate. This is the good stuff in life.
There was one strange thing in that Holly was in and out of the conversation … and at one point, she was talking to Sr. and us through the wall, but she was trying to tell me that she hasn’t always been a good friend of mine. And, we’re like teasing her … Oh yah? What were you doing? She didn’t go into real details, but in general referred to speaking against me to Sr. I told her that was natural … that sister complained about each of us to the other and we did a lot of saying uhuh, uhuh … ok, uh huh. But, I guess from what it seems that Holly’s gone further. We could both agree that Sr. has never worked toward us being friends and has always tried to make sure there was adversity between us. It’s like not being able to help/talk to Sr. Florine. As far as all that talk went … there were a lot of complaints, but it was nice to get them off the shelf. Afterward we were finally able to go onto conversations not based in so much hurt and anger from getting stomped on by Sr.
We talked to Sr. Florine of really knowing what she was going through, though it is sort of like the relationship between my client who came in this morning crying. We all know that other person not in our control is like that … and so we can’t overly involve ourselves in their attacks to our self-esteem. It’s hard when your first hit with it, but after you get a chance to calm down … you can write it off because it’s just the way Sr. Theresa is … and it doesn’t have to affect us differently than to just be doing our jobs good.
Sr. went on again about the dislike of the Sr’s for Sr. Theresa, but then Sr. Theresa does the same thing in spreading around things like – you don’t know what Sr. Florine did at St. Mary’s. I think this group of nuns are very small and backbiting. There’s a lot of control issues at hand and I think sometimes it’s a blessing to get women committed for life, but then other times … the good and bad get stuck with each other and it’s going to go on for a hundred years. *Sigh*
Yesterday I had a staffing that went well and I think I did something but not sure.
Hmm, I remember Rich was there for a little while and we talked to him about doing the next set of client files, but he’d tried to get Holly’s – I would have done the work, but she was very defensive of having someone look at what she has and hasn’t done. I came back then to my office and figured I better put some things in order.
I was juggling things around in that … I had a couple more options for meetings today, but in one case the woman couldn’t get here until tomorrow, and in the other – her father died the day before and she wasn’t ready. So calls had to be made to settle all that.
There was a couple of interruptions during the staffing. One of my clients had gotten sick on himself – twice! In both cases the DSP decided that she really couldn’t clean it up. So I had to leave the staffing to do that. After the first time I asked Rosa to call the Mom. This was the same one whose father had died.
We’re thinking the client is releasing the loss physically. That’s what the mom thinks too. Unfortunately, she was rough with Rosa. That wasn’t good and Rosa says that it’s a pattern. I’m not sure what to do about that, but if I talked to her personally, I’d ask that she be nice to Rosa. But, again there’s the question of stepping out of your own realm. Just I feel a little protective of Rosa. Maybe I’ll ask the mom if Rosa has caused her any problems. This mom has always been ok with us. Hehehe it was one of those moments … I had been wiping stuff off the client – with gloves and I looked up and there the Mom was. I think that stuff goes a long way. When you have someone you need to fix an image of … taking care carefully of her son is a good memory to have. I had taken off the client’s outer shirt and fortunately, the mother had brought with a second set of clothes. It was odd that he’d let go the second time right before she got there … it helped build Rosa’s case in that … yes, you really have to come and get your child. Today, the mother called to say he wouldn’t be here and that he’d stopped throwing up, but now had diarrhea … shoot … really glad we didn’t have to go that route.
Ok, anything else from yesterday? I don’t think so. Rich pointed out to me that I’d gone two days though without going to the pool. I really wanted to get in the time with Sr., but then Rich said that she’s a dangerous person and that I shouldn’t get too close to her. I’ll keep that in mind tonight and really push ourselves to get to the gym instead of staying later. Especially, because the swimming pool is going to be closed next week for cleaning. I’ll really want to get in that time. I think I’ll try next week to still go to the regular gym at least every other day with the exception of Dr. Marvin’s day. It helps when lifting weights to get the one day to build up your strength again … Usually swimming is so perfect, because it doesn’t hurt the same way the other gym days go.
The thing that’s been the hardest over the last couple of days is doing my calendar work and to-do list and to do serious work. I would like to fix that today. I’m going to give it just a few moments and then I will try to think that through. I remember trying to face it yesterday … and we have to think that part through. The major things that need time is annual reports, goals, Qnotes, and CARF. I think that in order … that’s actually the most important things first. Maybe the goals would be switched with annual reports – because the staff is waiting on the goals, and the goals are included as about a 1/5th of the annual report. Then actually there are goals and objectives sheets.
