Published on 12, July, 2020
The world seems grim right now with Covid, Brexit, endless atrocities, and my cold, uncaring birth family are going to the extreme to prove they don't give two hoots about me.
Is there anything nice we can discuss? e.g. I'm so happy that All Creatures Great and Small and The Great British Bake Off are coming back in the next few weeks. Also Strictly Come Dancing. Lots of silly shows to distract us.
Maybe this is a thread for people who have had enough, to come and talk about lighter, happier subjects.
Had been having significant issues at work. Managed to get a job elsewhere which, I think, will suit me far better.
LIfe is too short indeed, and the way my life is currently, I don't have the time or need to do ironing.
I just hope the society in which I live doesn't make it a prohibited activity for some woke reason before I next get to do some!
Yes that sounds ridiculous, but it's only of a similar level of unbelievable stupidity executed by bad actors that I've experienced first hand by flying a tiny kids drone in my own back garden, and witness increasingly on a wider scale on the evening news...
Like I said....life is too short :-)
What does this mean, I'm not sure?
So you don't have other people to look after i.e. children and you can do your own thing, basically? If you have to put yourself last all the time and look after others 24/7 it is exhausting without 5 minutes to think your own thoughts and look after yourself.
Well done for looking after yourself though, many people can't.
I don't know about that. I can't see a way the human race is ever going to be united again, unless there is a huge disaster which forces us to work together.
I know what you mean. I liked my kid but not really the parties.
But if you can remember how it feels to be a child and what they like and dislike, whether you are autistic or not, you can weild your adult power and all the advantages of age to make 'em smile sometimes, or stop them crying,
Your kids can be at least as much fun as your animals, until a third party or T.V.programme convinces them that you are an idiot, best to be ignored.
There's a bit of skill in it, otherwise it'd be boring work!
Try pressing less hard, and feeling the fabric as it flows and changes under the hot iron... I don't get to do it much now if ever, and as I describe it, I'm actually missing it!
Well, I managed to endure my child's birthday party.
But I did spend most of it hidden in the corner with my noise cancelling headphones on, hahahah
When I iron, I actually manage to iron creases INTO the fabric. So I end up with more than when I started
Too focused on being Numero Uno, instead of being Good Enough.
I have to run my home, all by myself, and get pi$$ed off so often.
However, It was the making of me.
I'm Christian, too.
We have not been set apart from each other forever, I had positive confirmation this week when a bunch of strangers both stood up for my right to have a potentially unpopular view of the world but also went to lengths I thought which I thought were the stuff of Robin Williams films to explain to the ignorant exactly what it was that I was trying to communicate oriiginally. I did not expect it at all, but a tiny bit of solidarity emerged and a whole bunch of people expeosed themselves as having a reall honest understanding of what relating to each other whether zeeps or zoodles. I was genuinely moved to joy by how some of you acted and expressed yourselves, and that does not happen very often for me! There are universal good values that we can all bind ourselves too, if we choose. Namaste.
Me neither!
I agree that no one is winning right now. We've built a world where no one is happy, everyone is struggling and lonely. Where will this end...
There is a war between women though, that really shocked me when I became a mum. The Working Mother vs. the Stay At Home Mother. Each group is jealous of the other and does their best to point out how hard their own life is and how easy the other group has it.
If only women could pull together and help each other like we used to when women worked together to bring up their children in groups. Now we've been set against each other forever it seems.
It's not just women, NONE of us are winning very much at the moment, really.
Yes it is to one sort of person, but when it was thrust upon me, even working under a barrage of misframing and criticism, it gave me a modicum of control over my life, which I found quite addictive. My partner was lucky enough to be able to outsource subsatntial parts of childcare to me, starting with nighfeeding and expending into whatever else it turned out I could do. Some women have more manly men and get less of that sort of thing. At risk of sounding a little harsh I'd say, serves 'em right should have picked the little spergy bloke up when he wanted you...
But I know of that endless peer pressure and criticism of which you speak in different areas of my life. Being not as the T.V. sets portrays how people should be is difficult, no matter what form it takes.
I don't doing ironing cos I CBA and life is too short