Do you ever feel like giving up...but didn't? New strength to go on...

[inchworm]

I'll take the lottery money! I'll take the lottery money!!

Feel better, Bee!

 

[sylvie]

Yup, something in the air!
When I came home from work to find the idiot neighbor made several tractor trails through our pristine woods(posted) without permission, driving over saplings and creating this as an extension for a minibike track for his visiting relatives, I lost it. I hate confrontation but I knew I had to file a complaint with our sheriff, which we did.
I was so tired of fighting with Dh's doctors, with this jerk neighbor, games at work. My lawn is reverting to wild, raccoons just ate all my strawberries which includes the unripe ones, and the brakes went on the truck.
But, after a night's sleep I am back to my optimistic self and adapting, solving, and planning my way through this! My funks don't last long, it's just when it all hits at once that I can't process it.

I hope today is better for you, Bee and everyone else here in a slump!

 

[Henrietta23]

Sometimes I think it helps others to know that someone else feels fat, tired, lazy, stupid, insufficient and lonely.

You described my entire life in that sentence.

Hope your feeling better today!

I was so busy whining on my own thread that I missed yours! I'm with you here right now. I'm no where near as SS as you are and never will be. Life itself has my feeling dragged down for no good reason I can determine. Here's hoping we all feel better soon!

 

[Beekissed]

Good to know that others were at the same party!

Life is very good for me and I generally don't gripe or moan....I think its the hormones, as I've had some flare ups of temper that I normally do not have. Those have been increasingly frequent....say once a month. I was never one of those ladies that had PMS, but I think this is probably it. Darn it!

Just have to retrain my mind and get in the groove, know what I mean? I think everyone needs an attitude adjustment now and again.

Thanks for all the words of encouragement out there....I knew you guys would understand!

 

[modern_pioneer]

Sometimes I think it helps others to know that someone else feels fat, tired, lazy, stupid, insufficient and lonely. If for just a little while, I think everyone feels like that sometimes, don't they?

Pick up this book, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson. Find somewhere to go alone, fix yourself a plate of comfort food, and start reading. I suspect you won't make it past page 5 before you will start to howl laughing. Often when I am reading a first person narrative written book, I see the world through the authors eyes.

A paragraph taken from page five.

" The woods are full of peril-rattlesnakes and water moccasins and nest of copperheads; bobcats, bears, coyotes, wolves and wild boar; loony hillbillies destablized by gross quantities of impure corn liquor and generations of profoundly unbiblical sex; rabies crazed skunks, raccoons, and squirrels; merciless fire ants and ravening blackfly; poison ivy, poison sumac, poison oak, and poison salamanders; even a scattering of moose lethally daranged by a parasitic worm the burrows a nest in their brains and befuddles them into chasing hapless hikers through remote, sunny meadows and into glacial lakes. "

Even men have bad days, just take it easy for now, and soon this too will pass.

Nothing wrong with having a "all about me" day, everyone needs one sometime. Hope you feel better today.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Anyone else feel like you're running in water and life would be so much easier if you could be like everyone else and just buy your food from the store?

Ever get tired of doing everything the hard way?

Oh yes, AMEN to that. Especially the last day or so for me too. The longest days are the hardest for me, it seems. EVERYTHING needs doing and I just don't always have the energy. To add to it, I have been having to nurse along a little duckling that was abandonded as a pipped egg in the nest, and a chick just got suddenly ill and died. I have decided not to plant any more crops because I just won't have time to care for them. I hope you enjoyed your day off. Sounds like you could use it.

 

[big brown horse]

modern_pioneer that sounds like TEXAS!!

DrakeMaiden your pm box is full. I am so sorry to hear about your chick.

Man, you gotta be tough to be ss!

Wouldn't it be easier if we all lived near enough to help eachother out when we found ourselves overwhelmed? That is why I think it was easier for folks way back when... They had no other choice except to be ss. They had nobody telling them how kookie they were etc.

Atleast we have this forum to vent and learn and support eachother. (And thank God we are all polite, non judgemental and respectful!!!!)

 

[punkin]

Good to know that others were at the same party!

Life is very good for me and I generally don't gripe or moan....I think its the hormones, as I've had some flare ups of temper that I normally do not have. Those have been increasingly frequent....say once a month. I was never one of those ladies that had PMS, but I think this is probably it. Darn it!

Just have to retrain my mind and get in the groove, know what I mean? I think everyone needs an attitude adjustment now and again.

Thanks for all the words of encouragement out there....I knew you guys would understand!

Oh, thank goodness. You are human after all!

When I "slip up", I've always pictured you scolding me. I know I'm not nearly of the mindset you are, but I'm trying.

Even though you "have your doubts" you are still part of my inspiration.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Good to know that others were at the same party!

Life is very good for me and I generally don't gripe or moan....I think its the hormones, as I've had some flare ups of temper that I normally do not have. Those have been increasingly frequent....say once a month. I was never one of those ladies that had PMS, but I think this is probably it. Darn it!

Just have to retrain my mind and get in the groove, know what I mean? I think everyone needs an attitude adjustment now and again.

Thanks for all the words of encouragement out there....I knew you guys would understand!

Oh, thank goodness. You are human after all!

When I "slip up", I've always pictured you scolding me. I know I'm not nearly of the mindset you are, but I'm trying.

Even though you "have your doubts" you are still part of my inspiration.

Yea, what she said!

 

[Beekissed]

OH, NO! You guys make me feel like some paragon of perfection and I am, in no way shape or form, anything close to that!!!! I would never get on to anyone! Well.....except my kids!

You all make me sound soooooooo old! I'm only 43!



Just so you know, I put my pants on one leg at a time and often have to lie down on the bed to get them fastened!

C'mon! You guys don't really think of me that way, do you?

That does it....you are both coming to my house to get a dose of reality! Snoop through my cupboards and see just how horribly human I really am........