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How you doing? What have you been up to this week? Plans for the weekend?

Just a general check-in with our AW friends new and old.

It should be a fun evening here - I'm going to a county soil and water training program where I'll be trained on how to measure the health of the creek in my backyard using chemical, biological, and observational tests. I'm also hoping they'll have some advice on resources to stabilize the bank on the far side of the creek that I don't own where the farmer dumped things for decades so there is a lot of garbage.

It's not Good Friday, but it's a REALLY good Friday when the family I really didn't want to meet with cancelled on me.

This weekend is the MS 150 bicycle ride from Houston to Austin.
My brother-in-law rides I cheer his team on. His wife, my sister-in-law has MS and the team is the Flying Hawaiians.

My weekend has been good. I hung out with my son, things are improving there. The snow is about melted in the yard and the cat has been exploring (on his harness of course)

I’m so glad things are improving, Jennifer! I went to a baseball game yesterday for a friend’s 40th. It was a surprise and he loved it. And the Tigers won so it was all worth it lol.

Jennifer wrote: "My weekend has been good. I hung out with my son, things are improving there. The snow is about melted in the yard and the cat has been exploring (on his harness of course)"

Glad to hear things are going well.

Jennifer had a good week. :-)

We have been renovating my basement, and my main floor bathroom. Yesterday we finally reached a stopping point where I can start cleaning and decorating/putting stuff back together. It's a relief and pretty exciting.

It looks like this thread needs a little bump, so I'll share something interesting I learned about myself. In the last year, I'd devolved into showering every other day and just wearing comfy oversized shirts with leggings all the time with my hair in frizzy pony tails (my hairs untamable when it's not freshly washed). Recently, I found a new hairdresser and got my hair permed. It's bouncy and beautiful again and ever since I've started showering every morning because it lets me scrunch my hair up pretty and I'm wearing my nice work blouses again. My last perm had been poorly done and came out flat on the bottom and barely a wave on top and not liking how it looked...and therefore how I looked completely changed my whole view of myself...and in return changed how I presented myself.

I am now a member of the Century Club because I have donated blood 100 times. There was another lady becoming a member at the same time as me and they wanted to take a picture of us to post on Facebook, but they were ready for me to donate then and I wasn't really into that, anyway.

That's amazing!

That's very cool Anne! I used to donate when I could, but can't anymore with all the meds I'm on.

Farmer wrote: "That's very cool Anne! I used to donate when I could, but can't anymore with all the meds I'm on."

Have you tried lately, Farmer? The rules have changed quite a bit. It seems like almost anyone is allowed to donate, now. Unless you have AIDS, HIV or Hep C, they want your blood. They're getting desperate.

Anne (w/ an E) wrote: "I am now a member of the Century Club because I have donated blood 100 times. There was another lady becoming a member at the same time as me and they wanted to take a picture of us to post on Face..."

Wow, that's amazing!

Well, I am planning on starting to work on my second novel... Its name is going to be "Dances With The Black Widow."
Which is going to serve as a partial prequel to my first novel "What's Wrong With 1961."

I also want to work on some short stories as well. Some of which I want to submit to some magazines, but i'm not sure if I am going to make it to those...

We'll see... But yeah, a lot of creative juices flowing...

Getting Zoom trained today in a new behavior rating system that is transparently based on the one we have been using all these years. Except where the old system took 10 minutes to complete a rating on a client, it is going to take NINETY MINUTES to complete using the new system. It's already screwing with my head that we are supposed to rate client needs on a 0-3 scale, with 3 being the worst, and client strengths are to be rated on a 0-3 scale with 0 being the best. Whose bright idea was that?

It's Friday and the long weekend here! Can't wait to get some reading in and soak in some sun!

We are going to get one nice day and grey and rain the other two but I am also excited for a long weekend!

This weekend I am probably going to paint my "solar room" then I am going to a friend's house to dismember dolls. She uses them for art projects... believe it or not, it's not for creepy projects but cute ones. :-P

This week proved again that the full Moon is a real factor in human behavior. On Thursday we had one, and out of our half-staffed program with not that many active clients, we had in ONE day, a kid who stole a gun and a car and is now a fugitive from justice; a kid punching herself in the head until her eyes are black; a kid removed from home for her safety; on and on and on. All in one day.

Fishface wrote: "This week proved again that the full Moon is a real factor in human behavior. On Thursday we had one, and out of our half-staffed program with not that many active clients, we had in ONE day, a kid..."

Thats sounds so hard Fish. I can't imagine.

Well my son and I have been talking more and he has come over for dinner a couple times. Things are getting better. He is also having dinner with his father once a week , which I think is a great thing for the 2 of them. Things are good.

Glad to hear things are getting better Jennifer.

Jennifer wrote: "Well my son and I have been talking more and he has come over for dinner a couple times. Things are getting better. He is also having dinner with his father once a week , which I think is a great t..."

That's so great to hear, Jen.

