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palides2021 said:
Shero, that sounds interesting...what are you writing, may I ask? I am also a writer. 😊
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Hallo palides, my husband and I have been travelling the globe for years and during that time, I have roughly written a pile of journals, collected some wonderful recipes from many places and been involved in some curious but enjoyable incidents. Now that we are landbound and will probably be for a long while, I have decided to put it all together in a book. My husband is very helpful by taking on lots of other mundane tasks, so I get the time to write. It's a huge endeavour, but worth it.

May I ask what theme your book is taking? Do you write each day? 🐞🐞
 
Shero said:
Hallo palides, my husband and I have been travelling the globe for years and during that time, I have roughly written a pile of journals, collected some wonderful recipes from many places and been involved in some curious but enjoyable incidents. Now that we are landbound and will probably be for a long while, I have decided to put it all together in a book. My husband is very helpful by taking on lots of other mundane tasks, so I get the time to write. It's a huge endeavour, but worth it.

May I ask what theme your book is taking? Do you write each day? 🐞🐞
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Thanks, Shero, for replying and for your interest! Sounds like a fun and adventurous life, traveling the globe and writing about it! I have traveled but never thought about writing it down. Maybe some day. Good luck with your project! Keep us posted with your progress. Would love to read it when it comes out!

I started writing when I became a stay-at-home mother several years ago, and they were mostly novels. I just don't have the time now because of my classes and dissertation which demand a lot of my time. Coming on SF gives me a nice break. :)

Once I'm finished with this phase in my life, I hope to go back to writing full-time again. The only thing that I have not liked about writing is that it is a sedentary job, and I need to make sure I exercise and continue to stay fit. It is also isolating (although now with the pandemic, I'm rather isolated anyhow).
 
palides2021 said:
Thanks, Shero, for replying and for your interest! Sounds like a fun and adventurous life, traveling the globe and writing about it! I have traveled but never thought about writing it down. Maybe some day. Good luck with your project! Keep us posted with your progress. Would love to read it when it comes out!

I started writing when I became a stay-at-home mother several years ago, and they were mostly novels. I just don't have the time now because of my classes and dissertation which demand a lot of my time. Coming on SF gives me a nice break. :)

Once I'm finished with this phase in my life, I hope to go back to writing full-time again. The only thing that I have not liked about writing is that it is a sedentary job, and I need to make sure I exercise and continue to stay fit. It is also isolating (although now with the pandemic, I'm rather isolated anyhow).
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I wish you much luck with your dissertation and writing when you get back to it and congrats about your poems :love:
 
I got rid of a few more things today. Threw stuff in the dumpster. Got one photo album filled with pictures to give to my son. The photo sorting is going so slowly. I think I am reluctant to part with them, although I want to let them go. 😂

Over 75 years of photos to share out, it’s tough going. And in the end, they will probably get thrown away, anyway. 😞. All our bits and pieces that were so important to us, passed on to the next generation with the knowledge that, that generation, will downsize and throw the stuff out, because their children won’t want any of it.

The irony of it all. We should have just kept the money and passed it on. 😂😂😂
 
palides2021 said:
Thank you for your interest! That's wonderful that your stepdaughter is writing hers. It's not easy reading someone's dissertation, I know. My advisor sent me a couple to look at so I can get an idea how it's like, and my eyes were glazed by the time I finished. Good luck with that!

My dissertation has a very narrow focus and is a qualitative study. I will not discuss here, because it's copyrighted, but it has to do with me reading lots books and writing critically about them. haha :)

I've been writing poems since a teenager, but got busy with life. Every so often, I'll send one off to be published. A friend of mine published hers in this journal, so I also sent mine in. Was happy they accepted. You can start writing poetry by taking a paragraph of your writing and formatting it so that it looks like a poem. A lot of poets do that. Really. You'd be surprised what's out there.

See example below (it's not really a poem, but an example of one, if you're interested):

POEM

I've been writing poems since a teenager,
But got busy with life. Every so often,
I'll send one off to be published.
A friend of mine published hers in this journal,
So I also sent mine in. Was happy they accepted.

