2025 Week #23 Weekly Goal Sharing! (Monday 06/02/25 - Sunday 006/08/25)
I welcome anyone to commit to a goal here today.
But importantly, talk about getting it done..... or why it didn't happen yet.
To praise each other for our efforts and wins.
While supporting each other through trials and setbacks.
And to continue trying and not give up.
Remember:
Every Goal should be considered "Worthy".
Never belittle your achievements and be proud of yourself for your daily accomplishments!
Whether they be Complex or Simple.
Getting out of bed is a good day..... Good job I say!
Share your goals today, for support and encouragement.
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Do Your Best and Get Your rest.
Things are usually much harder then we think. Do your best. Be kind to yourself and Be kind to others.
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After years of fighting the tide, I finally admitted to myself, that I am broken and alone. It is liberating. It didn't change my vital obligations and responsibilites but it did change my expectations of myself to an easier agenda.
Broken and Alone
or
Opiniated and Isolated
or
Imperfect and Independent
It's OK.....
HAPPY MONDAY..... HAVE A GREAT DAY AND A WONDEFUL WEEK!
My immediate goal is to survive the day. Got to work this morning and couldn't find my keys. Backtracked in the rain to the bus stop. Nowhere to be seen. Think they fell out of my bag while I was leaving the apartment this morning and didn't notice. I was running late. Had six minutes to get to the bus stop. Left a message with the apartment office to see in their maintenance team can keep an eye out. Maybe they will call. Maybe not. If not then I will need at least three keys.
And I have to wait until a manager shows up so I can get my computer out of my desk which means I will be technically late.
Then there's the humidity and the overwhelming feeling of incompetence...
@Enthenia Oh no! A bad way to start a Monday and the week. I hope maintenance finds them for you so you don't have to get them replaced. Could they have fallen out on the bus? Hopefully the manager was on time and it didn't make you later
@mytwistedsoul I don't think they fell out on the bus. Usually I push them down pretty far inside the bad. I usually zip it up but I had too many things inside so it didn't zip all the way. I had six minutes to get from point A to point B so I was trying to get them in while walking with the rain and humidity.
The extra keys for the desks are in the director's office and apparently the manager doesn't have a key. I'm already showing up as a missed punch on the time clock. I can't reach out to my manager because she never comes in and if I could send her a message on my work computer, I wouldn't need to. Also can't charge my mobile or the headphones because I use the computer for that.
No, it just boils down to it being my fault. Never mind the reasons or factors that led up to it. It was my ineptness that got me here
Had to call the office again because someone lectured me on doing an emergency maintenance request (which I didn't) and then deleted the voicemail.
Then had trouble getting my headphones working again and I'm still waiting for my desk to be unlocked. If I had been paying better attention, none of this would have happened.
@Enthenia I'm sorry I have to disagree. Sometimes things happen beyond our control. You're a very careful and detail oriented person. You don't do things all willy nilly or devil may care. You give your all in every thing you do. I admire you for that.
@mytwistedsoul well I'm lucky there was a least one manager that came in. I was able to get my computer out of my desk at nine something then had to respond to the other girl that does the wires that I would take care of any that went through in the afternoon. She had to leave early for a doctor's appointment.
And I'm on the last part of the 4th assignment. Had to redo the formatting for the figures again. I had it mostly correct the second time.
It's just I'm responsible for everything. I can't be forgetting or losing things. I have to function on a few hours of sleep because there is no one else. And the irony is I'm extremely pathetic but I have to carry on and be perfect because it's just me.
Keys weren't turned in. Backtracked and asked the owner of my dog's friends if he'd seen them. He takes his two out after I leave and I went past his apartment. He said no. Tried knocking on the door to my neighbor upstairs but he had his radio going and his French Bulldogs were barking.
Called the Lost and Found at the bus office but they said I had to wait two days and then try again.
Got the key from the apartment office. The tried making another one but their key maker isn't working right. Got the extra key for my desk from the department manager's office once someone from another office unlocked her door because she wasn't in.
They can give me another amenity key when I need to get in the mail or laundry room. I forgot what they said about the mail key.
But again, there is absolutely no excuse for this. My negligence. My screw up. I will have to fix it. I will somehow have to find time (in the extreme heat watch that we are now in the middle of) and go down to Home Depot and get extra keys made.
Tried getting an order cancelled so I could have a buffer for expenses but the company offered me $100 to keep my order (cheaper than a cancellation). I went to my *** to check on things and found out that some random person opened a business account with an address in FL. My bank account and everything was still on there and those haven't been compromised because I would have known about it.
I closed the account and opened a new one with a different email. I also secured it with an authenticator app and did a new password which I nearly forgot while I was trying to get the authenticator set up.
