Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Thank you.

I feel like I can say now things have been very very bleak and I have been feeling very very depressed and when we last saw GP I said 'I cannot stay living like this and I feel as if I will soon make a choice not to':o. Its all been a lot of strain over the last few months frankly. Which is very unfair as a lot of people have it a lot, very much, worse I just have felt as if MY limits have been stretched for too long.

Anyway. I couldn't feel less like that now. :j:j

How much worse others may or may not have it is largely irrelevant - it's how YOU feel which is the most important bit.

I'm also really, really pleased you're feeling better, lir. I'm probably going to regret saying the next bit but I'll say it anyway.

Is this likely to be a longer-term feeling better? Does it definitely change what the consultant was planning or just push it back? I (clearly) have no idea what the answers to these questions are. I'm genuinely very pleased that you're feeling better. I'd be most pleased if you could hold onto this feeling for as long as possible.

Hope that's come across as intended (well-meaning rather than trying to put a downer on things).

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I didn't understand either...

The 80 /20 principle.

Sometimes pursuit of the twenty percent of finesse taking 80 percent of the time rather ther than the 80 percent of bulk work taking twenty percent of time can been people with high standards result in LESS efficiency and lower standards for a team over all.

Its about application and knowing WHEN to go for the high standards that makes the ideal employee I think.

I feel I can say that because I have no idea which camp you fall into so it cannot possibly be personal.

Edit( and DH definitely struggles with it at times! adding to his workplace stress )

PasturesNew

Well, if it helps anybody, I've done nothing all weekend ... in fact I've only got off the sofa once - to go to the CoOp to get a pizza, that they didn't have in any case .... so I got another one and bunged it in the oven and ate it and nodded off.

So, if anybody's feeling "bad" ..... remember to measure yourself by my activities and you'll feel as if you moved mountains

Oh and I got off the sofa again, once, for my 4.30am driveby, which I'd forgotten about.

lemonjelly

zagubov wrote: »

They died the death in the 60s when Philips introduced the (compact) cassette. It became the only format to survive to the 21st cntury but now I gather they're rare in the western world, except prisons where they're safer than CDs (which can be made into knives apparently).

Reel-to-reels could fill a room with tape in seconds if anything went wrong. Still got tons of tapes in the attic I need to convert to mp3s. Must find a way to do that.

Get yourself one of these zag:
http://www.clasohlson.com/uk/CD-MP3-Record-Player-with-Cassette-Deck,-AM-FM-Radio-and-USB-SD-Memory-Card-Slots/38-4173


I keep thinking about getting one for the same purpose.

lemonjelly

I've been last minute packing.
Bowls got called off Saturday, so that bought me 3 extra hours.
Pretty much everything except cutlery/crockery left now, plus bits & bobs.
Went & got two thirds of the stereo yesterday, plus more packing.
Had a day off today. Been playing golf with dad, & off bowling shortly!

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

How much worse others may or may not have it is largely irrelevant - it's how YOU feel which is the most important bit.

I'm also really, really pleased you're feeling better, lir. I'm probably going to regret saying the next bit but I'll say it anyway.

Is this likely to be a longer-term feeling better? Does it definitely change what the consultant was planning or just push it back? I (clearly) have no idea what the answers to these questions are. I'm genuinely very pleased that you're feeling better. I'd be most pleased if you could hold onto this feeling for as long as possible.

Hope that's come across as intended (well-meaning rather than trying to put a downer on things).

I have no idea. Its not perfect. I am quite physically irritable tonight. ( just kicked DH off the sofa from behind me because he was irritating my skin and hurting my ears ( TGN is not bad but there! this week! having not been that noticeable for a while) this week. But that sort of thing I can cope with once I get my head round it again I think.

Its the constant bits falling off and not being able to do anything that was getting profoundly upsetting.

I was saying to new consultant one, if we roughly grouped thing s into

1. Hurts

2. Fatigues and stops doing stuff

3. Makes ugly/weight loss impossible

Deal with two and three. Because one is something I can cope with, almost had ideal training for tbh ( to think I hated that violin because it would twist my body up :rotfl:). But the not doing the stuff because of things like fatigue or extreme nausea and not WANTING to do stuff because I feel ashamed of how I look and feel is too much. If I can DO stuff I have quality of life! and that's really what counts. I don't really mind so much if it hurts if I can do it IYSWIM? ( that's sound ds rather touch guy, which isn't really how it feels, buit I'd rather hurt and do stuff than not hurt and sit here)


Edit : theoretically, it shouldn't have changed very much at all. It was a sort of.....'oh, and another thing....let's just try this just in case it helps, unlikely to, so if it doesn't do anything my Tuesday don't keep on it for the second week'. I only have two weeks supply and I , er, might have misplaced some in an enthusiastic gesture ....

silvercar

lemonjelly wrote: »

Get yourself one of these zag:
http://www.clasohlson.com/uk/CD-MP3-Record-Player-with-Cassette-Deck,-AM-FM-Radio-and-USB-SD-Memory-Card-Slots/38-4173


I keep thinking about getting one for the same purpose.

That is the weird shop that seems to stock random things, so you walk in not knowing what will be there and what won't.

lostinrates

We're looking for warm white garden lights.


But are now torn.

These are SO pretty

http://www.thesolarcentre.co.uk/products/Solar_Bubble_Lights_10_LED_Bulbs-720-60.html

But ten is nothing like enough. What terms would one google for for such a colour finish string lights for gardens do you think?

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

... everything except cutlery/crockery left now

One "tip" if you can find them is to buy some cheap polystyrene picnic plates and just layer those between plates etc rather than wrapping each individually .... I've not managed to find any yet but I've only kept an eye out in two shops so far...

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

We're looking for warm white garden lights.


But are now torn.

These are SO pretty

http://www.thesolarcentre.co.uk/products/Solar_Bubble_Lights_10_LED_Bulbs-720-60.html

But ten is nothing like enough. What terms would one google for for such a colour finish string lights for gardens do you think?

They are pretty ... had no idea such things existed. I'd found some regular bulbs in Ikea. http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40266111/

House access is: park at the back, park in allocated space, cross an 18' gap, go through garden gate, tip-toe between badly spaced stepping stones (was thinking of putting shells down and maybe some glow in the dark stones) .... probably about 12'-14' until you reach the patio/path that doesn't have gaps. All completely in the dark.