Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

JackieClaire;1535984 wrote: Sweetypea!!!!!
Welcome home.

Hiya Jacks :hiya:

Feels loike was never away tbh!

How are ya?

[JackieClaire]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

I know the feeling.
I am actually feeling pretty good today.

Suddenly struck me that although I'm going to miss my uncle like a mad woman, he's no longer in any of the awful pain he went through the last couple of months.

My (oops I mean our) garden is loving this weather. Sir Pee's healing very nicely. We haven't had a letter from the bank to say we've gone over our over draft, yet. And I'm still in me jammies while I do the house work and not feeling guilty at all.

Yep pretty darn grateful on the whole.

How's your self?

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

JackieClaire;1535989 wrote: I know the feeling.
I am actually feeling pretty good today.

Suddenly struck me that although I'm going to miss my uncle like a mad woman, he's no longer in any of the awful pain he went through the last couple of months.

My (oops I mean our) garden is loving this weather. Sir Pee's healing very nicely. We haven't had a letter from the bank to say we've gone over our over draft, yet. And I'm still in me jammies while I do the house work and not feeling guilty at all.

Yep pretty darn grateful on the whole.

How's your self?

Ah Jacks- what a lovely wee post

So good to hear that all is going well with SirPee, the garden and lack of contact with bank!!
You will miss your uncle and it will hurt sometimes - that's all normal and ok:l
I still have those feelings about my Mum and think will do for so long as I breathe- guess its about learning some form of acceptance and gratefulness for having had someone special in our lives and that they're no longer are suffering:h

Still in my pjs n aint started any housework, feeling a tad guilty! -so suppose best away, scrub up and face feckin Tesco(

Laters :hallo:

[JackieClaire]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

Missing them as long a you breath, that's really struck a chord. ooh have one of these. :l

Now there's another thing to think about. Name 10 things we like about ourselves.

Mmmmmmmm I've got green eyes.

No, no, noooooooooooooo I'm not going to over think it.

I'm going to hoover instead, then have a shower and wear something nice even if I'm not going anywhere.

Bacinabit.

[satz123]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

mollyka;1535981 wrote: Learn contentment with what we have - it makes US nicer people cos we're happier, and in a funny little way, I find little minor 'miracles' happen when I'm happy......
I'M GONE!!!!!!!Was listening to one of my ommmmmm Cds this morning. That is EXACTLY what it was about . Find something to be happy about - anything - STAY THERE - and by law of attraction - more will come. Those are the little 'miracles' you are talking about Molls

JackieClaire;1535989 wrote: I know the feeling.
I am actually feeling pretty good today.

Suddenly struck me that although I'm going to miss my uncle like a mad woman, he's no longer in any of the awful pain he went through the last couple of months.

EXACTLY ! If we think of them - this is the conclusion always. :l
BUT : Now I say that - but if something happened to someone very close to me - not sure I'd react that way :egad:

Molls from last night :
I cod myself that I'm a social animal cos I talk in my job all day ---- but it's not the same --- at all.
I'm grand using the phone for work things or ringing banks or something, but it's nearly phobic how I react if I have to do a social 'ringy' thing ----- ridiculous I am --- don't feel I'm missing anything tho - do you think you are?

I am EXACTLY the same - WORST EVER - but don't care. Can chit chat away daily - but like my 'me' time or my MWO time these days when I get home :H
Please don't worry about it.
You are the most social person I've met in a while tbh.
You had all over to yours at the meet-up - that would freak :egad: me out tbh... couldn't deal with it - AT ALL !

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

Yo folks :hallo:

Anyone about? What sorta skiverville is this, when yis are all orf skiving elsewhere, eh? Not on :no:
MrD'Arsey- I wanna hear yer moans!!

Just back from the shops :egad: the bank will defo be on the ringer!!

Satz- one thing Im happy about today is that payday aint too far away! Only meant to visit Tesco but took a spin around the shopping centre first How can a girl resist a good ol shoe sale?! Impossible!

Still have the housework and phonecalls to attend to but do yis know what? I cannot be arsed pure and simple. Might just finish me coffee and take me buke outside afore the neighbours n their wee darlings get home!

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

mollyka;1536049 wrote: I'm here peapie - and I've well and truly lost any gratitude for bein alive - I HATE it up here - I'm bored out of my TREE!!!!! What a WASTE of a life!!!!!!

:H Ah poor Mollers:l There must be at least one good thing about being there (where are ye btw?) like maybe no yummy-mummys doing yer head-in? Nice work mate? I dunno!

