stayed at richards//church sale//lattice fence is damaged//real time court reporting $75,000 per yr
never made it home yesterday. after feeding at br's colony, went to richard's mobile. needed it actually. nice salt water makes such a huge difference. then went to see one of the properties in the morning. its on 3/4 of an acre and surprisingly the house is totally redone "new" have to do the research on that. its near rn's house so i called her instead of k to let her know.
finally got home after that and it was warm but drizzly, a big surprise since it was supposed to be 75 and sunny today. slept for a couple of hours and then headed to the church sale. found a statue of father christmas of poland from 1909. kwl. some books and things like that. i haven't been to their sale in a while and i do plan to help them at some point. its amusing how they act. ann is always nice she is in charge, but the almost priest guy i think, thinks i should try to "make time" to help out. i hope i do.
discovered that another part of our lattice fence was taken OUT by the last storm - so that is two pieces of fence to fix. because of the holidays a lot of gossip whirling about. some of it old and i had basically forgotten. things always surface. sn sent me an "invisible" drawing of herself, just outlines of her face, but no flesh. she says just another hamster on a wheel. her exhusband and former boyfriend from highschool basically ruined her life, and now he is gone ten years and its like, he is gone. go to law school. this is complicated, so i'll write it in my prompts, but she got into cuny lawschool when their kids were toddlers and the deal was they would take out a larger mortgage on their handyman house to pay the tuition if she got in. when it came down to taking out the loan he refused.
SHE is a college grad and was always smart. he never went to college at ALL but has spent his entire "adult" life going on about how much the world sucks. he lives on an island for ten years now and does something with boating. he is gone. celebrate, reapply to cuny law or ANYWHERE, but cuny is known for taking older students, and do what you should have been doing all along civil liberties or immigration or whatever type of law interests her.
he was also POISONING her to keep her ill so she couldn't leave him and go to lawschool anyway. so many of those people from the northeast are nuts, but its all hush hush, cover up thing. one day i should write a book called "the town" and expose all the corruption going on both there and south florida that i know about, but combine the two.
the truth is corruption is everywhere. you sit back, and peel the onion and then wait for it to reek anytime there is someone new around, its never pure, there is always something. if the person is good then they will have bad people around them or bad health. if their health is good, then they will be thieves or something even more whacko. grrrrr. its another reason i prefer re-training people instead of firing whoever is here.
downloaded info on realtime court reporting. they are begging all former court reporters, i'm one of them, to return to the field to do closed- captioning for tv and news. i had heard about this a few years ago. now they have a grant to cross train for it. the starting pay is $75,000 so its tempting, but in court reporting that $75,000 will be pure work. its not a sit back kind of job on any level ever. a new cr machine will be a few thousand dollars and to cross train is $1500 minimum (they pay it). then to build back up AND change my style of writing to be real time clear. its totally different than what i know.
its funny, when i see real money again as a salary, my whole attitude changes. i'm nicer without the high pay and the stress. i'd be a mall rat again probably. lots of thinking to do. the rule used to be to not do reporting after age 40 because the high stress brings on heart attack. but real time you can do AT HOME the ad has a court reporter wearing her slippers as she works. not the same as being in trial in court or working for congress.
hope i remember to buy this. i love end of the world books and movies.
The Year of the flood by Margaret Atwood
Adam One, the kindly leader of the God’s Gardeners – a religion devoted to the melding of science, religion, and nature – has long predicted a disaster. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women remain: Ren, a young dancer locked away in a high-end sex club, and Toby, a former God’s Gardener, who barricades herself inside a luxurious spa. Have others survived? Ren’s bio-artist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers? Not to mention the CorpSeCorps, the shadowy policing force of the ruling powers… As Adam One and his beleaguered followers regroup, Ren and Toby emerge into an altered world, where nothing – including the animal life – is predictable.
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ds is playing games with the font. grrrrr.
Coffee is the second most widely traded substance in the world - the first is oil. Clearing of habitat to plant sun-grown (robusta) coffee - as opposed to the better-tasting shade-grown Arabica, and heavy use of pesticides, has had a very negative impact on many birds.
A Net search will usually turn up a source of organic and/or shade-grown and/or fair trade coffee in your neighbourhood. There are many sites that offer beans for home consumption. If you can\'t change anything else in your life, you can probably change this, and make a real impact.
WOW you have busy days with a lot going on! Good for you! BUsy is good!
