Heh. I have totally called Matilda a big old faker, often while cuddling her and kissing her cheeks. I am the queen of mixed messages! Also, crying is the one weapon they've got in their arsenal of communication, and it has to cover EVERYTHING. I'm not going to fault my child for crying when she's not actually wet or hungry, just having a shitty day. Lord knows I have enough unspecifically shitty days when I'd like to flump on my ass and scream until someone came along and cuddled me until I felt better.
ION, Sparky, have you already seen the gethuman.com website? Here's their listing for dodging perpetual hold at USPS: 800‑275‑8777, Press 5 at each prompt, ignoring messages.
They also give the USPS an F for phonely customer service. Bleah.
Ah. Favorite story. K turned around and Beau was naked, playing in the dog bowl. She said, "What are you doing, and where are your clothes! WHERE ARE YOUR CLOTHES?!?" So he comes over and takes her hand and walks her over to where he's stripped and points at his clothes laying on the floor.
So been there. So. Many. Times.
I thought of you and told her, "My friend says it's a thing."
This baby is lying about being a Klingon.
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He is not. He is a human child. But when you say, "Hey Jack, who's a Klingon?" He scrunches up his forehead and roars.
(Also both he and his sister do the fake cough cuz it's funny thing. And fake sneezing. Hilarious!)
I'm just wondering -- what has everyone been talking about.
Frankly, Cindy, there's a ton of Supernatural S2 talk in the last 1800 posts... probably at least three or four w-n-p's, plus talk of the end of S2 (which would NOT be fun to to be spoiled for...)
We could probably make a list of people you can gleeble at, if gleebling is what you crave...
*raises hand*
I've been working nonstop since about 8am. I'm watching one more performance of the show then time for food.
Thanks, Ailleann. I realized it's finally July which means it's
Eureka
time. I just want to hop in, unless I don't.
They also give the USPS an F for phonely customer service. Bleah.
and every other kind, in my experience.
It's not just things that I am bored by, and it's not as simple as having to pull my attention back.
Right. With me, it's not exactly things that I'm bored by, but tasks requiring certain kinds of attention. Grading papers is a good example -- I've got to keep switching between scanning the paper to find the student's answer (relatively simple -- doesn't require much brain power), checking to see if the answer's right (again, just a yes/no, pretty simple), but then, if it's wrong, I've got to go back, decipher the student's handwriting, figure out whether it's an arithmatic error or something else, decide how many points partial credit it should get, etc. It's that sort of thing where I need to keep switching my focus, but need to stay on track -- each time my focus switches, there's only one right place for it to switch to -- that I have a lot of trouble with. I can sit down and grade a stack of multiple choice tests and I'll be bored, but it's one task, one set of rules, and I can do it. Grading homeworks is FAR more difficult.
Since I started on Lexapro, I've found my focus and attention span have improved greatly. I think the anxiety part of my illness was causing the worst of those symptoms.
