How do you feel right now?

[belle ringer]

I feel bored and tired for some reason that eludes me even when I've spent an entire day thinking about nothing in particular.

[Whifflingpin]

Lol

At least - omigod - I hope you meant that to be funny.

If not, may I recommend that you read Kipling's verse "The Hump?"

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[Pensive]

I am feeling pretty and so witty. I feel charming, so alarming charming!

[belle ringer]

Lol

At least - omigod - I hope you meant that to be funny.

Ah...yes, of course...I was...er...being funny...


If not, may I recommend that you read Kipling's verse "The Hump?"

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It's not that I haven’t enough to do-oo-oo,
I have the hump—
Cameelious hump—
Not just one, but two!

:D

[Kaltrina]

I'm feeling happy and special... :D

[Nightshade]

Happy birthday kaltrina
I feel great

[Pensive]

I'm feeling happy and special... :D

You should!

Its your special day.
For you, it is a beautiful day.

Its a lovely day.
For your friends, its a blissful day.

It is your perfect day.
Because it is your birthday.

It comes in a year.
In it, you do not shed a single tear.

You should be happy and glad.
You should enjoy and wear red.

(Its a poem that I made up right now and I dedicate it to Kaltrina. Hey Kalt, I hope you don't mind because it is probably a little silly.)

[rachel]

oh Whiffling,
I swear you are poetic even in your sleep. I don't know how your wife gets her forty winks! I would be sitting up all night if I were her just taking down notes as you talk and compose between snores!

I on the other hand really didn't sleep last night, that is just part of the thing with writers/people who worry about the broken. But I am fine with that.
Therefore I feel like I have been chased and run over backwards and forwards nine times by a convoy truck(we are a military city)or a tanker. :D

[belle ringer]

I feel a bit melancholy tonight...

[Kaltrina]

You should!

Its your special day.
For you, it is a beautiful day.

Its a lovely day.
For your friends, its a blissful day.

It is your perfect day.
Because it is your birthday.

It comes in a year.
In it, you do not shed a single tear.

You should be happy and glad.
You should enjoy and wear red.

(Its a poem that I made up right now and I dedicate it to Kaltrina. Hey Kalt, I hope you don't mind because it is probably a little silly.)

OMG Pensive... it's not silly at all... I love it... thank you so much....it's cute and lovely....you're so sweet.. :D *hugging Pensive*

[rachel]

hug hug and a chocolate lolly for you Belle. If that doesn't work I will send you a singing clown with a poem just for you.

I hope your birthday was the finest you have ever had you pretty pretty girl.

I am feeling dizzy(no comments please!). this is about the fourth night in a row the baby didn't sleep. I cannot figure out what the matter is.

[simon]

Hey I'm feeling dizzy too, but I think it's mostly due to the aftereffects of lastnights alcohol comsumption. I got stupid and can't get smart.

[rachel]

dear Simon,
you poor thing, first it is your lovely eyes, then you are attacked by mold from outerspace and now you are dizzy.
I am sending you the money from my second savings account for a booklight, a dehumidfier and a week at a nice quiet hotel where you can just rest and feel better.

[simon]

That sounds divine rachel. You'd think I'd be able to take better care of myself after living for a few years alone, but my roomate and I seriously should look into a nanny for ourselves. Someone to remind us to put on a warm jacket and turn off the oven and do the dishes and eat, because we are the dumbasses that forget these simple things while studying and procrastinating studying.

And hey I looked into buying a dehumidifier, they are expenisive! I could not find ones that weren't over a hundred dollars. I only have 109 dollars in my bank account and that needs to last me for two months of food.

[RobinHood3000]

You know, you could build a primitive dehumidifier with an icepack (or something similarly cold), a string, and a narrow container. Don't know how much good it would do you, but every little bit helps.

[Pensive]

I feel bad.
I am sad.

I want to be glad and gay.
I want to feel good and be happy.

[Whifflingpin]

"I want to feel good and be happy"

It is supposed to work better the other way round - "be good and you will feel happy"

Anyway - here's a wave to cheer you up, from ol' grumpa Whiffle :wave:

[Sami]

Right now I’m feeling tired – suffering from a bout of insomnia – it’s like torture. Anyone have any good suggestions for how to get to sleep?

