Re: Re: shinies and sickies  was: camping   
     By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Sat Jun 27 2015 19:09:18   
      
    NB> Shinies weren't so important to me, but books used to get me   
    NB> off-track... some days more easily than others... now, it's more that my   
    NB> mind might start to wander, and things just don't quite get done... And   
    NB> then there's all the interruptions in my own plans for things that need   
    NB> doing for other people..   :)   
      
     I stopped having books be quite such a shiny for me right when I started   
   college.  Up until then I'd lose myself in volumes for days, sometimes weeks,   
   depending on the size and the content of what it was that I'd sunk my nose   
   into.   
     Other shinies used to be pretty big for me, but they've faded primarily   
   during the poverty years.  It's funny how much you can just cease to   
   contemplate as options become bereft for such a long time.   
     I'm trying to re-cultivate my reading habit, but it's taking time.  Part of   
   it is, I believe, that my bio-mom wants me to read her manuscript and tell her   
   what I think of it.  I've only known her for a few years and I'm flat out   
   horrified that it's going to suck and I don't want to lie to her about it.    
   Guess I should just sack up and do what I need to anyway.   
      
    DAG>> Keeping my fingers crossed for aikido this week, though.  It'd be   
    NB> And if you can do it together, so much the better for both of you, on   
    NB> various levels... :)   
      
     Absolutely.  Unfortunately, finances were gobbled due to a bank error (one   
   that was not my own), and I have no aikido fund, nor even the prospect of a   
   next paper check in the near future, as the same individual who made the   
   banking mishap with my paycheck also got behind on invoicing the contractor.    
   I'll hold my tongue about that little debaucle for a little while, though.    
   Needless to say I'm not pleased about it, but there's also nothing I can do,   
   and it is a temporary situation.  Afterwards I will be loaded with the cash   
   that I was prevented from spending frivolously, so it could be a good thing in   
   disguise, I suppose, in a very Loki-inspired kind of way.   
      
    DAG>> possible. When I've got the next paycheck in I should be able to   
    DAG>> make up for things a little bit, hopefully.   
    NB> Sometimes we just can't get everything we'd like to... and it's not a   
    NB> bad lesson to learn when young...  :)   
      
     You have hit that nail right on the head, I believe.  Hell, the fiscal diet   
   that we've been on, despite the fact that I'm pulling in more money than I ever   
   have, except for some stretches in the military, perhaps, has given me a nice   
   little reminder of this fact, as well as the buddhist tenet that nothing is   
   permanent, and to hold onto something is to open yourself up for suffering.   
      
    NB> Understand that... totally..  :)  Hopefully everyone is fully recovered   
    NB> by now...?   
      
     We're all doing good....  Physically.  There's been a little bit of mental   
   malaise going on in the house, but it [thankfully] hasn't struck me, and I   
   think its victim is slowly getting back on the horse, so it's all good.  Losing   
   a whopping load of somebody else's money that you had slated to pay back will   
   do that to a person, I suppose.  Especially if other life areas are imploding   
   due to poor planning and execution at the same time.   
      
     More later!  I'm on a small roll here already today!   
      
     -D   
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