And Then, Depression Set In......

[imported_Flash Gordon]

Flash, I quit because I was in the ER and almost gone. That was my wake up call.

Wow, thats terrible Angelo. Glad you pulled thru :wizard:

Buddy. I've had many days like you had today. Best ting is to just pack it in. You'll feel better tomorrow.

I can't go nite nite right now Sleep

The NCAA Womens College Softball World Series Opening Round Is On :cornut:

 

[TimG]

Its a tough year. Been going through some problems; some major some minor ones. But, I keep on thinking that things will get better if you make it better and not dwell in sorrows plus believing in the power of prayers (though I am not a regular church go'er ) will definitely help.

 

[imported_Indy YZF]

Well Flash to make you feel better, gas here went up 20 cents a gallon on Memorial Day weekend.

 

[imported_Flash Gordon]

Its a tough year. Been going through some problems; some major some minor ones. But, I keep on thinking that things will get better if you make it better and not dwell in sorrows plus believing in the power of prayers (though I am not a regular church go'er ) will definitely help.

Well my friend, it sounds like its contagious :scared:

I will keep you in my prayers also Da Rules!

Thank You Tim

Well Flash to make you feel better, gas here went up 20 cents a gallon on Memorial Day weekend.

Well, thats terrific news. Thanks for picking me up Indy :driving:

 

[imported_Stokdgs]

Flash,

Sorry to hear about the challenges in and around your life and family.
We will keep you and your family in our daily prayers.

I have also had my share, as we all have and yet will have. There is nothing that can prevent opposition, as it is a necessary part of life.

We are all supposed to be able, at our own pace, to get through these challenges, receive help when needed, learn from them, get stronger, and then look back, and help someone else up, dry their tears, lift up the hands that hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.

When the Lord sent Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, He told them that the earth would be much harder to live in, for their sake; in other words, they would have to work hard, endure much, grow stronger, and then raise a family and teach them the same things.
As I recall, Adam lived to be around 500 years old or so, and had a huge legacy of family. When he knew his time was close, the gathered the family around him and gave each one of them a Blessing on their heads.

If we are to be better people for all the challenges, and heartache, and depression, etc.,, then I believe we need to follow more closely the example of the Savior, who as we read, never stopped caring for others, who always looked back to make sure everyone's needs were met, who loved so unconditionally, each and every one of those around Him - even those who were responsible for His crucifixion.

Whenever I get down, I try to figure out what I can do to get out of it, and ultimately, it involves going out to help someone else in need. Then, when I am finished, I come back home and think, wow, that really felt great to help my neighbor, to go visit someone in the Rest Home, to do something for someone else in greater need than me.

And as you think about this deeper, and in the quiet moments when you can find them, you will ultimately come to the knowledge, as I have, that we are only doing what the Savior did, and with much more love than we can every imagine, He waits, patiently, with healing in His wings, ever extending His mighty arm of love to us and to all, who will call upon His name and believe.

You are a great man, Flash, you - we - are all children of God, imagine that, we all have a royal lineage! Let's not ever forget this; we all have every opportunity to make it through this small blip of life into Eternity intact, with our families.

Let's all help each other along the way - we need this - just as we need our Savior, every hour..

God Bless you, Flash.

Dan F

 

[imported_Flash Gordon]

Flash,

Sorry to hear about the challenges in and around your life and family.
We will keep you and your family in our daily prayers.

I have also had my share, as we all have and yet will have. There is nothing that can prevent opposition, as it is a necessary part of life.

We are all supposed to be able, at our own pace, to get through these challenges, receive help when needed, learn from them, get stronger, and then look back, and help someone else up, dry their tears, lift up the hands that hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.

When the Lord sent Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, He told them that the earth would be much harder to live in, for their sake; in other words, they would have to work hard, endure much, grow stronger, and then raise a family and teach them the same things.
As I recall, Adam lived to be around 500 years old or so, and had a huge legacy of family. When he knew his time was close, the gathered the family around him and gave each one of them a Blessing on their heads.

