Umm, didn't get too far here on Saturday
Hi Ann,It sounds like things might have been going like this for a little while. Maybe? I do remember that in the past you had similar situations where you would be very focused on a subset of activities to the exclusion of others. You then seemed to be unable to connect to those other activities in a productive way, felt frightened by them at times, and then tended to avoid them. One of the ways we worked thought it in the past was to review/remind ourselves that these are activities are things you already know how to do and have done well (like work). It has taken some courage to take that first step back to doing things, but it seems to almost always work out. I think the work to do is how to find a balance so that all the things get done that are important.
-Dr. M
I Can't Work Today!
I can't respond to any emails today either,
something has crashed on my computer. Go
Good morning this is me. This is the good stuff we found in our email this morning. The first is from Dr. Marvin which is a response to the email I sent to him earlier. The second is a picture from Vickie that we got in our email. I thought it was pretty cute. I’d like to think it applies to the theme we’ve been under where we are hesitant to be working. We’re going to need to take another closer look at Dr. Marvin’s note, but this morning we’re just starting and I don’t want to zoom into anything too fast. We’re syncing the iPod so that has us a little nervous. We’re hoping we don’t erase anything important.
Hmm, ok, it seems to be done. It seems like it’s ok. I’m not sure if I told you yesterday, but we figured out how to do the syncing of the outlook calendar and contacts to our iPod WOOHOO!!! This was major … it was the main reason that we got the extra program from Apple Me.com. We wanted to make sure the iPod and both home and work computers were connected.
I’m so proud of ourselves for not giving up. We came back to it about 4 times before we figured it out. Basically, the hard part was getting past a message from Itunes where there was an advertisement that we had to accept or cancel. It was an update of 2.02 phone to the iPod touch. I finally decided to try it out because it was under $10, and that seemed to break the spell and get me to the next screen I needed for the syncing. I hadn’t found it before so I never got to the right place. After we got there things we’re pretty easy.
Hmm, now I’m downloading a speech … I missed Barack Obama’s speech to the Democratic delegations because I fell asleep.
I am not sure that the reviews were too outstanding because they said that it reflected his stump speeches. But, it is a speech I should hear. I want to download Michelle Obama’s too … I think that night Rich was home and we needed to listen to something else. I might download a few other things. I started it at work, but didn’t get too far, because I was downloading too many at the same time, and then I ran out of time. Now I have 9 minutes on the download, where earlier I’d had like 6 hours on the same one because of competition for downloading whatever.
One of the ones that I wanted to get was a application for the “White Pages,” which is a phone application that even does reverse telephone numbers. I’m not sure if it’s going to require a wi-fi, but we’ll eventually get around to figuring that out.
Rich said yesterday that if Chicago got the Olympics that for sure the Mayor would push the entire city going wi-fi. Sure be nice. There was the note from yesterday … I don’t know if we got it to the blog, but Sister said she’d contact her nephew for the wi-fi password. Rich ended up supporting me big time there because he could use the wi-fi connection up front when he’s using his computer in the workshop.
Ok, not sure where I was, but I’m frustrated with the syncing stuff. I don’t think the other program I put on synced properly so now I’m doing it all again. I hope it works, because I can’t find the files I’ve downloaded. I’m just hoping that it gets picked up with my movement. It’s about 11 am now. I’m frustrated with some of the links on iTunes like download and application which don’t appear under all circumstances so I don’t know how to get back to those things that I was working on.
Hmmm, now I think I’m burning a back-up disk to DVD, but I’m not sure. It seems to be doing something. I was hoping to catch somewhere the things I just downloaded and can’t find the access too, and then when I found the backup I thought that was a good idea, because the last screen while I was uploading said something about erasing everything on my iPod. That’s where I made the mistake of backing out – so now I don’t know how to get back that I’ve gotten the confidence to chance losing all my stored stuff. Primarily because I’ve got everything I could put back on it. I should have toughed it out, but I didn’t I might pay for that mistake, but at least it really seems like I’m getting backed up – though it’s threatening to take about 25 minutes. I guess we just let it go and do what it wants to do and meanwhile we calm down and try to write a bit. I think I have to take some stuff off iTunes, because there’s a bit of stuff that keeps coming up in time consuming tasks that I don’t necessarily have an investment in except its there and might be good might not.
I’m afraid to let it go on it’s own. It’s at about 15 minutes now and I’ve eaten lunch … just had Chef Boyardee forkables. It’s a spaghetti thing. By watching the download I can see what’s being put on the disk. I want to know if my new downloaded stuff is on there. It seems to be skipping around unpredictably so I’m not sure all of wht it’s doing. But it seems to be half way through so that’s a good sign. It has found all three speeches from both Obamas and the Kennedy’s so I felt good about that … Aha … it’s writing ambiance which is one of the missing downloads. That’s a real good sign. It’s an application for soft sounds that hookup for a prescribed about of time. It was just .99 cents
Some of the stuff I don’t recognize like something called Tu. It must be some kind of auto loaded something. 10 minutes now. It’s writing some kind of tracks might be something V had sent on album. I think there are some of them that I wrote too because it says January 06 Sunday 1-1-06 … maybe that’s some of my old tapings. I think they had come up when I was listening to my music before. Ahh now the Manchurian Candidate … it was the movie I downloaded just to see how all that worked. I know that’s on the iPod now … I just figured out how to get it there. Now 4 minutes. Long time backing-up the movie. I don’t think I will have many of them here even thought they are $2.99 … well at least some of them. I’d much rather have a free speaker like that Randy guy that just died. 2 minutes. 1 minute.
Ouch I guess before it was writing now there’s a note saying they are burning the disc, but that might take up to an hour.
YEGADS! I guess this is a good time to get my head back in the game. I’m thinking though that I might want to be going swimming pretty soon. I know I just ate, but Rich is due to be back already in 75 minutes and I kinda wanted to free up my day to be with him. It means that I’m only up to 3 pages in my writing, but I’m getting kinda ancy too to be testing out the new swimsuit. Today I will be able to swim a little AND do the walking. We’re really hoping that most people are doing something else on the weekend. Lunchtime seems to be just as good a time as any.
posted by Ann Marie @ 9/07/2008 05:24:00 AM
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