LOL--you sly fox, you.
I never knew I was resErecting before ;) <note to self: add resErecting to list of professional talents>.
I used to work at a strip club--no,no, I just served the drinks. However, one night this totally smashed old man comes in, walks through the bar area out to the main floor where I was serving drinks to a table, and starts pulling on my arm!! And saying in a loud, drunken slur, I WANT TO FUCK! over & over again. One of the bouncers broke his grip on me & when I told him what the guy was doing, he threw him out on the street!!!! Talk about a forward "chat-up line" ! Yikes!
So, though you aren't married anymore, but still spend time with your ex, do you try getting to know other girls ( with or with-out a chat-up line) or are you happy with the way things are? I think its really cool that you still try to keep a family situation, especially for the kids.
*Holly*
I think I have never had a good one to rely on, not even for a laugh. I was never good at approaching strangers. But once I saw a girl who was so beautiful I couldn't resist. I had to try. She was alone in a study room and it was late. I simply said, "Would you mind if I talk to you? If you are busy studying, that's okay then." She said okay and we ended up dating for three years. Nothing special in the line but it worked.
Often I want to say something like, "I love your eyes," or "Your hair looks great," but I hold back. At the airport I told a young woman checking boarding passes that I loved her hair. She smiled and thanked me for the compliment.
hi flytimes!!
I was just thinking how many adults still react to putting out a line, or asking someone out, just like they were still pre-teens or something(no criticism of that, actually its a bit charming). I remember at that age, if you were crushing on someone, you sent your friend over. Your friend was in charge of "feeling out the situation", and eventually all the friends came back to the original crushee, and they had the info before you did that--yes--you definately would be "going out".
Even in those earlier high school years I remember the mumbled, nervous, "my god, just let me get through this without getting rejected" invitations from boys, and me ( naively ) never realizing that I had the power to make or break the poor guy's day just by my one little answer. LOL
When I read your description of your day-to-day life, it hit me like a ton of bricks!! I know a bit about that disease, and am so sorry for your pain and suffering. But, reading your description was like telling about my own day. I have a serious disease that I've been dealing with for a long time now. It also causes immense pain and a long list of ways it negatively affects my body. That's what so ironic about my answering your post. I thought it would be fun, so I did. But I was also thinking how my life and relationships are definately not like that anymore. I can't get out much, and I can't even do much because this disease causes thinning of bones & muscles (in fact I have one arm in a sling for most of this week. I tore ligaments and it is swollen and bruised from my wrist to my upper arm--and I don't even know how I did it. It was probably something that most people take for granted, like carrying grocery bags), I have , in the recent past, already broken my hip & femur (the cool part is I now have enough metal in my body to set off the airport metal detectors & I have to carry a CARD that says so because of Homeland Security!! LOL ) and cracked my tailbone twice. The hip & femur thing was from nothing!! It just broke!! And we never knew why because I hadn't been diagnosed yet. Anyway, I don't get out much, and I make a point not to get too friendly with any man that I do meet because I am ill. and I don't think that's a very good way to start out with someone. You know, you're not at your best. There are days when the pain is too much and you just want a little boo-hoo by yourself to let out the tension, but I don't think I would be comfortable doing that in front of someone I just met.
Anyway--I'd really like to talk some more about our current "life situations", because I don't know anyone else that's dealing with these kinds of things. (Depending if you're comfortable with that or not. If not, that's cool too)
;) happy, happy day
*Holly*
Did anyone mention this one?
"Hi. Do you sleep on your stomach?"
"Would you mind if I did?"
good morning fly~~ (well, what's the time difference??
you're probably getting ready for tea. Anyway, no
apologies necessary. I have been trying to respond to
this for 2 days and every time I try to submit, it throws me off
saying "this page does not exist" LOL
Anyway, my disease is called Cushings Disease. It is not
contagious or genetically passed on. In fact only 5 people
per million will be diagnosed with it each year. (that is
sooooo my luck!! LOL) Anyway it can be caused by 3
things:
1. taking cortisol (like athletes do)
2. a tumor on the pituitary gland
3. tumor(s) on the adrenal gland
the Drs believe mine is a tumor on the pituitary gland
the one good thing is, they can operate, hope it is
benign, then after 6 mo-2yrs of recovery, hope it doesnt
come back. I have been fighting with these doctors for
so long. It is a endocrine disease, so it affects the entire
body, which is one reason it is so hard to diagnose.
Looking back, they think I have been dealing with this
for 5-7 years!! This disease, without diagnosis or treat-
ment is fatal. So I hope my Drs get their butts in gear, now
they are in dispute over the diagnosis!!
So, my system, for whatever reason, is producing too much
cortisol, (and I have had every test imaginable at least twice--
they poke my arm with the needle & NO blood comes out!!
I swear, I'm the living dead!! Well, they got the blood from a
vein in my hand...), plus all these MRI's, X-rays, EKG's, you
know, the works. It messes with your system so bad that one
week my tests came back extremely low on potassium, which
can give a person a heart attack, so into the cardiac ward I
went. Then, my thyroid was all screwed up, the next week, fine,
the following week, all screwed up. I was becoming anemic.
My ankles were swelling (they never even did that when I was
pregnant!!). The hardest things for me were that it causes
bone & muscle deterioration, so I really have no strength
compared with before. My god, I was moving once, I had my
11 week old baby in one arm, and was unscrewing and
taking down the waterbed with the other!!! The pain is some-
times more than I can take, yet, no pain meds since I am on
like 7 or 8 different meds already. The weakening of the
bones is the scary part. I've already broken my hip & femur,
and cracked my tailbone twice. The hip & femur was no
injury or anything, it just broke!!! So I have to be careful not
to slip & fall, or bump into anything, because just doing that
could break a bone. Also, it causes the skin to become
fragile, which mine already was, I bruised easily anyway,
but now, I wake up with bruises I don't even know how they
got there ( before--when I woke up with bruises--I knew where
they came from--rug burn!! LOL), so doing all the little things that
other people take for granted is difficult, painful and usually
injurous to myself. The worst part is it throws of my equilibriam,
which really pisses me off, because I was always so graceful.
I wore high heels everywhere!!! And its incredibly fatiguing.
I have to take naps now. Sometimes, when its really been
rough, I can't even get out of bed. I've never been like that
in my life!!
Thank you for caring enough to ask, its one of those things
I don't really talk about, so it feels really good to tell someone
who knows basically what I'm talking about. You are SOOOO
right when you say your whole life revolves around your
illness. Its a terrible position to be in. Especially when we are
still young, yet I feel about 70 sometimes!!
I have heard of your illness before. If I'm correct, isn't it
in the gene pool of the family & gets passed down? Or??
I can't imagine how painful it must be. You said you take
pain pills, but is there anything that helps such as heat, or
anything?? Is it painful to the touch??
Well, make sure to keep me up on how you're doing, and we
can talk anytime.
p.s. I haven't slept on my stomach since I was 11 years old!!!
LOL~~~now when can we get that room?? ;)
*Holly*
you know, Math has never been one of my favorite subjects---but the way you describe it, maybe you could show me how to make it fun!!! ;)
thanks for taking the e-mail address off of there--I was wondering how I would work that one out!! You're right, I didn't feel comfortable leaving it on there...
(slipping into something more comfortable...while the champagne chills)
*Holly*