I haven't been around for awhile obviously and since I have what I consider good tasks to put off here at work and just being crappy weather, I thought I'd check in on my friends here and just get updates on what I have missed.
I did notice some newbies, always disappointing but I know they will find some good people willing to listen to them here.
The weekend was triggering and bumpy, but here's what helped:
I bought a small compact (17') Palomino Stampede travel trailer this week for my son and I to take on some spring, summer, and fall adventures. It has AC and a furnace to extend the seasons. There's a little bathroom, stove, oven, micro, refrig, and freezer. It has a stereo with indoor/outdoor speakers.
It feels like a good ~~forward~~ move for me. It also feels healing and inspiring.
We have a train-in session today at 3:00 to learn how to use it. My truck is getting outfitted with hitch etc as I type.
<<<Plus I want Quinn to get back to being plain too.>>>
LMAO R.W.
Hopefully everyone who reads this thread will know reconcilling or not there's light at the end of the tunnel. All I can hear in my head at the moment is Johnny Nash's song "I Can See Clearly Now". Time to crank up some tunes.
You've been an inspiration R.W. Thanks
Also a hearty thank you to MoeG for starting this.
Regards,
Tex
Edited to add: <<<"back to being plain ole me"
Holy Cow! That's the ultimate goal Tex!>>>
Yes ma'am, that's me. The good, the bad and the fugly."
This message has been edited by TexMac64 on Mar 8, 2006 1:19 PM
RW- Sounds like you and the young man will have some great travel stories to tell- how fun. And geez, ya know you can stop here anytime. The Rhodie gardens are in bloom April-May.
I just had a strapping young man from Princton Mn. in my living room. He delivered my new couch from Room and Board in Minneapolis. Too funny. Ya Ya, he had the accent. I fixed him a cup of hot tea-had to show some Oregon hospitality.
Nothing new really...just hanging in there, going to IC and getting stronger. H is still a pothead and still doesnt get it. Looking into getting a good lawyer just in case. So my thoughts are shifting from "Oh my gosh, I gotta save my marriage some how" to "if you dont get it, there's the door".........Carol~
My latest news is further down the page. Check out the thread I started called "Semi Milestone".. Pretty cool news, still a bit dumbfounded.. In a good way.
Cory
You are not a human being having a spiritual experience, but a spiritual being having a human experience.
I have some Room and Board furniture too. I like it. Describe your couch.
The boy and I attended a 3 hour trailer-train-in session last eve. Sheesh. Then they hooked it up and off I went onto the friggin freeway. Stress, yes, but not affair related--thank goodness.
I have a good outdoor secure storage place for it, but parked (backed it up) in the apartment lot and left it overnight. Early this am I went out and fired up the furnace (cozy), and we Christened it this morning with breakfast.
Afterward took it to storage, and fiddled with the hitch, stabalizer bars, and all that hardware hoo-haw. I DID IT though.
You are a brave, gutsy woman. I'd be petrified to drive anything bigger than an SUV.
The couch is a dark green velvet. The walls in the lving room are that yeast color, the floors are a light bamboo, and the drapes are cream. The Persian rug has green, burgundy, gold, cream-lots of colors. Anyway, the floor trim was going to be put up today and the bamboo installed on the stairs, BUT the contractor won't be able to make it up today. We have SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!
The huskies haven't seen it yet!!!
RW- Would you tell that birthday person, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and that his mother did a good thing on "the ides of March".
Also, when I read you have some furniture from Room and Board, I smiled and thought "but of course." HA HA
Charlie-
< Uh, huh MM. You sure that's why you served that up? >
Charlie you are a naughty girl. But I'd sure like to know why these young hunks keep ending up in my house. Geez.
TLMM
This message has been edited by taigalucy on Mar 9, 2006 1:27 PM This message has been edited by taigalucy on Mar 9, 2006 1:15 PM
Sounds lovely. I have a dark red velvet love seat from R&B. I also have a couple chairs. The X took two other couches I had picked out, and I'm sure 'the woc'(OW) sits on them now. Maybe they'll mold. Life is soooooper strange.