[Pensive]

"I want to feel good and be happy"

It is supposed to work better the other way round - "be good and you will feel happy"

Anyway - here's a wave to cheer you up, from ol' grumpa Whiffle :wave:

Thanks for the wave. :D

Life is full of worries and sometimes one "wave" make us forget our worries. :nod:

[Pensive]

Right now I’m feeling tired – suffering from a bout of insomnia – it’s like torture. Anyone have any good suggestions for how to get to sleep?

The best way to sleep is to think about happy things, but sometimes when you are depressed, nice thoughts do not come near you and that's what happened to me last night. I tried my best to sleep but I was able to sleep after having "syrip"

I am afraid of sleeping tablets so I have never taken them, instead I take syrup, which is not as dangerous as sleeping tablets but that syrup is for children below 13. *sheepish smile*

[Sami]

I agree Pensive – I’m suspicious of sleeping pills too. Thinking happy thoughts seems like a healthier solution but, alas, they’re not always easy to find.

I’m pretty much awake now anyway, so at least I get an early start on the day. There - that’s a happy thought I suppose. :)

[Nightshade]

Sami, why dont you try reading tom sawyer always puts me to sleep. :yawn_b:
IM feeling a bit illish and detached.

[Kaltrina]

Feeling fresh and I think I can't breathe as a result of the two big sandwiches I ate... :lol:

[rachel]

I agree Pensive – I’m suspicious of sleeping pills too. Thinking happy thoughts seems like a healthier solution but, alas, they’re not always easy to find.

I’m pretty much awake now anyway, so at least I get an early start on the day. There - that’s a happy thought I suppose. :)

I don't try to fight the feeling. I just think of some story lines or get up and have a cup of tea and do something constructive and generally just when I get all enthusiastic and artsy I find I wake up and realize I have slept.
Or you could get your husband to knock you out. It is very individual really. :lol:

[rachel]

As a matter of fact I did that very thing last night. I had too many thoughts so I made cup of tea and sat in the big chair to figure some things out in my story.
I woke up this morning still sitting there, couldn't move my legs and couldn't believe I did that, it has never happened before. I cannot bear the pain in my knee but I had a great sleep!

[belle ringer]

First of all, thank you, Rachel. You are so nice. Noticed that as I read other threads. I don't think you can be anything but. Thank you for the hug and the chocolate lolly!

Second, I seem to have started a thread that already was. Sorry about that. When I used the search function, I didn't see anything similar. Or maybe I just didn't use it correctly, my being such a computer genius and all (--uh, huh). :D

[rachel]

who cares,
now we can whine or shout for joy on two threads.
and you are very welcome Belle. What a beautiful name.

[Sami]

Right now I am feeling much better than I did yesterday morning!! :banana:


Or you could get your husband to knock you out. It is very individual really.

Rachel, I’m not sure what you mean by this? But it sounds like an interesting idea :lol:

[RobinHood3000]

You know, give him a club and have him pull a Starrwriter (Ug say: "Club meet skull mean sleep." <THUNK> "Zzzzz...")

[rachel]

exactly. No one can say Star didn't leave a legacy of tenderness!

[Virgil]

Not bad. Active Saturday morning. The usuall walk and play fetch with the dog on a cold, windy morning. Breakfest with mom at her house. Off shopping in my old Brooklyn neighborhood, taking my mother to old fashion fruit and vegatable store, old fashion Italian bakery for bread, stopped at garden nursery for seeds for upcoming spring plantings, and then a haircut. I love my barber. Been going to him since around 14 years old, making that 30 years. Wow. Enjoy talking politics and sports, although he takes forever when the conversation gets going. Now his place is not just men's, but there are ladies too. Mostly old Italian ladies yaking away in Italian and broken English. Oh, my old neighborhood! :cool:

One sad note is a good portion of my cut hair that falls down now is gray. Not quite 50/50, but close. :bawling: I'm getting old.

