I really, really want to post something here, but I have no time lately. I'm always late, always behind, always trying to catch up.
But I sooooooooooooo need to write and get some stuff out.
Soon hopefully...
Thursday, March 08, 2018
Friday, June 02, 2017
Sigh...
I leave here, but I always come back eventually. This blog holds so much of who I was and who I still am in many ways.
My depression, the black hole, has darned near swallowed me the last few months. While I don't want to kill myself, have never really wanted to kill myself, if I fell asleep one night and just never woke up? Well, that sounds mighty good right there.
W died 20 months ago. Then last August my mom died... quite unexpectedly. As far as anyone knew she was in great health for an 80-year-old. But then one night she went to bed... and had a heart attack sometime during the night... and she was gone. Just like that.
And just like that, the depression hit. Well no. Not quite. The depression crept up on me until in November I said to Freud "I'm failing at life." That's how I felt then and ever since. So much fell apart after W died. Even more fell apart after Mom died.
Then FU decided he's the be all end all of everything, just like always, and after fighting it for a while I just let go and let him take over as the executor of Mom's estate. Will I ever get anything at all out of the estate? No se nada. I don't know. I don't care, but in a way I do care very much. I'm not interested in the money other than it would help me send N to college. (He just graduated high school by the way. I'm a very proud mama.) I AM interested in a few items that are precious to me and have sent him a list outlining what those items are.
But I just can't seem to care too awfully much. The depression dampens so many of my feelings. Dr. K has increased my depression meds, but so far there isn't much change. I see her again in a month to see if things are getting better, and if not, to discuss options of increasing or changing some meds.
But for now, here I sit, surrounded by blackness in a big black hole that is swallowing me day by day by day.
My depression, the black hole, has darned near swallowed me the last few months. While I don't want to kill myself, have never really wanted to kill myself, if I fell asleep one night and just never woke up? Well, that sounds mighty good right there.
W died 20 months ago. Then last August my mom died... quite unexpectedly. As far as anyone knew she was in great health for an 80-year-old. But then one night she went to bed... and had a heart attack sometime during the night... and she was gone. Just like that.
And just like that, the depression hit. Well no. Not quite. The depression crept up on me until in November I said to Freud "I'm failing at life." That's how I felt then and ever since. So much fell apart after W died. Even more fell apart after Mom died.
Then FU decided he's the be all end all of everything, just like always, and after fighting it for a while I just let go and let him take over as the executor of Mom's estate. Will I ever get anything at all out of the estate? No se nada. I don't know. I don't care, but in a way I do care very much. I'm not interested in the money other than it would help me send N to college. (He just graduated high school by the way. I'm a very proud mama.) I AM interested in a few items that are precious to me and have sent him a list outlining what those items are.
But I just can't seem to care too awfully much. The depression dampens so many of my feelings. Dr. K has increased my depression meds, but so far there isn't much change. I see her again in a month to see if things are getting better, and if not, to discuss options of increasing or changing some meds.
But for now, here I sit, surrounded by blackness in a big black hole that is swallowing me day by day by day.
Thursday, February 09, 2017
Why Am I Here?
Just stopping around to say, "Hey!" Life is weird.
If you happen by, leave a comment. I could use a little reunion of the old gang.
If you happen by, leave a comment. I could use a little reunion of the old gang.
Sunday, October 18, 2015
R.I.P. W
Just for those who maybe don't know me in real life or on Facebook, I thought I should post here that W died earlier this month.
It did not come as a big surprise. It was sad in some ways but not sad in others. It has been a not very well kept secret in our circle that I had been tolerating him the last few years, particularly since we got back together after our separation several years ago. In some ways, I miss him and will continue to miss him. I was used to him being around. I was used to him taking care of certain things so I didn't have to.
On the not sad side, it was a relief. It felt immediately like a huge weight lifted from my shoulders. It feels like freedom. I kept my wedding rings on until a couple of days after the memorial service, and that was that. I took them off. With them on the freedom was incomplete. Also, I half-heartedly signed up with match.com. I'm not paying so I have very limited use of it, but it has given me an idea of who is out there should I decide to pursue a new relationship in the future. Not ready for that now, but maybe in the future. Maybe...
That's it for now. Maybe I'll write more later. Maybe not. Who knows?
It did not come as a big surprise. It was sad in some ways but not sad in others. It has been a not very well kept secret in our circle that I had been tolerating him the last few years, particularly since we got back together after our separation several years ago. In some ways, I miss him and will continue to miss him. I was used to him being around. I was used to him taking care of certain things so I didn't have to.
On the not sad side, it was a relief. It felt immediately like a huge weight lifted from my shoulders. It feels like freedom. I kept my wedding rings on until a couple of days after the memorial service, and that was that. I took them off. With them on the freedom was incomplete. Also, I half-heartedly signed up with match.com. I'm not paying so I have very limited use of it, but it has given me an idea of who is out there should I decide to pursue a new relationship in the future. Not ready for that now, but maybe in the future. Maybe...
That's it for now. Maybe I'll write more later. Maybe not. Who knows?
Thursday, January 08, 2015
History Repeats Itself
Want to know what my life is like today? Refer back to My Snow White post from a couple of months ago. Came back to work this week to find that although I feel have changed a bit to the better things around here remain the same.
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Two More Days
I only have to hang on for two more days. Just Thursday and Friday and then I am off for six weeks worth of self improvement, renewal, and recuperation from burnout.
Right now I am hanging by a thread. Snow White's depression is just getting to her so badly that all she can manage to do is message me about it ad nauseum. Everybody else at work has this question I need to answer or that report I need to get to them or some such thing before my leave begins.
Blah, blah, blah... It's all just noise at this point. The brain has already checked out. The body is barely keeping up. Must remember to breathe. Breathing is good.
What I really wish I could do is just walk out of the office now, giving everyone I see on the way out a fine middle finger salute.
Right now I am hanging by a thread. Snow White's depression is just getting to her so badly that all she can manage to do is message me about it ad nauseum. Everybody else at work has this question I need to answer or that report I need to get to them or some such thing before my leave begins.
Blah, blah, blah... It's all just noise at this point. The brain has already checked out. The body is barely keeping up. Must remember to breathe. Breathing is good.
What I really wish I could do is just walk out of the office now, giving everyone I see on the way out a fine middle finger salute.
Monday, November 17, 2014
Snow White and the Evil Witch
Let me introduce you to Snow White, a coworker. I've not written about her before here. I certainly can't write about her on fb since we are fb friends even though she can whine and complain about whatever she wants whenever she wants because, oh my goodness, people just don't do things her way.
I call her Snow White because her looks remind me something of the Disney version of Snow White. I count myself as the evil witch because I'll be damned if I had a poison apple I might be tempted to leave it on her desk.
Snow and I used to get along, but that was before... before she got promoted so that she is now at the same level that I am but in a different role. Watching her transform from hard worker and stellar employee to entitled bully has been quite the education for me. I have been amazed at the immense changes I have seen in her.
She has always been a little self serving, but she is quickly becoming a major bully in the workplace. Because I'm her friend I've been spared (somewhat), but holy cow the havoc she wreaks around here on an almost daily basis is about to send me over the edge. Guess it's a good thing I went ahead with that request for FMLA leave which will start next week if for no other reason than to escape this mess for a while.
I pick up a conversation she and I had this afternoon via IM. I skip the first part because to put proper context on some of it would take too long. We pick it up when she has been picking on someone whom I tried to defend.
I call her Snow White because her looks remind me something of the Disney version of Snow White. I count myself as the evil witch because I'll be damned if I had a poison apple I might be tempted to leave it on her desk.
Snow and I used to get along, but that was before... before she got promoted so that she is now at the same level that I am but in a different role. Watching her transform from hard worker and stellar employee to entitled bully has been quite the education for me. I have been amazed at the immense changes I have seen in her.
She has always been a little self serving, but she is quickly becoming a major bully in the workplace. Because I'm her friend I've been spared (somewhat), but holy cow the havoc she wreaks around here on an almost daily basis is about to send me over the edge. Guess it's a good thing I went ahead with that request for FMLA leave which will start next week if for no other reason than to escape this mess for a while.
I pick up a conversation she and I had this afternoon via IM. I skip the first part because to put proper context on some of it would take too long. We pick it up when she has been picking on someone whom I tried to defend.
Snow 4:37 PM
Ok. Well she certainly is vocal
Me 4:38 PM
definitely not the roll over and take it type like me
Snow 4:38 PM
Honestly, I think somewhere in between is probably best. She tends to go into it as if it was done deliberately to make her life worse
Me 4:39 PM
Which is generally how I see the world but accept that griping about it gets me nowhere
which is also why the stress builds up to the point it does with me and then I end up on a 6 week mental health leave
Snow 4:40 PM
I think I was told too often that I wasn't special, and that the world does NOT revolve around me to think that way
Oh, and the ever popular "don't be so selfish"
Me 4:43 PM
I suppose I think less that people deliberately sabotage me than I think they cover their lazy stupidity by saying things that make me feel like they are sabotaging me.
Snow 4:43 PM
I have occassional moments like that
That's totally spelled wrong
Me 4:44 PM
They "thought" they told me about that. They were "sure" I knew about that. Those are the times I feel sabotaged.
Snow 4:45 PM
Oh, those don't bother me. I think because I say them often enough to people since my memory is like swiss cheese
Mine is where they keep pointing to records as problems, but the problem is with THEIR system
Me 4:47 PM
See, and that wouldn't bother me because I could easily just reiterate that the records are correct and leave it at that.
Snow 4:47 PM
It doesn't bother me the first time. It bothers me when they come back with more "issues" again and again
Me 4:47 PM
It's mostly the ones where I feel accused of not knowing what I should when I feel that if they wanted me to know something they should have told me.
I can't just "know" when I don't know.
Those are the ones that make me want to kick people's teeth out.
Snow 4:48 PM
Meh, I just figure they forgot
Me 4:49 PM
Then they need to own that and not put the blame on me.
Snow 4:50 PM
I usually just say "oh, I wasn't aware of that" and redo the query
At that point, I just quit. She and I are on vastly different wavelengths right now. Perhaps I'm just a wee bit touchy that ever since I shared with her, in confidence, why I am taking the leave of absence, she has been suffering from the most overwhelming case of depression ever and has missed several days of work and is just in so much worse shape than I am yet she keeps soldiering on while I have clearly given in while suffering far less because I've been able to keep up a facade that she can't.
C'mon Snow White, I'd be happy to share my lunch with you. Why look! Here's a beautiful shiny red apple. Have a bite.
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