You can start writing poetry by taking a paragraph
Of your writing and formatting it
So that it looks like a poem.
A lot of poets do that.
Really.
You'd be surprised what's out there.
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I will try it. Don't expect miracles.

Geez, writing critically about books is hard work. Requires a lot of thinking. Would hurt my brain, at this point.

I am glad I don't have to write a dissertation. Writing appellate briefs is much easier, and totally feels like giving birth to a baby without anesthesia by the end. Now that I'm thinking about dissertations, I am probably exaggerating about the briefs.
 
Kaila said:
WHile reading your post, it got to the end of a line, with anti-

And I expected that sentence to continue with:
...I got my anti-depressants dose increased.
:LOL:
That might have been a sensible course of action.:ROFLMAO:



Perhaps Think carefully, on which you need more;
those type of biscuits/gravy/etc, or your daughter. :giggle::D:):love:
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No anti-depressants ... I NEED the bacon gravy and biscuits.

I'll sneak the right biscuits onto the grocery order. My daughter either has them delivered or picks them up after ordering on an app. Sometimes she removes things I put there because she thinks I ordered too much stuff and we'll have no place to put it, or she thinks they are not healthy enough for me. That's why I can sometimes get away with sneaking things on at the end, right before she hits the order button. By then, she's usually in to big of a hurry to look. Sometimes she forgets about health and orders several large bags of Halloween candy. Last time, she bought 2 bags of candy I don't like (Reese's pb cups and something with caramel in it), and one bag of Butterfingers. I love Butterfingers! She is killing me gently with her buyl.
 
WheatenLover said:
I got tennis elbow from participating in a snowball fight. I was determined to hit my husband and was kind of far away, so I threw the snowball extra hard. It was extremely painful. I can't remember what I did for it, after being in so much pain for a couple of weeks. Maybe I went to the doctor and saw a physical therapist... that's what usually happens when I injure myself.

I hope your tennis elbow gets much better very soon.
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Thanks WL...it's pretty much agony. I was using ice on it for the first week or so, and then that stopped easing it, so I switched to heat.. which is what I'm still using when it 's so painful I scream out loud..and I've been following some simple exercises from youtube... I may have to see a Physio for it, because this has gone on now for about 4 weeks...and not really getting better..
I did it after lifting dumbbells..only1kg weights, and I only used them for about 2 mins but I made an awkward move and this was the result... 😖
 
hollydolly said:
Thanks WL...it's pretty much agony. I was using ice on it for the first week or so, and then that stopped easing it, so I switched to heat.. which is what I'm still using when it 's so painful I scream out loud..and I've been following some simple exercises from youtube... I may have to see a Physio for it, because this has gone on now for about 4 weeks...and not really getting better..
I did it after lifting dumbbells..only1kg weights, and I only used them for about 2 mins but I made an awkward move and this was the result... 😖
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This is awful. You need medical attention. I know I had to have gotten help because the only thing I remember is the agony ... nothing after that. I knew it wasn't going away on its own. Seems strange that I don't remember anything except the agony, doesn't it?
 
So far ,, hubby & I are watching it rain,,wondering about what the day holds for us.
Know I'll do my normal morning routine,, think about what to fed us today.

The good news is that hubby's heart stress test,, showed that his heart is fine.
Doctor said he is borderline diabetic.

This man has grown up on the old farmer's diet of meat , potatoes, desserts.
I don't think his mother put a lot of vegetables on the table.
 
Tom 86 said:
I'm going back to W Mart to see if they got in any of the missing items on shelves last time I was there.

What's interesting is they don't have it on shelves in the store, but I can order it online & have it in 2 days???
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It could be a stocking problem at the store, they don’t have enough people to keep the shelves full.
 
Sliverfox said:
So far ,, hubby & I are watching it rain,,wondering about what the day holds for us.
Know I'll do my normal morning routine,, think about what to fed us today.

The good news is that hubby's heart stress test,, showed that his heart is fine.
Doctor said he is borderline diabetic.

This man has grown up on the old farmer's diet of meat , potatoes, desserts.
I don't think his mother put a lot of vegetables on the table.
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Is being borderline diabetic like being borderline pregnant? 😉
 

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