Whats happening?

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Since the board is very quiet I thought it'd be a good idea for everyone who is still hanging around to give us an update on how they're doing. I'm finished college, finished my exams but failed two of them so I'll be resitting them in August. Was supposed to get a call today about a position in a company but they never rang, so I guess I'll have to wait til tomorrow. Trying to get my head out of college-mode and become an adult.You?

Hmmm.. most people know what I'm up to via facebook because I wear my heart on my sleeve but I don't have everyone on my facebook.I just moved into my first apartment a week ago. Im working as an office administrator as well as at a Bikini store part time. Yeah I rock at sales!!I want to go to SOMA (www.schoolofmakeupart.com) if only I had $20000 to do so. I want to do the "extensive" program. Is it weird that Makeup makes me so happy???Im still with my boyfriend after four years.. its been a really long time. Sometimes I feel that cable is ruining my relationship.I realized that everything in life is quality over quantity. I currently have the best group of friends I've EVER had. Its amazing.And now I'm getting sick and it really sucks:(

Well I went to Hawaii a few weeks ago, I had a blast! But it's Hawaii, how can you not have a blast there?! lol Other then that I've just been busy getting my outside work done around the house, putting the garden together etc etc.Been looking for another job, this one has pretty much worn on me to the point when I just cannot stand to even be here anymore. Sadly not much is hiring, so I am stuck for now. Though there is a position available at a restaurant but I'm not sure if I want to get back into restaurant management... though it would pay $15-$20k more a year then I am making now, so its tempting.Adam graduated college last month so that's pretty exciting and there are plenty of jobs out there for him in his degree... though when I say out there I'm talking like other states lol. So a move might be in our future.But thats pretty much whats going on with me

Well, the big news is that my g/f is moving in with me. It's a little scary because I've lived alone for over 4 years. It's also very exciting. The tricky part is getting my house ready. It's full of 13 years worth of junk!

Working for a software/web/animation developer. Enjoying it but the money is still slow to start flowing. Holy shit do I need the money!! I'm up to my ass in alligators here!

Still reffing the roller derby but less active this year due to a heavy load of commitments.

Oh, and I'll be in England and Scotland in a few weeks :smile:

Humm where to start. Got a new tat back in the spring. Still with Shannon. We’re going into our 6th year of dating. Getting through school. I have a year of classroom work and a semester of student teaching then will be done. Very eager to marry Shannon but our parents keep saying wait till we’re done with college and get on our feet/ bla bla.. I want her now! But I do get what they are saying cus I do need an income to have a home. I’ve made peace with laces and forgave her. Ryan has his own place now. He has a little double wide trailer with about 3 acres. He’s finally decided to grow up a bet. He’s started working for a brick layer. My sister graduated college a month ago. Now she’s job hunting. Therapy is once a month now. He’s helped me figure out a lot of things and how to deal. Feelings and emotions and all that crap. I still have mood swings, i'll probably always will with the ptsd crap but the swings and flashbacks are much fewer than used to be. My flashbacks and freak outs are less. They only seem to start up when I’m down, but that is a lot less now. I just try to keep myself from it. Lifting helps. Since I was released from physical therapy (with all that shoulder crap) I go to the gym 5 out of 7 days. I lift and do cardio. I have 17” arms now and dead-lift 550 ibs. I have a tower 200 at home and I’m always using it. Got a above ground pool, practically live in it. lol I’m pretty happy theses days. Got a puppy. She’s 5 months now. Ya - another aussie. She’s a mini Aussie tho so she’ll be small. About the size of a sheltie dog. She’s 14” tall now, I don’t think she’ll get much taller. Got updated pics of her on FB.What’s going on right now is I’m just enjoying my summer. Got more into playing the guitars. Ryan finds old ones and rebuilds/ fixes them. I’ve painted a few for him and then he sales them. I’ve been thinking about putting my bike up for sale and getting a 250. Tho I haven’t done it yet. lol

Moved to Mayberry back in 2006. It was hard. I spent 3 years feeling like I wanted to move back to Louisville. But I didn't. Last summer I got my LCSW. I thought that would be a good thing but it basically means the agency owns me and can send me wherever they need me (cause we're kind of rare around here). They're doing that. But it also means job security. The good new is that I'm finally at a point where I love living here and don't want to leave. Things have been going okay......until the last few weeks. To be honest, I feel like the glue that's holding everything together is about to give out. Last night I just sat outside on my deck and cried. Frustrated, lonely, stressed...yep. So I'm trying to dig my way out. But I haven't stopped believing.

