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hornblower
07-31-2006, 06:40 AM
Im back I stayed a lot longer than I had expected and it was a very good last week for me. I got a whole lot done. I took my daughter with me to the lake house week before last and things got pretty heated up a couple of times so my husband came down that weekend to help me. I was so worn out form everything I asked and decided to go ahead and stay and see how I liked being alone for a change. I like it. A lot!

Its not really like being alone because my husband and i talk to each other several times a day via cell phones. Really better than we do whn Im here because when Im here he always thinks hell see me later doesnt miss me that much and so doesnt want to talk.

The main thing is though that I ate what I wanted slept when I wanted did what I wanted and i got so much done!!!!!!!! I covered my couch its so cute all cottagey looking, and this old chair I bought in a garage sale years ago. Wish I could show all of you a picture of it. Its fantastic. Pained a painting, a small one but its cute. Then painted antigued a chair and a dresser and covered the little seat on the chair. Turned out fantastic.

I have a friend down there but as usual this relationship for me is less than desireable. She is so controlling. Now that I know her better sometimes i wonder why I choose to get to know such people? She elderly and sick and i dont really 'think' she knows Jesus not that same way I do anyway. Makes it hard to have a good talk a lot of the time. I have to be sort of dihonest or secretive in some ways and then not too. Back and forth. Anyway she is so needy I hate to not spend time with her. Too complicated for me.

We had the grandsons this last weekend for a last summer fling but then we had to 'deep' clean the whole house since i no longer have a vacumn claeraner down there my husband had to bring it. My son is bringing his friends there for this next weekend. My husband and I are both exhausted.........beyond tired and sore from all of the work we have been doing. Heavy lifting........not good!

So we make the long drive home, drop off the boys. Im so tired the road was getting dangerously blurrey. Guess who is waiting for us? My husband forgot to lock the doors in the garage. She quit her job and so my husband blamed me. She had called me at one oclock in the morning at the lake house. Sobbing and I was so tired I said my usual thing....... 'quit then if you cant take it'. AND she cant!

So now she needs more money from us. No food no toiletries no gas. I said stuff I shouldnt have which is anything practical, she screamed, he got upset with me for 'making' her scream. I shoosh her out of the house with my bitching. When we finally get to bed I have this dream that my Daddy is still alive. I wake up crying and notice a light on somewhere in this huge cave. She had come back, lost her cell phone!

Life sucks the life out of me.

I realised the personality disorder is more there than I realised. When Im at the lake house and alone I feel like Im me but when Im here with my family I always feel like I have to be someone else. When Im alone I can think clearly. Decide what Im going to do and then do it. My family swallows me up!

My husband was very proud of me but it was slow to come in words. If barely at all. All he said was negative things about everything I did. Its never enough. When are you going to do this or that?

I didnt do it for him anyway and I didnt expect anything to come from him or anyone but then this is why I want to be alone in the first place.
He feels bad about the way he is but its still the way he is you know?
I dont ever say anything good to him or anyone else either any more and I know better but now Im so bitter about everything. I tried for so many years Im just worn out from them all.
I feel bad about this but Ill tell you the truth I really dont care about my daughter at all any more. I do but I dont.

At least this experience shows me I can make some kind of life. I didnt make any money but I was productive with my time. That means a lot to me. I hate working at jobs they just steal the life right out of you in my opinion. Bosses are just like my family and my growing up family always critical always unappreciative. Its whats gotten to my daughter and I know she cant take it. I couldnt take it either but I did.............afterwards though everyday I wanted to die!

This is a very depressing post and Im sorry for it but its not really because if you all could see what I did I know you would be so happy for me as I am for myself! God helped me. He came through me to create and to work with my hands. He did it to help me gain strength on the inside and I am stronger much stronger.

I missed all of you. How has everyone been doing?????????????????????

Doug64
07-31-2006, 06:58 AM
Hi HB:

It sounds like you have had a busy time. There is a sense of accomplishment when one does a project. We redid out kitchen this spring - a lot of work - but after all the painting and such was finished, it felt good to have it looking fresh.

