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A6 THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DEcEmbER 19, 2018 She’s stealing time Dear Annie: I don’t want to want my time to count? continue to let two of my friends It seems this one lady takes a lot steal my time. One friend is the of people’s time. Doesn’t she real- worst when it comes to this. She ize people are busy? I don’t want to calls me at least twice a week. I hear from her twice a week. I just don’t. If she needed help believe that her husband DEAR or had a problem, I would does everything in the ANNIE help. But she just talks aim- house — cooking, shop- lessly. I would like to hear ping and all the driving — from her maybe once a because she has plenty of month. Help! — No State, time to talk on the phone. No Name This friend calls several Dear No State, No other people, one after Name: Our time is our the other. I have told her I am always busy. I have ANNIE LANE most precious resource, Creators and you’re wise to guard a lot of grandchildren and Syndicate Inc. yours. But your friend is great-grandchildren. I love most likely lonely, so try them and care how they are doing. We call each other for not to let annoyance eclipse com- a few minutes. We love to spend passion when speaking with her time with each other. I live alone. about this issue. In a positive tone, I cook, shop, do volunteer work share with her how time-consum- once a week, read a bunch, watch a ing your daily routine, community little TV, send get-well cards to the activities and family relationships sick, see whether they need any- are, and let her know you’re plan- thing, etc. I have friends where I ning to spend more energy focus- volunteer. I have friends at church. ing on those things. Tell her you Time is so valuable. I like my time won’t be around to talk so often to count each day. I want to tell her but you’ll still be thinking of her she should call her grandchildren, and be around if she needs you for read a book, watch a little TV. She anything serious. If she continues shouldn’t just sit on the phone. I to call you just to pass the time, am old — older than she is. I may that’s all right; you don’t have to not be here tomorrow. Is there answer, and you don’t have to feel something wrong with me that I guilty or angry about it, either. TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE By Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc. ARIES (March 21-April 19). Each and every effort you make is a brick in the monument of your reputation. You don’t feel pressured by this (because by now the people around you know you pretty well), but you do take the responsibility seriously. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The mature mind is like a dual processing computer. It can function while running two programs at the same time. Sure, sometimes there’s a clash that hangs things up, but you’ll be fixing bugs as you go today. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Things may not be what they seem, but there are certain widely accepted mea- sures of proof that would be hard for reasonable people to deny. This is the stuff you’ll be gathering today to make your case. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). The problem you once thought of as insidious now seems like a really fascinating study in how things develop with their own inner logic and wisdom to try to solve the issues they face. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There are those who were never taught good manners, and then there are those who were taught them but, for whatever reason, never learned. Either way, it’s a blessing. It gives everyone a chance to practice the virtue of tolerance. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There’s you, and then there’s your role. You never want to confuse the two or invest your ego in the role instead of in you — because roles come and go, shifting and fading around an eter- nal part of you. CANCER (June 22-July 22). We run our lives on hypoth- esis, acting in accordance with our theories about how the world is and should be. When the world doesn’t agree, that’s when things get really exciting. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Matters of right and wrong will be quite complicated. Potentially, you could waste many hours arguing over it. Look instead at the spirit of the rules, the tone of things and the overall feeling of an experience. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There are many communication skills worthy of mastering, but none will have such wide-ranging terrific effects as the skill of choosing the topic of conversation well. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’re not usually inclined to think of yourself first, but go on; do it. You’ll be amazed at whom else you can make smile while follow- ing through with what you believe are purely selfish motives. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You refuse to stay home, and you’ll never be smugly satisfied that you already know enough — because your understanding of reality keeps changing as you meet new people, learn different new topics and have new experiences. FRANK AND ERNEST BLONDIE THATABABY SALLY FORTH PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN B.C. LOLA DILBERT SIX CHIX BIZARRO MUTTS NON SEQUITUR BABY BLUES WIZARD OF ID ZITS ROSE IS ROSE PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). An interaction that seems out of joint needs but one quick reset — a powerful snap — to set everything right. Go on and do it. Oth- erwise, you’ll continue, everything rubbing the wrong way, uncomfortable and annoying. TOMORROW’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 20). The next three months feature unparalleled liveliness. After that, things settle. The repetition of healthy habits relaxes you into a deep groove. Other highlights include more intense love than you thought your heart was capable of, a special piece of creative work and a string of interviews. Capricorn and Taurus adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 3, 33, 38 and 14.
