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Member Since Apr 2021
Location: Kentucky
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#701
A: I wouldn't be surprised if I had SAD or something similar -- winter tends to depress me. I always think about two paintings by Picasso when I get in this mood. I'll link them below.
Q: What is your favorite memory of this year? https://images.masterworksfineart.co...0-for-sale.jpg https://carpetmoss.files.wordpress.c...-bock-1901.jpg __________________ ![]() |
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ɘvlovƎ
Member Since Nov 2013
Location: Australia
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#702
I don’t know if I have a favourite. It’s been a miserable year. Okay so Christmas with the family was good so I’ll go with that.
Do you have fond memories of being in school? |
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Crone
Member Since May 2010
Location: Some where between my inner mind and the solar system.
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#703
I do. By and large school was good. Middle school was rocky but overall I loved school I love books and learning and that kind of dimmed everything else. I had friends but never any very close friends. My nose was always in a book. There was a loose group of us that shared fan fiction of Star Trek. But I was also in a lot of art classes and dressed like a hippie so I didn’t fit into any clique. Looking back I can see that others tried to get close to me but I was in my own world
Same question __________________ Nammu …Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …... Desiderata Max Ehrmann |
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ɘvlovƎ
Member Since Nov 2013
Location: Australia
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#704
Mixed. So so. I mean it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t absolutely amazing. Made some great friends though!
Is there anything planned next year already that you want to do or achieve? |
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Elder
Member Since Oct 2015
Location: US
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#705
So much! The question is actually achieving it! For one, I'd like to be in a financial position to finish school by the end of the year, spring semester at the latest. I'm so close (three classes left), but I have an outstanding bill that needs to be paid as well. Couple that with a sick mother and an aggressively unhelpful father...
Any big events already planned in the coming year? Family reunions, big vacations, seeing someone you haven't seen in years, that sort of thing? __________________ "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." -Litany Against Fear (Dune) |
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Member Since Aug 2023
Location: Central Florida
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#706
I went to a school reunion in October and saw a lot of good people I hadn't seen in a long time. Also got to see my family which I had not seen in 5 years due to complications with my BP. I joined a vocational school program late this year which should have me employed early 2024.
Although this year was really tough for many reasons, I have to say itemizing the good has been helpful here ! Happy New Year Folks ~ ![]() |
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Member Since Mar 2015
Location: USA
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#707
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ɘvlovƎ
Member Since Nov 2013
Location: Australia
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#708
Work would be my least favourite memory. I had some difficult classes!
Are you looking forward to NYE? |
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Member Since Mar 2015
Location: USA
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#709
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ɘvlovƎ
Member Since Nov 2013
Location: Australia
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#710
Yes. I am taking my son to see fireworks at 9:30pm tonight.
If you could, would you care to watch fireworks? |
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Magnate
Member Since Mar 2021
Location: California
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#711
Yes, I would watch fireworks. Where I grew up, we would see multiple fireworks, 5, maybe 7 fireworks from the balcony of our apartment on the top story of a 12-story building. I miss that. It remains among the cherished childhood memories.
Going back to the question about school years. Do you currently keep in touch with at least one of your former classmates? __________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Lybalvi 5 mg as a PRN Gabapentin 1200 mg, Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity Suspected narcolepsy Treated with Ritalin 5mg |
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Location: USA
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#712
No.
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Magnate
Member Since Mar 2021
Location: California
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#713
Yes, I am regularly in touch with my girlfriend who lived in the same apartment complex with me and went to the same elementary and middle school. She still lives in the same apartment. She has a teenage son with anxiety who resists treatment and is herself at her wit's end trying to help him. It is very hard watching her struggle from across the globe. I met her son once in 2019. At that time, he seemed such a hospitable and cheerful boy. I had no idea about his special needs. I offered to talk to him about psych meds, basically to tell him that I use them and am doing fine, all in hopes that he would be less reluctant to try. But then again, I do not take meds for anxiety and cannot speak to them.
I am also in touch on Facebook with a few other classmates and saw a whole bunch of them in 2019. But I have not been continuously in touch with them since the moment we graduated high school. I started using Facebook regularly in 2014 and gradually discovered my former classmates on it. Many of them have been friends continuously, without interruption, since graduation. Q: how many times have you moved since you graduated high school? __________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Lybalvi 5 mg as a PRN Gabapentin 1200 mg, Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity Suspected narcolepsy Treated with Ritalin 5mg |
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ɘvlovƎ
Member Since Nov 2013
Location: Australia
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#714
Let’s see. I’ve lived in South Africa, Scotland, London now Australia. I’ve moved homes more times than I could possibly count.
Are you living in your dream home? |
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Location: USA
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#715
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ɘvlovƎ
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Location: Australia
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#716
Nooooo. I never saw the divorce happening. To me, marriage was for life. TIL death do us part. But look at my amazing fiance and beautiful son.
If you could relive one day in your life all over again, which day would you choose? |
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Magnate
Member Since Mar 2021
Location: California
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#717
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Same question. __________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Lybalvi 5 mg as a PRN Gabapentin 1200 mg, Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity Suspected narcolepsy Treated with Ritalin 5mg |
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ɘvlovƎ
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Location: Australia
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#718
Any of the 3 days one of my kids were born.
Are you with your soulmate? |
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#720
I love being a parent to 3 kids. Ages: 24 (son); 20 (daughter); 5 (son)
If you could fly for free to anywhere in the world for a week, where would you go to? |
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