Far and Away

Well done @Zoe7 ..... I know it's a "long haul" day for you, but it means catching up well enough to manage your teaching ongoing, so it's an extra-ordinary situation / effort.

I didn't mention that we need to research three artists across two different disciplines - mine are painting and sculpture - but then we need to do a presentation involving one of the three artists, linking them as a reference to our own work. So it's a massive project overall, that needs to be done in stages across the semester ..... and yeah, I think I have found my three. I won't mention their names though, in case I am

providing too much identifying info ..... but in saying that I will be able to mix them in with other artists I mention across the year in future posts across the forums.

Great job on finding your artists @Faith-and-Hope I know that was a massive thing for you to do but it must feel nice to have that accomplished.👍 Now you can begin to move forward with your project ...and I totally get why you can't mention them here.

I have slept for over an hour so now back into reports for me. I am going to do a few at a time then leave them until tonight to read through and edit as needs be. I also still have the maths work to mark and record and this weeks planning to do - would be totally overwhelmed if I look at it in it's entirety but need to break it down into bits to get through this afternoon.

Hearing you @Faith-and-Hope @Zoe7

Glad you are both doing alright and still around.

I may have posted too much online, if people really wanted to work out my identity, but somehow it seemed my way of making things personal and reaching out to others. Postin a lot less these days and I have deleted a lot to do with my children.

Take care both of you.

You have to take cre of yourself @Appleblossom and protecting your identity is one of those things. There are some things I have deleted across my time here too - necessary sometimes to stay safe and remain anonymous.

@Faith-and-Hope Reports completed (kind of). Need to edit and add a little more to some later but brain-dead right now to be able to do that ...with a break and some distance from them I should be able to complete all that tonight then will read over them again when I get to work in the morning. Having a small break from work right now and then will tackle the maths.

How is your day going Hon?

Hi @Appleblossom .... 👋💕 .... great time see you.

I totally get that about how much to post around what, and I too have removed images and info once it went past the helping anyone else here within a certain timeframe. The forums are so big, with so many different threads for many of us, that it would take a lot of piecing together of minuscule bits and pieces, but still ..... at the end of the day I've the primary criteria is met, it becomes about our own comfort level I think.

@Zoe7 I had to pay a bill to lift a restriction off my home Internet use ..... grrrrr ..... the account is under WH's control and he hasn't been paying bills again. I am on a restricted income, and I don't even know what he has reimbursed to my bank account of what I have paid out because he is not giving me a breakdown of it ..... more of the chaos and drama of our situation ..... if I get to the end of each day and have been able to tick a few boxes, then I am still doing okay

Oh Hon that is so totally unacceptable and yet another example of his vindictiveness and lack of care for both you and your baby dragons I relly do hope you take him for all you can and he can suffer under the pressures of lack of finances - maybe then he will get what is coming to him - such an a/h (and that is me being kind!) @Faith-and-Hope I honestly do not know how someone can be so nasty after a lifetime together - he has no respect and no care for anyone but himself - and no doubt he is doing exactly what he wants, spending what he likes and that 'bit' he has hanging off him is reaking the benefits too ....so #$%^ing angry for you Hon

@Faith-and-Hope Just vacuumed out my car - needs to be cleaned properly as there is about 2 years of sand and dirt firmly entrenched in the carpet lol - but will need to wait until next weekend when I can park it in the driveway, use the carpet cleaner and leave it open to dry. Hopefully it is a nice weekend and I have time to do it. Tobes surpervised by laying at the gate with his little nose sticking through the gate ....super cute little supervisor he is 👍🐶💚

Going to pack the car with all the work I brought home soon - several baskets and a box of home reader folders I had to organise for tomorrow - then get stuck into the maths. I don't need that finished until Thursday but we have meetings after school tomorrow and Wednesday this week because of the public holiday today so I will have no time to do it straight after school.

Feeling a little better for having reports (kind of) done - they are not due until Wednesday afternoon so I have a couple of days to read over them and make changes as need be. I will go in early tomorrow and run them by my colleague teacher to see if they are what is needed. It has been a few years since I have done progress reports on my own so some clarity around if I have provided enough would be good.

I also still have planning for this week to do - we have our athletics carnival Wednesday afternoon and school photos on Tuesday so a bit to fit in around those. I also have to finish registering our class for two online maths sites and copy some photos off my phone to my work computer so I can post them on the class site. ...the list just seems to continue to grow....

I hope you have managed to get your bill paid Hon and have your home internet back - still very much angry for you that you have to do this and that He is not the paying bills he should be - grrr!!

I'll try to check in with you later - depending on how far I get tongiht - but I am going to have to have an early night if possible to be able to tackle the rest of the week. Sending you and Nelly lots of hugs and a whole heap of love 💕😺🌹

Wow @Zoe7 .... you're really getting through it all ..... go you ❣️

What a cutie Toby is .....

Bill is paid, but it will take a day or two to process it to the point where the disruption to Internet is lifted, which is why I just paid it ..... to save the issue dragging out even longer. There is an even bigger issue around finances that has become urgent this weekend, so the week coming is going to be "interesting".

I have been out with a couple of my baby dragons, in the abs nice of the one with her father today ..... grrrr ..... so I might stop and have a sleep. Feeling so tired.

You have been working really late as well as dealing with the other unpleasant things that have cropped up this week/weekend Hon so not surprised you are tired Rest up and recover a little sweetheart - I get worried about you when you are this tired @Faith-and-Hope - knowing it is both emotional and physical tiredness - but I also know you will look after yourself so do what you need to do that. Hugs and hugs and hugs 💜💙💚🧡💛

If the belief that a personality disorder is behind it all @Zoe7, what you have described are exactly the traits it is identified by, but in its covert form, which is where it appears to have emerged from, it can be mistaken for another type of personality disorder ..... but that one affects the person who is challenged by it more than other people around them .... if it's NPD we are dealing with here, it can wear a very convincing mask for a very long time, then when it discards the situation it's in and takes on a new one, it changes masks ..... and that's when you see it for what it truly is ...,, as the one they discarded. It's then that you see the ruthlessly selfish beings they are, devoid of empathy or respect for anyone they can't use .... and even then they don't respect people that they use, they just respect that they have to treat them carefully to be able to keep using them.

It's all so at odds with who he had seemed to be, and the value system is completely awol, as you can see by what is happening ..... so I have to keep reminding myself that he is a very unwell person, cos otherwise bitterness can set in ..... and that's the worst of it. If they can begin to change your values and behaviour to something you don't want to be. As hard as it is, that is what J have to keep in front of me as my goal - to not let him / this blow me off course from who I want to be, and how I want to live.