What's on your Thursday Menu?
It's about time you got the electric sheeter. Great move.
As for the donut- I just saw a recipe for mini donuts - butter fried cheerios, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. Yeap. It's a thing.
Qotd: I deal with a partial face blindness. The most popular actors I can recognize - the rest - nope. I may think I know a face... but the name - nope.
I often have to meet someone in person many times before I can really remember their face and their name. It's really horrible as a business person, when I go to conferences and people approach me and talk to me as if we were friends and I have no clue who they are. Horrible.
Today would be another interesting day. Busy.
I'm still finalizing the choice for our group of 4 for new phones and service. 3 of us are easy, the 4th... ugh... I had to ask her 4 times in a row (by text) what color of the phone she wanted. 4 times. She needed to "think about it". And this was just a color.
I have to remind myself she is not a technical person, nor a business person.
Ugh. I don't often deal with her in that manner, so I need to be patient.
I spent 4 hrs yesterday texting with her back and forth about memory storage. She has 128GB now, and was convinced she needed the 516GB because she has a lot of photos. But she was upset at the price I told her she would have to pay for that size. Ugh.
Ugh. Finally I was able to tell her (in details) how to check what % of her current space she used. 20%. Of 128. So she is getting 128GB. It would be more than enough.
O well..enough *****ing. Now I waiting for her to tell me if she wants to pay for phone insurance or not. I put all details about it in an email to her.
The other 3 of us - we know the insurance is useless, so we self-insure phones. Always.
I'm going to buy phone cases for the 3 of us, but not for her. Last time we got new phones it took her 5 days to decide what type she wanted and what color. I made a mistake of telling her I'm getting that for me and her husband (he is my business partner).
I won't even mention that to her. Nope nope. wow, I'm a ***** Lol. Thank you for letting me vent.
Anyway- today I'm going to order phones and sign the new contract. That would take me 2 hrs. At least. Ugh.
Besides that business meetings, work and some food.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
on 3/30/23 9:58 am
Oh wow, are you me? I have the same partial faceblindness. I didn't know it was a thing until a doctor's appointment a couple of years ago when I told her I can't recognize people until I've seen them enough. It's truly this that drives any form of social anxiety I might have because like you, I absolutely can't remember people unless they have some outstanding, unique feature. And if you change your hair, I'm prone to having to re-learn unless I've seen you a while.
At the Dallas conference I was meeting a lot of people for the first time off Zoom and I kept looking up their LinkedIn profiles so I wouldn't look like an idiot when we met. Did also have a ton of people who approached me and talked about that time we met...and I don't remember.
Given how stressful it is, I fess up to it now because it really is a problem I can't just fix...but I can cope! Crappy place to be but kind of glad I'm not the only one! Did used to think it was a weird social failing on my part.
HW 282, LW 123.4 (8/29/23), CW 144.4
Pre-op-33, M1-12, M2-17, M3-14, M4-11, M5-14, M6-5, M7-6, M8-5, M9-22, M10-6, M11-5, M12-2, M13-2, M14-5
That is interesting about the facial blindness. I read a book recently about a couple (fiction) where the husband had full facial blindness. It was a mystery book. I had never heard about that before reading the book.
HW 296 SW 267.8 GW 130 LW 128.2 CW 131.6
Age 55 5 ft 4 inches
Roux-en-Y 3/24/21
Internal Hernia 1/14/22
Gallbladder 3/22
Volvulus 10/7/23-Reversal of RNY 11/19/23
The last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. (Frankl, 1946)
on 3/31/23 2:54 am
Even obviously having it, I didn't know it was a condition for decades! I really did just think I was defective because no one else seemed to have those kinds of problems. People get really offended when you don't remember them, so I got to the point where I didn't put myself in those situations unless I had to. I'm most comfortable in situations where I know I'll never see people again because of it. Wild, right?
It really does make an impact on day to day things. I do remember seeing a Hannibal episode once where I think a woman was supposed to be faceblind and she only saw a blur. I can see features...they just don't stick. And it's not for lack of trying.
HW 282, LW 123.4 (8/29/23), CW 144.4
Pre-op-33, M1-12, M2-17, M3-14, M4-11, M5-14, M6-5, M7-6, M8-5, M9-22, M10-6, M11-5, M12-2, M13-2, M14-5
I have someone who asks for help every single day because he needs to go eat lunch. I finally lost it a bit and suggested he keep food at this desk to tide him over so he is not leaving a customer or asking someone to take over. I don't understand that kind of irresponsibility. He has a wife at home who waits on him hand and foot and fusses over him and I think he expect that from me. Grow up.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Yea... people like that wouldn't last around me... he lady, she is married to my business partner so she get a lot of points for that. Sometimes when I get irritated at her not being able to make decision, I have to remind myself of the good she does for me... Keeping him in check...
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
G'morning all!
QJB - I don't know what a sheeter is (I'll google it afterwards) but congrats on getting it.
Jen - I hope you like the doatnut, let me know what you think.
Bright and sunshine-y day today and I am so grateful. Yesterday was talking to a friend who goes up to Tahoe every weekend with her kids, they are huge ski/snowboard family, and she said they think we'll have snow till June. I can't wait to go up there but I'm not a ski-while-it's-storming kinda gal. I like sunshine and snow, I don't like it hard. The family I talked about goes up there no matter what, they are hard core. I'm a very leisurely skier, don't have to prove anything to anybody, unless I ski with my brother; then all bets are off and we are back being under 10 and trying to kill each other on the slopes by seeing who skis faster/batter.
QOTD: I'm like Kelly; "who is the guy in that movie that is what that other woman". And then there is one amongst us just like Jen, a walking IMDB, who knows exactly about whom I'm talking about. It actually amazes me every time when she guesses correctly; how much brain real estate there is for all this stuff? Just last night we were watching a show and for half the show DH kept asking me, the one who never knows who is who, where we had seen so and so. Finally I got frustrated and said Google it! He expects ME to be his walking IMDB. Hah!
My meals yesterday (it was a snack-all-day kind of day):
- Coffee
- Hb eggs & protein puff
- Protein pudding, Fage yogurt
- Epic chicken, quest chips, Parmesan square
- E: 1 hr elliptical (no way I could go out unless I planned on swimming the streets)
Happy jr Fri-yay!
SW:261 6/26/17 GW:150 10/6/18
CW: 142
PGW: 140-142
Yes, got her a cupcake and gave her extra chicken.
SW:261 6/26/17 GW:150 10/6/18
CW: 142
PGW: 140-142
on 3/30/23 9:40 am
I bet she loved her late bday celebration...and dogs are bad at remembering dates so just make that her new birthday!
HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150
Jen