Joyful June - Week 3/4

[Chillgirl]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Hi Dewdrop, good to see you checking in and to hear you are well and resting up.
Hope you enjoyed watching another great victory for our Andy

1st day at work under my belt and while yes my mind was over loaded with new information, I remained calm and my new detachment meant zero nerves.... My colleagues seem nice and once I have mastered the systems I think I will enjoy the job.

Sorry to hear of the disturbed sleep patterns going on, I had been experiencing poor sleep since arriving here due to the fact that it gets light at this time of year around 4am! My curtains are paper thin and I didn't want to spend money buying new ones when I don't intend to stay in the apartment. Thanks to a tip from MWO-er Expat, I have covered the window with tinfoil and have since been sleeping much better.

In other news I have been on a few dates now with a man who is the complete opposite of anything I was looking for. At 1st I refused to go out with him in view of the lack of what we had in common but he was relentlessly persistent. He is a smoker (which I loathe although has never smoked in my company) he is shorter than me, older than I'd have liked, is cynical, resentful, judgmental, argumentative and totally unspiritual! Why I'm still seeing him??! I like him..... . I mentioned I unbelievably knew his brother who lives in Portugal, they haven't spoken in 2 years since a big argument and after we discussed it the other day he finally emailed his brother and has received a reply! Maybe that was the only reason the Universe has brought us together........

[Cassia]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Evening everyone!

Thanks so much for your kind words yesterday. Can hardly believe it has been six months! Where does the time go?? I would like to say that I did something awesome to celebrate but I worked. In fact, I actually brought home work which I am going to do this weekend. No rest for the wicked.

Chill - congrats on starting the new job! I am sure you will do amazingly well in it. Who can resist your positive attitude and charm? I am sorry that you have to give up walking Charlie and that the doc hasn't been in touch. Maybe if it was a different time or under different circumstances. Chin up!

Dew - so glad to hear from you! I think you are wise to take things easy. Just give your body time to recover. I am sure you will make a full recovery and be back to your normal strength soon.

Star & Rusty - sorry to hear about your sleep issues. There is nothing worse than lack of sleep. I hope your patterns sort themselves out soon.

Hello to everyone else- I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

My husband's case number came through today so now he can book his medical, have his visa interview and get over here! I miss him so so much. I will be so glad when this process is over.

Off to make a cup of earl grey tea and go get these numbers crunched. I am hoping that if I give it a good five hours, I will be done. That's one good thing about being here on my own - I have nothing to come home to so I can just work.

xx

[Lavande]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Good evening all,

Dewdrop, so glad you dropped in
Please take good care of yourself, wish we could be of more help

Chill, wonderful that your first day went well! The first day is always the hardest, you'll learn all the new stuff quickly
Maybe the universe has been using you as a messenger of some sort between the brothers - interesting!

Cassia, good news about your husband I hope he can get here very soon!
Don't work too hard now!

I had a great afternoon with my daughter & Lily who is 4 months old tomorrow. She;s developing such a sweet, smiley personality.
My new bed arrived, my son-in-law showed up about an hour later & helped me get it all set up - nice!!!!

Wishing everyone a great night!
lav

[papmom3]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Dew!! So glad you checked in and doubly glad you are doing well. Rest as much as you can OK? Hope you can get off the pain meds soon-I get so sick on them too-antiemetics help but getting off them onto tylenol was even better!

Chill-yea! your first day over! Sounds like you will do just fine! Not sure what to think about your new beau tho! You deserve much better than a grouchy smelly old man :H. Good for you for getting him to talk to his bro tho!!

Cass-whoopie! Hope your DH's visa interview goes super well! I forgot to congratulate you on 6 months!! That is such a great milestone and we can hear the pride and acceptance in your words. Don't work too hard this weekend OK?

Lav-Lily is 4 months old already?????? Wow!! Yes, sunday is supposed to be very nice. Can't wait!

So happy Burn Notice is back. Great first show! Also really enjoyed the new show that follows: Suits.

Like to get to sleep before 12 midnight for once so off to feed the kids and get ready. Up early for WW tomorrow and a massive food shopping trip for me and the kids. Gotta love payday!!

[rustop61]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Hi everyone

Dewdrop - so glad you popped in and let us know how you are doing. Lots of TLC over the coming days.

Lav - 4 months, where has the time gone to. It's only with kids that you realise how much times has passed. Glad the new bed arrived. May you have many nights of peaceful sleep in it.

Chill - Glad you got over the first day. Like everything else that has happened that man has come into your life for a reason. Keep an open mind.

Cassia - Wishing hubby a speedy process so that he is soon there with you.

Did not get to bed until 3.30 am as I was chauffering my daughter so a bit bleary eyed this morning. She is out again tonight and I have to get up early for a show with the other one. Since I changed my mindset to well this is my summer and this is what I do, I am finding it a little easier. Not really enjoying it but not resenting it either. So glad to be going through it AF, cannot imagine what it would be like with hangovers.

