Does anyone on this board

random - 1-9-2009 at 09:12 AM

not have serious issues? Personal, family, medical, relationship, employment... we're a messed up bunch (myself included).

jonnynewbreed seems to have things going OK. As for the rest of us... damn!

JawnDiablo - 1-9-2009 at 10:14 AM

2009 is the worst year in my life thus far and it's only in it's second week.
not just the passing of my brother, but employment, money woes and just crap.
you cant even listen to KYW on the radio and not hear story after story of bad news for america and the rest of the planet.
I'm hoping tha Obama is able to do a little to fix a few things.
The dude is limited in what he can do, but he won me over with his enthusiasm alone......
we should all meet for a drink....and BBQ
i have a full tank of gas and a pillow in my car to sleep it of later so i'm down....

Dave - 1-9-2009 at 11:04 AM

i'm all good.

SS76 - 1-9-2009 at 11:28 AM

hakuna matata

XHonusWagnerX - 1-9-2009 at 11:34 AM

I'm basicly a mess.... I need to lose weight, but cant get it done. Either I'm to tired or depressed to excersize at all and I cant seem to stop eating.

I hate my job and basicly every other job I've had which means I have no clue what kind of job I would like. Plus I have good hours, good pay, benefits and I dont work hard. I just hate it here and the place sucks. I'm bored all day!

Just havent been feeling well... probably because I'm not healthy.

Yeah.... stuff kinda sucks.

Six66Mike - 1-9-2009 at 12:13 PM

Unemployed atm but I brought it on myself by quitting in December. Looking for something better now, loving being home though. My holiday pay ran out this week though.

BKT - 1-9-2009 at 01:03 PM

I got problems here and there, but for the most part I would not trade what I have for anything.

MM.

Furly - 1-9-2009 at 01:39 PM

Buying some Nikes, whipping up a batch of koolaid.
Shoe sizes people?

Enyo - 1-9-2009 at 02:08 PM

71/2

Well I didn't get laid off so I can count my blessings on that one, but Ialso am of the camp that can't stop eating and can't or won't exercise. I hate being fat. I don't kill myself just because I'd hate for everyone to stand around saying how fat I looked. Damn it.

BKT - 1-9-2009 at 02:26 PM

You obviously don't hate it that much if you can't be bothered to do anything about it.

MM.

Voodoobillyman - 1-9-2009 at 03:24 PM

I'm actually doing alright, family is happy and healthy, that makes me ok.

upyerbum - 1-9-2009 at 03:26 PM

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Originally posted by metal mulisha
I got problems here and there, but for the most part I would not trade what I have for anything.

UYB

Furly - 1-9-2009 at 03:28 PM

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Originally posted by Voodoobillyman
I'm actually doing alright, family is happy and healthy, that makes me ok.

That's really good to hear. After last year, you deserve to finally have the ball rolling in a positive direction.

XHonusWagnerX - 1-9-2009 at 04:12 PM

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Originally posted by metal mulisha
You obviously don't hate it that much if you can't be bothered to do anything about it.

MM.

its not as easy as that for a lot of people... myself included.

Discipline - 1-9-2009 at 04:15 PM

My life sucks, but I'm working on making things better.

BKT - 1-9-2009 at 04:37 PM

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Originally posted by XHonusWagnerX

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Originally posted by metal mulisha
You obviously don't hate it that much if you can't be bothered to do anything about it.

MM.

its not as easy as that for a lot of people... myself included.

Never said it was. But how can you hope to change at all if you don't want to put forth the effort. Seems to me that nothing in life worth doing is easy.

MM.

SS76 - 1-9-2009 at 04:52 PM

fucking and drinking beer is easy, and thats worth doing.

Enyo - 1-9-2009 at 04:57 PM

Well MM- I have PCOS, an insulin disorder.. I have meds that help me lose weght but they make me really sick. so... Either I take the meds and lose weight, but can't leave the house because I can't be more than 2 step from a toilet.. or I go on being hefty and not ovulating.

BTW- I find your comment hurtful. I DO eat right and exercise. but it takes me a week of perfect 1,300 calories a day and an hour running everyday to lose .25. I just don't have it in me to keep that up constantly so I gain back immediately whatever I have lost. I spent a lot of years starving myself and beating myself up because I "wasn't trying hard enough" before I found out that my insulin thingies are screwed up. Now I'm just trying to work on accepting things for what they are and being joyful for a 2 pound loss.

