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BTTT - so others might read the accounts of the two "D"s ... excellent and compelling reads!

CoCo

Met a gent from Perth last evening while strolling about in the 'hood. He's a new neighbor and loves it here, saying how much the landscape reminds him of home. I replied that it was likewise for me, the neighborhood being reminiscent of my childhood home.

Does that mean that Oz and Cali are one and the same?

CoCo

coffee_black

March in New England...indecisive weather...very windy and cold early this morning as I headed to my office to meet a rep who I would ride with today. She has become a friend, so it was an enjoyable day. I had a seminar scheduled with a mid size architectural firm, and it was nice to have her help. We called on a number of firms together in several small towns...one of which was my home town. We stopped along the way for coffee (of course) She's been going through a tough time, and I have had some worries about my daughter of late.. so there was a lot to catch up on.

So now I sit relaxing...mentally planning my trip to Virginia at the end of the month to see my son, daughter in law and new granddaughter. My daugher is driving up from Florida with her 3 kids too...so we will all get to be together. My grandson, her oldest is spending a week in Washington DC as one of the top middle school students in the country...and will have some life altering experiences there. My daughter is going through a horrific, dangerous divorce...but there is light at the end of the tunnel finally, and it looks like she and the kids will soon be free. We're all sooooooo looking forward to this trip.

Coffee

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Happy trails, coffee_black. Be safe out there, you and yours. Please let us know how things go ...

Thanks for stopping by.

CoCo

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Sad emo

Dear Diary

Shop is looking bare now, all the books have been categorised, inventorised and boxed in readiness for dispatch to their various destinations.

I've got loads done the last couple of days - I actually think the enforced 'holiday' is doing me the world of good, I can get up when I like and do what I like as quick or slow as I want. My mental attitude is better even though I have lots I could worry about, I feel calm and am thinking straighter than I had been.

Regstered my claim for unemployment today and I now have an appointment to see someone next week to discuss money and jobhunting. I have another job interview tomorrow - over the telephone so I don't need to dress up or go out lol! I'll spend the rest of the day studying.

I'm fighting against that little voice within me that's shouting "You should be worried!" that's not me, that's 'someone' from the past. Worrying solves nothing, it only paralyses and hinders.

Its all good

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I'm fighting against that little voice within me that's shouting "You should be worried!" that's not me, that's 'someone' from the past. Worrying solves nothing, it only paralyses and hinders.

Its all good

FOR YOU EMO!

http://www.amazon.com/How-Stop-Worrying-Start-Living/dp/0671733354

PREFACE:

• Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction. Things need to be restated, illustrated, streamlined, air-conditioned...

NINE SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS BOOK

A deep, driving desire to learn, a vigorous determination stop worrying and start living

you are not merely trying to acquire information. You are attempting to form new habits. Ah yes, you are attempting a new way of life. That will require time and persistence and daily application.

PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WORRY

• Thomas Carlyle: “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

• What, then, was the secret of his success? He stated that it was owing to what he called living in “day-tight compartments.” What did he mean by that? A few months before he spoke at Yale, Sir William Osler had crossed the Atlantic on a great ocean liner where the captain, standing on the bridge, could press a button and – presto! – there was a clanging of machinery and various parts of the ship were immediately shut off from one another – shut off into watertight compartments. “Now each one of you,” Dr. Osler said to those Yale students, “is much more marvelous organization than the great liner, and bound on a longer voyage. What I urge is that you so learn to control the machinery as to live with ‘day-tight compartments’ as the most certain way to ensure safety on the voyage. Get on the bridge, and see that at least the great bulkheads are in working order. Touch a button and hear, at every level of your life, the iron doors shutting out the Past – the dead yesterdays. Touch another and shut off, with a metal curtain, the Future – the unborn tomorrows. Then you are safe – safe for today!...Shut off the past! Let the dead past bury its dead.... Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death.... The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past.... The future is today [...]

• ...the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.

• ...take thought for the tomorrow, yes careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

• “If a ship has been sunk,” Admiral King went on, “I can’t bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can’t stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow’s problem than by fretting about yesterday’s. Besides, “if I let those things get me, I wouldn’t last long.”

• ...the chief difference between good thinking and bad thinking is this: good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.

• “I ended up in an Army dispensary. An Army doctor gave me some advice which has completely changed my life. After giving me a thorough examination, he informed me that my troubles were mental. ‘Ted,’ he said, ‘I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the tope of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass. When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, then we are bound to break our own physical and mental structure.”

‘One grain of sand at a time.... One task at a time’

Sad emo

Thanks for that CoCo - I sometimes wonder if I don't worry enough now lol so that was a good article to read. It's all about healthy balance I guess.

I passed the telephone interview yayy! I have to wait for a face to face one now. I've enjoyed my day in today - back to the shop tomorrow, we're going to start moving things out then.

Gotta go cook tea (dinner!) now - I have the remains of Sunday's chicken and some veggies so its 'chickenbone soup'

Have a good day all.

coffee_black

Today started well.... got a lot of paperwork done and out of the way.... but tonight was a different story.

I was on my way to a friend's house for dinner, and I stopped at a gift shop briefly... came out...and my key wouldn't turn the ignition of my car.. Wouldn't budge...Tried over and over....I have a spare key and tried that too....no go... Seems the tumblers are messed up. Had to be towed home...and will have to figure out how to solve this predicament in the morning. The dealership service dept is closed for the night... or maybe a locksmith will be able to fix it...I'll find out tomorrow. Right now, I'm frozen... so I'm sipping some coffee...

Ironically, I reserved a rental car today for my trip to see my kids. I always rent a car for long trips... my car runs great, but it has close to 200,000 miles on it...it never gives me trouble...but imagine the lock thing happening hundreds of miles from home...

Coffee

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Thanks, emo and coffee ...

Time for another chicken, emo ...

Hope your auto is better by now, coffee ...

Happy trails and blessings to all on board today and ...

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