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| Vashti 2005-09-24, 1:17 pm |
| How's school going, got back into the rhythm of it?
My own two kids started school 3 weeks ago and we're still trying to
find our balance... we should have found it by the time summer
holidays are here again!<g>
Vashti
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| O'Hush 2005-09-24, 1:17 pm |
| "Vashti" <vashti.nl@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> How's school going, got back into the rhythm of it?
>
> My own two kids started school 3 weeks ago and we're still trying to
> find our balance... we should have found it by the time summer
> holidays are here again!<g>
>
>
> Vashti
Very busy. We've been told this is the hardest semester, and I hope it is.
I have five classes plus a skills lab *and* 8-12 hours of clinical a week.
Intro to Nursing, Nursing Process, Lifespan Development, Pharmacology, and
Major Adult Health Problems. Fifteen credit hours. I love all of the
classes except Lifespan. The classes this semester are a lot more
interactive; we had formal lectures over the summer. I'm finding my
background extremely helpful -- I really am familiar with a great deal of
this material already because I've been exposed to it for so long typing
medical notes. Clinical orientation is Tuesday. I'll have my first patient
a week from Monday. This Monday I'm going to see LD services about the
Lifecoaching program for ADD, which I've heard is great, but it's another
hour a week to stuff into my hectic schedule. So far I'm actually doing a
lot better than in August when I had nothing to do. I'm like a bad dog that
starts to chew things up when it's bored. I needed some sheep to herd.
Thanks for asking. : )
~~Patti
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| O'Hush 2005-09-24, 1:17 pm |
| "Vashti" <vashti.nl@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:20050911133625.6fa727ad@linux.local...
> How's school going, got back into the rhythm of it?
>
> My own two kids started school 3 weeks ago and we're still trying to
> find our balance... we should have found it by the time summer
> holidays are here again!<g>
I meant to ask: What's off balance?
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| Vashti 2005-09-24, 1:17 pm |
| It wasn't a dark and stormy night when O'Hush wrote:
> "Vashti" <vashti.nl@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:20050911133625.6fa727ad@linux.local...
>
> Very busy. We've been told this is the hardest semester, and I
> hope it is. I have five classes plus a skills lab *and* 8-12 hours
> of clinical a week. Intro to Nursing, Nursing Process, Lifespan
> Development, Pharmacology, and Major Adult Health Problems.
> Fifteen credit hours. I love all of the classes except Lifespan.
> The classes this semester are a lot more interactive; we had
> formal lectures over the summer. I'm finding my background
> extremely helpful -- I really am familiar with a great deal of
> this material already because I've been exposed to it for so long
> typing medical notes. Clinical orientation is Tuesday. I'll have
> my first patient a week from Monday. This Monday I'm going to see
> LD services about the Lifecoaching program for ADD, which I've
> heard is great, but it's another hour a week to stuff into my
> hectic schedule.
Oh *wow*... I would be hard pressed to deal with all of that myself,
it sounds like such a lot to fit in!
> So far I'm actually doing a lot better than in August when I had
> nothing to do. I'm like a bad dog that starts to chew things up
> when it's bored. I needed some sheep to herd. Thanks for asking.
> : )
You should have said! I've got panic disorder, if anyone can think
of something(sheep or otherwise) to worry about/at it's me! ;)
Vashti
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| Vashti 2005-09-24, 1:17 pm |
| It wasn't a dark and stormy night when O'Hush wrote:
> "Vashti" <vashti.nl@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:20050911133625.6fa727ad@linux.local...
>
> I meant to ask: What's off balance?
The routine is, everything has suddenly started up again: school,
scouting, judo, friends coming over and all. I have a hard time
finding my own routine but with the ADD SO plus two boys it's a bit
of a mess... anything I've sorted out gets disturbed somehow by
someone else's chaotic nature.
Oh, and our Billie dog thinks she's got puppies: a red ball-puppy
and my SO-puppy, LOL! Poor thing, the SO just goes in and out of the
house leaving her frantic for a while... some phantom pregnancy, eh?
;)
Vashti
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| Twittering One 2005-09-24, 1:17 pm |
| The Sorrow of The Little Sand
Crabs ...
~ *Fiddler crab is Fogg's music prodigy!
The bow swings from side-to-side
in a hypnotic,
oceanic rhythm as a pendulum.
The clock
on the back of her shell
moves in tune with her bow. * ~
http://www.fbfogg.com/sea/index.html
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| Raving Loonie 2005-09-24, 1:17 pm |
| Twittering One wrote:
> For OHush ~
>
> http://www.fbfogg.com/nursery/
At the risk of being labeled a creepy pervert ...
