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Post by Lola m on Dec 30, 2009 21:45:43 GMT -5
OK! One more day of work, and then a long weekend off! YAY! Also: I say once again: I love 2009! I am totally against the beratement of 2009! But I guess the topic is not politics or religion, and 2009 isn't a poster or a TV character so I can't call it bashing . . . I can only defend poor l'il 2009 as a year that had great people in it, that 2010 will not have. But I'm all for giving a big welcome to 2010 - will probably be hanging around here (demurely). Any resolutions for 2010, S'cubes? Oh, the usual: eat better, start exercising regularly... I'm a traditionalist at heart. Heh! Me too. Eat more healthily, get back to running/exercising more, and the one that I find So. Very. Hard. To. Do! Get enough sleep. ;D I'm just so prone to staying up too late! I was meant to be a semi-nocturnal beast, I think. Even as I ship myself successfully off to work at the crack of hell-no-this-is-too-early every morning, I not very secretly yearn to go to bed late and sleep in late too. ;D
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Post by Karen on Dec 30, 2009 21:46:12 GMT -5
OK! One more day of work, and then a long weekend off! YAY! Also: I say once again: I love 2009! I am totally against the beratement of 2009! But I guess the topic is not politics or religion, and 2009 isn't a poster or a TV character so I can't call it bashing . . . I can only defend poor l'il 2009 as a year that had great people in it, that 2010 will not have. But I'm all for giving a big welcome to 2010 - will probably be hanging around here (demurely). Any resolutions for 2010, S'cubes? Oh, the usual: eat better, start exercising regularly... I'm a traditionalist at heart. That looks like my usual list. Add to that, make a decision on what kind of curtains I want for the living room, and I'll be good to go for 2010! 2010...sounds so futuristic, Where are the flying cars and the robot maids?
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Post by Karen on Dec 30, 2009 21:54:12 GMT -5
Maybe in a few years I can look back at 2009 and see some good in it, but right now I just want it over and gone. S'cubie baby Emily excepted, of course. A vague disclaimer, etc etc. I have resolved to give up on New Year's resolutions, because I can never keep them. OK. I gotta just say it: The 2009-bashing stuff - everyone has a right to do it, as much and as often as they want. So I'm not saying stop it. But I am saying that it is really getting to me, and not in a good way. And it seems like it's gonna be a continuing theme here - I mean, I tried skipping over it, but there's too much of it, too often, for that. Right or wrong, to me, it feels relentless. People seem to need to do it . I guess it provides some comfort, and that's OK. Everybody finds their comfort differently. For me, this stuff does just the opposite. Anyhow, my comfort is my own responsibility - so I'm outta here until we're done with this, I'm guessing next week. I don't say that with any anger or upset, truly. I know it's not a personal attack on me of any kind, and I know your motives and intentions are not mean-spirited, and not about me in any way. But regardless, I just can't listen anymore.
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Post by Karen on Dec 30, 2009 21:56:28 GMT -5
OK. I gotta just say it: The 2009-bashing stuff - everyone has a right to do it, as much and as often as they want. So I'm not saying stop it. But I am saying that it is really getting to me, and not in a good way. And it seems like it's gonna be a continuing theme here - I mean, I tried skipping over it, but there's too much of it, too often, for that. Right or wrong, to me, it feels relentless. People seem to need to do it . I guess it provides some comfort, and that's OK. Everybody finds their comfort differently. For me, this stuff does just the opposite. Anyhow, my comfort is my own responsibility - so I'm outta here until we're done with this, I'm guessing next week. I don't say that with any anger or upset, truly. I know it's not a personal attack on me of any kind, and I know your motives and intentions are not mean-spirited, and not about me in any way. But regardless, I just can't listen anymore. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to drive you away. I have a better idea - I'll shut up and go away, and you stay. I'm in a bad place emotionally right now, and it's not fair on the S'cubies to keep venting my negativity in the Thrall Room. Okay, you know what? I'm sorry, but I can't just be all happy happy happy right now. Every day, I have to be strong comfort support person for my mom. I've got no one I can lean on - Kitty doesn't get it, Emily goes drama queen on me, and Paul doesn't want to deal. So I came here and vented because there wasn't anywhere else.
It's going to take a while to get over losing my dad, it was sudden and it felt like all the time I spent helping him, all the time I lost with my family at home this year, was suddenly worth nothing. I can't turn those feelings off like a lightswitch. Right now, 2009 sucked and I want it over so I can, maybe, start finding some good things about life again. Just don't expect me to find them right away, because I'm too busy trying to keep everybody else from collapsing Thus endeth the rant, and now, I will shut the hell up and go away.
