General chit chat

Hello @Mazarita 🙂 Sorry I got the invite to the Friday Feast too late. I've just popped (not pooped @Faith-and-Hope🙂 ) on to say Good night. They say laughter is the best medicine and by the sounds of it the Martian language would have given you plenty of that! 😄

Keep getting well soon

@Former-Member, not to worry. There's always next week if you feel like joining in. Starts at about 6pm and goes until whenever the last person posts. There are plenty of laughs in there even when you don't say that much, like me tonight. Thanks for your healing wishes. Sleep well.

Good Morning @Mazarita, @Faith-and-Hope and everybody. I didn't sleep well last night and I've slept in. That always seems to happen when I've got plans for the next day. I'm off to the center of my Universe today. I'll be leaving late, it's alright my Universe is used to that, I will get there - they know that too.

I've never heard of the term lurgy before, but I hope your lurgyless today Mazarita

Hi @Former-Member, just woke again for about the fourth time overnight and this morning. Slept in bursts, part of it in the living room chair (coughing too much when I lay flat). Hope you find good moments with the centre of your universe today.

Hi @Faith-and-Hope, hope it's a good one for you today too.

Good morning, @Former-Member, been thinking of you over recent days, wondering how your visit to the centre of your universe is going. Look forward to hearing how the time away has been when you return.

Good Morning @Mazarita, @Faith-and-Hope, @Former-Member, @Former-Member and everybody 🙂 If your lurgy hasn't cleared up properly it's time to go and see a Doctor Mazy! I think the picture is coming along wonderfully Lil-caterpillar 😄 I also appreciate your morning greetings Teej 😉

Well, I have returned from the Center of my Universe 🙂 . . . and still in one piece! 😄 and I'm happy to say that all the members of said Universe are also in one piece (well, . . at least the super glue seems to be holding for now). But considering I received a payment while I was there and am broke again now, I can't help out financially for a bit; but as a wise person from this forum said 'there's more you can do to help than money': I made Easter baskets with the little ones, I combined forces with the elder ones to 'baby-sit' the youngest. I introduced a 'kid friendly' game to the middle man, no blood letting, no swearing . . . and they loved it!

I did my best to keep up with the dishes, but that was about my limit - the second youngest actually went around the house picking things up and keeping everything tidy! My child was so genuinely surprised when they got home, that their smile was enough - all on it's own - to make me feel my visit was worthwhile 🙂 My child was able to 'catch-up' on some 'workplacement hours' and even get the dreaded Easter shopping done without spying eyes 🙂

I've been thinking about the likes of gambling addiction, the feeling of needing something that is not an actual substance being introduced to the body. I think we all have it. Though an addiction doesn't gain that title until it is effecting day to day life and everybody in it. I think we all are and somewhat should be, addicted to feeling good. I think the problem with my Universe is that every member of that household uses 'spending money' to feed that addiction.

When a substance/drug is considered the problem, it can be seen, touched, smelt, tasted - hell you might even hear it sizzling on a spoon - . . . but it's obvious. - like a broken bone compared to a broken 'electro-chemical' process in the brain.

The Universe is a really big place, and we each have a different center, but the entire Universe is constantly battling. I'm glad I'm old enough to be able to step back, look at the center of mine and think "you know what, even though there is bad going on in this center, it is not as bad as the bad I know is in the Universe . . . and I am proud that my Center battles to stay within the boundaries that is does have!"

Well, I seem to be rambling . . . it is so good to be able to hear the finches and wrens singing in the bush again 🙂 . . . and the young dogs snores 😄

Dear @Former-Member,

How lovely it is to come home. It sounds especially nice to be returning to a place where the finches and wrens sing and the young dogs snore.

Your attitude to the centre of your universe is admirable to me. Expecting other people to be perfect in any way usually gets us into trouble, I think. A lot of people live with addictions for very long amounts of time and manage to survive through it. Life goes on around addictions and it's not everything about a person. In some ways it's just a small thing, even if it has big consequences. I say this, thinking about myself and about my parents, all of us have been very addicted to different things over time. All of us have also lived ethical lives, in our own ways, even if addiction has made our lives that much harder.

Your gift of help with the children and housework would have been so welcome. I'm so glad you had some special moments visiting with your centre.

And good to see you back with us too!