Daily Check In Thread For All... #159

Yesterday was like a skating rink around here and I was afraid of falling so I did not go to the doctor's office. My landlady came over and we did the paper work stuff She is very nice and I like her a lot.

Today did shopping I was going to do yesterday plus stopped off at the next town's library to borrow some discs. I need the diversion for sure.

Really can't stand the political stuff anymore which I see on facebook and get tons of emails about.

Love to look out the window as the snow looks blue like the sky and the beautiful black etchings of trees.

Will work on the bed changing stuff tomorrow and hope to go swimming if the crek don't rise.

Myself 09 said...
I wanted to add--I think the forums are dead due to the stress the many people are under,due to social ills and political uncertainty.

**as she turns on CSPAN for the day***

Not gonna go into details, but I can massively relate to this right now.

Oh yes Joyce,
Very much so. I would enjoy it!!! As I am sure others would too.

Hugs, Karen...

Haven't had a chance lately to post very much. Especially here but I do read... Nothing but snow here lately.

Hugs, again...

Thanks for the OK gals...I'll give it a try this Saturday. Was still trying to decide between 'Scramble' and / or daily Smiler. Any opinion?

Hope this old timer can still function. especially since I just had another injection in the eye ball.......(wow....excuses, excuses)

awesome joyce.

I just wanna be in the new Avengers movie. Hopefully as a human though, and not a green painted alien.

I don't see how I was calling anybody names in my thread, but whatever...

Peter, I didn't know what was up with the frog. If it is a joke, or a reference to something. But you called a person "pure, selfish, greedy individual and a liar. Granted it isn't anybody on the forum. It is still flaming people. Can't you think of anything good to say about somebody? Your posts are so negative. The thread is going round and around and you wont let things go. Try to move on with something constructive. A new interest, a new hobby. Something to take your mind off of the past. Is there a way to not have contact with these people, or things that relate to them?

venting is fine, that's not the issue here. you know it. i know it. by not taking a stand on such things we are demoralising the ethos of this community. people who say it's okay to say what you want are wrong. i have my faults too, however i listen to the community carefully. this member has been given many a chance, and expresses his recidivist nature openly without a care and is dismissive on all fronts. allowances have been granted, however this member needs to be fully aware of the forum rules. that's my take on it and last word.

i will just get in trouble, so i will just shut my mouth.

THE HAPPY TURTLE said...
venting is fine, that's not the issue here. you know it. i know it. by not taking a stand on such things we are demoralising the ethos of this community. people who say it's okay to say what you want are wrong. i have my faults too, however i listen to the community carefully. this member has been given many a chance, and expresses his recidivist nature openly without a care and is dismissive on all fronts. allowances have been granted, however this member needs to be fully aware of the forum rules. that's my take on it and last word.

You do realise there is an ignore feature if you don't want to see a particular member's posts, right? The same applies to Hope4all and anyone else who can't tolerate Peter's negativity.

I'll be honest. I'm not a patient person and Peter drives me up the wall sometimes. But whenever he drives me up the wall and I think about it later, I realise that it's because his posts make me feel uncomfortable. But that's not his fault. I have realised that a) I am frequently not as patient and empathetic as I would like to think I am, and b) Peter's obsessiveness, rigidness, loneliness, etc. rings more bells with me than I would like. By the grace of whatever, I have been able to overcome the worst of my rage and sadness, but I would never say it's gone away completely: both are always lurking there in the background, but I'm no longer overwhelmed by them on a day to day basis.

If Peter bothers you so much, I suggest you examine yourself a little bit more and stop blaming Peter solely for your negative reaction to him.

Turtle - I just think some people are getting at Peter unfairly. He exasperates me too, so I'm not actually entirely unsympathetic to them. But Peter is depressed too; he just expresses and feels it differently to most folks here. And frankly I'd rather he was safely venting on an internet forum than possibly getting up to worse things in real life. I think he does genuinely want to change but he can only do it at his own pace. I'm trying to make him see things from another perspective, but I can't force him to have that 'hallelujah' moment. Also, if he's anything like me, change will be gradual and imperceptible rather than come about in a flash.

Some folks may not know about the ignore feature; it isn't that obvious. I wouldn't think less of anyone for using it; if you feel like for whatever reason you just can't cope with seeing a particular person's posts at the moment, it's a handy tool to have.

Karen - I reckon he's capable of getting out of living in the past, but it could take a very long time. Don't forget, it took years for him to get into that state, so it could take him just as long to get out of it :/ I know I was very hung up on my past for many years; nobody understood why. I sometimes wonder whether I would have got over it more quickly if I'd had more understanding people around me - I honestly don't know the answer to that one.