Well this is my first day back at work after being off since April 22 with a fucked up foot. So, woo fuckin' hoo. I'm completely broke having had no pay since May first, I've been living off my poor mother. My wife and I are having a tough time and my marriage is seriously on the rocks... fuck rocks it's barefoot on glass shards. Currently she's in Utah with my former best friend swearing theirs nothing going on... I really don't care at this point anyway. The only thing I care about is getting away from this fucking job, this fucking life. I just can't seem to figure out how to do that and everything I've tried I've failed at. No one at work will even speak to me, which I'm fine with really. I never wanted to talk to them anyway. Mom's health hasn't been good and I've had to spend a few nights with her. Her blood sugar was hanging around 500. My mental state continues deteriorate while my rage continues to rise, but there's no worry cause resigned apathy keeps everything in check. Life is just a diseased pile of shit right now. Aren't you glad I shared?

Im really, really sorry scotty:(. You know I'm here for you whenever you need to talk.

I'm really sorry, Scotty. What a terrible time for you. One day at a time.

Hi thereJust thought I'd give a little update on myself.I ended up getting kicked out of my parents house, for 2 months, eventually came back home as I got a new job (which was a condition for moving back in, which is fair).Stayed home for about 1.5 months then moved out yesterday. Got a one room place with my friend for $250 cheaper than I was paying at home for rent (yes, they charged me rent). I know I gotta pay for food now (which I didn't have to at home) and I use more gas now, but $250 a month is easily do-aable for that, so I'm actually saving money.As for a girlfriend... well, I'm talking to someone that I've known for a year and a half. Met her on an online game and we hooked up, with 2-3 breakups in between, for almost a year. Most recently she broke up with me 2-3 months ago because I ignored her for a week. WHy? I was too busy doing coke. Yeah.So now I'm sitting in my place, happy to be away from home, which relaly helps a LOOOT with my life.I'm still super depressed, but it's easier to manage with now that I can smoke weed all day.That's all.

Insearch,Hey buddy... I'm glad you made the first steps to get on your own. That's great. I'm glad you have found a little happiness in your life. being on your own is a great feeling. I suggest you get your life a little further on track before trying to start up a full time relationship with your lady friend. hook up and screech monkey sex are great but life is hard enough to deal with when your own life is messed up and off track. it's even harder when two people are involved.Keep up the good work but i suggest looking for another healthier alternative than smoking weed all day.Good luck with that

I came off my YZ yestrday. I guess i found out i can't fly. Broke my foot and grade 2 sprain. But..... My bike is ok!

I've been working, exercising and sleeping. And that's no joke! Still working as an education/city government reporter for a metro Atlanta newspaper. I'm getting good experience and I'm getting much better at my craft. The job market BLOWS right now, so I'm basically stuck until everything turns around. I went to D.C. last week and had a great time. We walked around for 5 hours on Friday and Saturday. My feet were in so much pain that they were still sore the next day. They were also swollen, especially around my toes. I'm surprised I didn't get blisters! The shoes I wore were so sweaty that they had an awful smell. I put them in my suitcase and haven't opened it since. I will be traveling to Tampa on July 4 weekend so the boyfriend can see a former student play in the minor league (hint: he was the number 1 MLB draft pick in 2008). I'll probably lay out by the pool or on the beach while they hang out together or something. I've started a wine cork collection, which is going well. My little box is filled with little corks:-) I will probably end up making a bigger box since I'm partial to wine now:-) I usually come on here about once a week or every other week. I don't post, just mainly lurk...

