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shadow2 said:
Last year i didnt put a tree up or any decorations, but this year @Trala has inspired me to at least buy a table top xmas tree, and some tinsel. I like christmas, but I think the meaning is lost... And i dont mean that in a religious sense, more its a time for reflection.
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Please bill @Trala for any expenses occurred on her behalf.

And yes, I do think the meaning is lost somewhat. And I think the things I try to embody during this month each year... it's like why don't I put such a spotlight on doing that the other 11 months? Back home we have Thanksgiving and each year we'd sit around the table saying wenhat we were thankful for and that kind of kicked off the festive season. Here I still have Canadian and American Thanksgivings at our place but when you don't grow up with it, it seems quite wanky so it's more just a way for our Aussie friends and orphans from overseas to have yet another excuse to celebrate which is fair enough.

This morning as I was late yet again for dropping my son off at kinder, I went to the bakery I go to each kinder day for coffee and bread. And while I've talked to the female owner several times - sometimes for 5 to 10 minutes about various things in our life - today for whatever reason she decided to unload for a good hour about everything in her mix of broken English and Greek although I still somehow managed to understand everything she was saying. She just chatted and chatted while her 20 something daughter kept trying to apologise for my coffee getting cold (it wasn't) and for her embarrassing mother (she wasn't) and I really enjoyed hearing about her life. How she was going in for surgery two weeks from now but then how her husband surprised her with a trip home on to Europe on Christmas Day so that's made her less scared, how she knew her kids would all have a great Chrissy without her but how she still got physically ill each time she knew one of them was sick or broken hearted...just all this stuff about someone I see quite regularly and yet knew so little about.

When I finally got to my car again after I cried a bit. Not sad tears at first but more happy, sentimental ones because that is someone's mum. And more importantly a person in her own right that felt she could chat with me and still felt the need to protect me with smiles and laughter as she was tellig me some pretty scary stuff. Then I became sad for a bit thinking why did this happen now? Why not two months earlier or later? But you know, maybe now as with most other things, we need to be forced to remember to connect and reach out and that's what Christmas is now. Maybe we're not built to do that 24/7 or else we'd collapse from the weight of the world on our shoulders. Not sure how it all works to be honest.
 
Mrs Butterface said:
Maybe we're not built to do that 24/7 or else we'd collapse from the weight of the world on our shoulders. Not sure how it all works to be honest.
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I think this is fairly true. I know that whenever I... I dunno, feel too much, and connect with people on the level you described in your post too often, it can all get a bit much for me. I love people, but I hate that they can affect me so much, so I take the stance of "disliking people" to save myself a bit.
 
iJake said:
I think this is fairly true. I know that whenever I... I dunno, feel too much, and connect with people on the level you described in your post too often, it can all get a bit much for me. I love people, but I hate that they can affect me so much, so I take the stance of "disliking people" to save myself a bit.
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Oh yes, this very much describes me as well in all accounts, especially the hating people - although sometimes I really do hate people.
 
iJake said:
I think this is fairly true. I know that whenever I... I dunno, feel too much, and connect with people on the level you described in your post too often, it can all get a bit much for me. I love people, but I hate that they can affect me so much, so I take the stance of "disliking people" to save myself a bit.
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I very seldom let people who don't matter to me affect me in a negative way.

Every now and then I will be drawn into the toxicity which can sometimes be seen in human interaction, but it never takes me long to put a stop to it.

Life is too precious to waste on fuckwits.
 
Ye Gods!

I had a super busy day in the nursing trenches!

Wall to wall vac dressings, missing toes, and colostomy bags!!! Pus, poo and patients galore!!!!

I am exhausted. Time for dinner and a quite bit of nursing reading and reflection, then its off to bed. Have a good night. Xo
 
Pretty much sums me up today
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Trala said:
Ye Gods!

I had a super busy day in the nursing trenches!

Wall to wall vac dressings, missing toes, and colostomy bags!!! Pus, poo and patients galore!!!!

I am exhausted. Time for dinner and a quite bit of nursing reading and reflection, then its off to bed. Have a good night. Xo
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Ewww I dunno how you can do that shit :) But really, I couldn't do it...

mutleyp said:
Pretty much sums me up today
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Awww not a good day petal :( Well if its any consolation the day is almost over...
 
I did house painting, finished fixing the roof, 1/2 way through fixing the spa, spoke to a good mate for a few hours went up Mt Coolum for a walk & saw shirtless hot guys walking up 'n down not that I was interested of course....
 
Trala said:
Did you catch anyone cheating?!
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Someone tried to bring their mobile into the testing room and that's about it.. Was quite the uneventful day. They were all pretty well behaved, surprisingly.

After the written portion of the exam the student who tried to smuggle their phone in (presumably for translator) I heard him all chuffed-like telling his friend about using such a big word 'distructment'.. His friend loled at him and told him it wasn't a word so they came rushing to me asking if it was and I had to deflate the poor kid.
 
misspuddingface said:
Someone tried to bring their mobile into the testing room and that's about it.. Was quite the uneventful day. They were all pretty well behaved, surprisingly.

After the written portion of the exam the student who tried to smuggle their phone in (presumably for translator) I heard him all chuffed-like telling his friend about using such a big word 'distructment'.. His friend loled at him and told him it wasn't a word so they came rushing to me asking if it was and I had to deflate the poor kid.
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Is Travis is your class?

In his latest interview with @Luke Blundell he made scarce rhyme with cars and was going to ask Nine for a 'constellation' prize after hearing his number was mixed with Aisha's lol! :tongue:
 
mutleyp said:
Sadly someone I know decided to end their own life, shaken me a little
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Suicide is such a hard thing to process.

It has touched my life in many forms, family/friends/work colleagues. My mother was a huge fan of the attempt, but never quite got to the finish line.

It always saddens me when young people suicide, because usually it is a long term solution to a short term problem and they simply don't have the life experience to see that. But for those who make a calculated decision, who have battled depression/mental illness/terminal disease, have tried medication, therapy and so on and decided that they simply can't go on, I feel through ending their own life, they are now free of that living hell. In essence dying is as natural as birth. It is going to happen to all of us. Some just take the ultimate control in when that will happen.

Any one who has experienced living the torture of chronic depression/mental illness/terminal disease can identify with envy the thought of finally being free of life.

Your friend is now free.

Sending you love and strength. Xo
 
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