Talk about the Marichiko ban here

[Cyclefrance]

Originally Posted by Cheyenne

we used to have a dog named poopsie.

Is that because she did a whoopsie (or maybe poopsie suits just as well...?)

[Cheyenne]

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

Is that because she did a whoopsie (or maybe poopsie suits just as well...?)

I dunno, my Mom named her. A dog we had a few years before she had named Poocher. So who knows.

[Ibby]

Mari never came back, did she?

[Cyclefrance]

Not yet, anyway. She moved to a new home. Probably a case of having to wait for a phone line. Can't see her giving up like that...

Originally Posted by Cyclefrance

Not yet, anyway. She moved to a new home. Probably a case of having to wait for a phone line. Can't see her giving up like that...

Yup, out here in the sticks, you have to wait a god-awful time for a phone line.

I have wondered about returning to this board yet one more time. The thought crosses my mind to do it for spite, but that’s hardly a productive use of my time. I’ve made some good friends here, and they are what draw me back.

I find it ironic that I have been as open and honest on this board as on very few others that I frequent, yet it is on this board, that certain people continue to accuse me of lying. This interests me for more reasons than one.

I want to someday write my story, and, naturally, I’d like to be believed. In all due humility, I think mine is a story that needs to be told. And I’m very curious about the psychology of the response of “normies.” Patrick can write about his son, and that’s OK, but God forbid that a person with a disability ever speak up for themselves.

My theory is that people don’t believe me because I don’t come off a stereotypical person with neurological damage – whatever that stereotype might be. I write too well, for one thing, although my spelling is a source of constant mirth around here.

And I think, also, that for some people it is scarey to contemplate falling out of the safe middle class as I have due to a disability. We don’t want to believe that very bad things can happen to decent, hard working people here in the good old USA.

For the record, I worked for 30 years until I gradually became too ill to continue due to prolonged, chronic carbon monoxide exposure. I had been at various times, a professor, a teacher, and the head of a library. At the end I was getting fired from janitorial jobs – one of them, ironically enough, for a car dealership. I ended up becoming homeless for about three months until I was finally awarded my SSDI. My award sum is low because I stupidly continued to try to work for car dealerships, etc., for very low wages. SSDI is weighed most heavily toward your recent quarters of earnings.

I have a car because I was able to buy a second hand one from my SSDI back pay. SSDI is no more welfare than old folks accepting their social security check is every month, BTW. My ex who turned out to be a very clever con made mincemeat of me because my memory of the years right after the CO exposure is non existant. I estimate that he got away with around $13,000, but I’ll never know for sure.

Flippant/Atropos is a real person who sometimes used my computer and is not me. I sometimes drink a glass of cheap wine. I smoke tobacco cigarettes.

By the way, gas in my part of the world is $3.10/gal.

Oh, and I just went back through and read a few of the posts on this god-awful long thread. I love the diagnosis of BPD made by someone who has never even met me or talked to me in person. Wolf has a degree in geography, I beleive, and Brianna - well, I won't go there although she obviously has no compunction about making that trip herself.

I am not even going to discuss such a ridiculous diagnosis further. Life is too short.

[skysidhe]

Is this the wrong time to add how much I always hated that song?


re: stand by your man.
oh my gawd and the Dixie Chicks did a cover too!
* where's that ferkin fainting emoticon when ya need one*



Sometimes it's hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
You'll have bad times and he'll have good times
Doing things that you don't understand

But if you love him please forgive him
Even though he's hard to understand
And if you love him, whoa be proud of him
'Cause after all he's just man

Stand by your man
Give him two arms to cling to
And something warm to come to
When the nights are cold and lonely

Stand by your man
And show the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man

And if you love him, whoa be proud of him
'Cause after all he's just a man

Stand by your man
Give him two arms to cling to
And something warm to come to
When the nights are cold and lonely

Stand by your man
And show the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man



.................bleh

[Happy Monkey]

It's hard to decide which gender the song presents a lower opinion of...

...but I love the Blues Brothers cover.

[skysidhe]

....blues brothers aye?


I think it presents a low opinion of the person who wrote it:P

[MaggieL]

There's a certain irony about someone who's been poisoned by carbon monoxide moving to a state whose abbreviation is CO.

Heh! I've lived in Colorado much of my life. Oddly enough, CO does seem to have a slightly higher than average number of deaths due to CO poisoning.

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by marichiko

Heh! I've lived in Colorado much of my life. Oddly enough, CO does seem to have a slightly higher than average number of deaths due to CO poisoning.

Partly due to a slight shortage of O, I'd guess.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Ms. Stand by Her Man?

I think you got that backwards, Mari. I get the impression that Jinx is the Deity and LJ the devoted worshiper in that household.
Methinks the boy's in love.

Well, if the boy has ANY sense he is. He ought to spend more time with the little lady and less thinking up ways to dis strangers or hanging out in the men's room at the dealership.

Would you be a mod, Bruce? Pretty please?

[Ibby]

Hey, she's back!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Would you be a mod, Bruce? Pretty please?

I'd slap half of ya upside the head and the other half would straighten out damn quick.