The Drop in Centre

[Solus Magus]

12 minutes ago, Sherye said:

Maybe this will help if you can not see them in the flesh!

OMG. This is so cute! 😭

[kbois]

25 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

 

COVID is going to test us in many ways. We cannot sit and wait for it. We need to find our way and we need to stay strong, in spite of it.

The strength we get when staying strong in spite of something is like nothing else you can experience. Finally realizing that you had that strength in the first place is what make us who we are. It's an amazing accomplishment to come out on the other side of adversity and realize you're still here, you made it and you're a better person because of it. 

Have a good day tim and everyone else!

[Solus Magus]

3 minutes ago, kbois said:

The strength we get when staying strong in spite of something is like nothing else you can experience. Finally realizing that you had that strength in the first place is what make us who we are. It's an amazing accomplishment to come out on the other side of adversity and realize you're still here, you made it and you're a better person because of it. 

Have a good day tim and everyone else!

I love this. It's already a meme that the whole Covid pandemic is actually a character development arc for everyone. 🤣

Edited November 24, 2020 by Solus Magus

[Sherye Story Reader]

If you all have probably been wondering why I have not been talking on here is because I have been a little depressed and unsure of myself to a point where I feel unloved. I know that is not true but I get that way sometimes. 

I also know that if I come to this site and talk that all of you make me feel so loved and appreciated here. Thank you for making me laugh at times. Laughter is my best medicine to keep me sane!

Edited November 24, 2020 by Sherye

[Solus Magus]

1 minute ago, Sherye said:

If you all have probably been wondering why I have not been talking on here is because I have been a little depressed and unsure of myself to a point where I feel unloved. I know that is not true but I get that way sometimes. 

I also know that if I come to this site and talk that all of you make me feel so loved and appreciated here. Thank you or making me laugh at times. Laughter is my best medicine to keep me sane!

*hug* 

We're here for you @Sherye! We'll think of new jokes if we have to just to give you your medicine. 😉

[rickproehl]

this is for all of us

[Sherye Story Reader]

I just had the crap scared out of me! I am not dressed for even family even though I am covered. I actually heard a noise outside and thought it might be my stepson, his wife, her daughter and a friend of theirs here for the holidays. I am glad it wasn't! lol That would not be funny at all to them! It might be to all of you though to laugh at my predicament! lol Stop laughing!

[chris191070]

1 hour ago, Mikiesboy said:

Have a good day all of you.

Today the paper is full of news about younger people suffering mentally due to COVID.  It's  not easy, I know.  I've had days of depression due to it, but we need to adapt and to fight it. Find a way around these feelings.  For me, writing is not part of that. i may never write again, but i don't know. Wanting to write and then not caring if i do, hurt for a long time and the weight of that dragging me down, is why i took up a new craft, at least for now.

COVID is going to test us in many ways. We cannot sit and wait for it. We need to find our way and we need to stay strong, in spite of it.

I know how difficult depression is to handle, my husband suffers from it and his spells since March have been far more lows than highs. Myself I sometimes find it difficult to cope because of my medical issues, but we plod on.

I'm a chef and haven't worked in the industry for over 12 months (some health related, but most because the industry is closed) so for the first time I've gone back to cooking and baking in the house, which has helped keep me sane and manage my husbands depression.

Hopefully with all the news about these vaccine starting to be successful 2021 will be a better year for us all.

Take care Tim, Michael and all the other people who frequent the DIC.

Speak again soon.

[Reader1810]

1 hour ago, Sherye said:

My sister told me the other day that people are putting out painted rocks (called hope rocks) so we might start painting rocks again and BOY do I have plenty of them to paint still lol

That might be something some of you could do to pass your time away and they don't even have to be a painted picture. They could be a word to give someone hope for the day.

We got one of those from the neighbour’s young daughter as a surprise gift, and I’ve seen quite a few displays of these rocks when I’m out for my daily walk. 

[Reader1810]

21 minutes ago, Sherye said:

I just had the crap scared out of me! I am not dressed for even family even though I am covered. I actually heard a noise outside and thought it might be my stepson, his wife, her daughter and a friend of theirs here for the holidays. I am glad it wasn't! lol That would not be funny at all to them! It might be to all of you though to laugh at my predicament! lol Stop laughing!

You do realize, when you say “stop laughing” it only makes people laugh more, right?  

[Sherye Story Reader]

Just now, Reader1810 said:

You do realize, when you say “stop laughing” it only makes people laugh more, right?  

I do know that! That is why I said it. lol

[Reader1810]

Just now, Sherye said:

I do know that! That is why I said it. lol

 

[Kitt]

1 hour ago, Solus Magus said:

*hug* 

We're here for you @Sherye! We'll think of new jokes if we have to just to give you your medicine. 😉

Good lord, don't we come up with enough bad dad jokes on our own, without you setting us on a quest to find more???

[Wayne Gray]

Good morning, all.

Things have been tough for all of us, and it's hard to find the motivation to write. I've got a few of my long-time readers emailing, asking if I'm okay, asking when the next story will be ...

I've been trying to motivate to do an outline for the nineteenth chapter of the collective project by tim and I. But it's hard. My brain wants to completely disengage after I finish work, and while I find joy in writing, it's still a heavy mental process. So instead of writing I chain-watch people building log cabins on YouTube with hand tools.

Anyway, I'll figure out a way. Somehow, someway, I'll get back to it.

