i did not realize that they were symptoms that something was wrong with my cat -but i did notice that my cat was breathing a little differently for a period of about a few days.
i also noticed prior and after to that, that on occasion, my cat would cry at the litter box, but that was a very seldom event.. anyway, about a week ago i noticed the symptom that my very loved cat was breathing heavy.
so i called a taxi and i was going to rush him to emergency room for cats.
Oh, Fisherman, I missed this post! I am so sorry to hear you lost your buddy!
Cats hide illness well and losing them unexpectedly is unfortunately all too common. Please don't blame yourself. You loved and gave your little buddy a good life. A very lucky little cat to have such a loving owner.
I have several of my feline friends buried in the back garden. I don't think I could ever stand to sell this house.
happy friday to all!.
i haven't been to a meeting for maybe 10 years.
i only know what's happening nowadays from the experiences i read here or the internet in general.. anyway, on to the topic: i started attending meetings at the age of 7. as a kid, the only thing i looked forward to at the assemblies (circuit/district) was walking around veteran's stadium (philadelphia district convention) during intermission, hanging with friends, looking at girls (as i got a little older) and trying to have enough tickets to get pizza!.
Yup, Wingcommander, I got baptized in that pool at Grantville Assembly Hall in the eighties. It was pretty cool as baptismal pools go. I never wanted to be baptized in a big swimming pool at the DCs.
We went to the Vet in Philly, but we also went to the Capital Center near DC a lot, too. It was lovely because it was enclosed and air conditioned. We went to RFK stadium once (hell; open air and it rained) and a racetrack in Delaware once which was okay because it was covered.
But, yeah, that was some ugly orange carpet in Grantville.
some areas of our home are very nice, tidy, clean.
and other rooms are just junk and clutter and clothes and papers.... omg.
and now that we are getting older, we realize that we face a time of transition -- and this is hard to cope with too, as we believed the lie that we would never get old, etc.
I had some good cleaning success today. Even though it was my birthday, I decided that I needed to work on cleaning my bedroom because I had gotten a new quilt for my birthday and wanted to see it on my bed. So, I washed all the sheets and blankets and put them back on the bed and then put my new green floral quilt on my bed. I am a quilt collector and I have to be careful not to collect too many. I have them in a wardrobe and when it is full, no more quilts unless I donate one first. I did donate a big, puffy king-sized quilt because it wouldn't fit in my washer and it cost me $6 in quarters and a trip to the laundromat everytime it needed to be washed. It was too much, so I let it go.
The quilt looked great, so then I cleaned and dusted the bedside table,putting odds and ends away as I went. I also tackled my jewelry chest and my hope chest, cleaning, dusting and putting odds and ends away. Tomorrow i am going to do my husband's dresser, his nightstand, and my dressing table. That dressing table has jewelry scattered all over the surface and a jewelry box sitting on it that is full as well as the standing jewelry chest. I need to purge and organize. I am not even really a big jewelry person, but I get a lot for gifts.
Then, also, I have books sitting in piles, neatly around the edges of the wall. These are going to be sorted, purged, and the ones left will be found new homes. Sitting on a pile on the floor is not a home. Everything has to have a home, if it doesn't then the next time we have an object and we don't know where it goes and we can't decide, then that object just get set down anywhere and becomes another brick in the wall of clutter.
What I'm also working on is maintaining areas that I've already cleaned. So, I start by quickly going through the clean areas and putting things in place, vacuum, or wipe down counters just to keep your progress which will help to maintain momentum. Then, I work on a new area. My ongoing clutter spot is a room that was turned into a home office, but ended up just being a dumping ground for clutter.Since we've added onto the house, and now have room for a desk and filing cabinet in a more open area (where hopefully we won't be tempted to dump things.) I have been slowly cleaning that room out a little at a time so I can turn it back into a bedroom. This room has caused me so much anxiety. I can't stand to be in there too long, so I just do a tiny little project at a time. My next project is to go through a pile of 4 or 5 medical folders. I think I can handle that without having an anxiety attack. I have to just keep thinking about what a cute little spare bedroom it will be when I'm done.
