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Posted by Ron Hill on April 20, 2002, at 10:40:14
Mrs. Beardy,
I feel really bad because I'm afraid I hurt your feelings with my post on PB. In reality, I love the humor and camaraderie we (and others) have shared on PB. Humor makes friendships strong. And your Safeway post meant a lot to me. I just did not want to see you (or me) get "redirected" by Dr. Bob. I have a feeling that Dr. Bob has been torn by whether or not to redirect our SAM-e humor. It got started while he was out of town.
The bottom line is that this is probably a leftover childhood issue where I do not want to make the parent upset. In doing so, however, I may have thrown cold water on a person I consider a friend. I'm truly sorry if my words hurt you. Will you forgive me?
-- Ron
Posted by IsoM on April 20, 2002, at 12:01:43
In reply to PAGING BEARDY. I came to PSB looking for you., posted by Ron Hill on April 20, 2002, at 10:40:14
Ron,
Beire-dei is amazingly strong in so many ways. She has ego-strength without over-confidence or pride. I shouldn't be saying this for her really (forgive me my dear Beire-dei) but I can't IMAGINE her being upset. Even in my bleak, jaunndiced view, I found your comment amusing.
Posted by beardedlady on April 20, 2002, at 12:49:41
In reply to PAGING BEARDY. I came to PSB looking for you., posted by Ron Hill on April 20, 2002, at 10:40:14
Ron:
I understood completely. I didn't reply out of respect for Dr. Bob and you; I didn't want a redirect. And since you said you rarely make it over to this neck of the woods, I didn't want to leave a message for you here.
Please know I've been checking up on you, following your bowel habits and other matters of personal hygiene.
I'm not doing so well, but I'll get better soon.
Get to work on that house. The wife is counting on you.
beardy : )>
Posted by Ron Hill on April 20, 2002, at 19:14:49
In reply to You're a trip. A pleasure cruise, in fact. » Ron Hill, posted by beardedlady on April 20, 2002, at 12:49:41
Hi Beardy,
> I understood completely. I didn't reply out of respect for Dr. Bob and you; I didn't want a redirect. And since you said you rarely make it over to this neck of the woods, I didn't want to leave a message for you here.
Cool! I thought I was in trouble.
> Please know I've been checking up on you, following your bowel habits and other matters of personal hygiene.My bowel habit posts do not hold a candle to your open forum discussions of female nocturnal issues.
> I'm not doing so well, but I'll get better soon.
I thought your Serzone was working well. What's up?
> Get to work on that house. The wife is counting on you.
Yeah, you're right. Thanks for the nudge forward. Candace (my wife) and I were married almost two years ago. It is a first time marriage for each of us and, since we are both older, we each had property. She had a townhouse and I had a duplex. We currently live in one half of the duplex, rent the other side out, and rent out the townhouse. Candace would rather just buy an already built house and, either sell the duplex and townhouse, or continue to use them as rental property. On the other hand, I want to have a passively solar heated house built that also has some electrical energy production capabilities (photovoltaic cells and wind generator).
Our current time line calls for us to find and purchase a lot (suitable to our solar design constraints) this summer, retain an architect by early fall, find a builder by late fall, break ground next spring, and move in sometime in the summer of 2003. I have a friend who is a general contractor.
I currently have several projects that I am supposed to be working on. With regard to the house project, I am taking two short courses (PV and wind electrical generation principles), looking at available lots, and researching solar house issues and products on the internet. When it comes to finances, the Lord has restored the years that the locusts ate away. And I am very thankful. I must be wise, I must work hard but, most of all, I want to love the Lord my God with all my heart and all my mind and all my soul, and to love my neighbors as myself.
Thanks for your friendship Beardy. Let me know what is holding you back (i.e. not doing well).
-- Ron
Posted by beardedlady on April 21, 2002, at 5:09:43
In reply to Yeah! I'm not in hot water after all! » beardedlady, posted by Ron Hill on April 20, 2002, at 19:14:49
Ron:
I knew someone like you once, and it was a nice experience. He lived in Erwinna, Pennsylvania. He was the very definition of kind.
It is 5:54, and I have slept through the night, which is something of a miracle this week. I am waiting for my EPT (prenancy test) to develop. And that is, essentially, what's wrong.
I am a week or two late (can't be sure due to some surgery that messed up the cycle), but I am one of those "regular like clockwork" people.
This will be my third pregnancy test. It's as if I know something the test doesn't. And I do. I know I CAN'T be pregnant. There's almost no chance. My pregnancy test is coming up negative, which means it knows I can't be pregnant too. But what it doesn't know is that I am late, late, late, and I have all the symptoms of being pregnant! I'm burping, feeling faint when I stand, hungry like a bottomless pit, tired--I took a nap in the middle of the day yesterday, etc., etc., etc. (Having just recently been pregnant, I know what it feels like.)
Yet number three is negative. (I'd have switched brands, but they're really all the same.)
Am I happy about that? HELL, YEAH! I just don't believe it. That's probably one of the major symptoms of hypochondria: the doctors keep telling you that you don't have IT, but you insist you do because you "know your body." (Actually, I insisted I did not have fibromyalgia but instead had an allergic reaction to Tequin--like Cipro; they didn't believe me until two months later, when my side effects were gone.)