The annual reports go back to July … I’ll have to count them up. Let’s do that now. I think I’m 60% done with staffing for my client load, but I’m only 23% done with the completed annual goals final reports and goals. I’m going to have to break that down. I think we’ll focus on goals today? Maybe we should review our list to see what would expedite the situation. You know getting certain things in order.
Shoot. I forgot my flash drive is at home on the table. Damn … ok, we’ll have to think of that and work around it. I don’t think I will need it directly to work on goals. Most the paperwork is also in print so we can figure from there, and there’s really no forms on the computer flash drive we’ll need in working at goals.
Let me think this through
Leadership group -
Mario
Gerardo
Victor
Group 1 -
Kelly
Rosetta
Jessica
Group 2 -
Jeannette
Group 3 -
Jose
Group 4 -
Charles W
Carlin
I think it’s easier to work by groups so I’ve just got to concentrate on one teacher at a time. Group 4 will be first, because this is the staff that’s having the hardest time waiting.
Ok, we were working on things. It’s now after lunch and I’m just a little hot and crabby. Holly decided to let 4-5 people go outside and then made the others stay in. She felt that the people outside didn’t need supervision, but it had been established by sister only 2 people could go out, so then there were unhappy people that couldn’t go out and I wasn’t going to put myself in a situation I had to be watching over her bad choices. Then I had to sit and wait for Sr. Florine to get back to the room. The groups were noisy today too because Holly had wound them up with the Cubs/Sox, plus I’m just cranky for having to do that task. Holly came back to hover and my opinion is if she is going to hang around just do the f….. task.
It’s insulting to have her hanging on in pretense of command.
Ok, ok … calm down you loon! Let it go.
Hmm, ok, not sure when that last time was, but it’s now another time. I think I was paying up some of my bills, and then one of my clients came back and said ….
HOMEWORK PLEASE … Gotta admit the kid (adult) gets me going. I asked what kind of work and he said “coloring.” So we went on-line and found some stuff by a guy the name of Keith Herring. We made a title page for a ten page coloring book for him to do. In one picture there is a dog with a dog inside of him, and in another there is a dog jumping through a person. It’s pretty cool stuff. I made an extra copy in case Sr. Florine figured she could use a set to copy off too.
He’s a happy camper … he’s standing by the printer and collecting all the sheets one at a time. I know we can’t do this all the time, but I like to make him and his peers happy.
We had to send another away though … she came over for me to solve 3 problems in one day … That’s like way-to-much Ms. Ann.
Hmm, I think I got some work done too. We went through all the folders that we had on each of the clients we still need to do annual goal work for.
WooHOO!! Ok, we’re working it. It’s not lightening speed, but it’s good stuff.
We earned ourselves a nut break for getting one of our tasks done. We’ve been working to clean off our desks, and in our organization today decided that not only do we have to get annual reports ready to further process, we also had to clear up the extra mish-mash on the counter also in their concern. I think we got done some stuff that needed to be done as preliminary stuff for the other. I have another staffing tomorrow, but it’s not until 1 pm – so that’s going to give me some time in the morning. If I could only work the later hour tonight or earlier hour tomorrow then I would get some planning done. But, right now I’m syncing this computer so I might as well plan a few things now. Shoot … cept we’re syncing and I can’t get at my to-do list. *Sigh* I can do this, right?
Dreamin to beat the band
Hi … it’s me again. It’s about the middle of the day and we’re just getting by. We came in and did our initial hour, and then we lost time in that we received a letter in the mail a note from Walden University. They have programs in psychology for Masters and PhD. Yeah … well you know you’d have to wonder how long before those urges came back. I know realistically that I cannot do it at this time because I don’t have control of my mind yet for the time and effort needed to complete all the requirements. I’m still managing my daily requirements to include that if I get to putting something down for 9 am, I am completing something at 9 am.
Ok, deep breath. We’ve been living as if we had more options though … that we could go through a program and succeed at it. Walden has a general psych program which would include a foundation class, current psych issues, history and systems, statistics, human motivation, research design, cognitive, tests and measurements, social, cultural, one elective, and a capstone project. That’s it 12 courses. I’ve got 5 courses complete from Capella. I’m not sure if all courses would transfer, but I have 24 credits and I could only transfer 25 credits anyway. The courses I completed were the foundation, lifespan, research and writing, multi-cultural, and social. I think foundation, multi, and social would wipe each other out and hopefully lifespan would take the place of current psych issues and then the writing could take the place of the elective.
That means I would have 4 years to complete 7 courses or 4 quarters, or one year.
