Underoos and Friends - September

[byebyebridgetjones]

Underoos and Friends - September

Morning All.
Fresh googies and wholemeal pita for my breakfast, now I'm off to get into mischeif.

Lilly FANTASTIC effort. Doesn't it feel great ?
They say it takes 30 days/occasions to break a habit, so your're in a rare position to take it forward and really reap the benefits of your work.

You know Rose, just taking a look at your posts last night. Sometimes people in our lives are so afraid of their own inadequacies, that they tend to treat us poorly, perhaps to project onto us how badly they feel.I mean, a happy person would NEVER behave that way would they ? Too busy bein' happy. And when your're happy, you automatically want other people around you to be. I stayed in various similar relationships for too long out of pity and poor self esteem. I really wish I hadn't wasted that time now. Just a thought.

Cop yuz.

[tawnyfrog]

Underoos and Friends - September

Hmmm ... bit quiet here today. Missy? Saffy? Health report please.

Good outdoorsy day here. Now that the ground's not totally waterlogged, I got in and started cutting up the big gum tree which came down a while ago. Realised that 3 months of winter slothage have really retarded my fitness. My little armies are quite sore, not enough to turn me into a sooky la-la, just pleasantly sore.

Oh - AND - I cleaned out the fridge. What is it with parsley? There's ALWAYS parsley stuck to the bottom of the crisper drawer. Guess it's one of life's imponderables.

[Cinders]

Underoos and Friends - September

I never have parsley stuck to my crisper drawers.

I do have many other unidentifiable things stuck there, though.

Sitting up working for client. Very, very tired.

Take care, all.

Love,
Cindi

[Cinders]

Underoos and Friends - September

Bridge,

You know Rose, just taking a look at your posts last night. Sometimes people in our lives are so afraid of their own inadequacies, that they tend to treat us poorly, perhaps to project onto us how badly they feel.I mean, a happy person would NEVER behave that way would they ? Too busy bein' happy. And when your're happy, you automatically want other people around you to be. I stayed in various similar relationships for too long out of pity and poor self esteem. I really wish I hadn't wasted that time now. Just a thought.

Those are some damn wise words. I am with you.

Love,
Cindi

[tawnyfrog]

Underoos and Friends - September

Hi Cindi - I don't know how you do your job. The endless travel, the horrendous hours - I think I'd go bananas.

Take extra good care yourself.

[tiptronic_ct]

Underoos and Friends - September

tawnyfrog;959520 wrote: Hi Cindi - I don't know how you do your job. The endless travel, the horrendous hours - I think I'd go bananas.

Take extra good care yourself.

Over and above being nuts already? ***jokey thingy here***

[tawnyfrog]

Underoos and Friends - September

tiptronic_ct;959522 wrote: Over and above being nuts already?

Pull yer head in, bouncy boy ...

[Cinders]

Underoos and Friends - September

Thank you, Tawny. I am pretty bananas as it is. At least family thinks so. I disagree with them but then again, "I yam what I yam."

Tipster, go back to your corner and bounce a bit more until you get tired.

Still waiting for a call back. I lost my Oz support. Now waiting for the UK support team to call me.

They call it "follow the sun" for support. Meanwhile it is very dark here and quiet.

Cindi

[Cinders]

Underoos and Friends - September

btw, Hubby told me tonight I can go ahead and order a Kindle.

I am so excited.

Off to Amazon to do that now.

Books on demand. Life just doesn't get much better than that.

Truly. I am so excited.

But, no more reading in the bathtub. My usual place of peace, solitude and reading.

Still. A book on demand. What a generation we live in. It amazes me.

When I was a young girl, my daddy ordered Readers Digest Condensed books for me because he said he couldn't afford to keep me in books. To this day, I have many books I read as a child. Trust me, that is a big deal for someone who has moved as much as I have.

Okay. I babble. Off to order the Kindle.

Since I lost my Oz support, it means it is getting late there. (TZ challenged, as usual.) So, my Oz friends, have a serene evening.

Love,
Cindi

[Cinders]

Underoos and Friends - September

Damn it!!

Off to order Kindle and am sucked in by the "latest and greatest."

The "best" Kindle is now $300 and the iPad is $500!!

sigh.

I am going to wait. It surely will get cheaper than this.

Patience is a virtue. Patience is a virtue.

I am also cheap by nature. I want what I want, cheap.

I am cheap, not thrify, cheap. :-)

I hate to part with my hard earned money. Seriously.

I will continue to use my laptop for free to read downloaded books until I can purchase a good e-Reader at a reasonable price. (One I can read with my visual issues...)

Of course, I had a friend who had a "trash 80" for many, many years because he said he would get a new computer when he could get a Cray for his home computer. I think he finally got a new one when the "trash 80" was no longer updateable. That is me. I know there is better coming out just as I buy the "latest" thing.

sigh.

Cindi

[tawnyfrog]

Underoos and Friends - September

Cindi - we had a chat about this here a few nights ago and I remarked on how it was soooo much cheaper for me to buy books through Amazon and have them shipped here to Oz.

How much do you pay for, let's say, a just-released paperback novel? And how does that compare to a download of the same?

[Cinders]

Underoos and Friends - September

I agree, Tawny, if I was sitting at home, I would order the books.

But, I don't. I am literally all over the place. Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago... wherever.

I would LOVE to be able to read what I want wherever I am.

I know it is hard to get your arms around how much I travel and that I simply do not know where I will be from week to week. It is hard for me. Truly.

But, here I sit at 2:07 a.m. waiting for support and I would love to be able to download and read something while I wait. There are no bookstores open right now. (There are bars open and I simply won't go there!!)

Reading is my passion. Reading supercedes my drinking passion, believe it or not.

It is worth the money I spend. Okay, maybe not. I am still cheap.

Cindi

[tawnyfrog]

Underoos and Friends - September

I understand the travelling thing but my question was ... how much is a paperback in the US compared to a download?

[Cinders]

Underoos and Friends - September

btw, as I wail and bemoan my plight, I do have the ability to download books to my pc.

I have been reading the Stieg Larsson books on my laptop. The books have cost me about $15.00 US, but here I am hating the fact that I am tied to my laptop to read them.

I want it all!! The freedom to carry my book in my purse and read it no matter where I am.

You are right, Tawny. I am being very selfish and self-centerd.

I can get the books. I just can't carry the books everywhere. I have to be able to sit down with my laptop and read them.

How silly.

I have a media that will do it for free and I just want more.

One would think I have an addict's brain, wouldn't one?

Geez.

Thank you for centering me, Tawny. You always do.

Cindi

[Cinders]

Underoos and Friends - September

The cost of ordering the book and ordering the eBook are about the same.

It is a wash.

Cindi