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no....just not big on shopping by internet.
Sort of an ADD thing. I get started looking and take all sorts of diversions and forget what I was looking for. It's easier to live without it than to go through the process. My life is not significantly worse for not having them. Indeed, I might weigh less - though you can't tell it right now due to recent expansionist activity.
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I don't know where you can find the chocolate you are looking for, but here's a photo to cheer you up. From the last day of our cruise. Butchart Gardens, Victoria BC, Canada. Evening, just after they turned on the lights. ~ The Sunken Garden ~ http://www.outdooroutlet.com/SS/alaska/garden.jpgSS
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Neak, I did sing Happy B Day. Did you hear it? T&L, How did day shift go? Anyone seen T&L? Maybe she's still sleeping. Hi AW !!! Oh, I mean <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Life is better now? I bet it feels that way. SS
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That is gorgeous. But I want chocolate - after I get my real needs met!
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Oh, what a beautiful garden! I wish I could create things like that, but alas not my bit of specialness. Maybe the gardener wishes he/she could write, lololol. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />I did hear you. Now I feel well and truly 35.:) Mom is asleep, but I got to talk to her for a little this morning. AJ had an adventure going to the little church in MT yesterday. There are hardly any members - he said so far they can't afford to keep it open in winter because the heating and insurance costs are more than they can pay, but they really really want to be able to. Especially since if there are any visitors, they will not necessarily know where to attend "Meeting at Fred's house today"... Well, as soon as they found out he was from CA, they were so excited! "You're from CA??? A while back, a couple of people from CA called, and were thinking of moving here!!!!!!!" (That was over a year ago.) You can imagine their surprise and extreme delight to hear that AJ was the DH/BIL of the callers. "Oh! Well then, you HAVE to move here!" Neaksis and I were tickled, well, pink, to find out that we were still such a high point after so long. We both feel very special and honored now. And AJ got to stay long enough to eat potluck before they carried him off to show him houses. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> So very sweet! Today is my day to finish IFTA (truck fuel taxes), but I'll pop in now and again to take a break whenever my eyes start crossing.
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
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hi Neak hope you get your taxes done! Still got to do ours for the year. Had to get up to tuck Mikey in as he has been a bit restless. Need to go back to bed its 3 am here. YAWN Just had to check to see if his nibs had emailed, still nothing though. HEHE Glad to see you famous in MT as well as the rest of the world <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> well our world which is as we all know the only one to be in lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> I wonder what home he ended up seeing? ...or buying <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> I have to let you in on a big secret, but only if you promise not to tell anyone ..... at 35 you are now allowed to count back on every birthdsy after until you get to 30!! Its true, cross my heart <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I think I fell asleep writing this, I had better get to bed Hi SS I'll write more when I am awake .. us old chicks need ALL the beauty sleep we can get. I hope you got to listen to my son, I still haven't been able to yet. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> I haven't heard him sing since he was 16 and then it was heavy metal about kill, thrills and something something, really not my thing. Oh this was what I ate on Wednesday night when my DS surprised me......... Entree Chicken Liver Terrine wrapped in bacon and baked served with Cayenne Toast & Mascarpone cheese Main Chicken & Andouille Gumbo which was a chicken with a spicy pork sausage in this spicy soup or gravy with rice Desserts ... yes I said dessert'S I tried the lot <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />, but only a few spoonfuls of each... pecan pie with peach liquor, Sweet potato pie with Mascarpone cheese, Mud cake with Grangelico liquor cream lots of cream, chocolate bread pudding with choc mousse and bourbon Afters then black strong coffee with cheese platter and dried fruit & crackers ... or is that just me ? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> must go, love to all. AW
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IFTA is quarterly, so I have to do it 4 times a year. AND they only give you 15 days after the quarter closes to have it all figured and any payment turned in. (Ours this time is $43, so not too bad.)
A brief, boring description of IFTA.
Every state charges a certain amount of tax on its diesel fuel. CA is one of the most expensive states, usually around $.33-36/gallon.
IFTA makes sure all the taxes even out. So you can't just buy fuel in the cheaper states and pay nothing to the more expensive states.
IFTA makes you figure out how many miles you drove in each state, how many gallons you burned, your average MPG, and thus, how much fuel tax you should have paid to each state, vs. how much you actually paid. Then each state will either charge you the extra, or refund the difference.
IFTA acts as a central location, so you don't have to pay each state, or get 20 checks for $.26 or $3.39 or something.
Eyes glazing over? Mine, too.
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
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Yikes, the tax thing - too much for me.
Yum - the food thing. I'll take the leftovers.
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Hi SS I'll write more when I am awake .. us old chicks need ALL the beauty sleep we can get.
Old??
Ha, you don't even qualify yet. Good try though.
SS
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Cinderella,
I'm thinking about what you have been saying about getting your needs met. I realize you already know that us meeting them is not the best way to get them met.
