13. Would You Quit if Your Values Did Not Match Your Employer’s? My first good job was working for the government, and you can't really ascribe opinions or values to a government department, I don't think. So this question wouldn't have applied to me then. My first full time job was working for a dry cleaners, a small family business. The owners ( Read more... )

I'm really tired today and I can't work out why. I did a lot of walking and some running on Monday and Tuesday, but the rest of the week has been much lazier and anyway, walking and running doesn't normally tire me out (at the distances I cover). I've been sleeping fairly well but I did wake up at least half an hour before my alarm both yesterday ( Read more... )

The excitement for today was dropping off a couple of bags of unwanted clothes at Goodwill and then buying some cinnamon raisin bagels at the bagel shop just around the corner in the same shopping plaza. It's a really long time since I've had any of those bagels; I used to eat them regularly as a once a week lunch treat, but I got out of the habit ( Read more... )

Following the debacle with my gas bill last week, susandennis suggested that if I paid about three months ahead (which of course I would have to do in person with cash) I could regain my online privileges, so this morning I walked to the bank to withdraw a couple of hundred dollars to do just this. I think $200 will be too much, but too much is better than ( Read more... )

12. What Do You Wish You Could See, Hear, Read or Experience for the First Time All Over Again? I would love to be able to relive my first trip to the UK (specifically, to London). It was the most magical feeling, and I walked around repeating in my head "I'm in London! I'm in London!". Because my daughter and later, son in law and granddaughters, ( Read more... )

11. What Challenges Have You Overcome? One of the bigger ones in the past was separating from my now ex husband and setting up a household with my three daughters as a single parent. Another, now more than ten years ago, was putting all my household stuff into storage, moving to the US on a student visa and starting grad school as a very mature- ( Read more... )

7. Were You Ever the ‘New Kid’? Not when I was really young, but when I was 16 I transferred to a different high school, and I've been new in various different groups/settings through my life. It's never easy.

8. How Much Freedom Did Your Parents Give You? They couldn't give me much because we lived on a farm 16 miles from town and my sisters and ( Read more... )

Because the weather forecast said there would probably be scattered showers today I decided to stay inside and get my exercise on the exercise bike. Of course it hasn't rained yet, but oh well. I'm exercised. While I was using the bike I was reading "Leaving Time" by Jodie Picoult, which I think I must have started a while ago. It's on my Kindle ( Read more... )

The handyman finally showed up just before 3, and didn't leave until almost 5. He was a perfectly nice guy (and he got quite excited when a young buck walked across my backyard) but he barely spoke any English so we had to communicate by using Google translate on his phone (which worked well enough, but communication couldn't be spontaneous), and ( Read more... )

My bedside lamp stopped working last night. Unlike the wooden lamp I brought from Australia, I had no emotional attachment to the bedside lamp, so I ordered a new one which was delivered today and seems to work just fine. (I still haven't figured out what to do about the wooden one, but I am definitely not ready to throw it away. It can be ( Read more... )