I'm sorry you are struggling with the pain and also not being able to do your job as well as you like. I hope as you use the wheelchair more you see more of a difference.

Also I made a mistake at work and can't deal with it until ipen. I don't think it's unfixable (I did an order in store and they wanted to pick it up in store. I'd never done that before and the system is weird so I accidentally put the store address as the card billing address instead of just as the ship to address.)

But I feel like I've made a lot of careless mistakes. I'm mostly being hard on myself . I know why the problem happened, it was me doing things more by rote instead of thinking about what I was doing.

Hil, I'm glad the wheel hair is helping (typo left in for amusement value).

askye, you are new on the job. Making mistakes is uncomfortable, but it is part of the learning process. I hope your supervisor(s) help you fix that mistake graciously.

Ugh. My landlord just stopped by to deal with something with the upstairs apartment, and I asked him to come in for a minute so that I could show him where one of my walls has a hole in it (which cannot, in any way, be considered my fault -- it's several feet above my head), and he looked around and said, "Did your organizer come yet? I guess not." Argh. There are a few things on the floor at the moment, but right now it's at the "I wasn't expecting anyone over, but I could clean this up in ten minutes" stage, not even remotely the complete disaster that it was before.

I haven't been here since about 1200 posts ago, so, hi. Caught up the last ~300. I saw msbelle's post on FB. I'm very sorry to hear about Strega, and with apologies, I'm not sure who is Strega. Laura mentioned Maria above, and I was stricken to think that it might be Maria N, and am so relieved to read the restaurant posts above.

Thfffbpt to your landlord, Hil.

I'm afraid I don't really know Strega, either, Java cat.

I just went through the last couple hundred posts on natter, and JZ clearly knows so it is, so I'm just going to email her.

RE restaurants and Halloween, my neighborhood is bonkers for Halloween. Some years ago I was talking to the then-owner of my then-favorite pizza place, and he said Halloween is the busiest time of year for them, everybody has Halloween parties and everybody serves pizza. The next biggest day of the year is the Super Bowl.

Katie I'm sorry to hear about your kitty. She was lucky to have you and Dave, as are all your cats, past, present, and future.

Someone from my hometown had a birthday yesterday, and I clicked his thank you this morning, and veered off onto the page of someone I knew a little bit from the hometown. She and her husband now own this: [link] this, [link] and possibly something in Malibu, too, I couldn't figure that out. This too. [link] They are architecture fans, into renovations.

Which just goes to show that everything is relative. I am so happy with my little house thus morning, being able to turn on my heater and take the chill off, and having hot running water. I know one of my friends from my hometown feels a little sorry for me, or maybe disappointed that I'm not more ambitious. My life is certainly different from the person above. I was going to say she would feel sorry for me, but actually she was a nice person, and so were her parents and siblings, and I doubt that would be part of her vernacular.

Great idea. [link]

Excellent plan they have there.