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The Circle

Alpaca

Alpaca

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Come on in! Take a seat. Let us know how your day went. Group therapy style.
We only offer internet cookies, so you'll have to provide snacks for yourself.

I'll start.

Another long night at work was made interesting by the random appearance of a girl that I had crushed on a while bad. Coincidentally, this is the same girl that upon meeting, was enough to convince this aspie to get his happy arse back in school. I realized that just working at walmart wasn't helping my compatibility probabilities with the ladies that I'm attracted to.
I met her at a restaurant that I frequented. We had initially hit it off on the subject of distance running, as we both partake. The problem was that my 'game' lacks in just about every department, with exception given to 'being a sweetheart.' But I digress.
Out of nowhere, this young lady appears and, as usual, is her charming self and I, as usual, advise against buying Angel soft toilet paper because it's owned by the Koch brothers and they're fascists.
It wasn't that bad, but whenever an unexpected person falls into my life, I tend to bobble the catch and end up wishing I had done or said more.
At least it's my Friday. :sadM:
 
An unusually fabulous day. I am actually on vacation, visiting my folks along with my sister and her two girls. We are in Maine, which has a wonderful landscape of mountians covered with pine trees and rocky shores. Today we went to visit a lighthouse and then to a rocky beach, where the girls (ages 6 and 9) played in the tidal pools. I collected rocks to take home for my garden. I only wish my partner could have come on this trip.
 
*eats a cookie*

Weird day. So this morning, a person with terrible English tried to deliver a package to me. He called my apartment but I did not understand a thing he said so I just told him to leave the package in the lobby since I was in the middle of cooking something. It seems that the package was somehow mis-delivered and he was trying to get the package back to me. When I came home today, I found a broken into empty cardboard box wrapped in tape.

I finally figured out who that person was - he was a neighbor on the same street who mistakenly received my package. He tried to give me the package but I think he was frustrated that I could not understand his English and that I could not come downstairs to pick it up from him. So he tore up the package and placed tape all over it to get back at me. All in all, it was a ridiculous situation full of misunderstandings.

Oh well...so much for ordering pencils from Amazon...
 
nibbles on a cookie...

Well my day started off ok. Then I got stuck working behind the service desk at work and had some lady call me stupid because I didn't understand this whole thing with how something in the till balances to give her the correct amount anyway. My supervisor who tends to be nice took care of her and then turned to me and when I asked him to explain to me why I was wrong he just shook his head and told me that I would never get it and walked away. Long story short I ended up crying at work for the second day in a row (which is very unusual for me). But after that my day ended well. I got to go home and get one here and I am getting ideas for photoshoots for my dolls for Easter which I want to do tomorrow since I don't work.
 
An unusually fabulous day. I am actually on vacation, visiting my folks along with my sister and her two girls. We are in Maine, which has a wonderful landscape of mountians covered with pine trees and rocky shores. Today we went to visit a lighthouse and then to a rocky beach, where the girls (ages 6 and 9) played in the tidal pools. I collected rocks to take home for my garden. I only wish my partner could have come on this trip.
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I love the ocean. I used to live an hour away from the Oregon coast and there's rarely a day that I don't miss it. I've never been to Maine tho, I hear it's nice. Plus, Hawkeye's from Maine. (yes that was a MASH reference;))


Anyways, Today I was at a party (Night workers party in the morning). I don't mind them if I know a majority of the guests. Plus, I usually get to Dj because I've pretty much got the sickest playlist around. It's preferred because it gives me an excuse to not carouse.
After a few games of beer pong, a certain female of questionable standards (pc enough?) started her usual "I'm a drunk female with questionable standards" bit which then got most of the party's male population, minus me and several married guys, to start a totally awkward and embarrassing competition over who got to take her home.
Hero's rose, losers fell, crushed by the defeat. All together it was pathetic. I still don't know who took her home, but it sure as heck makes me feel better about my current romantic struggles.

Morale- At least I'm not that douchey.
 
Worked with advanced Excel, VLOOKUPS, SUMIF, and Arrays today. I love complex math. Good day for this little humble CPA.
 
Oh.. this is about "what we did today?"

I felt like crap cause I have either a very bad cold or a very bad allergic reaction to something. Sneezing makes me feel like my veins are expanding and it hurts all over my body. I went outside and it wasn't that bad, so it must be something IN my room.

That might coincide with the fact that I'm working on a prop for an illustration I'm working on. Sanding stuff in my bedroom is not the smartest thing, but I don't really have a workshop either :(

So today, I worked mainly on that; did the final touches before I went outside to spraypaint it with the 1st and 2nd layer. Painted up some toysoldiers while that was waiting, watched a movie in between.

But that in general was my day. Working on a prop... like some many others where I'm either doing that, writing, working on music or working on illustrations on my computer. And recently painting up miniatures for a tabletop game I got back into. Though I painted enough miniatures for a while now, I'm happy to take the paints of my desk for the moment and plan forward about illustrations and characters.