Star, Rusty, Jolie, Papmom and everyone else big hello and have a great week-end.

Rustop

[Chillgirl]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Hi everyone :hiya:

Cass - I hope all goes fast with hubby's medical & visa, it's got to be hard for him waiting to get over and get on with his new life, it must feel like limbo for him.

Lav - can we have an up dated photo please of little Lily? Despite my current detached mode I know a baby's smile will make me cry......

Rustop - you are such a super mum and it's brilliant you have adapted your mindset, it won't be forever and you will look back and be so pleased you took the time and patience. Hungover I think it would have been a whole other story, we really gave ourselves such a gift ditching AL way beyond what we would ever have dreamed at the outset.

Papmom - grouchy smelly old man :H I love it! We are having dinner tonight. I know my life must sound like an episode of sex and the city :H but I'm actually an old fashioned girl and although I'm dating, none are on an intimate basis. I had some lovely texts from Doc last night saying how much Charlie missed me, I wonder if it's his way Of saying he does.... Oh well I will see what unfolds. I'm just having such fun with all this activity compared to my zero social life in Portugal where I never met anyone new. Sometimes I'm driving along and looking around me thinking I've landed on another planet, it's so very different.

[Chillgirl]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

P.S. I just googled "Burn Notice" hadn't heard of it, would you really recommend it? I love buying box sets and watching these series right through, so could start at no.1......

[Lavande]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Good morning Junesters!

Slow start for me today. Not sure where my energy is......

Rustop, every day without a hangover is a good day
Enjoy your kids while you can. I was happy for my kids as they moved on with their lives but that was also when my lonliness settled in. There was nothing left & that's when I got in trouble

Chill, sounds like you are having fun - good fr you!
I would love to have some companionship in my life but I am definitely not interested in anything more. Leaves me kind of nowhere I guess. I've watched a few episodes of Burn Notice - it's good!
I'll be back later to post a pic of Lily

Chickens await food & water - have a great day one & all!

Hope you are good today Dewdrop!

Lav

[papmom3]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Hey Chill- I'm betting Doc does miss you. give it time. Yes, I highly recommend Burn Notice. It's addicting :H! The first 2 seasons were really good-lots of cool spy stuff and explosions. The last 3 have gotten less creative and focused more on story lines and of course as the Michael and the crew started making some money they were able to get more sophisticated in their schemes (you'll see what I mean) BUT it's still and awesome show and I have high hopes for season five. FYI-I know it's not the same but before you run out and buy a box set, you can watch whole episodes on USA network for free. I believe you can even start with show number 1, season 1. Then if you like it, watching it on TV is much better.
Chill-I'm so glad you are having a social life again. I just know that in a very short time you will find your second soul mate and will live happily ever after!!

Lav, LVT-hope you're having a great day!

Very cold and rainy here but after a stunning storm early this morning (and yes I had kick the boyz out into the torrential downpours-not fun) the rain has held off. My neighbor is having a yard sale and I donated a large tub of stuff that was going to Savers anyway. Hope it all gets sold!! She's doing quite well with junk for items. My yard sale 5 years ago hardly paid me back the cost of the ads so it just goes to show you what a difference the economy makes.

Weight watchers was OK considering I did NO tracking or exercise this week. I did weigh and measure however. Down 1.4 for a total of 8 in 3 weeks. I'm pretty happy and I did go to PF and do the Elipticle for 10 min (with my name tag on LOL!!). I was going to cancel but decided to work out instead. I'll keep the membership until I can find a pool membership I can afford. I LOVE to swim and they say do what you love and it won't be work.

Gotta go plan my shopping spree. Be back later.

[mylife]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Hello Guys,

Sounds like this whole group has been busy as usual! I have as well -- yesterday I took my mom out of the house to a nearby town - Seward. It was a gorgeous day and we went on a 5 hour wildlife cruise around the Kenai Fjords. We saw a glacier and several hump back whales amongst some other things. I think I filled up my camera with pictures. Really, it was so unusual to see so much and have such gorgeous weather - we were so lucky!

This whole trip has turned out to be a good thing for me. Although it was to help her around after hip surgery, it has really given me time to think about things and how I want to approach them when I get back home. I think I'm ready to start moving on in several areas of my life and plan to spend time over the next year making some positive changes that will go along with my new "non drinking" self! I have been in an unhappy marriage for years and that has got to change. I think it's also time to move on to a new phase in my career. Don't worry I'm not going to rush home and quit my job and get a divorce, I'm just going to start by standing up for myself in both those arenas!

