Dear Diary

Urs sounds like you had a wonderfull break. So what did you see on the long hikes through the Black Forest?

Dear Diary:

I have found you again, thanks to the efforts of Husker - thank you husker! Life is still cold and deary with the mess of university work - the only light at the end of the tunnel is the upcoming summer break and I want to get a job at the court library but I don't know if they need anyone, especially a humble law student. I only have 1 year of library experience! One of them friends got a job as an associate to a judge next year - how jealous I am!

Brother has gone camping and its so quiet in the house without him - and I love it! Too bad he'll be back tommorrow...I was enjoy the house with only three people in it...

I think I carry bad luck. I was just talking to a friend and his computer froze all of a sudden - it didn't happen until I approached him and now for some reason it refuses to restart. I feel guilty...

I just found out that a guy I have had my eye on for a long time now is a brainy genius - but I don't know if I want to know him more - we're friends and so I know of his tendency to be a player - and when I find a guy, I want him to be my first and last - as in forever. I guess that's why I'm still not seriiously interested in anyone right now, because, as one of my friends say, "my expectations are too high."

Weather was cloudy this morning and now its sunny again - what on earth???!!!

And I have plans to backpack but I don't know where or when, just that it will have to be in the near future. I have so much in mind! The 2008 olympics, the 2008 sydney youth convention to see the pope...life suddenly has brightened up. If only my results do too.

Prag

Prag,
So nice to read you....a very newsy report...and do I note some joy of life. I wonder how one stays happy and joyful?

By knowing yourself well and not caring about what others have to say about you...I actually had to learn that of an Australian politician...

Hello there...anyone out there...Pitter, are you still there?

dear diary:

saw mapleleaf in the thread about depression. wish I could connect further, but right now it's kind of crucial for me. <g> hope he understands that I'm her, I'm watching ... I know this thread ... but I've got a few things I have to do, like usual. <s>

and I'm on his side. <nods>

Dear diary,

anastasia, I appreciate the note. DEAR DIARY goes in spurts. There are many folks, through the years, who have dropped by to share, sometimes this extended into weeks at a time.

My wife was just diagnosed with diabetes. It runs in the family; of course, when it's you, it is a new reality.

We are both heavy set. Actually, we have a diet, but we have carried our weight for much of our lives...so now, we are in the payback period.

We are blessed with sound communication skills...decision-making seldom ruffles our feathers. We are careful with our money and our children are successful adults. Soooooo...we are doing OK.

A side note, we have a four-year-old grandson who has learned to use, in context, the word ACTUALLY. He does this kind of thing all the time. In some ways, it is humorous to listen to a four year talk like an adult...now it's cute...when he's older, I don't believe it will seem as cute. <smile>

maple - PROUD of you and your wife.

grandson's cool. I went through that phase, too, actually. <winks> maybe it has to do with the phase in personality development when you're learning to assert yourself. that's a good poiint, actually. heheheh

OK, some phases never damn DIE!

Oh, I also went through a period where I wouldn't say "yes", I would only say, "indubitably", because my uncle tony taught it to me. THAT phase lasted approximately three days.

Called my mom "Lydia" once. Oh my GOD, do I still feel that smack!

I also called her "Muh-MA" (pretentious brit style, or something) - she let me do that til I got tired of it. And I did.

Random thoughts, cuz I can't write about my day yet.

anastasia,

When you have time and your head is together, tell us a little bit about yourself. Or, can I find it in another thread?

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8406&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20

that should be right, at the beginning of page 3. <s> it's a pictue of what's in my head, and all. a revived thread of mine ...



BUT it has occured to me that this is not the place to be doing therapy. heheh, so I'm not going to go there anymore.

On a physical level, life's a big stress - living a life that's going to be great in books in a couple years, I guess - fine. Learning new things. Things like the new depths of what I can handle. <shrugs>

Did you get the link to my blog? I'll be filling it in as I can - things are hard to write about at the moment.

Thanks for asking - I'll see you sometime!

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8406&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20

that should be right, at the beginning of page 3. <s> it's a pictue of what's in my head, and all. a revived thread of mine ...



BUT it has occured to me that this is not the place to be doing therapy. heheh, so I'm not going to go there anymore.

On a physical level, life's a big stress - living a life that's going to be great in books in a couple years, I guess - fine. Learning new things. Things like the new depths of what I can handle. <shrugs>

Did you get the link to my blog?

Thanks for asking - I'll see you sometime!

Anyone out there? Pitter, time for another chapter...hope you are OK?

DEAR DIARY, I miss the diverse cadre of individuals who flavored our the posts. We developed a sense of who they were.

I'm here.

Yeah! Husker's here...now where's everyone else?

Hello Mapleleaf I'm still here too, thanks for checking up on me. I'm enjoying my "finca" high in the mountains (6000') outside Cali, Colombia enormously. I just added number eighteen, a Shining Sunbeam to my yard list of hummingbird species. One downside however is that my wife from the city of Cali has been accustomed to constant temperatures in the eighties her entire life so complains bitterly about the average sixty-eight to seventy degrees in the house. She has however developed an admirable tolerance for bugs and no longer has a near nervous breakdown when she sees a tarantula or scorpion ambling along. The exception was one night not long ago when she felt something in the sheets that turned out to be four inch long millipede. The shrieks were deafening and it took almost an hour to calm her down. The millipedes are fairly innocuous just giving off an acid if you molest them. Fortunately it wasn't one of the big centipedes hereabouts that inject a nasty venom with their front claws in which case I might have been shrieking right along with her.

Before moving up here we experienced quite a bit of trepidation over the risk of kidnapping and other crimes but we're beginning to feel now that our fears were overblown. Six months up here and nothing untoward nor rumors of such so I have to say so far so good.

Ahhh Pitter, you are a living TV program...say DISCOVERY OR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.

I am enjoying the fruits of a relatively new Unitarian Universalist congregation in town. It does not push a creed, but encourages a personal search for knownledge, spiritual.....I am now envolved in two book discussion groups, coordinating committee and visiting.

In the South, I haven't been able to enjoy open discussions for years. This situation stresses the process, as opposed to telling us how it is suppose to be.

I always admired the Unitarian Church for being what seems to me to be the most intelligent and reasonable religeous option. Glad you're enjoying it.

tarantulas?......scorpions?.....four inch long milipedes?


<RUNNING AWAY SHRIEKING!!!!>

dag,
It is rather amazing, isn't it? Under those conditions, my family members would leave me. How's your life been ticking? Any thing to share?