What time are ye on to?

No sittin in the garden now as its decided to rain! Still amn't gonna do housework tho!

[tiptronic_ct]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

:wavin: Army.

Poor Molls... But you DO do a good moan :goodjob: :H

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

mollyka;1536056 wrote: I'm here till 8 - poor Martin has developed a psychopathic hatred of a bluebottle - he's slinking up and down the library with a plastic mug and a rolled up paper - there is NOTHING good bout this 'cept I'm gettin paid :-((((( I'm in Garristown - lonely - bored - sad - ARSEY - this is how to do a GOOD moan :-)!!!!
Ach ill b grand peapie - at least I'm not a bluebottle !

:H That's the spirit Molls Imagine being a poor bluebottle, buzzin around mindin' yer own, doin what ya do....... then WHAM!!!! Ye don't get time to see yer life flash before yer eyes, nah, just yer arse smashing though yer head, all thanks to some bored librarian!! Poor ol' bluebottle!!

Will away and read abit methinks
Ping!! Just had a brainwave Molls- why don't ye pick-up a nice buke and get lost in it forabit?

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

Yo MrT :hiya: How's things with yerself? Work any calmer?

[Zenstyle]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

RunningCourage;1535922 wrote:
Gee... still mulling over last nights chat on the thread!
So I went to look and now you?ve given ME something to mull over! Your ?muting? comment hit the nail on the head for me. I feel I?ve become quieter and less vibrant lately? I feel as if I?ve lost my edge? I?m not as funny or as sharp. On the upside I feel a lot more in control so looking at the whole picture I think that it?s been a good trade-off for me. And I agree that a lot of soul searching can make a person introvert, sometimes even self-absorbed, and I think that moderation is called for in such a circumstance. (Which is why I was wondering if I was just a bit burnt out with it all?) NOW? as to this ANSWER that I already know? no clue, me, what the feck it could be!!!

Recluse;1535934 wrote: Been having a catch up on yesterday's thread and noticed that quite a few folks were having issues with either not feeling communicative or not having anyone to talk to. I can empathise with both groups and can't help wondering if sometimes there might not be a connection between the two, as in maybe if we're not communicative we don't develop a circle of friends to talk to or maybe if we don't have a circle of friends to talk to we lose or never develop the ability to communicate well. Having said that, I suspect that being chatty comes quite naturally to some people while others (myself included, obviously) have to work hard at it.

Zenny - I don't think you have any reason to feel guilty towards your mother. I agree with you, it would be unreasonable to expect you to give up your life in the US to go back to the island and look after your mother. I don't suppose there's any possibility of your mum moving nearer to you? I hope you'll be talking things through on the thread a bit more - I had noticed you cutting yourself off a bit and it didn't seem like a good thing.

I?m putting both parts of your post together? and will admit that I?ve not been feeling as ?connected? to everyone here as usual. I put my game face on and posted as per? but I just wasn?t ?feeling? it like I used to. I was wondering if the disconnect was because I wasn?t posting as much as before rehab but now, reading what you said, I realize that?s not it. It?s because I clammed up and only posted about trivial day-to-day stuff instead of what?s really going on in my noggin. (Apart from when I got upset in Scotland, which I felt embarrassed for afterwards? and it?s ridiculous to feel embarrassed when everyone else is so open on the thread.)

I think you?re right in that being communicative attracts people into your sphere of existence (as long as one?s not OVERLY communicative in which case they?ll scatter (as per Frank on Shameless!)). And, yep, if one has nobody to be communicative with I think one could become a bit rusty. But it?s like riding a bike and once there are people whose personalities are attractive to someone and they wish to communicate with them? game on. Unless one?s old & infirm, the natural thing is to seek companionship. Not necessarily a large circle of friends? even just one or two people that are part of one?s daily life. Even just one really? but if something happens to that one, then one is up shit creek without a paddle! Per se!

On a more personal note? I know that you don?t feel as if communication comes naturally to you and you?re scared of putting your foot in it. But, really, you do a lot better than you think you do? in fact very well imho. Maybe you?ve had a bad episode of foot in mouth syndrome in the past but haven?t we all? Shite, I stick my foot in it all the time. Perhaps you should just give yourself more credit on that score and, to be honest, I think you?ve grown and developed these skills, you know? X

uote>JackieClaire;1535939 wrote:
Ok, Ok, I'll take the heavy burden of chatting off your shoulders. I'll talk to any one.
:H

OMG... you and CherMum in the same room? that would be a freakin thing to behold! She never stops either? ) I'll miss her... she livened things up around here.

JackieClaire;1535956 wrote:
Are alkies more likely over think?
We're a complicated bunch but I think I'm starting to prefer my complications... I don't want anyone else's "easier" ones... I wouldn't know how to handle them.

mollyka;1535968 wrote:

It's an awful pity how we can't see ourselves the way others see us. I know I only met you one weekend so it's mebbe too short a time to make an opinion, but also talking to you on here --- what I see is a smashing smart good looking young man ---- what a START!!!!! Why can't you see it!!!???
But of course I couldn't see myself either - I look back at photo's of the young one I was on my wedding day --- at the time I thought I was boring, ugly, fat, bit useless tbh ---- and now - when I look at 'her' ---- good god, the world was me lobster (and I'm NOT just talking bout 'looks' here, I'm talking bout looking into the 'soul' if you know what I mean) ---- WHY OH WHY couldn't I have 'known' that?
Maybe when I look back at 'me' now - in 20-30 yrs time, I'll be thinkin the same thing ----- and that is SUCH A WASTE --- we need to make ourselves happy with our 'today selves' warts and all ---- cos it's all we have to work with........ ya know???

Isn't that the truth? Yep, what a waste...

I'm the same with photos. Had to actually chuckle at myself when I got my passport photie done... I hate how I look in it... but I bet in 10 years time I'll be quite happy to have that pic on me passport! :H


In OTHER news? didn?t folk used to get on my case for being addicted to Farmville? WTF?s going on here then?! )

Today, for whatever reason, I simply can.not.be.arsed. But I'm going to get out of these PJs and into the shower, and get in the car and go and buy myself something nice. Clothes, I reckon. It's so easy to fall into apathy. And so easy to avoid it!

And in other OTHER news... did anyone see Beyonce and Justin Timberlake doing "I'm a single lady" on Saturday Night Live? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO4CLxtUiU8&list=PL14F31EF1DDEA920C[/video]]Beyoncé - Single Ladies (feat. Justin Timberlake) Take 02 - YouTube He's a funny fecker...

[Zenstyle]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

Hiya Sweety & Tipps! I was too busy with my mega-post and didn't see yiz there. Welcome back Sweety!

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

Hey Zenny :wavin:

Yes, I do believe today is one for 'cannot be arsedness'. Go forth and buy some nice rags and even nicer grub and treat yourself- you are worth it:l

[Zenstyle]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

sweetpea29;1536085 wrote: Hey Zenny :wavin:

Yes, I do believe today is one for 'cannot be arsedness'. Go forth and buy some nice rags and even nicer grub and treat yourself- you are worth it:l

Thanks hon! :l

I've actually taken the Tiger Prawns I got last week out for dinner... so the nice grub is scheduled. ) And, yeah, I think some tops and a pair of black sandals will be just the ticket.

I read that you had a good time in the smoke. Johnny Depp, ya lucky bugger! He's one of my faves. I went to see Jersey Boys here in Palm Beach... neat show. Cher and CherMum are from Jersey and Yer Wan Indoors used to live there. Surrounded! Although himself is an Army Brat and has lived in Germany and other places... he's more Florida than Jersey.

[sweetpea29]

Army Thread Wednesday 24th July

Zenstyle;1536088 wrote: Thanks hon! :l

I've actually taken the Tiger Prawns I got last week out for dinner... so the nice grub is scheduled. ) And, yeah, I think some tops and a pair of black sandals will be just the ticket.

I read that you had a good time in the smoke. Johnny Depp, ya lucky bugger! He's one of my faves. I went to see Jersey Boys here in Palm Beach... neat show. Cher and CherMum are from Jersey and Yer Wan Indoors used to live there. Surrounded! Although himself is an Army Brat and has lived in Germany and other places... he's more Florida than Jersey.

Good woman yerself- have a pamper day love prawns I do!

Yeah had lovely time just too short. We just happened upon MrDepp as we were walking about after the show- we was wondering what all the commotion was about and dandered down to where crowd was- next ting we know big car with himself goes past windas down and him waving!!! I knew nought bout Jersey Boys til the show and then was like omg! Did he sing that song and that one....? Good for a boogie too
Ive an uncle lives in NJ- been once to see him and his family

There's a play on I really wanted to see called 'the Cripple of Inishmaan' - by an Irish playwright -McDonagh- sounds v. v good- gonna see when can get tickets and maybe head over again.

Enjoy your day Zenny