tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post5573206865604365450..comments2024-01-01T20:33:52.554-08:00Comments on a moon, worn as if it had been a shell: One Thing at a Time, Over Twenty Years Worth of DaysElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-88006429704573655572014-12-20T05:55:03.504-08:002014-12-20T05:55:03.504-08:00Just a year or so ago, I had to start working for ...Just a year or so ago, I had to start working for Maybelle's care in a variety of assertive ways. Good cop? Bad cop? Sweetie with a hard spine? What's the saying, hard fist with a velvet glove?<br /><br />I'm lucky enough to have found (and/or am passionate friends with) advocates. Attorneys. Fighters. Let's hope I can keep them.<br /><br />Exhausting. Furiousness-inducing. Motherfuckers.<br />Alison Piepmeierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972854288403934814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-36845330375393399722014-12-17T11:36:55.842-08:002014-12-17T11:36:55.842-08:00I wonder how much the people who work in those beh...I wonder how much the people who work in those behemoth bureaucracies feel akin to you? Bubba recently quit his very lucrative job with a ginormous corporation because the endless paperwork and labyrinthine rules to follow actually made him want to set his hair on fire every night when he got home. He never felt productive or proactive, so he decided it wasn't worth it. I spoke to someone else last night who made the same choice with regard to another corporation. Nice that they have the choice when you don't, but it is interesting to me that these systems rarely work for anyone except perhaps the folks raking in the money at the top who design the counterproductive systems and never have to use them. Ugh. kariohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10150537989886423212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-85139816080092738392014-12-17T08:07:10.520-08:002014-12-17T08:07:10.520-08:00Yes, I have to recover too and the only way I can ...Yes, I have to recover too and the only way I can get it done is by pacing myself. It is also healing for me to know I am not alone in feeling like this...<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-87486555123536233192014-12-17T05:48:01.935-08:002014-12-17T05:48:01.935-08:00Thank you for both the giggle and the I-get-it. No...Thank you for both the giggle and the I-get-it. Not enough can be made of the recovery periods.Carrie Wilson Linkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01586157395539583862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-4781324951091375882014-12-17T05:22:41.630-08:002014-12-17T05:22:41.630-08:00I'm just going to focus on the last paragraph ...I'm just going to focus on the last paragraph and laugh. Oh, and wish you more of that sort of sit u a tion instead of the one(s) you are faced with daily.<br /><br />Best,<br />BonnieFrom the Kitchenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00789641912016566894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-77432964176795097082014-12-17T03:21:30.278-08:002014-12-17T03:21:30.278-08:00Well, those powers that be are just a bunch of dil...Well, those powers that be are just a bunch of dildos anyways. ;)Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13070297384173508509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-8268313282521696762014-12-17T02:51:52.758-08:002014-12-17T02:51:52.758-08:00Ha! Well at least you have Oliver for some comedy ...Ha! Well at least you have Oliver for some comedy relief, as unfunny as it may occasionally appear.<br /><br />When I was a kid my mom had an office party at which her colleagues all gave each other gag gifts, including an egg vibrator. My brother and I thought the egg vibrator was the funniest thing we'd ever seen. We talked about it for years. We STILL talk about it.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-69009409443771955662014-12-16T23:20:46.343-08:002014-12-16T23:20:46.343-08:00I hope your situation (pronounced the French way) ...I hope your situation (pronounced the French way) is soon resolved and that the next one and the next one will be eased too. Love that Oliver!37paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400464105403622384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-6863482653803010932014-12-16T22:32:34.167-08:002014-12-16T22:32:34.167-08:00This is helpful to everyone I suspect but especial...This is helpful to everyone I suspect but especially to people dealing with overwhelming, constant red tape crap in the midst of care taking roles that don't let up. It is actually unbelievable to me that when I was helping a friend who had cancer the paperwork they had her fill out got harder and more cumbersome the sicker she got - and she lived alone. It was ridiculous to witness. I feel for you and think you have to approach these things as you can to keep your sanity. I'm sorry it never lets up. Sweet JoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-52319580092848904542014-12-16T20:24:14.313-08:002014-12-16T20:24:14.313-08:00Oh if only our children knew what we know, they...Oh if only our children knew what we know, they'd burst into flames.Denise Emanuel Clemenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10982725113569943337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-55669388995670984362014-12-16T17:52:58.849-08:002014-12-16T17:52:58.849-08:00You are such a great writer...You are such a great writer...Maria Naccaratohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00372000000567504604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-33108265937260140062014-12-16T17:32:48.797-08:002014-12-16T17:32:48.797-08:00I had to look up onanism. You should give him a l...I had to look up onanism. You should give him a lecture on it anyway.<br /><br />And forms and bureaucracy, fucking hate them!My life so farhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16721270441968035994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-83591758775990337392014-12-16T15:57:50.345-08:002014-12-16T15:57:50.345-08:00I can so totally relate to the doing something one...I can so totally relate to the doing something one day and needing a month to recoup. ERGH.<br />Lisa Lilienthalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03152500885897993371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-41231257257067070972014-12-16T15:44:08.206-08:002014-12-16T15:44:08.206-08:00Right there with you - taking it one day at a time...Right there with you - taking it one day at a time around here. Crisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-52946998590390832572014-12-16T14:26:13.071-08:002014-12-16T14:26:13.071-08:00I cannot even begin to tell you how healing and he...I cannot even begin to tell you how healing and helpful this post was is and will be again when I next read.<br />xoRadish Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534752971317927559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-23895977427697480212014-12-16T14:11:02.968-08:002014-12-16T14:11:02.968-08:00"I hope someone out there finds this helpful&..."I hope someone out there finds this helpful"<br /><br />Yup. Just the fact that I realized I am not alone in my way of dealing with 'the system' makes it somehow better. But you knew that. (o;<br />Jacquelinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-74692890535285344402014-12-16T13:54:17.721-08:002014-12-16T13:54:17.721-08:00All about balance, eh? And pacing yourself.
Oh, O...All about balance, eh? And pacing yourself. <br />Oh, Oliver. Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.com