That would actually be a cooler excuse than the reality. On my three dislocations, these were the circumstances:
1) Major dislocation -- walking in the dugout before a baseball game
2) Major+ dislocation -- Ice skating (hey, it was a date)
3) Minor dislocation -- walking in a friend's dining room
I promise that I actually play sports. I just don't get hurt while playing them.
Daughter has had impetigo the past few days, and now baby boy has his first cold. Killer.
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That would actually be a cooler excuse than the reality. On my three dislocations, these were the circumstances:
1) Major dislocation -- walking in the dugout before a baseball game
2) Major+ dislocation -- Ice skating (hey, it was a date)
3) Minor dislocation -- walking in a friend's dining room
I promise that I actually play sports. I just don't get hurt while playing them.
Daughter has had impetigo the past few days, and now baby boy has his first cold. Killer.
So, you are good at exercise, but really fail at walking.
That makes sense . . . in Wierdoworld.
Sorry about the kiddos. That stinketh.
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1) Because of the knee issue this has been a rest week from the gym. Good thing, too, based on the next item.
2) My company has reached new levels of retardation. And trust me, gang, that's saying something. I've spent an average of six hours/day in meetings this week, and got almost nothing accomplished. Another 10-hour meeting scheduled for Monday, with minimum five hours of meetings on Tuesday. Meanwhile people are having emotional breakdowns and getting snippy. It's time for me to start thinking about the next thing.
3) I attended a reading/Q&A by Tony Kushner this week, who won the Pulitzer for Angels in America and has written other excellent plays. He also wrote the screenplay for Munich and is currently working with Speilberg again on an Abraham Lincoln biopic. So there I am (white, male, no particularly interesting characteristic) sitting between two gay/lesbian couples and listening to a gay Jewish agnostic talk about oppresion. It was great.
4) Work stuff is carrying over into home/personal life. I've just been unmotivated this week to do some basic things that need doing (CD-burning for my dad, cleaning/mowing the yard, blogging).
5) The sun is shining today! That's a first since August around here, it seems like. Should be an awesome weekend for outdoor activity as long as the deep mud has dried up a little.
6) My mom sorta almost got arrested for theft/assault this week. Long story. I haven't even called her yet -- just too ticked off and cynical about the whole thing.
7) Life is still very, very good.
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4) Work stuff is carrying over into home/personal life. I've just been unmotivated this week to do some basic things that need doing (CD-burning for my dad, cleaning/mowing the yard, blogging).
5) The sun is shining today! That's a first since August around here, it seems like. Should be an awesome weekend for outdoor activity as long as the deep mud has dried up a little.
7) Life is still very, very good.
Ditto.
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6) My mom sorta almost got arrested for theft/assault this week. Long story. I haven't even called her yet -- just too ticked off and cynical about the whole thing.
Poor Mr.Lefty
A little while back I called to check on my Grandmother for her 65th birthday . . .
she was in jail for DUI
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7) Life is still very, very good.
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Actually, my family's mellowed out a little, or at least they've turned their self-destructiveness inward (like my psychotic brother eloping and telling my mother--who is the wife's supervisor at work--a month after the fact. No really good WTF stories of late, but then, I've successfully been keeping my distance.
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So sorry RE the work thing. That company is probably not worthy of a person with your talent. Sept is a great month to look at options.
So I gotta wait 11 months? Not good.
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what?
Here are the basics:
Context: My dad's is President of a printing company. He's managed it beautifully for 20 years but it's a dying, tough industry. The company is finally failing and he almost surely won't have a job in 3-6 months. My mom has never worked outside the home since I was born 33 years ago. So money is tight and they need to be smart.
1) My mom's BD was last week, and she decided to take in a gold bracelet and some diamond earrings and "trade up" for bigger earrings. She was given a budget of $500. I think the budget was a reluctant concession by my dad (remember the context above).
2) She went to the jewelry store to work out the deal. She invited my dad to come but he declined, which I think was a passive-aggressive way of dealing with the frustration of a big-dollar purchase when he's under so much money/job stress.
3) She thought she worked out a good deal last Friday, and signed some sort of contract that included the trade-in value and a layaway plan for the price difference on the new earrings. She gave them her old bracelet and earrings at that time and left with nothing (except maybe the contract).
4) She returned to the store this week because she changed her mind and wanted out of the deal. She had just realized that she might have spent way over $500 (like several times that much) and that she wouldn't actually get any new jewelry until the monthly payments were done in January 2011.
5) She walked into the store and said she wanted out of the deal. For some reason she thought this was perfectly normal. They said no, because there was a signed contract. She said she wanted her old jewelry back, and they explained that they'd already melted the bracelet. She got upset.
6) She asked about her old earrings and they said they still had them. She asked to see the old earrings and they brought them out, probably hoping she'd repurchase them for twice the trade-in value they gave her last week. She somehow wrestled the earrings away from the jeweler and ran from the store.
7) The store owner screamed for the police, and by the time my mom started driving away she felt scared and guilty and called the police herself. She was near a post office and they asked her to stop there and wait, which she did. This was also when she called RedWifey, who called me, and we three-way talked her through it as she waited.
8) A few minutes later my dad arrived at the scene and offered to return the old earrings to the store. He also got a copy of the purchase/layaway contract and saw that it was ironclad. So my mom may or may not be charged with a crime, but she definitely owed a few grand to the jewelry store.
9) Apparently my younger brother (also single income like my family, and with two young kids) offered to pay her bill for her. She loved the offer but my dad wouldn't allow it. Later my grandparents offered to pay the bill and my parents accepted.