The trailer is small, but I've never pulled anything that large. So it is an act of bravery or maybe reckless abandon. Not sure.
The Chukchi and their dogs lived peacefully for many years, until the Russian monarchy was overthrown. The Chukchi with the finest dogs had leadership positions and wealth, and the communists saw this as a hindrance to collectivization. Most of the dogs were killed, and in a few years the Chukchi dogs had virtually disappeared. Even though the Chukchi dog had vanished in its homeland, it was gaining recognition in Alaska, where it was known as the Siberian Husky. At first the Siberians were laughed at, because of their small size. But when they placed highly in the All-Alaska sweepstakes, they attracted a lot of attention. Perhaps the most famous Siberian Husky musher was Leonhard Seppala. In January of 1925, a diphtheria epidemic broke out in Nome, Alaska. The serum had to be brought by dogsled. A relay team of 15 sleds was set up. When it was Seppala's turn, he ran almost 350 miles. His famous leaders were Balto and Togo. Today, a statue of Balto, commemorating to the run, stands in Central Park, New York, USA.
Nice to see some upbeat attitudes around here these days!
Cory, do I understand correctly that you have a good chance at regaining your sight? That would be a cool story, I hope I hear some positive news on this soon!
Monica, I think it stopped raining for a second, but it means Spring is right around the corner.
As for me, I recently moved to a new department at work that offers me some better chances for advancement, gets me back on the road to our offices in the firm, and basically just shakes things up for me. As someone told me, changing the paradigm of my existence. And no, I don't pronounce the 'g'. It was something I used to do but it's changed and the hope is that I will move up eventually and possibly be offered a Principleship in the firm... a step below Partner. I received dozens of excited phone calls and emails from employees in the firm to tell me they're glad I'm back.
Got my own cell phone and service finally too. May not sound like much, but it's another step to independence so I feel pretty good about it.
Things are going great for me and as Tex said I think it's important for the newbies to know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I think of where I was just a year ago and where I am now. Experiences you never knew existed and even gave up on... some good and some not so good.
However, trimming those nails so they don't ruin hardwood ain't much fun either.
Cheap rugs are the best solution I've come up with. Too much hair, mud, or accidents...out goes the rug.
And dogs on furniture...
Well, my original two dogs weren't allowed on the furniture.
Then came the greyhound. He chewed up two dog beds, so we let him up on the loveseat. (Greyhounds are giant cats with little fur and no fat...they need a soft place to rest, which they do about 23 1/2 hours a day.)
Then we got a puppy. Can't have one dog on the furniture one not allowed, now can we?
The greyhound was put down in 1999. The "puppy" is now ten, and the two puppies since then are now five...and they fight over which furniture they climb up on. I'd have to be dog-less for a while in order to start a "no furniture" rule again, and that's more than a few years off. So I buy lint rollers by the dozen.
Moe, not exactly restoring my sight, but there's a chance, if this works out, that I'll be able to keep what little sight I have left. Or at the very least, slow the progression WAAAY down.
And now I'm going to get PAID to talk about being a blind martial artist, because this is inspiring to people? Motivational speaking... Well, I can DEFINATELY do the speaking part, we'll see about the motivational aspect... LOL
Life is good, brother...
Cory
You are not a human being having a spiritual experience, but a spiritual being having a human experience.
The last movie I saw was "Because of Winn Dixie" or "Saving Winn Dixie". Something like that. GAG. Not my type of movie at all. Ahhh...the things we do for love.
Crash deserved the Oscar BIG TIME. The movie expresses racism as a universal truth for all mankind across every context. There were moments in this film that were tragic, magical, and beautiful.
I ususally don't see movies twice, Tex, but this one is worth it.
Also, another great movie was A History of Violence. Ususally, if a movie has that word in it, I would avoid it. But the violence in this movie is absolutely essential to the plot-nothing gratuitous. And the acting was incredible.
