Tuesday, February 25
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
The beautiful warm weather.
That today was fairly uncomplicated in terms of things to do.
That said, I got very frustrated at people being "needy" today.
I looked into the "Low Income Support" place in Trainwreck's town, and it is apparently closed due to the person who was running it having health problems. So, this is one of the pitfalls of not really running things as an organization but as a personal one person show.
Through it's Facebook page, I did find another group that provides free tax returns for low income people as well as employment help. My sister probably needs the free tax return, and my nephew's adult kids that are living at home with no jobs could maybe use the employment services.
I texted Trainwreck the information, and instantly she starts phoning me, since it is a dead giveaway that I am awake and MUST have time to talk.
This kind of drives me nuts, because I gave her my full attention and talked with her yesterday. I do NOT want to have calls every day. So, I ignored her.
The other "needy" person is a complete stranger on Marketplace. I listed some broken dishes for free for anyone who might use them for crafts. This fellow said he was interested, and yet he lives over an hour away on the farthest side of the city. When I explained where we were, he said he would still be happy to come get them.
Yeah, right. I already know where this is going. I will waste my time and energy trying to meet him, only to discover that he can't make it for some reason, or is late, but could I wait for him, or something else.
So, my Sweetie is willing to take the dishes and just meet with this guy in the city. When I texted this, the guy is like "but then I wouldn't get to meet with you". Yuck.
So he wants to have coffee or something with my husband and I, and this is nuts.
Now I'm tempted to just block him. What I will likely do is just let my husband meet him, and block him immediately afterwards.
I wonder if he even has any intention of doing crafts with these dishes, or if he just responds to any ad for things that are free for the excuse of meeting up with people.
Anyhow, a DIFFERENT person also expressed interest in the dishes, even though she was supposed to be trying to meet with me some time in the last few weeks and then didn't respond to my text. I thought she wasn't interested any more, but today she was all like "I am SO INTERESTED in these". Sigh.
This is what I hate about trying to get rid of things responsibly. It's often messy. I could have just thrown those dishes away, but they are all very pretty patterns and I thought someone might appreciate them for doing mosaics.
Anyhow, then I did chores, briefly saw my husband, and went to the barn.
We worked on one of the patterns that might be in the upcoming YELO virtual show, and whew! it's a tough one.
It shouldn't have been that bad, but it requires having River do circles around pylons, and of course lately River has been really drifting in his circles in one direction lately, so not making nice, neat circles around the pylons for a pattern.
This, in spite of all the work we've been doing on hip yields and draws. He CAN do a nice, small circle after a lot of effort, but not really without all that effort first. So after ten minutes of work, we can get some smaller circles, but it's not consistent for him.
I did my best not to be frustrated, and to accept that this is just something to work on, and spent some time after our work in the barn just being with him without pressure.
Then I came home, my Sweetie had supper mostly ready, and we watched a very old episode of "Neverwhere". Too bad Gaiman is such a jerk, it's kind of sad that so much of his work was so enjoyable, and now a bit tainted by his actions.
The beautiful warm weather.
That today was fairly uncomplicated in terms of things to do.
That said, I got very frustrated at people being "needy" today.
I looked into the "Low Income Support" place in Trainwreck's town, and it is apparently closed due to the person who was running it having health problems. So, this is one of the pitfalls of not really running things as an organization but as a personal one person show.
Through it's Facebook page, I did find another group that provides free tax returns for low income people as well as employment help. My sister probably needs the free tax return, and my nephew's adult kids that are living at home with no jobs could maybe use the employment services.
I texted Trainwreck the information, and instantly she starts phoning me, since it is a dead giveaway that I am awake and MUST have time to talk.
This kind of drives me nuts, because I gave her my full attention and talked with her yesterday. I do NOT want to have calls every day. So, I ignored her.
The other "needy" person is a complete stranger on Marketplace. I listed some broken dishes for free for anyone who might use them for crafts. This fellow said he was interested, and yet he lives over an hour away on the farthest side of the city. When I explained where we were, he said he would still be happy to come get them.
Yeah, right. I already know where this is going. I will waste my time and energy trying to meet him, only to discover that he can't make it for some reason, or is late, but could I wait for him, or something else.
So, my Sweetie is willing to take the dishes and just meet with this guy in the city. When I texted this, the guy is like "but then I wouldn't get to meet with you". Yuck.
So he wants to have coffee or something with my husband and I, and this is nuts.
Now I'm tempted to just block him. What I will likely do is just let my husband meet him, and block him immediately afterwards.
I wonder if he even has any intention of doing crafts with these dishes, or if he just responds to any ad for things that are free for the excuse of meeting up with people.
Anyhow, a DIFFERENT person also expressed interest in the dishes, even though she was supposed to be trying to meet with me some time in the last few weeks and then didn't respond to my text. I thought she wasn't interested any more, but today she was all like "I am SO INTERESTED in these". Sigh.
This is what I hate about trying to get rid of things responsibly. It's often messy. I could have just thrown those dishes away, but they are all very pretty patterns and I thought someone might appreciate them for doing mosaics.
Anyhow, then I did chores, briefly saw my husband, and went to the barn.
We worked on one of the patterns that might be in the upcoming YELO virtual show, and whew! it's a tough one.
It shouldn't have been that bad, but it requires having River do circles around pylons, and of course lately River has been really drifting in his circles in one direction lately, so not making nice, neat circles around the pylons for a pattern.
This, in spite of all the work we've been doing on hip yields and draws. He CAN do a nice, small circle after a lot of effort, but not really without all that effort first. So after ten minutes of work, we can get some smaller circles, but it's not consistent for him.
I did my best not to be frustrated, and to accept that this is just something to work on, and spent some time after our work in the barn just being with him without pressure.
Then I came home, my Sweetie had supper mostly ready, and we watched a very old episode of "Neverwhere". Too bad Gaiman is such a jerk, it's kind of sad that so much of his work was so enjoyable, and now a bit tainted by his actions.
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Date: 2025-02-28 08:03 am (UTC)Other times, it is straight up mind games, and it's awful.