October Optimism - Week 2

[Stargazerlily]

October Optimism - Week 2

Hey everyone....

Dill, thanks for the instructions, I will have to visit the photobucket site.

LBH, so glad you posted. We are here for you.

RB, you did a great job. It is so hard when our life does not go the way we hoped.

Dill, sorry to hear you were ill. I know there is alot of sickness going around the school: strep, flu, viruses, etc.

Have to run, have a busy day.

[Chillgirl]

October Optimism - Week 2

GOOD MORNING OPTIMIZER!

Paguy - fantastic job on 3 months, hope you feel tops today!

Choochie - Lovely to see you here, I hope you join our thread, we are a mixed bag but a close little band and we take care of each other :l

LBH - I am thinking of you and hoping life is resolving itself for you

Dill - Sending you some special Chill healing vibes

Papmom - Thank you for the photos, the one across the bay is simply stunning!

Sooty - Maybe we need to start planning our journeys and music again to keep our driver focused, we have Mr G to strum away the miles for us...

Im having a very interesting few days, nothing specific just life happening to me. Just got off the phone from my weekly update call with my ex, no good news but he has told me to hold off selling my watch until the new year to see if things get better. I spent a few hours yesterday with the friend who is designing my website and it is looking really nice, hope to have it live in another month and will give you the details. I had a lovely dinner last night with my friend from London, he is so wise and has my interests at the foremost in his mind, its a huge comfort. I have also been exchanging emails with McDreamy and we are having dinner on Friday night :h

[paguy]

October Optimism - Week 2

Good Morning Friends!

Today is a special day for me – I’ve reached my 3 month mark for being AF AND….. this posting is my 1000th post!! Last night I was playing the silly but fun Word Association game and noticed I was getting closer and closer to 1000 and decided to stop because I wanted to save my 1000th post for my friends here on the Optimism thread. Don’t you all feel special now? :h

Wow – 3 months. In some respects it feels like it’s been a lifetime but in many other respects, it’s really just a drop in the bucket, heh? I am very thankful and grateful for finding and participating in this community and for all of your support and encouragement you have provided me along the way.

Last night I was reflecting on the MWO community and the virtual friendships that are made here. What is most interesting for me is that this type of forum enables people, from all walks of life and places all across the globe, to form a bond and friendship – all based on a common goal. In some cases, on the surface, this common goal appears to be the only thing we have in common. But, as we get to know one another over time, we realize that we share much more. We have similar experiences with our partners and spouses, families and friends. But we also have differences and all of this, the similarities and differences, enriches us and adds new dimensions to our lives.

So, on this special hump day, I am wishing all of you peace and happiness, and a day full of hope and optimism.

[dill]

October Optimism - Week 2

Paguy, a BIG CONGRATULATIONS on your 3 months and your 1000th post! I am so glad you are here on this journey with us.
Cyn, you are so super busy, I can?t believe you have time to post! I am very glad you do though. I was wondering about the theme to your step-daughter?s b-day party. What is ?Frida Kahlo??
Chill, thank you for the healing vibes. I am feeling much better and will probably go to work today. I started out the day at work yesterday, but quickly began to succumb to the ?bug? after I got there. It seems like it was a 24 hour bug. On a brighter note, I am looking forward to hearing more details about your website!
Papmom, thanks for the photos. They were really great. It sounds like you had a wonderful time. I loved the LL bean boot! Also, thanks for the info about the App that allows you to go straight from the phone to the Photobucket. My phone is too old to do that, but when I upgrade, I?ll experiment with it.
Hi, Star, make sure you take some time for yourself, eh? Thanks for your well wishes.
Rustop, thank you for the well wishes. How are things in pony country? Weather here has been absolutely perfect autumn weather, but I?m afraid we have rain coming our way tonight.
SD, I was channel surfing and came across The Biggest Loser and thought of you. I would have watched it ?with you? but Mr. Dill just doesn?t get it. Ah well. I?m so happy you are with us this month. And thank you for wishing me well. I?m sad about the trouble Favre has brought upon himself. I can?t understand what would motivate someone in his position to do something like that. He is sullying his once great image.
Rebirth, You are such an example of strength and determination for me. I have said it before, but I?ll say it again, thanks for being here! I am so glad you are doing this for yourself and for your son. You will have a life, where before you would have had a wasteland of forgotten memories and broken promises to your boy. You and SD have so much in common.
LBH, I think of you so much and hope that things are slowly working themselves out with LordBH. You have more strength than you know. On another note: I finished listening to The Help. It was really wonderful. Thanks for the recommendation. I was describing some of it to Mr. D the other morning at breakfast and I broke into a near perfect Mississippi drawl which brought a smile to his face. The narration was superb.
Rusty, thanks for your heartfelt post. You really summed up our little thread.
Greetings, G, Sooty:l, and Sped. BTW, Sped, I understood your reaction to that AA reading that I posted, No offense was taken on my part.

[Lavande]

October Optimism - Week 2

Happy Humpday Kids!