If we are to be better people for all the challenges, and heartache, and depression, etc.,, then I believe we need to follow more closely the example of the Savior, who as we read, never stopped caring for others, who always looked back to make sure everyone's needs were met, who loved so unconditionally, each and every one of those around Him - even those who were responsible for His crucifixion.

Whenever I get down, I try to figure out what I can do to get out of it, and ultimately, it involves going out to help someone else in need. Then, when I am finished, I come back home and think, wow, that really felt great to help my neighbor, to go visit someone in the Rest Home, to do something for someone else in greater need than me.

And as you think about this deeper, and in the quiet moments when you can find them, you will ultimately come to the knowledge, as I have, that we are only doing what the Savior did, and with much more love than we can every imagine, He waits, patiently, with healing in His wings, ever extending His mighty arm of love to us and to all, who will call upon His name and believe.

You are a great man, Flash, you - we - are all children of God, imagine that, we all have a royal lineage! Let's not ever forget this; we all have every opportunity to make it through this small blip of life into Eternity intact, with our families.

Let's all help each other along the way - we need this - just as we need our Savior, every hour..

God Bless you, Flash.

Dan F

Wow, that was beautiful Dan

You know, I take a little bit of comfort knowing that if Adam & Eve couldn't cut it in The Garden of Eden, then surely I will fail from time to time here in this crime ridden city :scared:

Me and Trouble go to a rest home here twice a month for 2-3 hours(which usually turns into 5) to hang with the old timers. I really enjoy just sitting back, keeping my pie hole shut and listening to there stories. All the while they have a lil bit of Trouble in there lap :tongue:

We also are going through a course so Trouble will be a Registered Therapy Dog. There is a program here @ St Jude Childrens Research Hospital where ppl bring there dogs on tuesday mornings to hang with the children. This should be fun Da Rules!

I was just recentally cleared to do volunteer work for Lebonher Childrens Hospital also. The only thing holding me back is producing my Immunization Records. There saying if I can't find them, I can get a blood test and get the Immunization Shots over :cursing:

Thank You Dan. I think your a Great Man also

 

[bmw5541]

So, last week, I lost my job 5 days before my birthday. The company that I was working is on the verge of bankruptsy, and could no longer afford to keep me on. On the positive side, because I find myself unemployed, I am going to try to start up a detailing business, and I have my first job on Monday. There is a reason for everything that happens.

 

[admin_old]

So, last week, I lost my job 5 days before my birthday. The company that I was working is on the verge of bankruptsy, and could no longer afford to keep me on. On the positive side, because I find myself unemployes, I am going to try to start up a detailing business, and I have my forst job on Monday. There is a reason for everything that happens.

"As one door closes, another opens!"
Best of success in your new path!

 

[bmw5541]

"As one door closes, another opens!"
Best of success in your new path!

Thank you very much!!

 

[ziggo99]

Mine isn't really in the same league as everyone else, but I'll throw it off my chest since it bothers me


I always believe in staying good friends with my ex gf, because I knew we were good friends and why should relationships break friendships? She wanted to get me a graduation present, and jokingly I said Daytona Wheel Brush. Well, she *did*, along with some other things I wanted that I would pay for. This was the week before Memorial Day, so there were good sales all around.

Well, I had asked for the tracking number since she is kinda bad about getting stuff on time (which is another story in itself). She blamed her e-mail being locked up. So I took it into my own hands and got in contact with CS, to see if they could help. They kept saying there were no orders by that name or even to the zip code. She called me earlier after I asked again how she placed the order, and she said she never ordered it. Because she wanted to order something else and she wanted them to come in at the same time. So for the past week, I've been lied to about this order, even when I asked if she ordered it she said yes.

