Compared to last year, this year was pretty good to me. I won't go in to all the details (for fear of jinxing the whole thing), other than the fact that as of this morning, I am officially a year older.
The only bad thing: I am now 28. I want my years lost back.
Peace out.
Eric
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
As someone who spent last year this time living in a cheap motel, eating out of an ice chest I had to drain and refill every other day and trying to work my way into a position to get us out of their after losing our home, I can honestly tell you that things WILL get better as long as you don't give up.
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
WTF... since when is 28 old? Even 56 isn't old... but 28? Forget the numbers since either way they become larger. There is no way we can turn back the clock... so just go foward.
Snap out of it Eric and freaking enjoy life. Might as well live it while you got it, right?
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
I have a friend that no longer counts birthdays as the age that he has become... instead he refers to them as the "anniversary of his 21st birthday"
That means that this year was the 20th anniversary of his 21st birthday. He finds that a much more comforting way to look at it. To each their own, right?
Anyway, happy birthday!!!! :-)
~Liz
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
That sounds worse LOA - since it's counting how far away from 20 you are! Smaller numbers are easier to comprehend.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Happy Birthday Saltah'na!
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Balding and graying here, but what the hell, the last step is death right?
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
Oh, if we're just talking about FEELING old, as opposed to BEING old, I totally have all y'all beat!
I wear a leg immobilizer on a regular basis because my knee cap keeps randomly moving out of place - the only way to fix it is to do PT, but I can't do that because I'm not allowed to exercise - at all.
I feel old because I cannot exercise - therefore, I have no energy, therefore, I feel old.
My Grandma just had a large tumor and her entire kidney removed in Nov. They gave her lower dose pain killers for that pain than I've been taking on a regular basis for over a year.
Speaking of my Grandma, I take a higher dose of her blood pressure medicine than she does - and I don't even have high blood pressure. On the contrary, the last time they checked it, it was so low that the nurse was concerned about me still being conscious.
I have no fewer than 100 half-empty prescription bottles in my medicine cabinet. And they're all still good prescriptions. And i keep them because I got tired of always throwing one drug away, only to be put on it again a month down the road, and then having to pay the same copay over again. It's a waste.
I got to bed at 9pm.... and I sleep until 7am.... and I feel like napping in between.
And I'm only 24.
But I feel about 80. Not 70, becuase that's how old my Grandma is, and she has WAY more energy and life than I do!
So yeah... if we're just talking about FEELING old, I win... because I feel ANCIENT anymore!!
But it's all good... because I'm still happy to be alive!!!!!! And I'll take the good with the bad, because I know that this is just a rough patch in life, and it'll all pass. Maybe when I'm 25, I'll feel younger! Wouldn't that be awesome???
Happy birthday again, though.... whoo, hoo!!!!!! One more year of life experiences! Good or bad, they're still special. Enjoy them!
~LOA
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
poor a bowl of water over your head...works for the gal in the Sci-Fi channel promo.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Yes, but you're in Love, so everything is good, no?
I'm actually very optimistic just now- I gots some money, am paying off my credit cards, living in a nice apartment and my internet/cable gets restored next week (I was too poor all year to maintain it).
Lastly, my screwed up leg seems to be getting better!
Very cool.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Screwed up leg?? Shouldn't let those doggies get so friendly Jason! Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Well, it's been a lonely year and....
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Have a hard spot for pets do you?
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
As long as we're talking about old injuries and feeling old in general. I've got three bone chips in my right elbow from a decade of schoolyard beatings, usually it doesn't bother me untill it gets cold, or i don't move my elbow for a while. I'm only 20 and it's already arthritic. Arthritis Sucks! The doctor said it'd only get worse so that by the time i'm 40 i'll wish i was dead. Really gives someone something to look forward to in thier later years eh? Plus both my pinky toes are sideways... The ones getting better tho it's only 45 degrees from where it should be... Oh ya. And my back hurts in the mornings. Also from a decade of schoolyard beatings.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Why did you let the schoolyard beat you for a decade?
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
It was a mean schoolyard, full of angry rocks and sexually repressed trees.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Couldn't these problematic bone chips be removed?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Not as long as his doctor beats him up too...
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Those bone chips, the doctors can't find them, they said the X-rays look like gouges in the bone, that was about 8 years ago, i havn't been to a doctor since, they're all sadists and pain mongering greedy bastards. especially dentists. they said even if they were removed it wouldn't make any difference in the future anyways. Anybody care to speculate what the prices of Bengay and Rub-A535 are going to be in 2015? Cuz i'd probably better start stocking up.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Remicade and Humeria- amazing stuff for arthritis. ...really good for other stuff as well (wound care, etc.), so have a bit of hope. And insurance: Remicade retails $2500 per infusion, Humeria $500 per injection.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Ouch!, that does hurt.
Posted by Lexa Sudani (Member # 1785) on :
Don't think of it as getting old...which it's not. Think of it more as the end of your true childhood. At 30, your life starts over, you begin feeling younger, and suddenly life takes a different perspective.
Embrace your future and enjoy the people in it. Who knows...perhaps life will become better than you ever expected Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Wow, I missed that, can I have some of your drugs to ease the transition to 40?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
You're going to be 40? Makes my upcoming 33rd seem easy (though I fully intend to get crazy/drunk/laid/killed/arrested or some combonation thereof.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Da_bang80: I've got three bone chips in my right elbow from a decade of schoolyard beatings, usually it doesn't bother me untill it gets cold, or i don't move my elbow for a while... And my back hurts in the mornings. Also from a decade of schoolyard beatings.
You live in a crazy letigious society (we all do) so If I've learnt nothing else from Ally McBeal it is that you should SUE YOUR OLD SCHOOL!!
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
I thought about it believe me. I also thought about just shooting the place up. That was a few years before Columbine. Who knows, I might've been a famous (or infamous) 12 year old kid. I used to have a "to kill" list, but then I decided to use a "not to kill" list since it was much shorter and easier to manage. But I found ways to deal with my overpowering rage.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Masterbation? Obsessive Trek watching? Astral Projection? Wine Testiing? Reruns of Dobie Gilis? Monkey knife fights? The Banjo? Goth poetry?
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
a little bit of all that. particularly the first one... and no banjo or dobie gill. There's also horribly violent video games, Disembowling stormtroopers in Jedi Knight, marijuana, and playing with swords.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
XTRME
Posted by tricky (Member # 1402) on :
Read a book on Zen At worst it will take you mind of things, or you could set it alight and watch it buuurn...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
How many zen masters does it take to change a lightbulb? Two: One to change it and noe not to change it.
What did the Zen master say to the hot dog vendor? "Make me one with everything".
..thank you, Thank you...I'll be here all week. Be sure to tip the waitresses... Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Tip to the waitresses...BEWARE JASON.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Sweet: that's like saying "Don't think of the color green". You almost have to...
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
I suppose one way to deal with past rage would be to read the bible. I think I'll become a Rastafarian.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I'd read Saffron's bible.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I find the Necronomicon enchanting after a hard day's work of not killing people.. Reminds me everything will work out fotrr the best.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
A constant stream of Necronomicon-related films that always seem to be on BBC1 on Friday nights, and always seem to have Jeffrey Coombs in them, lead me to believe that is not actually the case.
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