Please, Martin, don't eliminate doctors so you can be your own doctor. It's important to keep medical connections connected, but, if you honestly don't like a doctor, feel a doctor isn't helping or contributing, then of course a doctor like that should be dropped or replaced. Your primary should be your best "friend" in all your medical "adventures", while the others are the "extended friends"...hopefully not needed forever, but good enough to keep around if you do.
I read the title and was in total agreement with you right then and there! Being a mom is one of the toughest jobs going because it requires the skills of all jobs!
Kids are a handful and keeping things running for them and everybody else is a challenge that most could not keep up in any other kind of a job because there are just so many angles, twists, conditions, surprises, priorities, responsibilities, wants, needs, demands, ohhhhh, what am I telling you this for? You already know! Just be the best mom you can be and keep talking to your kids and letting them know you love them (even when they think they can't see it)...it's all you can do because you know it's the right thing to do. You really are a good mom, don't doubt yourself.
I can still see the smile of pride on your face! The best gramma! Wow!
What beautiful work, as I would expect and I should know. This must be the time of year for such projects because my mom has been knitting up toques like crazy. When I was there this past weekend, I could see 10 of them lined up on a bench in the dining room. Some will be gifts, she said, others will be donated for the church bazaar, but she claims she has more to make. I've always liked toques...they always seem to be in style and they can be so warm.
Ahhhh, verrrrrry interesting....that's your personality, huh? Hmmmmm. I like it!
A great movie that I've watched numerous times. This was an interesting post, too...I like getting a little bit more of a story, if you know what I mean.
The guy is trying to make a life of his own, so he is putting his own needs and wants first. He still wants to be a dad and he'll "fit that in" as the schedule allows. This is a common behavior that comes from a selfish need to fill a void of some kind that anything from his past relationship/family can not interfere with. It is common, as I said, not in everybody's case but in a lot of cases. "It's time to get on with my life, so I must find new for myself and make old responsibilities less important to me or I'll still be drawn into what was." They don't seem to know how to balance things, they don't see it from the child's perspective, or maybe it doesn't matter in the scheme of things because it's the way things have to be" (according to their interpretation of the state of things). He will and can argue that he is doing nothing wrong and will have things to back up his claims, so it might be a good thing if his new "friend", even if you're not thrilled about it, is caring and sensitive enough to push him towards including his children in his life more than he is doing. If she is accepting and sensitive to him being a dad and what that means (especially to the kids), she may encourage him in a more favorable way. Just as G never failed to include the kids as part of the package you make up, maybe your ex needs to know that his "friend" will accept the whole package, too.
People even argue and become offensive when a historical fact is presented in a religious dialogue, arguing that it's not what they were taught, it has nothing to do with what's important, that one shouldn't have read or listened to the source in the first place, etc. One does not have to abandon one's own beliefs while listening and learning about what others have to say. It's ok to state agreement or a difference of opinion, but it's only necessary to hold on to what is liked, believed, approved and to dismiss what is contrary, uncomfortable, rejected. We were born with brains, right? So, allowing information to pour into the brain so that more can be learned, and then process the information to sift and sort it all into the right locations for useage, storage, and classification is a good thing. Close the door on the brain and the contents become outdated, tired, and maybe decayed.
I always can't get over how much mess one must make in order to make things better. In order to have things nicer or to correct some things, things have to be torn up, torn down, and all sorts of things, making it necessary to live and deal with a mess when all anybody wants is the opposite. Good luck to you with this major project...I know it'll be a big job and a big expense, but it sounds like it will be wonderful after it's all finished.
THAT is the person who has a problem! You're not doing anything wrong and, yet, you felt you had to explain yourself and justify your absence. Well, sometimes we do have to do that, with those in a superior position, but THAT woman must feel that you are a much better teacher than she is, can handle more than she can, is more of an excuse maker than a person who states things realistically, or just downright insecure or having problems of her own. So, if you think you're insecure and any of those things, then thank goodness you're that much more confident and have that much more happy and good things in your life than she does! Whoooo, don't let that woman or anyone else like her get you down because they're actually looking up to you! You represent something that threatens their mood, security, confidence or whatever...that shouldn't make you happy, but it should be a boost, not a let down.
You are letting a lot of things tug at you and, because of the habit of thinking in certain ways and the reality of this behavior/thought pattern in your life, you are dealing with a common recurrence of something that tends to pop back in when certain things become comfortable but some underlying problems still exist and/or old memories and ways return from the sub-surface when new excitements and pre-occupations subside. It IS NOT BECAUSE ANYTHING IS WRONG...but your mind makes you have to believe something has to be wrong so to give you a protection, something familiar that has it's own comfort and familiarity to it. This is when therapy is more important than the meds, not just talking with friends and loved ones (which is helpful, of course), but with someone with professional skills for helping, just like a medical doctor would be consulted and more active during an active medical problem even if medication was being taken. But, it isn't because anything is wrong or something bad is happening to you. It's the darn "what's happening to me and why" thoughts and feelings that are wrong and those can be worked on so that they can be just as good as you are!
Oh, I love it!
That was quite a marathon! I haven't seen any of those movies yet...gee, I don't see much until they reach TV and that's usually when they're ages old, been cut a bit, or when I can't catch the entire thing. But, I love movies and can easily be entertained even by the not-so-good ones, although I do prefer seeing the good ones. Your reviews don't make any of these sound very promising, although I still feel I might enjoy a few of them.
I'm praying all will go well with the lower dosage. And, it sure will be a good thing when the doctor takes care of that form for your work.
I saw the title and said to myself, "What, is Joan writing a 4-F piece?"
The family-owned repair shop I worked in regularly repaired Lawn-boys because, unless the super-duper commercial model, most would mysteriously refuse to start, even for the repairmen, which was so darn frustrating!
That farting story scared me. Of course it's battery, but I thought I recognized the name, age, location as the identity of another known felon. I'm still not totally convinced that it's a different person, but I now have my doubts.
That smoking thing they are calling cigarettes...well, if the battery charger should ever fail, I suppose I could smoke the batteries. And then smoke the manual (one page at a time) and then, as a last resort, the membership card, seeing as how I wouldn't be needing it any longer.
I wanna be on the boat ride! I wanna be on that boat! I'd like to see the flower after the boat ride is over, but I wanna be on the other side of that "black panel" looking out at all around me!
That's a wonderful way to enjoy Thanksgiving. I've had at-home meals and dining-out meals and I love both kinds. I enjoy the cooking or the pot-luck-ing for at-home meals and I enjoy the work-free, help-yourself or waited-on experiences of dining out. I know you enjoy dining out, so I'm sure you'll enjoy a Thanksgiving meal at a restaurant.
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