tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54759302007-01-27T17:28:49.154-05:00bashasgardenbashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comBlogger158125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1142891447190183762006-03-20T16:46:00.000-05:002006-03-20T16:50:47.200-05:00Hello, everyone--not too much going on, dyed my hair red, actually using henna now. Everyone says they like it, everyone except my sister, but the only one I need to please is myself.
New job chugging along. Easier than I thought. Just takes time to adjust. And it's not that I want easy, because I would rather be very busy, and learning. I've learned some things, but it is not as busy as I bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1138985688369775822006-02-03T11:44:00.000-05:002006-02-03T11:54:48.433-05:00Well, I've landed a long-term temp job at a major pharmaceutical company, and it will last for one year. Apparently, they have to let you go after a year, due to some savvy temps suing Microsoft a while back and winning--they were temp status for years and years, trying to be absorbed into the company, but always having to stay temp with no benefits.
So now large companies hire temps--cheaper bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1137433852948971682006-01-16T12:38:00.000-05:002006-01-16T12:50:52.990-05:00I just re-read my previous posts, and have to admit I have spent the last few weeks in an anguish of sorts. Don't know why I let my anxiety rule my life, but I do. I went to an AA meeting yesterday, and I went to the same meeting last Sunday, and at both meetings I got the same message--I need to meditate.
I have not been doing so. But I did some yesterday morning, and today. And both days I hadbashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1135532573518184452005-12-25T12:33:00.000-05:002005-12-25T12:42:53.530-05:00Can someone tell me how to fix the huge space that occurs either before my post or after?
Merry Merry to all!
I have secured a long-term temporary job for a few months, and have found the company to be a very pleasant place to work. I don't like the commute--it is in congested, fast traffic, but I am grateful to have the job. It gives me a bit more breathing space, and I need that right now.
bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1134328571690549242005-12-11T14:14:00.000-05:002005-12-11T14:16:11.710-05:00A little bit of time has gone by since my last post, and I still have not found work. I am sending out letters and resumes now, but so far, no work. Tomorrow I will call temp agencies, and see if I can work this week. If nothing materializes, I will continue to do as I have been. Unemployment is making a decision this week as to whether I will be able to get some money from them.bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1133476267816326542005-12-01T17:18:00.000-05:002005-12-01T17:31:07.833-05:00Well, my intuition was right. The new employer let me go this week. I was on a freelance basis with them for the time being, and they were treating it as a very long interview for a full-time job. I worked very hard there, but it wasn't enough. I brought a bunch of skills to them that they wanted, and for two or three of those skills, they were very happy, but the other, which was proofreading, bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1133044947085041042005-11-26T17:16:00.000-05:002005-11-26T17:42:27.096-05:00Thanksgiving weekend--lots of good food, lovely company, and some time for reflection. Last year at this time I did not know that my husband had a life-threatening, rare illness, and I was still at my old job--although sending out resumes, as the work-flow had dried up to almost nothing.
One year later--we have not faced any major changes, yet with the diagnosis there is always something on my bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1130460752181396492005-10-27T20:48:00.000-04:002005-10-27T20:52:32.193-04:00Started a new job, can't do anything else right now except go to work, come home and go to bed. The transition is that hard, from sloth to overworked.
Still, the work is interesting, and the days are flying by, which is better than the last job I had, where the workflow was so slow, the days themselves slooooowed down to a crawl.
Can't paint, can't get to enough AA meetings, just goin' to work.bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1125601257885301472005-09-01T14:52:00.000-04:002005-09-01T15:00:57.890-04:00The broken finger is all healed--although terminally crooked, but at least I can type. Summer's almost over, I have one trip to NY for Labor Day weekend with my husband--we are staying in his daughter's apartment, while they come out here to stay and take care of the dog, chickens and cats.
We hope to see the Matisse show at the Metropolitan Museum, go to some galleries on Saturday in Chelsea, bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1122328110400868302005-07-25T17:48:00.000-04:002005-07-25T17:48:30.403-04:00Hello to my legions of readers! The summer is hurtling along, and we are trying to stay cool in the hot days, and I am trying to paint in the heat. Some days I just read in the air conditioning.
Today we got a break and I went out with some others to tour the Barns of Distinction. I was looking for some information--we have a beautiful stone barn, really, the reason we bought this house was bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1120138281375217052005-06-30T09:23:00.000-04:002005-06-30T09:31:21.383-04:00I am joyously, deleriously happy. I am free from worry, for some moment of grace, meditating, painting, writing, gardening--all with a broken finger, but since it doesn't hurt, it is only a minor inconvenience. I have two privat computer students, and a very minor part-time job with my AA sponsor--who is a wonderful person to be around. Granted, she has a lot of freedom from financial insecurity,bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1118061798627029652005-06-06T08:37:00.000-04:002005-06-06T08:43:18.633-04:00Life is what happens when you are busy making plans. I broke my finger while walking my dog. A strange thing, breaking a finger. Seemingly a minoe inconvenience, but it complicates everything, well, most everything, but typing is certainly more difficult, as you can see. It means that the unemployment office says I have to inquire about disability, the doctor saya that my working skills are now bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1117459649186668322005-05-30T09:18:00.000-04:002005-05-30T09:27:29.193-04:00After 2 weeks of running around like a squawking chicken, I have come to see I am blissfully happy not working. I have an interview on Wednesday with a major pharmaceutical company, and will do my best at the interview, but if they offer me a job, plan to get my friend, a negotiating genius, to help me craft some negotiating points--part telecommuting is my goal. There is no reason I can think ofbashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1116438618528094352005-05-18T13:48:00.000-04:002005-05-18T13:50:18.533-04:00Well, it is good to remember the previous post, because I LOST MY JOB LAST WEEK!!!!