The other thing I could check on is if I could take one course a quarter – though that would make it almost 2 years. I would start in December. If I started then at 2 courses, it would mean that I’d be finished before CARF came back. Man, I would have to work hard. Always the dream is big … I’d have to summon up the nerve alongside that and make it durable. Including $360 per credit, fees, and books … it would cost about $22,000 – think that would be added onto like $33,000. Easier than a doctorate … that would cost $65,000. They a general psych program with an educational specialty that would need to be completed in 7 years.
I think mostly where we are getting these ideas again … is one we just happened to get something in the mail, but as well, we’re starting to think what it is that we want to do when we get bigger again. I would not like to do something immediately toward the center … although they offered a program on organizations and non-profit through the psychology program.
What I’m interested in goes back to learning, self-systems, and self-regulation.
That’s basically what there psych-ed program is.
I think if I were to go back to school now it would be more for learning to become a better me in as far as succeeding in goals. The real object would continue to be the writing. I would like to write the progress – as we’ve progressed over the last 9 years – and 5 years in writing. I would be back to writing in that I think that someone with an MA or a PhD would be much better at selling books than someone without. But, again … I think that the book would be more interesting if I accomplished something. I think I mentioned it over the weekend that my specialty in writing would come from the multiplicity and having been a mistress.
Maybe I would have to study that more, because there might be something about myself that I’m missing. For example, part of me is that I’m a writer too. There is nothing dysfunctional about that.
It I went to school, it would be that much more important to do my work at work.
Some of the information though that I’ve been getting from this writer Brian Tracey is that you have to put goals in front of yourself and aim toward those directions.
There needs to be something that we are working for. I don’t have a clear idea yet of what it is that I could be teaching, but I know I have to make about $350,000.
That’s now my new number. AHA! There you go … I just turned off the spacey music and I started the ambiance sound of waves. I’m seeing a lot of green and brown … ahh must be grass and trees. Yes, we could stretch a desk that far.
I talked to a woman from Capella. I think that I was on some kind of a tickler. I had gone in under my account to check my credits … a couple minutes after a student called and she transferred me to a guidance counselor. If I went to Capella I would be going back under academic probation, but it would be the same if I went to Walden.
In graduate programs such as these … you need to maintain a 3.0 average and I have a 2.82. I am thinking though if I transferred I would have a 3.4 average because I’d only transfer over the courses I had regular grades in. One of the things that we discussed with the counselor was pretty much as I thought.
Basically, you only get 4 years to complete the degree. If I went back now I would have to graduate by March of 2009. They said that we could apply for a one year extension, but it would still mean finishing 8 courses including thesis in 6 quarters. It would mean having to double up. I would still have to apply to get back in their good graces, in a sense writing them to say how things have changed and how I won’t repeat my mistakes.
At one point I just finalized the conversation by saying to the counselor … ok, with all that out on the table – what is your best advice. I had told her as well about the multiplicity and needing sometimes extra time. She thought for a moment and then concluded it would be a very difficult thing to do. It would have been different if I’d taken time off for a family emergency, but I took off for a mental break. It’s easy to assume that might happen again.
I think that it is a good idea to approach the subject, but it is not as if it’s my only option. I could continue the course before trying that by learning to work with the calendar, to-do list and health issues. That’s not a bad tact at all. I have to admit too that if I started the school this semester or next depending on how the transfers worked out – I could be putting me directly into CARF time. I would however ask that time at that point could be taken off. I’m a lot more knowledgeable now as to my limitations – though Tracey would opt that you accept and focus instead on your positives. It seems to be a good idea.
Maybe what I could do is to think for the next quarter now through February about how standardized I could become. If by say the first of the year it was working out, then I could consider again more seriously going back. The idea of becoming more learned has always struck me as essential. If you are not learning – you could be in a manner not upwardly. I would need time to bolster my courage and that of my best supporters. I’ve got to be able to just do instead of worrying about it or thinking how to avoid. Keep seeing Vince here. Me just thinking of this is avoiding … pretty sure that’s what he would say. We’re going to try working ourselves past that difficulty, because its pretty heavy to bear at this time. Was back in the day too.
This is the part that makes it so hard for us to do something worthwhile.
We give up on ourselves often. Thinking now that Dr. Marvin would say that’s something that we’ve learned to do from our upbringing. No one really had a design for me in mind as I was growing up that I’d be a success at anything. And, then I carried it on by myself. I think we’re going to need doing this as best we can … which is to mean not doing it to the best of someone’s ability who can do this or has, but from my/our perspective right now … right here.
I’ve been appreciating that we’ve been going to the gym/swim more often than not.
