February 16, 2006
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Ay Carumba!! Has it really been that long since I blogged?? OOOps.
I'm going to make it brief because I don't know where to begin.
We're all well and healthy except for colds now and then. Robin has split up with her husband...things had not gone well for many months. She and Chase actually seem to be doing much better now. Sarah is going to Boise State U and really loves it. I'm so happy she's back in school. Erin is living at home off and on...she split with her long time boyfriend back in November I think. She seems to be doing very good...interested in fashion design.
The grandsons are well...Jakey is into Spiderman to the point of distraction and Chase is obsessed with all things Star Wars.
I'm working one shift per week at the hospital still. It's okay. It almost always turns out to be rewarding at the end of a shift-the fact that I helped someone. And I love the babies!
I started taking a wheel-throwing ceramics class and I'm pretty obsessed with it. I bought a wheel and throw about 2 hours per day. (Aren't you happy, Jack??!!)
I found out that I most likely have ADD pretty severely. I don't know why I didn't figure it out before. Everyone close to me seemed to already know that! The crazy disorganization and procrastination, not following through with anything. I don't think I'm going to go on Meds for it but it helps to know what I'm dealing with. So far, just breaking things down into small tasks and living by the day planner seems to help a ton.
I joined an online group for people with ADD and messiness and it has helped bunches.
I'll be around to visit soon...
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Heh, you are not even making the once-a-month blog quota, ROTFL! Close, though... we will look for improvement, hehe!
You know what? I think maybe I am ADD too... about a month ago, we were with quilting pals, and I said, "I wonder if I might be ADD." Immediately, my doc's wife friend (who has a chemical/medical solution for everything) blurts out, "You can get meds for that, you know?" Since then, the 'grandmotherly' one in the group (who hands out mounds of unsolicited advice and thinks marijuana ought to be legal) has been harping me to get to the doc and on drugs. I don't think I am going the meds route either, unless they are highly recommended and are more natural meds than synthetic (I really have probs with syns and their by-products, but that's just me.) I'd like to know about your group, if'n you didn't mind.
Wow, a lot going on with your chicas. I hate Robin had to go through the unmarriage thing, cos it's so complicated. Coping with it... gah. Of course, I speak though my own experience. I know you yub those grandboys too... they rock, and I am sure they are all the more cooler, having not birthed male kids yourself.
And still birfin' babes for a livin'... and a pottery wheel taboot! Glad you are creating. It's so cathartic to life's madness. I have always wanted to try wheeling ~ are you kick or electric? Thanks for dropping by my place and letting me know you were around. I've been quilting more than xangaing... miss my closie pals so much. I hope we can at least loosely keep in touch. You are loved, Gal Pal!
I have been wondering about you and yours. When the kids go through things like what Robin is still going through, well the whole family goes through it too. I am sorry it must be difficult, a real heartbreaker. I am glad that the health problems are restricted to colds yay! One day a week would be just great for me hope it is just what you want too...and the creativity goes on. Bravo!! As for me I am just Lazy and damn they don't make drugs to alleviate that!-g
Lisa! So glad to hear from you! Throwing for 2 hours a day is wonderful! You are going to become so good at it. What clay are you throwing with? Have you tried throwing with porcelain? It's lush. Sorry to hear that Robin has split up with her husband ... sometimes it is better to go separate ways. Hope Chase is coping with it ok. Do post some pics of what you have thrown if you can. Much love, Jack
Wow, we all seem to have so much real life that we are less likely to 'see' folks here. It's all good I guess, but I sure miss some of 'uns. It was great to see Jakey and how big he's gotten!
Also, I think ADD could be in me as well, but have never had it diagnosed. Another idea to ponder though, is the personality you were made to be. There's a great book I am reading, Personality Plus, that gives the 4 main types and I am definetly Sanguine. My Shawn is Phlegmatic, then there is Melancholy and Choeleric... I hope I spelled right. lol
Anyway, if you look for the book and take the test, let me know. Us Sanguine's need to stick together... with all the partial projects, to do lists that don't get done and so forth! lol
Glad to 'hear' from ya!
Love and hugs and prayers,
Debbie
So good to see your blog name pop up! I've been worried, wondering if all was well down there. Glad to hear it's just life. Life has been life up here too. Hugs to all!
ADD...join the club
thanks for stoppingby
Did you know that in the US, ADD and ADHD is diagnosed (and prescribed for) more than 40 (forty 4-0) times more than anywhere else in the first world? I don't know you hardly, virtually, and not in real life at all so what I say can only be general. I have met, but rarely, children and adults with ADD/ADHD and they are very severely disturbed - their lives are unmistakeably different and it isn't a bit like the wild inattentive flutterby ways of, say, my child who was diagnosed with it (but didn't have it and has outgrown his simple exuberance). Hitler wanted to sterilize and kill everyone who didn't fit his ideal Teutonic mould. I think everyone - countries, teachers, doctors should watch out for this tendency to want everyone to fit into their own mould. Tolerance should be not just for race and religion, but different wetware operating systems!
I actually came to tell you I found and ordered this book on gourds. You inspired me!
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