79pounds's Journal

"Dear Customer

The paper in this book was made by hand in a small village in northern Vietnam

It has been making by traditions hand-made paper for over five centuries

The cloth cover of this book was hand-made by "Cham" people is women at "Phan rang" a province in the center of Vietnam

Finally this book was also finished off by hand-made at book binders in HO CHI MINH city

Sincerely yours"

got this at the craft and rummage church sale.  the outside is woven tapestry in shiny fibers, purple, light blue, green with black stripe in between.  just inside the cover it is hot pink, and then the pages look like doodle pad, recycled paper (except thinner) inside.  pretty cool.  

my whole body is achey so i guess it is going to rain.  that alone should push me to look westward, at least BEGIN my johnny appleseed trek and throw caution to the wind.  lol.  i am in the middle of baking a chocolate, chocolate chip cake and drinking an la cocktail.  lol.  its 9:30 a.m.  waiting to hear from my processor again to see if this loan can be slammed through and closed this afternoon.  talk about rushing.  i had to call paul on it to get it pushed, i hate doing that but it wasn't getting done.  so here we are.  it was nice and sunny this morning and already it is overcast.  i don't remember having weather like this long ago, maybe i slept through it.  

the new cat has pink eye from something and i put eye antibiotic on it yesterday.  its a little hissy to other animals but hangs by the spare room so so far its okay.  i swear, i think animals somehow KNOW this is a rescue house and they find a way to get by here, or they tell each other or something.  lol.  chl called last night needing help with two kittens.  she started out needing help with 17 and then it became 2.  she says she just says no to ones she isn't helping and it never occurred to her to forward them on to other rescue.  WHAT THE HELL?  i don't get her.  EVERYONE refers back and forth, they are always so far out of protocol it makes me wonder how long they have actually been doing this because many people have a habit of lying in general, so you can never tell.  and if they are bipolar, you can't tell at all because the bipolar mental disorder makes them so convincing.  bipolar people when manic or not on their medication, assume everyone is making things up and then get very thrown when they discover others are not making anything up.  i don't handle people like that well. 

the first time "as an adult" i had someone lie like that was a "teacher" who wasn't really a teacher, she was an instructor-aide (meaning didn't have the proper education NOR work experience) but when you are in school and a student yourself all teachers appear the same.  i was getting my first job with a lawyer and she claimed to have worked for this lawyer for a long time.  i actually asked her a few years or twenty years or what?  she says a little less than a few years.  i spent the next year assuming she had worked for the lawyer i was working for, for many years and when i ran it passed him, he just laughed.  they get used to it, because people overqualifying themselves is actually common.  i don't think i ever really comprehended that until recently.  it would come up and i would try to ignore it.  by now, it just sickens me because people like that create soooo much chaos by doing that.  you either have it or you don't and if you don't have it then say you don't have it.  the lawyer said the teacher-aide had worked for him for a FEW DAYS mostly doing cleaning and answering the phone.  it turns out she can't even type fast or properly.  this only came up because i was still working for that lawyer a year later and it freaked her out that i was still there.  i never understood WHY.  she even started calling me and him at the firm, and the lawyer had to call the school and complain to the dean that one of his "instructors" is harrassing our office.  by today's standards what she did is stalking and even back then it was harrassment.  i had a certificate for legal work and had taken the courses for it.  all of this went right over the head of the instructor-aide.  a total trouble maker.  better question is, if she was that unqualified why did they allow her to "teach" at the school at all.  she used to over-qualify herself all the time and was wrong in anything she'd advise because she had been a housewife for 20 years and never worked very much at all.  the school owner was highly qualified speed writer and her husband was a lawyer, and this teacher-aide would contradict anything they said and say that THEY are wrong and to do things this other way (and the "other way" was actually wrong).  moreover, its embarrassing to be the student and waaaay younger and actually be more qualified than the "teacher" (you get a real mixed bag of instructors at private school so you have to really watch that and private schools charge you a fortune to go to school there.  on the other hand, private schools fix and change things around quickly.  there isn't a lot of red tape, so its an easier go of it). 

this "teacher" was so ignorant that when i was going on a trip with my friend joann, she assumed she would be going too just because her name is joann too.  we thought she was kidding until she actually said this to us in front of people and my friend was like, she's not kidding.  she's either trying to weasel her way in, or she is mental.  my other friend from that school said the teacher was mental and had been living as a housewife, never leaving her own house, just watching soap operas all day sitting around doing NOTHING for 20 years and assuming the entire rest of the world does nothing as well.  and we were like, no miss, you are the only one doing nothing.  really weird.  i have a feeling this new rescue group is the same kind of crap.  they are overqualifying themselves and really don't know very much about rescue operations or protocol.  one person's view of a "long time" may be a week or a month or even a couple of days, not a decade or a few years.  communication mess ups are soooo annoying and it happens all the time.                 

anyway i have to use chl's rescue for back up for spay and neuter because they have an arrangement with a vet near where the woman adopted chompy.  if chompy lasts over there.  the problem is that i don't really trust them.  we'll see what happens.