We’ve been doing so by a positive approach and by not accepting limitations such as if we miss once or even twice, it does not mean that we can or should stop going altogether. We were appreciative this morning when we got on the scale and had learned that although it had gone up a couple pounds, that this morning it had come down to a new record at 253. I really think that is because we are not holding the scale so accountable that we need to see progress every day. We’ve tried to inherit a formula in our head that says if we keep doing the diet and exercise well – that we will indeed lose weight though it might not be as fast as we might like. In general … we’re just going down in that direction.
Another thing we would have to work on is our relationship with Dr. M. I remember where we’d really lost all hope was that we had started to see him just 2 times a month. That wasn’t sufficient. Not only did it not help, it hurt, because so much of the time we were wallowing in sorrow. We should probably think that through too in its affect on us. Right now wouldn’t be a good time though, because in just thinking of it we feel more resolutely dull and drained. It hurts.
Ok, keep working through it, K? More later ... we've talked to both Capella and Walden Universities. Also looked again at CR-V's *Sigh*
Thought stopper
Good morning … it’s me again. Somehow we lost the last document … fortunately it was only about 3” long. It’s now 5:24 am and our kitty is being complainy. We had gotten up around an hour ago, but were messing around with news and emails.
A couple of moments ago, we went into Rich’s room to check on him. He asked that we give him another 20 minutes, but then just a second ago he crossed the hallway on the way to the bathroom. I guess we must have stirred that tank somehow. Eh … it’s all for the better I’m sure. Maybe he’ll sneak back once more though? Only time will tell.
We’re feeling pretty good for it being a Monday. We lost another couple pounds since writing. We’re now at 253. WooHOO!!!
Gym has lately seemed to be our favorite thing to be writing about. We did 41 laps in the pool on Saturday and then yesterday we spent our time on the gym side. We were able to do 30 entire minutes – at one time on the treadmill at 2.2 and then we did 20 straight minutes on the bike, and then we walked upstairs to the circuit training. I’d tell you how good we did there, but our iPod is syncing. I haven’t quite yet figured out how to get the data to save.
Oh dear … some message about not being able to sync, so I enabled something in the warning message. Let’s hope for the best. Maybe it’s just because I tried in an “Apply” button after it had started to sync. Pswhoo … you know better than to mess with odd button pushing, right?
Over the weekend we tried to do better at following a schedule. Or to at least get some items taken care of from the To-do list. I can’t say everything got done, but there was some progress. Hmm, I think baby went back to bed. How’d that happen?
Must have been tired.
Rich got home last night around 6-7 pm. There were troubles all along even though I don’t think it was all troublesome. He had originally said he was going to be home in the morning, but then as I thought, they did a little more fishing. Rich said 3 hours, but then Bob his partner said 4 hours. And, then they had lunch, or maybe after they got the boat out that they had lunch. But, someone before them lost their van on the boat landing. I guess something happened and the whole thing ended up being submerged. Yeeks! So, they had to wait around for that. Then there was some kind of trouble with Bob’s van … something like the steering fluid needed to be replaced and that was a process. And, then he had to go with Bob to put the boat in storage … and well you can kind of see how the day went.
When Rich got back finally – I was in a so-so ok mood – certainly not a bad mood – cuz we were happy that he finally made it. We had been watching Tommy the stamp tricker or something like that. Yes, a story for 11 year olds, this is true. But, you know how we get. Ahh Rich is up … he gave us a little patting and then headed for the kitchen table. Good Rich.
I think he’s a little tired this morning. I think our movie we watched together got over about 10:10 pm and he had to make a call before he went to bed. We didn’t give him TOO much trouble getting into bed. We might have been a little tired too. We watched something like 7 years in Tibet with Brad Pitt. I had trouble forgetting he was Brad Pitt, but for the most part it was an ok movie. The kid in the movie was really good. He was steady and calm with a flair for being enthusiastic and excited.
We had a few minutes of trouble before starting the movie up, but we had found a number to call for help fairly soon and then just found that it was a matter of unplugging the cord, waiting for it to sit for 30 seconds, and then plugging it in again. I guess there must be some kind of design flaw if they know about this and give the information out so easily. One way or another it seemed to work – and from that point, our information flowed from the computer to the Roku device on the TV.
WooHOO!!! I’m really glad that we didn’t give up on it.
Hmm. Just remembered to add kitty litter to the shopping list. Good thinking.
And, in the meantime we found that there is more than just the one screen where we put the title down. After that there is one more screen for adding sub items. Like if the first screen said groceries, the second screen would include milk and bread and so forth. AND, after that screen there is one more. The last screen saves cost of the items and quantity needed along with a space for notes. There’s a few other buttons for editing, deleting and listing active or inactive, but we won’t mess too much with that yet. It’s a good idea to keep an ongoing list.