I have been working on feeling better. I have found on the day before my birthday I will be finish with high school next year that's 3 years of high school. I was doing bad for awhile. My life is caning done since it's summer. I haven't talk to someone about what happen to me since I went to the cops. I was sexualy abuse. It's been very hard on me. The guy goes to school with me. Everyday he made my life hell. I have been a huge mess for months. I lose alot of friends because I would not eat lunch with them. I was eating lunch in my teacher room to get away from the guy. I jump across my desk because he called me a cunt fucker and told me I look like a man. My bio teacher grab me before I could do anything to the kid. When everything calm done he said to the teacher he was going to slap a Vichy and turn around and called me a bitch. He got kicked out of the class. I had so many panic attacks because of him. Had a girl tell me she was going to kill me. She got 5 days of OSS. I'm looking into college and the navy because I want to go to med school but don't have the money. I been playing boys lacrosse. I feel a little better for finally telling someone what happen to me. I'm waiting to go to court. Hopefully soon. This happen in November 2009.

OMG!!!! thank god you are ALIVE.:( Sorry about the foot.. I feel your pain.I broke my foot and sprained it about 1.5 years ago.. brutal!! Did you go to the doctor???

brutal:(.You should consider changing schools.Sounds like he is a fucking CUNT

I would love to change schools but I can't. The school hasn't done shit for me. I did think alot about taking my own life

Well, now that I finally have time to do this, let me surmise my last 6 months happenings. . .I've since managed to find an adapted van. This is the biggest thing that's happened. Well, let me back up here.In January, my family, ie my parents, started looking into driving lessons for me. The first eval that I had was with this awesome, high tech thingy, called AEVIT (mine isn't a joystick though). It's essentially just like a tiny, no effort, steering wheel to steer, and a throttle, not unlike Batman's, to go and stop. This worked out very well, but the only problem is, it costs about $100 grand. I know! So we looked into the cheaper options, like the knob on the steering wheel, a smaller steering wheel, and the handle for gas/brake. I couldn't do that. So, after much checking and "Will this work?"ing, the instructor/therapist giving me lessons found a high tech one for $18 grand, through one of her former patients. Long story short, we bought it, modded it a little bit, and I can drive now! It's so exciting!!Now let's see what else... I took my ACT test in April, and got a 28 on it, out of a possible 36 for those of you that don't know. With me wanting to go to the University of Illinois, that's really great. I plan on majoring in Business/International Business, with the Japanese in there too, so I can actually make lots of use of it. The major may still change, but I do know I want to keep up the JP studies.I start my SENIOR year this fall, scary. I'm still taking my Japanese courses, level 3 now. And so far, I have a 3.4 average GPA. I wanted to take more courses in cooking, but I had to nix those, due to scheduling problems. shakes fistI do volunteer work at my local library now, like, as of Thursday, and take the city bus to get there. Go independence!!I actually go out with my friends now. We just went to the city the other day for a day of fun, though my chair got locked in her trunk. It was still fun though.I have found (more than before) that I really enjoy writing, and, along with the university stuff before, I may want to take a class in writing once I get to university. I've written one story, one that I started a long time ago, that I finally finished. Though it's not quite Snow White, if you know what I mean. If you want to read it though, I won't stop you. One last thing, that I can think of: I went to see a spinal surgeon a few months back, for a year re-check about my back, and scoliosis. Last time I went, I had something like a 64 degree curve in my back, and he recommended surgery, I don't want it though, since my daily living isn't effected. When we went back this year, it was 59 degrees! Woot! He still recommended it, but I still don't want it. I must be doing something right, after all. Now then.... I think that fairly summarizes my last few months, fairly well. If I think of anything else, I'll make sure to let you guys know. Again, good talking with you guys again, missed all of you.deep sigh Goodnight!

yea. I spent all night in the emergency room. It happened around dusk. Laxlover22, be strong durring court. It's a scary place.

That's really good news, LuvMyCats!