Thursday Rock

[inspiredjulie]

Good morning, friends! So many good things posted here for me to smile about and I thank you all for that.

So thank you figgy.

And SD, I really like your suggestion. Things just get so heated and emotional with family, but this will be really good practice for me. Thank you!

Kym... thank you sweetie. You're so right.

Joe... Very good points and needed validation, thank you. and...

Here, have a morning beer on me

This is definitely the nicest thing anyone has said to me all day.

Cori... thank you very much. I am doing better than I feel and I need to keep rememebering that. And I don't feel bad, just a little hesitant to get myself depleted as all of you mention.

Thanks friends! Slow work day for me today so I will be doing my best to stay outta trouble and not clean the house.

[fig]

smoooooooooooooooooooooooches Julie!!!!

have a great weekend

for me it's YAY LAUNDRY!!!!!

[S_O_T_S]

Quoting from somewhere else:

... I needed to hear that my anger was justified

Your anger is justified.

work thru this anger so I can put it all behind me

Definitely don't want to hold onto it or suppress it. I've seen what happens if you do for D'd people several years out and it's not pretty.

it's ugly head when I least need that (when the girls are teens and losing it themselves).

It still might, even then. The important thing will be not that you're not past it, but how you react afterward to set an example for them.

As in:

"It's OK to be upset/mad/frustrated etc...." as long as you let it loose constructively and/or make amends if it isn't.




You deserve that.

What do you deserve?






And just in case BethM and qoe show up, there's a little song that starts running through my head on Friday afternoons thanks to the three of you.

[SDFoundGirl]

Morning beer

Ordinarily it wouldn't make me green, but I had one too many last night at a late night concert and that plus little sleep is testing my tummy!

I definitely think you should make it your goal NOT to clean the house. There's nothing like success to breed more success!

Make your day great, and thanks for the support on my thread!

SD

[BethM]

SOTS....

I wanna' know what song you're talking about. Can you hum a few bars for us?

"HAVE A MORNING BEER"???? That was the nicest thing that has been said to you so far today?? This may be a stretch but I never would have guessed that! RIGHT!

Aw, come on you know I'm just kidding...Hey have lots of fun with your day off!

Love,
Bethie

[Rob1231]

Hi Jules,

Just catching up - and you know, SD already said almost EXACTLY what I was gonna say. Smart lady!

Hugs to you, your kids, and your sister too!

[inspiredjulie]

Morning, Stoic... thanks for stopping by, especially in light of the difficulties your feeling, it means a lot. I don't do a good job of reaching out to others when I am going thru sh!t, but I have been thinking of you.

Your anger is justified.

Thank you. It helps to hear that.

It still might, even then. The important thing will be not that you're not past it, but how you react afterward to set an example for them.

As in:

"It's OK to be upset/mad/frustrated etc...." as long as you let it loose constructively and/or make amends if it isn't.

This is really stuff... and good reminders for all of us.

What do you deserve?

The moon, Stoic, I deserve the moon. Thanks for asking. And somebody tell Bethie that doesn't mean a pic of her a$$.



SD-
Anytime, sweetie. And sorry to hear you're a tad... under the weather. I'll have your morning beer for you. Rest up for the weekend, chica!

[inspiredjulie]

Thanks, Rob and Bethie...

And Stoic, I agree with Bethie (UGH)... I wanna know what song.

[inspiredjulie]

So my mom was talking to my 5 y.o. nephew last night and his mom had told him that my sister (his aunt) has a drug problem. So he wanted to talk about it and this is how the convo went. I got a real kick out of it.

Nephew: mom told me J is doing drugs. That's not good.
Mom: No it isn't.
N: Did you talk to her?
M: I tried, but she's pretty mad at me.
N: She's really pissed, huh?
M: Yeah.
N: I just really want to talk about this.
M: What are you going to say when someone comes up to you and asks if you want to try some drugs?
N: Hell no!
M: well, what if they start taunting you, calling you a baby and a sissy for not trying?
N: Then I'm gonna say "SHUT UP B!TCH!"

I lmao!

[inspiredjulie]

Oh, and I've been inspired this morning. I will not be cleaning house today. I will, however, be taking a cat nap.