Still working on the assignment. I think I 've pretty much got it right this time so I'll have to go back and fix the others.
I have Friday off and I was going to go to the healthy food store since I didn't get to go the last time I took a vacation day but I will also have to go to a home improvement store to get air filters and the keys made. It's just, the heat advisory is still in place and the stores are nowhere near each other.
@Enthenia I'm glad there was someone there (a manager) that was able to open your desk.
@mytwistedsoul only problem with going later is once I'm home, it's quite difficult to get out again by myself. I remember one time I went to the package lockers alone. It was too hot for someone to do the walk and I could hear her protesting as I left. I was gone no more than 10 minutes but she was so happy when I got back.
Turned in my 4th assignment. Didn't realize until after the fact that one of the indentations on the reference list was off. I have gone back and reformatted the 3rd assignment.
I had something else to put down but I can't think of it now.
Called the bus line's Lost and Found again this morning. Nothing. But I may have a reason for my uselessness on Monday. Not really an excuse but I was wondering why my hair was so brittle that day. Figured it was the weather. But then the skin on my arms and shoulders got broke out--not like acne and I was really thirsty....it was the preclude to the monthly reminder of the joys associated with being a girl. I didn't think anything about it. Each month it's different. Sometimes it's joint pain. Sometimes it's chills. Sometimes increased anxiety or general clumsiness. I should get a constricting sensation in a day or two. Or extreme cold. It seems like an awful lot of bother to go through for approximately five days.
The assignment I turned in yesterday was graded. Haven't looked yet. Have to do the monthly tasks at work.
@EntheniaThat does sound like alot to have to go through! Is there anything that helps ease the worst of it?
It's so weird that these keys aren't turning up anywhere. I know not everyone is nice enough to turn things in but these wouldn't be of any use to anyone else.
@Enthenia Oh yeah that's a good point. The furry kids don't like being left behind doesn't matter what it's like outside, they want to be a part of it. Even if they're miserable. It's kind of cute how they act like that 10 minutes was 10 days
Good catch with the indention being off. I doubt I would have caught that. My mistakes need to be neon obvious for me to notice them sometimes. I hope you got a good grade :)
@mytwistedsoul And here I am pulling data for someone who had a bad press report back in 2013. We were told by our manager to ignore anything over 10 years. Supervisors say differently and I have to do whatever they say because they are the experts (manager & director said so). So I have to go month by month to look at data because the profile page shows cumulative and the form that gets sent to the other department wants 12 months. There's no export data function and it will be incomplete because 10/24 won't load. I've narrowed the dates down to the first fifteen days to see if that will help but it's still thinking.
The thing is, the indictment happened in 2006 which is 19 years ago. But apparently it all makes sense in the supervisor's mind and I know nothing compared to them. The manager and director said so.
Got October to work but I had to go week by week.
@Enthenia We should probably use the term experts loosely lol! Omg it all sounds so tedious!
Well I disagree with the managers and supervisors because unless they're actually the ones doing it - they don't know much about much. It's easy to tell someone what you think they should do compared to actually doing it. Kind of like engineers making work instructions. It looks good on paper until you actually try to build it then things get all wonky
Just my opinion though and I'm positive they would think the same about me too
@mytwistedsoul well today is a little better. Hardly anyone is here today. Still having to fix files. One person doesn't want to acknowledge that there's an existing theme for Ontario customers and I discovered a folder titled "old" which I had to rename.
Currently worried about rent. I'm a little short for the application that splits my payments up. Thought I had enough but I think a late fee got tacked on. Have a transfer pending and a payment cleared on my bank but not on the other end so I can't use it yet. I'll be fine once it's cleared but this waiting...
@Enthenia The waiting is always the hardest part and it's stressful. Especially when you're for anything that has money involved. I paid a bill the other day - late - because I forgot about it and there's late fee that was beyond ridiculous!
@mytwistedsoul well it's quiet. That's the only good thing. I noticed that my bank balance was way lower than what it was an hour before and it appears that my retirement account took $360 out for some reason. That meant that I couldn't do the rent by the cut-off so I had to call the office once I got off the fraud line with my bank. I'll have a lot of fees to pay by the end of this month which will make things strained for next month.
Now I'm not sure if it was a withdrawal from the retirement account or it it was labeled incorrectly because the account I was waiting on to clear shows the payment was processed but it's still not showing an updated balance (both companies have a similar name).
Either way, I can't do anything until it posts to whichever account it's supposed to go to.
My life is like a disaster movie. Buses never showed so I got home late. Then I saw a thousand dollar deposit and I was relieved because I could still do a payment even with the late fee. Turned out it was my bank's notifications being slow. It was for my paycheck that got deposited some 10+ hours ago. Then I didn't get to eat or do a picture because I fell asleep (probably a result of the events of the day). Lately it's been hatd to be enthusiastic about the dawning of a new day.
