Hot Chocolate Anyone ?

Thank you @soul That's lovely...

Yes, I've lost much confidence in my physical stamina, since my 3 major bowel surgeries (2 were emergencies).

So I need to remind myself that yes, I can still do some physical work (like gardening)....

Adge

Good for you @Adge especially since you have been through so much. When might you find out?

Thanks @soul I should find out in about 2 weeks, I think.

I did much better than I expected, having been in overwhelm for the past few days (& so unable to thoroughly prepare).

Still, I never seem able to tell (from an interview), how well I really did...

Good night everyone.

Tomorrow is a new day, in a positive sense (I hope or intend)...

Adge

Even living in country towns there is a lot of awareness that comes with the territory. I do hope you get the job. @Adge Pity about Cptsd. I must have it a lot, although not properly diagnosed with it yet.

Maybe it is because your parents were both educated and. you enunciate well, that you sound British. I learned to enunciate better in the last 10 years through singing.

I have met many Aussie stirrers, and sadly some of my story tells of the effects of those who got away with a lot. It also made me shy, or back off from obviously loud types and gave me a warped view of Australian culture. I tended to gravitate to foreigners. It has taken a lot to learn to hold my own with stirring, and work out camaraderie, friendliness and being polite.

These days a lot of people seem over qualified. Work is hard to find.

It is good if you can care about the people you work with.

@Shaz51, how am I.... not too bad. Had a shopping and errands day today, which I don't enjoy much, and it stretched out way longer than it should have, but feeling a lot better after a relaxing bludge evening.

@Appleblossom @Adge I'll join you in the "So where are you from- you have such an interesting accent" camp. Well... on my Mum's side, the earliest of her German ancestors came over in the 1840s (although I need to chase up a hint that some may have arrived earlier still) and on Dad's side sometime in the mid 1800s from Ireland. Mum's family were farmers, Dad's job would be considered thoroughly working class, schooling was all in the public system, but I sound kind of high culture private school-ish. Maybe it was all those years of violin lessons...

Dad's job may have been working class, but his mind wasn't. It's amazing looking through his books at their place. Entymology, botany, ornithology, hydrology and more... and Phantom comics, sci fi books and some weird alien conspiracy stuff. I don't mind the Phantom and the sci fi, I do worry though about the authors who seem to really believe it. But seriously, apart from the flights of fancy stuff, he gave himself the equivalent of a university degree or three. It's just a pity that there was never any way to get that officially acknowledged.

Thanks for sharing @Adge It helps to know you better. 3 surgeries is huge. Physical work probably help if you can actually manage it.

Hello @Anna88

lol .. @Smc Violin lessons will do it ... over all the instruments... such a big way for parents to hope for evolution (of life-style .. intellect ???) and progress within the family.

Your dad sounds interesting. I am pretty tired now.

thanks for sharing @Adge

Hugs @Appleblossom, @Smc

Hello @Anna88, @Susana

@Appleblossom, the violin lessons were actually my idea. 🙂 Following a famiy outing to a free concert that the local symphony orchestra was putting on, I told my Dad that I wanted to learn the violin or cello. (I meant viola, not cello, but hey, I was 8 years old. Not too many Grade 3 kids would get that one right. ) He took me up to the first violinist to ask if anyone locally taught, turned out she did- so my first lesson was the next week. I continued lessons until Yr. 11 when the homework load got a bit too heavy, then found out a year or two afterwards that I could have done music as an external subject via my school, which would have meant I could have continued. Pity I couldn't have known that sooner.

My Dad is very interesting, but a lot of his knowledge is getting "lost" as his dementia worsens. I'm guessing that it's all still hidden in his mind somewhere, but it's like he's lost the index pages and can't find the information any more. For a while, his intelligence compensated somewhat for the memory getting fuzzy. Even if he couldn't remember something, he could reason his way through the situation in front of him. But it's gotten beyond that now.

Sorry about your dad @Smc at least he would have enjoyed gaining understanding about his world and it probably meant better overall decisions in life.

Dementia is so difficult. Your phrase about the index cards being lost resonates a lot with me. I worked in a world full of various index cards. I also had so much going on in my head through all the changes growing up that I found it hard to carry on conversations when I was young ... teens 20s etc ... I was often stuck for words that if I had a lot of time I could trace the card and make more sense, but it meant that I was awkward and found it hard to connect quickly and if things were just social I let it go and so did the other person ... hence I remained on the margins. I sometimes joke and say I had dementia when I was young, but it was really more of a full hard drive .. no wriggle room for relaxed chat. I dont mean to deman what people are going through, but my attitude helped my friend with dementia as I was not jumping on top of her for every mistake.

It was good that the violin lessons were actually your idea. It is the most frustrating instrument to take up after a gap. Do you ever play now?

Hey @Shaz51 more big cyclones coming to Qld. The state is getting a battering.