User talk:TheEileen/Dec 2008
December 2008
31 Dec 2008
Happy New Year to those who celebrate now. Otherwise, Happy Wednesday! http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Holidays_and_Party/fireworks-074.gif
Updated list and wiki. About two projects moved forward each round - I'm amused as from waiting to F2 available and F2 available to PPing, they were all four things *I* worked on and nearly finished all by myself (if that "darned" hael hadn't snuck in and done the last 50 pages of Punicorum 2!!! :wink:). The four posted books were a nice touch.
I am doing a good job of not getting all peeved with the guy at work. I need to stop talking about him with one of my co-workers, as it only gets me riled up again. Part of the problem is getting HER to stop venting about him. I have a vague sense I'm fighting off a cold. It started about 10 minutes after I finished my weights work out at the gym. That does sometimes happen, I'll feel sort of sick for a day after; I think it is my body boosting the immune system or something (she says with no authority at all), and it usually fades. But with all the out in the cold and around other people recently, it may truly be fighting off a cold. My chest doesn't hurt exactly when I breath but I'm a lot more aware of my lungs than normal. And I'm doing this little pathetic cough whenever I breath deeply. :rolls eyes at self: Weather: cold and windy but rainy so TG all the snow melted (except that black stuff pushed up by the snow plows and covered with sand and dirt. We might get another snow system but apparently not as bad as what we had. My new heat pump is working well. I go through this period right after I go to bed, when I've set the temp to drop from 68F to 65F, when the system fan comes on. This circulates the air and is supposed to make the temperature much more balanced throughout my entire house. Well, right when the temp drops in the house, what it means is pretty darned cold air is blowing and I finally figured out I needed to put a sort of "diffuser" over the vents. So I used the mesh bag I put my delicate laundry in. It works fine. So, it feels chillier in the bed for the first hour or two BUT by 2am, instead of my bedroom feeling like ice, as it has the past five years, and if I have to get up to pee, I almost don't want to do it, the temperature is very even and cool but not COLD. This fan thing really is balancing the temp in my house better. It also helps because I don't wake up to what feels like a 45F bedroom and so put on the heaviest warmest clothes I can, only to arrive at work and swelter there since the temp is set to normal! Instead, I can dress properly and not feel too cold or too warm either at home or work. It is nice!
Anyhoodle, let's see. I'm off tomorrow and will try to start on one of the New Year's resolutions I'm going to post on the forum. But I'm not saying it here until next post. Ha!
25 Dec 2008
Updated list and wiki. Not so much movement between F1, F2, and PP, but SEVEN projects posted to PG. I think Christine's PPV push is probably part of the answer there. Good job. Very impressive. I'm finally caught up in forum threads. I began working on L'éclaircissement again and Punicorum. Then hael popped in and finished off the last 50 pages. Wowser! Lucy is shocked and awed and now has to finish it off! :evil evil chuckle: So, I need to concentrate on Spalding's. It is the only thing left that was on the F1 list at some point started in 2003. I want to get all those suckers out of here. Five years. I don't mind it and with a TEI heavy set of volumes like this - I understand it. I know it makes some other DPers crazy though. They hate the long waits.
Life has been going a little better. I got into a good headspace with the annoying guy at work. I am more easily able to say "not my problem". I've spoken to the boss and although he hasn't actually followed through on anything he said he would do (that I can see), I have the knowledge that my boss agrees with me, thinks I'm doing the right things, and supported me in the "this guy isn't my problem to solve". So, even if the problem isn't solved, I can know it's not ME that has to fix it. Stress levels went down a bit from that. We've had MASSIVE snow up here. According to two people who were born and raised here, this is something like a 45 year record that is being broken up here. I ended up being "stuck" at home for at least three days. Well, losing ground a work, but catching up on forum posts. Oh, I made one suggestion I've tried to follow through with at work, and it is keeping ME on track as well as providing a way for the others to do their own "what I did today". Health continues pretty good, although with the cold, I have learned that I have one of "those" sprained ankles. It throbs at me when it is going to rain or snow heavily. It has actually woken me from my sleep, the darned thing. My weight is steady. I'd go to the gym more often but the b*****s have changed the hours. As I was trying to adjust to THAT, we had the snow. So, I've been working out at home OR I am stating that an hour of snow shovelling and two hours of walking in snow - THAT is my exercise (dang it!). My friend has just thrown up his hands and started buying junk food galore and shovelling it in. Then he can't fit in his new clothes, is grumpy, and other self-destructive sort of things going on. Why, I cannot fathom. He says he can't exercise since his garage is so cold, but he bought a heater. I understand that he has a routine and he'd have to change it to stay warm enough out there (I'm all about needing my routine), but why then go out and buy crap? If I knew I couldn't exercise well, I'd buy less junk food and concentrate on not losing ground. He says "well, since I can't exercise I might as well just eat myself sick". and he can't really explain why he does that, and I don't get it. He really wants to lose weight, but he sabotages himself all the time.
I have been reading this really wonderful book (well, two really), but if anyone reads this (and why are you people? Grin) try "The Culture Code". It is FASCINATING. I had two break throughs at therapy because of this book and my therapist is a little shell-shocked. It may not be that life-changing for anyone else, but it certainly is thought-provoking. Oh, and read "The Unthinkable: Who survives disasters and why" (that second part is not exact). Equally thought-provoking and made some sense out of some things I've lived through.
Okay, now I suppose it's back to foofing!
24 Dec 2008
Hey Ei, where are you? —Frau Sma
10 Dec 2008
I updated the list and even the wiki but had no time to write up my notes. Work and all still the same and busy. I got over 2000 behind in my forum threads and found myself completely unable to do ANYthing until I caught up again. Bizarre.
And now back to Index to 2008