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Catching Up
By: Jack Date: January 9, 2019, 5:03 pm
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I started another thread, but I just have so much to say, I
decided it was best to do this first.
Those whom I see in chat probably already know a lot about this,
but it probably bears repeating anyway. There have just been a
ton of things going on lately.
1) This is the first full year I've taught while doing this
forum (here or the original). I had thought the afternoons
would give me time to handle things, but...
2) My mother has been having health and other problems. This is
really complex, both because there have been several
intersecting situations, and because of my relationship with her
(which has never exactly been great). For now, let's just say
that she had some boarders - she might have been glad of the
company, but they weren't exactly great people, and they were
taking advantage of her. Because of that situation, she
basically just quit taking care of herself. Except for one guy
who's her cousin's grandkid, we have everyone out of the house.
We've made a lot of repairs. We've caught up all her bills.
She's also getting up and getting around a lot more, and she
seems to be doing better mentally, physically, and emotionally.
My problem is that she's always been manipulative, and I feel
like part of the 'troubles' she keeps talking about a just a way
to manipulate me now, and all the time and effort this is taking
is eating both into my personal time and my energy reserves.
3) This goes back to one, but with the holidays and everything
and the college kids being home, I tried to do the same things I
usually did, but with one and two eating up a lot of my time,
that wore me really thin.
4) This years Christmas Serial almost didn't happen. I wasn't
able to post a full 25 entries like normal, and it required time
that I would have spent here normally.
I know everyone reading this is understanding of those things,
but I still feel like I owe an explanation.
There actually were spankings last month (I didn't realize until
today that I didn't even do a December Spanking Report).
Besides the spankings that were referred to as BOTD scenarios, I
got to give a couple of paddlings before finals started for my
own students, I got to give a pants down spanking to two boys
acting up while finals were occurring, and I had a
parent/teacher meeting with one student whose Dad promised he'd
be getting well spanked when they got home. In my own home,
except the scenarios I reported, the only spankings were the
youngest three - Connor and Curtis for bathtime problems, and
Jake for chores. My grandnephews (Ollie and Andy (7 and 9) also
got spanked for pretty much the same thing. I also know that
Rhett and Ryder got their bottoms worn out - chore-related
disobedience, I think. There were several younger friends,
including Drake and Ed Rawlings, who got spanked the week after
Christmas, but overall, it was not an especially busy month.
I don't think I'm going to spend too much time going back in
general, but I am going to try to do a bit of updating here and
there, while trying to keep up from here on. WE'll see how
things go.
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Re: Catching Up
By: Zyngaru Date: January 9, 2019, 7:25 pm
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Jack.
I have said it before that you have way too much on your plate.
I have never known how you can keep up with so much at the same
time.
A normal person with as many businesses as you have, wouldn't
have extra time for anything else but to watch over their
businesses. A full time job.
Yet you not only have many businesses but a huge family, a huge
extended family, a teaching job, that you say is part time, but
the out of school time makes up for the half that is supposed to
be part time, thus it is a full time job.
A single parent has trouble keeping up with one or two children
and you have dozens. Another full time job.
And there is still much that you do, I have no idea about.
Another one maybe two full time jobs.
So I will say it again. Do what you need to do for you Jack.
You really do need to ease up on the stress in your life.
Stress kills. When I was in the Ministry the greatest lesson
that was taught to me from an elder who had been in the Ministry
for a lifetime was that everyone who has the gift of serving,
needs to learn to say "NO." If you do not learn to say "NO"
then you will overextend yourself and instead of doing a few
jobs well, you will do dozens mediocrely. In the process you
will ruin your health so instead of doing the good work for a
long period of time, your time will be shortened and you will do
poorly.
Please take time to sit back and re-evaluate your life and
prioritize those things which are most important. Weed out that
which you do not have time for, so you can use your energies for
those things you do have time for.
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Re: Catching Up
By: kalico Date: January 9, 2019, 10:50 pm
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Aww I’m sorry to hear about your mom but happy that it seems to
be getting better ... HUGS 🤗
Thanks for the update and I hope things might slow down a bit
for you...
Hugs kal
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Re: Catching Up
By: Jack Date: January 10, 2019, 4:33 pm
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Zyngaru,
It's really not as bad as you make it out to be, simply because
I have good mangers, whom I trust and pay well, how handle most
of the day to day business for me, and other people I trust to
supervise them. Even before I started teaching, I didn't spend
a lot of time worrying about most of my business interests -
instead, I just supervise the supervisors. What I do miss, even
though Josh, Andrew, and Daniel do a great job or running things
day to day, is having so much less time to spend with the comic
stores - my first businesses, and the ones that were a true
labor of love. One of the nicest things, when I finish
teaching, will be being able to spend more time there.
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Re: Catching Up
By: David M. Katz Date: January 12, 2019, 4:33 pm
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[quote author=Jack link=topic=1075.msg11053#msg11053
date=1547075004]
I don't think I'm going to spend too much time going back in
general, but I am going to try to do a bit of updating here and
there, while trying to keep up from here on.
[/quote]
Likely the best plan.
I do hope things settle down for/with your mother.
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