Been there too Scotz. Take one day at a time. Sometimes I just try and take one room a day. I've been putting off kiddo's room far too long and after Christmas it's gonna get done!!!!!

Hugs Scotz!

PS, I was thinking the same as WI...I hope it was just him sending out a feeler that he didn't want to bother you with yet...

Thanks darlin...my prob with the one room at a time policy is the room with the biggest mess is the basement...that's right, a full-size standup paved floor where I have a workshop, my music studio, my shipping materials for Ebay...& all the other crap that gets tossed out when we clean up the rooms upstairs...
I've tried to clean it up in the past, & it always turns into shifting the junk from one area to another...& now there's very few areas left to shift anymore around...

Stress over the retail job? What's that like? Why should I stress over the retail job? Just because of the idiot customers, the recalcitrant mall management, the fucking never-ending set of ads on the stand they stuck us next to, they way retail in general sucks out your social life, and even more so this time of year?

Nah, SoDak, I have no way of empathizing with you at the moment. You've lost me completely.

I think the worst thing about it all is that when the stress and depression hit, you don't have any energyor time to invest in making yourself feel better. I get so stressed and unhappy that I simply can't take actions to help myself - they seem like too much trouble.

((((soda)))) ~~ the one thing that I *can* make myself do that does help is deep breathing. Just a couple of minutes of deep breaths and some happy music are often enough to get me through the day...not feel better, but to get me through.

((((soda)))) ~~ PM me if you ever want to chat. :)

Thanks 1nutworld, IowaMan, WildIrish, wyndhy, sodaklostsoul and scotz!!!

I have taken a deep breath since that post, and things are starting to make more sense in my mind. Tonight we'll get to talk some more, so hopefully I can keep my calm and think logically then!

I've never met a real live Pixie before. :(

Be great if you guys got to be my first. :)

I have sat here and read through the posts and just wish that there was some way I could make everything better for everyone....but since that is not possible, just know that you are all in my thoughts and if you need me I'm just a PM away. "HUGS"

I'm unfunkified. I don't let myself stay there long! I'm trying to focus on the good things around me even if it's a tiny thing.

Soda, retail, AAAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Just think about browsing Cliffton Hill.

^^^ :rofl:

LAMO^^^^^^! Thanks Scarecrow.

Awsome Lilith!!!! My major funk is gone........I keep telling myself to let things go and not stew over them. My bright spot is I have the 24th and 25th off!!

Awww T, your so sweet!!! I hope you still like frogs, *cough, box comming in the mail, cough*

IowaMan it's a long time to our next drive, never know, you could meet a Pixie before then. :)

PixieSprite, hope your haveing a good day and things are working out.

osuche thanks hun, Hope you trip is comming together.

gekkogeko make sure the toys are priced, that's the biggest seller ya know. :)~

Scotz just section off piles and start with one. LOL

Life couldn't be better because I haven't seen a single monkey in the sky all week. :loveshowe




I think for me, 'stress' manifests itself as frustration. First with myself for allowing it to happen.:hair: (at this point, I should know better how to prevent that shit in my life), Then with everyone and everything around me. :banghead: (If I can't deal with my problem, how the hell can I expect anybody else to?) I'm not much of a 'meditatie' person, so I tend to get swallowed deeper into the situation as it gets more out of my ability to deal with it. One of the few things that allows me to regroup and re-aim my thoughts is to do as WI mentioned. The words of a smart guy that works for me are, "Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest." The mental recitation (not just the concept) seems to give me time and let me stand back enough to see that in the grand scheme, it (nor I or anything I'll ever do) is really not that important. The little step in front of me is the only one I can take.

:DThen I'm off to the races again, but the light at the end of the tunnel doesn't look like a freight train coming at me right now. :nana:

I just go kick someone's ass.... :D
 

I love my job, I love my job, I love my job....my stress is frustration with the people I work with.

Actually I do really love my job, it is the people I work with that I dislike. Unfortunately, we have a group of people who don't know how to turn a computer on, don't know how to print, don't know how to do anything with technology ---- and they are teachers!

Anyway... an employee who has NOTHING to do with technology and just pushes a broom around and complains to everyone and everybody about stuff he doesn't know about decided to make me his target this week. According to this person, I couldn't do anything right and he made sure he told everyone! I found out - this person told my oldest son who was waiting for me that I didn't know what I was doing, (not knowing this was my son and not knowing exactly who he was). Well, I tracked down this person and verbally kicked his ass. It was a bunch of bullshit... I broke my golden rule not to get in anyone's face when I am angry. Well, it paid off - because others this person told stuff too came forward and now that person is suspended for 3 days without pay.

Me me in a dark alley HAHAHAHAHAHA - or the Library.. rofl!

My jobs wouldn't be bad at all if it weren't for PEOPLE!!! They're stressed... they make me stressed......... and it ALL goes away 12/25th..amazing... all I have to do is make it to that date each year (yes I do retail too) without killing anyone and I'm in the clear!! So only 1 more week folks!!!!

Oh then the stress of lack of income during Jan-Feb-March...ahhhhhh the joys of being self employed!!

(((((((((( soda & PS)))))))))) ooooooooooo, that was fun in my mind!!!! :D