There are a lot of good idea things so far. We’ve gotten quite a few of them as well. Now beside the normal list of Internet, calendar, email, contacts, youtube, stocks, maps, wether, clock, calculator, notes, Application store, and settings, we’ve also saved a link for our web page and then there’s another page plus of extra applications like:
Probably the only one that I don’t feel I need, but am keeping anyway is the Puzzloop free. But, I decided just for the sake of Maury that I should have one game on there in case he’d like to check out the iPod. I’m trying to think that I don’t need any more applications and that I have plenty and most likely too many. I can’t explain to you all of where our minds been with this. But, I can say it’s been a pretty amazing flood of thoughts to get us through all these additions to the machine. So far … I think with music, books, podcasts, movies, pictures, applications and all – we’re at about 35% capacity. We have to be careful, because we know sooner or later we might need space for some more music. Maybe next time we see Maury. I should have reminded him of it before he came over with Isa last week. That was an error on my part.
Hmm, updated our to do list. We have to remember swimming, follow through on tasks, go to work, pay bills remember to tell Rich about shopping, smooch him up, take shower and get dressed, update Outlook from work and write in blog – not necessarily in that order. I found that the To-do list alphabetizes my stuff. Hmm, should make things easy to find. We were telling Dr. Marvin on Friday … hmm, already forgot.
What did we tell him?
*Sigh*
Better go take our shower, hmm?
Ok, we’re good to go. We took our shower, got dressed, took medicine and packed the bag … oh and we filled up mine and Rich’s coffee … that’s important too. We had to calm down poor Missy … she’s like a drill sergeant … do this do that. Pshwoo she’s a tough kitty. Finally, though she’s laying down by my feet and giving it a little rest … good kitty. I’ve got a about a half an hour now to do with as I please. We did talk to Rich a little in-between. I think he might be at St. Rose today. Of course, we’re always happy when he appears.
This is the week where Sr. Theresa isn’t going to be there. She’s at her retreat in Pennsylvania. Yeah for that! We need to try not wasting the time though. We also have two or three staffings this week. I know for tomorrow and Wednesday for sure.
We might have one also on Friday, but I don’t think we have one today.
Ok, that’s about as much work as I want to be covering.
I don’t think we got to talking about Dr. Marvin’s on Friday. Right now I’m just remembering that we didn’t switch around on the parts so much … in general, we stayed with older parts. Oh, I remember something now … we had asked him to print the color wheel and then that became a symbol for us also working with all the parts as if they were petals too. I remember also the part of that where we decided the petals were going to be 3D and they’d be flexible sorta like the cup ride at the amusement park, going up and down and around.
Oh my God. Vickie just wrote … she’s lost her home to the hurricane and is renting a house now. She said that the roof blew off, the rain came in and that most of the walls came down. I’m in shock – though can’t imagine it’s much toward what she’s just gone through. Just dumbfounded. Vickie if you read this please believe my heart and prayers go out to you. God bless.
80 pounds down the pike
Published
Hi ... this is me again ... sorry there hasn't been an update for so long. Hmm. Looks to be about eight months down the road.
I have been keeping up with my blog for the Ayn's Multiple World at Aynetal3.blogspot.com. so for practical purposes you can always get me there.
I took the 80 pound picture loss that was added to my photos this morning. I made a little comment there. I was happy that there were some weight differences in my face. for the most part - it doesn't look like I just swallowed a bullfrog. I think actually that's the most noticeable difference - my neck and chins. It seems like the two have combined in the first picture.
You can't tell by the light of the second picture, but I really believe my chin is now not a direct part of my throat. Right above the chin to either side there seems also to have some definition. I don't look so swollen. But other than that ... same general face. There will be more improvements down the line.
I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking for as to weight loss. I think I would be satisfied with hitting about 140-150 pounds lost in the first year ... so that means we've got 60-70 pounds to lose in the next 6 months. any more would be just awesome, but we're not going to push it. This would take us down to about 187-197 pounds by March 14th. Ok, that's about it then. Maybe though for the time being we should be shooting for the century mark. That be in 20 pounds or 237. We can do this right?
Less eating and more exercise. And when we get down toward our final weight pictures - don't forget to get a haircut!
As to everything else ... life is going well. Fishyman is doing fishfinding things this weekend. I'm here with the computer and other devices like the iPod. Yup yup that's all I'm up to now days. this is day 4 of 5 on vacation and I'm feeling pretty good.