Thanks for starting this @isayuncle.
My goal was to get the book for the book club last week and it is pretty good. The book club will be tomorrow. The book is a mystery or an adventure about Civil War reenactors who found the Confederate gold. As usual with this book club a book that doesn't sound that interesting is actually quite engaging. So I completed my goal for last week.
This week has been busy with work, but I had an extremely productive day on Monday. (That doesn't happen that often.) I am going to work myself out of a job at this rate, but I like to keep ahead of my work if possible. I am having trouble with a simple goal for this week, but I am starting the second round of the 12-week year this week. One of my goals is working on my Spanish. I joined a meetup conversation group so that I can practice/have adult time and will attend that on Friday, so my goal is to make it to the meetup and have a good time. I have self-diagnosed social anxiety, so doing this is a challenge for me.
@reservedOwl321I'm glad you were able to get the book and that it's good! It's always a nice surprise when something exceeds our expectations. Kudos on completing your goal! 🥳
That spanish meetup sounds like an awesome opportunity! It can be really hard doing things like this when social anxiety comes along for the ride. Do you ground yourself or do any calm breathing before you go in? Sometimes it helps to excuse yourself for a few minutes and go to the restroom to have a moment to catch your breath
@mytwistedsoul it was a nice surprise. Anxiety is pretty new to me, at least as far as I have been willing to admit, so I don't do anything now but thank you for the tips!
@reservedOwl321 I'm sorry anxiety started to show it's self to you. I've had anxiety as long as I can remember. It's no fun at all. I hope it helps and you can enjoy the meetup 😊
UPDATE I did not make the meetup. I had too bad of a migraine and was not feeling well. I am feeling better now and will try again in the future. There are quite a few options with this group for me to join a future Spanish group. It has been a busy week, but next week is a new week.
@reservedOwl321
Thanks for the update., Sorry you got to feeling bad. Feeling better is very good! 😀.
Busy weeks can be so tiring, it's hard to do extra stuff, so i hope next week is a bit easier.
@IsayUncle Just wanted to check in with you. I hope you're doing ok. Sending you good vibes!
Oh hey I used the mill!
It's kind of crooked but not too bad for a first I guess lol. Gonna take some getting used to 😁
@mytwistedsoul
That is so awesome. As you work with it you'll be able to get everything fine-tuned. That is a very cool looking board, lol. You be careful working with that thing. We don't want any missing fingers, or pulled backs in your storyline.
I'm doing better this week. I think, primarily because I had a pretty big job, which will get me caught up on my bills. My personal world is in big disorder because of the long hours I was working, trying to beat the rain. So, overall, it was a hard week, but a good week. Thanks for asking. 😀.
How 'bout u? You holding strong?
BTW, About that listener, that mentioned being bored. I'd like to share a thought with you, that I had on that, and I hope that's OK. I struggle so hard trying to do the responsible things, that I have no time for friendships or fun excursions or even just general relaxation.
My relaxation is mostly just brain shut down tiredness or whatever you wanna call it. Then it's back to the grind the best I can do it.
I was thinking the other day, that I was so freaking bored. I'm waking up every day, I'm just trying to make everything work. I did realize, that my financial insecurity is a huge factor with this scenario. So I thought about you, when this thought crossed my mind. I have so many exciting things that I wanna do, but I'm forced into a grind and I'm tired of it. It is a monotonous, boring schedule right now. Hopefully I won't be in this space forever. I'm thankful for the ability to be active and go forth with my efforts, so, i think that helps.
So, the question I came up with is like this:
Is being bored, the same thing, as having a boring daily routine?
I think there is a difference there somewhere. 🤔
@IsayUncle Thanks! I'll do my best to keep my digits attached 😁
@mytwistedsoul
Hey, I wanted to reply earlier but I've been kinda brain dead in the evenings when I got home. I've been working super long hours and that's a good thing. I finished all my current jobs up to date and I have others lined up. I have the freedom now to get caught up on other things for about a week.
Having no RL friends is kinda like a double edged sword. It cuts both ways. I'm in the same boat but every time I think about building a friendship, the real life drama of that person is usually more than I want deal with. Financial insecurity is a big part of it. I'm forced to be very selfish with my time, just so I can stay focused enough to work responsibly and without any interuption to that, which can sabatoge the illusion of my thin thread of sanity I think I'm maintaining.
I'd have to say that my financial insecurity, makes me all work and no play, which makes jack a dull boy....