THORP - 1-9-2009 at 05:47 PM

This is probably more transparant than a two-bit CEO like me ought be with my 'customers", but whom an I shitting? I ain't really a CEO and you guyz ain't customers. I'm old, you guyz are old, and we are probably too old to ever even attempt to refer to ourselves as hardcore kids. Hell, the offspring that has been seeded by the members on this board could populate a small country.
2009 has already stricken me with polarizing pangs of anxiety and hope. Having gone from the tumlt of the music business to the tumult of the investment business, all with no guarentee of a petty staycheck, has proven to be an ongoing adventure in bad timing on my part.
I read what has been written in this thread and it seems I am hearing the same sentiments everywhere - from friends, client, family, and for damn sure from my own lips. I always thought just I was a day late and a dollar short, but it seems as if the whole world ain't much different. They just fake it better.
My present and future is shakey and uncertain like anyone else. My past is still being sorted. No surprises. Ends are often not met. No surprises.
But I have to say, none of the financial ebb and flow and woes of uncertainty and discontent matter to me anymore. I am mostly numb to it. Not immune or inattentive, but numb.
I see this whole downturn primarily on a micro level as a cleansing process for me personally. Having to cut things out, clean things up, and feel the strain of worry has only made me realize how unimportant material things are.
Not trying to turn this into an Oprah episode, but my kids are smiling when I get home. My wife aint, but hell I don't blame here. I wouldnt be smiling with three kids hanging on me all day knowing some ugly, bald, tattooed bastard is coming home in hopes to do the same.
Food tastes better. The occassional cigar smokes better. The shitty cheap wine I am reduced to buying taste better. That shouldn't be the case, but it is. My appreciation level is off the meter now. That is a good thing.
I still love being an entrpreneur and running my life like a DIY pirate - searching for my treasure daily and not knowing when or from where it is coming. It's never been about the money and has always been about freedom and the pursuit. That will not stop, even if I have to go work for the man temporarily.
The quote that has literarily driven me from task to task over the past 6 months is the following by Churchill ;

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."

I have been living this way, and regardless what 2009 brings, I will continue to.

-THORP

random - 1-9-2009 at 06:27 PM

I didn't really expect any responses to this thread. Nice to see that, for the most part, people are pretty optimistic/hopeful/delusional given all the bad shit that's going on for everyone... or maybe just taking solace in the small things. My own comment pretty much echoes Discipline's.... just put Homer in place of his avatar. Nothing going right, but working to turn that around. Glad this is a place where people can vent some of the shit that isn't appropriate anywhere else and that all you people I don't know support each other. I've said it before, but for a bunch of old, jaded, bitter mother fuckers... you're some pretty decent people.

And THORP, most of us can't be your customers again until you put out some new stuff.

BKT - 1-9-2009 at 06:57 PM

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Originally posted by Enyo
Well MM- I have PCOS, an insulin disorder.. I have meds that help me lose weght but they make me really sick. so... Either I take the meds and lose weight, but can't leave the house because I can't be more than 2 step from a toilet.. or I go on being hefty and not ovulating.

BTW- I find your comment hurtful. I DO eat right and exercise. but it takes me a week of perfect 1,300 calories a day and an hour running everyday to lose .25. I just don't have it in me to keep that up constantly so I gain back immediately whatever I have lost. I spent a lot of years starving myself and beating myself up because I "wasn't trying hard enough" before I found out that my insulin thingies are screwed up. Now I'm just trying to work on accepting things for what they are and being joyful for a 2 pound loss.

What can I say. I have type one diabetes and have been on insulin injections 5 times a day since I was 6 months old. We all have our problems. However I don't look at mine as a problem, but more of a blessing. It has forced me to stay in shape my entire life as I don't want to run into complications like, kidney disease, heart attacks or blindness. I am at the gym all the time and eat what the human body is supposed to eat. Its hard for everyone. Your body is your temple and deserves more attention then anything else in the world as it is your body that allows you to function in all things outside of it.

