Computers and my husband

I haven't had enough energy this week even to write my blog. I go to work, am exhausted after two hours, make it home to sleep for an hour or two, and struggle through the evening till bed time. Thinking processes are definitely dulled by the fatigue.

A change of topics! Cliff was supposed to go on a computer course yesterday. You have to know my husband to know how funny that is. He is a complete technophobe. In December the school sent him on part 1 of this computer course where he learned all about Word and Excel. Afterwards, I asked him if he knew how to turn the computer on yet. Apparently, they hadn't taught him that. Of course, come January, he still can't turn it on and he was to go on part two of the course yesterday. However, he received an email (which I have to check for him) in late December from the people running the course to remind him and I replied (as him) saying that due to the pressure of work, he would be unable to attend. It worked! Neither of us thought that it would! In fact, he went to the course only to be told that he wasn't on the list! He said that the carpenter looked enviously at him as he left. However, his boss found out that he hadn't gone and tried to tear a strip of him. When Cliff told him that he wasn't on the list, it rather took the wind out of his sails! Even funnier, Cliff went on to tell him how ridiculous it was that he should take a course when he couldn't turn a computer on nor send an email. The fact of the matter is that if he wants to contact his brother by email, I send it for him. In the end, the telephone is Cliff's form of communication and I can't really blame him. I think that I prefer to talk to people!

I think that stress has a lot to do with my fatigue. A friend of mine (Lynda in Florida) sent me an email about stress. It is a little simplistic (at least when you work with my head of school it is!). However, it might be useful to some and it does have a few laughs. So, here it is:

Stress Management
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?"
Answers called out ranged from 8oz. to 20oz.
The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance."
"In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."
He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress management. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on."
"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden."
"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work/life down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can."
"Relax; pick them up later after you've rested. Life is short. Enjoy!"
And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:

* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

* Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their Maker.

* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

* Never buy a car you can't push.

* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

* Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

* Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.

* The second mouse gets the cheese.

* When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.

* You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once

* We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.

"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you today. . . . . . . I did.

I hope you don't think this is too... I'm not sure what but I'm sure you know what I mean. Folksy, that's it!