I would sound like a winded blog if I write that I have not been sleeping well.  But that is how it is.  I have been trying to make an effort to make a system of order...

I am trying an experiment with myself with this blog - no backspacing, only for typos but I would like to have my mind flow out freely.

[[[Enter]]]]

Have you ever done that in SC when you draft a comment and say what you really mean and hold a couple of seconds before you hit the enter key?  And suddenly hit it after only a second of thought, and think I have no bad intentions and my thoughts might me misinterpreted but if I hold this thought back it will further let other thoughts sink in that are far more important.

I guess it may seem SC blogging is an intense matter for me than an average SC blogger.

[push draft button]

[yawns]

[heart beats accelerate]

[push draft button]

There are many thoughts in my mind I feel my head will burst.

I think about Piet, his health.

I think about the girls, their future.

I think about my mom... how I would like another visit.... this time without the past between us, and no over-sensitive reaction to her unthinking words.  She is what she is.

I think about K, his future.  Will he start back with the life he led before me?  Will he endanger his life?  Will his actions have repurcussions in the life of our children?  How will I react if he has a male partner, and he will introduce him to our children.  Was I wrong?  Were things he said only a

[draft]

an anomaly.

[draft]

Another deviation from a confused

[draft]

[clicked numerous new tabs in new browser: Google Chrome]

[draft]

[watches Kim file her drawings in a folder]

[watches Mary walk around the bedroom picking up wooden toys]

I wonder if this is healthy what I am doing trying to force myself in a short time to put on words what I held back so long.

Unfair.

Yes. K has been unfair.  I have been so stupid I stayed so long.

I hate depression.

I hate it that I am scared to take medication for fear of losing control.

Ha.

Such a bitter irony.  How do you medicate someone afraid of swallowing pills.

Do I need medication?  I doubt it highly.  I had a series of stressful life experiences.

[MSN buzz from Sammy aka FelineSoul]

God, I am so thankful I have her (schnucki: muaaaaaaaah)

Mary just took all her clothes out of the moving box and is walking around trying to wear the clothes around her neck.

Kim is singing a self-composed improvised song beside me... I don´t have the heart to tell her to go to another room.

[draft]

I am so tired, so scared.  So overwhelmed.

Why do I have to go through this series of emotions before I travel again.

It is the same old shit.

I wish I can bawl out crying now.

[drafting and going to see how many lines written before the tears start to start falling]

I have done a lot of things from a short span of time (thanks Sam for buzzing...sometimes chatting with you brings out words faster) :

K signed the girls passports, which without his consent will not be issued out

K told Mutti of our separation, after much pleas

K told me (blog to follow in a more coherent manner) how he told Mutti what a gentleman and peaceful (translation "ruhig") or serene guy Piet is

Piet inspite of his irregular days of unconventional job hours have managed to clear the flat further and sort out stuff we already prepared in boxes last Summer.  The girls will soon have a room they will feel at home in.  Well, they are very at home...lol... so much more than in their home here.......................not because of the bedroom but the harmonious co-habitation.

[draft]

[rubs eyes]

[mind wanders]

I have so many thoughts in draft.

[deep sigh]

I wish blogs with clarity much clarity will be a regularity soon rather than an exemption.

FOCUS!

I give birth to a healthy child inspite of the stressful times before during and after her birth.

I met a wonderful wonderful man, who loves me emphatically, and who I love with every beat of my heart.  Whose presence, voice never fail to make me catch my breath.  Is that really possible that I am so blessed?

I have wonderful wonderful daughters.  So loving to each other, so expressive of their love.

My future ex-husband inspite of all that we go through with each other has in his own way been supportive of this transition.  Yeah he stresses out [[[[[[[[[[[[BIGTIME]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] that I could sometimes pull my hair out... (I should start saying to him: chill, dude! and laugh hysterically that he´ll get scared of me HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA and leave me alone  but i somehow lost all effort at sense of humor....although typing that out now made me feel good HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHHA ).................

[chuckling]


Memories of how I made him laugh at his own ridiculousness by acting mental comes rushing back to my mind.

