Office Work.......

[dacjohns]

I guess I should try to do something productive rather than fun.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Nope, men should be men, only better... , but not girly like girls, you know, like all wimpy and like that, okay?

Pianos are beautiful. I grew up with a baby grand in the house because my dad was a church music director (a chemist by profession). He absolutely refused to let anything but music and/or dust be on his piano. Flower vases? Nope. Books? Nope. Photos in frames? Nope. Don't put anything on the piano - it's an instrument, not a table!!!!! (I can almost hear him now...)

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Sharpen that chainsaw Man!

 

[Buff Hooligans]

How in the WORLD can Valentine Day be construed as a religion-based day????? Saint Hallmark and the Church of the Mall, maybe!

 

[AK Michelle]

I had a simply wonderful Valentines Day.

Now to read about everyone else....

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Michelle's still on the Love Boat apparently. She's our token Success Story! And she shows up just when I have to leave for a half-hour to change offices.

 

[scbatz33]

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"The reason behind all of this is a kindly cleric named Valentine who died more than a thousand years ago.

It is not exactly known why the 14th of February is known as Valentine's Day or if the noble Valentine really had any relation to this day. Saint ValentineThe history of Valentine's Day is impossible to be obtained from any archive and the veil of centuries gone by has made the origin behind this day more difficult to trace. It is only some legends that are our source for the history of Valentine's Day.

The modern St. Valentine's Day celebrations are said to have been derived from both ancient Christian and Roman tradition. As per one legend, the holiday has originated from the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalis/Lupercalia, a fertility celebration that used to observed annually on February 15. But the rise of Christianity in Europe saw many pagan holidays being renamed for and dedicated to the early Christian martyrs. Lupercalia was no exception. In 496 AD, Pope Gelasius turned Lupercalia into a Christian feast day and set its observance a day earlier, on February 14. He proclaimed February 14 to be the feast day in honor of Saint Valentine, a Roman martyr who lived in the 3rd century. It is this St. Valentine whom the modern Valentine's Day honors"

To learn more the rest is here..... http://www.theholidayspot.com/valentine/history_of_valentine.htm

ETA - someone needs to learn how to Google.

 

[AK Michelle]

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I know he's in pain - bad teeth and arthritic like symptoms in his back and hands. I get that. But that not with standing, the drunkard behavior is coming back. I don't know if it is totally that or a series of factors. I do know he's done living in the present. he's moved on to the fantasy world of Wyoming and I'm left here to deal with everything alone.

I don't know, or claim to know, all there is to know about all of this. What I have been told and what I read is that stopping drinking is the easy part. You either drink or you don't. Dealing with all the psychological and functional aspects of an addictive personality is by far much much harder and most people aren't equipped to do it without help. I learned a lot from my alcoholic friends, I didn't even know some of them were recovering alcoholics till I started talking. All of them had some sort of counseling whether it was friends, AA, or a counselor/shrink. Some had more than one type of counseling. All of them said the mental/emotional part was by far the hardest to get a grip on.

If your benefits includes any sort of Employee Assistance Program - use it. If you don't know, ask HR. Our allows 3 visits per "subject" with a counselor at no cost to us. I used it for marriage counseling and then again when dd#2 was completely off the deep end, head spinning psycho. If that's not an option there are plenty others, let me know if you need help finding resources or just need to talk.

 

[AK Michelle]

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I know how to Google but I prefer to just ask P-Nut. He's faster and needs a hobby

 

[wegotchickens]

I just realized why I like FB: I can't keep up wuth ya'll any more. Wears me out trying to read it all, much less keep up with the referenced side-threads.
I haven't really been on for days.

Weekend wasn't too bad. Mom was okay, I bought DD's patience with the lure of new ringtones. She now has 2 of her current favorite mom-tolerable songs as ringtones (Sting-Don't Stand So Close, Peter Gabriel- Games without Frontiers)
DD totally fell apart over the t-shirt quilt

I did much better than I expected, until she fell apart. But then Mom & I worked on it and later DD was able to come back and give input.

Then on Sunday my f-i-l fell in IL. Cracked his head on a curb. Hospital stay isn't going well. Bed restraints type of not going well. DH's sis isn't happy, and DH's brother's are slackers and won't go. DH always goes, but really doesn't want to because Friday is his birthday and we're going to a chicken show in GA. DD will stay with my mother (OMG please let it go well) so we will have the hotel room to ourselves....
So, DH doesn't want to go to IL, he wants to make sure I come home with less chickens than I take to GA.
But his sis is all alone and getting mad about it. There is no win-win scenario in the Game of Life.

Last night I dreamed I went to the show and someone stole all my showbirds and then we found them dead in the trash. I woke up crying. And really ticked off. Ever tried to go back to sleep after a dream like that?