The court reporting has always sounded very interesting to me. Really good money there. Funny that you think you would become a mall rat again! LOL...whelp, you know yourself. Maybe your style of living and other life choices have changed your outlook on life. I think you are really into what you are doing in Real Estate and your other life interests right now. You\'re a smart cookie and see things from a perspective driven by experience. I say go with your gut. Hard to believe you can do CR on the puter now. I\'m not so sure about this electronic age anymore. I don\'t think my grankids will ever see a #2 pencil...ya know??
So you like \"end of the world\" books eh? I\'d say read up, cuz things are lookin like that may be in progress right about now!!
they had computer compatible stuff in the 80\'s, but the only one that worked was called x-scribe and the rest weren\'t good enough. by 1990 it was getting better all the time.
now its a whole new world. its still a cr machine but its much larger than the old ones and it has a disk of some sort in it. i\'ll have to look into it more. nice to know its there if i want it, though if i were to go back, i think i\'d still want congress first. if i change to real time writing, i don\'t know if i\'d be fast enough for congress. its also not as \"people\" oriented as most of the things i do. i\'m not the one thrilled about real estate, i\'m looking for property for the animals. its br\'s neighbor mary, who is a nut over real estate, and dying to return to it. lol.
yeah, busy days. can\'t imagine not having that. though taking long breaks is nice too.
I like the term end of the world books, never heard that phrase before.
Yes, there may be excellent work and pay in the CR but the stress and back to a schedule is not what I think you would want. I really think you are in the best area for you at the moment, with your lifestyle and hours. Besides your work with rescue is part of your entire life.
I found as I aged, that money was not as important as your quality of peace and life in general. Back to a simple life style and back to nature.
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yeah, but i could do real time from home if i chose that, and as little or much as i want with it. so i could do half the year or half the week....if i was in congress i could also choose less hours. when the money is good, you don\'t need to be there as much. we were talking about that today, and akj was saying he\'s go down to TWO days of work per week if the money went up that high.
i agree with you about money not mattering. i think humans go through a phase and want to see how much they can actually make and how much they are worth and once they find that out, they are done with that part and it doesn\'t matter at all. still, nice to be able to make a bunch of money and then do nothing for a while as well. really up in the air with it right now.
I\'m agreeing with you and Leeann. As you get older, not eighties old....fifty five old, you realize that you have had a good life. You have a nice house. It may even be time to downsize and look forward to retirement. You hopefully have banked well and have money to retire with and live a comfortable life, as close to your kids and loved ones as possible.
The \"I\'m gonna make it big\" thingy goes right out the window, once you realize that all that matters, is the quality of your life, your loves, and a comfy home to retire in near your g/kids. Yep. Priorities change as you age, and money really doesn\'t matter as long as you\'re comfortable.
i agree on the smaller circle. i noticed myself doing some of that even in the 80\'s, easier to get to work if its ten minutes away. then i felt \"crowded\" by that. so discovered the \"live on the edge of the big city thing, instead of a suburb. that works. then i learned from j, actually, to divide my week COMPLETELY half the week one place and one life and half the week another. j has been with me (on and off) through two marriages and nearly twenty years. its a long time. i also found that you make too many allowances for bad if you do the family thing for too long. you overlook a LOT because its easier, and i don\'t think that is ever healthy. its wrong actually. so i went back to very large buffer zones, until last year when i noticed i am falling asleep all over the place. i think our bodies just give out. maybe if i actually lose this weight and get in shape again i won\'t be sleepy or maybe its from blood pressure meds?
i read somewhere once to have friends that are younger as well as older because of the number of people we lose as we get older. can totally relate to that. j lost both of his parents in the 90\'s. k lost his ENTIRE family that he was closest with/lived with, wife, child, nephew, brother, and at work his business partner, in the passed ten years - plus his favorite cat and his dog. there\'s almost no one left that he actually is close to except me, rg and pl. same with rn. they are both older than me so its helpful hearing their perspective as all the crap starts to happen in my own world and you get the wise small smiles and laughs and drinks from everyone. lol.
i know joa had everyone in tact up until seven years ago, but she used to read the obits and i never understood that back then. her husband was dead twenty years. then two of her friends died and recently her son and her neighbor of over 40 years living next door to her. it happens. people seem to physically age from losses like that as well and you realize how important it is to have the things that DO NOT DIE, like church and its structure and fellowship, reading, sports, i would say pets, but they die as well....maybe i should get a parrot, a parrot would live longer than me. lol.