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helenbooktrip Moderator |
Rave: Booked myself a vacation to Mexico today! Yay! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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WitchBoy06 Member |
My best friend (and crush) is taking me to El Salvador with him and his family. Im excited and scared at the same time. Like a haf rotten apple. (Eeew, nasty mental picture.) PS See ya'lls in two weeks! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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ArmlessNessa Member |
Cool! Have fun Witchboy! IP: Logged |
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helenbooktrip Moderator |
awww MAN! i wanna got to el salvador! i have friends there. i hate you but am also exited for you. i wanna hear about it when you get back (stupid face...i'm jealous). rave: i won a watch today. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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munchkin Member |
Helen, I am so jealous, I really want to go there! Rave: have raised almost £1200 towards the £12000 needed for my summer Africa project (and it's split between 12, so I have got more than I needed to) Rave: I have swum 16 miles in the 4 weeks... 6 more to go to reach my target Rant: despite all the swimming and losing actual inches from various body parts I have lost pretty much no weight, and I really really need to before summer as I have 7 long haul flights planned and it's just not comfortable at the moment Rave: lovely lovely relationship now in the fourth month and going so well we're talking of moving in together ------------------ IP: Logged |
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helenbooktrip Moderator |
munchkin, you should just continue to go my the inches you lose, not the actual weight. its a tough job losing inches, i'm impressed! keep it up munchkin, i'm on the same boat! ![]() rave: free movie in the movie theatre, along with free popcorn and a drink. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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lostladyknight Moderator |
Rave: I am in the process of buying a house. The early stages, yes. I'm still trying to find the "right home" but I am still going to buy a house. Rave: I will have my own home. I have a home now, a wonderful house that I rent and have lived in for years. However, I am going to OWN A HOME! I can't wait. Rave: 90% sure the boyfriend and his children will be living in the home with me. Rave: Elphie (my dog, not Elphaba) is the most amazing, wonderful, beautiful, caring, and all-around perfect person on the planet. I love her more than life. Rave: I'm re-watching the first Digimon season. It's pretty good. :-D
Rant: Also, I lost my Mommom about two weeks ago. It was quite a bit harder I ever thought it would be. Rant: My cousin spent the entire time at my Mommom's funeral drunk off her rocker. Rant: My older brother, who has been in jail since the 18th, has stolen more than $1,000 from me since the beginning of March. Rant: I had a huge fight with the boyfriend yesterday. On his birthday. And, I said terrible things. Soooooo I guess I have a lot to fill you in on. IP: Logged |
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Minxy Moderator |
Congrats and good luck on the house LLK! I'm sorry to hear about your Mommom hon, and I'm sorry you're having to deal with the rest all at the same time. *hugs* IP: Logged |
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helenbooktrip Moderator |
LLK, I'm sorry to hear about your Mommom ('m assuming that's your Grandmother). It is a tough thing for sure. I hope things sort out with your boyfriend. The house stuff is pretty exciting though! Do we get to see pictures when the process is done? I am impressed that you are buying a house. I wish I was in a finacial state to buy a house. Congrats! Rant: I am very lonely. Very. Lonely. Rave: ...things could be worse I guess. Rant: I'm in a big fat rut. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Minxy Moderator |
Rave: WOOOHOO! June 16-June 30 we'll be in North Carolina! IP: Logged |
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WitchBoy06 Member |
rave: Hey everybody and their mommas! Im back! **cue the Lady Gaga music!** El Slavador was not ready for me! I had a great time, though. We went to the pool, Danny showed me his elementary school, and I had the best kiss of my life!!! Goshgosh, Im on cloud nine AND cloud ten right now. Call me Jesus and slap a halo on me! (Um, is that blasphemy?) So in conlusion: I hate airplanes (and they hate me), I feel like life will be super-duper-uber-good as long as I have Danny, and my cat will NEVER forgive me for leaving her. How ya'lls been doing? :: ------------------ IP: Logged |
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helenbooktrip Moderator |
ohh one of my best friends is in el salvador...i'm desperate to go! but do have a holiday in mexico booked for june and that will be nice. rave: i got two..TWO unexpected cheques in the mail this week. its always nice to get money youre not planning on...especially when you have $4 to your name. minxy you're going to North Carolina? doesn't LLK live there? are you going to see her? im jealous. rant: the people upstairs smoke and therefore my basement apartment smells like cigarettes and so do i. not cool. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Minxy Moderator |
I'm going for my uncle's wedding and to visit family. I'd love to be able to see her. Last trip I ended up flaking out and not being able to make it out that way. This time we're going for a bit longer so we'll see what happens. Rave: 12 days until my birthday, 20 until Alannah's! IP: Logged |
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Minxy Moderator |
