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Hi folks,

I just figured out how to get a pic into my avatar -- thanks Janelle -- great instructions!

The picture is my granddaughter's first Christmas and my birthday (Christmas Eve). Melia is now 2 1/2, so this is about 2 years old. I am usually behind the camera, not in front!

This has been such an interesting thread -- what a wonderful idea Heidi!

You are all such interesting and diverse people! I must admit that I was very taken with Wader's building with the wings! What a great project to be involved with. As a birdwatcher, I also particularly like Derek's kiwi.

I feel like I know you all better now that I have faces to put with the posts!

Sleep well,

Jane

This is pretty neat. I'm new here, but it's nice to know who you all are. I don't have a picture of myself right now. I guess I could get one. I am a retired clinical nurse/lab tech/x-ray tech. I'm also an amater Botanist. Right now my main employ is raising 2 of my grandchildren and being a farmer's wife. My DH also has a full time off farm job so my job description gets rather involved sometimes. I'm an animal husbandman for a donkey, cattle, goats, chickens, dogs and cats(amateur veteranarian) A crop scientist, a heavy machinery operator (I drive a John Deere Tractor with tillage and planting equipment), I'm a gardener, a milkmaid, an animal obstetrician, a neonatal intensive care worker for baby animals, I'm a gofur...go fur more deisel, more grease, tools, lunch. I'm a tool pusher, a welder's helper, a fence builder, and general manual laborer. I'm a research specialist, a communications specialist, bookkeeper a maid and cook. I run my own cannerie for my home grown produce. I'm mom to 3, grandmom to 5 and wife to a hard working farm boy for nearly 26 years.

Shoot, girl, no wonder you have a Sleep Deficit. You dont' have time to sleep, and if you were fatigued you'd think it was from all that stuff you do. And does your husband come home and find you relaxing and wants to know what you did all day?

Sometimes, because I'm so exhausted that there are always things I needed to get done that didn't get done. But at least people and animals are fed and clean. Sometimes we've got the washer going into the night. He loves me. He got me a very nice dishwasher so I have more time to get some rest.

We used to think I really slept all the time, and i am tired all the time. My Mother-in-law is one of those "crack of dawn" type people and thinks it's sinful to sleep if the sun is shining. As soon as the sun goes down she's asleep too. Well, my hours are quite different. Even if I go to bed, I can't sleep and thrash around until after midnight. I dread going to bed at night. I am in pain and it seems like torture. Then I have a fitful slep, and never seem to sleep enough, though the more I slep the worse I feel. When I went for the slep study I had to do a diary. I found that I was actually averaging 5 to 6 hours of actual sleeping per 24 hour period. I was shocked! And then to wake up 16 times an hour during that time, well, it's no wonder I'm a little flaky.

I forgot to add that I'm a plus size these days. I'm 45 years old, and 5'7" and weigh 220. I gained 70 pounds during the worst of my health crises. (I also have hypothyroidism, helped with synthroid) I began having difficulties around 30 years of age and 160 pounds.

Hey, I found an e pic of me! It's not very sharp. Hmmm. I did something strange when I shrunk it I think. I'll work on that. This is me anyway. The only picture I care to be seen in public with at the moment. At least I had the energy to put my makeup on that day.

sleeplesssue,

I, too, am a farmer's wife. However, I'm in a totally different stage of life. At home I have an almost 10 year old son who is diabetic, a 5 year old son and a 3 year old son. My 20 year old son lives in his own house with his girlfriend.

I grew up in the city so it has been an adjustment. I pretty much take care of the kids and house.

Good to have you,

Heidi

My own kids are all grown. One is off trying to get her stuff together, I've got her kids. One is in college and one is in the Army, 10th Mountain Div in NY. I sure miss my son. I knew he helped dad and I a lot, but old mom sure is feeling the brunt of it now that he's gone to serve Uncle Sam for a while. I'll be glad when he comes back home when his tour of duty is up. His sister tries to help, but she's afraid to drive the tractor and can't stand the sight of blood, so helping work the cattle is out of the question for her.

Hi sleeplesssue,

Don't want to take the wind out of your hose or anything but unless you've experienced success in politics or been termed an "Evil DME" - well, you just haven't made it! Stop puttering around and really put your energies into enhancing the ol resume.

Remember - wholesome is as wholesome does, but the real money is in getting everybody ticked off!

Just kidding, enjoyed your post!

Bob F

PS - was the avatar an innocent farmer's daughter or the Coca Cola queen?

Now don't be makin' fun 'o my hat. I like hats. I prefer to think of this as my "church lady" look, with "bonnet"

Trust me, you don't want to see the working farm gal picture. It's not a pretty sight. Ya see, that's not mud on them boots pardner. This picture's a little easier to look at.