This is one busy thread the last few days

Sooty, sorry you were feeling 'off' but great to hear you are back in the driver's seat!! I've taken to smudging when things feel unstable around here (which is fairly often). It leaves me feeling calmer in that I have addressed some of the unsettling issues.

John - CONGRATS on your 3 AF months & 1000 posts We've become a new habit, haven't we? :H

Rusty, thanks for the pics.......love the French hens!

Dill, hope you are feeling better today, hate those viral things!

LBH, thinking of you everyday & sending hugs.

Chill, looking forward to see your website - cool!

Greetings to cyn, Red(Star), SD, rebirth, Rustop & everyone.
Have a terrific AF Humpday!
Lav

[spedteach]

October Optimism - Week 2

Morning everybody,
Have been half heartedly looking for a half day job this morning but think I might just blow it off. Have enough to do to wrap things up around here. I am very excited about leaving tomorrow. My kitties are following me all around the house.

Dill, glad you are feeling better. Stomach flues are terrible. My hangovers were often like a terrible stomach flu. And to think I did that to myself knowingly. One thing I've found that helps nausea is ginger. Crystalized ginger, ginger candy, ginger tea. Maybe you should take one more day off, lie about on the couch, watch reruns of The Biggest Loser (I love it when they step on the scale!).

Sooty, don't make your partaking of the grape into too big of a deal. All you did was drink some wine. My drinking in August seems a pale event when compared to all my months of sobriety. Good luck with your retirement club. Being in a walking group sounds perfect for you.

Pay, it was interesting to read your comments about virtual friendships. I was getting my oil changed yesterday and picked up the Nov. issue of Woman's Day (think men can read it too!). There was an article about virtual friendship. How women had met on some social network, ended up meeting in person and becoming real life friends. I find my experience on this thread truly unique. I don't communicate with any other groups like this.
I appreciate you guys. And speaking of vitual friendships moving to real, LBH and I plan a relaxing, calming, therapeutic stroll this afternoon around our shared environs.

Pap, love Mount Desert Island. Are your doggies glad to be home?

Cyn, you are moving. Do you have to stay in the Southwest? For me I am ready for precipitation, a variety of bodies of water, and dense underbrush. I too are curious about a Frida themed party. Details please.

SD, are you working on a degree? Do you work in a school?

Rusty, am so happy you are enjoying Paris. You seem to have gotten combining business with pleasure down to an art. When are you headed home?

Morning Lav, Rustop, Rebirth, G. Who did I forget?

Chill, I forgot you. Sounds like no news is good news. Portugal was mentioned in a local newspaper yesterday as going through particularly tough economic times. Hang in there. Actually I think you are doing a marvelous job doing just that.

Time to run.

[spedteach]

October Optimism - Week 2

And Star, morning to you.

I plan to learn photobucket very soon, as soon as I get to Indiana.

In the meantime, if you google:
chicagoist, who is the barefoot marathoner?, you will see a little interview of son #2 after the Chicago Marathon on Sunday.

[papmom3]

October Optimism - Week 2

Good Morning October Optimers!! (can you hear robin williams' voice ?)

It's gorgeous here today. Must go for a walk at lunch. Rain tonite tho. That's ok as long as it clears up by Sunday-got a pap playday to go to and my neph's 17th birthday celebration.

Sped-I think my doggies are glad to be home but I'm not!! I want to live full time in Maine!! By the water tho. Has to be by the ocean. Have a great trip!! I think I missed where you are going-to a marathon?

PAguy!! You are such an inspiration to us all!! After what you've been through with your injury, to stay AF is such an accomplishment!! Thank you for sharing your big day with this wonderful thread. I count my blessings that you are among my awesome virtual friends.

Chill-So nice to hear you have another date lined up for this weekend. He's sounds really nice. I bet I'm not the only one who wishes she/he could be a fly on the wall but we'll have to wait for your report! I'm so happy to hear that your friends are all looking out for you and are ready to swoop down and scoop you and doggie up when the time comes, if it comes and I certainly hope it doesn't. I also cannot WAIT to see your new website!!

Dill- I too am glad your feeling better. Yuck-anything but the stomach flu-but I will say it was always a handy excuse for when I called in sick!! I didn't have to fake symptoms like you do with a cold!!

Sooty-you will always be our bus driver so don't you dare go away no matter what happens!!

LBH-I sure hope things are starting to straighten out for you, or should I say Lord LBH is starting to straighten out!! You are such a sweet and gentle soul you deserve nothing but peace and happiness (as do we all).

Star, Rustop, RB, Lav, Rusty-you're all in my thoughts everyday.

Big shoutout to everyone else who stops by.

