User talk:TheEileen/Sep 2007
September 2007
09-03-2007
Updated foofer list and wiki, again not much movement. I'm too lazy to update this page today, I'll do it next time. I have been working on content for my NW book, and at the rate I'm going ... I'll be posting this by New Year's!
09-09-2007
Updated foofer list and wiki, not much movement. I am sooo tired. I had to work all weekend (that'll teach me to volunteer) and while I was fed beautifully, that may contribute to why I feel like I could sleep for a week. And of course, it's a horrible busy week with not a moment to breath. Stress, thy name is my life. Right now. Sigh.
09-16-2007
Updated the foofer list and wiki, today and on the 13th. Not too much movement but three posted books. Hurrah! I've been concentrating on foofing in F2 to move my moldy oldies and in F1 to work on the list. I've managed nearly 5 pages a day of work on the content provision. Between OCRing, saving in the right format, putting the line breaks back in, and making the image the right size, I can do about 5 pages in 20 minutes. Since the book is 300 pages long ... the mind boggles. But eventually it'll be done.
Life is what it is. Crazy busy but I'm trying hard, hard to maintain balance and not get too stressed. I worked all last weekend 12 hours a day with no stop for my other other volunteer work and so doing nothing this weekend but chores, housework, tv, books, and DP is utter bliss.
09-22-2007
Updated the list and wiki and there was even some movement including posted project. Middle High German Primer, wow! That just about killed me. I've been diligently working away on my CP. It goes a tiny bit faster as my OCR is finally learning more each page. Now I'm all worried that I should make every yellow-y page black and white and I think it's actually harder to read that way. Oh well.
Life, still crazy. I talked to my doctor and we adjusted one of my meds, which I really hope will take care of one of my health problems. I should like to avoid having surgery if possible. I need to take a look at a quiz, I'll try for today but more likely tomorrow. It's sunny but cool, just the way I like it.
09-29-2007
Updated the list yesterday and the wiki today. Some movement with two posted. I am going to make a "started in 06" page to split up the posted page. That way it won't be too long. I continue with my CP prep. I finished thru to page 65 today. On a 300 page project. It takes roughly 25 minutes to do five pages, run through the ocr, make .txt, put back in the line breaks (this may go faster now that I realize "stop taking out the line breaks" is an option and I turned it off!). We'll see. I've got Correspondance Diplomatique down to 100 pages. If I do 10 a day, it'll be done in less than two weeks. And I'll let the next one go for at least 25 days before I start it.
I've been sick. I had to go on travel for training. The training was good, but the room was horrible. So many people were either freezing or boiling and the difference was about three chairs. It was dry as a desert and by morning of day two, half the room was coughing, sneezing, wheezing, and wearing bulky souvenir sweatshirts to keep warm. I didn't do too badly but yesterday (first full day back) I felt iffy and I woke up this morning and worshipped porcelain. Luckily, it was over fairly quickly and with little to no actual pain in the tummy. Headache like you wouldn't believe, oh well. By mid-afternoon I got some soup into me and it stayed in. Had a cup of coffee and aspirin for the headache and that worked. By now (around 9pm) my energy levels are back and my tummy also handled chicken and mashed potatoes for dinner. I'll be good and skip the icecream I have a craving for. I think the dairy wouldn't be so hot.
Work is crazy but I think I have to keep reminding myself not to project my hot-button issue of failure. Thanks Mom! Yes, if I do 15 things out of 16, my mom would always say "why isn't #16 done?" regardless of the fact that every one else would have been lucky to get 5 things done in the same time. High standards, my a**. So I'm in a place right now where if anyone asks me for anything, I want to snap "I'm doing the best I can" because I am projecting that they are really saying "why haven't you done this yet, you are slow and lazy and a failure". I managed to rein in myself on the phone the other day by sheer will power but after the call, when ranting to myself, I actually realized that this person was doing exactly what I had told him. I always tell people that I only read mail at 9am and 2pm (well, I try) and that if they send me mail but need a quicker answer, call me. He sent the message, I happened to see it, read it, and it was something I could answer quickly so I was typing the message, and he called. I wanted to yell that I was working as fast as I could, but didn't. Like I said, after the call, it hit me. I had projected my sense of not working fast enough onto him when all he did was call me like I had asked. I just feel so very, very, very pressured, and I have GOT to realize that most of that is not coming from an external source, but an internal one. When someone asks how something is coming, I do not need to flash onto the fact that *I* wanted to have it done by last week and so therefore *they* are complaining that I didn't do it. They are asking "how is that coming?" I think I'm going to focus on that with my therapist this week. She also wants to work on stress relief exercises with me, so that's good too. My acid reflux came back up, as I say below, and we upped my meds. It worked for a few days, then I had a very stressful day and bam! extra meds or not, it was back. It scares me because I know how much damage it can do to the esophagus and that it can lead to cancer, which is why I'm on the stupid pills in the first place. Plus, I hate being scoped (ugh) and if this doesn't calm down, tubes down the throat it will be. Or worse, back up the bum and I hate, hate, hate that fleet enema drink you have to drink (gag,gag,gag). Which doesn't add to my stress at all, nope. ha!!!!!
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