MM.

barc0debaby - 1-9-2009 at 08:53 PM

My military ordeal finally came to a conclusion today after 4 months of wondering when they were going to cut me lose. That shit was stressful, but I never compromised my work ethic or integrity despite the fact that I was getting involuntarily separated. I even got a personal letter of recommendation for any future job applications from my commanding officer. So today was a very good day, I might be unemployed but its all good, I am in a position where I can focus on defeating my alcoholism and I have my freedom back. Fuck yeah :thumbup:

BKT - 1-9-2009 at 09:20 PM

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Originally posted by barc0debaby
My military ordeal finally came to a conclusion today after 4 months of wondering when they were going to cut me lose. That shit was stressful, but I never compromised my work ethic or integrity despite the fact that I was getting involuntarily separated. I even got a personal letter of recommendation for any future job applications from my commanding officer. So today was a very good day, I might be unemployed but its all good, I am in a position where I can focus on defeating my alcoholism and I have my freedom back. Fuck yeah :thumbup:

That is some positive stuff right there. Good for you bro, best of luck on your next path.

MM.

DAK - 1-9-2009 at 09:44 PM

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Good for you dude!! :thumbup:

Enyo - 1-9-2009 at 09:56 PM

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Fuck ya! is fucking right!! :thumbup:

Spoiler - 1-9-2009 at 10:18 PM

"It's been a wonderful year....for the roses"

I usually don't talk much about my personal life.....but things have been pretty shitty for me the last year or so. I've been financially supporting my parents for well over a year now.They both are out of work and have no income except about $600 a month and the little my dad is able to make by working side jobs.My dad is in very poor health.He no longer has insurance,so he has to pay full price for his meds and doc visits.I've spent my entire savings and then some....I'm back to living check to check.
I have my own problems that I've been neglecting...I need sinus surgery,I have terrible back pain when I stand to long,I'm depressed all the time,I have anxiety attacks and can't stand to be in public places around people,I hardly ever leave my house anymore,I've pretty much given up my social life.I've always thought that I could deal with this type of shit on my own,but I now know that I need to get on some kind of medication.I could go on and on.
This is the most I've said to anyone about my problems....and I'm not complaining,because some others have it alot worse then I do. I'm thankful for the things that I do have and that I still have my parents to take care of. I'll be fine,it'll just take some time.This year has to be better.Blah Blah Blah

Enyo - 1-9-2009 at 10:51 PM

Spoiler- Admittedly, I am against almost all depression/ anxiety meds. I feel like they are a bandaid.
In 2000 I had a car accident and had a pretty bad head injury. Before the accident I was a totally carefree person. I was one of those that would walk along the edge of a 13 story building on a windy day, no problems. But when I woke up I was changed in some fundamental way. I was afraid of everything. I had so many phobias it was ridiculous. The biggest ones were driving, crowds, dentists, metal objects (plastic fork anyone?) and probably the biggest one was death. I was totally convinced that if I left the house I would die. and that if my husband left he would die. Each day he went to work I paced and sobbed until he got home. No way to live right??

The first thing I tackled was driving. I woke up one morning and realized that if I kept living that way I should just die as I wasn't living at all and was actually making my husband's life completely miserable. So it was either change or commit suicide. So that day I went out and sat in my car.
The next day I started the car. I know that seems like such a small simple thing, but my heart was racing. I was sweating and I think I cried a little bit.

a week later I could drive around the block. A month later I could drive to the store. Now I drive everyday and it's nothing.
But it was that first step. That first day I put the car in drive and rolled forward a few feet that changed my whole life. I was able to eat with metal forks. I was able to go to the walmart on saturday afternoon and not freak. I was able to go to the dentist (ok, so he specializes in people with phobias, but still!).

My sister had a bad accident in 2004. She didn't have a head injury but she had major anixety about driving after. She had bad panic attacks. She went to a therapist who put her on medication. She is still on that medication and is still nervous about driving farther than the 10 minutes it takes her to get to work.
My only point is... YOU can do it. I am a weak pitiful example of a human being and if I can overcome my fear, you can too. If you want to take meds, do it. If they help you take those first steps, great. but don't forget to TAKE those steps.

Wow.. I didn't intend to write a book. All that, just to say.. I hurt for you. I have been there. Please get help soon.

Voodoobillyman - 1-9-2009 at 11:44 PM

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Good Skipper, Nice to see the Navy taking care of you even when it is decided that both parties are not right for one another. I wish you all the luck.

Voodoobillyman - 1-9-2009 at 11:48 PM

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Originally posted by Voodoobillyman
I'm actually doing alright, family is happy and healthy, that makes me ok.

That's really good to hear. After last year, you deserve to finally have the ball rolling in a positive direction.

Thanks lady, all in all my time spent over there was cake compared to some. I have alot to be thankful for and I try my damndest not to take it for granted ever.