Even with all the stuff i have and things i do.... i doubt myself one minute and then have hope the next minute, because I think i'm working in the right direction. LOL
SO, Having faith in ourselves and working in our own right direction is really a good thing. It does get monotnous sometimes but other times, it's pretty cool doing stuff others don't get a chance to do.
This is the past thread but i hope your having a great current week! And it's not too boring.
Got the keys made. The apartment key works. Hopefully the desk key will also. Went to the home improvement store first and then took the bus down to the street the grocery store was on. Had to carry the air filters in because there was no bag big enough for them. I had to keep that in mind when I went shopping. I didn't want to overload myself.
Called the fraud line again and it turned out that both companies are under the same umbrella. Same merchant ID and everything. I didn't know that. The fraud specialist told me to wait and see if the second charge went through and if it did, they can do it as a duplicate charge and dispute that. It would be the easiest option.
I should actually eat something. Didn't really have anything this morning because I wanted to get out and back before it got too hot and I still need to do two pictures since I didn't do one last night. I also didn't eat last night so I really should eat something.
Paid the court fee yesterday. The other charge went through. Know I can dispute it but I'm going to the store this morning to get the cat more food. She went through what I had bought her fast.
Had to rest a bit because I had to lug the dog's food home from the package lockers. Didn't know what the package was. Had two and didn't think the 28-lb bag of food would arrive because it had just been shipped. Would have brought the wagon had I known. So we had to go ten steps and then I'd have to put it down, get the other box, and repeat the process. It also felt like it was really humid but that could have been just me.
@Enthenia
Wow, hauling a lot of weight a long way is not fun! the wagon surely would have been nice.
You are just getting new keys for your apt? That seemed a very long time to wait.
What fraud thing happened? I know I've missed a few posts so I must have missed that one. that's terrible you have to deal with any fraud BS! ☹️. I hope you have a good evening and enjoy your weekend.
@IsayUncle they tried making a key Monday but the machine they had at the apartment office (well in a work shed) wasn't working right. It was too hot to go after work especially with crossing the street and going over the parking lot so I had to wait until my next day off. I think there's a key kiosk in the grocery store across the street from me but I wanted an actual person to do it.
Not entirely sure about the bank thing. At first I thought it was fraud but it turned out that both companies were under a single parent company. I didn't know that. I thought they were separate entities. So it looks like a double charge which can be dealt with. It's just I have to eat the cost of the fees associated with this incident. The fraud agent told me they could waive any fees but those aren't the fees I'm concerned with. It's the fees from the landlord. Those won't be waived.
@Enthenia
how much are the incidental fees, versus the landlord fees? Maybe the landlord will understand there was an innocent mix-up and not charge you. 🤞
@IsayUncle it's a corporation and when I realized that I couldn't make the payment before the cut-off, the office told me I'd have to do the fees. Think they're a couple hundred excluding the $75 I paid to the court.
Better to pay than to fight it. I can't afford more legal costs and in the long run, it's my fault. I should have foreseen this and taken preventative measures.
@Enthenia
Awww, that's a lot of $$$. I'm sorry that happened to you. ☹️
But, like you said, "better to pay it".... Be done with it and move on!
@IsayUncle cheaper than moving expenses and it would be harder to get an apartment if I had a black mark on my record.
Started the charge dispute. That will take time. Just get the feeling that the immediate populace thinks I'm totally irresponsible. I just hope this doesn't count against me when my lease comes up for renewal.
Let's see...
Work stress
School stress
Bank stress
Apartment stress
Health stress
Pets
I'm probably forgetting something...
@Enthenia
So, u decided to dispute the fees. What changed ur mind?..... 🤔.
Try not to worry that far ahead. See what happens.
@IsayUncle well it's a duplicate charge. I waited to see if one had been processed or dropped on their end but it hadn't. They're doing the bank withdrawal one and not the one from the debit card. Although it may just lead to more stress and fees in the long run.
I just want to get my rent and the landlord fees paid. Then I can worry about July.
Woke up at 3:30 which I had planned to set the alarm to. Yesterday by the time I got dressed and convinced the dog that she could leave her toy behind and it would be fine, we went outside. The cat joined us but there was a little yappy dog out. Scared the cat. There usually isn't anyone out at four something in the morning. Anyways, that was why I wanted to get up earlier. I also thought it would help get me out of the apartment earlier so I wouldn't rush and be likely to lose my keys but I got out at the same time I've been getting out lately. I didn't lose my keys though.
Trying to get caught up with work. I have another task that's due in three days. I need to check my grade on the last assignment and redo two, finish the labs for the 6th and do the paper for the 5th.
Also trying to get the steps done on the app I found to get the bonuses. I have to get to a certain level in one of the games and then I get an extra $200. I'm halfway there but I have to complete it in the next 10 days.