It's raining shit

[AppleBiter]

and you don't have an umbrella. What do you do? You know those times . . . when you can't seem to catch a break and just when you get back on your feet, something or someone pushes you right back down. How do you handle it? What do you do to get off your pity pot? Suggestions?

 

[AppleBiter]

Suggestions?

It would appear not. No.

 

[English Lady]

Old fashioned -count your blessings. Hey, there might not be many but they're there, and when you think of'em you'll realise theres people worse of than you...well it helps me a bit anyway.


Or i distract myself somehow, reading,watching, if I can writing...just doing something to stop my mind whirring....

 

[AppleBiter]

Old fashioned -count your blessings. Hey, there might not be many but they're there, and when you think of'em you'll realise theres people worse of than you...well it helps me a bit anyway.


Or i distract myself somehow, reading,watching, if I can writing...just doing something to stop my mind whirring....

Thank you, love. Usually, I try to focus on the adversities that others are suffering through, so I don't feel so shitty. But, lately, that's just made me feel worse. Maybe I'll distract myself w/the Halloween contest coming up.

 

[English Lady]

distraction is good You find once you get stuck into something, your view on other thing seem to change...it's a mood thing I think

 

[rgraham666]

I hide.

I stay away from things that aggravate me. Which is too often the whole of existence.

It's best to do it in small doses. I hid for most of a decade. Sometimes feel like Rip Van Winkle these days.

 

[AppleBiter]

I stay away from things that aggravate me. Which is too often the whole of existence.

Precisely my problem w/hiding, as well. Sometimes, I wish we could take vacations from our lives. One of my favorite lines in a song says, "I wish that I could be in some other time and place w/someone else's soul, someone else's face."

 

[minsue]

I hide.

Yes. And I wallow.

 

[scheherazade_79]

I imagine turning it into a piece of comedy writing when I have the time. I focus on finding unique ways to describe the situation in a way that'll have people peeing their pants. Sometimes I can get so sucked into this little world that when the next bad or annoying thing happens, I feel a slightly manic sense of glee that my story will be that much more interesting for it.

Failing that, I call it quits and go to bed, confident in the knowledge that tomorrow can't be any worse.

I feel for you, Apple Biter

 

[Liar]

I tend to adopt a oh-fuck-it attitude. Take all the crap that's going down as an excuse to disconnect from it, toss all the things I should be doing out the window and treat myself to a shameless orgy of a stack of movies I aven't gotten around to watch, a twelve pack of Coronas, takeout Thai and cinnamon icecream.

All the troube will be there tomorrow too, but after a day of recharging, I have the energy to deal with it.

 

[Guest]

scream
cry
yell
vent, vent, vent
then get over it? but i dont know your situation so...
when it rains shit, i would call the weather people...
"Did you happen to know that it is raining shit here? You didn't forcast this."

 

[minsue]

"Did you happen to know that it is raining shit here? You didn't forcast this."

Damn, that's a close second for "quote of the week" to Liar's remark about not wanting a genocidal dictator up his ass....

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I tend to write as an escape and distraction. I've been using this as a tool for escape since I learned how to write.

A lot of the time, I live up to my name and don't think about it today. I'll think about it tommorow.

Then there's porn, which helps to soothe me no matter how bad things are. I guarantee you, if there's ever a bomb or giant meteor heading toward America, I'll be watching porn. I just can't seem to be sad when I'm watching a bunch of twenty year old European guys dressed as boy scouts make out.

 

[minsue]

A couple of quick questions....where does one get cinnamon ice cream? Damn that sounds goooood. And why European boy scouts, Scarlett? Why do you hate America?

 

[Liar]

A couple of quick questions....where does one get cinnamon ice cream? Damn that sounds goooood. And why European boy scouts, Scarlett? Why do you hate America?

Because we're way cuter over here.

 

[minsue]

Because we're way cuter over here.

Break out the uniform and prove it

 

[LadyJeanne]

I compartmentalize. It takes years of practice. I only learned how to do it in the last five or six years because my job had me traveling so much. There are so many problems associated with that, I couldn't think about all of them at once, so I learned to focus away from the stuff I couldn't do anything about, and to focus on what's right in front of me.

I can block certain things out by saying, "Ok, I'll think about that later. Now I'm doing this." When the "this" is something enjoyable, it eases the stress so I'm stronger in dealing with the bad stuff when it's time for that. Then, I wallow.

 

[English Lady]

Break out the uniform and prove it

motion seconded

(though I already know how cute liar looks )

 

[The_Darkness]

When it comes right down to it, the only person who's going to pick you up and set you back on your feet is you....

If it's any concilation, Apple, college hit me like a sack of bricks, too. I had to learn to adapt and grow and change my ways, and that was just for class.

new favorite movie line:

"Why do we fall, Master Bruce? So we can get back up again."

 

[OhMissScarlett]

A couple of quick questions....where does one get cinnamon ice cream? Damn that sounds goooood. And why European boy scouts, Scarlett? Why do you hate America?

Let's just say that most European boys have a little something extra that I have a fetish for.

I don't hate America, at least not its penises.

 

[CharleyH]

and you don't have an umbrella. What do you do? You know those times . . . when you can't seem to catch a break and just when you get back on your feet, something or someone pushes you right back down. How do you handle it? What do you do to get off your pity pot? Suggestions?

It's raining shit, I walk through it an try to enjoy it as a a passing moment. Though shit is sometimes just really shitty ... so I put up my umbrella and it does not affect me. Suddenly a hole in my umbrella? I go for shelter, and lock the door.

 

[Liar]

Let's just say that most European boys have a little something extra that I have a fetish for.

Yay! For once I'm on the winning side.

 

[minsue]

Let's just say that most European boys have a little something extra that I have a fetish for.

I don't hate America, at least not its penises.

Ohhhhh....sorry, I'm a bit slow. Prolly due to the amount of attention I pay to penii.

 

[CharleyH]

Yay! For once I'm on the winning side.

You always are but GO FOR IT!

 

[CharleyH]

Ohhhhh....sorry, I'm a bit slow. Prolly due to the amount of attention I pay to penii.

There is such a word as ... penii? ROFL