I can't get my act together and I don't know why

Harley44

gsg,

No, I haven't found a job yet, but I did fill out a couple of applications for Christmas help in some of the stores.  I also applied for a job with Brunswick county, in the clerical pool, but I have not heard anything from them.  That is the job I most wish would come through.

Harley

KAK

Just thought I'd post the following animation on this thread as my Happy Halloween greeting.  I made it when I started rads.  It is a sterling example of how one can fritter away hours & hours of time avoiding housework, bill-paying, grocery shopping & other boring stuff while giving oneself an opportunity for cathartic self-expression & accessing one's inner child.  I call it "The Boob That Glows in the Dark."  

 Frightening, isn't it??

Kathi

sueper13

Kathi,

The picture is a little frightening, but I have to say that I LOVE the shoes......

Miss you guys.  It was such a wonderful part of chemo that I had time to read and post here every day.....Now it's just weekends.  But I will be wonderfully retired in April. FIVE MORE MONTHS!!! ( I decided to retire on April  Fools' Day, how cool is that?)

Patrice, you would be so proud of my living room carpet--two inside dogs who get lots of chewies--I just have Stanley Steemer come every three months and vacuum right before they get here!!!

Sue

jembs

KAK, your picture is the best!  It says it! I absolutely love it.

althea

isabella, your grandson truly does sound feral!  omg, did he get a shrunken brain steeped in formaldahyde?  He clearly doesn't appear to have a full deck upstairs.  Seriously, though, has he ever been examined for some kind of imbalance?  I've learned just in the last month that B12 deficiencies are sometimes mistaken as schizophrenia.  Even though you've maintained your sense of humor through it all, my heart goes out to your grandson.  He'll be suffering consequences for his behavior, regardless of what his reasons are for misbehaving in the first place. 

KAK, you cracked me up with the explanation of your screen name.  I let my cat's furballs dry up first also.  lol  

Patrice, hope your knee gets better soon.  I have a toe that has been hurting since May.  It's gotta be a ligament problem.  Either my rebounder caused it, or I clobbered my toe in some other way that I can't seem to recall.  

I continue to be in no danger of getting kicked off this thread.  I finally got my 07 tax return taken care of.  I finally scraped together all my numbers on October 13.  I threw myself on the mercy of my CPA to help me with my return, only to find out he's moving to dallas in 2 days and his office is already packed.  I had no idea I'd have to get a new cpa on top of everything else.  Fortunately, I like the guy he recommended, and I finally mailed my return today.  I feel relieved, yet pathetic, all at the same time.

Isabella4

Althea, there is no inbalance with with my g/son....he just was never  taught right from wrong by DD.!!!!  She has a policy of letting her kids do just as they like, go to bed when they like, go to school IF they want (2 have already been thrown out at 14 and 15) join in all things adult if they want, and now she and SIL are reaping what they sowed !!  DD looks haggard, is constantly fighting with these kids, and everyone smokes and swears like troopers in the home. (The youngest g/son openly smokes in the home, he's 11.)

I am just so glad that she doesn't live too close to me, and that no-one in her town knows me !!!!!!!  but....she's only 5 miles away !! Then again, she has a different surname, so hopefully no-one will put 2 and 2 together !!

Last year feral g/son had 2 girls pregnant at the same time, both had abortions.

This year, so far as we know, only 1 girl is pregnant, and is talking of keeping the child !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The real clincher in all this is that DD is a social worker !!! Yes, she has a very good job looking after, would you believe, teens from troubled homes. She is working for one of our most well known charities, has  22 other social workers under her, and organises how these kids are treated. aaaarrrrggghh!!   What is this world coming to ??

Patrice, your knee still clicking !!??

I have to admit to doing a little painting this afternoon, just 2 cupboard doors in my bathroom, which have turned out a mess, painting isn't one of my best jobs, but I had to break off to take 3 'phone calls, and the light was going...so you can imagine. Now I will have to wait for someone to sandpaper them down for me before I can re paint. ( No way I can do this with 2 Carpal Tunnels, so painful, just doing the bit of painting I did manage! ) This could be weeks before I can persuade DH to do it, as long as it is dry for Christmas I suppose it will do.I wish I had spent my time sat by the fire !!

Isabella.

KAK

Isabella, your DD sounds like this schoolteacher I know who has three kids of the ages she teaches, 4, 6 & 7, who are absolute monsters & a husband who is "as useless as tits on a bull" as one of my gf's always says.  Can't imagine what her classroom must be like.  She never sets limits or says no, so her kids never know which end is up & they're MISERABLE!  And so is everyone who is around them for 5 minutes.

Amazing.  She was supposed to sing last night at a function for her church & she couldn't because she'd lost her voice from having to holler so much at her kids yesterday, because in addition to being their usual monstrous selves, they were cranked up on the twelve tons of sugar they ate from their Halloween candy because their mother doesn't have the brains to put most of it away & parcel it out because of course they'd SCREAM if she did that.  Oy.......

Sometimes I think certain people ought to just have their tubes tied & be done with it. 

Hanna60978

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gsg

Love the radiated bewb gif and am very pleased to hear about Sue's disgusting carpets.  It puts her back on our A list.  She was put on the B list for a while for closet cleaning.

Harley, I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you get the job you want!

 Althea, we are a kindred spirit.  I just turned in my taxes on October 15th.  You'd think knowing we'd get that stimulus check as soon as we filed would have lit a fire to get them in sooner.

 Welcome Hune.

Isabella, my knee has stopped clicking.  Thanks for asking.  Now the only noise I make when I walk is the swish swish swish of my inner thighs rubbing together.  I was starting to sound like a one-man-band.  Click, swish-swish, click.  Again, very sorry to read of your troubles with your grandson.  Your daughter being a social worker, raising out-of-control kids, reminds me of the saying, "The shoemaker's kids have no shoes."  It's so hard to discipline kids....but, boy, the absence of discipline is even harder on everybody...the family, the kids and society. I hope as they get older, they will straighten out. 

 Hanna, leave it to you to come up with the awesome term "sub-zero cleaning."  I washed and folded a load of cleaning rags this morning....they've been in a pile in a corner of my laundry room for a couple years now.  Some of them were stiff.  Now that they're clean, I don't think I should dirty them.

 I do hope Shirley rejoins us Wednesday.  She's been too busy politicking her butt off.  I stay out of the political threads...so I'll be happy when tomorrow is over with so I can talk to her again!

wishiwere

OMGOSH!  I am so very GLAD that others have 'cleaning rag' pile(s) that go unwashed, stiff and unused!  I keep looking at mine and wondering when I'll do them.  Luckily my laundry is in the basement where no one sees this pile! LOL  I do think though, that they'll get washed soon, b/c my garden glove pile is now ready (just collected them yesterday from all the sheds, the patio, decks, garage, greenhouse and various places in the yard they've been growing all summer.  They are resting in the garage now in a large pail waiting for the bugs to leave them so I can bring them in to wash and at that time, I'll need other things to make a full load, so I'm sure the rags will get a washing at that time!   One more thing to put on the to-do list! Oh swell!

I might have to ask for a sebatical from this list, dear friends. I just can NOT stand my desk and/or dhs any more! I've startd to weed through a year of bills, junk and other dropped and growing dust articles and I can see bare spots on one desk now.  Tiny bare spots, but it's encouraging me to continue...Is it possible to ask for a week sebatical till it starts to collect the finer things of a messy desk again? Pretty please? I know it's temporary, but quitting smoking, I'VE just GOT to find SOMETHING ELSE TO DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gsg

ohhhhhh-kaaaaaaaaaay.  Permission granted.  I wish you lived closer though...I'd give you lots of stuff to do to work through the "i just quit smoking and don't know what to do with myself" angst.

wishiwere

Thanks.....I actually just started on the chantix a week ago and have only cut back at this point.  Last time I tried it, I got horrible n/v from it, so I'm working up to the full dose really slow. taking 2 weeks rather than one to get there.   But I soooooooooooo need to do this NOW!  I'm ready and willing and with God's help, able to take this med, b/c it helped last time, I quit for a 5 days (over that 4 day hump) but then started getting really sick from the med. It was right after chemo though, so I'm hoping this added time away from that has helped and I can take it now....HOPING like all H*LL!

Thanks, I appreciate the sebatical...does that mean though, that I can't post once it's all cleaned off, or while I'm cleaning it, or till it gets dirty/trashy again? Need some clarification....

gsg

Are you kidding?  Please keep posting...but when you describe how clean everything is the rest of us are going to exchange looks.  But that's okay...in exchange you can feel superior to us kinda.  Instead of Queen for a Day, we'll call it Clean for a Day.

Hey, you should post some pics when you're done.  Remember when I posted my kitchen table?  It's an accomplishment and you should be proud...and maybe it will encourage us.

wishiwere

Hmmm...good idea...I'm in the middle of both desks. I'll get before and after, although I'm not sure I'll bring myself to posting befores!  

Thanks....It's been a hard decision whether to clean it or stay on this forum I was really fretting shaing this with you all

mke

Good for you althea for your 2007 tax return. I just wrote a pathetic letter to Revenue Canada explaining why I hadn't done my 2006 tax return. I did send them some money that I figure is more than I owe but they still want the paperwork. Those guys are anal compulsives. I bet they dust.



Perhaps the one thing I do try to cope with is cat vomit, mostly because I usually seem to step in it barefoot, so I'm on alert for the sound. A few years back I heard the telltale kakkkakkakkk huuckkk huckkk and ran down the stairs yelling "Where is that cat throwing up?" It wasn't the cat, it was my son and a couple friends trying their hand at "scratch" music. They were highly offended.

wishiwere

ROFLMAO....poor boys!  And they thought that sounded so cool huh?  KIDS!

Cats are yet another reason I want to clean my desk.  I hate when the ONE cat decided to use my desk to drop her goodies rather than then the wood floors she normally finds! UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Harley44

Wish,

Good Luck with the quitting...smoking. 

Hanna,

I am sure that Shirley will be back, after the election!  Maybe she'll run for office, and I can be her campaign manager!!

gsg,

I have been applying for jobs all over, and even online...  I am really getting tired!!   The house is a mess, since when I'm home, I'm always sitting at the computer!!

Harley 

wishiwere

Good Luck in finding the right job Harley.  I was just reading the jobs that are going to be most hit by this ecomomy and other than Wally World, sounds like everyone will be slowing their hiring of seasonals even this year! Eeeeeeeeeek!

Harley44

Thanks, Wish.

My skills lie in administrative/clerical work, but there aren't too many of these types of jobs in the area where I live now.  It is a tourist/golf town, so only alot of retail.    ......sigh.

Jane_M

Wish - Thank you for telling be about this thread.  I'm too "lazy" to read all 53 pages of the thread, but I read the first few and last few.  I can so relate!  I'm sitting here looking at a ball of purple yarn the dog has strewn all over the floor.  It's been there for 3 days.  Maybe I'll pick it up tomorrow.  Now that I've found this thread, there will be no more pantry re-arranging or freezer cleaning!  I have been validated!

Jane_M

On the first few pages of the thread I saw a lot of talk about Merry Maids.  Other than the fact that most of us would have to clean the house before they got here, I'm sure a lot of us would have trouble affording it as well.  I wonder if there is (if not, there should be) help out there for cancer patients who are having trouble taking care of their homes? 

wishiwere

Yes, there are some that do that.  Not sure under what circumstances, but I know I read  on one of the threads that it was a great thing and was free too.

Glad you found us!

Uhm...only thing about that yarn?  If the dog or kitty swallow any bit of it, it can seriously make them deathly ill.  A piece of that or like string or christmas tinsel can kill and animal.  Their intestines can almost invert on themselves as it goes through them and cause all kinds of trouble.  Please DO pick that up!

gsg

Hi, Jane...welcome to the den of slobs.  When I was first diagnosed, I was given all kinds of stuff from my breast center, including a sheet listing services available to me for free by a group, I think they call themselves the Red Devils.  They will come clean your house, bring groceries, meals, provide massages, and other things that I can't remember.  I never took advantage of it because I had such a great support system, but I thought it was such a wonderful service and it was comforting to know other women fighting cancer in this area have it available.

KAK

Welcome, Jane!  Nice to see you here, too!  How's the cellulitis, BTW?

Wish, you would have to go & mention your desk.  My desk (I think it's still there under all this crap) looks like the post office emptied it's Lost Letter bin onto it.  Ditto the kitchen table, because of course when I run out of room to pile any more crap on my desk, I move to the kitchen table.

I did manage to gather up most of the receipts, path reports, bills, statements, etc., etc. for this wonderful BC experience & dump them into one of those cut-down cartons they stack dog food cans in at the pet store.  Does that count as cleaning or organizing???  I don't want to get kicked off this thread because of a few wanton moments of desperation.....

You're right, Jane.  I'd have to do some kind of partial cleaning on this place before I'd let some stranger come in here & help clean the rest of it.

Also, wish's point about the yarn is well taken & should not disqualify anyone's presence here, because yarn can lead to large veterinary bills if not picked up.  One Christmas my lovely Himalayan kitty snuck away with & swallowed a piece of wire-edged 1/4" wide ribbon that was as long as her intestinal track.  It had to be surgically removed.  While she was in the vet hospital for 3-4 days, she developed right rear foot drop as well.  Then she had a GI infection when I took her home that did not respond to the first antibiotic we put her on, which, because she refused to eat & drink because she had a GI infection, I had to give her in a baby-medicine dropper.  And because she wouldn't eat or drink I also had to give her water & watered down baby food in the medicine dropper.  Meanwhile, she gimped around because of her foot & I was having a nervous breakdown that she was going to die of starvation until the vet switched antibiotics & the 2nd one worked so finally she started to eat & drink on her own.  Took another 5 months for the foot drop to resolve.  The total bill was about $1500.  Seeing as how I adopted her from my friend who runs the local pound who took her in when her first mommy died of old age, and since if I had actually purchased her she would have cost me about $1000 because she's pedigreed & came with papers & everything, I told her I would forgive her for costing me so much money this time, but that she'd better live to a ripe old age so I would get my money's worth!!

Anyway, she has lived to a ripe old age & is still beautiful & healthy, but I have banished ribbon from my home forever & all yarns/thread/string is safely locked up.

And here she is:

KAK

P.S. Patrice, how's your knee?

wishiwere

OMGOODNESS!  SHe's precious!  What a face   And yes, that's why the warning on string/yarn/tinsel and so forth.  Can be deadly even with a large vet bill. Glad you girl is making it worth it! They always do, although they can create havoc along the way!

KAK

Thanks, wish, & you know, she's not a snob at all, despite being so obviously glamorous!  However, she does have some minimal standards (mine are "sub-zero" like Hanna's) & did have a comment she asked me to pass on to the crew:

wishiwere

Oh my!  Sounds like something ONE of my girls would say! ROFL  She's so precious.  I bet that hair is something to brush.  My two have put on an extra coat this fall due to mom being home alone so much that mom gets to set the thermostat and hasn't had it over 62 at all! Poor kitties....the one has finally become a 'lap' kitty as a result. Which in turns, causes a hot flash with me and she just LOVES that!  Dang kitties!  

She's the one that has a very sensitive nose and wouldn't come near after my A/C infusions for 2 days.  She's literally scrunch up her nose at me and run away!  I swear...she's like some of those 'fair-weather' friends we all complain about! LOL

KAK

Oh gawd....yes, I think Chloe likes to cause me to have a hot flash on purpose so she can suck up all my extra body heat!!  You'd think with all that fur, she'd be warm enough, but cats, good grief, never, ever seem to feel too hot!  LOL

wishiwere

Oh Yes, more heat, sun, what ever they can garner. One has one register she sits in front all winter, the other another. Then there's the patio door and it's sun. They will NOT share any space, so that gets intersting in and of itself.  Such fun to watch the heirachy here with them. One is white with a touch of gold and lays directly IN the sun, or ON the gas fireplace.  The other is GREY and allows just a touch of direct sun as she does get HOT to touch if in it fully.  Funny creatures..but I wouldn't like life without them

They also miss the girls (2 sibling cockers we had to put down 3 years ago last july that were 15 y/o)  They used to curl up with the dogs in the winter.  It was sad to lose them for many reasons, but I think Lucy (aka Lucifer) misses them most in the winter for their warmth.  Then again, she missed rubbing them and snuggling with them in the summer b/c they'd come in with all that catnip attached to their coats too...  I could go and bore you all, but...thanks for the memories!