Open Thread for Personal Stuff: October 2014 Dog Walk Dog Edition

I was just reading the synopsis of it before. Oy. ::smh::

Skirts! Hair! Dancing! Almost-but-not-quite pornstar moustache!

Active (i.e. they want to kill themselves) or passive (i.e. they think about being dead).

I can probably help with the latter (and there are places where my experience borders on active).

@katz, I can help, but I can’t find your email address on your blog, through your name link.

Oh, I should add…when you’re ready to kill yourself, in the zone as it were, you get very slowed down and quiet inside.
You really do just feel…at peace. Finally. It’s a very seductive sort of peace.
My ex locked my pistol without telling me, you see.
So, after I woke up and said to myself…enough…and then ripped the gun box open with my bare hands, there was a hardened, heavy-duty padlock locked around the frame of the pistol, preventing me from snapping the cylinder into place.
If you cannot snap the cylinder of a revolver into place, you ain’t shooting.
Thus I’m here to tell you about it.

In 2010 I was bad enough that i…pretty much thought about jumping off a shipping bridge every day. I drove over it on my way home, and usually slowed down to look at the drop and the gate I’d have to either open or climb over. It made me feel…okay. Less helpless. I could end the agony, you know, so it was a choice to keep going, I wasn’t trapped in it.

WEEK! I have all week! WHEE!
As far as still being here, I am now on FOUR different happy pills, and currently share your sentiments.
My current psychiatric prescriber is a professor of a medical college psychiatry program! YUSS!
Yay for depression remission!
When not depressed I am/we are remarkably goofy in demeanor….Just FYI…

For anyone who wants to get in contact with me, I set up a forwarding address: [email protected]

Blahlistic, I’m glad you are still here and that you are doing better. You are a cool person. Go have fun in London with your LDR guy.

Sleep well, gilshalos!

::thinks of London … Chiswick House … the V&A … Museum of London … WAAAAHHHH!::

vute=cute!

I’ve always preferred Glasgow to either, it just seemed freindlier.
A friend, native Glaswegian, missed the last bus to his home, started walking home, over a mile in the rain. He was stopped by a drunk asking for money for a drink. He explained that he didn’t have much money on him, otherwise at this hour he be getting a taxi home. The drunk gave him a fiver. That has just always spoken to me about Glasgow.

That’s a hell of a nice drunk to meet!

I liked Glasgow too, but I only had two day trips there, so didn’t have time to get a feel for the place. Edinburgh seemed pretty friendly to me, but then when you’re you’re a customer service person on holiday, and thus go into automatic Be Nice To Staff mode, and have a tartan-clad cat with you, it’s pretty easy to get a friendly reception.

Thanks re the pic! Stirling Castle was beautiful. I’d love to see how it looks after another fourteen years of restoration.

The guide at Stirling couldn’t believe Dinah wasn’t local. The idea she’d come all the way from Melbourne – and in that dress! – was just too much. 😀

One guy in the group asked to take a photo of her, ‘cos she looked like his real kitten. Presumably he had a marmie!

@gilshalos, aw, I wouldn’t say London was a toxic, horrible city :(, whereabouts did you go? I mean, there are definitely places to avoid (Leicester Square just isn’t my bag, especially after 6pm, and personally I don’t get the tourist appeal of Piccadilly Circus. I think it’s just a big junction permanently jammed with traffic. And don’t get me started on Harrods).

I’ve lived about a 40 minute train journey from Victoria for years and I’m always dropping in to see friends who have moved up there. St Albans is beautiful, as is Primrose Hill, and Southbank on a summer evening. And the Parks!

I went couch-surfing in Edinburgh last year :), everyone was so, so friendly. Being used to London, that was a huge culture shock for me!