#39 of 50Lessonsfr50YRS: HUMIDITY changes How You Operate-Pencil Protection Edition

This lesson isn't as deep as many of the others in this series...

Lesson #39: #50Lessons50Yrs:

"HUMIDITY changes how you operate."

So I grew up in the South and it was generally like living in a wet blanket...sometimes that blanket was even COLD!  I always felt pretty STICKY. I remember the first time I flew back to Memphis after living in Colorado Springs for about 6 months and walked through the sliding doors to the outside and INSTANTLY began to SWEAT. I thought, "MY GOD, how did I grow up in this?!?!"

Now that I have lived out West for a total of about 12 years (about a quarter of my life), I have experienced the OPPOSITE of HIGH Humidity...DRY AS BONES!

In this low humidity climate, I've had to adjust how I operate and here are a few sub-learnings from this:

A. ONE OF THE BEST PARTS of low humidity is that the "feel" of temperature isn't quite as stunning. For example, 40 degrees in Colorado is light jacket weather VS. being a winter coat weather back in Memphis or Atlanta.  Conversely, 90 degrees in Colorado is NOT miserable like in the South.

B. A couple of DOWNSIDES of Low Humidity:

• You have to drink more water, 
• You have to put lots of lotion on daily and 
• You have to PROTECT YOUR PENCIL ERASERS!

Now here's a good lesson to pass along to your children and teacher friends:

TIPS for PROTECTING your PENCIL ERASERS:

Once "exposed" to the air, you have about 1 month before it becomes hard as a rock and just smears your paper when you attempt to use it.

Keep them in the original package as long as possible.

Once "exposed", you need to protect your future ability to erase cleanly and efficiently, so JUST like safely skiing or riding your bike or any other activity that requires "PROTECTION", you need to buy HELMETS for your pencils.

Helmets are fairly hardy once exposed, but keep your extra helmets in an air-tight baggie.

11 MORE to go in my #50LessonsFr50YRS series...

Post #38 50LessonsFr50Yrs: Lots of "LIKES" don't hurt a thing

ANOTHER installment in my #50LessonsFR50Yrs called:

Lots of "LIKES" don't hurt a dadblast thing!

I am often "called out" for my activity on social media...I do "LIKE" a lot of peoples' posts, but my thinking about social media is that people are looking for attention or affirmation when they post stuff, so what harm is it for me to hit the "LIKE" button?

Of course, I don't "LIKE" some posts that are not aligned with my values, thoughts, and feelings...and on those, I TRY REALLY HARD to just IGNORE them...

However, when I do like or enjoy what you post, why not share little BOOST with that person that tells them "I SEE YOU, I HEAR YOU, I CARE about YOU"?

ONLY 12 MORE POSTS TO GO to hit my GOAL of 50 Lessons BEFORE I turn 51!!!

#37 Be Yourself Redux: 50LessonsFr50Years

OMG - I have THIRTEEN (13) MORE of these lessons to write in the next 74 DAYS before my 50th (really 51st year) ENDS>>>>> ACK!!

So here's my 37th lesson  - "Be Yourself Redux" because I'm pretty sure several of these #50LessonsFr50Years are this SAME LESSON in some form or fashion... 

(oh, sidenote - just thought of another lesson when i bolded that "Be Yourself..." part above...new post idea:

 "WHY do these interfaces offer text choices when the back-end can control that anyway!?!?---or MY LIMITED capabilities on Web publishing is HAUNTING ME since it's now PART OF MY F'ing JOB!")

Let me get back to the topic at hand....may be short and sweet....or could ramble a bit....

So this is the thing about this lesson today "Be Yourself Redux"....when you have a "meltdown" and start acting like others around you (who you LOVE, but you generally do not care for the way they act and feel uncomfortable telling them and know it will only upset them, so you keep it all inside) ...well IF THEY SEE YOU ACTING in a TERRIBLE WAY (that you DISLIKE IMMENSELY, but remember, this is the way they act on a daily, normal basis), THEN THEIR REACTION becomes something UNBeLIEVABLE like they tell YOU that you are being unreasonable or stupid or crazy...

...SOOOOOO basically when you have a brief change in being YOU (when you are having a stress-out moment that RARELY HAPPENS), and they are BASICALLY seeing you being LIKE THEM, they POUNCE ON YOU and it's just not worth letting them see you in your weakness...

so it's REALLY SHITTY time when you are having a bad day or bad moment when you are losing your SHIT and need support, but those who supposedly care about you (b/c you are ALWAYS F'n there for them, so why wouldn't they be there for you?)...well they DECIDE TO BE ALL F'n JUDGEMENTAL about your meltdown, yeah that's just some CRAZY SHIT! 

I'm just tired of it...and I HATE that I have to be REALLY SELECTIVE with who I am honest with anyone b/c many are not very understanding or empathetic or non-judgmental!! 

lol....maybe if anyone really cared and read my blog, they might have an actual REAL F'n conversation with me. 

I'm pretty F'n proud of my VERY VERY HIGH SELF-CONFIDENCE that will keep me afloat (at the moment I am pissed and drowning but the confidence is like a life jacket)!