Rave: Today we met up with Joshua and his family for a BBQ. It was at a park which has an awesome playground, and some trails. After we ate we headed down the one trail to get to the creek. After letting Alannah walk around the water for a bit, we continued on even though the path was tore up a bit from heavy machinery. (No idea what they're doing though..) At one point Joshua tried to cross to the other side and got stuck in the mud. Pull his foot out and ended up leaving his shoe in the mud. (Don't worry, he got it out.) So his brother and nephew tried a different way and got through no problems. His sister made it across. I put Alannah on my shoulders and three steps in I sink down. Rachel takes Alannah while I try to pull my shoe/foot out. Thad tries to help me, finally I'm able to get my foot out. He then digs in the mud to get my shoe. Joshua and Thad put some pieces of wood down to make a path and we finally get across. After that we made our way to the waterfall, which luckily had a little shallow area. I let Alannah play in the water while I wash most of the mud off my leg (it was up to my knee!) Finally we head back to the playground, following a different path. Time to head home. I'm sunburnt, but Alannah isn't. It really was a fantastic day, even the mud. Oh! And when we got home, I put Alannah in her crib to "nap" (ideally nap, but quiet time is good too) so I could get the mud off of me. She wasn't happy with this arrangement, so after my shower I head upstairs to find her foot caught in the bars on the side of her crib by the changing table. My poor munchkin IP: Logged |
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WitchBoy06 Member |
rave: There's this rally cool new show called Adventure Time and it's the best. Like, even betterer than Flapjack. I lurve the way the cartoons are drawn, and the episodes are new and refreshing. Unlike Spongebob who I dunt even care about anymore: his show is getting lame to me. rave: Im in love! rant: Where's my bookmark for Harry Potter's sake?? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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helenbooktrip Moderator |
Minxy, its usually good times when mud is involved. glad to hear you had a nice day. witchboy...what bookmark? can't you just use a scrap of paper? rant: now that i'm not working saturdays, i dont know what to do with my weekends. almost seems too long. rave: our office if going to be so nice and new! im going there this evening to set up my desk again. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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lostladyknight Moderator |
Last time Minxy was here I had school and work, too, so I had very limited time to maybe try to get together. I'm pretty sure I still have her number saved in my phone though, so I'm sure we'll text with one another and see if it's a different scenario this time. :-D I know I'd love to see her AND Alannah! Rave: I made this veggie sauce for my carrots tonight. It was really delicious. Rave: I found 100 Bucks in the parking lot the other day. :-D Rant: Money doesn't go very far, at all, these days. I swear I'm always feeling broke. IP: Logged |
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helenbooktrip Moderator |
RANT: oh man, LLK...i'm with you on that one. i got a late bday card last week from my Papa with a $100 in it. it did not last long. i don't even know where my money goes these days. just disappears. RANT: i need to get some. ya, that's right! I wish i could think of something to rave about. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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helenbooktrip Moderator |
Rave: FINALLY RAVING! I took a giant step forward into happiness this week. Nothing in particular happened, but I'm feeling a lot better than I have been. Rave: new website at work will be up and running soon. thank god, because trying to edit the current one is driving me mad. Rave: today was pay day. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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WitchBoy06 Member |
rave: Helen's getting better... Boomshakalaokka, that's great! ![]() rant: You ever feel bad about something and yur stomach is all knotted and it hurts? Yeah, I got that. I can't even eat most of the time. But I've learned to deal with it... I guess. :/ rant number two: I have one F and it's in algebra. The F stands for "Freakin' Mad Im Getting An F in The First Place". So, I ask Mr Yee for extra credit, right? He gives me a bigger packet than the Spring Break one (that I didn't do) and it's even harder. Ugh! But a big whatver to all my complaining cuz I gotta do what I gotta do to raise that grade. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Minxy Moderator |
Witchboy, that sounds like anxiety. I'd talk to your folks about it. I have panic attacks from time to time for no apparent reason and have needed prescription antianxiety meds to help with it. Just leaving it go can lead to further, more difficult to overcome issues. IP: Logged |
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helenbooktrip Moderator |
hmm, i had that same thing not too long. but i know there was a reason for the physical pain in my stomach. and now that i am feling emotionally better, my stomach doesn't hurt anymore. WitchBoy, take Minxy's advice and go talk to a doctor about that. if there is a specific event that occured that is causing you anxiety, then maybe its tolerable. but if its happens for no apparent reason, then you definitly need to see a doc. but right now, i would just go either way. rant: how much kleenex can i go through in a weeek? my gosh, can't i just have a clear nose for once in my life. rave: my cat is freaking aweosme. seriously. rant: i miss PaN. A lot. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Minxy Moderator |
Rave: 2(!!!) days until I'm 25, 10(!!!!!!!!!!) until Alannah's 2! ...holy crap I feel old. Rave: I've slowly been able to get (read: bribe) Alannah to sit on her potty. No more diapers, hopefully, soon! IP: Logged |
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WitchBoy06 Member |