Chill - congratulations on your new job. That must be a relief! I'm sure you'll do well. Cassia - you are doing great with all your patience waiting for your hubby! I agree with Lav, don't work too hard or they'll expect that even after your hubby arrives!
Pap - great job on the weight watchers. I have never been able to stick with that for some reason! I'm still working on maintaining exercise and trying to work on overall health.
Jolie, Rustop, Rusty, Lav and all others to come - have a great day.!!

[Lavande]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Ahhhhhhhh,
I feel better now after treating myself to a haircut.
Seriously, it does not take much to make me happy

papmom, congrats on the weight loss. I long to return to my premenopausal happy weight. I'm working on it centimeter by centimeter :H

mylife, that cruise sounds awesome. You'll have to post some pics for those of us who will never get up that way. Good that you've had some time to think things through. Looking back, I wish I had had five minutes to do the same but it just never happened. Enjoy your time with your Mom.

Here's a pic of the blue eyed Ms Lily



Waiting for the sun & heat to go down a bit so I can tackle some weeds threatening to take over my garden

[cyntree]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Good morning, Junesters -
Hello from the stormy midwest! I think it's been about a week since I last posted -- I'm still here AF working away on the downsizing and upgrading of my Mom's house. Several victories last week - saw the 'perfect' apartment for her -- now I hope one comes available soon...met a great antiquarian bookseller that came to the house and assessed all the books, buying some...had the house go through a pre-inspection (yikes), filed multiple contractor bags with 'junque', collected all items in the house from the 40s, 50s, and 60s and had a 'retro' sale yesterday...among many other activities.

Lots of emotions floating around - I am working in my Dad's spaces, and am finiding him in retrospect to have struggled not only with hoarding tendencies, but depression or manic-depression, a whole host of things that I suspected but refused to see. Also just unearthing the physical representation of family beliefs and ways of being - many times very disconcerting. I am trying to keep my spirits up and my attitude bright so that I am there for my Mom to go through all this, but sometimes it's a challenge. I'm not used to living in the space where I'm doing downsizing work for my clients! It feels a little like Sisyphus (sp?), I wonder if we'll ever be done. Just 3 more weeks until our goal of putting the house on the market....
Miss everone here, and I 'speak' to you in my head all day long. But the days are olympian in length, so please know that I am thinking of you all even if I don't post. I can't wait for a few moments to go back and read through everything. Chill, new job? Cassia - HB coming? Lav - I can't believe how Lily has grown! And what cute hair?! (I was a cue-ball at that age).


Take care all, and I will catch up on everyon's journeys --

[Lavande]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Good morning Junesters!

Hi cyn, glad you checked in
I feel for you doing that job. I did all that while my parents were still alive, we had just moved them into in-law quarters we built for them. It was a tough time :l

Well, I'm looking forward to a high of on;y 82 degrees today with less humidity
My hair will be happy too :H
YB will be here to cut grass. I'm going to try to get him to sit down for a talk.........something he has managed to completely avoid for the past 6 months

Hope everyone has a fantastic AF Sunday!
Lav

[Chillgirl]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

Evening guys

Lav - wishing you success in your talk with YB, it would be great if you manage to get a two way dialogue. Oh that photo of Lily is simply beautiful :l

Cyn - what incredible emotions you are uncovering, I wish you continued strength and that you make your target for getting the house on the market.

Mylife - you too are going through a roller coaster of feelings, I had so many hit me in my 1st 6 months of sobriety, it's all part of the new us. Remember we are here to sound off at anytime, you have some big challenges ahead but you sound ready for that next step.

Papmom - I can't access you US network but I may be able to download from another source. Well done on the continued weight loss, steady and downwards are the way to go and whatever you are doing is working.

I had a wonderful time with my old grouch last night and we talked well into the wee small hours. Maybe he's not such a grump after all & is growing on me.... My folks had Elle last night and unfortunately she woke them barking in the night and they had a terrible sleep. So much so that they are refusing to take her again for me over night which is a real blow to me with fitting in work and gym life now. I'm going to have to employ a dog walker. I'm feeling a bit melancholy tonight and having lots of doubts about my job and things in general. I know it will pass but sometimes I just feel so damn scared and lost being on my own, Papmom I hope you're right about that soulmate being round the corner.

[Dewdrop]

Joyful June - Week 3/4

I?m having trouble with my internet connection for some reason tonight so I?ll keep this brief. You all sound so busy and productive it?s been good reading back, there has been a lot of energy and emotions being expended. I have had a quiet day I?ve felt quite exhausted and had no energy so hopefully a good night?s sleep will see me right although I slept all afternoon so I?m not sure. Oh well I?m sure that I will catch up and I have a mountain of books waiting to be read.

I?ve been in quite a reflective mood this weekend and feeling a bit unsettled, maybe it?s to do with my age or my surgery but I?m reassessing a lot of things in my life. Not coming up with any answers unfortunately but maybe I don?t have to, maybe I simply need to let things brew away and unfold

Catch you all through the week.

Dewdrop :h