working with an extrovert ADHD boss who couldn't accomplish anything unless ALL the plates were spinning, and who used to go through proven sequences and ADD steps, just to complicate things.
Tim often says there is no simple task that he can't make 100 times more complicated. And it's true. By this point, 11 years in, when he says that, my eyes just get huge in the I-Will-Kill-You-Where-You-Stand way, and he walks back all the needlessly complicated steps. I marvel at his gift, but I don't let it complicate my shit.
Did I mention that not only did the doctor give me Percocet without my asking, I got enough to take it more or less constantly for 30 days? Even though it was only a week away from my surgery. It made me think real hard about ita and other people who have problems getting access to adequate pain management.
Oh yeah. My upper-class white cousin had some minor procedure as a teenager, and his mother rejected the amount of Percocet they tried to give him.
Non-painkiller link: Horses in the Morning interviewed a Mounted Archer today!
Having a small stash of heavy duty pain meds can be handy if you just need half a pill for bad cramps or vicious muscle strain that you know doesn't need the full doctor treatment.
Horses in the Morning interviewed a Mounted Archer today!
re: the picture on that link: Beware the old barbarians. Think of how they lived to become old.
> Tim often says there is no simple task that he can't make 100 times more complicated.
There is a clear split on packing at Stately Fogelson Mansion. My spouse believes that if you are going to pack a filing cabinet (or a bureau etc.), that you take all the papers out of it and carefully pack them in labeled boxes, then move the empty cabinet, then at the other end, you unpack all the boxes of papers and put them back in the drawers. TOO MANY STEPS DUDE.
The clearly correct way is to take the drawers out and carry each of them and the cabinet to the moving truck, then put the full drawers back in and do the opposite at the other end. Easy peasy.
It's seems relevant to the conversation that this meditation extension I have installed just reminded me that "You shouldn't trust every thought that comes into your head." I kind of want Carol Kane from The Princess Bride to come running into my brain shouting "LIAR!" when my thoughts are crap.
And yeah, maybe Aunt Louise had access to laudanum, but that's how the killer manages to slip her the arsenic. I'm just saying.
Look, I am willing to take that risk right now if it would get me some laudanum.
Where did I read "Don't believe everything you think" recently? I think it's Pema Chodron, but I think I came across someone else quoting her.
Gentle hairpats, Jilli. Had I laudanum, I would give it to you.
