March 31, 2006
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Fair’s fair. If some of you want to get even, go for it. Virgos are famous for being able to dish it out but not take it. But I am making an appointment with the shrink to talk about being well-adjusted so lay it on me. You people know me now, as well as anyone, since I spill my guts here on a regular basis. If you’ve seen something the shrink and I might want to talk about, now’s the time. And you can just ramble on like I did.
Comments (19)
You see how you’ve already set it up so that our comments can fall into “getting even” Very interesting. Something to talk about right there.
I will read every word:)
You are just NOW starting therapy!! Well, that explains everything. Now you know I joke, If she or he is any good they will not talk abou the past or the future but the present!! I’m guessing (s)he will learn a lot from you dear and you are paying s(he).
I don’t even know what to say. I love you, lady. Just met pearlbamboo, and I feel the circle of jeri/brenda/prudy/bamboo/bookie/bouree is a happy one. I love your openness – your greatest strength and perhaps your greatest weakness. You open yourself up to heartache when you do it. I still guard myself a lot of the time. Slipper slope. Moderation. Love.
Pru-dance, I know you only by the words that you write, what I read and sense is that you are a woman coming fully into her own. I value your sense of courage to lay it all out for everyone to see; this takes a great inner strength. I see your words dance from the outer with the inner and yes, sometimes stepping on your own toes, but at least you dare to dance…Creating balance in one’s life is an art form that just requires discipline and the courage to follow your own heart and spirit. Loving yourself is vital, and also speaking your truth with love and compassion, and allowing others to do the same without robbing you of your power. Stand firmly in who you are…which is in my ever so humble opinion, a woman on a quest of self-discovery. Have a wonderful day. Oh and about your last post…that was great! I loved it.
Man, you gave me such lovely words, and I have been thinking about your preception of me ever since. It has even inspired me to start a new project.
Give it back to you, hmmm, well, the best compliment I feel I can give someone is that they aren’t afraid of what is, not to be confused with what they want it to be. I think you have a handle on what is. How the hell can you be going to therapy? Seriously. I am thinking that I will be happy to take your money. You can call me and I will listen and then help you figure whatever it is you feel you need. But, I am with vexations.
Take that dough and stick it in the market. I think you will have a better return even if you end up losing your shirt.
Open yourself up more readily to new friendships? Okay, I admit I’m talking about you and me and your saying you don’t know me and me inviting you to my blog and I’m still hoping we get to know each other. So yeah, that was serious, what I said, but I meant it in the light-heartedest of ways.
Far be it for me to start suggesting what other people should tell their therapist! Ha! I’m enough of a nut case myself. No sense projecting my nuttiness on other people.
You sound sane to me, anyway.
RYC: Yeah, that “telling not showing” line was particularly irritating, because it’s the basic stuff that I learned years and years ago. I certainly am not guilty of it. Just to check, I flipped through the ms. and there was action in almost every scene. Unless she’s counting flashbacks as telling, which she shouldn’t, because they were animated scenes. And then there was that historical chapter, which my test readers actually asked for. It’s hard not to get pissed off at a rejection like that because I’m not a rank amateur and I worked hard on this ms. But I really wasn’t setting any high hopes on her anyway.
I’m not particularly brave, you know. But I just realize that you have to send it out to get it published. And I WILL get published.
Lynn
Thank you for your kind words, it is interesting to see how someone who has not met me and only reads my blogs could perceive me! Good luck with the shrink, I would say just being as honest as you are here with someone who you can discuss everything with will be very good!
Okay, how about supportive, positive, endearing, funny, loving. Did I say loving twice? You have been very kind to me over the last few months, even when I wasn’t being kind to myself. I won’t forget that.
Very self critical and secretive. Has wonderful writing skills, isolated, alone, Judi
Quit nagging me to get another job and why don’t you at least give me a break and tell me what size shoes you wear. I’ve been waiting for several months. You’re not going to get an STD from telling a guy who lives 3,000 miles away from you, your shoe size. Everybody else is going on and on about how nice you are. Me, I just seem to be your punching bag.
If you want to see the Xanga of the person whom I have sent money to, go to http://www.xanga.com/olneys_bipolexual and that same person has another blog, http://www.geocities.com/ajbettis. In particular, look at these:
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and you go right ahead and talk to her all you want, about me, and what a lowlife scum I am.
Damn, you made me laugh this morning. Um, I did use the word “cautious” as one of my describers, no? I feel it’s easier to give out the minutia than the real stuff. I will fill you in soon. But, it’s not the Nano novel. That was fun, but it’s not the one.
Prudy, with all due respect, Sunday might not be the day when anything important would be happening in a synagogue?
Randall Bass
The first word that comes to mind when I think of you is courageous…as is the second, third and fourth. I think the fifth is determined. (I think the two are linked, somehow.
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ryc: Engaged?? I reread my post over and over…and still don’t see it! lol! Care to share this bit of information? (Oh! I did tell the boyfriend that if we live to 86, we have to get married, since by the time we’re that old it won’t matter who’s in debt and who’s not or any of that other stuff…and we won’t have a whole lot left to do, so why not? hahahahaha! He didn’t disagree.
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I love you, Pru…Yes, you may be a Virgo, but you’ve got a Leo’s courage…GFW (Perhaps, I should get a peak at your natal chart.)
adventureous, brave, lusty, zestful, powerful, and fun
Thanks for the special place. I think you know me better than I know myself.
btw, I am virgo too!
gosh, I wish I stopped by sooner-I would love to hear your impressions of me…
My impressions of you: sophisticated, sexy, incredibly intelligent (and I’m not trying to fluff you!) definitely honest, strong and lastly intimidating but that goes in hand with your sophistication. .
I hope it helps you in whatever way you are seeking. And the virgo line reminded me of my brother who is sooo very virgo. And that;s how he was in our childhood…he would tease and tease and I’d take it till I blew up…and by that time, my mom would stay silent and let me drive him with words back upstairs and into his room where he’d remain.
Sometimes I thought she was weak for that, now I know that deep down she knew he had to get it back to learn he shouldn’t do it.