Has our forum name changed or am I having a senior moment?
DLM2000-GW
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I've got news...a Senior moment
Comments (10)Wonderful news-- congratulations! I really think when you're working with that size budget, your job should be a paid position, even if it doesn't pay what it's worth. Seriously, if you're going to be putting in as many hours as you do on your job, a salary might allow you hire someone to take up a few hours of your regular work now and then. I know you're doing what you do as a labor of love, and I really admire you for it--- I'd just hate to see you burn out. Delagating responsibility is important, but it can be difficult to find people who agree to help...and not everyone who says they'll help will actually come through. Is there some kind of a board that you could ask to consider awarding you a stipend? There are only so many hours in the day. You're looking at two full-times jobs, both emotionally demanding! If you've got a good, enthusiastic group, maybe it will get easier. It's really wonderful of you to take the project on -- and really great that you got the funding! Just take care of yourself so you've still got your best to give :)...See MoreThe very first SENIOR moment...
Comments (34)Here it is! Liz emailed me with the link and I'll be happy to share the poem with everyone. I just love it! AAADD KNOW THE SYMPTOMS. PLEASE READ! Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better even though I have it!! Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests: I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Pepsi aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye -- they need water. I put the Pepsi on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. At the end of the day: the car isn't washed the bills aren't paid there is a warm can of Pepsi sitting on the counter the flowers don't have enough water, there is still only 1 check in my check book, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys. Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day, and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.... Do me a favor. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who the heck I've sent it to. Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!...See MoreSenior Moments
Comments (19)Found in with some old papers earlier today: A Sign of Becoming Old Just a line to say I'm living, that I'm not among the dead, Though I'm getting more forgetful, and more mixed up in the head. For sometimes I can't remember When I stand at foot of stair, if I must go up for something, Or, I've just come down from there. And before the fridge, so often My poor mind is filled with doubt, have I just put food away, or have I come to take some out. And there's times when it is dark out, With my night cap on my head, I don't know if I'm retiring, Or just getting out of bed. So, if it's my turn to write you, There's no need in getting sore. I may think I have written, And don't want to be a bore. So remember - I do love you, and I wish that you were here, but now, it's nearly mail time, So I must say, "Goodbye, dear." There I stood beside the mailbox, With a face so very red, Instead of mailing you my letter, I had opened, it instead. I stand beside my desk, my head is bowed in shame. I'd re-address this letter, but I just forgot your name. Sue...See MoreHouzz changed my forum name at last! (& my cat with roses)
Comments (15)Thanks, everybody :-) My cat's name is Muesli. We got her as a rescue kitten from a local rescue shelter and she's a very spoilt princess! She's 7yrs old now. (She's also the feline star in my cozy mystery series - well, the fictional version of her anyway!) Lisa - I must tell you, Lady of Shalott can be a bit "strident" when the blooms first open, which clashes a bit in my garden (which is mostly pink, purple & white - probably like yours! ;-) ) - so I like her better once she fades a bit. The blooms do fade to a very beautiful colour - a soft pinky-orange (more orange than Abraham Darby, who is quite pink for me so far) - and the flowers do have a perfect shape, I think. In every other respect, she seems a fantastic rose - constantly blooming (top to bottom) with upright blooms and bushy, even growth (except for the few octopus arms), no disease and doesn't mind heat and blooms don't fry. If it wasn't for that very lurid orange colour when her blooms first open... I'm planning to move her come winter (at the moment she's planted next to Princess Alexandra of Kent in a very narrow bed and aside from the colour clash, they're both growing bigger than I expected!) She keeps throwing out these LOOOOOOONG octopus arms but unlike the ones on Pat Austin which are stiff & angular and look really odd, hers are very graceful & really flexible. I'm sure I could have cut them down and forced laterals but I like leaving the roses to their natural state a bit - I think it gives them "personality" ;-). Plus, I think she'd make a great climber with those long, bendy arms so I'm going to move her to the opposite side of the garden in winter and train her on the wall there next year. ~ HY...See MoreDLM2000-GW
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bpathome how is that possible to have different screen names for Houzz and GW??
And you don't see this - ^ ^ above?
DLM2000-GW
6 years ago
Olychick
6 years agoI use firefox on a laptop and haven't had too many problems - my bookmarks still work, except one time they didn't. No problems since.
This is what I see for the decorating side and I see the same as DLM here on the conversations side. I think it's always been called discussions over there - or for quite a while at least.
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