Have a good one everybody.
Happy New Year..One ‘n All
The Estate said:
Have a good one everybody.
The same wishes to you TheE.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all and may it bring health and happiness
Grasshopper said:
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all and may it bring health and happiness
I wish the same for you Grassy and thank you.
Yes the same to you Thee and everyone else. We’re home alone tonight……. nice and quiet seeing the old one out and the new one in:)
Happy New Year Grassy:)
2010 – there’s obviously a hidden mathematical meaning there.
still – we’ll all have a good year i’d reckon.
best wishes to you all.
A happy, healthy and safe New Year to you all !!
orchid40 said:
A happy, healthy and safe New Year to you all !!
And from me.
orchid40 said:
A happy, healthy and safe New Year to you all !!
Thanks O40.
Thanks Thee, right back at ya! :)
And a wonderful, healthy and happy 2010 to all from me too.
Happy 2010 everyone….
Hope it’s a safe and happy one and especially a healthy one for you and your family
Muschee said:
Happy 2010 everyone….Hope it’s a safe and happy one and especially a healthy one for you and your family
Thanks Mushee and the same back to you.
What a way to start the year.
I woke up with every bit of me screaming with pain, freezing cold and a temp. :(
bubba louie said:
What a way to start the year.I woke up with every bit of me screaming with pain, freezing cold and a temp. :(
bugga! Do you know what it is?
bubba louie said:
What a way to start the year.I woke up with every bit of me screaming with pain, freezing cold and a temp. :(
Oh yuck:( Welcome to 2010……..
bluegreen said:
bubba louie said:
What a way to start the year.I woke up with every bit of me screaming with pain, freezing cold and a temp. :(
bugga! Do you know what it is?
A virus I guess.
Are you OK BG? You’ve had a nasty shock.
bubba louie said:
Are you OK BG? You’ve had a nasty shock.
well there are bad days and worse days…
bluegreen said:
bubba louie said:Are you OK BG? You’ve had a nasty shock.
well there are bad days and worse days…
I really am so so sorry.
:( Hope you feel better soon, BL.
bubba louie said:
What a way to start the year.I woke up with every bit of me screaming with pain, freezing cold and a temp. :(
Oh bugger! :(
bluegreen said:
bubba louie said:Are you OK BG? You’ve had a nasty shock.
well there are bad days and worse days…
I think it may be time to drag out a little something I wrote after my own recovery from a relationship breakdown, to someone else going through one…
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Helpful hints from a survivor
If you still haven’t eaten after 3 days, stop marvelling in dropping a dress size overnight and the fact that if you don’t wear a belt, your favourite jeans slide straight to the floor and force a piece of buttery toast down, it will stick and you’ll feel like it’s a wrestling match, but do it. Small pieces are better, to alleviate the nauseous feeling when you look at anything that resembles food. After surviving one piece of toast and it not coming back to haunt you, the idea of food doesn’t seem so strange any more, and don’t worry, you’ll still lose more weight.
Wear sunglasses everywhere, especially in the supermarket. Every song that comes on the radio was written just for you and your situation, and although it may seem like a really good idea and even bring on some slightly hysterical giggling, “Crying over the Cauliflowers” is not a great song title for your new release outpouring all your grief. Just ‘cos they are all doing it with your story, doesn’t mean you’ll have a hit.
Don’t worry about sleep or lack of it. Deal with that later – tiredness will eventually win out…hopefully. Get used to a wet pillow.
Don’t do what I did and become an insomniac for nearly a year (so far)…unfortunately I have no tips on how to avoid this…am still working on it.
Oh, and if you ever need company late at night, internet forums have a small army of insomniacs, and I’m in Perth so 3am your time is only 1am here! But if the Sydneysiders and Melbournians start chirping good morning, get yourself to bed!
Accept that you will unexpectedly burst into tears for seemingly no reason approximately 20 times a day gradually reducing over the first few weeks, then you’ll have a good few days and think you are safe to go out…be warned…it is a false lull in the tears and they will strike again.
When you feel strong enough to venture out to parties/get togethers/anywhere you would feel mortified suddenly bursting into tears, threaten to poke out the eyeballs of anyone who even LOOKS like asking you how you are and insist they change the subject immediately to dogs/cats/chooks/gardens (preferably yours) for at least 2 minutes and 30 seconds while you pull yourself back together.
Surround yourself with people who make you smile and laugh, but don’t feel you have to. Eventually it will come naturally.
Own your grief, give in to it, thump pillows, wallow as much as you want, soak in a scented bath, turn the radio up loud and scream loudly and off key. (preferably to “I will survive”, anthem of all women going through a breakup)
One day a few months (or more) from now you’ll be walking down the street and suddenly realise your head is held high, your confidence is back, and yep…surprisingly, you’ve never been happier. It sneaks up on you. By the time you realise you’re ok, or better than ok, you’ve been that way for a while! You will look back on this time and the man you thought was the one with sadness, but not the overwhelming grief that you feel right now.
