What Happened?

Basic needs seem to not be met, from what people are telling me this week.

For example: families having their electric shut off and cannot afford to turn it back on. How can this be?

In all honesty, I have never seen the economy so bad in my lifetime.

Seems like every person I have spoke with this week is in serious need of just basic, food, clothing, shelter, utilities, etc.

The basics were at one time easy for these middle class families to afford.

Cannot believe families are having to live without electric in their home.

Shitty Economy…worse than shitty.

Don’t know what to call it…whatever means worse than shitty.

Eccentric History – Most Visited Posts

Truth – philosophical debate

Do Ultimatum’s Work?

Timely Thoughts

Interview of American college students

Vampire history

Boob Racism

Unsolvable Rubics Cube

Leaders vs. Followers

How Do I Set Up a Blogroll?

The Little Room

Death Penalty Debate

England:The Haunted Tower?

Suburbitches
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Liz

Eccentric’s Simplicity Equation

Focus: Plans

People often ask me, “Why don’t you make plans and stick to the plans?”

Well, there are several reasons for this:

What is the point in making a plan? For example: “Would you like to have lunch on Saturday?” My response typically is “I don’t know, can I call you on Saturday?”

Why?

Feeling the pressure of said plan, when may get up that morning and just feel like taking the dog to the park, or just watching movies and vegging out all day, or it may even be an actual occasion where in the mood to clean all day.

If the mood to clean and work all day strikes me, which is not often because fun is always over cleaning, than I surely have to change the plan to clean and do housework.

Mood – What if I am not in the mood for said made plans on that day?

Cancellations – Think it is breaking a promise to break plans…so, why not just never make plans until the very last-minute…then, no promises broken.

You might be thinking, “this sounds like a negative outlook.”

No, it is not, because the” no making of plans”, means no promises broken or hurt feelings.

What if I really need sleep that day? I cannot predict the future.

The Equation: 

No making of plans until very last minute = no breaking of promises or hurt feelings

My aunt is the same way, and I sort of picked up this technique from her, smart woman.

She and I are much alike, in that if we get in the mood to clean, we have to clean that day or it simply will not get done.

So, in conclusion…

If you never wish to break a promise or cancel on another person, make plans at the last-minute and do not RSVP – ever.

To be honest, seems like each time ever made a plan, something always comes up…always. So, what is the point of a plan?

Can I predict the future? No. So, why make a plan?

Actually makes logical sense, if we think about the problem solving involved in the equation.

No plans = no pressure = happier = no breaking of promises or hurting relationships.

What’s the plan?

To have zero plans

How do you cancel plans politely?

No plans in the first place to cancel.

Simplicity

:)

My Neighbor is Perfect ~ Hooray

It is 12:14 pm (around noon) here, this really is not a real blog post or serious writing, but it is worthy of a post (maybe).

Just woke up and sitting outside drinking my coffee, and my neighbor is outside.

My neighbor is fully dressed, tan, perfect shape, perfect make-up and hair, and even perfect shoes on while mowing grass. Her home is perfect and the grounds.

Liz just woke up, hair looks like birds landed in it sometime, no bra on (come on, I just woke up) and my grass needs mowed severely. I also refuse to cut down the corn stalks and wild flowers that are growing in my front yard for no reason.    :)

Frustrating that she is already so busy and has everything done in her yard, and I must have (4) cups of coffee before I can begin such work.

Hard for me to type right now because only had a 1/2 cup of coffee. Check back in later, have to try to catch up with “Mrs. Perfection” over here somehow, well probably won’t (what for?). It is making feel a bit tense, like I should get up and do some work or something.

Gets on my damn nerves when people try to act like they can “walk on water.”

Here is the kicker: She is about 15 years older than me. Am I jealous?

Yes, jealous of her time management skills and her perfectionism.

Please keep in mind I live in a subdivision community.

What is the point of this post?

Perfectionism vs. realism

Are Your Posts Readable?

Wanted to drop a quick bit of, most likely unwanted advice into the blogosphere.

Successful blog = larger font

Font that can be easily read without the reader squinting.

Perhaps making font larger if possible on current theme

or

Choosing new theme that allows for larger font

Many readers (myself included) wear glasses, have eye issues, hard for them to read from phone or laptop if font is small.

Notated the above font issue from reading a shitload of blog posts over the past week.

:)

Liz

The “Unsolvable” Rubik’s Cube

Glimpse into my personal life.

I really need WordPress bloggers advice, as this conflict in my life, is like a rubik’s cube to my brain.

Been trying to solve this problem for so long, my brain doesn’t seem to have the “feelings or emotions” to be able to solve this problem.

Meaning that I often times do not put feelings into problem solving. Don’t feel the two go together, in the same category (my brain refuses to put the two into the same category-yes, I know it’s odd).

WordPress Bloggers are smart and can most likely offer me a different point of view of this personal conflict.

  • In other words, I have been trying to control my emotions recently, instead of allowing my emotions to control me.

Background Information:  Husband and I are now separated (not all the way) but very close. I am having a hard time understanding his point of view, as he is not a talker but only a “doer.” He believes in actions and not words, which is why I love him so very much and wish to make our marriage work. I often have a hard time understanding men or their wishes because:

  •  I am simply not a mind reader and refuse to become a mind reader now or in the future.

Problem: Husband has a long list of things that he wishes for me to do, and that is why he “emotionally separated” from me about a year ago. Now, we are physically and emotionally separated, and no longer reside together.

You could be thinking, “giving a person a list is ludicrous.”

However, in my particular situation, it is not, because these things are actions I should be taking anyway, and that most normal people do on a daily basis. In other words, they are of the “norm.” The actions he wishes for me to take would make my life so much better, he is right for asking these “things” of me to do, in order to better my life even if he is not in my life.

Liz needs to do things to make life better (normal) = Husband comes back and everything fine

I do not mind at all implementing the actions that he wishes for me to do, they are basic common sense stuff, that every person in America does on a daily basis, don’t want to list them as it is embarrassing that I do not do these basic things on a daily basis.

For example: Sometimes, I will just not do anything else but exercise (intensely for an entire evening) and thus not really get any other goals accomplished, just as a stress reliever. This seems to be aggravating to others in my life, because I am not “getting things done” in their eyes.

Liz needs better time management in personal life = essence of marriage problem

Problem Part 2: I am unable to carry out the list of actions that husband wants and needs in a marriage.

Why?

Need his support to start the actions I need to take to make our lives and my life better.

Background Part 2: Have tried so many times to communicate this to husband, he is not understanding.

Can you solve the puzzle?

Puzzle:

  • Keep husband = Liz has to “fix” many things personally and take many actions
  • Taking actions = requires husband’s support to start/achieve goals of marriage
  • No support = no action on Liz’s part
  • No action on Liz’s part = no marriage
  • No marriage = Liz unhappy

Do you see the above rubik’s cube?

I am unable to take the actions needed that husband wishes, and the actions would be better for my life (extremely better).

However, cannot carry out the actions without husband’s support, thus I am stuck.

Have no idea what to do, or how to handle.

Goal = keep husband as love him deeply and believe he is my soul mate.

The marriage counselors in this area are just plain stupid, and their intelligence is so low, that I refuse to say any words to them at all. The counselors lack just plain common sense and intelligence in this area. We would have to travel far to find a good counselor.

Bloggers are wonderful advisors on life’s problems, so figured give this a try to get outsider’s points of view, from intelligent people who are writers here on WordPress.com.

Suggestions on how to solve the above rubik’s cube?

English: Rubik's cube rendered in 3Ds Max Espa...

English: Rubik’s cube rendered in 3Ds Max Español: Cubo de Rubik renderizado en 3Ds Max (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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