The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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oh, I always love to wish happy birthdays and join in self pity rants! I was a lowly computer techie grown to amazing potential in the DOT.COM boom and after only a few months of making a salary commensurate with my potential while cultivating a vividly bizarre social circle I suddenly lost all interest in pursuing wealth and power and left it all to live in a tent on the side of a mountain in the wilderness of Oregon.

Happiness and peace of mind can only be influenced by environment so much be fore the Aspie brain percolates up a crisis just to exercise it's genius for using formulas by recognizing patterns and finding the answer that answers all questions on the subject by sheer perseveration. But out side of that, it is better on the mountain side.

Happy Birthday, Krex, I am glad to be here and help you share your forty fourth! I am aghast at what you must be feeling/thinking/being. I know what I would be thinking! I hold the concept of you tenderly in my mind, my sister. I feel like I felt when Nan was missing, sending you all my best wishes for your sweet salvation.

I also am Wishing Reika a mellow grieving season, your sorrow is like Ceres when Persephone is underground for 6 months of the year and above the earth the other six months of the year. My wish is that you can be comforted in the love that is generated in her behalf.

Merle

Now I'm really reassured!

Merle, generations of schoolkids have been tweaking the Australian national anthem, Advance Australia Fair, to "Advawwwnce Yer Nawwwstril Hair." (snicker!)

I felt like that when we had a hurricane and tornado back in 2004. It was the first time I'd ever encountered anything like it, and I didn't know what to do, so I "hunkered down" as they call it here. When the tree fell on my house, I didn't quite know what I should do, either. My daughter called me on my cell phone, and yelled at me for not going into the storm shelter. So I went. The tree did no damage, but it made me think a lot about what it could have done. Shortly after that, it was Thanksgiving, and I went to help serve, out at the local homeless shelter. Everywhere, was debris from fallen trees, and boarded up houses and businesses. It felt really weird, to see "business as usual" when we'd just had a taste of raw, Mother Nature in a rage. It took me a long time to process all that.

Just passing through to say hello. I'll have a lot of catching up to do in when I can get myself to focus. Hopefully I will feel more socialable in a day or two.

*deletes long rant that she promised herself she wasn't gonna wright that would have boiled down to: bad week, was looking forward to weekend, found out things were planned for her so now she will be working this weekend just not for the pharmacy but instead a different job for each Sat and Sun that she each loathes*

I'll try and come back when I am feeling more like my jovial self. It ones of those times when I know it is no where near the end of the world and I am overall lucky in life but I can't quite convince my emotions of that.

I hope everyone else is okay though I am quite a few pages behind already so I know I'm out of the loop. Good night.

I've gotta have a positive note somewhere... hmm, try this.

If life gives you lemons, sell them to the kid with the lemonade stand, duh!

Or, in the wise words of Ron White, "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Then go find someone whose life has given him vodka, and party!"

Just heading off to work. Wishing you all the perfect day for you, whatever that may be.

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Just got home from work, and it's going to be real dreary weekend here but we need the rain.

It just finished a week-long rain here - so I'll be raking leaves each day as I get home from work, until they stop falling.
But the sun finally came out, and it is 60 degrees Fahrenheit (16 degrees Celsius)and beautiful! So lots of wet leaf raking
in store for me before my nap today.

Warm smiles on all!

It must be autumn if Chuck is scheduling naps into his days. Hello Chuck! Have you finished your double shifts? I must say your picture has the cutest knees I have seen on a gentleman of your ah. . maturity. . .


Merle

I love the rain and feel most comfortable in the 'dreary'. Perhaps that is why I love and live in Oregon. Here it is the norm when we come to work in a driving rainstorm and people gather near the doors and just gaze out thrillingly on the 'weather'. Here people say 'oh, don't you just love the rain??' and others nod enthusiastically.

If it didn't rain here, it would be a desert, but we would rather have the moss on the trees and the ferns sprouting in the shaded nooks.

Merle

It's beginning to clear up a bit, looks like I'll get out tomorrow to to take a few pictures of the Halloween parade.

it's getting cloudy out. as in REAL clouds. that's a nice change. hope, if it rains at all, that it doesn't rain much. if it does rain a lot, there'll be mudslides.

the cat carriers. sigh. i thought i'd gotten all of them done, as i did almost all of those stacked in the courtyard. silly me. that wasn't all 350 of them. that was only about a half. i need to go back out and help with the rest, but i think it's going to be tomorrow, as i just got up for the day and am tired already. i think going and finding some food, then reading a book or something is in order for today. with a lot of naptime in there.

at least i know to get wintergreen oil for the smell when i go back out there!

I was going to go to the Halloween Parade on Wednesday in Ashland (that I described anon) but I got an appointment with a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and going to start the diagnostic phase of my existence.

Now, later, if I start writing in '' alphabet speak"(you know, OCD and ADHD and PCP and LSD) on and on and expect other people to actually know what I am talking about, kick me in the virtual pants and tell me to come back to how people talk, ok?


Merle

___________________________
"I have failed once again to fulfill the expectations of others, which have become my own."
Margaret Atwood

Good lawd, same old same old. All dressed up on a Saturday night and nowhere to go.

Where IS everyone?

After much irresolution, I too have secured an appointment, late next month, with an actual card-carrying shrink. If I start to speak in psychobabble afterward, please slap me!

Best wishes for you on Wednesday, Merle.

Well, I'm watching the young 'uns for the weekend, although thankfully they're mostly over their stomach flu, and just finished watching Torchwood on BBC America (think Doctor Who meets X-Files, set in Cardiff). Loved the title of this episode, too - "They Keep Killing Suzie".

So how're y'all doing?