Comments on: Moody Blues

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:48:40 +0000

EP, it's very annoying, I agree. Question: Did you feel it in your gut that he was going to be trouble? If so, trust your gut next time. Intuition is a powerful safety device.

By: EP

EP — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 17:58:07 +0000

I learned (again) that if a customer comes at you as if he might be one of those customers who is going to try to correct work you have done as if he didn't need you to translate it in the first place, he is - and he will. Very annoying and not worth dealing with.

Yes, I'm in a bad mood too.

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:31:06 +0000

Funny you should say reverse-anorexic since she has an eating disorder, too.

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 19:22:50 +0000

PS– Very glad to see you here, Colin. 🙂

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 19:22:31 +0000

Paula, it's about surrender -- surrender the fact that your friend sees herself in reverse-anorexic fashion. She harms no one and makes herself feel great. :)

Colin, I've been loving these guys for years. I've seen two of their shows and am about to see a third. LOVE Frightened Rabbit! Would love to see We Were Promised Jetpacks, too. Great stuff coming out of the UK, per usual. :)

By: Colin Galbraith

Colin Galbraith — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 19:10:26 +0000

Lori - I am blown away and SO impressed that Frightened Rabbit have made it over the Atlantic and that you have them on your iPod - simply awesome!!

Col

Ps. Yup, I still read your blog but am a somewhat a lurker these days...

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 17:44:24 +0000

Maybe my lesson for the week is not to overstress about sticky situations because somehow they manage to work themselves out whether I fret about them or not. Why waste the energy?

Another lesson I learned: It's okay to let your friends enjoy their harmless delusions. When a friend obsessed with looking younger/thinner/blonder than her naturally blond and naturally skinny younger sister insisted she looks 10 years younger than her sister, I couldn't lie and agree, but didn't want to burst her bubble. So I said, "Wow. Your sister must have aged a lot since I've seen her."

I also learned that learning how to play the system can reap rewards. I protested my sky-high property taxes year after year, and at most the review board knocked off a couple hundred dollars off the assessed value. When writing a low-paying article about how to protest property taxes, I gleaned some great tips. I used them all with this year's protest. The board of review's decision arrived yesterday: they agreed 100% with my protest, and my property taxes should go down considerably next year.

When I accepted that assignment I was hoping I'd learn enough to finally win a protest. It's important to think about those intangibles before rejecting lower paying work. That 20-cents/word article will save me hundreds of dollars a year as long as I own this house.

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:39:19 +0000

Cathy, that's great advice. Thank you. In this case, I've released this particular person in the past, but opened that door again. I think distance is the best remedy…and I'm about to distance myself quite a bit.

By: Cathy Miller

Cathy Miller — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:27:43 +0000

One of the things I love the most about getting older (yes, there are benefits ;-)) is how much easier it is for me to remove people from my orbit.

I know I have said this ad nauseum, but my benchmark for most of my actions is the question, Is it (or the person) worth the energy?

If it (or they) are not - release the negative energy and move on. That's my lesson for the week and hopefully the rest of my life. ;-)

Virtual hugs, Lori.