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What time is it and what are you doing?
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Kathryn
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Nov 03, 2013 08:29PM
10:29 PM. Okay...so...I'm still distracted by football. However..I finally beat this dumb game on my phone after like three months. Lol...I'm a bit more awake now, sort of. Go figure. Maybe I will try to read. I also need the last of the Halloween candy to be gone!
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5:18 AM the kids woke me up a little while ago and not they are both back to sleep. I'm wide awake and need to be up in less than an hour so I'm just staying up. First day of my new job so I'm excited and nervous. Today and tomorrow are just orientation and then I start my certification training. Wish me luck.
Chris wrote: "5:18 AM the kids woke me up a little while ago and not they are both back to sleep. I'm wide awake and need to be up in less than an hour so I'm just staying up. First day of my new job so I'm exci..."Best of luck today Chris! You got this! :]
Good Luck chris9:12 AM no school today for me so I am playing Hay Day and chatting on twitter
9:20-something am: Managed to wake up on time this morning even though I forgot to set my alarm. Now I'm going to feed my animals, look up the news on my phone and do some reading.
Michelle (The World is Quiet Here) wrote: "9:20-something am: Managed to wake up on time this morning even though I forgot to set my alarm. Now I'm going to feed my animals, look up the news on my phone and do some reading."What are you going to read?
10:03am EST. Cold and gray, good day to stay in and read. Hub had to work the night shift Sat and now is on 2-11 this week. It really throws our schedule off. So now I'm drinking coffee and waiting for him to wake up. Watching an old Bette Davis movie on TCM. I love to watch movies from the 20s, 30s and 40s. (I would love to have been a flapper or a Ziegfeld girl in 1920 New York.) Son is home from hospital but he hasn't been able to get his meds. He was approved for Medicare part D effective 11/01, but he doesn't have the card and he can't afford his meds without it. I'm kind of worried about him not having them. Drug prices are just so outrageous.
Chris, good luck on your first day!!
Cindy, hang in there. I'm on those kinds of meds too, and it just takes a while for them to be effective.
Happy Monday everyone!
Chris, good luck on your first day!!
Cindy, hang in there. I'm on those kinds of meds too, and it just takes a while for them to be effective.
Happy Monday everyone!
Terri wrote: "10:03am EST. Cold and gray, good day to stay in and read. Hub had to work the night shift Sat and now is on 2-11 this week. It really throws our schedule off. So now I'm drinking coffee and waitin..."I SO love TCM! The actors then were the real deal. I rarely watch TV anymore but that's definitely my go-to channel when I do.
9:25 AM. I can't seem to wake up today...Guess strong coffee will have to work.
9:26 AM. Okay...Let's try this again...I'm not awake enough to try to go back and fix my last post since I'm on my phone. After coffee and breakfast, I need to go run an errand for my dad. I just want to get it over with so I can come back home and read. I also need to do the dishes and get some laundry started. Good luck today, Chris!!
@Heather Actually, I'm still not sure. I'm debating between a reread of Warriors: The New Prophecy: Midnight or a first time read-through of The Monstrumologist: The Final Descent. Sometimes I wish I was a book-a-day person so I wouldn't have to choose between books like this; I would only have to wait till tomorrow for the the one I don't choose today :)
Terri, can he receive samples from his doctor?Chris, good luck!
11:36 a.m. EST Had hoped to sleep a bit more but having a great deal of discomfort this morning. Hopefully I'll be able to concentrate enough to start my editing.
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12:12 p.m. EST Almost finished with e-mail, then I'll be trying to do some editing.
Michelle (The World is Quiet Here) wrote: "@Heather Actually, I'm still not sure. I'm debating between a reread of Warriors: The New Prophecy: Midnight or a first time read-through of The Monstrumologist: The Final Descent. Sometimes I wish..."That is the same way I am
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7:31 p.m. EST Took a bit of a nap since I was feeling a bit better, but that didn't last long. I'm so tired of feeling like crap. Anyway, slowing working through my book on breaks from editing for the rest of the evening/night.
12.03pm Melbourne Cup Day today - here's hoping I win some money in the office sweeps! Good luck Chris, I hope your first few days at your new job go really well and that everyone is really nice to work with :)
8:48 p.m. and just got home. I'm beginning to view the warehouse as my true home, at least until Christmas. Watching The Voice tonight and starting Carrion Comfort in the morning. I'm hyped, but really tired. My hometown girl is still in the running on The Voice. Can't let her down. Gotta watch.
9:22pm ET. Voted on the Goodreads choice awards, about to read some more of The Twelve and SLEEP! Carrion Comfort is an awesome read. Really creeped me out. One of the best books I have ever read.
