OPEN THREAD: Speak your mind.

I am really looking forward to the Abu hearing on Thursday. Had a decent day. Had heart to heart with my sister. Been a while that was good. You?

Seriously unhappy. I can't do this anymore. I have to change.

I bet the mods are tired tonight.



Next.

i hope you get a great new career soon....i'll be wishing you a new career

Mr. kt's with me all the way, which helps. But it's just weighing heavily on my heart right now.

that anything is better than what you have now and less money or not, any change
will be better even if it's not the perfect career but a stepping stone, the universe
has heard you on this thread..

and is now working hard to deliver you new choices. you have to be brave enough to hear the new choices.
you cannot make any mistake so long as you remove the pain you feel in the current job.

i just left tmobile for cingular. i hated tmobile and I love cingular. you'll find that it's easier than you think.

and to be so comforting

to have a down payment on a home for the family.

just for some steak :-)

I just changed careers recently, and it's working out really well so far. Hope you can do the same!

...and then you just try something else.

and I miss my friend eric in cali, nice thread, sort of a take a deep breath sort of thread...

he died jan 23rd. My mom is a basketcase. I have 22 baby cottontail and marsh bunnies I am raising and they keep me smiling.

:hugs:

Your mom needs her friends too.

am listening to her talking about gun laws & the crappy laws ("you should see the virginia state laws--they're no laws. there are no laws in virginia. they have an anti-trafficking law: one handgun per month; that's their big law. there's no license, there's no permit required, there's no limitations on junk handguns, there's no background checks on private gun sales, there's no limitations on assault weapons, there's no limitations on magazines...")


she also is saying a guy named john lott who did a study on guns is a major crock of shit & the guy's partner, when put under oath, fessed up.


hoping i'll remember to put the rice-a-roni away before i go to bed.

You never think you're going to be old until people are talking about shows, music and movies you've never heard of and using terms you don't understand.

Ugh.

welcome to du.

I'm not aware of another forum anywhere on the net that has access to good information as rapidly as it shows up here.

There's a lot of noise to signal ratio here, but there are some very informed people too. Makes it fun to read.

The recent charging of a http://www.ktvu.com/news/12115739/detail.html">woman in San Mateo County with assault of a gay couple, using deadly vegetables (its amazing how much damage one can do with squash alone).

The woman denied it of course, but she could offer no explanation for the asparagus found in her purse when arrested. An alternative to pepper spray maybe?

Strangely, it occurred to me -- what if this starts a trend? We could end up fighting all of our wars this way. Its the ultimate solution.

We will have created a non-lethal way as an outlet for our aggressions, and feed each other at the same time. Why we could have whole divisions who just handle the dressings.

Just think of it! :P

:-)

I'll bring the butter.

Mmmmmm corn on the cob!!!

:D

:rofl:

and apples.

Now that I think of it, all this trouble started with apples. Hmmm...

Let them with no sin cast the first rutabaga?

:bounce:

rutabaga????

Musta wandered into the lounge by mistake.

not

Been getting them every 2 years since my heart attack back in 88. Only problem with the damn things is that I can't have breakfast until after it's over and by that time I'll be ready for lunch. Oh, yea, and no coffee either.

Anybody in the NE as pissed off at the weather as I am?

That damned atomic shot gives me an all day headache. Good Luck.

One day I feel like I have a future here, the next day I don't.

Know your worth and cultivate alternatives.

A little yard work until the allergies drove me crazy, Truck goes into the shop for expensive repairs, but that's the way it goes. More money flowing out right now than coming in, but that's the way it goes sometimes as well. Saddened by the VT thing, but decided to keep the TV off for a few days. Weather is moderating...Work is silly, but it is an interesting show to watch the interactions of a bunch of cranky for no reason people.
Got a cup of coffee in front of me... Can't be all that bad.


:toast:

Man you just described GD like no one ever has. Welcome to the crank race!

as watching my esteemed coworkers get themselves all worked up over trivial issues that are beyond all of our control. If we are told to do "A" simply do "A", if it's "B", do "B". The pay is the same and at the end of the day, we all clock out and go home. The cranky ones tend to be our workplace bullies who cannot seem to get over the idea that the workplace is not the same as it was 30+ years ago when they started. I just enjoy the show....

:eyes:

he is at the very end of an awful cancer that is everywhere now. He is the salt of the earth. My aunt has been so wonderful caring for him, he is the love of her life. I don't thing he is going to make it very much longer. He is such a proud man and won't take morphine drip yet. I feel so sad cuz I know he is in pain.

Life really isn't fair for a lot of people. Certainly not for my wonderful uncle. He retired at 60 to travel with his beloved wife, after years of working around the clock, only to be diagnosed with cancer 3 months later.

Say a prayer for him. Just for him to not be in pain. I would appreciate it.

Life can be a dark ride, can't it.

Will keeps them in our thoughts...

They helped my mom with my dad.