I must admit that I really like those 'Alligator Shoes'
RL
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| Twittering One 2005-09-24, 1:17 pm |
| "At the risk of being labeled a creepy pervert ...
I must admit that I really like
Those 'Alligator Shoes'"
~ Raving
"Tres Arnolfini.
Sixpence nice."
~ Twittering
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| Twittering One 2005-09-24, 1:17 pm |
| "In Search of Cinderella
>From dusk to dawn,
>From town to town,
Without a single clue,
I seek the tender, slender foot
To fit this crystal shoe.
>From dusk to dawn,
I try it on
Each damsel that I meet.
And I still love her so, but oh,
I've started hating feet."
~ Shel Silverstein
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| O'Hush 2005-09-24, 1:18 pm |
| "Vashti" <vashti.nl@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:20050912214549.51b144bc@linux.local...
> It wasn't a dark and stormy night when O'Hush wrote:
>
>
> The routine is, everything has suddenly started up again: school,
> scouting, judo, friends coming over and all. I have a hard time
> finding my own routine but with the ADD SO plus two boys it's a bit
> of a mess... anything I've sorted out gets disturbed somehow by
> someone else's chaotic nature.
Oh. Here it's always a lot less chaotic after school starts. I have an
only child, so I'm the playmate a lot of the time, or at least I was in my
former life. (Now I'm gone all the time.)
> Oh, and our Billie dog thinks she's got puppies: a red ball-puppy
> and my SO-puppy, LOL! Poor thing, the SO just goes in and out of the
> house leaving her frantic for a while... some phantom pregnancy, eh?
My little poodlesque mutt has a squeaky Winnie the Pooh that he cares for
and sleeps with. I wish we could know what they're thinking.
~~Patti
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| O'Hush 2005-09-24, 1:18 pm |
| "Twittering One" <mournenwould@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1126765856.171366.44130@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> For OHush ~
>
> http://www.fbfogg.com/nursery/
Oh cool. I especially like the ruby slippers.
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| Twittering One 2005-09-24, 1:18 pm |
| "My little poodlesque mutt has a squeaky
Winnie the Pooh that he cares for
And sleeps with.
I wish we could know what they're thinking."
~ OHush
"What is Billie-Dog's SO named?
Or Poosleesque?"
~ Twittering
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| Twittering One 2005-09-24, 1:18 pm |
| "This work is a portrait of Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini
and his wife, but is not intended
as a record of their wedding.
His wife is not pregnant, as is often thought,
but holding up her full-skirted dress
in the contemporary fashion.
Arnolfini was a member of a merchant family
from Lucca living in Bruges.
The couple are shown
in a well-appointed interior."
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/c...orkNumber=NG186
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| Vashti 2005-09-24, 1:18 pm |
| It wasn't a dark and stormy night when MothWrangler wrote:
> Vashti wrote:
>
>
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> Ah, so Billie may also be ADHD?
I wouldn't be surprised: if someone leaves the house for 5 seconds
they get greeted like a long lost friend... heck, *everyone* gets
greeted like that, LOL! OTOH the only creature Billie's able to
catch are those nectar drunk moths of an evening: anything else is
just too quick for her.
Right now she's doing the mother-dog bark at my SO cause he's not
staying put...! Silly dog: she puts red-dog puppy somewhere and
thinks she can get the SO there too, if only she'd try it the other
way around! ;)
Vashti
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| O'Hush 2005-09-24, 1:18 pm |
| "Vashti" <vashti.nl@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:20050915204711.2a713bbb@linux.local...
> Billie's not into toys much but this phantom pregnancy changes
> everything. She'd make a bad mum though: keeps leaving red
> ball-puppy lying around and then spends a frantic time trying to
> find it.
I know the feeling. When my son was an infant, I had the frequently
recurring nightmare that I had left him behind while shopping. And... I
have more than once put my mug of coffee on the roof of the car and then
driven away to hear it smashing on the ground behind me. And... when my son
was still tiny, there was a national news story about a new father who had
driven away with his infant son in a carrier on the roof, rather than
secured inside where he should have been. (The baby fell off and hit the
road, but was very small and strapped in, and was fortunately protected by
the car seat.) That story gave me *special* nightmares. I just thought, --
that could be me. I could really imagine that sort of thing being my 15
minutes of fame.
~~Patti
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| O'Hush wrote the following on 9/15/2005 6:40 PM:
> have more than once put my mug of coffee on the roof of the car and then
> driven away to hear it smashing on the ground behind me.
That is why my DH uses a plastic mug...
I always check the street after he has driven off to see what was left on
the roof of the car. I've found his lunch, his softball bag, and of
course his coffee. I've tried to convince him to put his stuff on the
hood rather than the roof, so there would at least be a chance he would
see it before driving off, but he is so sure that it won't happen
again...until the next time. :-)
When we were buying the plastic mugs after too many ceramic ones were
broken (indoors, left in precarious spots) we calculated how many he
would need so there would always be a clean one.
1 for the fresh coffee.
1 that would be left in the cup holder of his car.
1 that would be left in the other cup holder until he realizes that there
was no place to put the fresh mug and brings the other two in.
2 that would be left downstairs on the weekends.
Thank goodness he drinks his coffee in the car and doesn't take the mug
into the office -- I'd never see it again. :-)
Karen R.
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| O'Hush 2005-09-24, 1:18 pm |
| "Karen" <krez56@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> O'Hush wrote the following on 9/15/2005 6:40 PM:
>
>
> That is why my DH uses a plastic mug...
>
> I always check the street after he has driven off to see what was left on
> the roof of the car. I've found his lunch, his softball bag, and of
> course his coffee. I've tried to convince him to put his stuff on the
> hood rather than the roof,
But you put the stuff up there so you'll have a hand free so you can open
the door. If you put it on the hood, you won't be able to reach it when the
door's open.
> so there would at least be a chance he would
> see it before driving off, but he is so sure that it won't happen
> again...until the next time. :-)
>
> When we were buying the plastic mugs after too many ceramic ones were
> broken (indoors, left in precarious spots) we calculated how many he
> would need so there would always be a clean one.
>
> 1 for the fresh coffee.
> 1 that would be left in the cup holder of his car.
> 1 that would be left in the other cup holder until he realizes that there
> was no place to put the fresh mug and brings the other two in.
> 2 that would be left downstairs on the weekends.
>
> Thank goodness he drinks his coffee in the car and doesn't take the mug
> into the office -- I'd never see it again. :-)
Ah. What I need is a wife who doesn't have ADHD. DH doesn't seem
interested in helping me keep track of my stuff. He just laughs at me.
~~Patti
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| O'Hush wrote the following on 9/16/2005 4:47 AM:
>
> But you put the stuff up there so you'll have a hand free so you can open
> the door. If you put it on the hood, you won't be able to reach it when the
> door's open.
Okay. I'm too short to comfortably place and retrieve things from the
roof (even though I drive a compact car), so it has never been an issue
for me. I just open the door and fling whatever is flingable in, put my
tea into the holder, and organize the flung stuff. For the last two years
I've had one of those wonderful remotes for my car doors, which makes the
process even easier.
> Ah. What I need is a wife who doesn't have ADHD. DH doesn't seem
> interested in helping me keep track of my stuff. He just laughs at me.
My DH has many very wonderful qualities (not to say that you don't) so it
is well worth the time it takes to help him stay functional. And some of
his ADD moments have become family legend.
My HFA daughter is working through how independent she will be able to be
in the future. When her Dad has an ADD moment she announces that "He
wouldn't last a day without support". :-) I remind her that he managed on
his own for 10 years before we married, and he'd do it again if he had
to. But it is a lot easier for him, and he can concentrate better on
work, if I am there to smooth whatever I can for him.
Karen R.
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| "O'Hush" <rumraising@hotmail.com> expounded:
>Ah. What I need is a wife who doesn't have ADHD. DH doesn't seem
>interested in helping me keep track of my stuff. He just laughs at me.
IKWYM. I've always said I need a good wife! <G>
--
Ann
e-mail address is not checked
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| O'Hush wrote the following on 9/17/2005 11:00 AM:
> He's lucky to have you.
It is mutual -- I'm lucky to have him (as my 16YO gags in the background).
Karen R.
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| O'Hush 2005-09-24, 1:18 pm |
| "Karen" <krez56@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> My DH has many very wonderful qualities (not to say that you don't) so it
> is well worth the time it takes to help him stay functional. And some of
> his ADD moments have become family legend.
I think it's a traditional roles thing. It's supposed to be my role to keep
the house tidy and organized, and to send everybody birthday and holiday
cards, etc. (My family understands why I don't send them cards; I think his
family feels slighted.) At this point, I can't possibly keep up with all
that crap. I couldn't do it *before* I was married, had a child, or went to
nursing school.
> My HFA daughter is working through how independent she will be able to be
> in the future. When her Dad has an ADD moment she announces that "He
> wouldn't last a day without support". :-) I remind her that he managed on
> his own for 10 years before we married, and he'd do it again if he had
> to. But it is a lot easier for him, and he can concentrate better on
> work, if I am there to smooth whatever I can for him.
He's lucky to have you.
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