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RubyRob
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Name: Robin
Gender: Female
Interests: spies, quilting, singing, art, movies, watching roads being built
Expertise: Seeing that ONE THING that is wrong with something... It's a gift AND a curse.
Occupation: Graphic designer
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Member Since:
6/28/2006
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| (This actually started out as a reply to one of Dixie's amazing posts, but I decided it deserved its very own little slab of virtual real estate...)
Why IS it that sometimes we must learn the same lessons more than once? I often find myself shaking my fist at God and asking, "WHAT IS IT THAT I STILL HAVEN'T LEARNED that I must REPEAT the same patterns??? WHY, God, WHY???"
Seriously.
God hasn't answered my question audibly yet. He just keeps quietly shoving the same set of problems in front of me over and over like a patient teacher.
Do you ever feel like the idiot child that must be taught and retaught the same thing(s) over and over again? Or is it just me?
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So this week the daughter got her driver's license. That was on Monday.
Tuesday she did what I consider her first REAL solo (well sort of) drive. She followed me down to the Hyundai place so that we could leave her car there for a few warranty-covered repairs. She did great. Complained at me later, though, that I was SPEEDING and she was having a tough time trying to keep up with me while remaining within the law. Ha.
Today we drove back down to pick up her car. When we got there and were both about to leave, she turned to me and said... "I'm thirsty. Do you want to stop by Sonic on the way home?" I looked at her and said..."You have your own car now... YOU can stop by Sonic if you want!" I wish I had the next look from her on film. It was priceless. Her face showed a range of emotions: first, it had to sink in, then there was the realization...OMG!!!....and then something crossed her face to the effect of, "OMG! I'm FREE. I'm really FREE! I don't have to wait on YOU PEOPLE for every freakin' little THING in MY LIFE!!!!!"
Or something LIKE that.
Priceless.
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| 1) Discarded bandaid wrappers do not = décor.
2) When you mix what was left of your Naked Blue Machine All Natural Superfood 100% Juice Smoothie with enough Country Stand Medium Pulp Calcium Simply Orange Not from Concentrate 100% Pure Squeezed Orange Juice Pasteurized with Calcium to fill the glass (approximately a 1:2 ratio), you get an unappetizing, orangish brownish concoction. Tasted okay, but highly unappealing to the eye.
3) Waiting a week before "getting right back" to someone, is not really getting right back to them, now is it?
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| Some days I just have to ask... "What happened?"
Really. What in the world happened? I find this question almost as unproductive as "Why me?" Yet I still ask myself. The bad news about both of these questions is that the brain will continue to search for answers to these questions whether the REAL / TRUE answer exists or not. So the brain comes up with answers. And they're not typically good ones either. (e.g. "Because you're a big ol' loser, that's why." or "Because nobody likes you." You get the picture.) They just ADD to my sense of loss, inadequacy, paranoia, whatever it is I'm feeling at the moment.
Where is Tony Robbins when I really need him? Probably lying on a freakin' beach somewhere. Smiling. He asks way better questions than I do.
Do you have any 1) worthless / unhelpful questions or 2) really great / productive questions that you ask yourself? | | |
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