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Posted by Angel Girl on February 1, 2005, at 14:04:34
I stayed up the whole night last night. I slept about 4 hrs this morning. I felt like I had a hangover without the benefit of drinking and having a good time last night. I go to the bathroom (sorry TMI) no water to flush the toilet, go to wash my hands, still no bloody water, I go to the kitchen to wash my hands, now I'm *really* pissed off cuz still no water. I wash with some anti-bacterial soap I have. I'm feeling aggitated, irritable, my body aches, I ran out of ADs, I need to go to the drug store to get them, I'm starving, there's no food. I feel like sh*t physically and I'm irritable. I don't even feel like going out because I feel so miserable but I know staying here is not going to get me my ADs and food.
Then my son phones me. He works for a courier company. He asks me to look up an address on the computer because he's lost. My computer is bloody slow and it's now pissing me off. Oh, and my son's timing pissed me off because I was watching AMC. Anyway, I put in the address when the site finally loads. It tells me it doesn't exist. So, I try variations, still nothing. My son is pissed off on the phone, his company is trying to figure it out too. They're pissed off. Then I try just the postal code (Canada) and it's in a f*cking different city. WTF is going on. I'm still pissed off. I go back to my son on the phone in the other room, we try several things, we're both still pissed off. I want food and my meds and I feel like sh*t. I ask him where he is, he tells me he's looking at a bloody corn field. I start laughing, uncontrollably, so does my son. This goes on for 1/2 hr trying to figure out where he is and he calls the company, and they're not in the city that is listed according to the postal code. Then we discover the company name is wrong. So, the company name is wrong, the city is wrong and the postal code is wrong. That's Canada's great postal info for ya. No wonder people get lost. LMAO!!! Then he tells me he's in some other city that is going towards the US border. I'm telling him to sit in one place. I'm pissed, he's pissed and I'm still laughing uncontrollably.
But somehow he finally finds some civilations, he sees a restaurant and asks for directions. Wonders never cease, he's only 5 minutes away. He finds the address but yet another company name on the building, we're both laughing uncontrollably. He goes inside and talks to the receptionist, he's in the right place. She explains that the Canadian postal system is totally f*cked up and that the company name on the package he is delivering has a combination of the company name combined with the employee name to which it is going. How f*cking stupid are some people???
So, crisis over??? Think again. Now he has to look for another company in another city with the same street name. LMAO!!!
So, what mood am I in? I'm miserable, irritated and I'm still laughing? I think this is what they *really* call crazy.
AG (who can't even stay in one mood at a time now)
Posted by partlycloudy on February 1, 2005, at 14:14:09
In reply to What mood am I in?, posted by Angel Girl on February 1, 2005, at 14:04:34
Even hysterical laughter is good medicine. Laughing while crying is a weird feeling but getting it out is a good thing.
Ever try to explain the Canadian postal system to an American? I've seen people's eyes roll back in their head....
Posted by sunny10 on February 1, 2005, at 15:13:14
In reply to Re: What mood am I in? » Angel Girl, posted by partlycloudy on February 1, 2005, at 14:14:09
yeah, I was reading the post for AG content only... the postal stuff completely lost me...
Posted by sunny10 on February 1, 2005, at 15:18:02
In reply to What mood am I in?, posted by Angel Girl on February 1, 2005, at 14:04:34
Glad to hear you. Tell your courier son to go get you some meds while he's lost next time (hee hee)...
I'm usually quite happy to be able to laugh and be mad at the same time, and only one out of four pdocs have labelled me BP...
But the bursts of energy/ideas I get are always totally self-destructive and NEVER happy/top-of-the-world feelings like yours...I guess I can understand why YOU might be eager to go through them, but for me, I know that the more energy that I get with the hypomania; the harder and deeper I fall. It scares me.
Sorry for transferring my own fears to you. Guess I only do that when I'm fond of people...
Posted by Angel Girl on February 1, 2005, at 16:32:16
In reply to Re: What mood am I in? » Angel Girl, posted by partlycloudy on February 1, 2005, at 14:14:09
> Even hysterical laughter is good medicine. Laughing while crying is a weird feeling but getting it out is a good thing.
>
> Ever try to explain the Canadian postal system to an American? I've seen people's eyes roll back in their head....
pcThey usually don't want to hear about it. Between our f*cked up postal system and customs, most Americans (at least that I've encountered) thinks it's a nightmare.
AG
Posted by Angel Girl on February 1, 2005, at 16:36:25
In reply to Re: What mood am I in?, posted by sunny10 on February 1, 2005, at 15:13:14
> yeah, I was reading the post for AG content only... the postal stuff completely lost me...
sunny
Then how do you think we feel. They use the same bloody street name in more than one place, it could be west or east or without or road or street or avenue (you get the picture), it doesn't really matter. My son phoned me a few days ago from a different city with *all* one way streets. Now *THAT* was funny and aggravating at the same time. I'm surprised he found his way out again.
Why is it that one streets never go in the direction that you want them to?