Trying to decide whether it's worth it to save all the purged items for a yard sale. It's a big thing around here. They usually start in April. Might be able to make $100 or so for a few hours work. I don't know. I'm still thinking about it.
How's everyone else's decluttering going? I'm sympathetic with violias who still feels the need to buy more after purging. However, I've got the closet of my dreams, now. It's organized by item so I can see everything I have in a glance. I take a photo of it to keep in my purse so when I'm tempted to buy something I can check if I have room and also if it works with all the other clothing in my wardrobe. If not, then I don't buy it.
Best of luck, everyone.
there was a df of a mentally challenged young man he sexually assaulted a young girl.. in jesus day people were possessed by demons but we know today they had mental issues.. do you know of any cases where a mentally challenged person was df.. the case that i mention the young man was 18-20 years old and it was a case where he was.
functional, school, friends and was baptized.
i knew the family and if you didn't know he was a. typical teenager.. my question, if a mentally challenged person is able to answer the questions to qualify to be.
They'll DF people who survive suicide attempts. They don't give a rat's ass about mental illness, but don't have the humility to accept that they need training, either.
That makes them ignorant, arrogant and evil.
today is the end of my son's 3 -1/2 year treatment for leukemia.
we had a small party at the hospital with nursing staff and a few friends.
it has been a great day with the exception of getting walking pnemonia from his sister.
any exjw's or faders out there in mensa?
any online groups for this niche?
Yes, one of the current thoughts on autism and savantism is the bandwith theory.
They use so much brain power/ bandwidth in these very specualized abilities that there's little left for abstract things like social skills or emotional skills.
Their brains are incredibly overconnected in some areas which produce these amazing abilities, but leaves little room for connectionc to social and emotional brain areas (ie the amygdala).
In other words, the brain can only compute so much and extraordinary usage of certain areas leaves no room for development of other abilities.
But, evolutionarily the deficits might be worth the extreme intelligence in other areas.
some areas of our home are very nice, tidy, clean.
and other rooms are just junk and clutter and clothes and papers.... omg.
and now that we are getting older, we realize that we face a time of transition -- and this is hard to cope with too, as we believed the lie that we would never get old, etc.
Also, with the photos. I have boxes and boxes of old ones, bought scrapbooks to put them in, but they are still empty. Now some of our photos are digital and they are neither displayed nor easily accessible. I have lots of photo frames sitt>ng around with multiple photos under them. Christmas photos from christmas cards, relatives' class pictures. This is another area I am in over my head.
Then there's old VHS recordings of our wedding, baby showers, wedding showers, vacations. Then a little hi8 recorder from when my son was little, and now little sd cards everywhere. It's a huge task to think of transferring everything to digital. I really want my wedding video transferred. That's important enough to take the time to do.
Should I transfer all my cds to a digital format to save space? What about my old tapes? Do I even still have them? Tough calls.
some areas of our home are very nice, tidy, clean.
and other rooms are just junk and clutter and clothes and papers.... omg.
and now that we are getting older, we realize that we face a time of transition -- and this is hard to cope with too, as we believed the lie that we would never get old, etc.
Good info on digital scanning. Yes, I am awful on purging and organizing digital files. We crash computers at my house and then lose flash drives and forget passwords, and, oh, it is sooo bad.
But, it's a good direction to shoot for. Work is forcing a lot of things to happen sans paper now, so I can see digital information manipulation in my future.
But, I have to disagree on the shredder. I'm definitely on team burning barrel. It's literally completely gone when you're done, has lovely ambience and you can even cook dinner during the process if you roast hot dogs and marshmallows over the open flame. Some things just provide a much better analog experience!
some areas of our home are very nice, tidy, clean.
and other rooms are just junk and clutter and clothes and papers.... omg.
and now that we are getting older, we realize that we face a time of transition -- and this is hard to cope with too, as we believed the lie that we would never get old, etc.
