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Post by ghost on Nov 1, 2007 13:48:13 GMT -5
in the spirit of the 'halloween countdown thread' here is the new & improved 'november' thread.. no lost or neglected posts sinking into yesterday like in the old 'daily' threads.. let's chat here till december.. ghost
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Post by sleepflower on Nov 1, 2007 14:21:11 GMT -5
Thumper, love the avatar! She's beautiful! I know where you're coming from in the previous post. I'll think about it a little and try to post a response, but my head is officially broken from almost literally living at work this week. We worked on Sunday (hubby works at the same place) then I don't work Monday but I had to work Tuesday and all day Wednesday, which I don't usually. I've been in at 8am every day and we've been flat out all the time. I knew I'd be busy as I had full-time testing of one particular part of the system booked in, but then we had a MAJOR crisis to do with interest rates and things exploded yesterday...well, let's say that I probably should still be there now. Came home and wanted to put on my pyjamas, have a bath and then write all the crap out of my brain, then I found out that hubby's friend who is coming over tonight is bringing his girlfriend so I HOPE I don't have to entertain her, as I have too much else to do.
Sorry, I'm ranting now.
Hope everyone's doing OK. x
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Post by ghost on Nov 1, 2007 14:23:43 GMT -5
hey thumper.. we may not always find answers.. but figuring it out together is better because we at least can feel heard.. sometimes i think that's all we get 'cause we never really fix it..? i picked these sort of colorless butterflies for the november/winter feel.. whatchya think? we can also start looking forward to xmas! ghost
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Post by ghost on Nov 1, 2007 14:26:27 GMT -5
hi sleepflower! hey, you need this little cootie i think..? ;D hehe..
ghost
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Post by ghost on Nov 2, 2007 11:16:06 GMT -5
true! but i feel a little more relieved.. since our last major crisis/fight where i found out hubby was kinda hiding our financial debt from me we took out an equity line/loan at a low rate and erased all our old credit debt entirely.. cutting up that plastic sure feels good!! let's just enjoy the winter.. xmas will be here soon enough! ghost
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Post by lyly on Nov 2, 2007 13:15:44 GMT -5
i hate x-mas
my Uni is keeping telling me that I didn't pay the deposit for the flat i'll not call them, or doing anything about it. I mean, I gave them all the file to take it from my account, if they didn't manage to do their job at time and now there is no money, it's not my problem, they had 3 months to do it, plus my money disapeired so I imagine they took it. right ? so, wtf ? i paid my utility charges and i paid my rent with 2 months in advance, so don't come bother me you unable administrative motherfucker.
i am angry really.
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Post by ghost on Nov 2, 2007 13:31:01 GMT -5
lyly.. they're probably just really behind and haven't processed something yet.. ? just more hassle for nothing.. pete.. i coast down every hill, man! free gas! (watch out below! ) ghost
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Post by sleepflower on Nov 4, 2007 4:35:53 GMT -5
Hi again everyone, Thanks for the kindness (and for this little guy, Ghost! ;D) Thumper and Lyly, I don't like Christmas either - I always try to get away on the day and go walking in the hills with hubby and nobody else. I think we're going to rent a cottage in the middle of nowhere this year with my cousin and her friend. Didn't do the firework thing this year as we were out watching a band...I love live music. It always amazes me when I see a live band how happy it makes me. If I could be at one long everlasting gig then all my problems would be solved! Lyly, I'm not surprised you're angry. Sounds like they messed up. I can't give any better advice than Pete's. Hope it goes OK and they extract their heads from their bottoms, sort themselves out and stop hassling you. We may be going to see 'Stardust' at the cinema tonight - anyone seen it?
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Post by lyly on Nov 5, 2007 13:23:51 GMT -5
^^ I don't know, the ambiance here at this very moment is .. ^^ my flatmates began the Christmas movie cycle too, we watched Little foot, 1, 2, 3, yesterday night, it's ot very christmassy themic, but it's cute ... and i always cry when Little foot's mum die. ridiculous.
also i was sure i payed my deposit. but in fact no. so we found an arrangement, 100£ this month and the other 100£ in December. it will be hhard to live correctly with 200 £ ...I planned to eat rice all the month long ... but I'll have no debts anymore and it's good...
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Post by ghost on Nov 5, 2007 13:54:13 GMT -5
i love old xmas music.. like from the 30's & 40's & 50's old.. so i love that part of the season.. and i love the smell of a new big xmas tree.. luckily i'm too far from relatives to have to face that anymore.. we're holiday orphans on xmas day and have to content ourselves with turkey and pie.. my favorite xmas shows to watch every year are the grinch (the old one..), a christmas story, it's a wonderful life, & raymond brigg's 'the snowman'.. right now i'm refreshing all our winter emergency kits for our vehicles.. too many ways to get into an emergency situation up here in the winter woods & snow.. they still have not found the bodies of those guys up on mt hood that got lost last year.. ghost
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Post by ghost on Nov 6, 2007 10:54:00 GMT -5
if cary grant is in it.. i have seen it! my top 2 favorite movies of all time are cary grant films.. notorious & bringing up baby.. not xmasy though.. it's cold this a.m. and i am waiting for the mattress delivery guys.. hope this mattress is a better one or i will have to start saving up for a nice new plastic spine instead? ghost
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Post by ghost on Nov 6, 2007 11:19:10 GMT -5
pete.. this may sound bad but it's not really.. after 20+ years of trying to sleep with hubby's snoring and sleep apnea when we moved up here to oregon into this big house we decided to each have our own room across the hall from each other.. i mean, we 'date'.. (it's not that far.. hehe) but i have my own 'girls' room for me & 7 girlkitties and he has his own space room full of robots & scifi movie posters.. it works good for us.. it's really weird sleeping with multiple cats.. the heavy ones sink the mattress down in odd spots! we obviously just bought a poor one when we came up here and were in a hurry.. i didn't know about those # beds you mention so just bought a real premium pillowtop.. can you imagine 7 kitties on a waterbed? i'm wondering how sleepflower is doing today? ghost
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Post by ghost on Nov 6, 2007 13:35:40 GMT -5
hi thumper!
hey pete.. i think you are right to fight for a bedroom together.. if my hubster had protested or felt slighted i would have just kept on putting up with the snoring.. (although it's really bad.. he's only finally just getting to a sleep lab dr about it..)
having our own separate space just kinda makes it even more special when he invites me 'over' .. or visa versa.. it's like dating again.. but we have our ad needs for separate space that's for sure..
the mattress feels wonderful!!!
hope we hear from sleepflower.. ghost
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Post by sleepflower on Nov 7, 2007 14:41:23 GMT -5
Thanks so, so much everyone. You're all wonderful. Sorry I can't reply to everything at the moment - struggling to concentrate. but I'm still around, lurking not hiding...back soon. x
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Post by ghost on Nov 7, 2007 15:31:49 GMT -5
good to see sleepflower peeking in.. i hope you feel better! fearful/avoidantspeaking of this.. i have to say i have been at my fearful/avoidant peak lately.. what should be a good thing is painful for an agoraphobe like me.. i mentioned before that holly harman has been emailing back & forth with me ever since i found out about her new book? well, on one hand i'm really excited about it, it's the coolest thing ever for me and for gumbyland.. i mean she is art clokey's step-daughter & gloria harman clokey's daughter.. (art invented gumby & gloria did davey & goliath) and she is the art director for all the new gumby adventures/movies, etc.. she's the voice of minga, gumby's sister.. just really cool.. ok, so i realized that i'm not as safe online as i thought.. i started to panic emailing back & forth that i would somehow say the wrong thing.. like social tourette's somehow.. my social ineptness/stupidity took over and i panicked.. literally had panic attacks, couldn't sleep and my stomach knotted up.. i have it bad. then last night i tried to go buy a new laptop.. the salesperson was the last straw.. she shook hands with me, my husband & son and did like introductions and all this nonsense.. i just want to buy a fucking laptop not explain my life story! my mind went blank.. it was sooo awkward for us all.. these kinds of salespeople ought to be taken out back of the store & shot.. so i left the details to my husband and tried to look at cds.. i was cornered by salespeople over & over.. i just felt like a socially retarded zero afterwards.. thank god my doors lock and curtains close.. i mean, i try to be nice.. but i simply cannot handle dealing in the 3d world with the humans.. it feels so awful. i guess i prefer loneliness.. i am one fearful/avoidant ghost
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