Hello all,

When the server at the BT Forums crashed in '06, I finally gave up trying to return to it. Went to the About forums for a short time, but never liked those in the first place. So I quit doing forums entirely and went on with life as if I'd never known about them and dealt with life as I did before joining the Forums in '02.

Since leaving, I quit the job I was doing, returned home to one of the parental units, and am now substitute teaching 'full time', which isn't really. *sigh* I'm looking for work that is more regular, though I'll probably end up just applying to sub at the inner-city schools which are in desperate need for subs. Is it stressful? Yes, but in a way vastly different than my theatre job was. The classroom I can handle, unless the teacher is completely disorganized and the classroom is a huge jumbled, piled-up mess. THAT I have issue with, and am nearly to the point of blacklisting those teachers from my list of teachers I've subbed for. Yeah, subbing for those rooms is that bad. Leaving my theatre job was sort of a have-to case. (It's a long story.) Oh well. It was a good point at which to go ahead and follow the Education road and go in that direction at last.

Since I was last in contact...went to a tdoc, and after a few sessions thought she was for the birds. Went to a pdoc and was rx'ed Lexapro to take with the Lithium and thyroid med. After a few months, realized I was at last on neutral ground completely and was having way more fog-head and confusion than necessary. So I tried going off the itty-bitty dosage of Lithium I was on and haven't taken it since...just been on the Lexapro and thyroid stuff. Come to find out, the pdoc had me listed as being unipolar depressive. Hmm...maybe. I still wonder about the way I deal with stress-anxiety, though, and the way it winds me up. The med change was my idea, and it seems to do alright. But I'd like to go generic and don't know if I could get the med changed over the phone or not. The year is about to change over and I cannot afford the trip to Montgomery plus the office visit, which would be pricey. *sigh*

Other than seasonal crap and one of my cats going MIA, have had no trouble. But the damage had already been done at work, so the best solution to b!tchwoman and all of the mess was for me to leave (before they fired me.) '06 was a difficult year...'07 wasn't much better. Here's hoping '08will be a better year.

To a new year, and neutral ground!

--RavensWings

I'm with you,,,,,,hoping we all have a better 2008!!!!!




Nikko

Welcome to NeuroTalk!



So glad you made it!

will give you a bit of a rundown on me tomorrow... right now i'm losing it (in the neutral sense, lol, just very sleepy with migraine heck, so i have to check out pretty much nowish.

Look forward to sharing poetry again, too, when either or both of us get inspired... lol.

happy happy new year. hopefully it really will mean level, neutral ground... boy do i need some. and some of those greens you were talking about in the traditions - suthuhn cookin. but i like chicken fried steak better than the greens. blehhh. but i need a pocket full of pretty greens right now. i am getting too whimsical. best i go to bed. 2008 is divisible by lots of two's lol... so... even keel?

hmmm. reading it over "even keel" sounds a bit like an oxymoron. but if i keep typing here i might even keel over on my laptop. now, why did that bring forth images of a nightmarish yogalike pose. who knows. it's 3am here. 3 hours into the new year for me, 3 hours before the new year for you. ahhhh... do i sense equilibrium???

glad you are here.



~ waves ~ nitey nite now where's my icepack

At the point where opposites cross, there, is equillibrium.

Happy New Year, Waves!!

Hope the mig has lessened and is going away.

Don't know that I'll be getting to do my traditional New Year's recipes, since I haven't seen a ham in the house, nor do I have collards, spinach, or any other sort of greens like those. But we do have pokesalad greens from last spring in the freezer that will probably get cooked up. ^_^ Those are good, but can be an acquired taste. They're a wild plant in the Eastern US, and the recipe is very old, maybe even ancient. While some people grow them as a unique plant for the flower garden, I'd advise against it 'cause they are prolific spreaders (birds love their berries), and once established, are exceedingly difficult to get rid of, since even a scrap of the root will sprout a new plant. But it's also a useful medicinal plant, and makes a pretty bright magenta dye (I'm working on how to make it stay put in the fabric, it doesn't like the sun and fades.)

Hmm...lots of two's and evenly divisible times...could be coincidince, but could also be more...who can tell? It feels like it will be a good year, though. I hope. We could all use a good year.

Hope you're feeling better today.

--RW

Dear RavensWings,
It's good to see you.
I too hope that 2008 is a good year for you and for all of us.
M.

Hi ravenswings!
nice to see you and I too wish you a better 2008...teaching is a very hard and stressful job.
I had a great spinach dish for supper tonight.
It was fantastic!
bizi