I feel like an amnesiac.

I forgot when I started being numb, and angrily stiffened to his outbursts.  When all sense of positive craziness was sucked out of me, and all I can do was look at him with pain and bitterness.

Of course, all these are behind us now...we moved on to making an effort to be civil, to losing it again to forgiving ourselves and starting again from the top....like a merry-go-round of sudden crazy-desperate civility.

Last  weekend it was almost "normal" it felt weird.  Today was a small outburst.  Lunch was pretty amiable again.

[draft]

FOCUS:

All is well.

All always turn out well.

All eventually turns out well.



K is cooperative...his outbursts and his whole attitude has nothing to do with you.

Piet is personification of patience.  He has told you again and again, how easy it is to love you, and he - ADMIT IT - has seen you at your worst, and still look at you with reverent eyes.

The girls are so happy and carefree like you have never seen them before.

Mary is a blessing from up above.  You have been forgiven by returning your little angel.

You will survive.



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Comments

  • Hegemone said on Feb 23, 2009....
    This was a very interesting post Paper.  I hope that you were able to pour these thoughts out and give yourself a bit of relief.  I'm sure it certainly is a struggle, but you'll get there.  Perhaps you need to experience this to better appreciate the stress free, happy, loving atmosphere you'll be going back to ... permanently ... without worry (!) soon.  I am glad to see that at the end of this post, you were being honest with yourself about all of it.  I tell you, I know how I'd be feeling if I had all of these thoughts swirling around ... heart rate high, unsettled, feeling like running a marathon yet too tired to get up, mixed up, confused, and yearning painfully to be able to look back at it as an afterthought.  You're right, everything will be well soon enough, just keep getting your words out.  ((((((((((((((((HUG)))))))))))))))
  • javadewd said on Feb 23, 2009....
    Ah, women, so emotional. It's tough living with emotions like that. It's tough to get around them. You think that if you were to discipline yourself with logic and reason that you'd end up like Mr. Spock from Star Trek or something, but it just isn't true.

    Depression is a state of mind. Mind over matter. What matters to you? Is what matters to you causing your depression? No, well then be like my cats around my dirty laundry and piss on it. Seriously, life is too short.

    Never edit yourself. It's better that you say something stupid and inflammatory than something boring. A narcissistic existentialist once told me that "no matter where you are or what you do, leave an impression. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad, they will remember you. Most of the time, they won't remember why they remember you, they just will."
  • secretlife said on Feb 23, 2009....
    first of all, you know how i feel about sleep-
    when you aren't sleeping properly, you cannot think clearly.
    i think alot of your anxiety is caused by lack of sleep.
     
    the rest of it is caused by this living situation you find yourself in- 
    you need to close this book joanna-  it is very unhealthy for you and i can only imagine unhealthy for the kids.
    the faster the better.
     
    and after that?  you need to stop thinking about K and what he decides to do with his life.  it is out of your control.  to sit and torture yourself with thoughts of whether he will take a partner and how you might deal with it or explain it----well, that's not helping at all.  it's closing a door.  let it close.
     
    remember the saying one day at a time? 
     
    sleep-  and when you wake up, take one day at a time.  i think you will find some measure of peace if you approach your life this way.
  • LonelyWanderer said on Feb 23, 2009....

    Hey..{{big hug!!}} hope that got it all out of your system and that you feel better from it and can now sleep at ease. Try to focus on your future and on your girls, they are the important things and try not to think of the past..

    Sleep well!!

  • Lucytorial said on Feb 23, 2009....
    you are more than surviving Jo, you are blossoming, you are moving on with your lfie and it grows exponentually with you and the love that you and piet and the girls share.
     
    Don't forget it is it really is all there is, love.
  • pickersplock said on Feb 23, 2009....
    I don't know why this popped into my head while I was reading, but my college roomate's parents were a happily married, very Italian, and very honest.
     
