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Post by KG on Jan 24, 2006 13:49:02 GMT -5
I've been having a really weird stress thing lately. I have a lot to do, and it seems like I am just suddenly realizing how behind I am. I really feel tired but I need to get a lot of chores done really quickly. Some of them I am not sure I even know how to do. I just don't feel up to it, but I need to kick myself in gear.
When I sit in front of my computer I feel really smart, and like I know what I am talking about. When I do things I am good at it is the same way, but life requires that I do things I am not good at, and I tend to put those off. I now have a stack of chores I don't have a lot of passion or aptitude for. The stuff I like is done. I have some basic chores, but I am down to the hard stuff, and I don't want to, don't know how, or just am totally grossed out by what is left. I feel weak as water, especially when I think of it. I can't seem to motivate!
Any suggestions?
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Post by stonerwolf on Jan 24, 2006 18:16:41 GMT -5
hire cheap help? i dunno... i'd help ya out if you lived more along the lines of next door... lol but i dont think your state is exactly 'next door'
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Post by Del on Jan 24, 2006 18:34:06 GMT -5
I've been having a really weird stress thing lately. I have a lot to do, and it seems like I am just suddenly realizing how behind I am. I have some basic chores, but I am down to the hard stuff, and I don't want to, don't know how, or just am totally grossed out by what is left. I feel weak as water, especially when I think of it. I can't seem to motivate! Any suggestions? Write out the not so fun stuff and easy to do stuff. Do the easy to do stuff with no problem and then...AVOID THE COMPUTER for each not so fun task you wrote down to get accomplished. You may finish one and then get back to the computer, but reward yourself with the ease of getting online after each task is done. It's hard, I do the same when it comes to school work and keeping my room tidy, but it works. Try it.
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Post by KG on Jan 25, 2006 0:07:42 GMT -5
Well it is the thought that counts and that is so sweet, I kinda feel like you did help there in a way. That might help. I think I dread cleaning so much. Things like organization and just knowing where to put things where they can be found once I have cleaned, but not out in plain sight is the hard part. I don't mind helping out in other people's homes, but I hate doing my own, cause there is too much stuff. I wish I had a place for everything, but I just don't. Yeah that is a good idea, and I need to keep an eye on the time when I am in front of the computer. My problem is two hours in front of the computer feels like fifteen minutes, and fifteen minutes of cleaning feels like two hours. You are right though. I need to do the work first and rest later. Speaking of school, I'm also playing catch up on home school in a couple of areas with the kids. I need to spend more time with the little one in general. She is not really academically inclined and it is hard to get her to pay attention. She appears to be listening, but then when you quiz her she has no idea what I just said. That is really frustrating after you have just spent an hour explaining something to her. My oldest is crying because she doesn't understand Algebra. I felt like saying, "it's Ok honey, nobody does." LOL but that wouldn't be a good attitude for a teacher to take.
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Post by stonerwolf on Jan 25, 2006 2:28:59 GMT -5
algebra's easy it really is a shame i dont live nearer by, i'd love to feel useful for a change...
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Post by KG on Jan 25, 2006 23:15:51 GMT -5
You actually get Algebra? I can't remember how to do that stuff, and she is kind of having trouble figuring it out. Maybe if she gets in a tight place you could help. I never could figure out which steps to write down, and which ones to do on scratch paper, myself.
Plus, sometimes if it isn't a word problem, I can't visualize it. I mean to me, math only makes sense if there are dollar signs, or if it explains what we are talking about, at least with complex stuff. I used to do horribly, till they broke out the word problems, then I could write the problem down and solve it, but having the problem with no explaination... I couldn't figure out what to do. Unfortunately in high school my old algebra book always saved the word problems for last, so I never understood what they were talking about till after most of the work was already done. Nothing ever made sense till the last section. I guess I am not good at abstract thought. Tell me a story, and I can understand how to solve it. Giving me a string of numbers and more than one variable, just makes me confused.
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Post by stonerwolf on Jan 26, 2006 0:37:34 GMT -5
i dont really know any formulas for algebra, i just get it... i dunno...
i remember prealgebra was a snap, but i dont actually remember any algebra in school...
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Post by KG on Jan 26, 2006 9:55:06 GMT -5
Geometry was like that for me. It was Easy and I made an A. A few months ago I had to look up the forumla to find the circumferance of a circle, and the worst part was, I couldn't think of the word circumferance.
Algebra was my nightmare course, in highschool. MY sll time lowest score on a test ever was my final in Algebra two, I made a 40, and my class grades were not that great either. The teacher passed me, cause he knew I was making A's and B's in all my other classes, and he didn't want to mess me up. He gave me a D and I was so grateful I could have kissed his ugly, football coach mug for it. I didn't understand a word he said the entire year. I was always three sentences behind in trying to interpret his mumbling of words like numerator, denominator, and product. I made an A in college algebra though... I just don't feel confident in it. I never understood why write down this step, and not the other one that was harder for me, but seemed like an of course thing. I could get the right answer, most all the time, but if you count off for the steps, which are the point of algebra, well I just don't get it.
I was great at Social Studies, history, Latin, Art, Biological sciences, because those things are interesting to me. As far as english. I could either try and get a B, or not try at all, and get a B, a C if the teacher was really tough. I was just really average at that. I couldn't get an A cause I couldn't spell, but I couldn't mess up too bad, cause I was a good writer.
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