rant: My stomach pains have to do with wanting Danny so bad, but he doesn't want a relationship. It just makes my stomach hurt and I can't eat when ever I think about how bad I wanna be with him. I eat in the mornings mostly, an apple or an orange before school. I know it's not all that healthy, but I really can't eat more than a few snacks throughout the day. I don't know what to do about it. IP: Logged |
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Minxy Moderator |
That's not... normal. You should not, especially at your age, feel that strongly about someone that it is effecting your eating habits and over all health. You should still talk to someone (ie, parents, doctor, counselor)who can help you figure out why you're placing your happiness solely in the hands of another individual, or at least on how to realize that you do not need to be in a relationship to be happy. Placing that much pressure on someone else to control your own joy will always lead you to failure, even with the perfect person. IP: Logged |
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muse1176 Member |
quote: Happy Birthday Minxy in advance. I hope you have a great birthday! Let me know how you go with the potty training. I can get Cass to sit on both the potty and the toilet but not do anything. In training pants.. lol, she really doesnt seem to care if she does wee's. If she is wearing a nappy, she will tell me after she has done one, no nappy she will tell me AS she is doing one IP: Logged |
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Kike720 Member |
Rant:I dont know the difference between a Rant and a Rave Rave:I dont know the difference between a Rave and a Rant Rant:Im readind The Lovely Bones Rave:LOVIN IT ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Kike720 Member |
Rant:I dont know the difference between a Rant and a Rave Rave:I dont know the difference between a Rave and a Rant Rant:Im readind The Lovely Bones Rave:LOVIN IT ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Kike720 Member |
ya i get it...double post ------------------ [This message has been edited by Kike720 (edited 04-23-2010).] IP: Logged |
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WitchBoy06 Member |
quote: Thanks for the advice. I don't know why Im this way, just another reason to call me weird I guess... I'll definitely tell someone. I hate feeling this way. IP: Logged |
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Minxy Moderator |
A rant is something you're not very happy about, a rave is something you ARE happy about. Also, try only hitting submit once. It may take a minute for things to go through sometimes. If I'm typing out a longer message I'll copy it before hitting submit, check to see if it came through, then paste it if it didn't. IP: Logged |
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helenbooktrip Moderator |
quote: Witchboy...LISTEN TO ME! check back at my early March 2010 posts. that is what happens to you when you let someone take over your feelings and when you put too many expectations on them. listen to me! move on. walk away. Danny is keeping you around as "plan B". you dont need to be plan B. i know exactly what youre dealing with...seriously. i do. and i know how hard it is and i know that no matter what ANYONE tells you, you will find an excuse to give us in order to defend Danny. the best thing you can do for yourself, the best thing anyone can do anyway...is listen to you GUT. pay attentione to what your body is telling you. your stomachs are from nerves (you should still see a professional) and your body and your gut and your soul is TELLING you this is not right. someone you love should NOT be making you feel physically ill. please please pay attention to this, okay? cut ties as soon as you are ready. but do not...DO NOT...keep giving you feelings and your heart to this person. if it means you lose a friend, then you lose a friend. but we all need to take care of #1...that would be ourselves. we have to be our own top priority. i am still healing from everything that happened in march. it was so hard to cut ties. it was so hard to stop being Plan B because "oh well...you know, sometimes plan B becomes plan A" NO! IT DOESNT. you should be first choice FIRST for someone. you deserve better. that is your new mantra..."i deserve to be treated better". oh god, i wish i was there in person to shake you. ah! he is playing you. and players are goooood. good. you dont even knw youre being played, but everyone around you, who actually truely cares about you (not like Danny...sorry!) can see it. and we all just want you to see the light. the sooner to get this taken care of, the better. because seeing the light hurts a whole lost more when youve been in the dark for too long. i myself was in the dark for about a year and a half. and i literally could not see after it all. i couldn't understand...where has helen BEEN all this time? where am i? everything was literally, phyically brighter, thats how blinded i was. and everything seems new and confusing and i was shaking for days on end! and its sucked. big time. so stop being his play thing, stoping being generous, stop giving yourself to this person! its like Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. when he is draining the life form ginny weasley in order to make himself stronger and more powerful. and then ginny wakes up and is confused and doesn't know what shes been doing at all. like the past year was a blur?....ya! don't give him the power. YOU are in charge of yourself and he doesn't get to play with you. because trust me, he will play with you and keep you hanging until he finds a new toy. and then you'll be thrown in the trash and thus comes the light. and the light SUCKS! oh my god, this is bringing back terrible feelings for me. im getting a stomach ache just thinking back on these feelings and memories. good lord witchboy, just get out. i don't know what else to tell you. i know this person is a support to you right now, you that pillar will fall and it fall hard. you are string enough to make it through the hard times by yourself. please, just trust me. get out. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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WitchBoy06 Member |
Thank you. I kinda knew that all along, but I've been in denial or whatevers. It just feels so good to be with him and I feel safe and loved. But everything you say makes so much sense. I don't know how Im gonna leave him, but I know I have to do it... But I don't know if I can. (And I love that you referenced HP. Like really, that was so cool. )------------------ [This message has been edited by WitchBoy06 (edited 04-23-2010).] IP: Logged |
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helenbooktrip Moderator |
and you know i was the same way. it was comfortable and safe and i felt great with this guy...when things were good. but he would keep himself in control of me by getting mad once in a while out of nowhere! would just get mad and make me feel like i was the one in the wrong all the time. he never once apologised to me. he always had a way of turning it around on me and i was the one who ended up saying sorry and crying and begging him to forgive me. thats not who Helen is, and once i realised that...it was scary. you should still listen to Minxy about seeing a professional about the stomach pains, but i'm telling you...the sooner you get away from him...COMPLETELY...the sooner you will feel better. i had the weird pains for a while after, but you may as well start the process as soon as possible so you don't have to suffer anymore. this kind of thing just erks me to the bone. i couldnt beleive this had happened to me and if i can stop it from happening to other people, i will. its like a disease...you really don't want it and why wouldn't you prevent it if you have the power, right? YOU have the power. you are in control of YOU...not some player who will end up just being unhappy. they do this to nice people like us in order to give themselves a short-lived ego boost. they are the ones who need the real help. we just need the help after having been played. i am here Witchboy. you have questions or would like my opinion on something, i'm here. and when, WHEN it all goes down, i'll be right here. you make sure you turn to the people who have always been there for you and who give as much as they take. love is not a one-way street. i'm glad you liked the HP metaphor...it makes sense right? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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WitchBoy06 Member |
I don't think I can do it, helly. Im not strong enough. I dont want to leave him, even though it hurts. I just can't. [This message has been edited by WitchBoy06 (edited 04-24-2010).] [This message has been edited by WitchBoy06 (edited 04-24-2010).] IP: Logged |
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helenbooktrip Moderator |
you will when you're ready. i did it. and it felt like i was cutting off my arm or something. its hard, there is no question about that. but you will be able to do it when the time is right. something will eventually happen to push you over the edge and wake you up. don't worry. but for now...please go see a doctor about the stomach pains, okay? because this is just going to affect every other aspect of your life and even though you "love" him....like i "loved" this guy...you are actually very unhappy. because all you can think about are ways to make him happy and make him all your own. it will just comsume you. make sure you keep youself busy with other things, outside of him. i dont know what else to tell you. you are stronger thank you think. a line i saw in a magazine recently, "people have vast reservoirs of tenacity and resilience." so yes, you are strong, you just need to push yourself a little bit. rave: my friend Kristy is coming into town today and for the night. we are going to have a good day. a trip to Ikea + sushi dinner + a Twilight movie night = AWESOME! rave: a clean apartment! (Witchboy: keeping yourself busy and preoccupied also helps. go on a cleaning-spree!)
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muse1176 Member |
RANT: I have a question.. who the hell is Justin Bieber? I had never heard of him up until a week ago and now it is ALL I hearing about. I don't even think he was that popular here but the media has worked up such a frenzy prior to his arrival: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/police-stop-justin-biebers-only-performance-in-australia-as-girls-faint/story-e6frfn09-1225858182059 RAVE: Despite very... sad (sad for my mum, not for me) circumstances, my Mum will be moving back to Sydney near me. It's going to be a rough time for quite a while, but I cannot hide the fact I am just so happy she is finally coming home. Rant/Rave: being kicked to bit from the inside. Baby really responds to my husbands voice and it's just so amazing. The fear is creeping in a little... but I try to ignore it. IP: Logged |
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Minxy Moderator |
Justin Bieber is his parent's paycheck. Seriously though, he's just 16 and asinger. I don't follow current pop music so I can't say if he's any good. For what I know about current pop music, I'm leaning towards no. When are you due with number 2? IP: Logged |
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muse1176 Member |
quote: I LOL'd at your comment. I am due in August. By my records around the 5th, by the ultrasound the 9th, by the midwives the 7th. SIGH! anytime around the 5th and before the 9th is just fine with me. IP: Logged |
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helenbooktrip Moderator |
justin beiber is canadian. i think he was discovered on youtube. i heard that justin timberlake and usher actually battled over him. usher won. anyway, he is the next teeny-bopper dream guy for young girls. i hate to admit, but his songs are pretty catchy. rave: i figured out how to turn on the fireplacee in my apartment and how i am HAPPY and warm. rave: awesome weekend with my friend. rant: it snowed here yesterday. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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