[rachel]

you will never be old Virgil, trust me, lady Galadriel will be old before you and she never will until the circle of living on the earth is no more.
And I was thinking about the old Italian neighborhood, little Italy in Calgary this morning and I could smell the wonderful food in all the spotless houses when I used to walk by on my way to Gino's restaurant to wait for auntie after school.I can close my eyes and hear 'Oh my papa" and I get tears in my eyes. The old nona's always checked me out critically and the old men winked and I fell in love with all the young men and young women. They were so beautiful, and every gorgeous girl was called Gina and had a snarl , beautiful eyes and pouting lips.
Move over Virg, I am coming shopping with you I am feeling nostalgic for the old neighborhood and I am Jewish! (I need some fresh sweet basil for the Italian chicken pasta I am serving tonight.)

[Virgil]

Plenty of Jewish people in my old neighborhood too. Actually before it turned into an italian neighborhood in the 1960's, it was a Jewish neighborhood. Now it's becoming Chineese and Russian.

[rachel]

sounds heavenly. how was the pizza. the beer, who cares. It smells gross and tastes slimey to me. yukky, however please go ahead and enjoy!
I feel dreadful. I think I have xamonas's headache. I need to get off right now and go to sleep.

[Intellectual]

Two months of food?!?!?109 dollars?!?!?! that wouldnt even last me 3 weeks................no im not fat! I happen to be a competitive runner(in high school)......my expalin afew things...lol

[Intellectual]

Quite frankly i cant believe you guys are all asleep right now!Well I guess philosophically,you need to lie down and take a breather on your "intense appeals of phsycological differences........however...instead of going on about human brain activity I will just say that I AM quite sleepy also....it must be contagious........ :goof:

[belle ringer]

One sad note is a good portion of my cut hair that falls down now is gray. Not quite 50/50, but close. :bawling: I'm getting old.

Nah, I actually think gray hair on a man is quite attractive. Makes them look more distinguished.

When I get mine, though, I want them ALL to turn instantly white. :D

[RobinHood3000]

I AM quite sleepy also....it must be contagious........ :goof:
I hear it's one of those 24-hours bugs.

[chmpman]

I understood it to be 8-10, for me anyways.

[Pensive]

I feel bad. Tomorrow I will have to go to school and I will have to take part in the play, our school is performing. My teacher has asked me to write the most of the script. *weeping*

I don't want to take part in it! I don't want to be Eliza! I don't want to be a fair lady! I just want to get out from this play!

[Nightshade]

One sad note is a good portion of my cut hair that falls down now is gray. Not quite 50/50, but close. :bawling: I'm getting old.
GHOws this Ive had a few grety hairs since I was 15. Preature greying runns in my mums family my dad is 50+ and still not a single grey hair though. you'd think the genes would cancel themselves out?
:lol:
YOur not old Virgil, your not old tuill you feel old apprearnce has nought to do with it.

[rachel]

oh pfft , Virgil is lovely and he knows it. :D
hey Belle, when the time comes I want all my hair to turn instantly white too.
the ULTIMATE BLONDE hahaha. I saw a picture once of Marilyn Monroe just weeks before she died, she had lost a lot of weight and they had totally stripped her hair of all its color. White looks gorgeous on someone who has no lines on their face and good skin. I saw a girl downtown a while back that had that done.she looked fabulouso.

Pensive darling the only thing I can suggest is to put a body thermometer in hot water and tell your mama you are sick! If that doesn't work-remember you have Mr. Higgins and Freddie that love you very much!!!!!!(ooh 'enry higgens, just you wyte until yer swimmin in the sea. ooh 'enry higgins and ya get a cramp a little wye from me. when ya yell yer gonna drown I'll get dressed and go to town....... :lol: )

[Virgil]

GHOws this Ive had a few grety hairs since I was 15. Preature greying runns in my mums family my dad is 50+ and still not a single grey hair though. you'd think the genes would cancel themselves out?
:lol:
YOur not old Virgil, your not old tuill you feel old apprearnce has nought to do with it.
Thanks Night. My family too has the two extremes. My father started going grey probably in his thirties, and my mother didn't have a grey hair until her sixties. And both trends run similar in their biological families. It looks like I got my father's genes on this one. The good thing is that he never went completely grey and I don't know if it's my imagination or what but he seems less grey now. He's had a very hard two years, mostly in and out of hospitals and nursing home. But he actually looks younger, at least his face. Perhaps the grey hairs fell out and the black remain?

Otherwise feeling good today. I actually am going to cook corned beef and cabbage. I haven't had time for any serious cooking lately, but my wife insists today. Always ready to please.

