A Busy Weekend

[almeda]

Thursday:

• Get up, get dressed.
  
• Catch up on a few at-home tasks.
  
• Between 10:30 and noon: leave house.
  
• Change trains downtown, go up to Grandma's.
  
• Do Grandma things.
  
• Sometime before 3:45PM, leave Grandma's and get on the train.
  
• Be at work at the Goodman by 5; hopefully have eaten something before then.
  
• Circa 9PM, leave work, go home.
  
• Do John-

Comments

[redaxe]

I'm sure there's a reason it doesn't apply in your case; in most cases, though, highway driving is actually easier than city driving (except for the ramps and the crossing-three-lanes-to-pass-on-the-right-at-95mph idiots). It's pretty much step on the gas and go forward, barring traffic.

Good luck! Have fun and hey, let's be careful out there! :-)

[almeda]

Well, with me, the biggest obstacle to confident driving was resisting the sudden wash of OH MY GOD I'M DRIVING A HALF-TON DEATH MACHINE!!! I WILL KILL SIDEWALKS FULL OF NUNS IF I EVER MAKE A MISTAKE!!!!one!!!! terror.

Which disappeared (in the completely unable to cope sense) somewhere between Hour 6 and Hour 7 of logged driving practice, thankfully. Now I still have fear, but it's more reasonable fear, and when it spikes it goes right back down again. I'm now on Hour 12, btw.

Also, luckily, 8AM on a Saturday is a very forgiving time to attempt to merge for the first time, even in the spaghetti strangle of Chicago's suburbs.

[rms_butterfly]

Hi, just a little comment here, which you may ignore or not, as you wish. I noticed that you often, in your list, called yourself unflattering names (dumbass, etc.). I recognize this behavior as something that I used to do, and that I worked on alot to overcome. In my case, I had a verbally abusive SO who subtlely (SP) told me that I was stupid, ugly, fat, etc. Due in part to very low self esteem, I took all those insults internally, and if they never appeared anywhere else, they did when I talked to myself, about myself.

I'm not saying that your situation is like mine was, because I don't know that it is. Reading you calling yourself things just made me feel like I wanted to mention it to you, though, just in case you'd not really noticed it. (Although, judging from your typical introspection, you probably have.)

I've gone on too long here already, so I'll stop rambling. Take care.

'berta

[almeda]

First off: thank you. For caring, and for being brave enough yourself to get past that

Addendum

[almeda]

For some reason, 'dumbass' is a fond word in general in my head, in the sense that dumbass-things-to-do are things that are merely overlooked or unthought-of; stupid or idiotic or wasteful things to do are more malicious. In my head. Dumbass is eminently cureable, though it doesn't make me feel any better if I look back and realize I've DONE something dumbass. :->

Anyway. .

[judygs]

Wow, you have a great marriage!

Not to get back to the mundane, or anything, but how did you like Serenity?

[almeda]

In no particular order, *sniffle*, *wooHOO!*, *awwwww*, *eeeek!*, and *squoosh*.

Does that help? :-> More later. All of Chicago Congoing Fandom was lined up for the showing after mine, so I'll be ljmining for reviews Sunday.