Now, the great unknown looms. However, I have what i need today, and even more than.
Meditation is the prescription so that I will know what next actions to take or not to take.bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1115842019426641792005-05-11T16:01:00.000-04:002005-05-11T16:06:59.430-04:00I was very interested in the story in the New York Times Magazine section this past Sunday about studying the brain. In particular, the article mentioned the study of meditation and monks who had been practicing it for years. Here is what it said:
" may not come as a great surprise that interaction with the environment can alter our mental architecture. But there is also accumulating evidence bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1115232743953608852005-05-04T14:29:00.000-04:002005-05-04T14:52:24.033-04:00We are settling into Spring, and the grounds look better than they have in weeks. We have new drama in the chicken coop, and it is the way we respond that I know I could not be a farmer who kills animals. We have a bunch of hens I raised a few years ago, and they are still producing enough eggs for our use and to sell a few. We have two roosters, one given to us, and the other is his offspring, bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1114435032441117732005-04-25T08:58:00.000-04:002005-04-25T09:20:05.873-04:00Spring came in full force with a week or so of unseasonably warm weather. The pastel beauty of the flowering trees and the tender green of everything else makes me swoon with happiness. Someone I know said that she takes the coming of Spring personally, and I understood that.
But I also feel that it rushes in, and rushes on, too quickly to become the darker greens of summer, and that seems to bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1111597898887697822005-03-23T12:04:00.000-05:002005-03-23T12:11:38.886-05:00Spring is Here!!!
We are starting to warm up, and I have plants out in the coldframe on the porch every day. Also planted some early things in the greenhouse, still risky as nights can get pretty cold, and there is no heat there.
I am starting more flower seedlings this year, dianthus, heliotrope, lupines, cosmos, and will start to visit garden centers soon, looking at what I can purchase to bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1109788253266849152005-03-02T13:25:00.000-05:002005-03-11T14:58:57.403-05:00My husband, in writing in the comments section of the last post, gave me permission to write about what we are looking at in his diagnosis of myelofibrosis--a rare blood disorder which is cured only through bone marrow transplant. We are both in the process of discovering what that all means, in general, and for us in particular. If anyone has any knowledge of myelofibrosis, or any other bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1108155695669937562005-02-11T15:48:00.000-05:002005-02-11T16:01:35.670-05:00It gets really hard to post on the weblog about personal things now. Because what I recently went through had to do with someone else, and how to write about it, without invading their privacy, I don't see how I can do that.
And the circumstances became overwhelming, and very dramatic, life and death, actually, but it seem inappropriate to write anything about it. And be very selective with whombashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1106320611210574092005-01-21T10:00:00.000-05:002005-01-21T10:16:51.210-05:00This is the second try on this post. I tried to post one yesterday, and got an error message when posting, and lost all the writing.
Started looking for another job a couple of weeks ago, sent out resumes to about four companies, heard back from one, but that seems to have evaporated for the time being.
However, yesterday, got called into vp's office, and was given a raise. Apparently they bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1105113062365344242005-01-07T10:42:00.000-05:002005-01-07T10:51:02.366-05:00I still have my job, and we actually have work for me to do in the next few months. One person was let go, and the president of the company is taking over the business development. All of this allows for a bit more financial security for the next few months.
The light is changing and I am working on my seed order. This weekend, I am planning to set up the light table where I place the trays ofbashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1104683751983913932005-01-02T11:17:00.000-05:002005-01-02T11:35:51.983-05:00Happy New Year to all!!!!
We got through the holidays, sober, and now, a little fatter. Sugar is too irresistible during the holidays, and yesterday, New Year's Day, it was all over the place at the two gatherings we went to. But it is back to Weight Watchers next week, I think I might skip tomorrow night, no, as I write this, I want to skip because I don't want to know how much I gained thesebashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1102430382726629552004-12-07T09:19:00.000-05:002004-12-07T09:39:42.726-05:00Today is my birthday, and as usual, is cause for reflection. Having gone through a month of sadness and/or depression over the results of the election, I wish I could say that I have rebounded back to a better place.
Well, in some ways--I have done more meditation, almost on a daily basis, and this has given me a better ability to stay in the day, even in the moment. I have re-activated a bashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05607745322376576377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475930.post-1101321460348560972004-11-24T13:36:00.000-05:002004-11-24T13:37:40.346-05:00Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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