One Step at a Time - November 2012

[NoraC]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

Hey folks!!! Busy at work so can't comment like I want to.....

K9 - glad you had a good weekend. Great pic. More details.

Mama - feeling better?

Juja - feeling better?

I SLEPT last night!!!! My face hurts and I have red marks on it now. But, I feel refreshed. :H

I'll be back later.........

And excuse me - what is this about pulling a Nora being late to work. Me - I'm never late to work. :H:H:H

[sunshinedaisies]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

mama bear;1406666 wrote:
Around here we call being late to work "pulling a Nora"

And you question this WHY Nora ??????? ROTFLMBO !!!!!!

Hugs, Sun XXXX

[NoraC]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

EXCUSE ME SUNNIE - Too bad I don't have to find my angry, stomping foot smilie. You know that I'm always at work an hour early. :H:H:H

ROTFL

[Zenstyle]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

Prepare yourselves for a post of mammoth proportions? an epic, even by my standards! Yiz have been a chatty lot... )

Mama? how is your back? And your ears? Appears Clay is seeing things from a slightly different angle after teen court? hmm?

Alco? I?m good thanks! How are you? Good news that you didn?t have to testify. Are you settling in on the boards now?

Juja? $59.95 for cough mixture? it?s damn criminal? effin big pharma. The Z-pack usually knocks anything straight out for me but makes me dead sleepy for the first day. Regarding yer bedroom? mine has hand painted furniture and soothing mid-tone colours so no need to be worried about High Tec Manhattan stuff outta me. Actually? seeing as ya can?t afford my plane fare? yer won?t need to be worried about ANYTHING outta me!!! *snigger* :H

Nurdl? How are things up there now? I?ve been through two big ?canes where I lost my power for 11 days each time. The aftermath is worse than the storm itself. I hope you?re getting gas, food, etc. and you have a genny. The gas is always a hassle but I think you have an extra issue up there just now with the port or something??? (BTW? one of my besties is from NJ? she?s a blast!)

Nurdl and Juja? Great going on the showers? I just removed the peg from my nose!!!

Nora? How are you finding the CPAP? I used to sell CPAP equipment (one of my many jobs). If you can sleep with it, it gives you lots of extra oxygen. The new ones are a LOT quieter than the old machines.

Alcoholic;1406412 wrote:
My husband says he's taking me out to a fancy restaurant for our 14th anniversary. I haven't gotten him anything. Usually he just wants sex anyways. That settles it. Saves me a trip and money,

Hahaha! Use the system Ally? use the system!!!

Niner? Glad you had a good weekend hon, future husbo et al!

Yoo Hoooo Sunny! xxx

Nowt much going on with moi. Was feeling a bit blah earlier but a good lunch and posting back to people on here seems to have picked me up a bit. Mood swings are the pits? hate ?em. They only started in the last 6 years or so. I guess I have to accept it as being part and parcel of my age? I feel ancient after that last birthday FFS! I need to get over myself i reckon!!!

[Zenstyle]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

NoraC;1406827 wrote: EXCUSE ME SUNNIE - Too bad I don't have to find my angry, stomping foot smilie. You know that I'm always at work an hour early. :H:H:H

ROTFL

That's not what I heard!!!

:sofa:

[NoraC]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

Zenstyle;1406829 wrote: That's not what I heard!!!

:sofa:

:H:H:H:H

[mama bear]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

Sierra does look freezing!!
My job has the nerve to make me be busy today
1st of the month for a landlord is always crazy
just had one lady begging me not to raise her rent as she just had to bury her mom...she even brought in the death certificate....holy cow
I negotiated with her. I am not heartless, but I do have company guidelines to follow
Nora...I am glad you slept even if you looked like Darth Vader
glad you got your happy back Zenny
I feel MUCH better....just moving like an old lady....
ok, phones are ringing

[NoraC]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

Sorry you're busy at work too, Mama. :upset:

My mood has been pretty bad lately. Just so very down. But, I feel so much better today. I think maybe that new med the psych gave me has kicked in. At least I can see up again. It's really been bad for a while.

K9 - more details of the weekend please.

[Alcoholic]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

Nora: I want what you're having, the cpap and the happy pill.

Mama: hard work to raise rent on someone burying their mom... Wow.. What a difficult position to be in.

Juja is feeling better too. All of a sudden, all illnesses are gone

[Zenstyle]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

I've always been really upbeat, the whole of my life. And it is just the last few years that I've experienced the glums. I would get anxious when I was younger... or worried... or pissed off... but depressed? Nope. This is relatively new. I can only link it to two things... (1) I've had a lot of experiences in my life that I could have done without... bad shit ya know; or (2) the bloomin hormones are wreaking havoc. I have yet to meet a woman that has gone, is starting to, or is going through the change that has not experienced upheaval with her moods.

I look back at my worst drinking point and it is all connected... when my cerebral status quo and my mind as I knew it went downhill, I started to drink in earnest. I wonder how many other women like me are out there?

Just me rambling... again!

[Alcoholic]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

Your rambling is so zen and deep.

[NoraC]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

Zen - I agree with you. My heavy drinking is definitely linked to that peri-menopausal/menopause period. My hormones were out of control. Yes - I drank before but it increased during that period. Also, the depression took over. That was new. I've always been a glass half full type of person. So, to just feel this overwhelming darkness was something that I just couldn't understand. I have started doing so much better in the past year. Completely post menopause. Drinking and depression better. But, I'll tell you....the last couple weeks have really been bad. Knowing that I was heading into that bad place again and fighting it. Sometimes being too tired to even care anymore. So, if it's that new medication or if it's my cpap machine or if it's just my imagination, I'll take it. :h

[Zenstyle]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

Ach, I'm not that zen at all Ally... don't be fooled. Just a common or garden alkie like the rest od us! :h (AND... that's not where my name comes from... it's from an interior design book!)

Deep... yeah, I do delve in there a bit now and then, and can hash out a good convo on emotional issues. I think brain storming it with other people with the same issue is a good *thang*

Should we start another thread?

[Zenstyle]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

NoraC;1406887 wrote: Zen - I agree with you. My heavy drinking is definitely linked to that peri-menopausal/menopause period. My hormones were out of control. Yes - I drank before but it increased during that period. Also, the depression took over. That was new. I've always been a glass half full type of person. So, to just feel this overwhelming darkness was something that I just couldn't understand. I have started doing so much better in the past year. Completely post menopause. Drinking and depression better. But, I'll tell you....the last couple weeks have really been bad. Knowing that I was heading into that bad place again and fighting it. Sometimes being too tired to even care anymore. So, if it's that new medication or if it's my cpap machine or if it's just my imagination, I'll take it. :h

Your experience is my experience, minus the CPAP.

This has been really good! We are not alone!!! :l:l:l

[Alcoholic]

One Step at a Time - November 2012

Zen-/ sure. Whatever you want, that sounds good. oh one more thing. Shortened daylight also affects mood.