Please...stop me if I ever try this again!!

If I ever try mediating between two friends in our group again...just shoot me and get it over with!!

what a pain in my butt!!

Wanted to know if I was mad and then laid out arguments defending her actions...well...I wrote back defending mine, and haven't heard another word...guess I pissed her off, too.

Thing is...you can get a sense of a person's beliefs after a certain length of time...sort of like a puzzle you're putting together. Some things just have to be there for everything to fit...otherwise, you have to start coming up with other thoughts on the whole. But...finding out that somethings aren't the way you'd do something doesn't mean you have to beat that person over the head until they do it your way.

SIGH
I'm tired once again...I'm too old for this garbage. I'm too fluffy to want to make it all work...LOL think I'll go read a book and forget about everyone else for awhile...again..maybe then I'll be ready to either mediate, or tell them to all screw themselves and leave me the hell out of it....but, it's just not as much fun to do it that way...LOL

Thinking on switching some habits

Since my friend Ann posted a link to a church that is promoting no complaining, I spent great parts of my day at work paying attention to myself and to the customers that were in the store today. I have to say, that there was not as much complaining from the customers as I'd heard in the past, but one customer in particular went above and beyond to give her views on a certain subject...while projecting a pleasant countenance, she was blasting all the while! So, I'm thinking that this is something I'd like to spend more time considering and attempting to switch out some of my whining, complaining habits into a more pleasing mindset. LOL I just about commented on how hard that'd be considering how ornery I am....but, I'm not going to do that as it'd be embracing the negative instead of reaching forward for the positive!
LOL

I'm sitting here...once again, like a lump, and waiting for my body to catch up with what my mind is telling it that we'd like to get accomplished this afternoon. Once again..my body is laughing it's head off as it has control over this lump that houses my brain....grrrr..it IS the lump that houses my brain. whimper.. Anyway...what I'd like to see me get accomplished today are two basically simple things...1)masses of laundry 2) a good start on working through all the shots taken at the wedding and making some sort of sense of it all. SO...here we go and here we sit. I'm hearing it say...hoooboy! we got KremeFilleds two days in a row...NEED MORE!!....and, ewwww, don't make me get uuuuupppp!! I donwannado thaaat!! SIGH..big sighs...with some whimpering to go along with it!!

OK...who is the boss here...me or my body?? Well...that's been proven over and over again, hasn't it? bleaaa... I am going to take a stand...right here, right now...I'm going to go put the dryer on fluff(once again, think this is the 4th time) and this time I'm going to set the kitchen timers..yeah, all of them...and...if I can make myself get up then I will fold the sheets, put the other load of sheets in to dry, and put bluejeans in to wash. I'm desperate for jeans to wear to work tomorrow. Hopefully I'll be able to get the laundry to the point that I'm also doing a load that will have underwear included...which the jeans will not, on purpose!! Then...I'm going to work through the pictures on this computer before attempting to start on the set on the larger unit downstairs.

Wish me luck!! I'm up against a stubborn foe!! ooooohhh..someone's grilling out....ahhh...getting sidetracked already...lead around like a puppy by my desires....it's shameful!!

Actually made it up this morning in time to get to work and open the store. It was doubtful, though...hubby was snuggling in good and wasn't interested in cooperating about getting me good and awake.

Very busy at the store today. Had a good money day, plus the books that did come in I managed to clear off the counter and filter out to their areas of the store. Knowing that A is coming in tomorrow to work, I attempted to not only clear the counter but two of the work tables to make three tables plus the counter available to her...wasn't able to do that, but got one way down and the other, if she decides she'll need it, she can toss those books into baskets.

K came in and worked today, too...she managed to get an awesome amount completed!! YAY! Sure helps when her knees cooperate! LOL

Came home and collapsed in my Lazyboy...now, that's not the most efficient use of my time, but I'm feeling more human, now. Think I'll go see about fixing some supper...what goes with left over meat loaf?? LOL

Friday

It's Friday!! Finally! Well now, what am I going to do today other than go in to work?? Hummmmm...dunno....clueless!

Glad to see the temperature outside has warmed up and my daffodills are blooming. They're fighting for room in the garden with the shrubs, so they're not showing to their best. I'm considering having DH cut those shrubs down to about half their size sometime this afternoon.....wonder if I can talk him into it!

I'm sitting here like a lump avoiding life. I've not had breakfast, not showered nor dressed, and I'm not intending on doing any laundry or dusting or any other home blessing type activities. I've finished with my book. Linda Howard's newest in hardback...."Cover of Night". It was different from any others of hers I've ever read and I really enjoyed it...still had enough of her personality going between the characters to be romancy enough for me! LOL Anyway...saying about the book because I'm in the process of either continuing to finish another book I started but didn't capture my interest or deciding whether to dump that one and start a new one. Thing is...I'd better control my impulses and not even pick up a book to look at it until I get myself fed, showered, dressed and ready to leave for work....oh...and, medicated, too...bleaaa...irritating bit of life.

Photos...am feeling a need to get the wedding picture push underway...never actually thought I'd have to push Scott into getting these processed, but maybe he's waiting on me to do them?? It'll be 5yrs down the road at this rate! Not acceptable!!

And...I guess that's all for now...pretty dull and basic...but, we need these days to survive those frenzied days when they get here...and, they always get here....

Disturbed....just a bit..sigh..

Discovered when I got home from the wedding earlier this month that my committee at church had been combined with another committee and I'm now part of the Outreach committee. Well, I have a bit of a problem with this. As...no one asked me if I wanted to be a member of the outreach committee...!!! I was a part of the hospitality committee which I don't think has the same responsibilities as the outreach, nor do I think the outreach committee members are actually interested in the duties of the hospitality committee...which still have to be met. Fast forward to tonight...had a meeting of the combined committees...there's nothing going on that concerns the hospitality committee. It's all about the outreach committee's duties....hummmm....so, what's up with this?? I know the church is just starting out, but I don't think this is a happy blending of the two...personally. But, no one asked me for a personal comment on the subject. Sigh... I'm thinking right now that I'm just hung up on old patterns of thought...need to do a bit of adjusting and see if this will be a good fit. But...still...there still stands the fact that when I became a part of the hospitality committee it was because of what that committee did in the church. I probably would never have agreed to become a member of the outreach committee as I do a lousy job of the types of needs this committee has to deal with....like preparing brochures, figuring out which demographics(am I using this term correctly)to aim our mailing dollars toward...etc...media blitz..

Success!

Ah Hah!! I finally figured out what was keeping me from being able to load a picture onto my site. It was a wee bit toooooooo big for this, so I resized it all by myself without anyone's help. It's the first time for me to use the picture thingy on my new laptop....uh...guess I should do better than picture thingy, but you all know what I mean...the picture place that allows you to crop/resize/take out red eye and other cool nifty tricks. I'll have to practice and see what all I can do. But...right now I think I'll get offline and go read some more on the newest JR Ward book....Lover Revealed. It's almost already bedtime so I only have a few minutes left...catch up tomorrow!

Beginning Blog

well now, this thing is driving me crazy already trying to figure out how to use all the pieces/parts and, of course..all the tuturiorals assume you know "some" of the language! NOT...but, that's OK. I'll learn as I go along, I guess? I did try to put a picture onto my site, but I think it was too big for them to resize and it was like waiting for a garter snake to swallow an elephant....I gave up.

I'm wondering what in the world I'm going to accomplish today other than playing online. I do have a need for someone to spend some serious time on laundry, decluttering, and just general picking up and loving on the house. Eh....maybe tomorrow!