We saw our fishyman out the door this morning, but that was still 1 1/2 hours ago. It's now about 6:30 am, which reminds me we should be taking our medicine. Need some coffee anyway. Other than that ... Not too much going on ...
We will say that the gym is progressing really well. Periodically I'll run into a couple of days not being there, but we're trying to be fairly routine about it. Every other day except on Thursdays when we are seeing Dr. Marvin, we've been going to the gym.
On the first day we'll go swimming. We're up to 40 laps - whereas one lap is all the way to the end of the pool and back. I think that's the official way to count, but I don't have that down for sure. On the opposite day we're going to the gym part. We do our walking, then biking and then we finish up with circuit training. At this point we're up from 3 minutes of walking to 25 minutes walking, 16 minutes biking and then about 45 minutes with the latter. I don't think we've gotten down all our routines upstairs, but this is the sorta thing we're doing. Oh yeah also the walking is set at 2.1 and the bike is set at a 6 level for fat-burning.
Seated leg press 3 sets of 20 @ 95 pounds
Seated leg curl 3 sets of 15 @ 75 pounds
Hip abductors out 3 sets of 20 @ 80 pounds
Hip abductors in 3 sets of 20 @ 100 pounds
Triceps dip 3 sets of 15 @ 60 pounds
Lay pull down 3 sets of 15 @ 60 pounds
Shoulder press 1 set of 15, 1 set of 10 and 1 set of 5 @ 30 pounds
Incline chest press same as above
Chest press 1 set of 15, 1 set of 10 and 1 set of 5 @ 45 pounds
Pectoral fly 1 set of 15, 1 set of 10 and 1 set of 5 @ 30 pounds
Arm curl same as above
Extension arms 1 set of 15, 1 set of 10 and one set of 5 @ 40 pounds
Lateral raise 1 set of 15, 1 set of 10, and 1 set of 5 @ 30 pounds
Pectoral fly inward 1 set of 10 and 1 set of 5 @ 45 pounds
Pectoral fly outward 1 set of 15, 1 set of 10, and 1 set of 5 @ 45 pounds
Leg extension 1 set of 15, 1 set of 10 and 1 set of 5 @ 60 pounds
Arm curl 1 set of 15, 1 set of 10 and 1 set of 5 @ 30 pounds
Stomach cruncher 1 set of 45 @ 50 pounds
Then we did a back extension 1 set of 45 @ 120 pounds
And finally one for abdomen 1 set of 10 and 1 set of 5 @ 50 pounds, but we were pretty drained by that time
I think there are 1 or 2 I've missed, but you get the general idea. We've brought the last couple of times putting exercises and numbers into the iPod. We've got it there to listen to music while we work anyway -might as well record some progress as well. I'm really happy that we keep going ... we've got to remember that if we miss a day or two - just gotta get back to the going routine - because it is OUR gym. But, at this point most often we are looking forward to getting back to it.
I think we’ll include this part to start off our normal blogging for the day … because in general I feel it’s a good start and I’d like to see some progress there too in the end. We’ve got that new prism to be looking at, but then again we need to make updates to the To-do list, calendar and such, plus like to not only write, but to look at our older writing for the chapters. I’m not sure if I have enough time for all that. My domestic duties of the weekend would include … a little pick-up, empty the dishwasher, and fold two loads of clothes. OHHHH and we should also be paying bills! If I could do all that and the gym before Rich gets back, we’d be a happy girl.
Ok, we’re back. So is Chief … not sure where we picked him up from. It’s now about 8:15 am. I’m not sure exactly how much time has gone by since the last writing effort, but not so much. We’ve been doing a good Ann thing. We’ve been updating things on the iPod … that’s a good thing. Now we are going to really try concentrating on the blog.
Some of the things we’ve updated are the Todo list, any count, calendar, and fitness. Pswhoo that’s enough. Our To-do list includes going to the gym, picking up medicine, setting goals for the day – Hey I’ve got that one done! Hmm, that goes on the list of what to buy. Make that another app. We need to pay bills and write in the blog … that’s … oh forgot one need to edit blog chapter … we don’t want to forget the major goals. We also want to go back over the last 5 chapters in the on-line book we listened to last night in the gym, so we can take notes. After that … we’ll want to listen to the second book, and then go back over both of them. We’re still not done either with Barack’s book. We listened to that last night too, but there is more.
We turned on CNN too in the background … just thought you might like to know what we’re listening too … but, up to now we were having quiet.
Oh dear … President Bush is addressing the economy … at least they are following the story because it appears he just spoke, but they didn’t have enough on to figure it out. It seems that Bush is just addressing the middle class is in trouble. Ok, on with the general program here.
