-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 12-Aug-2015 12:00 <=-
DAG> Re: Re: stressful
DAG> By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Thu Aug 06 2015 13:40:44
NB>> Stubborn isn't all bad... If she can turn her stubborn to getting
NB>> better, we should be fine... ;)
DAG> That is absolutely true. I've seen some stubborn relatives of mine
DAG> push through things that I never would've thought possible. Not to
DAG> mention a few things that I don't even think the doctors would've ever
DAG> thought possible. Hell, my adoptive father ended up being the textbook
DAG> case of the longest life lived with Kartagener's Syndrome. He was a
DAG> stubborn... well fill in the rest of that sentence with whatever you
DAG> like. I have scars on my head from banging it with his up through my
DAG> early adulthood. *grin*
I can all too well imagine... Guess he turned at least some of
that stubborn to good use for himself... :)
NB>> "But I read it on the internet... it HAS to be true..."
DAG> I'm not sure which is worse, the people that say that, or the ones
DAG> that tout FAUX News as an unbiased outlet to be taken at literal value
DAG> at all times.
Yes. ;)
NB>> I have a friend who tends to want to talk things out with me, at least
NB>> in part because somewhere along the line I can get her to laugh... see
NB>> the humor (even if it's just a twist on it, or dark humor) in the
NB>> situation... even if she'd thought there wasn't anything good at all in
NB>> the situation...
DAG> Yeah I had some friends like that, still do, actually, but they're
DAG> all thousands of miles away. Although I have a relationship like that
DAG> with my roommate quite a bit, but having a bigger circle of friends is
DAG> still a loss. It's always good to hang out with somebody who can at
DAG> least get you a cynical chuckle at whatever chips have got a person
DAG> down.
Have you totally lost contact with those other friends...? Or can you
still call (or email) them if you really need their perspective...?
NB>> Mostly joking... partly, though, along the lines of: even if you aren't
NB>> planning to take him along, the sort of place you could would probably
NB>> be a healthier place for you... :)
DAG> Well you're probably right about that. Then again, my chances of
DAG> meeting potential suitors in a place like that are about 5000% higher
DAG> than anyplace else I'm going to go, and I'll admit I'm desperate. Not
DAG> like commence sexual relations with a cigar & Monica Lewinski
DAG> desperate, but desperate for at least a little bit of validating
DAG> flirtation and *keep your fingers crossed* maybe even a chance at a bit
DAG> of a relationship/friendship.
Desperate can get you in trouble, you know... ;) Admittedly, sometimes
there can be decent people to meet there.... but generally it turns out
to have been a mistake... :)
NB>> As long as they are suitable suitors...
DAG> Those are notoriously difficult to come across in the standard
DAG> meatmarkets. I'm trying to make sure that I do my research on the
DAG> different places so that I'm not dealing with too much drama. Not
DAG> that it's avoidable in the club scene.
Meatmarkets of just about any sort can be problematic anyway...
NB>> And did you get there finally...?
DAG> No. :( I'm a broken record on this, but I've always got an excuse.
Eventually the stars will all be in place and it will happen... ;)
DAG> This time it's that the VA messed up my meds again, and I was
DAG> agoraphobic enough to not really be able to get out and get that
DAG> program initiated. At least the money is in place now, though, and the
DAG> meds are restabilizing in my system. So as soon as I'm able to go out
DAG> in public again without carrying my shell on my back or finding a rock
DAG> to scuttle under, I should be able to get there soon. Ugh I feel
DAG> pretty bad about that, actually. Yet in a way it's a good thing that
DAG> I'm not in yet, because you pay whether you go to sessions or not, so
DAG> if I would've been in already, and not comfortable enough there, the
DAG> agoraphobia then would've meant a lot of wasted money there. I
DAG> could've at least taken Deschain to his practices, though. *sigh*
It would have been nice to get Deschain into it... but it will come when
it comes... :)
DAG> We got to the church to socialize and are making it about 50% of the
DAG> time now, though, at least.
And that is progress... :)
NB>> And/or you are earning too much by then... and/or are in a better
NB>> neighborhood where the hanging out is safer as well... :)
DAG> Wait wut? You mean by next summer?
I think so... ;) [Working on recalling the thread...] Yup... :)
ttyl neb
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