Monday, 19 April 1999
No extra tomatoes
The results of a study by the American Medical Association indicate that writing about stressful life experiences might improve the overall disease activity of my arthritis. It's been really bothering me a lot lately. Now, I just have to figure out where to start. Maybe I should go all the way back to the birth trauma and forward from there.Except I don't remember it.
The problem of the extra tomatoes is solved. Cricket ate them. I don't know if he is a strange animal or if it is just that I haven't had a dog for longer than a few months in the past 35 years and just forgot what they were like. He seems odd to me. I've never seen a dog who loves birdseed either.
Tom mowed and trimmed the lawn today. He takes so much pride in the appearance of the yard -- one of the many, MANY things I love about him. He also did some work in the garage. He's excavated his workbench and even has workspace on it! I don't understand the dynamics of all of this, but if you were to give us each the same task and say, "GO", we would both be equally busy but Tom will accomplish about four or five times as much as I in the same amount of time.
Tom can be my task role model.
I think I'm going to make a friend of mine, WillPower(the pseudonym he's used for many, many years) my finding a job role model. He was laid off a couple of weeks ago and has been working at a new place about a week now. I was laid off last August . . . *sigh*
Ok, this week, I'm going to start my finding a job routine again. I want to waste money. I have a gene for that, I think. Last week, I went to Target and spent $150.00. It was a decent fix since I managed to get at least one truly not needed item - a frog statue for the garden. It has been ages since we've played laser tag and I am certainly not spoiling my kids and grandkids like I should.
You know the little line on your checks where you sign your name? Did you know that is NOT a solid line? It is very fine print. My husband can read that stuff. On most checks, it says 'authorized signature' or 'authorized signature only'.
He announced that at a family dinner. It met with great disbelief. Several checkbooks and magnifying glasses were brought out and passed around the table. I was still a scoffer. Tom brought me home and got out the microscope. Now, I'm convinced. Mine say 'only authorized signature'.
I just joined another webring, The Smoke Ring Journals. I've been meaning to join it ever since I saw the links on Mary's and John's pages. I also wrote to Kymm and asked to be added to the No Spring Chicken list as well.
