Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Hard Things

Life is full of things which are hard or tedious or otherwise unpleasant that need doing anyhow. They help make the world go 'round, they improve skills, and they boost your sense of self-respect. But doing them still kinda sucks. It's all the more difficult to do those things when nobody appreciates it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our accomplishments and pat each other on the back.

What are some of the hard things you've done recently?
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  • 10 comments
janetmiles

janetmiles

July 15 2015, 18:57:28 UTC 5 years ago

I caught up on a lot of filing. I need to work up the courage to approach my manager about a ball I dropped, though.
ysabetwordsmith

Good luck!

ysabetwordsmith

July 15 2015, 19:15:55 UTC 5 years ago

I hope it turns out well.
siliconshaman

siliconshaman

July 15 2015, 22:21:08 UTC 5 years ago

The weather we've had so far, getting out of bed is hard enough. It's rather hot here.

Serious answer though, I've been keeping up my daily average of 1500 words writing the current story. This is not easy given my brain is trying to turn into tofu and leak out my ears.
ysabetwordsmith

Thoughts

ysabetwordsmith

July 15 2015, 23:11:29 UTC 5 years ago

Hot weather sucks. Yay story, though!
rhodielady_47

rhodielady_47

July 16 2015, 03:14:31 UTC 5 years ago

I'm currently making a hard push to use up the last of my stockpile of raked leaves (in trashbags). It's really smelly, nasty hard work. A few days ago, I moved somewhere around 600 pounds of these leaf bags and I moved another 600 pounds this evening just before full dark. I think I'll be able to finish off the stockpile tomorrow--providing it doesn't get too hot too early in the day.
:^)
ysabetwordsmith

Wow!

ysabetwordsmith

July 16 2015, 03:18:18 UTC 5 years ago

That's a lot. It took me a couple weeks just to replace the frigging barrel garden. 0_o
rhodielady_47

Re: Wow!

rhodielady_47

July 16 2015, 17:31:26 UTC 5 years ago

Everything about my yard seems to wind up being "large-sized". People go goggle-eyed when I tell them that I generally try to bring home at least TEN pickup truck loads of leaf bags each fall. But that's what it takes to get all the flowerbeds deep-mulched for the winter and then have some leaves in reserve for summer mulching too.
This latest flowerbed just doesn't look that big until you start trying to mulch it. I think I lost my welcome at the local Dollar Store because I got so much of their free cardboard for use in mulching.
Forget using newspaper--the weeds I have aren't stopped by anything but cardboard with a thick layer of leaves on top of it. Once I've used the leaves up, I have a stockpile of wood shreds that I'm going to put on top of the leaves so it will look nice.
:^)
technoshaman

technoshaman

July 16 2015, 04:49:31 UTC 5 years ago

Wrote my first eulogy for someone who shared my household. Yes, he was a four-foot, and I wasn't his, but being something of an empath, it doesn't get much easier. Funny, I wasn't asked, but I knew I had to do it, just the same. I would not be me if I didn't.

Also, physical therapy. It will be a long road back from the crash, but at least this road is a happy one; I'm already making serious progress. *Wiggles fingers*

ng_moonmoth

ng_moonmoth

July 20 2015, 17:14:41 UTC 5 years ago

Sharing your pain right now. We spent yesterday preparing ourselves to take our cat on his Last Visit To The Vet today. A couple months short of his 21st birthday. He'd been gradually failing, but still able to get around slowly until Saturday night, when his hindquarters stopped working well enough for him to stand up.

He knows he's broken, he wants to not be broken any more, but we've told him nobody here can fix him. Still, he's afraid to face the dark alone, and he seems to understand we can't go with him. So he doesn't want to leave.

We've kept him by our sides since he collapsed. Not yet as comfortable as we need to be with helping him on his way.
clockworklady

clockworklady

July 16 2015, 05:49:42 UTC 5 years ago

I decided to send a bag of penis-shaped sweets to a company that treated me like trash during an interview. It's harmless, I get my laugh and they probably get theirs. The anonymous service is dicksbymail.com.