On our any count, we added to tallies saying that we worked out in the gym, and that we did the proper morning routines of adding to diet/exercise, calendar and to-do etc. and we recorded a new category of how many minutes into straight blogging like we’re doing now. We set the timer and so far we’re up to 21 minutes. Fitness part included that we ate an English muffin with peanut butter and a pudding. What to buy program we added the medicine and a program to track gym sets and reps.
Ok, pswhoo. It might not seem like much, but it’s going to be a bigger deal to record what we’re doing in our general time. Specially, we want to be adding to the To-do list and the Calendar. It’s part of our new motivation program to become more responsible for the time we spend on this or that. Dr. Marvin reminded me last night that we start these things and then get overwhelmed with their complexity so we fade off. This might happen again with this last set of trends, but any time we can be getting back to it the better.
Part of this has to do with a motivational speaker that we’ve listened to named Brian Tracy’s Goals – How to get everything you want – faster than you ever thought possible. We’ve listened to all 20 chapters now and just have to take notes on the last 5 chapters … hmm, did we just say this? Uh-huh … ok, we’re going to progress somewhere, but it wasn’t just that. Let’s move ahead hehehe
We should mention fairly straight up that we’ve been on vacation this week. We took yesterday off too. So we’re at day 4 of 5 of being off. Wow … it’s been great. One of the things that we’re talking to Dr. Marvin about is being able to do more time from home doing this kind of stuff and less time at work. BUT, the trick is that we need to be making some money too.
Whatever we are going to do has to include making a minimum of $46-50,000 and getting health insurance. That means I have to gross between $3,800-4,200 a month or netting about 31,500 or 2,600 a month. Actually, as to health insurance we are paying about half of that which between health and dentil comes to $400 a month – plus we’re paying on medical bills.
We’re running right now as to take home pay after taxes and insurance to be about 68% or 2/3 of our gross. I think per hour we’re making about $22.56 an hour or something close to that. So, if we’re going to want to semi-retire toward working from home on our private book, we’re going to have to cover at least that much to prevent Rich from going crazy. Sheesh … what I do for that guy!
Of course, we’re thinking we want to be making more than that. I figure that if I made about $200,000 and IF which is a big if it stayed at 68%, I’d have a take home of $134,000 … the question then is can I afford to buy the house I like with furnishings for about $500,000. I think that would work, because straight up on top it would mean netting about 27% of what I would need to be paying toward housing … that’s a pretty fair amount of money. Mostly because I think you need to have at least 40% of your income to pay for housing … and I think Rich should kick in at least the lacking 13%. Hmm, now if I figure it out to take it all on … I should net $200,000 to do 40% of a $500,000 house. SOOO basically I’d have to gross $336,000 to put 40% down on a $500,000 home.
Ok, since we’re so close … why don’t we say that I need to make $350,000 a year … especially since they are going to tax more people who make over $250,000 a year. YEEKS! That sounds terrible!
So, according to the author I’ve been reading – Brian, I have to think toward my goals and visualize them if I am going to want to make a clear path toward that goal. I think one of my problems before was that I’d set myself a goal of making only $40,000. That was my goal left from 18 years ago in thinking that a $40,000 income was enough to be stable. Maybe if I didn’t have school loans and medical or pay for my own insurance it would be enough, but since I have to do all that … it’s simply not enough. SOOO, now we know that I need to earn $350,000. So, the question is how?
Part of the deal is that I am going to want to do the kind of writing I’m doing for my blog. Basically, my ideal goal would be to put what we write into books. And since I’ve written over 5 years … it would mean about 5 books. AND, they’d be very long.
I’m pretty sure if we could sell 5 books that whatever money I’d make – it be over $350,000 a year … well that would be the goal. Plus, it would give me an avenue to continue writing and making more books and earning more money.
Now … we’ve got to deal with a little reality. There’s probably not a market for anyone to be reading me – in that … what I write about is fairly normal stuff. I got up, go to work, write a little and then move on to be doing about the same kind of things over again. I think the old hook was that … we are a little different in doing this because we are a multiple and a little different because we are a mistress – plus we’re doing well enough to be getting along. I’ve been worrying lately, because I think of big events that would make a book interesting is to have major life challenges … certainly if I were going to publish and make money doing it … it would be a major life change. The one I’ve been worrying about though is that something could happen to Rich … and after so many years of waiting for him to be free, that something could happen to him. Primarily what we worry about is a heart attack because he’s so overweight. This is terrible things to think of and certainly not positive, so we’ll move on from here, but this is still our biggest life concern, even more than something happening to me.
