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saffron · Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Posts: 2881 Location: Orange, Calf. USA

Ha! Yah right, you always say that. :roll:

Hedgehog · Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 5173 Location: UK

So Moll has that little white van taken you away to another forum??

:smt082 :smt043 :smt042

Harrison · Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 901

Oh Moll you impatient wifie you! Just because I didn't post for a few days, off you go on your travels again.

I have been ILL.

Don't go, don't leave us - come back all is forgiven.

Hedgehog - good to see you again. :)

moll · Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 7705

Harrison, I won't sit here lurking and pretending I'm not reading, you wouldn't believe it anyway

I'm sorry you've been ill, and hope you're feeling better now :smt056

The truth is, I feel I've been MORE than patient with this board, hanging around long after just about everybody else has gone, hoping that it would get back on its feet again and either old members would come back, or new people would join and it would get going again.....but it's just not happening.

And I'm starting to feel like I'm the online equivalent of some mad old wifie wandering along the street mumbling away to herself.....

I didn't post this topic in the hopes that anybody would beg me to stay or anything like that, I just have never understood how people can leave a board where they were regular posters and got to know people, without a word.

RoughShod · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 2140 Location: South Africa

HeyMoll..I enjoyed yours and Harrison's chit chats(I must be getting old :lol: )

It is just that I am really getting old, and worried that this place will keep me married to some idea that as long as one has company to get old with , then its OK.

Its only ok if it is real.

Now the two of you have company , I do not...and by all signs and wonders portrayed in the heavens by rather dubious self inflicted manipulation by me to invoke some form of new virtual life, I do now believe those on here should be at peace with themselves to make the place work. I am not at peace with myself and a place like this can not hold my hand in real time to show me the way.

So I have not been speaking because it may just help blind me more to what should really be done....to start living my life for real.

So no offence to you Moll or others that may be interested, Ijust want to learn to live again..properly...decently...selflessly....without conflict to what I hope to achieve.

I need to be shown how to live, but it seems I will have to find out for myself. And this I attempt, by taking out distractions...and for me now YE is just a distraction.

Harrison · Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 901

Moll I didn't think for one minute that you said you were leaving just to get people to beg you to stay. I will mail you ONCE my net is back up and running at home. I am getting really frustrated with it.

Roughshod: Good luck on your voyage of self-discovery and enlightenment.

To everyone else who usually posts, as a member of other forums this is the only one where there is very little back-biting and nastiness. I lurk in another forum but every time I try to post get a lot of verbal abuse because I live in Hurghada and not Luxor!

Come on everyone lets get this forum back to what it used to be - a happy place.

moll · Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 7705

OK Harrison, I will try to be a more patient person

I'm supposed to be doing no 3 on my 10 point self improvement plan this afternoon, you know.....

moll · Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 7705

Roughshod's enlightenment will be addressed later :P

Harrison · Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 901

Well my day started off with a pretty major disaster. I woke up at 4 a.m. coughing and thought I would have a cup of tea. Have been having problems with the internet in the apartment but thought I would see if I could get on and send messages which are long overdue.
At 5.30 stubbed out my cigarette, emptied the ashtray, closed the computer and back into the lounge to read my newspaper. About 6 I smelt burning. Yes youve' guessed it! The wastepaper bin was well and truly ablaze. Of course being plastic immediately I picked it up the bottom fell out. Luckily it is only the bottom of the computer table and one edge of the carpet. The whole place was filled with smoke and having a cold I didn't smell it straight away.
Poor Mr. C got a rude awakening this morning. He has been so nice and his only comment was that as long as I was okay nothing else mattered - bless him.

So it's point 3 Moll - did you manage?

Better get some work done - will drop you an e-mail when I get up and running - promise.

moll · Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 7705

RoughShod wrote: HeyMoll..I enjoyed yours and Harrison's chit chats(I must be getting old :lol: )

It is just that I am really getting old, and worried that this place will keep me married to some idea that as long as one has company to get old with , then its OK.

Its only ok if it is real.

Now the two of you have company , I do not...and by all signs and wonders portrayed in the heavens by rather dubious self inflicted manipulation by me to invoke some form of new virtual life, I do now believe those on here should be at peace with themselves to make the place work. I am not at peace with myself and a place like this can not hold my hand in real time to show me the way.

So I have not been speaking because it may just help blind me more to what should really be done....to start living my life for real.

So no offence to you Moll or others that may be interested, Ijust want to learn to live again..properly...decently...selflessly....without conflict to what I hope to achieve.

I need to be shown how to live, but it seems I will have to find out for myself. And this I attempt, by taking out distractions...and for me now YE is just a distraction.

Roughshod, this is what I think......

I understand what you're saying about me and Harrison having 'company', we're married so there isn't the same need that you're maybe feeling to be out there meeting new people, going places and getting to know new faces with maybe a view to something more, instead of sitting here posting away on the internet. I understand that, but I don't see why it needs to be either/or...I suppose it depends on whether you feel the internet adds to your real life, or takes away from it :?

I've always seen it as an addition to my 'real' life, not a substitute, it's made me think a lot more about things and question them (and myself) so much more than if I was just going on seeing the same old faces with the same old attitudes every day.....

But everybody's different and if you feel that it's interfering with what you feel you need to do for yourself, then take a break..but you can always come back with the new you :wink:

moll · Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 7705

Harrison wrote: Poor Mr. C got a rude awakening this morning. He has been so nice and his only comment was that as long as I was okay nothing else mattered - bless him.

God, my husband would have killed me :shock:
I told everybody at the end of term that I'd be coming back as a non-smoker so now I've got to do it, got 10 days of puffing left then that's it...

Anyway.......today, I had a day of culture :farao: my daughter's starting a Masters next month, so she wanted me to go with her to some museums for a bit of pre-research (she wanted me to drive and pay for her lunch in other words :twisted: )

Drove home about 4.30 with the headlights on, that's how miserable it's been here today :cry:

RoughShod · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 2140 Location: South Africa

Thanks for your well wishes Harrison.

Well Moll, It seems you may be right..just utilize whatever helps.

But one may have a brat fit on occasion. It happens, throwing one's toys out the cot.

So just going to hang around without getting too involved :)

ratty · Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 1788

:shock: ?

RoughShod · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 2140 Location: South Africa

Nice try ratty, but you don't know how to think!

ratty · Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 1788

RoughShod wrote: Nice try ratty, but you don't know how to think!

:wink: