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[sabrinamari]

Insane week of work at all jobs. Also sick. But will make it through OK and have already met a mountain of previously unmet and guilt-inducing responsibilities. More of that to come.

Have been a bad friend to someone I love a great deal who has needed me this last month and a half. I haven't been there for her as I should have. I will call her today and take the hit, making what reparations that I can.

If all goes well, I will be much closer to wrapping up the old job and settling into the new one by the end of the week, I will be caught up on Free Spirit responsibilities and matters, and can then turn my attention to 1.) being happy and 2.) finishing my divorce.

Hoping for some good physical health this week and lots of sleep and moderate exercise to help me perform wisely, efficiently, effectively and well.

EDIT: Called the friend I let down. Took the hit, made no excuses. Was there for her while we made up a plan of attack that both she and I can hold to this week. Life is much better now.

Comments

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

You've been unable to be there for someone? Well, sometimes you can't do everything. I know it bothers you, but sometimes people, being only human, have only so much to give. You've had far too much on your plate for far too long. I'm sure that whoever it is knows that. You're still working at the old place? Tell me it ain't so. Please also promise me that you won't voluntarily take on too much at the new job, even though you've been used to carrying the world on your shoulders. I'm looking forward to you taking on what is healthy, and having Actual Time For Yourself, and learning to be OK with it.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Thank you, my dear. Can we start am workouts again next week? Perhaps on Tuesday, after Memorial Day?

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

I would love to :)

Please don't beat yourself up over whatever it is. I know you've been well trained to do so, but resist! - resist, I say! What is it they say? "Friends are people who know you but like you anyway." I'm sure all will be well.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was Dorothy. I blew the diss chapter reading for her. I am on it again this week. She still loves me, and gods know, it's with full knowledge of all my flaws. So I'm resisting the urge to feel horrible.

Smiling. Better now.

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

GOOD!!

[quiet-wyatt72.livejournal.com]

At least it was someone who knows you intimately, and is also very familiar with how time gets away from those wrapping up academic things (like graduating and switching intellectually-oriented jobs).

Don't feel bad. You take on too much. I saw it in action. Especially around the house.

You should delegate more house-stuff to your roomie right now while you take care of other things. I know she's not inclined to the same level of obsessed Chase-Cleanliness. But buy her off with some Count Chocula cereal-- and maybe promise to buy her a wrestler when you win the lottery :-)

recalcitrant slob weighing in

[elphaba-of-oz.livejournal.com]

If you delegate you may have to get used to living in a home that doesn't conform to your cleanliness standards. I clean the kitchen and OCD man walks in and declares it "Filthy." I can't do any better then I'm doing. I can't zap the filth if I don't see it.

Re: recalcitrant slob weighing in

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

It's OK. A little bit of OCD can be a good thing, but I bet you are much happier without it.

It's a double-edged sword

[elphaba-of-oz.livejournal.com]

I'm much more relaxed than OCD Man. He's like a coiled spring. But I am living in a tidy home for the first time in my life. That's a good thing, and I owe it to his persincketiness.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Very few balanced and happy sane people have any truck with the Chase level of cleanliness. And that is a good and right thing.

Fortunately, except for the closet door that I dismembered on Saturday and the unfortunately unstemmed outflow from that space, the apartment is clean.

I can walk in late tonight to a soothing level of clear floor space, a happy, sprucey southwest shrine and a clean bathroom. Deep, pleasure-filled smile.

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

I don't think one can buy wrestlers anymore.

Perhaps they can be rented.

I don't know if Shannon would be interested in a rented wrestler.

Yeah, she would---if he met the Shannon criteria.

I would like to see Shannon all happy with the wrestler of her choice. Also, maybe he could fix the broken closet door and take all those 45 lb. plates off of my hands.

I wish.

FSG

[ingridsummers.livejournal.com]

Totally off topic. Am I supposed to do somthing re: the workshop you want me to teach? I've got notes. I have handouts. I'm pretty much ready to go.

Re: FSG

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Thank you once again! : )

Takes Courage to "Take The Hit"

[davidt4e.livejournal.com]

One could argue that any human being should have at least five people on which to depend at any given moment for just this reason. Then again, to step in and "take the hit" takes a lot of guts.

You are a perfect child of the goddess, and by definition, perfectly imperfect, or as our friend Frank Zappa would say, "Oh well..."

Actually, Frank Zappa said a lot of things about a lot of things, but if I wrote them all here, it would be enough to offend almost anyone, and have my LJ privileges summarily revoked. So I will desist.

("Oh well...")

Re: Takes Courage to "Take The Hit"

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

What a lovely thought---"perfectly imperfect".