Edit: changed Tarzan grammar

I mean when it finally happens shit is gonna fly everywhere! Hope it's not near a fan.

-Hoot

not to mention there is a lot os stuff to do today, and other stressors in my life...

but today is the day that I am gonna get at least 2 things done.

That will be progress for me. Hope it will be for you too.

open threads are fun! we ought to have them more often!

I hope it becomes a daily thing. There are many people who never set foot in the lounge and don't like starting their own threads to put out a one-liner about their thoughts on a subject. I think this is a great way to bridge that divide.

I think I'm finally emerging from the worst of my depression over the failure of my marriage and my divorce just over a year ago. I fell down pretty hard, and I'd probably be homeless right now if it weren't for my mom and friends. I haven't been able to work, and I have so much debt I can't really care about it any more. My credit's as ruined as it can be. The funny thing is that this isn't what makes me depressed - it gives me freedom. I can go in just about any direction now, if I can only pick one and do so. Unfortunately, I've always had a problem with committing to a direction - I like my options open.

Anyway, I have more hope than I probably should, and I feel pretty good about it.

Sorry you are in debt but it sure sounds like you have a lot of support. Divorces are tough. Been through a couple. So much better once you clear all the wreckage. Good luck to you.

But lunch is cooking. Yay for being able to come home for lunch! :)

My pesonal life has been pretty good ever since I quit Arby's. So I'm fine personally, and all my sorrow is for the rest of the world, that other humans can't see that each life is equally precious.

It has been my dream to be a writer since at least second grade when I wrote "I am going to be a true story writer" at least three times in my journal, and teachers from kindergarten on up told me I should be a writer. I write a silly little Sims 2 series that is very well-received. I know I can do it. So this weekend, I'm thinking of starting to carve out at least an hour and a half out of every day for writing and see if I can manage to write a novel.

And I am enjoying my coffee. But I wish I could get my email inbox cleaned out. It's like the Augean stables in there.

I have been a flake. I just know they are gonna find me out.

How the heck are ya?
I just start deleting--emails be damned!

On Saturday. :-)

~Sally

:toast:

next month. I haven't given notice at work because I need to work as long as I can and being at a place with mandatory staff reductions--it would simply cut my throat on the spot. However, my boss just put me on the schedule to cover a co-worker who will be out with surgery. I am going to feel really bad when I tell them I cannot do it.:(
I have learned hard lessons that you have to take care of yourself in the working world, but that doesn't make it any better.
I have phone interviewed for a job that sounds exactly like what I want, however, it is a job auditing hospitals across the country that could lead to hospitals that have defrauded Medicare being shut down. That makes me a little uneasy, but they shouldn't have defrauded them in the first place.:(
On the bright side--the local clothes closet and Freecycle should be happy with the tons of stuff I am giving away.:)

But I guess I have no choice.

This has been the longest six years of my life.

I've been in the dumps this week because of all the depressing/angering events I've been seeing in Blacksburg and elsewhere...I'm just going to hang out in here and in my job thread in the lounge for the next couple of days until my nerves are calm...

Realizing that NOLA is much more expensive than Oklahoma and money is becoming really tight. Kinda upset at the level of racism (and other -isms) I see excused (and used) here by self-called liberals. Missing my friends and family. Feeling a little lost.

Happy things? I have a beautiful home. I have a partner who loves me and spoils me rotten, as it should be. We have a bevy of animals, including Voodoo, who can make anyone smile. About to celebrate one year in NOLA (despite the hassles and money, we do love this city). About to turn 38, which does not thrill me in the least, except it means that G-d has given another year with my loved ones.

Much better. Now, I will go sit on the porch and look at the stars.

As I told my partner last night: "It's easier to buy a gun than it is to buy allery/cold meds from a drug store."

and there's a toon in the works...

A hard decision, but I feel it was the right thing to do. The path which causes, at least for others, the least pain.

there really is a Dog? :shrug:

With all the depressing news I see coming from home (the USA) these days, what with
the massacre at Virginia Tech and the Supremely Right-Wing Court decision, I sometimes
wonder who's minding the store back there. Plus over here, my brother-in-law, a great guy
age 50 with a wife and a daughter just got diagnosed with a terminal brian tumor.

But I refuse to let all this crap get me down. The momentum is with the Democrats, if we
can manage to not devour ourselves before the next election, I survived a cardiac near-miss
a few years ago, and my wife is still cancer-free after 6 years.

I get to go back to the States on Sunday for 3 days to see The Freedom Toast's big live show
in Washington, although I have to be back here (Brussels in the case of next week) by Thursday.

I'm still waiting for ONE of the Democratic candidates to come out with some major statement or
position that will so blow me away that I'm totally swayed. The prospect of the right wing putting
up a nothing candidate doesn't reassure me that we win the White House no matter what. They put up
nothign candidates in 1980, 1984, 2000 and 2004, and they still won (in some cases by hook and crook
rather than legitimately, but that doesn't make me feel any better--worse in fact!).

to get the news to stop talking about his firing.