Keep a personal wellness journal on DailyStrength to track your health and communicate with friends. http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:56:23 +0100 DailyStrength RSS 0.11.3.0.6833 (FeedCreator 1.7.2) http://dailystrength.org/images/comprofiler/avatar/4770/1213251962.jpg http://dailystrength.org/people/4770 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/960159 I'm at the library which closes in 10 minutes.  Extremely busy with yardwork and personal business, and haven't had time to look into getting a new internet provider.  Just wanted to say hi.  Been reading some fascinating stuff about co-dependency P.S. to Sandi: I just found t... Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:40:16 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/899635 I really thought I was going to be back in action full-time. My brother gave me a virus remover, and it worked but only temporarily.  Turns out the database for my internet provider is so infested, that I have to delete it.  So I cancelled my service, and I'm going to be looking for an... Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:21:36 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/871112 Dear Friends,I have missed you over the past few weeks.  My computer is infested with spyware and adware and very dysfunctional (a term that I'm very familiar with!) and all but unusuable. I'm on a friends computer now, catching up with bill paying and the like and wanted... Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:44:33 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/727536 Just a short "coming to terms" that may help somebody out. Then I'm going to relax a bit with my cats and a few beers.  Feeling a little hyped up and could write all night....but learning that it's sometimes better to chill out rather than ramble on. So I'll try to be brie... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:29:13 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/252194 I am going to try an experiment beginning right now and lasting exactly one week.  The issue that I am wresting with right now is my co-dependency.  In a nutshell,  it means that I live my life in the shadow of other people. I consider their needs more important than my own.  The... Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:47:12 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/211626 I saw this on another person's jounal entry and it really gave me the attitute adjustment that I needed.  "What are you grateful for today?"  It can be anything.  I will start it out:  I am grateful that at the end of a trying day and some trying times, that I can c... Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:45:38 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/208493 Did I mention that I have what I call "reverse" seasonal affective disorder?  There really is such a thing but even the mental heatlh profession knows little about it since it is much rarer than winter "SAD."  The fact that I love the depth and darkness of winter makes ... Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:07:06 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/192909 I'm back at work on an "earlier" schedule.  I work until 12:30 am now, not all night like I used to.  But I have an unexpected night off tomorrow, so now I have to decide whether to attend the family picnic at my brother's house.  I haven't been to a family funct... Sat, 26 May 2007 17:33:07 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/187443 Supper is on, "Lost" (season finale) is taping, and I'm getting ready to get the cats their dinner.  I just commented on a friend's journal entry where I said that people who come from dysfunctional families go along too easily with the jerks in the world who are out to harm u... Wed, 23 May 2007 22:11:44 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/166019 I've been looking over my journal and notice that I write about once a month and so here I am. On the family issue, I'm not going to my sister's tomorrow - she always has the mother's day thing. I have to work, but even if I did have time, I wouldn't spend it there. If that sounds harsh, so be it... Sat, 12 May 2007 17:38:41 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/116790 I finally started reading up on a subject that I have been meaning to look into: the effects of "alcoholic" parents on adult children. Neither of my parents drank, but my father was a workaholic and my mother a dry alcoholic, and the patterns of family interaction are the same as that in alcoholic ... Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:19:39 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/115014 April (snow) showers are preventing me from getting my spring yardwork underway, but at least I got my tax forms into stamped envelopes ready for dropoff at the post office... Significant snow accumulation is expected here over the weekend and it has been in the 30's every night for many consecut... Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:05:04 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/72971 Thanks to the friends who touched base with me yesterday. I work longer hours now and don't have the chance to be online during the evenings. I was actually feeling a little down this morning after getting home from work, until I realized how lucky I am to have so many kindred spirits here. The re... Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:25:44 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/38526 I don't write an entry that often, as I find that my way of interacting is through personal messages and responses. But I'm getting caught up here this morning before going to bed and a few people commented on pets and I have had a thought for a long time that I would like to share. True, I tend to... Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:26:21 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/13578 Well since I'm too wiped out to write in my concrete book journal book(just 3 lines of space) I may as well write here, since I am online catching up anyway, with financial and other personal stuff. Janine, are you listening? I drove to Michigan today, on the blind, to save a cat that I thought wo... Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:27:49 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/9438 Happy first day of winter, everybody, the darkest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. I am a real fan of the dark, and am far enough north in PA to really experience the darkening and lightening days as the seasons progress. For those of you who don't like the dark days, don't despair sinc... Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:08:06 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/9173 The holidays are closing in, but I'm hanging in there. It seems as though alot of people feel like I do, obligated to have a "marvelous" time at Christmas and to compete to see who gets whom the nicest (ie most expensive) gift. NO MORE! I just called my mother to tell her that I am not coming out... Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:33:19 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/7665 It's a double edged sword for me at this time of year. I love the darkening days and the winter (feel like the gloomy atmosphere is more in sync with my moods - LOL). But the holidays can get me down. I was feeling good all during the month of November, until of course, the dreaded family Thanks... Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:23:57 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/4770/journal/7092 I just joined this community and I think I am going to like it. I am feeling just so-so, having just been subject to the up and coming Christmas plans of my dysfunctional family. Things never change. For 40 years, they have snubbed me, ignored me, used me and treated me as though I am a nothing. ... Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:43:40 +0100