Jennifer wrote: "Well my son and I have been talking more and he has come over for dinner a couple times. Things are getting better. He is also having dinner with his father once a week , which I think is a great t..."

Glad to hear that.

I did some more donating today. Not blood this time, but hair. Really.
I had 10 inches of my hair cut off and I am sending it to Locks of Love so they can make wigs for kids who are losing their hair due to illness. I have done this before and maybe I 'll be able to do it again. [They sell the hair they can't make wigs from, like GREY hair!]

Just got back from my big bucket list trip to London Paris and Rome and it was way more than I'd ever expected. And you know I spent my downtime reading! Here's on the plane and Eurostar. :D

I bet that's the trip of a lifetime, at least it would be for some of us! How is Cytonic?

My big excitement yesterday was going to IKEA. :-P

Farmer wrote: "Just got back from my big bucket list trip to London Paris and Rome and it was way more than I'd ever expected. And you know I spent my downtime reading! Here's on the plane and Eurostar. :D
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It's good...another enjoyable series. Mr. Sanderson can do no writing wrongs in my eyes though

It's nice to have a few authors like that, you just know going into it you're going to enjoy the book.

Farmer wrote: "Just got back from my big bucket list trip to London Paris and Rome and it was way more than I'd ever expected. And you know I spent my downtime reading! Here's on the plane and Eurostar. :D



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Sounds like an amazing trip!

Gertie wrote: "It's nice to have a few authors like that, you just know going into it you're going to enjoy the book."
Neil Gaiman is this for me haha

Gertie wrote: "I bet that's the trip of a lifetime, at least it would be for some of us! How is Cytonic?

My big excitement yesterday was going to IKEA. :-P"

I love my trips to IKEA.

Right now I am planning a trip to see my grandparents and then another trip a little later to Europe. My uncle lives in Vienna , so I will see him and I am trying 3 other cities but not sure I will have the time.

Jennifer is doing that post-divorce freedom thing. :-P

I learned at team meeting that I am approved to take Fridays off for the rest of the summer.

Fishface wrote: "I learned at team meeting that I am approved to take Fridays off for the rest of the summer."
OOOHHH LUCKY!!! That will be nice, I'm sure!!

I am in fiscal year end nonsense, so I'm just trying to persevere lol

Lupe wrote: "Fishface wrote: "I learned at team meeting that I am approved to take Fridays off for the rest of the summer."
OOOHHH LUCKY!!! That will be nice, I'm sure!!

I am in fiscal year end nonsense, so I..."

Our fiscal year ends on my birthday so I always end up scrambling to complete paperwork when I should be having a good time. I feel your pain!

Fishface wrote: "Lupe wrote: "Fishface wrote: "I learned at team meeting that I am approved to take Fridays off for the rest of the summer."
OOOHHH LUCKY!!! That will be nice, I'm sure!!

I am in fiscal year end n..."

Oh well now that's just rude! Darn work!

All...I'm so sad. I was trying to update my books read for the year and I kept having one on there twice, and while I was trying to fix it...I accidently deleted my review and everything else (notes, highlights, dates read, etc.). I'm so mad and there is no way to get it all back!

Lupe wrote: "All...I'm so sad. I was trying to update my books read for the year and I kept having one on there twice, and while I was trying to fix it...I accidently deleted my review and everything else (note..."

Oh, I hate when that happens !!

Lupe wrote: "All...I'm so sad. I was trying to update my books read for the year and I kept having one on there twice, and while I was trying to fix it...I accidently deleted my review and everything else (note..."

Oh no! Sorry that happened!

Fishface wrote: "I learned at team meeting that I am approved to take Fridays off for the rest of the summer."

That sounds great ! I took this last Friday off just because and I thin we all need 4 day work weeks . :)

Oh heck Lupe!

Did you already check ? Maybe you can reimport them or something. That stinks to put time into it to lose the work.

OK, for the second time in the same week, I was driving north today on the road that leads to the office and thought, "I'm going to head over to Wash World first." Both times, the "low tire pressure" alert immediately popped up on my dashboard. Both times, the tires were fine.

This is starting to get weird.

Okay... if it happens a third time...

Whats up wit Wash World and why does the universe want you to avoid it ?

We have some wildfires around, so the smoke has been really bad the past week, The hospital opened up some respite rooms for people. We have the windows closed and the house is a sauna. But if we open the windows it will become a smoky sauna.... I am thinking about going to get one of the portable AC room things that you put water in or something.

Gertie wrote: "Oh heck Lupe!

Did you already check ? Maybe you can reimport them or something. That stinks to put time into it to lose the work."

This works for highlights and notes but not my original review, unfortunately. 😩

Jennifer wrote: "Whats up wit Wash World and why does the universe want you to avoid it ?"

That is exactly what I want to know. Or...is it the car communicating in the only way it can?

Fishface wrote: "OK, for the second time in the same week, I was driving north today on the road that leads to the office and thought, "I'm going to head over to Wash World first." Both times, the "low tire pressur..."

Could be bad TPMS sensors.