    One day the daughter asked,"What's with you and Dad.  How do you stay so happy?"
    The Mom answered, "Happy?  I guess for the most part, but sometimes he drives me up the friggin' wall!  There are days when I can't stand the sight of him.....but a few days pass and we fall in love all over again."
     
    I guess when you stop falling in love all over again......it's time to go.
    So you're quite right, everything turns out just fine eventually.....patience, dear Paper.  You'll get there!
  • fragglesrock said on Feb 23, 2009....
    hello from afar papergirl!!! i am confident that in time your sense of humor will come back, your body will no longer feel numb, your thoughts will begin to show themselves in a line rather than a jumble....sending good thoughts....
  • queenparanoia said on Feb 24, 2009....
    yes you would survive...

    {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUG}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

    pwede tagalog ako? ate papel ganya talaga ang buhay di ba? kahit anung mangyari malalampasan mo rin. hay naku eto ako nagbibigay ng advice na hindi ko nga maayos buhay ko... pero gusto ko malaman mo na isa ka sa mga tao na pinagkukunan ko ng lakas ngayun. isa ka sa mga tao na alam ko magiging okay ang buhay ko dahil katulad mo malalampasan ko rin ito. isa ka sa mga halimbawa sa buhay na may liwanag pa pagkatapos ng kadiliman...

    so be strong... your a survivor... ;-)
  • moonriver said on Feb 24, 2009....
    ate papel, like you said, you will survive.
    more than that, you will grow and thrive.
    you've been thru a lot, but you are blessed.
    with piet, with your daughters, with a circle of friends and family that cares.

    i like the style of this blog.
    it has that raw edge that shows how it is to be torn.
    but thereby also lies the healing power of allowing a wound to bleed, of confronting the pain head-on, of releasing the toxins in one's emotions.
    after you wrote all of this, and finally hit the submit button...
    it felt good, didn't it?
    there.

  • CreativeWoman said on Feb 24, 2009....
    paper,
    I'm glad you were able to get these emotions out.  Try to focus on your happy future and let the past go...especially K.

    CW
  • PAPERBACKWRITER said on Feb 24, 2009....

    Heggie ~

    Thank you so much for always being there for me, dear friend.  Reading you, deriving comfort in your ability to write all things without overly concern with length or content (I told you how your first and second post in SC impressed me), simply writing out what you feel to work on it have helped me tremendously come so far.

    I have been dealing with a brain cramp - I don´t know how else to call it - for far too long and blogging this year is my way of slowly relaxing my brain. 

    I need to recall the past, open a box I stored somewhere in my consciousness with a mark, too painful to deal now, maybe later.  It is like my attic of subconciousness is bursting and int the new Spring of my life, I need to do a massive spring cleaning  to be able to live lighter in my new being.

    You put all the exact words to what I am going through.  Funny, I could not explain myself in such clarity as you just did.  I need the interaction in written form to tickle my brain.  And yes, reading others formulate the words I am desperately seeking is a comfort in itself.

    The brain fascinates me no end. 

    I am aware this could seem like a brainstriptease for some but I don´t really care because I need to overcome this and come out as a whole for the sake of my children.  For my sake.

    Recently in a bid to make myself see clearer that I am moving forward, and that I have made lots of effort to the endevour of moving forward - I archived my blogs by tagging them appropriately that I could go back and review what I have been going through for the past 2 years.  Or how i tried to cope by writing or not writing what I was going through.  How some blogs were funny, but I recall the memory of going through tough periods.  It was a comfort to see a visible curve of personal growth.

    paper blogs February 2007

    paper blogs February 2008
    paper blogs February 2009

    It is not nearly complete but this simple desperate effort to put an order (archiving, tagging blogs)  to my emotion aids me.

    It might seem ridiculous to some, but well everybody has to find away to cope, don´t we?  To each his own.

    I have mentioned this more than enough, I find a great solace in blogging but do feel a lot of discomfort in the first few minutes of opening the Create Post box. It is so conflicting, one hand I want to find relief on the other I don´t want to seem self-centered or overly being self-indulgent.  This is very easily brush aside when I read bloggers who have helped me without them even knowing it by just being themselves and blogging as honestly as they do. If one person can benefit from this "brainuncramping" /"brainstriptease" all the discomfort have been worth it.

