Hello friends!
Lisa i just LOVE that you are back here!!
and it is so great that your home is such that you can choose to decorate AND that you feel good enough to do so! I don't even know about those baskets you described but I love to hear your plans. YAY that you still have Elvira!! so glad to hear that. good doggie
Yes low carb seems to go so well for so many. I just get ravaged by desire for bready things when I try to do so. 50 lbs lost is amazing!!
and so glad you have a great PT person! but worried about why you are so dozey / sleepy? hopefully everything is fine.
And I am continuing to take your advice about tackling cleanup jobs. And listening to myself to STOP at a certain point before I get frustrated. or worn out. or make even more of a mess, LOL. And this is crazy but if I do too much, if it looks like too much was tossed, the husband gets worried that I'm throwing out his precious junk. Well I am, but I won't do too much at a time LOL.
Now to Kathleen - Hi!! so good to hear from you. AND OH MY GOSH YOU LOST SO MUCH!!! how great does that feel??? congrats!! and would love to hear you catch us up on what is going on . I hope so much your son and daughter are doing well
with the challenges of college. And life!
and Kathleen I am sorry , I hope it doesn't make you feel bad when I mouth off about clutter and cleaning up, that is insensitive of me
Maybe you have a different method of clutter than my husband, lol.
Oh you asked about my factory job? Yes I had that from late October 2018 thru April 2019. It was so hard to adjust to, but yes I had the friend from the other job there for companionship (and because we always walked around and ate lunch together, people thought we were sisters!! we looked NOTHING alike lol except for chemically created blonde hair lol!) And I was thankful for that job and I did fine there as a 'mature' (older than 25) person, everyone else always had trouble clocking in on time or getting to work, that is simple for me and I actually got an award for not being tardy at all, Haha!! What a nerd I am lol.
But I remember so well, coming here about my anxiety about it and all of you were so supportive!!!!
This past fall, my new ventures for the winter jobs were - assisting in a small jam/jelly kitchen, measuring ingredients, making product, capping hot product, labeling, etc. I was only needed during busy time of late October thru the third week of December. I was very nervous there too, the girl that was supposed to 'train' me only told me when to dump in my sugar and pectin and when to stir, so then when I was put on my own, I promptly ruined a LARGE batch of beer jelly ugh! the owner was kind of okay about it but obviously not happy about the loss. Ugh! I was glad to be done there.
THEN my second winter job (from late December to mid_March, when the world ended being normal) was in a little daycare center, making meals and snacks for the kids, then assisting the teachers. This was an awful job for me!! The kitchen was just like a home kitchen but even smaller, and an electric stove that would immediately smoke and smell like burning as soon as I turned it on...I did enjoy making awesome, delicious, and attractive little meals for the kids but then a teacher got in my face and said "Stop giving the kids red peppers and tomatoes all the time, they've had them 3 days in a row" which was NOT true, and I was TOLD by the owners to incorporate more fresh veggies!! that pissed me off so much! and when I went to one of the owners to say so, she commiserated with me but said "don't pay any attention to her, just keep doing what you're doing, you're fabulous" which is nice but doesn't address that the teacher needed to be talked to! but they didn't want her to get mad and quit.
and then we were all laid off mid-March...and the summer job Board of Directors decided not to open at all...so I have had the first summer off in my life since being 17!! It took me a couple months to get used to it and now I can't imagine going back to work LOL but I will have to soon.
Pat - I hope you are doing okay?? haven't heard from you in a bit but no pressure!!!! just thinking of you.
WOW as usual I am talking too much lol but again I love talking to you all here because I don't talk to anyone else.
Hey and I can't seem to post emoticons or color or 'bold', anyone else?
the garage! there is always some frontier around here for me to dive into whether I like it or not .