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Post by Lola m on Dec 30, 2009 22:00:59 GMT -5
I understand both sides of the rant regaring 2009 bashing. And I don't want anybody to go away. Maybe I should point out that we've always told those who suffer that this is the place where they can rant since some of us have no other place to put it. Spring, that doesn't mean that I don't understand that it might bring you down, since it seems to be endless. But I'll ask you to stay. Really, we need your wisdom right now. So many of us (you too!) are hurting in horrible ways. I'm open to any suggestion that will allow those who need to vent the opportunity and those who can't deal with the venting to have respite. Does anybody have any suggestions? Maybe our usual solution? We all fuss and snark at each other a bit, alternately getting on each other's nerves and/or petting and huggling each other? And everyone who needs to back away for a day or two or whatever does so, and everyone who doesn't need to back away just keeps babbling and generally goofing about? And eventually everyone joins back up again, wandering through our normal extremely eclectic range of topics? And sometimes we're boring and sometimes we're amusing and sometimes we're totally awesome? You know, pretty much like any group of friends ends up doing sometimes? 'Course, I'm simplifying, but you get the gist of it. And I'm probably feeling all sappy because I'm rewatching the glee scene where the kids all sing "keep holding on" to Quinn because Sue found out she's pregnant and is tossing her off the squad and everything is falling apart, but the glee club comes thru for her!
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Post by Lola m on Dec 30, 2009 22:03:40 GMT -5
Oh, the usual: eat better, start exercising regularly... I'm a traditionalist at heart. That looks like my usual list. Add to that, make a decision on what kind of curtains I want for the living room, and I'll be good to go for 2010! 2010...sounds so futuristic, Where are the flying cars and the robot maids? Oh, oh!! Flying cars!! I always say that as a joke, I'm all "it's the 2000's, where's my flying car"? And then I saw this book from one of my book clubs that I had to get!! It's called "Your Flying Car Awaits" - by Paul Milo - it's all about phenomenally inaccurate predictions of what "the future" (the future we're in now) would be like. It's very amusing!
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Dec 30, 2009 22:09:52 GMT -5
*Deep breath*
For a while, I was finding three good things to write in my journal every day, even if they were three usefuls I slayed. I'm going to try to get back to doing that, when I can.
So. Three good things today:
I finished two small craft projects and went for a walk.
Paul took the girls to the Aquarium of the Pacific, and he brought me back not only the squished penny I'd asked for, but also three more with different designs and a cute little snowglobe with a mother penguin and her chick.
We brought in Flame Broiler bowls for dinner.
Three good things. Maybe that is a resolution I can handle.
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Post by rich on Dec 30, 2009 22:22:57 GMT -5
Maybe in a few years I can look back at 2009 and see some good in it, but right now I just want it over and gone. S'cubie baby Emily excepted, of course. A vague disclaimer, etc etc. I have resolved to give up on New Year's resolutions, because I can never keep them. OK. I gotta just say it: The 2009-bashing stuff - everyone has a right to do it, as much and as often as they want. So I'm not saying stop it. But I am saying that it is really getting to me, and not in a good way. And it seems like it's gonna be a continuing theme here - I mean, I tried skipping over it, but there's too much of it, too often, for that. Right or wrong, to me, it feels relentless. People seem to need to do it . I guess it provides some comfort, and that's OK. Everybody finds their comfort differently. For me, this stuff does just the opposite. Anyhow, my comfort is my own responsibility - so I'm outta here until we're done with this, I'm guessing next week. I don't say that with any anger or upset, truly. I know it's not a personal attack on me of any kind, and I know your motives and intentions are not mean-spirited, and not about me in any way. But regardless, I just can't listen anymore. Stick around Spring. On my part, 2009 bashing will cease as of now. (2009 itself will cease within 26 hours so it's no big sacrifice. )
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Post by rich on Dec 30, 2009 22:29:18 GMT -5
This morning two city water mains burst. The entire town is without water. Public works expects to have them fixed by 10 AM tomorrow. Maybe. Plus there will be a boil water notice in effect until they can determine the water system is not contaminated. I don't know how much more 2009 fun I can stand. Yeeee!!! We have boil orders all the time around here, but no water? That is bad. Hope you've got a bottled supply to drink and snow to melt otherwise. Water came back to my side of town around 3 PM. Still waiting for word that it's safe to drink without boiling. In the meantime, I've laid in a supply of bottled water for cooking and drinking.
