The ironies of life

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Life is so ironic.

Very soon after I joined WP, in 2005, I felt there was a need for more mature folk to have a place separate from the youngsters. I was never able to achieve it. Others have been able to achieve what I'd been hoping for for years. The irony is not that, it's that this forum was started on the day that I have to stop my WP obsession, and start dealing with my real life.

Argh. The same day. How fair is that?

As we get older, we see irony more and more often, don't we?

I think that I've fallen in love with this particular forum.

For me, its more than what I have posted in 3 months!

No, Hamster, I'm not leaving. I am allowing myself to log on during breaks in the work. Today it's more decluttering and drywall repair and painting to try to get the house ready to show in a week or so.

Anyway, it is a really cool forum. I think it's brilliant. It feels really safe, and I have a feeling it'll just keep getting better as more people discover it and feel released to be able to post what is really going on with them.

One thing I think we elders need a bit is to just process our pasts, in light of what we now know.

My husband and children have had a few questions about why the house isn't as organized as usual but I look at this way, I DON'T go out for coffee or drinks, I DON'T spend time on the phone, I DON'T spend time shopping and wasting money and I HAVE spent the last 16 years devoting myself to my family. In fact, I seem to have spoiled them. I finally have some outside contact and I'm not about to apologize.

As you said, Aylissa. You can take a look around here when you take a break from your work. We are aloud to take breaks, aren't we?

I sneak in whenever TM is out of the house. I love this new location. It's quite cosy.

You are such a good wife, Blessed. Your family is fortunate to have someone so understanding and supportive.

I hope it works for you Aylissa.

I agree, life is so full of ironies; coincidentally, I've also decided to deal with my WP compulsion/obsession, whatever it is.
I was intending to wait and see if we got the new forum before I went, and yee-ha! It's brilliant, I am sooo pleased. The irony is that now I must go because of this new, brilliant forum. Otherwise I'll be too comfortable here and I won't ever be able to escape.

I may come back regularly, sometime. Once I've broken the obsession. I've tried the 'just for half an hour' approach to WP, but I just can't do it. Taking a break didn't work. Cold turkey's the only way I stand a chance of cracking it. I am beginning to resent not being in control of my own time, and refuse to be beaten by the damn thing.

There's so much I'd like to try to do, in NT world, (she said, quaking in her shoes, lol). So, now's I feel the time's right to move on, to leave on a happy note. Actually, it feels like a very positive thing to do, on a such a positive day.

But bonny Starr, we NEED you to post (and pm) constantly, and without ceasing ! !!

I asked my dh if there is a program or device that I can talk into and it will type for me. He says there is and as soon as we can afford it (next month) he will get it for me. That way I can bounce around my house or sit and knit or sew and still be here. I can't quite get the hang of keyboarding with my toes and I don't want to sew over my toes so I'm at a loss.

You might want to test the software out
first. Voice recognition is a tough problem,
and you might not be satisfied with the
results.

As Spider Robinson has observed, God is an iron.

As follows: One who commits a felony is a felon, yes? Similarly, one who commits gluttony is a glutton. Therefore, God is an iron. (Or else, as one of his characters observed, "He's the dumbest Designer who ever lived.")