Posted by Greg on December 5, 2001, at 18:16:17
In reply to Valiant Knight » Greg, posted by Willow on December 4, 2001, at 22:12:22
I'll answer betwixt your posts so my memory doesn't fail me...
> You are so kind to remember me. The only thing blowing up north here is my waist line (LMAO!!!) and lots of rain. Did you ever find a map of Ontario?
Yes I did, but I think my problem was I was looking for a little tiny Willow waving her arms. Perhaps you were indoors?
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> Found this neat link called Mapquest. If you type in Callander for the City and ON for the state it'll give you a map of my corner of the world. It's really good. I typed in my street address and it was neat to see everything.I did check Mapquest and I remember that I couldn't find your city. Maybe they've done an update, I'll check again and let you know.
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> We've had some record highs set for this time of year. Today I went out with just a t-neck and blazer. We've had about 10cm of snow in one day, it lasted about a week then the winds blew up from the west and brought more rain. I prefer the snow this time of year otherwise it's too dark in the evening. The sun starts to rise around 8 is gone by 5.I have this feeling that your record highs are still very, very cold. I lived in Utah for three years and the first year I thought the snow was cool...until I got a job working in it. I learned to hate it very quickly. I'm a warm weather mammal. I'm the one you see walking around in shorts and a tank top in the winter. The hotter, the better.
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> Hubby got me a new monitor, guess he got tired of my company. Then the sleep doc convinced me to give mirapex another trial, added iron and other vits to replenlish my depleted reserves, and then I added some cigarettes and my stomach took a total revolt. GP sent me for an ultrasound and wrote the big C on the requisition. Boy was I grateful for the logic of my cyber friends!Yay! A new monitor! I'm sure your hubby wasn't getting tired of you. It did sound like you were experiencing a bad acid trip everytime you fired up the old one though...Mirapex, no experience with that, you'll have to tell me about it. I keep telling myself to start taking multi-vits, but I never seem to get around to it. Story of my life. I managed to get myself down to 15 of the ultra light cigs a day, but I don't have the willpower to get any lower... :( The big C? Please explain...
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> I think I've been fired from my job. I'm trying to get up the nerve to go in and ask, but I don't think my ego could handle it. The job gave me such good "karma" like I was of use. I think I should have been upfront about my so called disabiltiy but I didn't think it would affect my work since it was casual. Oh, at times like this it would be nice to have hindsight.Hmmm, you *think* you've been fired. Only one sure way to find out, right. No need in dealing with the anxiety over it if you don't have to. It's hard to know if it's the right thing to do to disclose depressive illness to an employer Willow. You might look back now and think it would have been the right thing, but who knows. By law, at least here in the states you don't have to. I got very lucky at my last job. I chose to disclose it to my boss. it turned out that her husband had been a depression sufferer for 30 years and she was very understanding of my situation. She gave me time off when I needed it, allowed me to work from home when I couldn't handle coming in, and gave me modified work when the work load was too much for me. And she always made sure I got a full paycheck so I didn't suffer financially. I was VERY lucky. I hope whatever happens with this, it works out for the best for you.
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> I'm reading the "Hobbit" with my daughter and finding myself not being as sympathetic with the little critter the second time round. Looking at him from an adults perspective he comes across very uppity.OK, I'm embarrassed. I'm 46 years old and I've never read the Hobbit... Do you recommend it?
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> I hope the past few months your trials have been minor. Am I correct that you are somewhere in the mysterious state of California? If so do you get seasonal changes? Are you surviving the parental angsts?My trials have been...trying. I lost a job of many years, and I took it quite hard. Harder than I thought. It really has changed me. My self-esteem has taken a severe beating and I've been really down on myself. But my family and friends have rallied around me and are helping me to hold it together for now. I'm doing some contract work which I dearly hate, but it is paying the bills. I plan to fire up my own business as a sideline after the first of the year and look for a full-time job as well. Hopefully the market will be in recovery by then and there will be more jobs. It's pretty barren right now.
It's been raining almost constantly for the last two weeks here and the rain makes me so...depressed. I need sunshine dammit!
My kids are...well...kids. They test my patience on a daily basis, but that's what an 11 and a 14 year old are supposed to do right? They really are great kids and I'm very grateful to have them in my life.
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> The holiday parties are beginning up here. I'm looking forward to going out "all decked up" this weekend for dinner, the first time in many years. I shall be eating prime rib and yorkshire pudding.I had backed out of going to my wife's company Christmas party cause I really wasn't in the spirit, but I got to feeling REALLY guilty and decided to go. We are having all the kids over for Xmas dinner (including my oldest daughter and her husband) which should be fun. Just a traditional feast, turkey and stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce, etc. Yours sounds great, I love prime rib!!!!! I'm with akc, what is yorkshire pudding? I hope you have a blast!
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> Oh the sandman is calling me!I hope you slept well.
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> Are you sorry you asked ...Are you sorry I answered?
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> Whistling Willow
> (all grown up)Greg
(getting older by the minute)
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