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Post by Lola m on Dec 30, 2009 22:46:01 GMT -5
Yeeee!!! We have boil orders all the time around here, but no water? That is bad. Hope you've got a bottled supply to drink and snow to melt otherwise. Water came back to my side of town around 3 PM. Still waiting for word that it's safe to drink without boiling. In the meantime, I've laid in a supply of bottled water for cooking and drinking. Whew! Good to know. So, did the pipes burst because of the cold, or something else?
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Post by rich on Dec 30, 2009 22:49:03 GMT -5
That looks like my usual list. Add to that, make a decision on what kind of curtains I want for the living room, and I'll be good to go for 2010! 2010...sounds so futuristic, Where are the flying cars and the robot maids? Oh, oh!! Flying cars!! I always say that as a joke, I'm all "it's the 2000's, where's my flying car"? And then I saw this book from one of my book clubs that I had to get!! It's called "Your Flying Car Awaits" - by Paul Milo - it's all about phenomenally inaccurate predictions of what "the future" (the future we're in now) would be like. It's very amusing! In 2000, there was no flying car, no rocket belt, no robot maid. Instead there was the Billy Bass; a singing, animatronic fish. So I asked Jan to buy me one as a Christmas present. And though befuddled by my request, she did. Eventually, she came to see the joke.
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Post by Lola m on Dec 30, 2009 23:04:11 GMT -5
Oh, oh!! Flying cars!! I always say that as a joke, I'm all "it's the 2000's, where's my flying car"? And then I saw this book from one of my book clubs that I had to get!! It's called "Your Flying Car Awaits" - by Paul Milo - it's all about phenomenally inaccurate predictions of what "the future" (the future we're in now) would be like. It's very amusing! In 2000, there was no flying car, no rocket belt, no robot maid. Instead there was the Billy Bass; a singing, animatronic fish. So I asked Jan to buy me one as a Christmas present. And though befuddled by my request, she did. Eventually, she came to see the joke. Ha! I remember that fish. A couple of friends had versions of it. I remember each of them sang different songs . . . Oh! And I remember a drunken evening or two, all of us singing along and giggling like mad. ;D
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Post by rich on Dec 30, 2009 23:12:56 GMT -5
Water came back to my side of town around 3 PM. Still waiting for word that it's safe to drink without boiling. In the meantime, I've laid in a supply of bottled water for cooking and drinking. Whew! Good to know. So, did the pipes burst because of the cold, or something else? Yeah, though I blamed 2009, it really was the cold that damaged the pipes. Every year, the severity of the winter plays hell with the infrastructure of North Central Vermont. Up here, we pay beau-coup taxes to keep things running through white shit season. What those of you who live in milder climes (Lola, you are excepted. Minnesota obviously does not count as "milder climes") take for granted (open roads, working utilities...) here requires the heroic efforts of a small cadre of highly motivated public servants to even be possible. People think we are socialists up here. But the community effort; the pooling of limited resources; the level of cooperation between neighbors just to survive the winter, has to be experienced to be really understood.
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Post by Karen on Dec 30, 2009 23:48:10 GMT -5
Nebraska had their first shut out EVER in a bowl game tonight. They are back, baby! Well, I didn't know about them when they were away, but I am all about them now. And they are back! Woot! 33-0 over Arizona in San Diego, in the rain, no less. First time if ever rained in a bowl game there. The tide has changed. *looks at the time* Yikes! I suppose I should call it a wrap. 'Night, S'cubies. Sleep tight! GO BIG RED!!
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Post by Queen E on Dec 31, 2009 1:11:42 GMT -5
You know, I honestly do not know what to make of 2009. There was a lot of loss among the S'cubies this year...epic loss. There were wonderful parts: my mom's friend going into remission, the birth of Emily French-Tran. There were tiny irritating parts...actually, my year had a lot of irritating moments, but that's because I was finishing my thesis and looking for work.
On the other hand, I got to travel to Amsterdam and meet cool people. I walked through Amsterdam's Newmarket and ate fresh, plump raspberries on a cool, sunny morning. I actually DID finish my thesis. I have a home and a loving mom. So I can't write off 2009. Not that I don't understand the urge...1993 was one of THOSE years, but even that was redeemed by the birth of my nephew.
It's painful on both sides, I guess...how do you deal? I guess we all deal in our own way, and each is a way to start a fresh page. For me, I often want to just get a bad year behind me and start anew, but it is also vital to find the light in the loss...as Spring put it: 2009 was the last year that contained certain beloved people...and for that alone it should be celebrated. I want to be the type of person who can look at things that way. Something to work towards, I guess.
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