The Dino-Aspie Cafe (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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That is why I like coming here!! Every one has a place and a place for everyone. I can sit and listen, REALLY LISTEN, to banker or insurance agent and walk out knowing nothing! NADA!! It drives me crazy. But ask me to get the homeless person on the corner to feel good about themselves, and I glow!! I can sit and ask someone a million questions about themselves and I will remember the information forever!! I had to read "Personal Finances For Dummies" 4 times and I still have to go back! If I ever need advice it would be you I would trust!!

It's because we are 'Karma Eaters" BlessedMom, we can make the other person feel good because they can hear in our sincerity that we usually don't want a thing from them for making them feel good. And we just absorb their Karma and turn it into energy. We are truly blessed.


Merle

maybe our memories work the same way? i recognise these remembering of details, things someone said, dress s/he wore, flavor, look, subject, way of walking, smiling, intonation of the voice, a certain line in a drawing, etc etc

i wave to everyone too, have no time for the moment, will be here only very occasionaly cause exams will start the 20 th of may and i haven't quite done what i should to be properly prepared.
fortunately i have a decent exam schedule with quite some space between (8 exams for 4 weeks, with three days with 2 exams on the same day of which the exams go rather well together), i've already done 8 exams in january, so i have a better schedule than most of the other students.

Waving back at you, Lemon! Good luck on your exams! Remember to eat! Don't forgo sleep (sleep locks in memory)!
I'm sending you good energy!

To improve your memory, get up and move your body between short sessions of studying to increase your adrenaline flow. Every now and then bend at the waist and touch your toes so that your head is positioned downward, then turn your head in several different positions - to move the cerebral spinal fluid around the ventricles and bring in fresh nutrients. Prop your feet up above the level of your heart at least 3 times a day (10 minutes each) to let the lymphatic system drain.

I always loved test time. When the pressure is on my flighty brain (for at least a time) locks into full focus mode. Unless the test is boring. Then I start daydreaming and score badly by missing the time deadline.

See why I like her posts?

krex: I question everything, have trouble with authority and illogical environments too... and to me, it's illogical from the start that our health care is a For-Profit Business!? Isn't there an inherent contradiction there? You're gonna reward HMOs for cutting corners, withholding coverage and treatments, second-guessing Physicians, exempting "pre-existing conditions" (as if you can separate those from the rest of the person!) -- all to improve stockholder returns????
( Who's gonna hire me with these attitudes? )

And: If the "manager" did the screwup, why should you have to suffer?


oh no... I use those see-thru plastic Chinese soup containers as my drinking cups (they hold so much I can stay at the computer longer...) But I don't understand - full of carcinogens? It's just water in clean (looking) plastic!

Good for you for coming down hard on intimidation. Yay Zanne!


You sound like a great mom (I think it's a parental duty to share Monty Python with your kids!)
...If I should become homeless again, how can I feel good about myself?

An Aspiedistra is a plant, like a Chlamydia or a Hanging Genetalia...

Since plastic never really gets clean, it traps bacteria and other contaminants in water, etc. The biggest offenders are the plastic that is reused like tupperware. So he says and so I later read. It doesn't really matter to me, Tom, because we aren't allowed to have plastic in our house to store anything except cleaning supplies and we certainly don't use it to eat or drink out of with his attitude. So I won't have to worry about that. We'll probably both die of cancer as a result! LOL He also has carpet phobia and I could get into that big time, but he was right about that as well. Carpet (the wall-to-wall type) is nasty so it's okay that he gave me carpet phobia. See! Match made in heaven.

An Aspiedistra is a plant, like a Chlamydia or a Hanging Genetalia...[/quote]


I am not sure I want to be assosiated with "hanging genitils with clamidia"

Thanks for the advice.I will try and call and email the guy and get some answers but I am not very optimistic about getting a hold of someone(that doesnt live in India and read from a computer generated script.)I always hate getting information on the phone.Unless it happens to be a monitored and recorded call....the person can pretty much saying anything and deny it later.I like to get things in writing when ever it concerns money and large corporations.I have no doubt that to work in insurence and benifits field involves blood sacrifices and aligance with Satan....or at least,that they will save the company money and not be overly concerned if it costs me more in the long run.I think this is what pays for those little perks they call...."incentives",in the business world.I like animals so much more then people..... when dogs pee on me,I at least know that it is because they are happy to see me.

well, let me pee on your leg a little, Krex.
I work for a regional group that prides its self on hiring only from the geographical location its members reside in, and also we are coved by the same insurance they are, for good measure. I will be glad to assist you.
I work in a really good place, a NOT for PROFIT health insurance company. I explain policies and benefits to a vast amount of people. I am lucky enough to be with a branch of an old established company that is dedicated to serve it's members and cut through the bs and red tape of dealing with insurance. I like my job and I do good.

I am going out to my montly AS get together. but when I come back, I will decipher your post that Zanne and Blessed Mom did such a good job on and put it as simply as only I can (see, that's why I am so good at my job, I explain it to people as if they were ME!)
ok?

Merle

Plastics also contain estrogenic chemicals that are doing nasty things to the males of MANY, MANY different species.
Plastic breaks down into it's chemical components over time. Quite often these compounds are altered over time and become very toxic. They found in museums that when plastic toys or buttons aged the fabrics and wood around the plastics would be reduced to dust by the chemicals in the old plastic. Old Barbie dolls were the worst. I threw all of my old dolls away instead of giving them to my daughter. It was scary!

...pttuuuiiii!....Gak!! pthh..pthh...

You mean these vampire teeth I've been wearing all these years may be affecting me? And my Barbie dolls!?!

Barbie dolls are the root of all evil!! Vampire teeth are worth the threat to your masculinity, though!! Can't have too many fake teeth!!

And how are things in the world of Chuck?

Please. I am in mourning.

NOT THE BARBIE DOLL-OLL-OLLsss... WAHHHHHH!! !! SOB! WAHHHHHHHH!

Maybe you wouldn't feel good but at least you wouldn't feel completely worthless. A kind word can boost a person for a time.

<through unrelenting tears> Happy Mother's Day by the way.

Ok! OK! You can keep the Barbie's as well! Just keep them away from the lost horse leg! Who knows what kind of chemical reaction would take place!!
I hate to see a grown man laughing in despair!