**Update: I just added 2 more books to my TBR, and now it is 820!!! WTF??!!! *dammit*
8:58 PM. Tonight was a late night for my sweet husband, so dinner was later than usual. I made baked tomato, basil, and garlic chicken, acorn squash with butter, dark brown sugar, and nutmeg, and wild rice. It was delicious. We have been talking since he got home about our week, and it sounds like a bit of a busy week. He will have some late nights at work, Wednesday, I am going to dinner with an old family friend who is in town from Maine, and this part is exciting: Friday night we are going to the opera of Carmen. Mark won the tickets at a silent charity auction for his hospital. It will be the first opera for both of us. I'm going to get some more reading done in The Sleeping Doll. This is, so far, is a compelling read.
10:27PM Had a great first day. It was just orientation so haven't started my actual job or studying for my two certifications. Everyone in my class is in different departments so I haven't met anyone I will be working with yet. One more day of orientation and the. I'll be at my office Wednesday to get my training materials and start work at home for the next 8 weeks. So far I think I will really love working for this company. Thank you all for the well wishes. I really appreciate you all thinking of me.
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Kathryn sounds like you are gonna have a busy week. Enjoy the opera, I don't think I could stand it myself I don't like that kind of music at all. I also am enjoying The Sleeping Doll.
Chris glad to hear that you like this new company. I hope you are happier with this job than you were with your last! Good luck!
9:37 AM. Good morning!!!! I'm enjoying some coffee and oatmeal at the moment. I need to go grocery shopping today, but fortunately I only need a few things. I am going to read for a while this morning. I didn't post on here, as usual, right before bed. I had fallen asleep with Gizmo on the couch, and I was so sleepy, I crashed in bed after Mark told me the good news: the Packers lost. Anyways, happy Tuesday! Janie, Mark and I have never been to the opera, so it will be a neat experience for us both. It is always neat to find something neither of us have done and be able to do them together. Opera music isn't our thing either, but it is the making of a memory. Lol!
10:51am EST. Had a horrible night. My son, who is only 3 days out of the hospital, had almost a complete breakdown last night. He was in a car accident and did extensive damage to his car. We caught him shooting up drugs in his room. He was so out of it we could hardly rouse him. When he woke up he was belligerent and angry. He stormed out of the house and went for a walk (This was at 11pm.) He ended up walking in the woods in our neighborhood and fell into the creek. The police brought him home, got him some dry clothes, and took him back to the hospital. At this point he is still feeling sorry for himself and trying to place the blame anywhere he can. He kept saying "I"m weak, I can't help it, I should just be dead." It's heartbreaking and so difficult as a parent to deal with this. I just don't know what is going to happen. Needless to say, I'm not good for much today. I hardly got any sleep, and I can't even concentrate to read. So it's just a waiting game at this point to see what happens. Thanks for letting me vent everyone.
Oh Terri....I don't even know what to say, except to say I'm sorry and I wish there was something I could do for you. Please don't blame yourself for what he is doing. You are doing the best you can in a delicate situation. Chris has the opportunity, especially with the support of his parents, to either get better or choose not to. I don't think he understands how much he is hurting you, because, and I hope you don't mind my saying this, he is only thinking of himself. I really hope and pray the medication situation gets sorted out so he can start his meds. I will be praying for him and you. You know you can always contact me if you need to talk. ((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))
Teri I just don't know what to say either. I can't imagine the pain and stress you are going through. I would whole hearted my agree with Kathryn. It isn't your fault and it sounds like you guys are doing the best you can. I'm also here if you need me. I wish I could do more than offer a digital shoulder. Good luck with everything yet to come.
Oh, Terri... *hugs* So sorry about this. I hope things will work out.Cindy, don't overdo it if you can help it!
Chris, glad to hear you're enjoying the new job so far. It makes all the difference, that's for sure.
12:56 p.m. EDT Feeling a bit better today. Didn't sleep as much as I wanted, but at least I'm not as miserable as yesterday. Need to finish this editing!
@ 4:03 PM ... Not enjoying the weather here today at all. It's definitely reading weather. About to be reading some more of The Luminaries. I'm thinking about tightening up my Goodreads profile: re-rate my books, straighten out my shelves. It would be nice to have that all fixed up.
Terri, you poor thing, I can't imagine how much stress you are feeling at the moment. Like the others, I really don't know what to say other than that you are in my thoughts and that I am here if you ever want to talk. I'm so sorry that you are going through this. Sending you big {{{{HUGS}}}}
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Terri I am so sorry to hear about the continued problems with your son. And you are doing all that you can do for him. I know that it is so very stressful, and I can not even imagine dealing with one of my kids going through these problems. I know it does not really help to hear that you can't help him if he can't help himself. But as I have learned, it is such a true statement. We can only pray that he will come to a point in his life and finally decide that he has had enough of it and clean up his life. Please don't feel like any of it is your fault. I am here if you ever need an ear. (((HUGS)))
8:22 PM. Eating dinner and gearing up to read. I'm hoping to get more into The Sleeping Doll. Feeling kind of blah tonight for some reason...I think it is because I didn't workout today. Guess I have to double my time tomorrow.