Relationships are complicated. We are on basically good terms with all three of our children, but do get at swords-points on occasion with someone. I'm a bit more laid back than my wife, so I get into skirmishes less frequently. LOL!

Have a good week. It's hot here in the flatlands of Kansas.

Doug

hornblower
07-31-2006, 07:48 AM
Hi HB:

It sounds like you have had a busy time. There is a sense of accomplishment when one does a project. We redid out kitchen this spring - a lot of work - but after all the painting and such was finished, it felt good to have it looking fresh.

Relationships are complicated. We are on basically good terms with all three of our children, but do get at swords-points on occasion with someone. I'm a bit more laid back than my wife, so I get into skirmishes less frequently. LOL!

Have a good week. It's hot here in the flatlands of Kansas.

Doug

here too doug............hot and blah.........all week supposed to be the whole country. stay cool my friend. I wish I could just learn to accept this as all part of life and not get so down about any of it.
Here was a fun thing that happened to my husband and I as we were getting drowned at the communty swimming pool saturday night watching my grandsons.............youhger boiy goes up to the ligfe guard that was sitting right next to us as my husband was talking to another older man.....older meaning probably a little younger than we both are..........."hey when you took this job did you ever think you would see older people...........hahahahaha..........like man you hear about it but now its like right here!!!!!!!! pretty bad isnt it?"............did me in I mean to tell you. My poor husband tells me this stuff is happening to him in the grocery store everywhere and I think he is so cute too, hes not the least bit overweight like I am but is greying. Me? I cover that head of mine with anything I can get a hold of........wrinkles whats the use trying to cover them? Anyway its hard enough going to a swimming pool then to hear that!!!!!!!!! Ive never wanted to smack somebody as much as I did him. We were right next to him!!!!!! Whats with these people now days????????? I never in a million years would have even thought something like that!
I would give anything just to see my sweet elderly parents again, to me they were beautiful in everyway.
Im sorry but s----- this world and everybody in it except this place of course.

Jo Jo
07-31-2006, 12:53 PM
Hi hornblower,

Welcome back... it's nice to get away isn't it? And wow, you did a lot of work. I'm kind of a shirker now. I used to work really hard at stuff and now I've kind of let things go... well until they really need tending to, so I guess that's not really always true. :p

That is hard and hurtful hearing those people talk like that at the pool. I adore older people. My mom is like my best friend and I feel blessed she is still here. I have younger friends too and try not to limit myself by age of any kind.

My husband and I are in this home group that meets once a month out of this new church we are attending, and it happens to be out of a retirement home. It works well that way so some of the people that can't get around can go to it, and some of the people that don't even go to our church can attend and have cookies and visit with people. Anyway my husband and I are the youngest there and we don't mind at all. If you just take a little time we know we can learn a lot and have so much fun with these people. They also have the best adventure stories of any group of people we know of... wow! They have lived through some amazing things! They are dangerous and wild people, he he ;)

I'm glad you are back now, but I'm glad you got a little break too. :)

outcast
07-31-2006, 03:14 PM
I'm proud of you hornblower. You did do alot. :) I'm sorry you had trouble though when you came home. *hug*

butterfly
07-31-2006, 04:19 PM
:D Glad to hear you had a good time being alone.

Welcome back I missed you.butterfly shirely

Jerry
08-01-2006, 12:40 AM
Dear Hornblower,,,,
It sure is wonderful being alone for a time...In the "Native American" culture there comes a time when one goes off by himself and embarks on a personal quest ,,,,,and it is always a life-changing experience ;) Those guys making cracks about old people are clueless............I would have laughed at them and said,,,,"Behold your future" :D No matter what we accomplish in life,no matter how "fit" we are the truth is,none of us are gettin out of this alive :eek: The ponderous broom of history will in the end sweep away everything we ever knew......See those young men have yet to discover that the only enduring gift they can leave behind is a kind word,everything else withers and dies.That is the natural order of things,,,,,,,,,,and it should be ;)

Love Jerry
P.S. I love babies and old people,,,,,,,,,it's all those in between that tend to "Piss me Off" :D