Don't get me started on movies-please. I'm like Will in that I could go on endlessly about a subject-movies and huskies. HA
TLMM
This message has been edited by taigalucy on Mar 10, 2006 7:18 PM
I have been having health problems so haven't been spending much time online lately. I have a CT Scan Monday so hopefully they will figure out what is wrong with me. I keep getting severe attacks of vertigo that render it virtual impossible to do anything including moving. Nausea, vomitting, dizziness, off balance, headaches, sore ears........maybe my body is having a hard time adjusting to coming off the affair coaster
It is something to do with my ears.......hopefully they figure it out soon but I am currently on a wait list to see the ear specialist since the earliest "emergency" appointment I could get was May 12th. GOTTA love the great Canadian HealthCare System
As for me, well I am just plain ole me too. I rarely think in terms of affairs anymore unless I am on this site. Although a friend of mine from bowling is currently dealing with selling a house, seperating and living with an unremorseful spouse who gets picked up by the OW every day.
I just got back from a business trip and I am falling asleep over my keyboard so I must get my exhausted body to bed. Night Night.....
Two thumbs way up! I really enjoyed this movie. Well written and I loved the way all the stories entwined. Brilliant
Dont get me started on movies either. You wont be able to get me to shut up! Just finished watching Elizabethtown. Very cute romantic movie..no cheating involved, lol. Next I am renting "The Constant Gardner", has anyone seen it?
Carol~
EDITED TO ADD:
My gosh Kim. I hope everything is OK. Please let us know how things go. I will say an extra prayer for you tonight
This message has been edited by pizzalady on Mar 10, 2006 11:46 PM
< I keep getting severe attacks of vertigo that render it virtual impossible to do anything including moving. Nausea, vomitting, dizziness, off balance, headaches, sore ears........maybe my body is having a hard time adjusting to coming off the affair coaster.>
Well my dear child, that sounds awful, and it sounds like Meniers syndrome. RW knows something about this.
I have a friend who has it. Vertigo sucks!!! I had it couple of times. You feel like all the blood has been drained from your body while the world spins. AWFUL.
I hope you find our soon. Take care and here's to a speedy recovery.
Awww thanks Ma
It is awful and actually RW and I have discussed it. That is what the doctors think it is. I am losing my hearing as well and my vision has been a bit screwed up now and then. Scary scary stuff........but I am hanging in there.
Good to see you are doing well. Good luck with the "principal-ship". I recently left my job with a Big Firm consultancy because I could no longer deal with the politics of promotion to partnership. I despise that "I don't care how good of a job you do, did you kiss the partner's butt" work style. If you can survive it, more power to you. Maybe it just reminds me too much of my first marriage - no matter how hard I worked, it wasn't good enough and everything went wrong was STILL all my fault. Bitter much? Nah, not me. <end sarcasm>
Good to see everyone else doing OK, but Kid, I'm concerned for you. I hope the docs get to the bottom of what's going on and can alleviate your symptoms. Fingers crossed in the lower 48 for ya.
Hey MM/TL, your huskies actually like snow? My first husky, the dear departed Frank E., hatedhatedhated snow. We took him to Tahoe one fine day in February and he was miserable. He had this look on his face like "can we go back in noooowwww?" It snowed on the hills here over the weekend and we offered to take the Fur Princess to the snow and all I got was a snort and a dirty look in reply. What's it like to have a real husky?
From what I have read it could be either. But I do know my hearing is getting worse and worse even though the vertigo seems to have calmed down momentarily.
I had a CT Scan today of my head. Weirdest thing I ever encountered having this machine push you in and out and take pictures
I almost passed out when they told me to lay down. I tried to do it slowly since it really causes alot of dizziness, but there was no pillow and my head was at the same height as the rest of my body.........even in bed I have pillows for support. The nurse rushed over and said my face had turned as pale as a ghost. She thought she was going to have to get the doctor LOL. Good job I was in hospital Should take about a week for these sets of tests to come back.
Whatever the results are and whatever they find I have reconciled in my head I will be okay with. I have made it this far and dammit I have alot farther to go. Those words from affair recovery keep haunting me - God doesn't give us challenges he knows we can't deal with. I handled that and it was the most painful experience of my life....nothing could even compare to that.
Thanks everybody for your concern. It is very much appreciated right now.