Oh right; I took a short 2 hour nap in between, which weirdly enough was good since I didn't wake up cause of the sneezing. Later in the night I took a shower and the sneezing kinda went away... maybe I had dust in my beard or hair, lol
 
Well today was actually a really good day for me aside from getting a headache which I can't tell if its turning into migraine or not yet we shall see. I took some pictures of one of my dolls. I didn't have to work today so I tried not to worry about work. Listened to American Idiot most of the mid/late afternoon.:cute:
 
Today so far has been pretty relaxed, it's the school holidays so my daughter's at home meaning less time to do stuff I want. I'm just glad she's calmed down after Tuesday where I was about ready to rip my hair out. She had a sleepover on Sunday and also stayed at her friends most of Monday for a party. I knew she'd be wiped out after socialising so much...but the fallout was bad! Tuesday she was in a foul mood and basically blamed me for everything (we were out shopping and they didn't have the drinks she wanted..my fault, they didn't have the shiny shoes she wanted...my fault, she tripped on some pavement...my fault).

She was even worse when we got home she was so horrible I just wanted to scream and leave but the only thing that kept me sane was the fact I knew it was all because of Sun/Mon, she was just letting off steam. I think the low point was when she said when it was her birthday party and she blew the candles out she would wish I wasn't around anymore....so then I said well that's fine because your not having a party now and then we just argued until I told her straight that it was me organizing and paying for her party so she'd better shut up and stop being so nasty or she would be getting nothing. She tried arguing back but then my husband told her that it was me paying for most of it so it was up to me if the party went ahead. At that point she reeled off a mouthful of abuse and stormed off to her room, cried and then came back out and apologised and explained that she was just so 'full of bad' that she exploded. We talked further and she explained in her own way that it was because of the weekend, that she couldn't be herself and it had made her very tired and angry...all of which I knew but I was just so pleased that she understood all of that herself, that she knew why she had had such a meltdown.

She's been great every since so yesterday and so far today has been great.
 
Nothing happened :) I don't remember :D that's what my older son and I usually reply to the "what happened today" question :) just kidding... But it does happen very often :)
 
Well today was good. I went to work and for once this week nothing bad happened. No meltdowns, no getting upset or frustrated. Everything went the way it was supposed to. My only concern is that I still haven't heard from an ex-friend in regards to a little letter I gave her last week about my having AS, and why I want to try again with being friends with her in which I also attached a three page info on how to relate to someone who has AS. Since I didn't tell her three years ago since I only officially found out I had AS 2.5yrs ago, but never told anyone. So...after a nice little falling out I gave her this letter after a few months of letting her cool off. But other than that my day was fine..I'm just being a worry wort since I work with her too (she's not been very nice since the fall out).
 
I spoke too soon yesterday, my husband decided just after lunch that we should do our fortnightly shopping because we were low on supplies and the shops will be crazy from today through till Wednesday. I wasn't too pleased about it, if we are going shopping I like to do it first thing, anyway the real problem was our daughter, we had planned to just play all day and so she 'kicked off' she sat groaning and repeatedly saying she didn't want to go shopping for about an hour. Even on the drive there she was making her angry noise (a weird grunty groan sound), she completely changed when she saw they had her monster high magazine in store (her obsession) and walked around really happy after that reading it as we shopped.

Then we had a mini meltdown because my mum phoned up when we got home and the conversation got around to my daughter's next hospital appointment, she was making her angry noise in the background because I was talking about sedation and needles etc and then she just got up and ran to her bedroom. When I got off the phone and went and checked on her she was laying face down on her bed, wouldn't speak but I already knew it was me talking about hospital stuff that had set her off, 10 minutes later she was crying/moaning and calling for her dad.

So far today she's cried and thrown a hissy fit because one of her favourite websites has changed, she's currently playing tag with her her dad but is getting annoyed because apparently he's cheating by actually catching her...I predict a mood in about 2 minutes time.

All I have planned for today is making some peanut butter cupcakes with chocolate frosting and maybe some hazelnut and chocolate cookies, I'm really loving baking :)
 
Because I work at night, my days are weird. It is possible to Go to an event, go to sleep, wake-up and work 8 hrs in one day. As for my day, it started off with a trip to the shooting range with a couple of associates. We did some distance shooting with a .270 and a 45-70 Gov't. Afterwards we played Marksman's Horse (Like Horse but with guns and targets).
Work was crazy busy and super stressful. I had way too much stuff to complete and no help, so I didn't get out until 20mins after my shift ended. Now I plan on being lazy and sleeping in a few.

