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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2250 on: February 23, 2007, 09:25:18 AM »
Waiting for the furnace repair man to to come!

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2251 on: February 23, 2007, 09:34:41 AM »
Just set another torrent going.  Off to the pub fairly soon, too.

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2252 on: February 23, 2007, 10:41:53 AM »
Still waiting, but puttering around the house doing laundry and sipping herbal tea!

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2253 on: February 23, 2007, 10:57:53 AM »

Changing into some dry clothes. I just had to sit in the snow and pretend I'm ready to cry in order to make a point to my daughter about caring for herself and meeting her own needs. It's a long story, but she hates to grow up, we've been playing this game to see who can get out of the car and inside where it's warm first, today I didn't realize how needy she was feeling, I beat her to the door (yesterday she beat me), she decides crying in the snow is the way to deal with defeat. I told her I was going to try that and see if the door would REALLY open for me, if I sat and cried in the snow, etc, etc.. I'm working with a six year old who can read at a ten year old level (she's not as adept as her brother) and read other people's intentions and needs like very few wise adults I've ever seen, and at times shows me the stubbornness and determination of a long snake growing a backbone, and yet, today, she can only cry to get things done. Her emotional stability is that of a much younger child.

I am slamming my hands over the ears of my pain pain.


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Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2254 on: February 23, 2007, 12:21:08 PM »
Thinking about the beer in the fridge.
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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2255 on: February 23, 2007, 01:19:37 PM »
Listening to the furnace run 8) and checking the forums!

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2256 on: February 23, 2007, 01:35:21 PM »
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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2257 on: February 23, 2007, 06:12:21 PM »

...we've been playing this game to see who can get out of the car and inside where it's warm first, today I didn't realize how needy she was feeling, I beat her to the door (yesterday she beat me)...

In that sort of race, which isn't really a real race but rather a sort of game to get the child motivated to do something, it works better for me if I always let the child win, even if I have to move extremely slowly at the end for it to happen.

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2258 on: February 23, 2007, 08:50:55 PM »

...we've been playing this game to see who can get out of the car and inside where it's warm first, today I didn't realize how needy she was feeling, I beat her to the door (yesterday she beat me)...

In that sort of race, which isn't really a real race but rather a sort of game to get the child motivated to do something, it works better for me if I always let the child win, even if I have to move extremely slowly at the end for it to happen.

I usually do the same thing with just a few days of making sure she works for it. Again, today, I was not as empathic as I should have been and I did not realize that today was not a good day to teach her a tough lesson about coming in second in a field of two.  :'(

At times, I'm the single one who can most accurately judge her and identify with her, but I have up days and down days, too.
Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2259 on: February 23, 2007, 08:51:57 PM »
Looking at My first pay check in years.

Hey, congrats, Kevv! That's awesome.
Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2260 on: February 24, 2007, 02:41:27 AM »
Looking at My first pay check in years.

Hey, congrats, Kevv! That's awesome.

Yep. + for Kevv!  :)

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2261 on: February 24, 2007, 05:24:32 AM »

Heading out for my walk.
Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2262 on: February 24, 2007, 07:43:35 AM »
I was going to go to sleep, but unfortunately I started watching Frasier.
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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2263 on: February 24, 2007, 08:27:08 AM »
Watching a German film, The Lives of Others, which is about the Stasi, the communist secret police in the former East Germany.  I did download another (Korean) film thinking it was the original but it actually turned out to be the third (and most recent) in the series!  What a cretin I am!

Anyway, back to watching that film.

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Re: What are You doing right now?
« Reply #2264 on: February 24, 2007, 09:00:11 AM »
Waking up.
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