:l

[ladybirdheart]

October Optimism - Week 2

Hi. PA what a cool thing to be honored with your milestones; I am so glad you have a thousand posts as you certainly have many interesting and emotionally rich things to say. It takes a lot a courage to post sometimes. I am so happy for your sober three months! Dill, Google Frida Kahlo and I am certain you will recognize her. Wonderful artist; I have a snapshot of her in my living room that I won at a silent auction by hiding under a table in a formal gown (I am not making this up) until the lights dimmed at which point I crawled out and made the final bid:H; there is a fine film about her and her relationship with Diego Rivera. Rusty, your post as usual showed that you have a lot of heart and sense, your sensible words to Sooty could have been to any of us who still blow it after months. Pappy, those were fun pics of your doggies; they looked very dashing and proud with their ribbons. Lav, I am thinking you all the time as I join the ranks of giving an ultimatum to a spouse. I am going to the mat on this one. Must run now but hi Shelley whom I am not going to the zoo with after all (whimper) as I cracked a tooth and have to go the dentist (sob); hi Cyn, Chill, Rebirth, Sooty, Star, Rustop, SD and everybody else. Love, Ladybird.

[sdlovespackers]

October Optimism - Week 2

Good Afternoon!
Just a quick stop by at my lunch hour!

Sped--I'm currently a counselor in an elementary school. I will be fininshing up my Administration Degree in December...it didn't take quite as long as I thought since a lot of my credits from my Master's in Guidance and Counseling transferred over..thank goodness!!!!

I've noticed the last week or so my son has just been so super happy and very "lovey"...I've been getting a lot of "I love you, moms" out of the blue...more than normal!! I asked him why he seemd so happy lately...at first he said it was because he got to spend two days with Allison, the 17 year babysitter...he didn't have school and he NEVER has a babysitter...I have NO LIFE!!! :H ANyway...I said, oh...is that the only reason...he said...well...and you haven't been drinking! I said you've noticed that? He said yeah. And I'm happy you aren't drinking and I'm proud of you mom...very proud of you! :upset: Wasn't sure how I felt...actually pretty stupid I think....should my almost 9 year old son be the one telling his mother HE'S proud of HER for not drinking....or for anything for that matter....that's my job to tell him!!! UGH!!! That's so disgusting! He is just such an amazing kid...always has been!!!

Just wanted to get that off my mind...been buggin me all day!! Hope everyone is having a great day!!!
Peace!
Sd:l

[Guitarista]

October Optimism - Week 2

paguy;980565 wrote: Good Morning Friends!

Today is a special day for me ? I?ve reached my 3 month mark for being AF AND?.. this posting is my 1000th post!! Last night I was playing the silly but fun Word Association game and noticed I was getting closer and closer to 1000 and decided to stop because I wanted to save my 1000th post for my friends here on the Optimism thread. Don?t you all feel special now? :h

Wow ? 3 months. In some respects it feels like it?s been a lifetime but in many other respects, it?s really just a drop in the bucket, heh? I am very thankful and grateful for finding and participating in this community and for all of your support and encouragement you have provided me along the way.

Last night I was reflecting on the MWO community and the virtual friendships that are made here. What is most interesting for me is that this type of forum enables people, from all walks of life and places all across the globe, to form a bond and friendship ? all based on a common goal. In some cases, on the surface, this common goal appears to be the only thing we have in common. But, as we get to know one another over time, we realize that we share much more. We have similar experiences with our partners and spouses, families and friends. But we also have differences and all of this, the similarities and differences, enriches us and adds new dimensions to our lives.

So, on this special hump day, I am wishing all of you peace and happiness, and a day full of hope and optimism.

Great post Pa, and it's a pleasure to share this journey with you, as it is too, with everyone else here. Congrat's on 1000 post's! Yap on!

[Guitarista]

October Optimism - Week 2

Hi SD,

Thank's for sharing that beautiful interaction with your son. I can think of no bigger motivation or inspiration to ditch the booze. Bravo!

[sooty]

October Optimism - Week 2

Congrats Pa - well done. I'll be catching you up in 3 months time

Its bedtime in Sootyland now and I just wanted to log on to thank you all again for your support and lovely messages.

Hope we've all had a happy humpday - mine has been good.

Sleep well gang, see you tomorrow
Sooty x

[dill]

October Optimism - Week 2

SD, that was a very significant event between you and your son. I imagine you are feeling quite unsettled. But what wonderful, positive feedback for your efforts! That's got to be the strongest motivator on earth. I know how much you love him.

[Lavande]

October Optimism - Week 2

Shelley - good luck on your trip, be safe & be happy

Papmom, I've never been to Maine but I can imagine it must be wonderful living near the water. Maybe we should all invest in a property big enough to support several lonely or otherwise jilted women :H:H

Greetings to G! Working on anymore new tunes???

SD, your son sounds like a very smart kid, of course he's proud of you! Remember that moment, no matter what!!!

Sooty, Dill & everyone - hope you are having a peaceful evening. Preparing for a couple of rain/wind days, yuck!

LBH, I've been having a lot of back pain recently & it's not due to any physical injury. I believe it is due to emotionally wrestling this 230 lb elephant for the past 6 months. He has a few days left & still can't give me an answer. He won't even answer an email. How hard of a decision can it be??? Maybe we should join forces up in Maine......live on the coast