AG
Posted by anastasia56 on February 1, 2005, at 16:40:28
In reply to Re: What mood am I in? » sunny10, posted by Angel Girl on February 1, 2005, at 16:36:25
i'm glad to hear you were laughing. laughter is sometimes more cathartic than crying. a sense of release after a good hearty laugh. supposedly (i've read) laughter can have curative powers?
ana
Posted by Angel Girl on February 1, 2005, at 16:42:53
In reply to Re: What mood am I in?, posted by sunny10 on February 1, 2005, at 15:18:02
> Glad to hear you. Tell your courier son to go get you some meds while he's lost next time (hee hee)...
>
> I'm usually quite happy to be able to laugh and be mad at the same time, and only one out of four pdocs have labelled me BP...
>
> But the bursts of energy/ideas I get are always totally self-destructive and NEVER happy/top-of-the-world feelings like yours...I guess I can understand why YOU might be eager to go through them, but for me, I know that the more energy that I get with the hypomania; the harder and deeper I fall. It scares me.
>
> Sorry for transferring my own fears to you. Guess I only do that when I'm fond of people...
sunnyI never claimed that there is no self-destructiveness in my hypomania because there always is. I try to fight off the compulsion to engage and just go with the euphoria itself, that's if it manifests itself as euphoria, usually it's irritability and hostility and with that I have very little if any self-control. I lash out at people. My son calls me *wild*. My family has learned to not get in my way and engage in an argument with me because they won't win and I'll only spin out of control. And like you, I crash afterwards too.
Update: My meds were delivered, I took both my ADs that I ran out of yesterday but now, what to eat? I'm thinking pizza. Who cares that I can't afford it. It's my favourite food and I haven't had it in a very long time and I haven't eaten anything at all today, I'm STARVED!!!
AG
Posted by Angel Girl on February 1, 2005, at 17:24:17
In reply to Re: What mood am I in?, posted by anastasia56 on February 1, 2005, at 16:40:28
> i'm glad to hear you were laughing. laughter is sometimes more cathartic than crying. a sense of release after a good hearty laugh. supposedly (i've read) laughter can have curative powers?
>
> ana
I agree. I even told my son that he was helping me out of my crappy mood. I think it was the corn field that got me. LMAO!!!AG
Posted by sunny10 on February 2, 2005, at 9:21:33
In reply to Re: What mood am I in? » sunny10, posted by Angel Girl on February 1, 2005, at 16:42:53
Hope you had that pizza by now....
Posted by Angel Girl on February 2, 2005, at 10:39:31
In reply to Re: What mood am I in?, posted by sunny10 on February 2, 2005, at 9:21:33
> Hope you had that pizza by now....
Only in my dreams. I ate a peanut butter sandwich. Looks like that's what's on today's menu too. Thank God I go grocery shopping tomorrow after seeing the pdoc. Then I can have some *real* food.AG
Posted by sunny10 on February 2, 2005, at 12:24:35
In reply to Re: What mood am I in? » sunny10, posted by Angel Girl on February 2, 2005, at 10:39:31
hmmm...
peanut butter cookies,
peanut butter on toast,
peanut butter on celery sticks,
peanut butter on apples,
peanut butter and potato chips,and, my ultimate fave,
peanut butter on my index finger!!!!
(only eclipsed by the sight of peanut butter stuck to the roof of a dog's mouth......hee hee)Enjoy the peanut butter day until shopping tomorrow!!!
Posted by Angel Girl on February 2, 2005, at 13:07:18
In reply to Re: What mood am I in?, posted by sunny10 on February 2, 2005, at 12:24:35
> hmmm...
> peanut butter cookies,
> peanut butter on toast,
> peanut butter on celery sticks,
> peanut butter on apples,
> peanut butter and potato chips,
>
> and, my ultimate fave,
> peanut butter on my index finger!!!!
> (only eclipsed by the sight of peanut butter stuck to the roof of a dog's mouth......hee hee)
>
> Enjoy the peanut butter day until shopping tomorrow!!!
Hmmmmmm!!! That's a lot of ways of using peanut butter but at the end of the day, it's still peanut butter. I need *real* food like meat or pizza, even a hot dog would do. So far today, I've chosen starvation.AG
Posted by sunny10 on February 2, 2005, at 13:21:11
In reply to Re: What mood am I in? » sunny10, posted by Angel Girl on February 2, 2005, at 13:07:18
guess if I thought like you I wouldn't have gained 15 lbs this year while on Efexxor XR...(or Xl, or whatever the %$*@% it was called)
seriously, though, how 'bout at least a multivitamin???
Posted by Angel Girl on February 2, 2005, at 15:27:53
In reply to Re: What mood am I in?, posted by sunny10 on February 2, 2005, at 13:21:11
> guess if I thought like you I wouldn't have gained 15 lbs this year while on Efexxor XR...(or Xl, or whatever the %$*@% it was called)
>
> seriously, though, how 'bout at least a multivitamin???I hate to burst your little bubble but pizza isn't exactly non-fattening food unfortunately for me because I love it. Still haven't had it though, simply because I have other places I need to spend the $$$ but that pizza sure is calling my name. Can you hear it where you are? LOL!!!
AG
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