Couch 74

It is stunning, granite. In no way are you wasting your talent.

if you look on the stone wall on the right there is a watering can . I did that remembering the bed time stories my grand farther use to tell me about the tiny weenies .about some fairies who lived in a can on a stone wall behind farmer browns house . he was my favorites person ever and I loved his stories and this reminded me of them

Theres a fairy garden downtown in my city. You know you can probably always sell some at your craft store. Or you could lead a class in making them. They really should shut up. But at least they see how bright your talent shines. Maybe you could say something like, "THANKS. All the TRAINING ive been doing is starting to pay off. Its 90 percent perspiration, ya know."

Wow Granite it's stunning - you are so creative. I would love to be able to create something like that. Please don't let them get to you. It's clear to see you have amazing talent. Well done. Thanks for sharing.

There was a little fairy village in the town my H grew up in...we used take the kids there, it was behind an abandoned house, no one knew who created it, but it was marvelous. I always pretended to be a little person when I was young. Does anyone remember Land of The Giants? And the Borrowers was my fav book. Oh to be little and able to disappear quickly.

I loved the Borrowers!

How's the foot Wiki?

this is beautiful, Granite. I would never put the word "waste" in the same time zone as this lovely piece. I hope you can think of some zinger comebacks when your family puts you down.

Hi Granite!

I wasn't there, so I can only guess, but for some people, "You're wasting you talent" is as close as they'll ever get to a compliment.

Maybe you don't want a compliment from such people, but I think they meant well.

Ugh. I am just insanely angry right now. H took our home laptop to use at work. D complained and said ten times at least that he was going to mess it up because he quite often does, in fact, screw up laptops by downloading stuff and just generally changing stuff he shouldn't. I warned him also about now downloading stuff unless he was positive that 1) it was absolutely necessary and 2) it was absolutely safe and foolproof, and if he had any doubt, please ask the tech person at work for help. Guess what? The laptop is now screwed up and foxfire doesn't work and the directories for the wordprocessing program have all been changed so I cannot find my documents. He SWEARS all he did was try to download google chrome and he DID NOT change the directories. Well they are CHANGED and no one else has touched the ****ing computer, and we didn't ****ing need google chrome. He somehow thought downloading google chrome would fix the fact that our billing program at work is incompatible with Windows 8. How the **** does anyone even think that????? The man is not stupid. I was trying to get him to help me find documents because I really need to be able to save documents where I can find them so I can help our son with a lab report that is due tomorrow that he wants me to proofread, and H just said he didn't do anything to them and it wasn't his fault, and went to bed and was asleep in minutes. SERIOUSLY??? It takes me HOURS to fall asleep even when I'm calm and everything is going well. I am so sossososososososoososo frustrated and angry. So I am up trying to help our son and fix the screw ups on the computer and H is peacefully sleeping.

Ok...Windows 8.
Click on the file directory icon. (or type windows explorer at the windows screen)
In the top right you will see a search bar, type the name of one file in there and search.
They most likely are all in the same place.

My H can fall asleep like that too, drives me batty.
(((MKAC)))

I was sleeping in today and was woken up by a phone call from my mother saying "take me to the lab for blood work"

I really wanted a day in. Grrrrr.

And little Lucy Lou has chewed up my favorite shoes. Son took this pup on, but I'm the one dealing with her. She's so freakin cute, but I just don't have the time or patience right now. I'd hate to have to place her in another foster, but sheesh.
I sound like a grumpy old lady.

Wikid, what about just saying, 'sorry, I can't right now. Talk to you later." to your mom?

Even Better - ask D who adores her grandmother to take her to the lab. They don't spend enough time together and both will be pleased.

Here's my proud mama moment for the year -- my H's cousin and cousin's daughter are in town. Cousin is a fairly nice guy, but a bit patronizing. He's from the East Coast and thinks Kansans are nice but not cultured, not as sophisticated, not as intellectual, etc. Anyway, he was making some comment about Shakespeare's birthday and quoted some Shakespeare and said it was from Romeo and Juliet. My daughter said the quote was from The Tempest, actually, and he sat there and looked at her for a second. Then realized she was right and looked quite shocked and surprised and told her that was a good catch. That's my kid!

Yeah that can be an awkward situation to be in. You want to be considerate of the other person's feelings, but you don't want them to keep repeating the same mistake. Its like when my t kept calling it a colonoscophy instead of colonoscopy. I told him it made him sound like he had a love of colons which of course i thought was hilarious (i admit im juvenile) and made me wished i'd coined the term!

Eta: but maybe youre being more honest about your feelings than i am? Idk. I feel embarrassed and put on the spot when someone says something untoward. If im with a group, now people will probably look at me to say something, because thats what i would have done in the past. I think now i would pretend i was daydreaming and didnt hear it. T says he likes when i correct him, but the more he says that, the less i do it.

Out with my friend, although right now he seems like more of a burden than anything else.

O brave new world that has such people in it!

It' taken me fifty years to learn NOT to correct every mistake I hear.

Just so much anger. From every aspect of life. I need to let it out somehow...

Stopdog... Realize you have a lot going on ...wanted to let you know that I'm thinking about you )))SD(((

Thanks. It has been a bad week. I think today we have sort of levelled off. The new usual.

SD, I am sorry to hear you are having to deal with this and I know you dont like hugs, but this is kind of a hug thing.

Sorry about the rough times, SD. Keeping you in my thoughts and hoping for the best.

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So...Is behind-the-scenes bullying or gossip really a thing here? I have to finally ask because I've been feeling so uneasy about it. I'm tired of feeling self-conscious and I thought PC is generally a sanctuary that discourages that behavior. I'm starting to feel pretty naive.

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Has someone hassled you on this site? If so, report it too the moderators is my suggestion.