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(((((Scrappy))))) Talk to your lawyer. Most states, child support should be set up very soon after the papers are filed, and has to be taken directly out of his paycheck.
I don't know which knee you're having done, but even if it's the left knee and your car has an automatic transmission, I don't think they'll want you to drive right after the surgery. Get a doctor's excuse and use it.
If memory serves, this is Scrappy's son from a previous relationship. Short of her husband having adopted him, I don't know that support is an option. I'm sorry that he's doing this to you. It's shameful. Wanting out of a marriage is one thing, but there are better and worse ways to take leave. He's obviously chosen the low road. May his bad karma catch up with him.
Dear Tamoxifen,
Bye Bye, so long and farewell- for two months at least.
Had my mammogram and ultrasound today and everything came back clear. Yay for 1 year and 4 months.
Had a long talk with the Dr. who opined that since the cancer causing the mastectomy was none invasive and since it was giving me so many problems, that I should try going off the tamoxifen for a couple of months and see if things improve. If they do then there is one set of options, if they don't then there are other options. At any rate this is all hopeful.
Thank you everyone for listening to me whine and moan about the tamoxifen poisoning and general lack of progress in all things physical, endurance, mental and emotional.
Yay, marni! I hope you start feeling better soon!
Two weeks to go until my exam. There's a very real chance I won't pass. I know the material (been studying like crazy). It's the way the test is set up. It does not mimic real life professional practice. It's hard for me to explain, but when I meet someone and do an assessment, I consider everything and get history about everything. On this test, this is not the case. It's really tripping me up. I signed up for a site on the web where I can do tons of simulations and get test taking tips, but with such a short amount of time, who knows.
Why does the Commonwealth of MA require this test, when other states just require the one where it's just 200 multiple choice questions about theory, diagnosis, treatment, etc.
Well, I know the answer to this one, actually.
Yay marni for the clear tests and for your doctor's "blessing!" Hope you start feeling better soon.
Good luck Crankin! You've made it this far - I'd bet on you any day.
Give it your best shot Crankin--if you have to retake, you'll have the experience once already.
Marni-Hooray for great news!!
Good luck Crankin'- you are doing everything you need to prepare so go in strong and confident, and like Malkin says- if worst comes to worst, you will have a better idea of what to expect for next time.
Dear Celtic Festival organizers: Today is October 23. The festival is November 5 & 6. I'm looking forward to performing but I have a few other things to fit in during the weekend. Is it too much to ask for you to write back with a clue about our schedule performance times?
Crankin - good luck on the exam! Hang in there, you have the experience and it will soon be behind you.
Dear Weather Gods,
Please let Saturday be a bit warmer than forecast. All of these lovely summer-like temps this week and I've been unable to ride since the weekend because I don't get off work until 90 minutes before dark - and it takes me about 30 minutes to just get home. I want to ride my bicycle BADLY, but my body isn't quite ready yet to ride in low 50's/high 40's just yet. I will though if I need to. I have clothes for that ;)
Thank you for listening,
Catrin
Dear Sandy
Now would be a good time to take a right turn.
Thanks,
Martha
Dear Body,
Humans do not hibernate so no need to build up fat for winter. We do not need to eat everything in sight just because it is cold, rainy and foggy
Good luck, Crankin! I feel sure you will pass your exam.
Why is a hurricane coming when my DH is away???
Dear Neighbors:
Have we done something to offend you? We're so happy you bike, and that you're teaching your kiddo to bike. But - did you have to give him a horn and let him ride up and down the street for hours blasting it? We can hear it inside our house, and it's really, really difficult to concentrate. DH is trying to work from home, and I'm trying to study. Please, please stop the honking!
OMG, Blueberry...how rude is that? I can't believe the parents of this young lad can tolerate the noise either. Crazy! I hope it's a flash in the pan and he tires of it quickly, or they do. Otherwise, you might have to speak up. Your studying and your DH's working from home certainly give you a good reason to do so (not that you need one other than the noise driving you BATTY!) :eek:
Dear big national newspaper,
seriously?? You have a 4 page article about doping in professional road biking, and link in to it on the front page with a photo of a mountain bike and a guy wearing rugged shoes, thick wool socks, and generic, obviously non-pro clothing?
Hey, a cyclist's a cyclist, right? I can't wait for the next doping scandal in competitive running, to see the hiker in rugged boots you then put on the front page.
I have not been on TE in about 6 months, stopped by to say hi.
Nice to see everyone.
I was so, so saddened to hear of Mimi's terrible loss.
I have ridden my bikes a few times this year, but not as much as I used to. I did give them both a thorough cleaning last month however, I still maintain them in good working order.
At 58 now, I've incorporated some other exercises into my life to get back into shape and hopefully lose a few pounds too- I am doing fitness walks again, also a couple of 3 hour contra dances per month, and started yoga 3x/week a couple months ago as well. This works well for me, and the yoga and walking in particular are already making some much needed changes in how I feel and how my body is working. I am grateful to have my general good health.
Enough work comes in to get along ok. Playing lots of music still. Had a great year in the veggie garden, with TONS of tomatoes. My 4 hives of honeybees are doing well- I harvested 42 pounds of honey this past week, will have plenty for ourselves next year and some gifts too.
Was taken by surprise by the new look of the TE forums... =8-o but my password still worked.
Warm wishes to everyone. :)
Lisa! Good to see you. Glad life is good.
So nice to see you here, Lisa.
I didn't ride as much this year, either. A lot, but considerably less than the past 2 years. Funny thing is, I am fitter from the other stuff I do now (boot camp, a little running), but I still "miss" my bike terribly when I want to be riding, but I don't have time.
Hope the storm stays away from you!
Lisa, it is great to see you! I've missed you here.
I've noticed the same thing that you and Crankin have. I am fitter, feel better, and am far more flexible from all of the things I started doing this year (high intensity training/crossfit) than when I was riding a gazillion miles a week. I don't have time to ride more than twice a week, and I do miss it. However my body feels so much better that I can't/wont argue with it. Riding has become more recreational/fun and I do enjoy that change. My body feels far more balanced these days. Thinking about adding geocaching to get me out there in the winter weather.
Hopefully the storm will miss you!
Dear life,
The last month has been HARD. And it's still hard. I'm glad you gave me a swift boot to the behind to get myself together, to seek out new friends and I am glad to have found kindred spirits in people I'd otherwise never have connected with if you had not put this in my life. But, I am still sad. I am sad because there is no longer anyone whom I have been friends with long enough to have my back unconditionally. I am sad because I don't know how to stem the immense loneliness and isolation I still feel at 3 in the morning every morning. I know this is where you are giving me a chance, an opening, to finally become the person I've always wanted to become. But I wish it didn't involve so much sadness, loneliness or isolation. Or the many times I wonder whether whatever is going on now will last forever. I know that one day, it will change, I will not feel like that forever. But in those hours when I wake up far too early and cannot go back to sleep, I can't make myself believe it.
alexis: Sorry that you are hurting. Have you seen this book? Sounds like it might be a good read for you:
http://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Learnin...=IDVG4XIO9EK02
Lisa: So happy to see you here! It's been awhile, and I wondered where you'd gone off to. I remember all your beautiful photographs more than anything...and your cool Sheila Moon skirts! Funny the things that stick with a person. Glad you're doing well! Sounds like your life is well-rounded.
We are in Belize, have been for the past 14+ months, but are looking forward to moving back to the US next year. It's been fun, but we've had enough of living in an island "paradise". Most of all, we miss road cycling. Here it's all beach cruisers as there are very few paved roads, and the ones that are paved are bumpy, cobblestones, etc. We took a great trip to the US in August and got to do some excellent cycling. Anyway, hope you'll maybe hang around here a bit more often. We talk about a lot besides cycling, as you know! I am doing yoga down here as well -- love it!
Thank you ladies. :)
Re: yoga...
Never in a million years would I thought I'd be doing yoga regularly, but here I am three times a week, for about 3 months already now.
Like some of you I'm noticing that yoga is making me much more flexible and increasing muscle strength while adding range of motion to all my connecting tissues and joints. Biking has never done that, biking's been more of a leg muscle and cardio/lung help. This regular yoga stretching and weight bearing is changing how my body feels in ways nothing has ever done before. Amazing! I don't think i'd notice it much if i was doing only one class a week though. I spent the first 6 weeks in almost constant soreness as my body started adapting. Now not as bad, more of a pleasant soreness.
I also like the ritual of going to class and sitting in a roomful of people together. Hard to have that kind of self discipline to do it at home regularly. I'm not in it for the spiritual aspect (I'm an agnostic), but it's calming and pleasurable in other ways to me. My whole spine especially from head to tailbone is just loving yoga- the twists and stretches are feeling sooooo good! Even my fitness walking and contra dancing cant' twist and stretch me like yoga does, and my body is thanking me in the mornings when I first wake up. This in itself is a big thing for a 58 year old woman- to feel no creaking in the morning!
We can't out run Father Time, but no sense giving him a head start. ;)
I agree, Lisa. I just don't have time to go to yoga regularly, but a few years ago I went 2X a week and it made a huge difference. That's one of my goals when I get my license, and an ever more part time job than the one I have now.
Priorities, right?
Welcome back, Lisa! So glad to hear you're doing well!
Thanks for the inspiration. I have been practicing yoga since 2006. I used to go to three or four classes a week, one of which was 2 hours. When I moved in 2009, I had to cut back a bit, usually to one or two classes a week because it just wasn't as convenient. I know my practice has suffered. After your post, I decided to see if there are any new studios in my area. I found one that had recently changed ownership and offers a $5 community heated class on Sunday afternoons. Anyway, I went today and had a fabulous class! It was just what I needed after raking leaves all weekend. So thanks!!
Wow Indy, that's so neat to hear! Yay!
Nice to see you are back Lisa. I too have not been on the bike much this season. I was only able to ride about 5x then my back went out. I was in PT for about 7 weeks and it is feeling better. I have been doing some yoga, I should do more.
I have been keeping busy with running, walking and hiking. When I am not doing those or working I have been playing around in our wood shop with my scroll saw and lathe.
I also want to say Be Safe to everyone in the path of Sandy.
Sorry my message is a littly choppy...I am getting tired and need to get to bed because I have to be up b 430am for work.
Hi, Lisa! :D
I love yoga, though I too don't care so much about the spiritual aspect. The only problems right now are that I'm not disciplined enough for the DVDs, and I can't afford classes. When I did take a class, I had a really hard time taking the instructor seriously, because she'd say things like "Imagine your breath as a luminous crystal mist." There was no way I could take that seriously.
After standing and doing some art for several hrs. each day this weekend and plus ongoing soreness, I did some simple yoga and Pilates. I am really stiff...... I found yoga helpful for learning also how to breathe properly and how to consciously slow down.
Owlie, I sometimes work with teachers who offer some "take" on yoga instruction that just doesn't reasonate with me. I've learned, over time, to take what I need and leave the rest. So long as the actual yoga instruction is sound, i.e., they aren't telling me to do things that will hurt my body, I can generally tune out the rest.
Dear local congressional candidates:
All you two have done with your vicious ads and mailings is convince the voters that neither of you is fit to hold office. So many of us wish "none of the above" was an option.
Dear candidate who is a member of the same church as me:
You're such a hypocrite. You talk about making sure gay couples can't have legal recognition of their marriages, yet you are perfectly friendly to the gay couple who sit in the next pew to you every Sunday. What's up with that?
(At least she said "Imagine". We have a yoga instructor at work, a friendly, laidback, nice guy, on the verge of saying stuff like that all the time, but obviously trying to rephrase it to make it palatable to a bunch of obsessively hardnosed bureaucrats. I only heard him slip once, when he told us to "Breathe! Through your spine... well, you can't actually do that of course, but think about it!" :D )Quote:
Originally Posted by Owlie
Dear houseguest that was and to be,
I truly am sorry if you now feel upset or unwelcome. But in my books staying a week is a long time. You just did, and doing it again a month later is a big thing to ask. But I guess I could have been more polite.
Dear Concord Power and Light,
Thank you! Even though I don't particularly love some things about my town, I appreciate the small town efficiency of a local municipal utility company, because my friends in the next town are still without power and dealing with a monolithic power company.
To whom it may concern
!! !!! !!! !! !! !!!!
now THAT's weather!!!!
Hope it gets better next wk. (which is expecting alot for the Seattle area). Dearie and I will be there for 2 days.
Are you serious? I wasn't talking about OUR weather!! I was talking about SANDY
dear crankin
guess who didn't have Concord Power and Light some years ago when the notorious "april Fools ice storm hit." Fortunately Philips coffee,where I worked, and the elementary school do in the center of town had electricity so during the day the kids and I were warm and could get a hot meal of sorts. In the evenings candles and our fireplace did stalwart duty for 10 days as we slept around it at night. Fortunately it was not mid winter and bitter cold or I don't know what we would have done.
marni resident of Acton from 1990-2001
Dear Marni - I remember that storm all too well! We had no power for less time here in Bedford - only 3 days, but it seemed like an eternity. Now we have a generator, just in case. Very grateful we didn't have to use it this week.
SheFly
Hi Marni,
If I was more technologically competent, I would scan and post the picture I have of DS #2 building a huge snowman in the April Fools's storm. He was about 13, right before he started cycling :). I was lucky then, too. We lived in Boxborough, which also has a small local utility (Littleton Electric). We never lost power.
BTW, Phillips has yet again been sold. But, I got the scoop when I was getting my hair done at Moodz. It was bought at the height of the recession by a young couple, but I guess they got divorced and although they tried running it together after the divorce, it didn't work out, although they were successful, business wise. An older (i.e. our age) man owns it now. Plan to stop by next week, as I have a client in Littleton, and it's on the way.
And also BTW, my son, Josh, does remember working with you, although he told me he was always coming in when you were going home. That job taught him a lot. He makes a mean espresso. Oy, he's a "big macher" (Yiddish) now; he just got a new job where he'll be opening the Boston office of a language translation company based out of SF. I am pretty sure he learned a lot of those people skills at the coffee shop.