[rachel]

how very kind and helpful you are Virg. I hope it turns out fantastic. I don't think I have eaten that for about two years and that was only one time in about ten plus years. It takes a very long time does it not, for the corned beef, do you simmer it? I honestly cannot remember. We eat either Mediterranean or exotic Middle or Eastern food a lot here.Although sometimes just good old Canadian food and American.

[Pensive]

Pensive darling the only thing I can suggest is to put a body thermometer in hot water and tell your mama you are sick! If that doesn't work-remember you have Mr. Higgins and Freddie that love you very much!!!!!!(ooh 'enry higgens, just you wyte until yer swimmin in the sea. ooh 'enry higgins and ya get a cramp a little wye from me. when ya yell yer gonna drown I'll get dressed and go to town....... :lol: )

Thanks for the suggestion dear, but now, things are changed as my best friend is Professor Higgins, now I am going to perform the play. :D

[rachel]

well 'break a leg' sweet heart. everything you do is simply smashing so I have no doubt you will be a raging success. hugs for good fortune.

my mind feels weary, my heart too.

[Riesa]

oh Rachel, babe. Lack of sleep? I'm weary too...but my heart is not. I've just got way too much laundry to deal with, and I don't feel like doing it, but I must.

[rachel]

hey you sweetness. you read my email? so are you happy? And I miss you ......

now what thread is this? oh right

well now that you have spoken to me I can feel the fog beginning to clear. oh no now I can see how many floors Ihave to scrub. Hasia went on a shampoo spree. three rooms and she stood there defiantly brushing her teeth with a toothbrush full of shampoo.she didn't even flinch. I swear to God sometimes that she is really Kilted exile's child, tough as nails, nothing fazes her. KILTED YOU JUST COME AND GET HER....now please! :bawling:

[Riesa]

rach, Did you get mine, dear?
I'm feeling **** outta luck. no maids to be had in this vicinity, at least not willing to work for old coffee grounds and dryer fluff. shame.

[Chava]

Information overload... misguided french teachers.
Uplifted due to a complete overdraw after my last spree in a bookstore (ten books!!) and smuggly looking forward to commencing my deep hibernation as i read them.
is that a feeling? like little sattisfied bubbles, that look forward to melting together into one big bubble in which i will reside and read?

[rachel]

are you trying to torment me Chava, are you?

[Countess]

How do I feel right now? Do you have a few centuries?

I feel the same way I have felt for the past two decades: half-numb, half ridden with a vague emptiness that feels alot like futility; partially convinced my primary mission in life is to write; partially convinced that I am mad for thinking it, for what is the purpose of writing if one writes in a vaccum?

I feel like I write in a vaccum. Life fills me up and the page/computer sucks it forth into print. I am merely a transit station for experience.

The constant attack of experience and the perpetual evacuation of spirit leave me exhausted till I wonder why I am here. I am here in my office, but I don't feel a part of what is around me. When I feel most alive, it is always inside my head, when the story is writing itself and everything flows into me and out of me seamlessly, painfully, without expending energy, although that, in itself, is paradoxical.

But most of the time I feel disembodied, alienated, dissociated, difused, isolated, alone, strange and mad.

[Countess]

OH, and tired. Really. Really. Really. Tired.

[kilted exile]

well now that you have spoken to me I can feel the fog beginning to clear. oh no now I can see how many floors Ihave to scrub. Hasia went on a shampoo spree. three rooms and she stood there defiantly brushing her teeth with a toothbrush full of shampoo.she didn't even flinch. I swear to God sometimes that she is really Kilted exile's child, tough as nails, nothing fazes her. KILTED YOU JUST COME AND GET HER....now please! :bawling:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, she sounds like such a cantankerous little bairn. Truly wonderful, sure I'll come and collect the wee thing it sounds like it'd be a fun adventure.


A short disclaimer however: To the best of my reccollection I have not fathered any children on this earth (other planets of course.....well thats a different story)

[rachel]

oh thank God you forgive me, I was ready to pack and run.But honestly I would not be surprised if somewhere back thru time we are related and this, this wee package of fight and head ramming is related to you. I wonder if I could rent her out as mascot for team Scotland. If they didn't score she would make their lives pure hell. :smash: