WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

I rest my case!

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Unfortunately, Albuquerque is a mile high in places. That is often too much for an asthmatic, especially one who has never been to such an elevation. A lot of retirees here and in Colorado have to walk around with oxygen, particularly in the mountains. My asking Boidy to come for a visit is my own futile wish. I know she wouldn't do well physically at this elevation and for that reason I would never ask her seriously.

Asthma makes me grimace, but not as much as Roberta.

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I'm asthmatic and I'm fine here. But of course that is anecdotal.
Also, as I remember, red cells tend to accomodate to the change, often soon. But I've been away from hematology for years, so don't listen to me, check out websites.

I can understand that a short time here could be a stress for some, including Roberta.

So, we'll have to meet Reberta in New Yawkkk.

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I have asthma and some other breathing problems. I was in Denver a number of years ago when I had only asthma, and it wasn't very severe. I couldn't walk down the street without stopping and panting.

I need fat air!

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Sounds like she's shortening her life by putting her stress levels through the roof every time she imagines what MIGHT happen. Perhaps someone should warn her.

My only g and g is that the cold I got a week ago is still hanging about and it's STILL raining Twisted Evil

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Clary wrote:

Sounds like she's shortening her life by putting her stress levels through the roof every time she imagines what MIGHT happen. Perhaps someone should warn her.

Trust me. I have. For that very reason. The stress that she puts on herself. But she insists that she's on pointe, even when it turns out that she isn't, and hardly ever is.

She likes mess. You know the type. Not happy unless some **** is going on somewhere that she can get her teeth into. And when there isn't any, she invents it so in actuality, the stress for her is when there ISN'T anything to stress out about.

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once a drama queen always a drama queen - one of my 3 sons is like that, there's always some major worry in his life; I've given up taking it on and the whole family teases him about it, which helps him get perspective. When he goes on about things I ask him he really wants advice or is just venting - and it's nearly always the latter! Her astrology would be... something with Aquarius and/or Virgo for sun and moon?

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grimaced and grit ... when today we saw that the white aspargus that was $1.99 lb on saturday was $2.99 today Shocked

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should have bought an extra couple pounds on saturday Sad

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hbg

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yikes!

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eoe, My natural inclination is to behave exactly the way your partner does (except I will admit I'm wrong). I've worked very hard at keeping my panic to myself. Tried not bothering people with my sense of impending doom. But there was a time when I would have made the phone call you received this morning. Now I probably would have reached for the phone, but I would have stopped myself and most likely not have made the call.

The feelings are still in me. Don't know how to make them go away. But I try to alter my behavior partly because I know that it bothers people and partly because I know that the feelings aren't entirely rational.

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And that's how to handle such behavior, Roberta. We all have personality traits, idiosyncrasies, quirks, whatever, that are ours and ours alone and the smart ones, those who don't believe that our every thought and idea is note-worthy and must be shared with the world, know enough to keep them to ourselves.
That's what's so irritating about her behavior. She's 53. You would think by now she'd know better.

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You said that you're partner always thinks she's right. So she sees no reason to change.

BTW, I don't always conquer the impulse. I still occasionally make those calls or send those e-mails. They're few and far between, but they happen. And I almost always wish they hadn't--usually a second after the person answers the phone or I've clicked "send" on the e-mail. Aaargh.

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I never remember to do the 'breathe and count to 20' routine either. A new year's resolution, perhaps.

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not having computer access for most of the day (and no internet for the entire day) because my place was infected with a virus...

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Oooh Region, here's hoping the virus is cleared up now and all is well.

eoe wrote:

I'm G & G'ing today because of my partner in Chicago. She called me at 8:45am this morning to give me this long spiel about how our client MIGHT postpone a much anticipated project, but she won't know for sure until later today when he calls with the final decision...

One thing I've learned working with her...don't freak out about anything until you absolutely have to. Countless times we've gone through this when the outcome was completely opposite of what she's predicted but she never, ever acknowledges that, never says "oops, I was wrong," and even worse, she never learns from the experience. She would go about it the exact same way tomorrow.

I wasn't in today when she called. She left a voicemail stating nonchalantly that I should get started on the preliminary work for the project (yay!) but not one single word concerning her manic phone call to me on Monday, not one word on that long, drawnout spiel she gave me, so certain that the Marketing VP would be shuttling the project. Amazing.

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thanx eoe.

i think IT cleared it up... won't know for sure until tomorrow.

it got me thinking about the Before Time (before computers), and about how friggin' boring work used to be!!

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God, isn't it terrible to be stranded in a world with no Net - when it's happened to me I've wandered disconsolately from room to room, looking at books and thinking No, lifeless things! You should get a Mac.

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My Mac's been crashing on me lately. Yesterday during the composition of a VERY long A2K post that I'm not looking forward to trying to reconstruct. It was definite "noooooooooooooooooooo!" time. Argh. (I'll be writing the next one via email because that saved a draft [I was also in the middle of an email at the time].)

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yeah, i was all discombobulated yesterday -- walking around in a fog.

much more betterer today...

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