Kevin's Watch

Pretty good. I won HQ the other night. I was soooooooooooo excited. I've been trying for...oh, about a year, although not obsessively. Just whenever I find myself free at that time.
For those not in the know, it's a mobile trivia game with horrendously obnoxious hosts. You have maybe less than 10 seconds to answer the question, and I think they give you 3 options.
I've had a few near misses in the past, and hadn't played for while, but I get alerted when it is time, and happened to be on my tablet then, so I switched over and won.
And now the punchline: I won $0.32. It was one of the easier, only 9 question ones instead of the usual 12. I think it was $5000, but had to split it with all the other winners.

That's still impressive that you won, cag.

You are the second person today that has said they won HQ and received the much envied 0.32c hahaha . Well worth the effort ... nah sounds fun .. well done

I love competitions, regardless of the prize. Whenever I see a FB post that says .. no one scores well or perfect on this quiz .. its on. Challenge ACCEPTED.

but then if anyone says ... nah you cant do that .. Im definitely going to give THAT a red hot crack

Congrats, Cags!

Lazy Luke wrote: When someone told me there would be a DJ twice a week where I work I thought they joking. Nope. A PA system was set up next to the HR area. I really feel sorry for those guys. Christmas and holiday pop music at full blast.
I sometimes drive a truck past HR and I could barely hear the horn.

roll on January ...

Ugh, that's awful.

Sorus wrote:Ugh, that's awful.

Yeah, when the employees are dancing around to 'Hey Margarita' ...
I prefer classic rock day. peep peep peep!

Friday, hooray.

Year-end function at work, then only a week until I'm on leave.

--A

My workplace stopped having year-end functions after two members of upper management (both married, and not to each other) drank too much and had some fun in the backseat of his car. (Not subtle. At all.) She ended up pregnant and the baby looked just like daddy and nothing like her husband.

...they could've just stopped serving alcohol, but no, that put an end to everything.

Yesterday was my follow up presurgical consultation with my reconstructive surgeon. She wouldn't put me on the operating table unless I weighed less than 200 lbs. I decided to go for 190 before going back, so I would be certain to be somewhere in the 190s when I went clothed in to her office. I'm glad I did, as my appointment wasn't until 4:00, and I wasn't going to fast until that late in the day.

On the scale at UW reconstructive surgery, I weighed 192. When my doctor walked in, she looked at me with a big grin, and the first thing she said to me was, "Give the girl a goal, and have her blow it out of the water!"

She was of the mindset that I lost 40 lbs since she saw me in June, and I didn't remind her that 11 of those pounds were dropped overnight after the bilateral masectomy (bye-bye boobies). I felt just fine basking in her effusive praise. But, I'm still going to keto on. I have a lot of weight yet to lose.

For now, it looks like surgery will be scheduled for March. But, there is a chance another patient may cancel next month around my birthday. Not the happiest of birthdays with the plan of spending four days in ICU. But, if it is offered, I'll jump at the chance anyway.

I was very pleased to read this on Facebook Menolly. This is great news, and good work on dropping more than the weight needed for surgery.

Now what kind of boobs have you ordered?

B, C, D, E cup? Do you get to pick. Its awesome you get to have this surgery .. I think its great that they provide that option.

Skyweir wrote:Now what kind of boobs have you ordered?

B, C, D, E cup? Do you get to pick. Its awesome you get to have this surgery .. I think its great that they provide that option.

Before the bilateral masectomy, I was a 44 DD. I don't know what the band size will be, but my surgeon says I still have enough abdominal fat for D cups. So, we'll probably go with that.

Menolly, trust me I know how much work that is. Good for you, for investing in yourself!

My best friend of over 30 years has had her family torn apart by allegations of abuse. Not just her but others. I don't know what to believe. I'm asking myself if I can be her friend if she turns out to be a child abuser? I have to say yes. That may seem strange but she and I have crossed mountains together. I can't abandon her now. She may not survive this, has already attempted suicide. I don't believe she is guilty but I keep reminding myself that I don't have to be the judge. This is a crushing burden on my psyche and yet I'm in Africa with my own life full of issues and I cannot let it drain my attentions away from finishing the semester well.

So how do I feel? Like this sucks, but we will make it. Merry, complicated Christmas, Happy heartsick Holidays to all.

That is tough Deer. The toughest.

I wasnt exactly friends with this particular dude, but I knew him .. and he was subject of a transnational covert op targeting sexual grooming on the internet. When I learned that he was one of their targets and had been arrested, I felt sick to my stomach.

This guy had been in our home, he had given my eldest daughter piano lessons. He had driven various of my kids to church youth activities. He had attended some of my youth classes, which I never liked ... he always sat their leering at me .. he was always palpably creepy .. but I would not have guessed, he was an actual sexual pervert.

It took a good month to realign my senses after that shock.

I could not engage with him, have him in our lives, in my home, interacting with my kids, at that point that would be no less than negligence on my part. And it provided the perfect excuse not to have to interact with him.

I am not his judge, nor do I care to be. Do I want someone like him in my or my familys lives? .. hell no. Lifes too short imv to waste on negativity, or the evil behaviour of fucked up humans.

We all choose our paths, how we will navigate life challenges, etc. He chose his, and only he can change that.

Its good you are driven by fealty for your friendship. Thats sweet. It is.

But self care as you have noted is also important. You have to decide how important this woman is to you, your family and your lives. No one else can do that but you.

She is lucky to have you in her corner. Likely she wont have many others there.

All the best Deer and may you set aside that grief in order to embrace the Xmas season.

Well, good news Menolly.

Rough one for you Deer, chin up and all that stuff.

Just have to make it through this week, and I'll be good.

On the downside, our national electricity supplier is having problems, so we're having intermittent load shedding which looks likely to last all December.

Meh.

--A

Oh dear that will impact on your gaming, no?

Menolly wrote:On the scale at UW reconstructive surgery, I weighed 192. When my doctor walked in, she looked at me with a big grin, and the first thing she said to me was, "Give the girl a goal, and have her blow it out of the water!"

Awwww, yeah! <3

Menolly wrote:I felt just fine basking in her effusive praise.

I'm seein' it, I'm seein' it.
I would like basking in that effusive praise.

menolly wrote:Not the happiest of birthdays with the plan of spending four days in ICU.

I had one of my chemo treatments on my birthday... I whined mockingly about how I got to have "Birthday Chemo!" as a present... for months.
and I mean, it -was- a good gift... buuuut.... not anything I'd pick, in a way.

deer wrote:I have to say yes. That may seem strange but she and I have crossed mountains together...

...This is a crushing burden on my psyche and yet I'm in Africa with my own life full of issues and I cannot let it drain my attentions away from finishing the semester well.

Love you.

I'm in my own place of stuckness and burnout.
When do I get immunity to burnout?
(Wait... maybe don't answer that.)

And just seeing the list of stories... things happened, things remembered... how many devastations there are that can lay waste to the world... or to a single human soul which is precious...

S22/E9


Really tired. And its only Monday.

Awww... thats rough Luke .. I prescribe more sleep and less gaming and less overdoing it.

Skyweir wrote:Oh dear that will impact on your gaming, no?

Yes, yes it will.

On the plus side, it won't affect my reading, so...

Scrambling now to try and get all client stuff sorted out before I'm on leave. Bastards.

--A