All the while she won't talk to me because of a casual lunch and her bf finding out (even though she suggested the idea), so now I'm the one on the short end of the stick when I don't have a voice in the crowd. And it's not like I have any feelings for her; I don't. We just always were good friends to each other but it seems like every time a new guy comes around, I get put on the shelf per say, and once he's gone I come back off. I guess I'm too nice or something, I dunno.

All of this, with a fun day at the lake Tuesday ending with an ear infection and can hardly hear out of one of my ears. It makes going to music as my get away at night hard, and then sleeping isn't much easier.

I don't get people these days. What happened to being nice and caring for friends? I mean, I'm only 18 and just graduated high school, so I know I have a life full of disappointments ahead, but why can't people think about how their actions can affect those around them? I always try to do that. I try to consider the other parties involved.

But that's all I got

 

[imported_Stokdgs]

Flash, I am glad to help - anytime - ok ?

Barry, I am so sorry to hear what happened to your job - that had to be really hard to take. I am glad that you have been around here long enough to learn alot, and give alot, from some of the best people around on this Forum.
I hope and pray that you and yours will get through this..

ziggo99 - Congratulations on your H/S Graduation ! I am proud of you !
You have outstanding opportunities ahead of you - take your time, get prepared, and go after them.

If I can offer you anything at all, I would want you to please consider getting all the education you can in the field/s you choose you want to spend your life doing.

Then, we need to have another set of skills to utilize when times are tough and we are out of work, etc..

This is what has happened to me as well - worked in the Telecom field for almost 2 full 20-year careers, did Detailing on the side for longer than that, and now, going on 4 years, have had sporadic contract work in my career field, and a pretty good run of work in my back-up -detailing career.

It it weren't for my Sweetheart and her full-time job, we would have all been out on the street a few years ago, along with all the other people who lost jobs, etc.. We still have this hanging over our heads, every day. Talk about having to muster up all the Faith you have!!!

So I have a ton to be grateful for, every day, and I make it a point to thank Him who grants me my every breath, for another day of life with a roof over my head, and a place for my Sweetheart, and her 3 teenage stepchildren to live and keep warm.

If I understand the Scriptures correctly, I see that there is contrary to popular belief, no "entitlement" to anything. We have to work to earn money for our existance by the sweat of our brow, and if we do this to the best of our abilities, we will become stronger, able to do stretch and grow more, and keep it moving forward, one step at a time.

This is what our Parents, Grandparents, etc., all did, right ? We now too, have the opportunity to take our place in Society, do the best we can, take care of our families the best, and then love and bless our Neighbors.

For sure, there are tons of ways to delay this, try to get around it, talk ourselves out of it, but it, the Lion in our Path, will still be there until we choose to go through it, not around it, under it, or way over it, through it.

This will be way too far back for you to ever have seen or TV, but a long time ago, there were cartoons that made you laugh and didnt seem to be harmful in any way. In one of those cartoons, the subject wanted to do something, and on one side of his face there was an Angel, trying to help him choose the right, and on the other side of his face, a devil, trying to talk him into doing the "bad" thing, take revenge, etc..

How little has changed even today - we are still faced even more so because of so much technology so readily available, with making the same decisions - do I choose the "Right", or the "Wrong"...

I hope that you Ziggo99 will be ok with the way these turn of events in your life have been. I too can remember many times, how I felt that my life was a wreck, etc., because of some sweet girl..

You will be ok, girls play alot of games, guys just have to choose to play along, or move on.. There are so many more people you are going to meet in your life - always remember that. Your future is very bright ahead of you !!!

Dan F

 

[ziggo99]

I already enrolled for college this fall. Marketing seems to be my calling, always had a knack for selling stuff. I'm ready for college. 4 years of the same ole hallways starts to get to a person. I needed a new fresh start at a school where no one knows me and I can make first impressions, which hopefully work out in my favor.

I should point out one thing-it's not as if we recently broke up. It's been two years and dated twice in high school, but we decided to be good friends. She just always plays this game that boyfriend>real friends.

