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I went into a Starbucks in Amsterdam, just for a black coffee. Even though the gal spoke excellent English getting this across was cumbersome.
But if you ordered a double mocha decaf macchiato latte with extra foam and a wisp of cinnamon it would have made perfect sense.
 
And caught up! Office manager just brought my phone back to me. It took a charge on her charger, so I don't know what to think. We're going to see how long it will hold it.
 
My best friend stopped yesterday while I was painting. He wanted to help, but I was almost done by then. He had been home from work a couple days early in the week (said he was sick), and he admitted that he was laid up with severe depression. He even told me that he had some suicidal thoughts......he had even gotten his handgun out and loaded it. :eek:

He has always been one to keep to himself, pretty steady-as-she-goes for the most part. Not one to complain or talk about his problems. But this was a real startler for me. I have known him since we were kids - probably close to 50 years - and I never in a million years dreamed this would come from him.

So, I guess I need to be a better friend and try to inject some good things into his life. We are going on our annual deer hunt to Madeline Island on Lake Superior in a few weeks, and I know this will help a lot.
This was a cry for help. It was tough for him to do because - as you said - he keeps pretty much to himself. Encourage him to get help. Don't take no for an answer. If he says he has it under control just ask again a little later. This won't just go away.
 
So I got about 150 bulbs planted yesterday.......something like that to go. Today is nice and I don't want to be busy this weekend so I got out all my stuff and hauled baby outside in his little seat. He let me rake up the mulch and dig and plant about 40 hyacinths before we lost our chill. I got a legit laugh from him when I angrily swung the rake at a bee that was buzzing around us both. I stopped to tell him I was glad that amused him.

Now it's nap time and see if I can sneak back out to finish the last 15 hyacinths. Maybe start on the tulips. Then come back in to hold him before he wakes up so he'll sleep longer. Plus I get cuddles then. The cuddle tank is never full enough for me.
 
I have had a client asking me to set some monitoring up but he just gives me such cryptic information. I finally drug out what he wanted in one instance and got it done last week. Today I get an email with a screen shot of a ticket generated from just what he was asking for. He was asking where the ticket came from. We just had a meeting on Friday where I explained all this to him. I had even sent him an email with the specifics.
 
So I got about 150 bulbs planted yesterday.......something like that to go. Today is nice and I don't want to be busy this weekend so I got out all my stuff and hauled baby outside in his little seat. He let me rake up the mulch and dig and plant about 40 hyacinths before we lost our chill. I got a legit laugh from him when I angrily swung the rake at a bee that was buzzing around us both. I stopped to tell him I was glad that amused him.

Now it's nap time and see if I can sneak back out to finish the last 15 hyacinths. Maybe start on the tulips. Then come back in to hold him before he wakes up so he'll sleep longer. Plus I get cuddles then. The cuddle tank is never full enough for me.

You get 6 months off?
 
This was a cry for help. It was tough for him to do because - as you said - he keeps pretty much to himself. Encourage him to get help. Don't take no for an answer. If he says he has it under control just ask again a little later. This won't just go away.

He is seeing a psychologist, and is on meds. He told me he has talked with the shrink and they are tweaking his meds, so.....there is hope. He is a reformed meth user (did it cold turkey with no rehab) and for awhile I was suspicious that he was tweaking again, but he is insistent that he is not - and I believe him.
 
What didn't you like about them? The sheer brutality?

Well, I think most of what Zombie does is trash, but it really turned me off how much he tried to go into detail of the background of why Michael is why he is and why he does what he does. I find it so much more creepy to have a killer just kill without much for rhyme or reason.
 
He is seeing a psychologist, and is on meds. He told me he has talked with the shrink and they are tweaking his meds, so.....there is hope. He is a reformed meth user (did it cold turkey with no rehab) and for awhile I was suspicious that he was tweaking again, but he is insistent that he is not - and I believe him.
Sorry, I shouldn't have assumed he wasn't getting help. I just didn't see anything in your initial post that suggested he was. Good that he is and good that you are there for him. Obviously he believes despite not being comfortable expressing his feelings he can with you. Having an outlet that is available at times other than your professional appointments can make a big difference.
 
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Literally watching paint dry. I are excite. :rolleyes:

After another coat on baseboard tomorrow it's going to be furniture moving and change out time. The old plasma is like 80 pounds, 60" of awkward, not a single lifter thingie but an easy two person move. The TV stand weights 216. Problem is now that Pants has left the cities the only people I know are broken down old men. Even the 220 pound guy that used to be my go to lift-n-load help guy can't lift as much as I can anymore.
 
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