Oh man … just caught Bush for a couple of sentences. He’s basically saying that he just realized that the economy is in worse shape than he expected and is more complex than he imagined. YIKES! That guy is frightening. He is just realizing all of this?
That’s about as bullshit as it comes. Ok, we’re not going negative though so we’re going to skip over that for the moment. Hopefully, our guy Obama is going to step up to the plate and say what needs to get said. We need to nail his election if we’re ever going to survive this point in relative life security.
Hmm, there’s some major thoughts here, but we don’t want to lose our focus, so due to that might have to focus on something different. We’ve covered enough our $350,000 Grand plan. I don’t think I’d really have to earn that much, but as long as we were setting goals – might as well at least shoot for this much. I thought yesterday of using writing talent to be doing some other kinds of writing. I happened across a site that was talking about basically writing self-help on-line – and with that I think the income was coming from the advertisement for having so many hits on your site. BUT, that kind of writing doesn’t appeal to me in the least. I also don’t really want to go into what’s happening in the world – such as a newspaper or magazine writer in that it take me too far from my regular goals.
Woohoo!!! I just got a message from Joe … he’s saying about 1 ish for lunch. That excites me to pieces. Now I gotta figure will I do the gym before that or after. I think today is really a swimming day. To work things backward … If I were to go swimming before … I’d have to leave by 12:15 pm to get to Joe’s that means shower AFTER swimming at home at 11:15 …
hmm, I could wash my hair at the gym though … so I’d want to be leaving the gym at noon … so out of the pool by 11:30 that would mean at the pool by about 10, and it’s about 9:15 am now. So, the question then is sooner or later considering I’d have to get going pretty soon. If I did it later … I’d have to figure that I’d get done with Joe’s about 4 pm and be at the pool at about 5 pm, which would only give me an hour and a half at the pool, because you have to be done half an hour before it closes at 7 pm.
It would seem reasonable to believe than that I should get going pretty soon. It be nice to have something to talk about while out with Joe. Being on target with our fitness goals makes a lot of sense. Just that it would mean we’d put our writing off and might not be able to get back to it today yet. BUT, maybe there’s that shot we’d be able to do it … which is something more positive to shoot for. Bills can be put off until tomorrow. Hmm, let’s check our to-do and calendar again. Hmm, there are smaller tasks, but the major one seems to be in editing the chapters. Maybe I can split that up … I can work on that part without thinking overly. I could then write after Joe’s from about 4-7 pm, and then do the editing at the same time we’re listening to a movie at 7-10 pm and then get back to bed early enough. We want to remember to set some bedtime goals and we’ve got to remember that Rich is coming back probably tomorrow morning. I forgot to ask his travel time, but I really think he just means to stay overnight. One of the guys has property by the Mississippi and invited 5 guys from fishing to come over.
It’s a pretty nice deal.
Hmm, just thought of that … if I’m making $350,000 that means that we still have Rich’s income too. Maybe I could then buy our regular house and he could by our vacation house. Hmm, that works for me! I think we’re all good. We’re still looking at the property over at the Elgin place. If I could get that floor plan somewhere else that still be the ideal. Let’s take one more look at that should we?
Hmm, it says that 70% of the homes in Del Webb have been sold. There seems to be 13 homes available that is considered the
Somerset II
Hmm, we’re back to feeling dreamy. I remember part of why that was so expensive. The home is actually like $350,000, but the extra built-ins that we were seeing cost another $100,000 – and then Rich added $50,000 for furnishings. I think it then included options like the garden room, patio, bays, fireplace and basement … I also am remembering that the place meant that someone was doing the landscaping and snow shoveling.
Hmm, we’re still here struggling through page loadings. We wanted to see the virtual tour … It would give us a couple of rooms and its where we go to get the very minimum of happiness in seeing the place. I’m hoping that it was just Google’s Chrome that wasn’t allowing it. But, I think we’re stopped up in general because IE isn’t loading proper either. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stepped into the above home and walked around it imaginatively. But, I think that’s what the writer was telling us of the motivation ideals. You need to imagine exactly what you want in clarity. Ok, are we going to be able to do it?
We’ve got the IE open for Edgewater – the community … but the virtual tour room is not opening YeeGADS … and it’s now 10 am. I figure we’ve got a half hour wiggle room, but this is really where push comes to shove.
Hmm, maybe … maybe … I see the backframe and the Java label has come up … Let’s hope, let’s hope … feel a burning desire to be looking at the place. I need to feel that sense of satisfaction. It says it’s loading we’ll see. It only shows two rooms, BUT!!! Hey it’s up!
Damn … it only shows two rooms and one is a den … which is the small bedroom.