So I had a bad sleeping week. I took six sleeping pills in seven days (one day I doubled up), and I am intolerant of myself for having to take them. I beat myself up about it all day to the point of distraction.
Twenty minutes is up, and still only one line. Now I have to pay another visit to my gynecologist. A thrill. And then I will have my tubes tied. (I had asked my husband to have a vasectomy so that I wouldn't have to always be the one who has surgery, but he's not keen on that, him being a man and all.)
Anyway, I'm just having a bad week. And that's a shame, because I landed a HUGE web-site writing job that will take me several weeks and pay me several thousand dollars--like more than five, which is more than I've ever been paid for one job. And a little neighborhood magazine is writing a story on me as one of the women who move and shake (though since I've been going to Weight Watchers, I am moving more and shaking less).
So that's my sob story. And I'm going to side with your wife. As a person who likes instant gratification, buying a house sounds so much more appealing than waiting for all that "stuff" to be put in. But then, I'm a woman.
Take care of yourself, buddy.
beardy : )>
Posted by Ron Hill on April 22, 2002, at 2:25:16
In reply to solar-heated water, either. » Ron Hill, posted by beardedlady on April 21, 2002, at 5:09:43
Beardy,
> So I had a bad sleeping week. I took six sleeping pills in seven days (one day I doubled up), and I am intolerant of myself for having to take them. I beat myself up about it all day to the point of distraction.
Why beat on yourself for taking a med that you need periodically? If you really think that you should be brow-beaten, then please, let me or Iso Judy know. We'd love to do it. But there's no benefit in self-abuse.
> Anyway, I'm just having a bad week. And that's a shame, because I landed a HUGE web-site writing job that will take me several weeks and pay me several thousand dollars--like more than five, which is more than I've ever been paid for one job.
Wow! That's impressive. What type of writing do you do? Technical? Sales/Promotional? Creative? Or what? In addition to providing the written text on the web pages, do you also design the web site? What's the name of your small business? What procedures do you use to attract clients? Do you submit proposals and/or bids? How do you find out about the RFP's (Request For Proposals)?
>And a little neighborhood magazine is writing a story on me as one of the women who move and shake (though since I've been going to Weight Watchers, I am moving more and shaking less).
Don't forget to tell them what a terrrible person you are for taking a Sonata now and then to help you get a good nights rest and, thereby, allow you to be productive the next day. Beardy, let's face it, that really is inexcusable behavior!
Have a good run/walk. I suspect you're reading this shortly before 6:00 am on Monday morning.-- Ron
Posted by beardedlady on April 22, 2002, at 13:32:09
In reply to Send me a copy of the magazine » beardedlady, posted by Ron Hill on April 22, 2002, at 2:25:16
Ron:
> Have a good run/walk. I suspect you're reading this shortly before 6:00 am on Monday morning.
Don't know how I missed your post. I'm not reading this until 2:27 p.m.! I had a semi-good walk. I have had two good sleeping days in a row, but I am still in a bad mood.
> Why beat on yourself for taking a med that you need periodically? If you really think that you should be brow-beaten, then please, let me or Iso Judy know. We'd love to do it. But there's no benefit in self-abuse.
Well, DUH!
> Wow! That's impressive. What type of writing do you do? Technical? Sales/Promotional? Creative? Or what? In addition to providing the written text on the web pages, do you also design the web site? What's the name of your small business? What procedures do you use to attract clients? Do you submit proposals and/or bids? How do you find out about the RFP's (Request For Proposals)?
Well, Janelle, I'll tell you. (Sorry, Janelle; I couldn't resist!) I write it all. I don't design web sites, but I design print collateral, logos, corporate idents, etc. I'd tell you the name of my business, but then I wouldn't simply be the bearded lady. The procedures I use to attract clients? Hmmm...I stand on a roof and lift my shirt? (Oh, that, I'm afraid, would have the opposite reaction.) I don't advertise, but the folks I do ads for are highly visible, so I get lots of business that way. And word of mouth. I don't do RFPs and usually do not compete for jobs.
> Don't forget to tell them what a terrrible person you are for taking a Sonata now and then to help you get a good nights rest and, thereby, allow you to be productive the next day. Beardy, let's face it, that really is inexcusable behavior!I am a bad, bad girl. Alas, they all know it.
Take care, Ron. I'm off to put the daughter to nap.
beardy : )>
Posted by beardedlady on April 22, 2002, at 13:33:20
In reply to Send me a copy of the magazine » beardedlady, posted by Ron Hill on April 22, 2002, at 2:25:16
Posted by Ron Hill on April 22, 2002, at 23:24:37
In reply to Re: Send me a copy of the magazine » Ron Hill, posted by beardedlady on April 22, 2002, at 13:32:09
> > Why beat on yourself for taking a med that you need periodically? If you really think that you should be brow-beaten, then please, let me or Iso Judy know. We'd love to do it. But there's no benefit in self-abuse.
> Well, DUH!
----------------Beardy, I've always been proud of the fact that I have a real knack for stating the obvious.
-- Ron
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