In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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I was at the grocery store for a few small items and I asked one of the store people if they would please bend down and grab a hand basket for me. I was pretty sure I could bend down, but I didn't want to test out if I could stand back up!
I know I have a weird sense of humor, but if I **had** bent down and got stuck - aside from being inconvenient, painful, and really annoying - I think it would have been kinda' funny. Like a sitcom - what's the worst outcome of this scenario - skit.
But I feel for you. Actually, I feel for us both. There certainly are better things in life than being painfully hindered.
But about my sense of humor ... I once took a neurology/psychology class and one of the things you had to do was be a lab rat in an experiment. Anyway, one of their experiments was to put you in a soundproof room and play random tones and give you random uncomfortable electric shocks while being wired up in a lie-detector type rig (to see if you'd associate the tone w/ the shock and have a stress reaction to the tone, I guess).
Anyway, I got zapped TWICE!! ... IN A ROW!!! and it was SO unanticipated and novel, I literally burst out laughing, because it was like the funniest joke to me. HA HA!! YOU GOT ME!
But that's just me.
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Quote:I noticed the added posts and was hoping for some good news. Instead, this! That's too bad!!! I hope the heating pad works for you!
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Dang but my back is bad again starting Wed AM when I got out of bed, and it never worked itself out. Sigh. Another day gone of creeping around bent over and hardly anything done. I guess I'll be doing the heating pad tonight and hope tomorrow is better.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:I wonder if they were busy scribbling notes behind the one-way mirror....
Anyway, I got zapped TWICE!! ... IN A ROW!!! and it was SO unanticipated and novel, I literally burst out laughing, because it was like the funniest joke to me. HA HA!! YOU GOT ME!
Something similar happened... well, not exactly. You know those "fun houses"? Universal Studios has one, and I used to persuade DD to go thru them with me, but it was always a tense experience for me. Not because what happens inside scares me, but bc it scares dd, and then it's so dark in there and with enuf mirrors that it is literally impossible (with my bad eyes) to see where to go next. I have to follow the person right in front of me, like an ant trail, or I might not know which way to turn, panicking dd. And then, with her hanging back and me trying to urge her forward ... nicely ... with the ppl in front of me get further and further away ... well, not the most fun in the "funhouse"!
So we exit, and I release my breath bc I was a little wound up, and some employee snuck out and tapped me on the shoulderblade with a long (fake) fingernail and I shrieked. LIKE A GIRL! REALLY LOUD!
And then I burst out laughing bc it was so unexpected, and HAHA! they got me, too!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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feeling depressed.
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I'm sorry to hear that, Brenda.
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Quote:Call your doctor, sweetie. It's not right for you to be depresses so often, especially now that you're in a place that offers plenty of light, livable amenities, and more room.
Originally posted by Brenda:
feeling depressed.
Is there anything I can do?
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Same for you, KIKI. If there's anything I can do, let me know.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Brenda -
I don't know if you'll accept this from me, but I agree with Signy.
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It's not something you can go to the doctor and cure.
Brenda is depressed because all of the social interaction she used to do has been ended by lockdowns.
When's the last time you got to play Mah Jong with your group, Brenda?
People who live alone and who weren't already fully or near fully used to being alone and comfortable living that way nearly 24/7 are being hit especially hard by this.
Even I have seen far less people than I usually did in the last few months, and the only physical contact I've had since March was hugging my brother because he doesn't give a shit about social distancing either. I've seen my old man about 3 times since then and he doesn't hug anymore.
I'm sure he hugs his wife and my youngest brother that is living with them though. People who live together at least still get to do that in 2020.
I feel your pain, Brenda. This whole situation sucks.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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But as I think about it, I hope you realize Brenda that you're still my role model!
I've learned a lot from you that's really important, and which you keep reminding me of whether you know it or not. So I hope some day I can repay you in some way. And if it's now, please let me know.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Call your doctor, sweetie. It's not right for you to be depresses so often, especially now that you're in a place that offers plenty of light, livable amenities, and more room.
Originally posted by Brenda:
feeling depressed.
Is there anything I can do?
*****
Same for you, KIKI. If there's anything I can do, let me know.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
#WEARAMASK
I've been through counselling on my own. My doc after my mom died prescribed an anti-depressant for me but when I went back on seizure meds, I had to stop.
It's like Jack said a lack of interaction. I've been by myself over the years because I've chosen to be and I am fine with that.
It's got nothing to do with this new place. It's just stuff.
I don't really think so.
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