My Halloween lights went up last weekend, but I need to get another set of pumpkin lights because one string stopped working already.
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Oct 04, 2020 11:31:07 am PDT #27181 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Gris - Oct 04, 2020 11:50:14 am PDT #27182 of 30019
Hey. New board.
I think what I miss the most about my normal "go to work at an actual building" life is simply the ability to get in the zone. There are many parts of my job I like enough that I can handle doing them even with the constant interruptions of parenthood and husbandhood, but the things I dread - grading tests, entering grades, making homework assignments - are so much more challenging. I have a hard time doing them at night or early in the morning, too, simply due to brain function.
aurelia - Oct 04, 2020 12:20:20 pm PDT #27183 of 30019
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Rosie (cat) has in the last couple months started behaving like a low-battery smoke detector with an attitude when she thinks it's nearing meal time. Meh. Meh. Meh. MEOWRRRRR! Meh. Meh. Meh. Meh.
meara - Oct 04, 2020 1:14:30 pm PDT #27184 of 30019
I always worked from home but I miss being able to go to a coffee shop or to cowork with a friend, or even just to have some kind of exciting plan for later that was a hard stop on my day, to get some focus and momentum.
amyparker - Oct 04, 2020 1:29:49 pm PDT #27185 of 30019
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
meara, I had a neighbor who would walk around our block before settling into his home office, and walk around the other way at the end of the work day. He said if nothing else, having to put on outside pants helped with the shifting of mental gears.
I miss going to the salad bar at T&C on Fridays: Jim and I would walk the half mile down, load a container, go to Waterfront Park if the weather was good, walk back up the hill. It was a "Hey, almost weekend!" signal.
Zenkitty - Oct 04, 2020 2:41:44 pm PDT #27186 of 30019
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
That's what I need, some kind of pleasant routine or ritual to help my brain make the transition from home to work and vice versa.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 04, 2020 4:12:02 pm PDT #27187 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I go out to water my plants and feed alley cats just before and just after work to provide a transition. Though I'll confess a few times I've shut down my work email and napped before doing the latter.
Laura - Oct 04, 2020 4:56:25 pm PDT #27188 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Just got back from the Otter Lake bar where there were 3 other patrons and the bartender. The other patrons were buying us drinks and reminiscing about my dad (who has been gone 35 years), so that was nice. Super tipsy, but backspace and squiggly line keep me coherent.
Theodosia - Oct 05, 2020 12:48:39 am PDT #27189 of 30019
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
May his memory continue to be a blessing -- sometimes one of my elderly residents uses one of the phrases that a woman of my Mom's age (she'd be 98 now) would only use, and I'm blessed with her memory yet again.
Calli - Oct 05, 2020 1:48:20 am PDT #27190 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
sometimes one of my elderly residents uses one of the phrases that a woman of my Mom's age (she'd be 98 now) would only use, and I'm blessed with her memory yet again.
That's why I watch Escanaba in da Moonlight about once a year. They do a good job with the Michigan Upper Peninsula dialect, and it's like hearing my dad.