    Thank you, Hegemone , I am grateful you aid in my effort to be whole again by your honest, sincerity and friendship.

    (((((((((((((((((((warmest embrace))))))))))))))))))))))))

    paper ~


  • pusscat said on Feb 24, 2009....
    I am glad you were able to put this down exactly as it came into and out of your head.  Saying or writing down EXACTLY how we felt/feel is so cathartic - to miss one little bit out by using that bloody edit or backspace key leaves it inside our heads to add to the next time we use the edit and backspace key.

    To be honest PAPER, this made absolute complete sense all the way through written exactly as it is.  I wish I could help you with the sleep depreivation as that doesn't help with depression at all but as for everything else?  It looks like you are doing just fine my girl. . . just fine :-)
  • PAPERBACKWRITER said on Feb 24, 2009....

    Thank you PC!

    ((((((((((((((((((((huggies)))))))))))))))))))))

    Your words, interaction with others are one among the many intricate pieces of the jigzaw puzzle that helps me in the process of putting together  the whole that I am, that I need to put put together again (LonelyWanderer´s blog: Jigsaws... found a niche in my brain, and without me being aware of it, and see here I am...writing perhaps in different words but having the identical thought...).

    I might be perceived as melodramatic, of being emotionally overblown but as I have said to Heggie, I don´t care anymore.  At the end of the day, it feels good to be rid of these emotional baggages to feel with all that I am the love I am being given because most of the time, with all these in myself, I don´t feel I deserve all the good things, blessings I am receiving.

    I want to feel all this love wholeheartedly without guilt.  I want to give them back to others without still pulling myself back unconsciously.  I just want to be free...liberated in life...

    Thank you pusscat, thank you for being you because you give others the chance to be themselves. 

    <3

    paper ~





  • pusscat said on Feb 24, 2009....
    Your words move me more than you will ever know. . .
  • PAPERBACKWRITER said on Feb 24, 2009....

    Hello javadewd! :)

    A warm welcome to SC, and to my blog.

    Thank you for taking time to comment.  I had a belly-ache laugh after reading your words, reminded me of my interactions with my college friends a decade ago (one of the best times in my life)!

    I subscribed to you but it was quiet late or rather the sun was coming out from the horizon and my eyes were quite bleary  that I was not able to leave a comment welcoming you to SC.  I admire your passionate way of expressing yourself, from _ I hate blogs to I love my wife....lol.

    I look forward to reading, following your interactions and exchanging thoughts.

    Enjoy the SC neighbourhood!

    <3

    paper ~

    P.S.

    ... and yes, you have made a lasting impression! Again, thanks for the wonderful comment the feeling it gave me reading it brought back good memories



  • PAPERBACKWRITER said on Feb 24, 2009....

    PC ~

    <333333333

    blubbies,

    paper ~




  • PAPERBACKWRITER said on Feb 24, 2009....

    SL ~

    Thank you so much for being a loyal reader, and a dear friend through the years secret.

    I must admit I have been pushing myself to the limit in a bid to get rid of all bad memories (negative emotions)  that has accumulated in my life in a rapid tempo.  I am bad like that. :(

    I think this is one of the many lessons I have to learn, which I hope I will not need to do over and over again before I internalize them.  Fast speed does not necessary brings one to the goal right away unscathed.

    I am "indulging" myself the late nights of SC until the end of this month, and will resume a much healthier and balanced existence starting March.

    I hope by writing about the past that I could have  a conscious ceremony of closing this book in my life.  Yes, K is an entire book - as you aptly put it -, and it is hard to turn each pages and record my thoughts on each page but I find it necessary in my healing.  I agree it is a painful process, but so is mourning.  I have to go through it sooner or later, and I am choosing the sooner path.  I have postponed so many things already for the wrong reasons.

