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rolling rock
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 Posted: 12/30/02 - 11:44 Post subject: Therapy Session - do not disturb
OK fellow Riff Raffers--how are you??? are you let down or relieved or filled with joy?
I am slightly let down that it's over. taking down the tree is a bummer. i love Christmas trees.
i am relieved that the rush is over though.
your thoughts----
WHERE ARE WE as we head into the new year????? looking ahead with anticipation or dread??
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keltic63
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 12:01 Post subject:
Christmas Day and the day after were a bit tough for me, not bad, but I didn't have the full joy I usually have. The truth is, I enjoy having a routine and goals and something to do. I don't do real well when I have free time with no particular jobs to be done.
I am looking forward with anticipation to the new year! New goals, new achievements to be made. And report card deadline looming within a few weeks of getting back to school  "Mr. Keltic, we need you to give a grade to each of your 1000 students"
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cherylpf
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 12:11 Post subject:
I'm a little let down, working up to and through the holidays I feel like I didn't really get to fully enjoy them or my family. But I'm also relieved that the hectic rush of it all is gone (but of course January brings my busiest time at work  )
I fully looking forward to the new year with anticipation! So much possibility awaits!
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akern
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 12:19 Post subject:
Christmas sucked this year. I took everything down and am glad its over.
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genie
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 12:31 Post subject:
| akern wrote: | | Christmas sucked this year. I took everything down and am glad its over. |
1!!!!
I am taking down everything on NY's Day and cannot wait. I felt fine as of 12/26 when it was all over. Like Cheryl, I worked my ass off for a couple months prior to so the normal Christmas stress was magnified by all that and some personal issues too. I was really depressed Christmas Eve but I feel much better and am ready to write off 2002 as a MAJOR SUCK year and move on to 2003.
It was great to be off for the last week and recharge though, got to spend some quality fun time with my roomie and get a LOT done around the house that needed attending to. I even started writing again. 
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rolling rock
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 12:37 Post subject:
personally, facing this holiday without my mom SUCKED. people kept telling me it would be hard, but that was an understatement. there is so much pressure to be happy, joyful, put on that happy holiday face---especially for the kids. i dared not mope - evah - but inside it was really empty. i kept thinking of all those kids without parents from 9-11----UGH. i'm 44 years old and felt down, how about those guys???
i am writing off last year as a SUCKFUL year as well. high hopes for a much calmer 2003 for this family.
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genie
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 12:45 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | i kept thinking of all those kids without parents from 9-11----UGH. i'm 44 years old and felt down, how about those guys???
i am writing off last year as a SUCKFUL year as well. high hopes for a much calmer 2003 for this family. |
Susan, you faced a very painful loss as well, I remember you telling us how close you and your mom were, so allow yourself that grief. Don't minimize it by comparing it to someone else's. Yes, of course 9-11 was awful and left many kids of ALL ages without parents, and husbands, and wives, and in some cases, parents without children...but that doesn't make your pain any less valid. Or painful.
Hoping time eases your pain as well as anyone's who has lost a loved one. I thought of several who were not here to celebrate with us this year and shed a few private tears for them too.
{{{{{{RR}}}}}}}
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akern
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 12:49 Post subject:
My brother tried to kill himself on christmas eve. He did not succeed (thankfully) but the holiday went right down the tubes.
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Cappy
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 13:36 Post subject:
One thing I would like to do this year, is to publish and or speak about my ED. I have some things written about it (13 pages) , and have contacted a few organizations about telling my story. I think its important to share my experience to help educate others about what I am going through. Its not just a girl illness.
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genie
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 14:04 Post subject:
That is a great idea!!! I think if more men spoke out about it perhaps it would make others feel more comfortable about admitting it. Like you said, it is not just a girly disease. I am planning to do some research with one of my profs in grad school about it and you have been the inspiration for that.
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airehead
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 14:33 Post subject:
| akern wrote: | | My brother tried to kill himself on christmas eve. He did not succeed (thankfully) but the holiday went right down the tubes. |
I'm so sorry that you guys went through that. Nothing I can say will help you
make sense of the situation, but know I'm thinking about you--and sending
you a big hug. I'm so sorry.
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 15:25 Post subject:
Good God, Allison! I'm so sorry to hear that. Thoughts are w/ya, sweetie.
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kristin31
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 15:29 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | akern wrote: | | My brother tried to kill himself on christmas eve. He did not succeed (thankfully) but the holiday went right down the tubes. |
I'm so sorry that you guys went through that. Nothing I can say will help you
make sense of the situation, but know I'm thinking about you--and sending
you a big hug. I'm so sorry. |
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keltic63
the kilted one
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 15:33 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | | i am writing off last year as a SUCKFUL year as well. |
let's see, I met RR in March.......I hope there isn't some connection there 
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Morpheus99
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Posted: 12/30/02 - 15:38 Post subject:
I saw this year as a year of learning humility and the value of running when you can't run.
As a whole this year was a transition year for me as I learned a few things about what I was becoming after I got hurt, and how that was making me accept those things instead of crawling out of the hole I dug.
My dad suffering a min-stroke taught me the value of time, and how we let little things bother us but rally to the cause on the major things.
I found the love of family is all about being who you are not not who "they" want you to be..............and walking your own path.
The power of friends (close) friends who will, teach, preach, scold, corrupt, and share in your highs and lows, while you share in theirs.
This was a year of 1st and a year of change, some was good, some needed.
I don't know the path 2003 will take me just yet.
But I do have a map, and a flashlight, and a protein drink to start my journey.
M
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