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Post by mei on Feb 18, 2017 11:42:03 GMT -5
I think I'm going to set things in motion to stop my business or at least put it on hold for a while :-(
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Post by tucano on Feb 18, 2017 12:27:27 GMT -5
Oh, why's that mei? I thought it was going well.
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Post by mei on Feb 18, 2017 12:32:29 GMT -5
it hasn't been for quite some time (but easy to make it look different from the outside....). time to face up to the facts and make some tough decisions :=(
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Post by sprite on Feb 18, 2017 17:52:56 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 18, 2017 18:03:30 GMT -5
Aw crap mei - so sorry. Starting a new business is damned hard; too hard for me, I think. Hopefully you can start it up again soon, or at least use what you learned in a new way.
What's making me sad is thinking about the inevitable side effects of the political stuff that's pissing me off.
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Post by romily on Feb 20, 2017 7:49:18 GMT -5
The fact that we lost 3 cats from the group my newest adoptee cat came from - they all had been mistreated, and bred with to an inch of their life to sell the kittens. None were vet checked, microchipped, vaccinated - all had worms and upset tummies. One died from an infected uterus, one we could not get the tummy / bowel issues under control even with weeks of care and medication, and had to give up after having her on the drip again and again, one had liver failure. Broke my heart.
I really would like to get my hands on the people who used these cats as breeding queen, for multiple litters a year, and kept them in small rooms / crates... See how they like it.
At least 6 out of the group of ten are happily rehomed, one is still poorly, but recovering - but yes, sad and very angry.
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Post by Liiisa on Feb 20, 2017 8:34:45 GMT -5
A long conversation with a friend last night who's a recovering alcoholic about his completely shit family.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Feb 21, 2017 5:46:14 GMT -5
Bureaucrats who close mental health services over Christmas, the worst possible time.
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Post by fishface on Feb 21, 2017 5:50:16 GMT -5
Wrote a longer message and deleted it before posting.
But basically my father's family is batshit.
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Post by cakemonkey on Feb 21, 2017 8:13:18 GMT -5
A friend of mine has been sectioned (for the third, maybe fourth, time). I feel sad for her. I feel like this is her life now. She feels better and stops her meds and then ends up being sectioned again. It's a cycle of ill mental health that she can't break.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 23, 2017 11:05:06 GMT -5
i feel for your friend, cake
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Post by rikita on Feb 23, 2017 19:10:43 GMT -5
read an article about the situation in south sudan the other day, that made me sad. than made the mistake of reading the comments underneath, and wasn't sure if i should cry or throw up or get very angry.
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Post by Phar Lap on Feb 24, 2017 11:18:21 GMT -5
I find out today or rather last night, Junior is hoping to buy a property today - his sister is coming to attend the auction and do the bidding. He wants 90 days, he goes to Japan with his gf next Thursday for four weeks and plans to move to his new place in May. Selfish me hopes he doesn't get the place. I knew he was planning to buy a place this year and move out, I just didn't realise it would be so soon. Somehow I feel it's all my fault and that had I kept the house tidy he would have moved later rather than sooner. I will find life difficult living on my own. I've never lived alone since the day I was born.
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Post by libbyh on Feb 24, 2017 18:22:02 GMT -5
No guarantee he will get the house today at his first auction. In fact I'd take odds he won't. No need to panic yet. But it's not your fault he's moving out, even babies grow up eventually.
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Post by groo on Feb 27, 2017 5:23:42 GMT -5
And with house prices as they are at present it's probably better for him to enter the property market while he can. For you, it may be an opportunity to downsize - not necessarily a bad thing at all. It's certainly an option that we have under periodic consideration.
You could even consider leaving Batmania for somewhere close but less expensive and with easier living. Wino's garage?
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Post by sprite on Feb 27, 2017 5:38:18 GMT -5
I find out today or rather last night, Junior is hoping to buy a property today - his sister is coming to attend the auction and do the bidding. He wants 90 days, he goes to Japan with his gf next Thursday for four weeks and plans to move to his new place in May. Selfish me hopes he doesn't get the place. I knew he was planning to buy a place this year and move out, I just didn't realise it would be so soon. Somehow I feel it's all my fault and that had I kept the house tidy he would have moved later rather than sooner. I will find life difficult living on my own. I've never lived alone since the day I was born. nothing to do with you, he probably just wants to have loud sex. i can't imagine never having lived alone, but now i think on it, that's a reality for a lot of people, including my own mother and sister. i equate it with freedom, but can see how others might not. do you own your home? would you be willing to get a lodger? (you really would have to keep the house tidy, then.)
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Post by rikita on Feb 27, 2017 7:42:33 GMT -5
for her christening, a. got a very pretty bonsai tree from mr. r's friends. i got it through three winters and was quite happy about that, wanted to give it over to her care when she is old enough - but this winter the tree didn't make it. it is still there, but obviously dead, and when i see it i am always a bit sad that i didn't manage to take better care of it ...
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Post by Webs on Feb 27, 2017 11:08:04 GMT -5
23 years ago I had the last conversation with my mother. It had been a snowy Sunday and I had decided to stay home instead of going over there. She was a little annoyed because she said she needed help with something. I asked if I could come by during the week to do it and she said not to bother.
That's the first time I've admitted that that's the last conversation I had with my mother to anyone but a therapist.
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Post by sprite on Feb 27, 2017 11:30:45 GMT -5
hell.
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Post by kraken on Feb 27, 2017 12:47:26 GMT -5
Oh webs
I can imagine how devastating a memory that must be. I'm sorry that's the last conversation you had, and that you've carried that alone (almost) all these years.
The last time I heard my dad's voice was an annoyed voice mail regarding something trivial. I didn't call him back, but I did send him an email a few days later--a few hours before he died, it turns out. I never found out if he read the email.
It's funny how these things matter so much, but they do. Hugs.
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Post by sophie on Feb 28, 2017 0:35:18 GMT -5
No words.. Just hugs.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Feb 28, 2017 1:50:38 GMT -5
Hugs Webs, that's a hard memory to carry around.
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Post by tinaja on Feb 28, 2017 8:41:16 GMT -5
Not sure the puppy thing is going to work out. Foster has him on more of a farm schedule--outside a lot. Work has more restrictions than I thought. Honestly it scares me to be taking on so much responsibility. I don't want to mess up with a good pup.
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Post by cakemonkey on Feb 28, 2017 9:15:56 GMT -5
Oh Webs. I think that's a perfectly normal conversation to have with a parent or close family member. I have declined seeing my mum tonight, for example. Don't beat yourself up about it (I know that's easy for me to say). Go easy on yourself.
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Post by tigress on Mar 4, 2017 14:02:15 GMT -5
Good friends of mine lost their unborn baby.
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Post by scicaro on Mar 4, 2017 14:56:31 GMT -5
Hugs webs
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Post by whothingie on Mar 4, 2017 19:06:02 GMT -5
Funeral for an acquaintance followed by burial. Didn't know her maiden name and discovered at the committal she is buried with her family next to my son. Few rough moments. Stupid perhaps but somehow I couldn't join those standing on the grass above his remains and had to find a safe place to stand and switch off. Ironically if anyone made the connection, no one commented.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 7, 2017 2:08:00 GMT -5
hugs, who
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Post by groo on Mar 7, 2017 2:25:46 GMT -5
Yes. I'm a bloke and by definition am not good at responding to such things, but that was a very sad post indeed. My heart is with you, whothingie.
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Mar 7, 2017 4:55:11 GMT -5
Hugs whothingie. That sounds tough.
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