I'm rather contented with life as it is at the moment. I may as well be, it's what I've got for a life. It'd be nice to feel good though. I'm not contented with that. Money dosn't buy happiness for me. It can certainly come in handy sometimes though.

Wellllll, I try to steer clear of politics these days. I get called an evil something or other plenty when discussin' such as that. I think I'll leave it for the hard ball players and just take care of my animals.

sleeplesssue wrote:Wellllll, I try to steer clear of politics these days. I get called an evil something or other plenty when discussin' such as that. I think I'll leave it for the hard ball players and just take care of my animals.

You evil non-partisans. Always staying out of the fray. You make me sick.

Liam, tongue firmly in cheek.

to each his'n own.

I thought I might add that my DH doesn't like this picture of me. I like it, but he likes the working farm gal version. My son calls this "too much makeup lady" or "explosion in a Mary Kay Factory."

As I said before, "To each his'n own." I'm sorta glad he likes the working farm gal version better because that's what he gets most often.

I'm a little late to jump in to this thread, but....

I'm a 45 year old software engineer for a small-ish engineering company in the outskirts of Seattle. I work primarily on automated digital microscope equipment used in biological research.

I also play fiddle (and a little electric guitar) in a "working" Cajun dance band here in Seattle. My musical heart is (also) in the fiddle and banjo music from the Appalachians generically known as "oldtime music". This is a musical style that predates Bluegrass and functions more as a social gathering "glue" and dance music than a "performance" music. There is an old saying in the community: "Oldtime Music: It's better than it sounds!".

TXKajun grew up in the same town as one of my Louisiana musical heros and his father even worked with him!

I live in an old Crafstman house great neighborhood in Seattle, just bought a new VW Golf to run on biodiesel, and, you guessed it, a dyed-in-the-wool Leftie!

Your pal in the northwest corner of the map,
Fiddlin' Jim

Bless your li'l heart! I grow bio diesel "crude". I'm a centerist, but bless your li'l old heart anyway. And thanks a bunch for going biodiesel. Everybody ought to do it. It's good for everybody. Well, maybe except for oil companies and oil field workers. (shhhh....don't talk to loud, I'm here in the sooner state and somebody might spread an oil slick in my driveway or something)

BTW...I love bluegrass music and especially the old songs that didn't get to be the ones popularized on the Grand Ol'e Oprey. You know, like the ones Granny Bess might have made up and sung while she churned butter or something. I especially love the spiritual ones.

So, I am 23 years old. I guess one of the youngest here. I had my study done and had an AHI of 74, so, I may be young, but I am equally afflicted.

I am finishing up school here in New York City this summer and then looking for a job. I am hoping to move to San Francisco or back home to CT or Boston or Portland or another cool city. I just need a job before I can go anywhere.

If any of you have contacts in Financial Services or run your own hedge fund, let me know! I need a job! Ha ha....

Wow, a 2-month thread bump, impressive. Okay - well my avatar was done, my medical situation is described in my intro post which my sig line links to - so, my rundown - I went to Cornell and majored in electrical engineering, paid for by a full-tuition ROTC scholarship. I went out to L.A. to work space systems, specifically on military weather satellites. We launched a few, turned on the systems from the ground, that was pretty cool "mission control" type stuff, but mostly it was engineering contracts - design reviews, negotiations, requirements development, source selections... Got out after four years and married another guy who had much the same background. His resume was slightly better than mine (he got into a grad school program that I didn't get into) and he was better at getting recognized for his work (I worked my butt off without worrying about awards, recognitions, etc. - didn't realize you were supposed to write your own!) so decision made, I'd be home with the kids. We have been all over the country, So Cal, Boston, Mid Cal, Northwest, and now DC. 5 children born, their birthplaces scattered around the country. My kids are doing great, young teenager down to a toddler who's really a little boy now. We've homeschooled here and there; last year, everybody was home; this past year, one BOY and our little boy were home; next year, all school-eligible kids will be partaking of the fine offerings of our local public schools. Only my little boy will be home, except for any nursery school he winds up going to. I am therefore, an amateur educational advisor, having schooled myself in homeschooling, unschooling, deschooling, freeschooling, carschooling... and alternative educational philosophies such as John Holt's and the Sudbury Valley School... and gifted education and special education and speech therapies and dyslexia and occupational therapies and "twice-exceptional"chidren and asynchronous development and Dabrowski's OverExcitabilities and sensory integration and executive function and all sorts of things. Then there's all the health stuff I've learned about including experiencing apnea in a 3yo - I knew years ago that my little guy had sleep apnea - we went and got his tonsils out, presto chango! Any medical issue my kids had, here I've been, on the web, getting informed, teaching myself. Now I just have to figure out what degree to back it up with.