ISTG, Steph, it's almost like you cut and pasted one of my posts from a couple of years ago. Except for the cardiac and wedding bits. It is huge and scary and no wonder you are stressed. Does breaking tasks down and/or setting a timer work for you?
You're talking to Serenity. And, Early... Serenity is very unhappy.
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smonster - Aug 09, 2013 10:42:02 am PDT #2972 of 30002
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
P.M. Marc - Aug 09, 2013 2:08:44 pm PDT #2973 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
OMG, Steph, our brains are TWINS.
And you're totally employable.
Cass - Aug 09, 2013 2:09:03 pm PDT #2974 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
TJ's has a great one for about $4 a bottle. I used to buy it by the case.
My summer wine is a sparkling rose from TJs. It's a little sweeter than I usually like, but it's a great porch sipping wine. (When the weather and bugs allow me to sit on my porch.)
I know both of these wines.
Steph, contact Strix and get a resume in hand. You performed a complicated, technical job for EIGHTEEN years while dealing with changing priorities and demanding personalities. You are hirable and proven. I get the freakout, I absolutely do. But those voices in your head are wrong.
Steph L. - Aug 09, 2013 2:24:37 pm PDT #2975 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I have e-mailed the lovely Strix, and I await my job which will pay in gold-plated ponies.
No, actually, that would be horrible. (Because I assume gold-plated ponies would be *dead* ponies, and that's not something I can handle.)
Good news about my Dad: his angiogram scheduled for 1:00 today kept getting delayed, but it eventually happened a couple of hours ago. There is no blockage in any of his major arteries, but there's some narrowing in a smaller artery that feeds into one of the major arteries. (This is how he described it; I'm not sure if that's physiologically accurate.)
That's not a spot that can be opened up with balloon angioplasty and/or a stent, but he can be treated with pneumatic compression boots (which are more commonly used for deep-vein thrombosis, which he does NOT have, but apparently also works in situations like Dad's).
He should be able to go home tomorrow, hooray!
Connie Neil - Aug 09, 2013 2:26:46 pm PDT #2976 of 30002
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Yay, Teppy's Dad's Heart!
Steph L. - Aug 09, 2013 2:29:48 pm PDT #2977 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I love how it's troublesome and painful, but then in the end, it's all, "Naw, I'm good, man."
It could just save Dad the hospital stay and assert its state of okay-ness from the start. Sheesh.
Scrappy - Aug 09, 2013 2:33:21 pm PDT #2978 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My dad had those boots for the same thing and he LOVED them, Teppy.
erikaj - Aug 09, 2013 3:32:22 pm PDT #2979 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
Good news about your dad. And I bet you'll find a good job, too...I know that place hasn't been what you wanted all the time, anyway, not that you wanted to change it up like this, of course.
quester - Aug 09, 2013 5:17:43 pm PDT #2980 of 30002
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Steph, don't be me. Don't give up.
On the other hand, when you have time between wedding plans and interviews, you could try temping to bring in some bucks.
Trudy Booth - Aug 09, 2013 7:57:47 pm PDT #2981 of 30002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Can someone give me the short version of our Gimlet rules?