Can do all the usual household things, cook, clean, knit, sew, lay bricks, clean drains, repair, decorate, diy stuff.
EMPLOYED AS: a caterer, tiler on construction sites, decorator, interior designer, soft furnishings (own company dealing with hotels, hospitals and airports, retirement homes etc),been dresmaking since I was 9 yrs old, arts and crafts teacher, house mother to 90 kids, foster mother, hospital admin, shop manager, artist, sculptor, writer, journalist, poet, therapist, cheesemaker, chief buyer for an engineering company, caregiver in nursing homes, secretary, waitress, receptionist, telephonist, fashion designer and St John's Ambulance Certification, among others...
I think all words have their place and it's all about balance.
If i was bouncing around with a thumb I had bashed with a hammer accidentally, I wouldn''t be sitting there saying "Oh! my! what a silly thing to do!!!"
What you are saying here is a bit like I think of negativity. I see it as perception. If you perceive someone or something as negative then that is like seeing the glass half empty, and when you perceive someone or something as positive, then you are seeing the glass as half full.
So, ergo, ie, therefore, the negativity is not in the person you are perceiving, but in YOU, because you perceive them as negative.
Some people can't see the good in anyone, because that is what they are looking for in people, or percieving from a negative viewpoint, and others see it in everyone, because that is what they are looking for, or perceiving, from a positive viewpoint........
Each individaul person's scent is different, so the same scent on many people smells different. I think it is about the individual not the scent, or what combination you AND your partner find to your taste.........
While, and after raising my own 3 kids through teens, I also fostered drug addicted alcoholic teens with criminal records. I have been fostering now for 11 years and have 2 at the moment aged 15 and 17. My own kids are now 23, 26 and 28. All have turned out really nice people.
This is a link to a site that shows pics of starving Americans, among others.
Funny thing though. When I went looking up sites that talked about poverty in the USA, none of the sites worked. Isn't that odd? (I have friends who for many years have worked with the poor and starving in various parts of the States, so I know firsthand that it exists, so why hide it?).
Censorship maybe? Could the fact that this media outlet is, after all owned by America, have anything to do with it?
I think that most people actually define who they are by a set of beliefs. Their individual set of beliefs make them a particular individual. When they start to state who they are, they say things like I am religious, or spiritual, or could never do this or have that because I believe..............????????
I find that it is very rare to find anyone who can seem to step outside of their often narrow belief comfort zone to actually meet another individual on a different set or level of beliefs, and therein lies the problem.
Personally I find that having a particular set of beliefs is often very limiting on all levels, so I try not to confine myself and try to accept everything as being ok or possible or worth trying, at least once, so long as it does not appear to damage a person physically, psychologically or philosophically.
We are all limited, even with ever-changing-beliefs, sometimes very limited, and that makes it almost impossible to co-habit with anyone, or even to get on with some, on a daily basis, on even the most basic levels. JMO
I don't like to label anyone evil, or even bad. It's not a concept I can accept. I believe, like many others here, that how people turn out is part genetics, (drug or alcoholic hereditary factors or mental disease), and part how they are disciplined or not, parental and environmental example, and brought up/raised, even down to which place in what size of a family they come from, how strong or weak willed they are, their willingness to learn, or not, their reactions to how they are treated, life traumas, (physical and mental), their own habits and addictions and interactions socially and a multitude of combinations of all these things and more.
Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, VC, OM, DSO and Two Bars, DFC ( to give him his full title), founder of : The Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Sick for disabled people (later known as The Leonard Cheshire Foundation) Leonard Cheshire Centre for Conflict Recovery Ryder-Cheshire Foundation Ryder-Cheshire Volunteers, and The Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief ,
visited Kenya when I was there and gave me a special award for a project I pioneered there in relation to the work he was doing with kids with missing limbs.
I also won a pair of recycled rosary beads (all different colurs and shapes of beads), when I was 8 years old,
I got 3rd prize out of 25,000 contestants for a poem I wrote, and numerous other smaller awards for other writing pieces,
You are very sweet , ty. All my family are in the hospital with her right now but I can't bring myself to be there. I saw her just before she went in there and for once she didn't run me down. I somehow want to hold on to that and not let anything she said before, or would say to me now, colour my memory of her. Praying for her is all I feel I can do now.
Love definitely. Money doesn't kiss you softly, or cuddle up to you, or have eyes that light up when you enter a room, or tell you how you have enriched it's life..........
I just like a little alone time during the day or maybe an hour or two in the evening. Although I live alone most of the time, I really enjoy the sharing with family and we all visit each other every day. I love playng with the grandkids and catching up with friends most days when I am out and about. I work alone most of the time but enjoy company there too. When I can, I foster. Kids are great company and bring life to the house, and bring a different perspective on life and what's happening in the world. I am not territorial about "things" and how they should be, so I suppose I prefer sharing space to being alone.
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RE: How handy are you?
Can do all the usual household things, cook, clean, knit, sew, lay bricks, clean drains, repair, decorate, diy stuff.EMPLOYED AS: a caterer, tiler on construction sites, decorator, interior designer, soft furnishings (own company dealing with hotels, hospitals and airports, retirement homes etc),been dresmaking since I was 9 yrs old, arts and crafts teacher, house mother to 90 kids, foster mother, hospital admin, shop manager, artist, sculptor, writer, journalist, poet, therapist, cheesemaker, chief buyer for an engineering company, caregiver in nursing homes, secretary, waitress, receptionist, telephonist, fashion designer and St John's Ambulance Certification, among others...