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26907. thoughtful - 5/7/2012 4:24:15 AM Isbs, congrats on the new one to come.
Seems to be there are quite a number of things that have been difficult in your life and it seems you are always catching hell for it, even if you have nothing to do with it.
Remember only you can make yourself feel guilty about something. If you choose not to participate then you won't.
Time to meditate and get in touch with your authentic self. We are spirits having a human experience which necessarily includes death, illness and suffering. We need to remember the past and not let it control us...celebrate the present as it is all we have...reimagine the future as it is how we fulfill our destiny.
Namaste. 26908. iiibbb - 5/7/2012 6:40:03 PM My son is probably the only thing that really makes me happy right now.
My wife would be too, but she's all tied up in work depression and pregnancy.
My MiL is remarkable in her capacity to absorb this stuff, but she's not a nexus.
I feel like I'm taking it from all ends - and typically I have quite a capacity for this stuff - but it's coming non stop.
It is almost a moral imperative for me to keep my shit together, but I am dropping balls everywhere and I feel like a pretender.
I am not looking forward to going to the inlaws this week--- B is apparently having some real fits about the car situation.
Logically I still have no problem having it... my car was on the brink... his car the brakes were shot, there was no coolant in it, and it's got tons of dings in it from B probably hitting things.
I'm so going to get yelled at when I get there, and I'm not sure if thanking him is going to appease him.
26909. judithathome - 5/7/2012 7:50:40 PM Maybe you should parek a street over and just walk to his house....out of sight, etc. 26910. iiibbb - 5/7/2012 7:53:23 PM Thought about it...
... basically planning to pack light and bring my stuff in after he goes to bed just in case he demands I leave and MiL can't calm him down. 26911. thoughtful - 5/9/2012 1:45:11 PM Try not to anticipate too much as it will wear you down before you even get there. Don't re-live the past and don't pre-live the future, but stay in the now...it's a lot easier to take it one day at a time than many days, past and future, all at once.
Visits with MIL were always like an alfred hitchcock movie...no matter what I expected, there'd always be a surprise ending. I could simply not predict and had to take what came. 26912. iiibbb - 5/10/2012 12:27:03 AM good advice. My propensity to do that is a blessing and curse 26913. Wombat - 5/11/2012 4:28:35 PM Wombette college update (for those who care). Ithaca College contacted her yesterday and informed her that there was an opening in their BS/DPT combined program. Although Ithaca was her first choice, she wrote them off after she didn't get into the combined program. Lots of pros and cons to consider between Ithaca and Quinnipiac. 26914. vonKreedon - 5/11/2012 4:51:38 PM BS/DPT, sounds like a set of childhood vaccines.[;-} Congrats on having the choices. 26915. Wombat - 5/11/2012 7:10:44 PM Actually, it could an abbreviation for anti-vaccine cranks. 26916. judithathome - 5/13/2012 9:54:36 PM Since this is Mother's Day, I'd like to wish all the mothers out there a happy one and share this bit of history with you...the first Mother's Day was actually a proclamation for peace. Take a look:
Julia Ward Howe's Procalamation For Peace...the first "Mother's Day" 26917. arkymalarky - 5/14/2012 1:51:25 AM Happy Mothers Day to all the moms here. 26918. webfeet - 5/16/2012 10:50:18 PM Oh my gawd! How joieful to see the mote back and running. I love you all. Honestly. Missed you! Hey alistair so adorable of you to be continuing this.
Generator, army, thoughtful, Judith. This is so weird. That's Arky, not army. I am writing.on my sons iPad and it changes everything. Quel ennuie.
You are all, like, alive. How terrific. I'm alive, too. 26919. arkymalarky - 5/16/2012 11:14:19 PM Hey Webfeet! Great to see you! 26920. msgreer - 5/19/2012 3:40:16 AM Inspiration to Start Your day: "It's time that you say no out of love versus yes out of fear." - Suze Orman
I may not be a big Suzy Orman fan but this quote rings true for me.
I have fought this for so long..and it's not just a love thing. It is learning to say no...not out of fear but because it is how I feel. A bit of honest reflection. 26921. arkymalarky - 5/19/2012 3:53:06 AM I agree. 26922. msgreer - 5/19/2012 4:38:11 AM Thanks, Arky. It is good to know I am not alone on this.
26923. msgreer - 5/19/2012 4:41:22 AM Hey webfeet..isn't it comforting to type in www.themote.com and find that your friends are not only still here..they welcome you back with love and sincerity. 26924. Wombat - 5/19/2012 4:44:05 PM Wombette's prom was last night. Three surprises: she went, she had a date (reasonably housetrained), and she appears to have enjoyed herself. She traditionally does not like mob scenes with loud music, hates dressing up, and has shown no apparent interest in boys other than as chums (her date was a pal from theater tech crew, so that holds up). 26925. arkymalarky - 5/19/2012 5:31:31 PM I still regret not having gone to mine. Glad she went and had fun. I feel the same way she does about dressing up, etc, but having planned and attended them over 30 years as a teacher, I have more appreciation for them and what they do for kids. I rarely go unless I'm sponsoring one, every six years, but I always expect to dislike them and end up enjoying them. I did my last one two years ago. Don't plan to be teaching by the next one, but who knows.
Btw, Wombat, is your email the same (assuming I can find it) or can you hit me up at cmoon.rise@gmail.com? 26926. Wombat - 5/19/2012 9:48:39 PM I missed out on mine, thanks to stupid teenage male thinking. My "girlfriend" and I were planning on going, ordered the tux, etc. Then I decided I wanted to ask someone else, so I did. She said no, and my "girlfriend" went with someone else. I got stuck with the tux, and was denied my diploma until I paid the rental fee.
On Prom night, I hung out with friends--of both genders--and we drank beer and shot the breeze.
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