    I wish, we all could have gone through the transition the easier way if only for the sake of sparing the girls the turmoil.  But you know SL, my only solace when I am overwhelmed of guilt, are the images of joy on their face, the lightness I feel watching them, hearing them express themselves.

    My fondest wish is when they grow up they will learn to love themselves and not settle for less when they know that there is far more richer and fulfilling relationship.

    Thank you for always being there, dear SL.

    <3

    paper ~


  • PAPERBACKWRITER said on Feb 24, 2009....

    Guys...I need to get our train tickets to the Netherlands... and will be back in a bit

    LW
    Lucy
    pickery
    fraggy
    queenie
    moonie
    CW

    <333333333333333333333333333

    paper ~


  • starchini said on Feb 24, 2009....

    : >  ...  I dont know what to say...

    But I think you are doing well, and your future looks very bright indeedio

    <HUGS>

    keep those paws off the backspace button!  I dont think my keyboard even has one of those...

    Much love to you!  You lil'sweetie pie! 

  • diabolicdame said on Feb 24, 2009....
    I' so moved.. I can feel what yo're feeling.. you're in limbo.. but moving towards betetr things.. and thats the key.. you have so much strength. you will fine Jo.. you will be great! I wanna say more.. but words fail me sometimes.. I hope my feelings can reach you.. with lots of positive thoughts!!
  • PAPERBACKWRITER said on Feb 24, 2009....


    ((((huggies)))) Thank you LW!

    I am having great fun getting to know you!  Looking for wonderful years of friendship :) in bad times, and good times

    blubbies!


    papery ~


  • PAPERBACKWRITER said on Feb 24, 2009....


    Thank you Juicy!!!

    Thank you for the inspiration
    Thank you for your friendship
    Thank you for the companionship (I still owe you a blog about the posting pics here...I lurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrv your comment about that...a comment I will go back to again and again because your words are as beautiful as  you and your soul!)

    muaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    <33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

    papery ~


  • PAPERBACKWRITER said on Feb 24, 2009....

    Thank you pickery!

    Do you know I look forward to your comments on my blog, rare as they are (no pressure! LOL) ..but seriously why are you not commenting on my blogs regularly

    *imitating Elled DeGeneres* hahahahhahahaha

    ...and as I said to Juicy... your comments are precious to me (no pressure LOL!)...and it triggers so many thoughts ...that I think of how to press it in one sentence...but I got to say...I will elaborate more in another blog.....re: if you cannot fall in love all over again..then it is time to go....so true *nods with a sad smile*

    blubbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbiesssssssssss

    <3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333

    paperinna ~


  • cntlvmenuf said on Feb 25, 2009....
    Paper: I hope the post had a cleansing effect of sorts once you posted it. Like you, I refuse to take medication since my therapist told me I have chronic depression. I chose to fight it tooth and nail, pull myself up by my bootstraps so to speak.

    Hang in there.....cherish the good days and let them sustain you during the tough days. I admire your courage to open up about what is eating you inside.....that is what depression is mostly about...internalized emotions and thoughts fighting to get to the surface so that they can be dealt with and then purged.

    I know that when you look back, you can really see the progress you've made. You really are a strong person.....so don't let depression sell you short of yourself! Keep up the good fight!
  • PAPERBACKWRITER said on Feb 25, 2009....


    Thank you so very much cntlvmenuf!!! Thank you.  I cherish words so much, and yours made my heart squeeze, and my eyes misty.  

    I know how grateful people suffering from depression to find others writing as honestly about this subject matter because I am one of the grateful ones.  In this way, and when my mental stability allows I will continue to strive to write more about how depression affected my life.

    I hope when settled in Holland, I could start on the project I have been wanting to start on but due to so many changes in my life never had peace and strength to focus.

    I never forgot that even though we have not had much interaction that you were there when I asked for help : Please....Thank you oh so much.

    Warmest regards,

    paper ~

    p.s.

    blubbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbieeeeeeeeesssssssssss

    <3

    :D



  • pickersplock said on Feb 25, 2009....
    Ah well, I'm swamped lately so I haven't actually been here all that much.
    But I always check up on you when I do stop by!

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