Daily Comments #6- Just place to plant your thoughts. No feedback required.

Oh my.... I am not driving in the snow again til we get new windshield wipers. I don't, know how the hell, my s/o does it and keep calm. between the extra stress of snow, being nice and waiting which made me out later which meant more traffic...and those damn wipers doing a **** job with working and actually came apart when I knocked off ice before I left, no it didn't just come off the rubber part came off the metal holder,i shoved it back on but noise really got to me . I started to cry when I pulled in to the apt complex.... Then there was a screaming kid when I walked in my apartment.... I just want quiet right, now.

Pet mr.boots and enjoy the silence

I discovered yesterday that it's almost daylight now when I'm walking home from work at 5 PM. The sun is returning to the far north...

Why am I always freezing when everyone else is hot?

Cold hands, warm heart?

Hey, that's a good way to think about it lol

I am so with you on this. It's awful (especially when you have to choose between putting gas in the car to get to work and eating a little something).

I know, I hate that! I choose to gas up the car because otherwise I won't be able to get to work. I have a local soup kitchen that I go to a lot, and at least people can get one good meal a day there. There is a food bank I go to as well, and my mom and aunt provide me with home cooked meals to take home with me. But I hate not being able to go out and buy a cheat TV dinner just because I need to fill up my gas tank.

For sidestepper, What you wrote a few days ago was so beautiful (and sad, and familiar to me).

I hope you will keep writing, you described it so well. I find myself wondering, "How would I ever begin to explain it to someone?".

But you've done it for me.

Wishing you release from the sadness, and that the light will reach you very soon.

You've got a wonderful talent.

I also remember, very well, what it was like to have to choose between gasoline and food. Or paying a bill, and getting groceries. And it was like that again, recently, thanks to the stunts pulled by a band of wretched horrible people back at my husband's old job. We got a frightening taste of dread at almost losing everything we owned, including our house.

I understand how it all makes one feel.

I only wish I could gather you all together and cook a wonderful lavish meal, and send you home with enough money so you'd never have to worry again! The people I've met here are some of the best and bravest, anywhere.

What I wouldn't give to ease your troubles for good...to hug you and remind you, you're welcome any time!...and to let everyone know, there is hope, and there can be positive change, there definitely CAN be.

The more crap you have the more crap you end up depending on and stressing over. Think about it for some of us on here cell phones were not even an issue and we didnt complain about not having one. Now you practically hold onto that thing like a kid with a security blanket. A fully loaded brand new car back in the day is what is included in a standard brand new vehicle today and then some (just imagine how affordable a brand new car could still be without all that crap). Ipad, laptop, wireless internet, just having internet....dependant on crap like its oxygen! but the world survived without it before yet we cling to it like we couldnt get on without it!

Yet, when we go on vacation the first thing you talk about doing is leaving all that ******** at home...........exceot for the phone of course so you can instantly share pictures.......you never see people bringing home an envelope of pictures with that excitement of wondering how the pictures came out after being developed anymore...you dont get see the "bad" pctures with that wierd face you made that later down the road you would laugh at because you instantly deleted it...

Can you name where 5 payphones are? do you know what ones is?

google an address or phone number? casn you read a map? do you have a phone book?

if all cell phones mysteriously disspeared or were remotely erased.....what is your friends phone number?

caller id???? The days where you could ignore no one

the list goes on.......

the more you have the more you forget to appreciate....

i totally get the concept of a minimalistic lifestyle......

Thank you. I used to write quite a lot....and art, ......now all my art supplies sit in plastic boxes, white washed canvas, piles of wood............waiting ....................for my mind to wake.

What a busy day today!! CPR training all day then immediately for dinner at my parents' home with relatives. and finally back home. It has been rewarding today.

Got honest with my therapist today about something that I have hid for a long time.
I was so embarresed by it. My T said it was normal. I feel that a weight has come off my shoulders and I am glad I did it. Yaaaaa me!

Ummm...arriving late to the conversation...
So WTF is up with the price of gas anyway?!?
I filed up last week at $3.45 and yesterday topped it off for $3.65 and now it's $3.71 and still climbing.
I am working a second part time job just to keep up with the rising cost of being alive.
My daughter needs new ballet slippers (she is 7) and she is growing like mad! That child is skin and bones and still eats like 7 times a day!
I am amazed at how much money it takes just to have a basic life...so just how the hell much ARE these folks in new cars, new homes, and 4 kids making anyway?!?
Ugh. OK, enough whining, back to sleep before working "the dead shift".

I read that a family of 4 can live on 50,000 a year but to be stress free would need 75,000yr. That was 2 or 3 years ago. Pets now cost almost as much as a child to keep.

The guy who founded Whole Food (expensive snob organic co-op) thinks families can get by on $5-$6 a day per person to feed their families. I wish I could spend $5 a day on food! 5X30 days $150 X 4 people $600. The price of lettuce in his store is over $7 a head(for the cheap stuff--I did like to go in there and drool occasionally) I don't think anyone could shop at his store for that amount, so was he telling us to shop at the competition?

That is a disturbing image.

I think I'm going to try to stay away from the forums today. I'm in a good mood at the moment and have already seen a few things attempting to bring me down.

Yeah, so after I get my paycheck, all of it plus another 15 goes to my rent. So that leaves me with less than I had before I got paid.

I find lots of "dead" times all day long lately. There is boredom for sure, but there also a kind of terror that comes with the boredom as if there is nothing whatsoever to get enthusiastic about again. I feel like I can hardly breathe then. I feel trapped, smothered & hopeless. The good times are all gone & there is nothing to look forward to. I am 68 yrs old & life is over. Can anything exciting happen to old women?? with limited $$$$

So glad it's Friday. It's been such a long week. Now I just have to get through work. Just 2..more..hours...

Hah! that is soo funny. Whose definition of "comfortable" is that?

I can hear the sound of violins
Long before it begins
Make me thrill as only you know how
Sway me smooth sway me now

Dean Martin

Funny....

http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=267648