[Sherye Story Reader]

I want to tell you a story that my husband told me one time about what happened to him in his own words:

"Thanks a lot for not putting more beer into the fridge before you went to work this morning. I had to go get it myself. You know how hard it is to get a 30 pk of beer out of the fridge on the porch in a wheelchair? Well, let me tell you! I wheeled myself out, I took the key to unlock the padlock, I grabbed the 30 pk and I put it on my lap. I was proud of myself. I pulled myself in the trailer and I went forward, the wheelchair went backwards, the beer went forwards. I thought to myself, 'I can just sit here and drink my beer but what happens if I have to go to the bathroom. I could just go in the vent in the floor but I knew you would get grossed out on me doing that so decided to try to get up.' So I straightened myself up and leaned on the side of the sofa to rest. Then I scooted back out on the porch and locked my wheelchair. I grabbed the rail I had put in on the porch for me to use to pull me up to be ale to stand on my only leg. I was proud of myself. I had positioned the wheelchair to where I could sit in it easily. I sat down in it. Now I was really proud of myself! I pulled myself into the trailer and picked all the beer up and put it in the fridge. But was too tired to drink it now so I went back to bed and took a nap! Don't you ever forget to put my beer in the fridge again! I mean it, woman!"

Edited November 24, 2020 by Sherye

[Kitt]

36 minutes ago, chris191070 said:

I know how difficult depression is to handle, my husband suffers from it and his spells since March have been far more lows than highs. Myself I sometimes find it difficult to cope because of my medical issues, but we plod on.

 

Please tell me you don't react to his bad days the way my husband reacts to mine. He ranges from " Why do uou let it bother you? Ignore it" (or them as the case may be)  to "oh Jesus christ here we go again, get over it". He does not seem to accept depression at any level is not something you can just turn off. Which of course just makes me feel inadequate, making it even harder to cope. 

[Sherye Story Reader]

The things I remember of my late husband keeps me going!

[kbois]

30 minutes ago, Wayne Gray said:

 So instead of writing I chain-watch people building log cabins on YouTube with hand tools.

 

So....at some point in the distant future we can expect a hot, burly lumberjack character in one of your stories. Right?

(I totally get the lack of writing ambition. I have ideas, but no motivation. It can get frustrating, but I'm hoping that eventually I'll feel the pull to write.)

Take care Wayne!

[mollyhousemouse]

1 hour ago, Wayne Gray said:

My brain wants to completely disengage after I finish work, and while I find joy in writing, it's still a heavy mental process. So instead of writing I chain-watch people building log cabins on YouTube with hand tools.

you should totally google Dick Proenneke. an absolutely amazing adventure.

also, My Self Reliance on youtube...

Edited November 24, 2020 by mollyhousemouse

[chris191070]

55 minutes ago, Kitt said:

Please tell me you don't react to his bad days the way my husband reacts to mine. He ranges from " Why do uou let it bother you? Ignore it" (or them as the case may be)  to "oh Jesus christ here we go again, get over it". He does not seem to accept depression at any level is not something you can just turn off. Which of course just makes me feel inadequate, making it even harder to cope. 

Oh god no, I've learnt from that when I suffered badly with depression when I was diagnosed HIV+ when he helped me come to terms with it. So I have come along way with understanding his depression ( we've been together 23 years), he's suffered from depression all that time. So I've learnt alot and how to deal with the good and bad times.

[chris191070]

44 minutes ago, kbois said:

So....at some point in the distant future we can expect a hot, burly lumberjack character in one of your stories. Right?

(I totally get the lack of writing ambition. I have ideas, but no motivation. It can get frustrating, but I'm hoping that eventually I'll feel the pull to write.)

Take care Wayne!

A big burly lumberjack sounds good in Camp Refuge!!!

Edited November 24, 2020 by chris191070

[kbois]

I'm a tad bit livid at the moment. I called my brother because I wanted to tell him I was going to pick up my mom on Thursday and keep her thru the weekend because my sister in law was planning on about 15 people over for dinner and I  don't  want my mom around so many people right now.

Inagine my surprise when he tells me my SIL has tested positive for Covid. The same SIL who my Mom lives with. My brother is going to get himself and my mom tested this afternoon. These two haven't taken this virus as seriously as they should have. If my mom tests positive I'll have to go get another test as she was at my house this weekend. Which means my husband and son will have to do the same. Elevated stress levels....just what I  need right now. 

[Reader1810]

45 minutes ago, kbois said:

I'm a tad bit livid at the moment. I called my brother because I wanted to tell him I was going to pick up my mom on Thursday and keep her thru the weekend because my sister in law was planning on about 15 people over for dinner and I  don't  want my mom around so many people right now.

Inagine my surprise when he tells me my SIL has tested positive for Covid. The same SIL who my Mom lives with. My brother is going to get himself and my mom tested this afternoon. These two haven't taken this virus as seriously as they should have. If my mom tests positive I'll have to go get another test as she was at my house this weekend. Which means my husband and son will have to do the same. Elevated stress levels....just what I  need right now. 

 Hoping for negative test results for you and yours. 

[chris191070]

56 minutes ago, kbois said:

I'm a tad bit livid at the moment. I called my brother because I wanted to tell him I was going to pick up my mom on Thursday and keep her thru the weekend because my sister in law was planning on about 15 people over for dinner and I  don't  want my mom around so many people right now.

Inagine my surprise when he tells me my SIL has tested positive for Covid. The same SIL who my Mom lives with. My brother is going to get himself and my mom tested this afternoon. These two haven't taken this virus as seriously as they should have. If my mom tests positive I'll have to go get another test as she was at my house this weekend. Which means my husband and son will have to do the same. Elevated stress levels....just what I  need right now. 

Hugs all round, hoping for negative tests for everyone.

[spyke]

3 hours ago, chris191070 said:

A big burly lumberjack sounds good in Camp Refuge!!!

Sounds even better if he was in my bedroom! 🤣