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10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6252

Hi hugs

I use a kitchen aid mixer with bread hook since My hands don't handle mixing well anymore. I don't measure the flour, I use Grandma's pinch method to tell if I've used enough. If it feels right it is.

Davit.

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

Hi Davit,

Eating a bit more isn't good for me either, and I found I did it twice today, which is really unsual for me.

I didn't have a great day either, since I couldn't get the washer to work since yesterday, and I couldn't hang out laundry, since the neighbours construction has raised so much dust. I forgot high high the water gets in the washer, and I suspect it might need a new water level switch. Once it gets going, it does work, but it seems unpredictable.

Also, the humidifier I cleaned might not be perfectly together since I cleaned it, and it's whistling, but I can have my brother look at it Saturday. I'm going to buy another for mom, which is quieter, so I can take this noisier one myself.

Mom liked the loaf of bread I made, so I might make another Saturday morning with the breadmaker. I'll bet you make it with your hands, which mom has suggested(I had to throw out the first batch last week, since I forgot half the flour, when someone telephoned, and I lost my place in the recipe.

The smell of bread is comforting isn't it?

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6252

I don't mind going to our local hospital alone, Lord knows I've done that enough times. Many is the time I've made sure the cats had food and water and called an ambulance. A few times I've drove myself in. I don't mind but the hospital for my eyes is 150 miles away and in winter the road can be bad.

Today was a slow day but a good one. I spent some time putting stuff in the garage away. There is a bit more to do but it won't take long if I get at it in the morning. Then I have to get the neighbour to put a bunch of lumber in it with his fork lift. I'll move it after out of the way so I can get the car in this winter. Too much pie, I feel rather crappy. But it was good pie. I keep finding little things that could use doing. They don't have to be but I do have the time so I pick at them.

I don't start in my shop downstairs till it snows usually. One final must do chore is to clean the stove and chimney. There is not a bit of wind this evening. Hasn't been all day. it is looking a bit like rain though. I'd rather it didn't.

Time for supper now, I see I'm going to have to make some bread in a few days. Something I actually like to do. I'm going to make a loaf and the rest into pita bread now that I know how. Just because.

Davit

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

Hi Davit,

I'm glad to hear you have someone accompanying you. I read that no-one should go to a hospital alone. Remember when you were a child, and had to have parents with you to the doc, etc?

My day was harried. I couldn't get my mom's oxymeter to work, and after purchasing a bunch of batteries, found out the meter has a power saver. I just seemed out of it all day, and afraid of using my "system" to make some hard decisions. I think I overcomplicate life.

Decisions increase stress I think. I read that docs(from a book from 2007) make 1000 decisions a day, but that's multiplied I'll bet, now because of technology.

My worry burdens me, so I'll bet if I made less perfect decisions, I'd cut my stress, since I would be ruminating. And I do too much of that "chewing" on things. It's as though I actually like to ruminate, though.

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6252

So far it seems I have some one to go with me for my next appointment. Two weeks from now.

Today was a good day and I got one more project done. Two actually. A neighbour did one for me. Two left, one I have to do and one I want to do. Ready for winter otherwise.

Davit

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2508

Davit,

Thanks for the update and am so glad everything went well for you yesterday and that you came out a winner on your day of exposer..If course I always knew you would..

Gailerina,

I have felt this way many times. With me it is usually anxiety or mild depression that is stopping me from enjoying life's pleasant activities. Not sure how to deal with it. I try to distract myself from these negative feeling by doing or looking at something else..Like a magazine if sitting and waiting or if outside where I can move around I walk for a bit and that helps. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't..Lately I have been struggling with it a bit. Coming here and posting and being postive is hard sometimes but it does help bring me out of it..Every positive thought is a step in the right direction..

Red...

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6252

Gailerina

I'm going to try to explain this so it makes sense. It is normal for the things we normally like to not please us because it was never them in the first place, they are just things. It is our thoughts toward them that has changed. And that we need to change back. The mani-pedi hasn't changed has it? Just what it does for you has. And that is thought processes. Our way of thinking and looking at things. Attitude mostly. A core belief that no matter what you do nothing can make you happy. Since things used to, it must be a recent one built on a few things that went wrong around the things that normally make you happy. Say a few times you tried so hard and did everything right but due to some other reason everything went wrong. Since you did the initial preparation you naturally think it is you that caused these preparations to fail. (proper use, preparations failed) but in fact they didn't. What caused the situation to fail has nothing to do with the preparation but it gets blamed anyway. In actuality it is your thought process from the core belief that causes you to put the blame in the wrong place making it not possible to enjoy something related that you normally would.

What I am saying is that you focussed on a few things that went wrong that should have gone right so now you have a core belief saying they can't. And they will continue to till you prove them wrong. The very nature of negative core beliefs. Not a totally negative one since you believe it was still an ok day, not a total loss. A disappointment, not a failure. Making it a lousy day would have made the mani-pedi a failure rather than just a disappointment. There is still hope for a turn around in thought. Try to break the hold the core belief has by getting the original pleasure you had even if you are only partially successful. It worked before, it can work again. You just need the right tools.

Davit.

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 90

HI Everyone,

It was an ok day. I am going to a job fair tomorrow and decided to get a mani-pedi, something I normally love. But the entire time I just wanted to leave.

At least I get to sleep in tomorrow. I took off for the job fair that is in the afternoon and decided to take Friday as a a mental health day.

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6252

Red

You were right.

It was nice seeing the sites on the way to Prince George even though I had a headache. There were still some leaves on the trees. Less than eight hours total time. I have to go back in two weeks to get my eyes measured for the lenses. A complete and very comprehensive exam and no waiting. In and out in half an hour. Lunch and come home.

No anxiety even though there were a dozen or more people in the waiting room. And also I have never been there before.

Except for the fact I didn't want to go because it is a long ways it was no problem but I don't think I could have driven myself. Not and find the place.

Have to call this a good day if not a great day. Any day without anxiety is a great day. It really is what you make it.

Davit

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

It wasn't a fun day.

It's construction hell, as the neigbhours' contractors start earlier every day, so I can't get my regular sleep. it's not earlier than the bylaw, but I noticed one construction crew doesn't start before 9am at another house, which at least allows us to pace ourselves, and have breakfast.

It was bad news when the doc was backed up, too, since I didn't know what to expect. Some SUV driver(Suv's are for people who can't drive, I'm convinced), told me to "straighten" my car, since she didn't feel comfortable driving around my car, so I adjusted it. I nearly told her to burn her passport, and go back to her bankrupt country, but managed to bite my tongue. Anyone who can't drive through a space with 12 inches on each side, should burn their driver's license.

I had to shunt 8 times, since the neighbour's contractor parked too close for me to back into my garage with ease. I thought some nasty things to do to the old SUV(another one -but this guy travels and has a reason for the car choice), but just went home.

My cousin warned me about going off the edge, so I know I'm somehow unwell, and others are picking it up. I did joke with the pharmacy staff, since the doc made us wait so long, I suggested he'd buy us lunch if we were there another 5 minutes. Maybe I'll call the secretary and ask for a free pizza, but then really - who wants to see a rushed doc?

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