I just wanted to stop in here for a minute and make sure that I’m not the only one:
Please raise your hand if you’ve recently said, “Ohholyhell, if one more heinous thing happens over the course of this week I am going to lose my freaking mind!” (or some equivalent)…
Okay. That makes me feel better. And hopefully, you don’t feel silly sitting there in front of your computer with your hand in the air.
– Dana
Yep that one goes in the I said it box.
Yep~
If this helps any: no, you are not alone, and in fact there is one more day to go in this week plus change, technically two, so be afraid to ask “… what else can go wrong?!”
Thanks, Florin. I’ll just try crossing my fingers..
Not only am I raising my hand, but I’m running around my house waving flags in sympathy. The latest thing that happened was my frekin’ computer deleted all of my personal libraries – blog stuff, book stuff, pictures, videos, documents. And my warranty ran out, I had to pay for technical support from a foreign country and couldn’t understand the guy. Was on the phone for HOURS trying not to die because my entire life was basically erased. Then getting nowhere, I found a two second fix on google just before I was about to off myself. I would have been climbing the walls, but my options are limited because we hardly have any walls left with this renovation going on.
So happy I ran into your blog today, totally needed a place to vent… hope that makes you feel a little better. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
Love you – it will get better. Relax and breathe. I would breathe too, but I really can’t breathe because there are too many insulation, sheetrock and plaster particles floating around here so I’m trying to hold my breath as much as possible. And not in the tantrum-ing kind of way, but in the “as-much-as-life-sucks-sometimes-I-still-wanna-stay-alive” kind of way.
Angel
Angel,
Vent away…I’m too tired to vent, but yours was a good one.
Not recently, but yes, I’ve said it. After a while, it almost becomes a sort of relief, because you reach a point where you feel like you’ve met your quota of s$%& and there can’t possibly be anymore.
Hope things get better!!
Erica,
I don’t often just go ‘BLAHBLAHBLAH’ at the world, but this week it just seemed appropriate to share.
Thanks~
Sorry you’re going through a sucktastic period of events.
BELIEVE me, I have zero qualms letting people know when I’VE had it with unwelcome interferences or obstacles hindering me from achieving peace, calm or getting to my favorite damn machines at the gym.
Scoop up one of your 4 legged cuddle buddies and relax with a good book and a Mojito.
Alexis,
It’s a ‘deep breath’ kinda week, but it’s not the first and certainly won’t be the last. We just get through them one at a time, ya know?
No, Dana, you are not alone. This week has been an utter disaster for me, I am a survivor, and I know you are too. Hang in there; “After all, tomorrow is another day”. I heard that somewhere. Just hug someone you love and tell them you love them. And then spank them. Ha ha.
Anna,
I know this week’s tough for you, too, but we’re both better than the stuff that’s getting us down.
Chin up, darlin’.
Dana, thank you for the words of encouragement. It helps. Yes, ma’am, we are better than the stuff keeping us down. The hits just keep on coming though.
I had both hands raised plus my feet. My hair was standing on each hair at attention. It helps to vent and if that fails, take a tennis racket and hit the bed until you pass out.
Love Laurel
Laurel,
When I still lived in the middle of nowhere, I’d go outside and swing stuff up against a tree. Now I spank people…
On Thursday, I spent an hour and a quarter in my car creeping through traffic to cross the George Washington Bridge.
And then when I got home and unpacked my bags, I took my reading glasses out of my computer bag, put them somewhere, and now I can’t find them. These aren’t $5 drug store reading glasses, these are prescription glasses and there’s $200 worth of new lenses sitting at the optician’s shop waiting to be installed in my old frames.
ARGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!
Mike,
I feel your pain, dear. And you know the old agage: as soon as you stop looking for them – there they are.
I found my glasses under the bed, while I was still looking for them. I must have had them in my hand when I went into the bedroom to unpack my suitcase. I probably put them down on the bed, they slipped off, and I kicked them underneath and out of sight. Took a good look with a powerful flashlight in order to see the dark case. I’m afraid to look at what else is under there.
;)
That’s how I feel this morning! Wake up at 4 and the dear doggie wants to go out. I tried to go back to sleep, but he just wouldn’t let me.
Then there was the weather earlier this week with rain and T-storms in the high country. NO, I am not disparaging the rain. We need it!!! But, I felt so achy, tired, and just plain crappy I wanted to go hide someplace. Trouble is, I am already hiding in my domicile.
Time for a cup of coffee!
Bobbie Jo,
Thank goodness our pets are so cute, because they can cause consternation at 4am. Here, it’s the running-back-and-forth-up-and-down-the-stairs routine that the cats put on every night. Alas, they’re cuddly, so we keep ’em.
I’m thinking there must be some place in the Caribbean, on the border with Australia, that has lush jungles and a personal pool where one measures time by the fullness of your adult beverage and the sand dripping through your bare toes, where you could forget all the crazy shit of the normal world.
It’s not a figment of your imagination. You should leave immediately again and inhabit that place.
(Sincerely sorry about the bad times, but hope things improve!)
BT,
There is most definitely a place in the Caribbean, of which I am dreaming at this very moment. Thanks for the reminder…paradise is just a memory away (or a plan).
This week reminded me of one of your videos. Being bent over with my pants around my ankles and being told to breathe it out!
That’s a good reminder for us all, Robin. Breathe~~~