I would like to ask though, what needs are the most pressing? What are you wishing for the most right now?
SS
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IFTA -
Our state charges too much tax??
Ha too bad, you have to pay anyway.
That's right, we're from the government, and we're here to help you.
What's that, you don't need help? That's also too bad, you'll take it anyway.
Ok, you caught me in one of "those" moods.
Anyone need any zucchini?
Please?
SS
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What needs are most pressing?
Organization! As an entirely ADD family, we are not gifted in that category - an ADD mom, an ADD daughter, an ADHD son. It's a trip!
Money! See above. Some organization and money mgmt skills would be a godsend. But, once equilibrium was reached, organization and better stewardship, which could be paired hand-in-hand, would be key.
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You seem to do well at your job.
What are your strong points there? What do you feel you are best at. Please don't be modest. I want to have all the facts before I say more.
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Well, at work they are always pushing me. It's a lot like a factory job. Thing is, some days I can really focus on it and some days I can't. It's so repetitive, sometimes, that I can't stand it. There is no room for creativity where I am now. NONE!
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So you feel you do well because of the way the work environment is organized, and not because of your own talent?
Also -
It bothers you that it is so regimented?
I'll be away for a few hours at this point -
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It bothers me that my job performance is measured by how many applications I reject or rate on a daily basis. It's about numbers. There's no room for creativity. The ADD brain can not sit there and do nothing but think in an evaluative manner all day, every day, 5 days/week. It's a good thing to never get out of your seat. It's a good thing to produce produce produce vast quantities of repetitive work. It's not a good thing to have a creative thought. It's like picking cotton. The most valuable field workers were the ones who could pick the most cotton. Not the ones who could see the beauty in the sky, who noticed the butterflies, who wondered why that unusual creature was there.
Most people didn't notice the boll weevil until it was a big problem. No one considered crop rotation in the south, at least not on a large scale, until the fields were becoming fallow because there was no nitrogen and George Washington Carver came upon the idea of reintroducing nitrogen by planting legumes - principally, peanuts. Then, there was no significant market for that product until he studied what to do with them.
The narrow minded scope and opportunities frustrate me.
Meanwhile, I do have an interview for a promotion on Friday. It would mean more money for doing the same thing - only more of it. I don't earn much - at least I don't think it's much based on my age, education, and income. But, I earn enough and owe enough that I can't afford to go backwards.
I have a child starting college in 2 years and no savings. This is a problem.
My employer would pay for me to take one class a semester at any state sponsored school - but what to take.
Computers don't interest me. Books and art do. I/O psych would get me a ticket out to something that might be more creative but the director of that division is a certifiable uncouth man. I don't need any more cursing in staff meetings. Worked under him once and that is enough.
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Wow, I begin to see.
It must be difficult to work under those conditions.
I am lucky in that my work changes a lot from day to day (though it is much the same overall from month to month.)
There is some chance to be creative too.
I just decided I like my job more today than I did yesterday. Thanks, you did a good job there.
Anyway, it looks like you see a lot of stress. That is not good for us.
How do you cope?
SS
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Old??
Ha, you don't even qualify yet. Good try though. I think I feel old though <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> my hair is falling out, whats left is changing colour ... is gray in this year? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> I'm having a week off to be with Mikey, DD, DS & new soon (maybe)to be DIL <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />, and to finish off the pergola for the spa. I think I'm working harder here than at work! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> There I think and formulate and use the gray matter .. but can be so boring at times can understand that one Rella.. and here I use very sore muscles and commonsense to build things. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> But better than drinking or smoking or cogitating on things I can't change. Cogitating sounds so much better than sulking! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> 2 weeks off study as well as its mid semester at the Uni.. DD is on holidays too but still goes into the childrens hospital most days. But her man is coming home soon so she is happy. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> well lunch break over, back to putting the roof batterns on... drilling into steel is hard on a ladder 12 ft above the ground <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />
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Stress.....could that be why my hair periodically goes through periods of falling out? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> DUH!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
It is pretty stressful but at least this supervisor likes me. My last one, before I took this job, didn't. And this job IS easier than my last one. The job before that, my supervisor really liked me and thought I hung the moon but I needed opportunities that could only be had by leaving that position.
Would I leave where I am now? Yup.
Could I do worse? Yup.
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Stress.....could that be why my hair periodically goes through periods of falling out? DUH!!! My advice is to quit pulling on it - Oh no, I was supposed to listen, not give advice. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> Neak is quiet. Is she on the road? AW, I feel old sometimes too. Wait - I am old. I have a right to feel that way. I guess stress does that to you also, so you and Rella can feel old sometimes if you want to. I wonder if T&L ever feels old. I don't think she's old enough yet - but I know she has stress too. Hi CC, I hope you are having a good week. No, a GREAT week. Hi Neak Sis. Is the atmosphere at your house a little sweeter these days? SS
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