Re: Funny “Diagnostic Indicators”

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Okay, there are many things written here to which I’d like to respond, if I can remember all of them. Let me just… copy paste address… open new tab… Okay. I just did a quick check on facebook and a tweet, too.

Now, Mr.Xxx, GET OUT OF MY HEAD! That is so exactly how I do things. Do you know what I didn’t do all last week? Grocery shop. Why not, you ask? Because I have to clean out the fridge. All the uneaten leftovers and half-used cartons and cans and expired veggies… sigh. That’s the shortest example of my domino-procrastinations…

And Jeneticallymodified: Holy cow, LMFAO! I couldn’t get past the cat-tickling for all the squinty tears in my eyes. I don’t know WHY that is so hilarious, but it is. Every item on your “list” – I guess I just Really Relate! (Except for the fact that I *love* lists! they’re almost a hobby of their own.

Of course I read more than one book at once, duh. There’s a light funny one that I can read just a page or two at a time and peck at. There’s a Non-fiction one (or two) for whatever I’m addressing that month – how the brain works, how to organize your life, how to write a non-fiction book, how to remember your dreams, etc. – There is the tome – some 1000-pager epic that I will spend 6-10 months finishing, one long bath at a time.

I love the Nook. I can download most classic lit for free or $0.99. Got the complete Dickens for $2.99! I’ve read six, in a month. Then I switched for a break… will go back to Dickens afterwards. And, yeah, all books right there in my purse! Funny, serious, classic, modern, heavy, light, fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, horror… whatever strikes my fancy with a button or two!

Speaking of buttons, who doesn’t hate those automated phone menus? (Yeah, pretty sure that it’s not called a “phone tree”. A phone tree is usually a list of phone numbers for organizations, emergencies, community things. And the person at the tip calls 2 people on it, and they each call the next 2 people, etc. until all the information has been disseminated to all the members of the tree.) If it is a place I call regularly, like the bank, I memorize the menu order. 1, 3, 3, 5. If it is a one-off call, you can usually find me button mashing and screaming “REPRESENTATIVE! REPRESENTATIVE!” into the phone. (They never understand me… I speak English, wth?)

I don’t remember taping hems or any of the clothes things… When something needs fixing, I just take out my sewing kit and fix it. Or I don’t, which means it will lie in a pile in the closet for a year or two, until I either fix it or send it to goodwill.

Phone Chargers. I love my LG Lotus. SO much so, that each time I lose it, I replace it with the exact same model and color. So, I have three chargers. One at home, one at the office, and one that I’ve converted into a camera charger, because I lost the camera one.

I stopped borrowing library books, because I’ll be real good about it for a while, but inevitably there comes a time when I don’t finish (or start) the book/s, and I forget or get into something else, and three years later I’m cleaning and I come across them and say to myself, “Oh, crap.” So I don’t go anymore.

I can walk into a grocery store chanting “Toilet paper, orange juice, cat food, creamer”, and walk out without the toilet paper, the most needed item, but with three other things that were on sale.

I’m supposed to be filing my taxes Right Now. It’s the 1040EZ form, online now. We always get a nice refund. you’d think I’d be all over getting that, wouldn’t you? We’re getting a new computer and a vacation out of it, even.

And I again agree with Mr.Xxx: Texting is way better than calling or v-mail, b/c you have a written record of times, dates, places, addresses, etc.! I love texting. And it’s so much faster to reply to a text, than to listen to your v-mail, skip all the messages that are there b/c you need some number or info from them, or you haven’t returned yet, and get to the one new message you need to hear. Takes forever! Grrr!

I used to never pay my bills on time, if at all, b/c you had to write out a check, put it in an envelope, address it, stamp it, and Mail It. So many steps! So many things to go wrong! Then came Over-the-Phone payments – whew! and now with online billpay, I’m safe! Bills get paid! I get so mad if an agency doesn’t have an online payment option…

Okay, on to my taxes now. After I play with the kitten!

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