 

[imported_Flash Gordon]

So, last week, I lost my job 5 days before my birthday. The company that I was working is on the verge of bankruptsy, and could no longer afford to keep me on. On the positive side, because I find myself unemployed, I am going to try to start up a detailing business, and I have my first job on Monday. There is a reason for everything that happens.

Wow, that kinda news can really knock the wind out of you. I am so sorry to here this Barry. I hope your eligable to collect unemployment. I'm sure it won't be the money your use to, but with some belt tightning, your lovely bride still being gainfully employed and you being able to pick up some detail work here and there you guys will be just fine. One day you will look back at this and never exchange it for anything. That that doesn't kill me, will only make me stronger :blacksmith:

I can tell you this. I belong to two other National Forums(non detail related) If I here of anyone looking for a first class detail in Jersey. I will be sending them to Barry Schultz of Detailed Elegance

Barry, what part of Jersey are you in :redface:

Mine isn't really in the same league as everyone else, but I'll throw it off my chest since it bothers me


I always believe in staying good friends with my ex gf, because I knew we were good friends and why should relationships break friendships? She wanted to get me a graduation present, and jokingly I said Daytona Wheel Brush. Well, she *did*, along with some other things I wanted that I would pay for. This was the week before Memorial Day, so there were good sales all around.

Well, I had asked for the tracking number since she is kinda bad about getting stuff on time (which is another story in itself). She blamed her e-mail being locked up. So I took it into my own hands and got in contact with CS, to see if they could help. They kept saying there were no orders by that name or even to the zip code. She called me earlier after I asked again how she placed the order, and she said she never ordered it. Because she wanted to order something else and she wanted them to come in at the same time. So for the past week, I've been lied to about this order, even when I asked if she ordered it she said yes.

All the while she won't talk to me because of a casual lunch and her bf finding out (even though she suggested the idea), so now I'm the one on the short end of the stick when I don't have a voice in the crowd. And it's not like I have any feelings for her; I don't. We just always were good friends to each other but it seems like every time a new guy comes around, I get put on the shelf per say, and once he's gone I come back off. I guess I'm too nice or something, I dunno.

All of this, with a fun day at the lake Tuesday ending with an ear infection and can hardly hear out of one of my ears. It makes going to music as my get away at night hard, and then sleeping isn't much easier.

I don't get people these days. What happened to being nice and caring for friends? I mean, I'm only 18 and just graduated high school, so I know I have a life full of disappointments ahead, but why can't people think about how their actions can affect those around them? I always try to do that. I try to consider the other parties involved.

But that's all I got

Hey zigg, Glad you decided to releive yourself of your burden with us. I am sure every male forum member here can relate to what your going thru. I remember once running my head through a wooden fence over my frustration of my first love. Maybe thats why I ain't right ut:

Flash, I am glad to help - anytime - ok ?

Dan F

Thanks again Dan. Same goes, if you need someone to vent to, they call me ears. Give me a holla Da Rules!

 

[imported_Sal329]

Funny I read this today and before I did I was feelin lil down. Have some stuff goin on now that is def not as bad as other have it but still not a place I wanna be. Then it seems like there is an open door till I get closer for it to be slammed. But I am still holding strong, today at work as slow as we are I keep lifting my head and praying and believing for better and thankfull for all I have.

 

[imported_POPPAJ]

I already enrolled for college this fall. Marketing seems to be my calling, always had a knack for selling stuff. I'm ready for college. 4 years of the same ole hallways starts to get to a person. I needed a new fresh start at a school where no one knows me and I can make first impressions, which hopefully work out in my favor.

I should point out one thing-it's not as if we recently broke up. It's been two years and dated twice in high school, but we decided to be good friends. She just always plays this game that boyfriend>real friends.

The best of luck on your career choice. Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life.

As to the girl friend/just friend, that door is closed, find the one that is open.