Yes, I would think moving a lot would help to keep the clutter under control.
I just can't part with my university stuff. Heck, I still have all my math notebooks from high school with perfect handwriting. Each class from community college is in a color-coded folder and each of my university level classes has its own binder, labeled by section number on the spine.
It's neat and orderly and I have the space for it, so is it excessive? I refer back to it enough that I feel justified in keeping it. And, knowledge is important to me, so it feels important.
I do need to get rid of old materials and lesson plans from the old curriculum which is a lot of sorting. It takes sustained mental effort to scan each paper and make a decision on it when the piles are very deep!
But, yeah, I need to fire up the burning barrel!
some areas of our home are very nice, tidy, clean.
and other rooms are just junk and clutter and clothes and papers.... omg.
and now that we are getting older, we realize that we face a time of transition -- and this is hard to cope with too, as we believed the lie that we would never get old, etc.
So, telling me that you like to buy more than one of things, for instance, multiple books about something that interests you gives me some good insight.
Lots of times collectors are indecisive when trying to sort things because they can imagine more than one category for an item. So, how to sort it? Should the yoga book be put on the bookshelf or with the yoga materials? Should the photography book go on the bookshelf or should it be a coffee table book because of the beautiful photos?
The key is to decide whether or not that is true for a particular item and then make a conscious decision one way or the other. Maybe the yoga book goes on your bookshelf (in the self-help section!), but the photography book stays out for all to see.
Also, when sending an item to the bookcase, you realize that it's full, you might decide to put it in the donation box. Particularly if you've sorted your books and realized that you have a dozen books on yoga. Look through them all, consider their age and quality and purge 8 or so of them, keeping the newer ones and the ones that are better quality or have proved most useful for you in the past.
Keep in mind that it's better to have fewer, but nicer things.
If something smells of mildew, get rid of it. If it is old and in poor shape and you have a nicer, newer one, get rid of it. If you simply have enough of a category (maybe craft supplies?), it's okay to get rid of anything in excess of the amount that you have available storage for. (Teachers would love donations of craft supplies. They often purchase these supplies with their own money!)
There is space for items that you have emotional attachments to. For instance, handwritten recipes, collect them in a small scrapbook or recipe box and keep them in the kitchen. Old schoolwork and drawings? See if you can purge half of them, then put the rest in a scrapbook. Put it on your bookshelf or display with pride. If it's hidden away, its memories are not being respected. Other small objects can be stored in decorative boxes or chests. Just choose the "keepers" carefully and don't exceed available and appropriate space.
Papers are a problem. I have a problem in this area. Teachers collect lots and lots of papers and supplies. Also, I tend to keep old financial papers because I don't know what's safe to get rid of and what's not. There's always that stray medical bill that you get that you've already paid and you need proof for. But, I do have strategies.
First, mail comes in and is sorted standing over the trash bin. Most of it gets tossed, bills go in my bill basket and anything that needs to be filed goes on top of the filing cabinet.
Right now I am working on cleaning up the files. I'm sorting like files together (ie. medical or financial) and going through the individual file folders. Some can be tossed completely, like payment records for old cars. This is slow going. My goal, however, is to take what used to be a paper-strewn office and turn it back into a bedroom. I'm putting a small bed in there where I can escape to when my husband snores. That is my motivation. I did pay someone to help me get started, though. She came in, started cleaning and sorting and I threw away a lot of stuff. Once you could move around the room, I felt like I could keep going. I still get anxious walking by that room, but as I reach a milestone, I reward myself. I just bought myself some curtains for this room which makes it look better, which encourages me to do more.
Once you hit the point where things are nice and tidy, there's so much incentive to continue to keep it functional.
