No Emotional Skin

Description of someone with borderline personality disorder. New name apparently pending for the DSM 5.
Understanding how they relate to people and why they do the things they do.
I guess we start building up layers and layers from the moment we are born.
It seems we need a tough skin and working in mental health, you need to have this as your back up plan. Actually being a nurse entails a thick skin, life demands it.
But what if you don't learn how to deal?
You turn it around to dealing in on yourself. A cruel parody of life.
Still learning and moving on.
Life investigations continue.

Doing better things for my liver.

Thought a workshop started at 9am - which in fact is 1130am - so have time for the proverbial coffee etc.
Dr Sandra Cabot - author of the liver cleansing diet and vitamins will be holding court and I would like to know if I can be doing better things for my liver(!)
After receiving lots of comments for my letter to the Australian Magazine recently - ie Rose, Gospel, Blue Vein and Time. Not going to get to 110! Cos I prefer my rose and blue vein cheese.
Which reminds me, I haven't indulged in a good blue vein for a while.
Anyway life cannot be all about 'health' can it? Some additives are a pre requesite for living.
Changed shifts to get this workshop happening, by all accounts it will be a glorious lunch and I am a lady who loves to lunch................. Without the income usually allocated.
Finishing reading 'Three Cups of Tea'. A curious tale of an American male nurse Greg, who devotes his life to the tiny villages that occupiy the highest ridges of Pakistan. Following his climbing attempt of K2 ie Everest. He is quite an unlikely hero. Certainly not a great administrator or even communicator. But he relates to the people he met in Pakistan.

A new fridge in my life.

The world offered at your fingertips - old TV Shows -Starsky and Hutch? That big red charger with the big white stripe, all the old gas guzzlers, the big clunky landline phones.
What was I doing staying up late again - a bit of Letterman and his anti Twitter rants - very funny - I happen to agree with him.
Blogging I like.
We have had the rain and it looks a lot like winter. Time for a warm fire and a roast dinner.
Have got a new combustion heater installed and a new fridge!!
For the first time in my life I have bought a fridge. (previously had hand me downs) It is meant to be the most envirnmentally friendly model - an electrolux, bottom mount. I am still to get the freezer organized. Fits the space perfectly, was made for our house. A fwe issues with them delivering the wrong sided door hinge, resulting in a return visit, sigh.............................
The 1MILLION WOMEN Campaign launch has inspired me to keep on the look out with my choices and tell others about this. Energy being a precious commodity, also reading 'Screw Light Bulbs' which tells you about options for a healthier carbon emmisions life.
On my way for the proverbial coffee stop.

Art or Money?

Very early breakfast tomorrow.
Attending the 1 million women breakfast in the morning.
Need to get up at 5.30am! Help.
I think it will be worth it once I'm there.
Can also see a film at the Nova - one of the minuses of living this far south is the trek to see decent cinema.
Noarlunga throws on an 'art' film for one week very sporadically.
My art essay is still pending.....................
The question is always Art or Money, too hard to choose.

Looking down the barrel @ 50 - Tasmania on my mind.

Check emails, do banking, read some junk, blog.
Have brekkie and a really good coffee @ The Green Room.
Read The Age weekend.
Considering facebook - but would I get caught up with lots of stuff I can't keep up with?
Have booked a Tasmania sojourn for my 50th and am now leaning towards having just a really nice family dinner.
Boys are going to Queensland - and then I will have a holiday!
I have another to do list of about 20 items.
Saw 'Date Night' last night at the volunteers movie nite.
Great fun - even if the last line or two were probably not appropiate for my son Jerry.
Sometimes it is just nice to see a movie that is just for laughs - Tina Fey portrays real life women, with all the struggles, battles and everyday dilemms - how do I work this machine, get through the daily grind, school things, work, bills, getting birthday presents - but nothing made in China!
Reviving myself this morning.
Time to go home and get ready for work.
Hoping for less angst today - please...............

What do we do with all these memories? The Price.

Go and see The Price - State Theatre Company - Arthur Miller.
Terrific building resentment amongst the crumbling ruins of a father's life. Two sons fight over what could have been. Old dresses in the wardrobe, radio sets, boats oars and fencing equipment. The fencing a great metaphor for the two brothers who dance around each other with a vengence.
What price a life? What do we do with all these memories?
To hard to give away or sell.............
A feeling of betrayal if any of it is left to be sold to someone with out any emotional attachment.
I guess we all have differing levels of attachment.
Getting ready for holiday road night, quarry market, mother's day, sunday school, GP appointment, movie nite, court appearance, Tassie trip, 50th(NO!) and more.
S'okay!

Letters to the editor - how to write more in my life.

Feel a bit muddled.
Trying to get the house in order, for the cleaner(!)
Plus organizing holidays, birthdays, court attendances, appointments for hair and dental, letters to the editor (got letter of the week, in the Saturday Advertizer magazine, on backing down).
Now on the way around to the church to pick up chrysanthemums that need a good drink.
Then off to see The Price @ The Dunstone Playhouse for a 6.30pm start.
See you in a while.