 

[ziggo99]

And to add insult to injury, three days after my first post, I went to the lake and have no been nursing a pretty bad case of an ear infection. On my second prescription, and this new one isn't working well if at all, so it's back to the doc in the morning and find a change. It's been two weeks, and I'm done to about 1.25 ears. Good luck I've been having...

 

[GreyGoose]

First of all, the title cracks me up because it's a "Stripes" movie reference! So I got laid off in January, but fortunately my wife works full time and was able to take on the health benefits. I'm able to get unemployment for quite a while so I think I'll be okay. I had a pretty good interview today so we'll see how that goes. My 6th grade daughter had a couple sicknesses this year and as a result got herself 3 F's early in the semester. Since i've been home, I've been able to turn her around and move those into a B and 2 Cs. So it ain't all bad. Life sucks right now, but it also could be much worse. I figure i just gotta keep plugging away, something will turn up soon.

 

[imported_gewb]

I'm BAAACK - been away too long but life hasn't been easy the past 2+ months, especially with my mom passing away a month ago.

However, I hope my life will be back to more "normal" soon and I can spend time polishing Nelly (my '07 Sonata) and reading/posting to TID - just need to finish remodeling the upstair bathroom, remodel all of the downstairs powder room, put tile at the front door entry, install a security door, fix a hot water pipe, make a new bed frame/headboard and refinish the kitchen cabinets.

So, if you don't hear from me very often you know why...

Regards,
Gary
(GEWB)

 

[imported_Flash Gordon]

I'm BAAACK - been away too long but life hasn't been easy the past 2+ months, especially with my mom passing away a month ago.

However, I hope my life will be back to more "normal" soon and I can spend time polishing Nelly (my '07 Sonata) and reading/posting to TID - just need to finish remodeling the upstair bathroom, remodel all of the downstairs powder room, put tile at the front door entry, install a security door, fix a hot water pipe, make a new bed frame/headboard and refinish the kitchen cabinets.

So, if you don't hear from me very often you know why...

Regards,
Gary
(GEWB)

I've been wondering where you have been Gary. It always concerns me when I see an active member disappear. I always ask myself, self whatever happened to member ***** :Snowman:

Very sorry to here of your Mothers passing

Hey, chat nite is tommorow night. 8:00pm C.D.T. Hope to see you there Gary. Be there are be square :wizard:

 

[imported_Flash Gordon]

Funny I read this today and before I did I was feelin lil down. Have some stuff goin on now that is def not as bad as other have it but still not a place I wanna be. Then it seems like there is an open door till I get closer for it to be slammed. But I am still holding strong, today at work as slow as we are I keep lifting my head and praying and believing for better and thankfull for all I have.

I hope all turns out well Sal. Keep your chin up. GOD has a perfect plan for us all :wink:

And to add insult to injury, three days after my first post, I went to the lake and have no been nursing a pretty bad case of an ear infection. On my second prescription, and this new one isn't working well if at all, so it's back to the doc in the morning and find a change. It's been two weeks, and I'm done to about 1.25 ears. Good luck I've been having...

I'm have been battling an ear infection also ziggo. Mine is to blame from wiping out on a rapid whilst white water rafting. I'm feeling much better now though, hope you are also

First of all, the title cracks me up because it's a "Stripes" movie reference! So I got laid off in January, but fortunately my wife works full time and was able to take on the health benefits. I'm able to get unemployment for quite a while so I think I'll be okay. I had a pretty good interview today so we'll see how that goes. My 6th grade daughter had a couple sicknesses this year and as a result got herself 3 F's early in the semester. Since i've been home, I've been able to turn her around and move those into a B and 2 Cs. So it ain't all bad. Life sucks right now, but it also could be much worse. I figure i just gotta keep plugging away, something will turn up soon.

Oh, you reconize this phrase also I see

www.youtube.com/watch?v=peXZBKCQOV0&feature=related :soldier:

One of my all time fav movie scenes :cornut:

Use this time off to spend with your Daughter. You will never have this oppurtunity again. And good luck on your job search :wizard: