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Edited to say I will fall asleep dreaming of Anna's pan of butterscotch brownies.

This message was edited Aug 23, 2013 3:15 AM

... am i the only one still up? taday is the best day of the week...friday! gotta lot a do, making a list an checking it twice. kids go back ta school on monday. So I have schedules, who goes in am, or pm. who gits the bus when, where. got nine kids, including 8 month old ta juggle. No ta mention menus, food preferences and tolerences, craft projects while allowing flexibility for any drop-ins! the busy E.R. i worked in, was never this bad!

Gee, jax, that is one busy schedule. School has been in session here for several weeks already. We never used to start school until after Labor Day. But I guess I'm dating myself. :D

There are a few of us up ,running around the this morning , (hopefully not in circles) Kids started back to school nearly two weeks ago here ,
Were going to be one of the first having year around public school ..foundation has already begun ...
Meanwhile I don't know what I am doing besides waiting for the sun to come up and snacking on things I should not be ,,
Morning ...

juhur7, it isn't any of MY baked goods you are snacking on since they are all piled in the freezer.

Been up half an hour......the hired boys were late again, as usual. I'm ready to kick the SU awake and go out and have at it.

Nothing much to say. Oh, Amanda, when you said I was within the time frame, I was not. Back home, my time frame is 11 pm to 5 am, since I am an hour behind you here.........I'm on CST.

Your freezer is a little too far away for me to raid ,
Besides I am afraid of being shot ,,
Shotguns make a terrible mess out of the way I look and feel (lol?)

When I get my Spiderman or Iron Man powers though I might pay a visit to your fridge and freezer .. sounds interesting .... I love goodies ...

I'm up. I slept for a few hours then woke up and my mind won't stop chatting.

We are having a hurricane watch. Tony and I did most of the prep today. If it continues the way it's going now we will get some rain Sunday. We are hoping for a long, slow rain and no high winds.

I'm struggling with both my retirement association (ACERA) and the IRS. Wednesday and yesterday were difficult. I wrote to a member of the Retirement board and he quicklly wrote back saying he had contacted an administrator and I should here from her soon if I hadn't already. He also critized me for not contacting him for two months instead of two to three weeks. I made a nasty reply; later I wrote him a "semi-apology" explaining that he sound like my mother with her endless "you should have done it sooner; you should have done it better". I said it was a semi-apology because I was likely to continue to react the same way to similar comments. Blame the victim. I haven't heard back from him. NOR have I heard from the administrator. I'm looking forward to reporting this to the Board member later today. I hate dealing with the bureaucracy but the IRS is threatening to take my retirement which is not taxable, for back taxes. I am determined to make all those who are messing with me as miserable as they are making me. Told the Board member that if they were not able to help me I would be at the next Board meeting to give them a detailed history of twenty-five years on non-service from the employees they are supposed to be overseeing.

I located the attorney who handled a lot of this twenty-five years ago. He has done really well and is super busy. Cannot help me but wished me luck. I write back to thank him and suggest that if he, with his many contacts, runs into someone who might be interested to refer them to me.

It's hard for me to ask for help. Yesterday I finally told Tony that I needed him to be "father" for a while. Mostly it was a way of admitting that I've been having a hard time with both pain and depression. He is well aware of that and said fine. He has a very extended family and carries most of the weight of responsibility. We are both so committed to helping each other through whatever is going on that I finally said, "I need help." I think most of what I needed was accomplished by my saying I needed help. So hard to do sometimes.

This is our worst weather (not even counting the possible hurricane). High temperatures and humidity day and night. The electrician is coming tomorrow to clean and check my a/c which is not very effective. I'm going to have a huge electric bill but between the a/c and the dehumidifier in my bedroom I am able to breathe without feeling like I have asthma.

Well, maybe I can get back to sleep now that I've rambled on. Before I got online I made some notes about some of my experiences as a child welfare worker. I had a strange career, lots of conflict with management but later found out that I was something of a folk hero, not just in social services but with other groups who had had to deal with the management people I'd had trouble with. The ones I had the most problems had "coincidently" screwed someone who helped them get promoted and it was common knowledge so they did not make friends when they acted high and mighty and superior. Trying to talk to other management people about conflicts with them without bringing up the way they got promoted was really weird.

Maybe I should start a blog.

hugs, katie

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This message was edited Aug 23, 2013 4:33 PM