It never even crossed my mind to pay for this on their behalf. They have an empty nest, very few necessary expenses (even their car was paid for by the company) and should have plenty of disposable income. And this was the worst possible time for them to be making any big purchase, especially something as non-useful as earrings. In my opinion they should have sucked it up and paid the layaway plan as a lesson learned.
On top of this, last year she wrote a blog post boasting that she and her family all have good character, and warning us about the "other" people who would show their true colors in times of financial stress. I responded back then by saying I respectfully disagreed, and that I thought none of us were above any sort of theft or crime. Even me.
I think now she agrees.
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Maybe her hormones are wacko in addition to everything else. She'd be of the right age, yes?
Nah, she just has a twisted view of how the world works since she hardly ever gets out into it. And the world really does revolve around her. No, really; it does!
Nah, she just has a twisted view of how the world works since she hardly ever gets out into it. And the world really does revolve around her. No, really; it does!
I can relate.... Between my mom and my grandmother when I went home in August, I was about ready to down myself in vodka by the end of the first three days with all the drama.
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OMFG! That story belongs on TV. HA HA HA... Sadly my own family stories could probably top this one (I won't bother to disclose). I am always entertained by them. Amazing how we all came away so "normal". LOL!!!!
I meant the fall time (not sept specifically though Sept is when it all begins). You should have some good luck if you start putting out the right energies...
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I did my sonly duty last night and called Ma. After hearing her talk about I'm honestly even more frustrated than before, because it's so clear that she's learned nothing from it yet. Why is it easier for me to give grace to just about anybody but my own mother? And she did a good, loving job raising me so it's not like I harbor bitterness from old wounds she inflicted.
Next Wednesday night I'm going to a presentation at my alma mater called "The DNA of an Executive", going through a decade's worth of research on the character traits and training that make great CEOs. It's right up my alley since I've been getting hammered by friends and colleagues for years with the push to run a good-sized business because they believe I have the CEO skillset. Oh, and the presentation is being done by an executive search firm where I already know two people. So it's a good first step.
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Maybe because you want to know you can expect more from her. She's mom. Our parents are supposed to be pillars, right? I mean, we know they have faults, but we want them to somehow still be smart and noble and strong… if they make a mistake, we still want them to be perfect-like in their learning/fixing/etc.
I think that's a big part of it, Aoife. As far a crap spoutage goes that wasn't too bad.
Work has been taking up almost all of my time and energy lately. Taking a half day off tomorrow per the mandate of the Prez as he's noticed how we're all getting burned out. People are getting snippy around here.
Two people have tried to call me out publicly on things in the past 24 hours. I'm a pretty open person and like to take constructive criticism, but they broke my two rules of constructive criticism:
1) Have data/facts to support your case
2) Go to the person in a respectful 1:1 setting first, before slamming them in a broader forum
These people tried to dis me in email chains with multiple Directors/Executives on the receipient list.
Unfortunately their facts were wrong and they didn't come to me first. It did not go well for them.
Now one of them is apologetic and the other (who happens to work for me) is moping. NMP.
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I hope by the time you and Otto are in the same room together, you won't be able to have the "my place has more drama" competition you'd be able to have right now (or so it sounds like for you)… for both your sakes.
Aoife, I think things are taking shape that will lessen the drama somewhat.
Oops, I skipped ahead... it's been awhile since I showed up in here. Let me recap:
1) Family is awesome. We love life with three kiddos, although it certainly leaves less time and energy for other things. Like posting in my log. Or exercising.
2) Speaking of exercising, I haven't been doing it. Partly due to time, and partly because this last patella slip knocked me back a lot. It's still shaky and I'm pouting a little bit that I can't go back to lifting heavy for a while. I'm in denial about the reality that this pattern has repeated itself multiple times over the past few years, and when I keep lifting heavy I always break. Regardless of prehab. I'm just not built to be beastly, and it's a tough pill to swallow.
3) Work is still intense, still good, and still changing. Today there were five more layoffs (most at management level!) and I've been offered a big promotion. I'd basically be the #3 person in the company behind the CEO and the Prez, and I'd be responsible for all revenue. And this time I actually told RedWifey before I wrote it here.
Later chumpies.
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I have to give them my decision tomorrow, and if the answer is "no" then there's really no place for me. My current position doesn't fit with the future picture, so it's either move up or move out.
I'll definitely be accepting it, but RedWifey and I will be talking about how to manage the work/life challenges. Luckily the CEO and the Prez already know my feelings on this topic, and they both brought it up repeatedly as we discussed the offer. They'd rather have whatever of myself I can give to the role (while also giving time/energy for family) than take a crapshoot on a new hire willing to sell his soul for the company.
It's an opportunity I really shouldn't pass up. I will get the chance to run the entire sales, renewal and resell lines of business while also managing business development and working closely with marketing. I will basically be a Chief Operating Officer although I don't expect to get that exact title due to some bad history with that role in the company.
As long as I get the experience and $, though, I'm not that picky about what it's called.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get. Sounds like a fantastic (and well deserved) opportunity.
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Knee question...What have you done for prehab stuff in the past? Sometimes I find that it isn't the amount of prehab stuff done, but the choice of exercise. Have any of the stuff you have done made the knee feel better? Anything made it worse?
Danny
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I am lucky to have lost 15lbs! Thanks for the support everyone.
I cleaned up my diet and started working out. Thanks Trainerpack for the support and all the free workouts. You guys rock.
I am off to do some cardio now!
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