<<<This dude is tired.
 
i quit my job yesterday, because if you call and say you're sick they give you hell, even though i've been working there since august and only called to cancel a shift once because i had to take my cat to the vet and it was an emergency. i thought they'll fire me then but my cat comes first and i didnt get fired. so on sunday i'm calling menpower agency and see what they have.
i feel anxious because they usually give jobs when you interact with people over the phone and i hate it. i also dont like my routine disrupted.
my stomach hurts all the time.
i really should go get cancer checkups but they're rather painful, which i know from personal experience. i should work on my pain tolerance. it's not just that, but you have to wait in the clinic for hours and it's so crowded. and i feel anxious days before the appointment.
i'm almost out of money.
i have to go to my parents' house soon for dinner, because i promised, and i really dont want to go.
there's too much noise in my nieghborhood.
all in all, not too great.
 
So, today...

I didn't sneeze as much as the last few days, so hopefully, that's almost gone.

I went to bed early last night, just to take short nap, but I slept for a full 8 hours or so. I woke up at 8 in the morning, watched the latest Big bang Theory episode and after that... I was kinda like "oh man... I feel like crap". So I went to bed again, only to have an intense hour of dreaming but waking up quite rested after it.

Watched a movie in the afternoon and just now I finally got myself together and mail some social work company in the city inquiring if they can offer me advice which route to take to file for disability benefits.
 
My day was relatively mundane considering. I talked on AC for bit which was of course fun. Went to work. Which for two days before Easter the Grocery store was not as hellish as I thought it would be. Plus one of the girls that I am friends with at work that knows about my AS was there so she was really helpful in keeping things relatively calm. I'm still waiting for my friend to send me her copy of the Game of Thrones so I can start to read it. We shall see what tomorrow holds...yikes.:cute:
 
Arashi222 said:
My day was relatively mundane considering. I talked on AC for bit which was of course fun. Went to work. Which for two days before Easter the Grocery store was not as hellish as I thought it would be. Plus one of the girls that I am friends with at work that knows about my AS was there so she was really helpful in keeping things relatively calm. I'm still waiting for my friend to send me her copy of the Game of Thrones so I can start to read it. We shall see what tomorrow holds...yikes.:cute:
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I work at walmart, so I see the chaos. Last night there was SOOOOO many people there. Plus I was swamped with freight to throw. I was actually getting frazzled, which hasn't happened since I was a food service manager. I think the physical activity really helps with a lot of the symptoms. Plus, the work is psychologically pleasing to me because I can see what I've accomplished.

Highlight of the night was the random, elderly lady, who smiled at me and asked if "anybody had wished me a happy Easter yet." That, plus the loudly-colored neon green and pink socks she was wearing, reminded me of how awesome people can be at times.
 
I was full of fear today, paranoid my dad was going to randomly turn up on our doorstep again like he did 3 years ago. It's nearly 4pm now so I think I can relax now, it' s a 3 hour drive from his house to here so if he was coming he'd be here already.

So far today I've made some heart, fairy, butterfly and bat shaped cookies, iced them covered them in sprinkles and then I decided to make 3 different types of cupcakes. I made peanut butter cakes, peanut butter and chocolate chip cakes and nutella cupcakes with chocolate chips (I covered a few of those in buttercream icing, marshmallows and chocolate chips..oh and sprinkles, lots of sprinkles).

I had a bit of a 'moment'(i.e screaming, crying hitting things) when I realised that the fondant icing I'd made and was hoping to cut some shapes out to put on the cakes had gone a bit wrong, it took me an hour to make (as I'd made 4 different colours inbetween playing with my daughter) and..well long story short I now have a plateful of fondant animals and people (badly made ones) and nothing to do with them.

I want to make more stuff but haven't got enough people to eat it all, I'll have to wait until school again and I can send the little one in with a pile of cookies and cakes to give out.
 
Alpaca said:
I work at walmart, so I see the chaos. Last night there was SOOOOO many people there. Plus I was swamped with freight to throw. I was actually getting frazzled, which hasn't happened since I was a food service manager. I think the physical activity really helps with a lot of the symptoms. Plus, the work is psychologically pleasing to me because I can see what I've accomplished.

Highlight of the night was the random, elderly lady, who smiled at me and asked if "anybody had wished me a happy Easter yet." That, plus the loudly-colored neon green and pink socks she was wearing, reminded me of how awesome people can be at times.
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First of all the elderly lady were talking about that was awesome. Yah can completely understand. I am usually good at my Customer Service stuff. Last night when I was at work it was actually not bad for a grocery store the day before Easter for us. I made a lady's night by calling three other stores to find her bread and she got so excited she hugged me. Now I get very agitated when people touch me that I don't know but of course the customer didn't know that so I started to do deep breathing until she let me go. Though I have a creepy guy that comes in and stalks me at work which is really creepy after he phsycally hurt me and they won't get ride of him. So that sucked about yesterday.

Today though was so nice. I made food for my family while mostly hiding in my grandparents computer room all afternoon.Its hard when one doesn't get frazzled very often at work because when it does happen I think its harder to keep going.

Nibble nibble internet cookies and soy milk.:cute:
 
Hey group. My names Dolby :lol:

Day off work so I changed my fuel filter on my truck, oiled my fishing reels, and watched about 3 hours of professional fishing. And now Im contemplating why my life is so uneventful haha
 
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