Terri wrote: "10:51am EST. Had a horrible night. My son, who is only 3 days out of the hospital, had almost a complete breakdown last night. He was in a car accident and did extensive damage to his car. We caugh..."Wow-- I missed this earlier.
OMG, so sorry things are going so rough for you all right now, Terri. It sounds like you've gone way above and beyond the call of duty, so try not to be too hard on yourself. I imagine that's right next to impossible, though, but we're pulling for you.
10:55 PM. Laying in bed and messing around on GR on my phone. Going to read for a while hopefully. I ended up not reading earlier because Mark was bugging me. Lol. It's okay, though. He is a sweet guy.
12:12 a.m. EST About ready to crash for awhile. Less than 100 pages left to edit, plus a short, so will probably finish up tomorrow. Or, rather, later today now...
10:15 AM. Good morning, GR!!! After I digest breakfast a bit longer, I'm going to workout. This one will make up for missing yesterday's. Lol. In the meantime. I'm going to read The Sleeping Doll.
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1:05 p.m. EST Received SO MANY books today! Four via UPS, two via USPS and four via FedEx! I have an editing job next week and have been paid with books. Plus two for a blog tour. Books in the mail = good day. Hubby had to go in early today. Apparently the majority of his coworkers have stuff going on this week; they're Islamic and it's some sort of religious thing. He says they keep having new holidays come up.
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Terri wrote: "10:51am EST. Had a horrible night. My son, who is only 3 days out of the hospital, had almost a complete breakdown last night. He was in a car accident and did extensive damage to his car. We caugh..."Terri, my heart breaks for you. I can't imagine. I don't know any one personally that has gone through this but have heard of some of my friends relatives that did benefit from, http://www.nar-anon.org/naranon/
I know there is an on line production and even a Kindle application. My prayers are with you..
1:01pm. My sister left for home yesterday:(, so things are getting back to normal today. Will finish with The Sycamore Tree today. Very exciting last act. Janie, I could watch the Grinch over and over, sooo cute! Looking forward to all the Great Christmas movies.
4:22
Having dinner with my mom and dad, then I go to my new drawing class!
Having dinner with my mom and dad, then I go to my new drawing class!
6:08 PM. I just finished getting ready for dinner out tonight with a few friends of the family at 7. One of them is in town from Maine, so we're all going out to dinner. I did two workouts today, mainly to make up for the workout I didn't do yesterday. I ended up working on getting a lot of my CDs on my computer and put some on my iPod. The long task was WAY overdue. Anyways, I'm going to read until Mark gets here and we leave. I hope everyone has been having a great day. :)
7:10pm ET. The time change has me draggin'.... need a pick me up so I can read. It was a beautiful day today, so I want to end it with reading a huge chunk out of my books today. :)
Have fun Kathryn, hope you are going to a nice place. First day to have a fire today. It's getting cold. Burr
Susan wrote: "Have fun Kathryn, hope you are going to a nice place. First day to have a fire today. It's getting cold. Burr"Thank you, Susan! It's not the fanciest, nicest place, but it does have good food. :) It's getting chilly here in Texas, so I agree! It's getting to be fire weather. I'm SO glad we have a fireplace! :) Hope you're doing well! :)
Good food, good company, make for great times:). We tried a place kind of over your way called Celebration. Really good food in a little old renovated house. Yumm
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Aeverie went to sleep already. So I guess it was enough to make him tired. I just hope he sleeps through. He is about an hour early. LOL
I am planning on reading some here in a few. Switched over to Ashes to Ashes. The 3 books I am reading are all pretty good. So sometimes hard to decide what I wanna read. I have another buddy read coming up about mid week.
Kathryn it really was pretty chilly today! But I like this weather. We had about 57 this evening and Aeverie still enjoyed the walk as did I.
10:21 PM. I'm already laying in bed. I've been catching up on notifications and FB stuff, all while texting my dad. Dinner was yummy, but overall it was an okay time. We went to Texas Roadhouse and it was just too noisy. Not really the type of atmosphere to catch up in. I wish I hadn't brushed and flossed my teeth yet because coffee surely sounds good right about now. Oh well! Mark is pretty worn out, but I'm still kind of awake. I'm going to read for a bit.Janie, it got chilly fast! I enjoy this type of weather, too. It helps me sleep better, actually. It makes for lovely reading and coffee weather. ;)
3.22PM Took the day off work today as I'm feeling blah. Good excuse to curl up with my fluffy blanket and my Kindle. I thought some SK might make me feel better so I decided I'll read UR as it will be a quick read and I can use it as my U book for my A-Z challenge :)
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