May your recovery be more speedy than mine.
((Hugs)) for you BG, hope my little jottings bring you some benefit, be it half a smile, or just the comfort of knowing that others have been there too and have some idea of what you are going through.
hortfurball said:
bubba louie said:
What a way to start the year.I woke up with every bit of me screaming with pain, freezing cold and a temp. :(
Oh bugger! :(
How do you feel this morning BL?
hortfurball said:
bluegreen said:
bubba louie said:Are you OK BG? You’ve had a nasty shock.
well there are bad days and worse days…
I think it may be time to drag out a little something I wrote after my own recovery from a relationship breakdown, to someone else going through one…
thanks for the hints, although it is not the first time I have had to deal with issues like this so I already have some survival tools under my belt. Time is the great healer, but you have to survive in the meanwhile.
thanks for the hints, although it is not the first time I have had to deal with issues like this so I already have some survival tools under my belt. Time is the great healer, but you have to survive in the meanwhile.
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Good own advise.
How are the kids reacting ?
My hubby to your news by reminding me we will never ever part, no person, no distance no illness , nothing, no war nor anything else on this planet will come between us. I agree.
Happy Potter said:
thanks for the hints, although it is not the first time I have had to deal with issues like this so I already have some survival tools under my belt. Time is the great healer, but you have to survive in the meanwhile.———————————————————
Good own advise.
How are the kids reacting ?My hubby to your news by reminding me we will never ever part, no person, no distance no illness , nothing, no war nor anything else on this planet will come between us. I agree.
good on Mr HP.
The kids are OK although understandably saddened by it. It is hardest on #2 daughter as she is still at home and she is witness to the cold war and the tears etc.
pomolo said:
hortfurball said:
bubba louie said:
What a way to start the year.I woke up with every bit of me screaming with pain, freezing cold and a temp. :(
Oh bugger! :(
How do you feel this morning BL?
Better but I’ve made an appointment with the doc for Monday because I’m a bit concerned that the prob is to do with the surgery.
bluegreen said:
hortfurball said:
bluegreen said:well there are bad days and worse days…
I think it may be time to drag out a little something I wrote after my own recovery from a relationship breakdown, to someone else going through one…
thanks for the hints, although it is not the first time I have had to deal with issues like this so I already have some survival tools under my belt. Time is the great healer, but you have to survive in the meanwhile.
I’m still struggling to get my head around how he can do this after professing his love loud and long after your accident. :(
bubba louie said:
I’m still struggling to get my head around how he can do this after professing his love loud and long after your accident. :(
me too :(
bluegreen said:
bubba louie said:I’m still struggling to get my head around how he can do this after professing his love loud and long after your accident. :(
me too :(
Has he been under a lot of stress lately? The only rough spot we’ve had was when the boys were young and was caused by MrBL being overworked and totally stressed. A bit of help from a very good counsellor put us back on track.
There are a lot of hopeless councellors out there too.
bubba louie said:
bluegreen said:
bubba louie said:I’m still struggling to get my head around how he can do this after professing his love loud and long after your accident. :(
me too :(
Has he been under a lot of stress lately? The only rough spot we’ve had was when the boys were young and was caused by MrBL being overworked and totally stressed. A bit of help from a very good counsellor put us back on track.
There are a lot of hopeless councellors out there too.
that has been a problem in the past, but he has been under a lot less stress lately than previously.
bluegreen said:
bubba louie said:
bluegreen said:me too :(
Has he been under a lot of stress lately? The only rough spot we’ve had was when the boys were young and was caused by MrBL being overworked and totally stressed. A bit of help from a very good counsellor put us back on track.
There are a lot of hopeless councellors out there too.
that has been a problem in the past, but he has been under a lot less stress lately than previously.
Just look after yourself. I know how I felt back then when it seemed things were spiralling out of control.
bubba louie said:
bluegreen said:
bubba louie said:Has he been under a lot of stress lately? The only rough spot we’ve had was when the boys were young and was caused by MrBL being overworked and totally stressed. A bit of help from a very good counsellor put us back on track.
There are a lot of hopeless councellors out there too.
that has been a problem in the past, but he has been under a lot less stress lately than previously.
Just look after yourself. I know how I felt back then when it seemed things were spiralling out of control.
It might just be his midlife crisis.
bubba louie said:
It might just be his midlife crisis.
doesn’t make it any easier
bluegreen said:
bubba louie said:It might just be his midlife crisis.
doesn’t make it any easier
No.
bluegreen said:
bubba louie said:I’m still struggling to get my head around how he can do this after professing his love loud and long after your accident. :(
me too :(
me three… I’m a sad PM at the mo’… except when I saw that Giggle Pig Cookbook! Jeez that’s Gold I tell ya…. GOLD!