COVID (nobody sick, thank GAWD), Trump’s lies, stores not having the stuff I want, too much HEAT, nonstop bad news, avoiding “certain” topics of conversation, and the cherry on top: scrolling in SDMB.
I’m cranky. I might get over it.
I might not.
~VOW
I recommend cartoons. Take two hours and call me in the morning.
Have you tried alcohol?
“Have you tried alcohol?”
It can help at times. Can backfire too: Imagine all the woes of the OP with a hangover added to it.
Are you aware that the little slide to the right of the posts makes for quick and easy scrolling? I can’t help you with much else, but accept a virtual, COVID-free {{{HUG}}}!!
It is the summer of our discontent.
I’m on Pain Management, so no alcohol.
Besides, drinking gives me a migraine.
I do, however, have edibles…
~VOW
I wasn’t kidding about the cartoons. They distract the mind and eat up time, whereas snacks let you stew while you chew.
I recommend watching something from the nineties, after they’d figured out that it was important to add a certain amount of plot and continuity to your toy commercials, but before the erosion of budgets did a number on the character design and animation quality. (Which is not to say that all modern stuff is bad; it’s just more of a crapshoot.)
In the last year, my 20-year old nephew committed suicide, his 2 year old son drowned, my sister was diagnosed with cancer and had her leg amputated two months ago and they just (Friday) found spots in her lungs.
And that’s not counting all the national and international crap going on right now.
StG
Or, the Three Stooges. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
@VOW, sister o’ mine. Count your blessings.
Grandkids
Cat purrs
Alive Mr. VOW
And …
Edibles.
Cheer up friend.
I as soooo with you on the scrolling thing.
This OP skeeves me out, exactly because I’m so getting more and more to feel that way too. <shudder> This is all getting sooooooo old.
Yup, the scrolling thing. Even with the little rolling doo-dad on the right side of the page it is a PITA. Trying to multi-quote in a reply is my gripe. It’s me-I just can’t figure out how and then retain it. Lots of you have kindly told me how, it’s me. Often I just give up and move on, in case you all are wondering why you don’t hear from me much.
Vow and others: you have my {{{ }}}. Puts my troubles in perspective. I deal with all the shit inherent in post-traumatic brain injuries syndrome but nothing even close.
Yes,
Cats and all their marvelous incarnations and shenanigans
That first cup of coffee in the morning and sitting down to waste half the day
reading SD
The public library texting and saying come “get that book you’ve been waiting
for”. Then cracking into a brand new book before anyone else does Sweet.
Grandkids. I’d say more but words fail me.
Housemates that you weren’t looking for, that landed on my porch, I took in for
“ a few days” and now are one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Indulgences that are postponed and then you can afford or finally have the
time or energy or money to get. Fresh doughnuts, really good sourdough
bread or bagels. Takeout Chinese. Pizza delivered. Said housemate cutting
your quarantine hair on the front porch.
But mostly kittens, grandkids and SD mumpers.
I dunno , maybe it’s unoriginal advice, but listen to music you like. Music from when you were seven, when you were 14, and of course later. This almost always cheers me up and helps me when I’m down. If i can’t enjoy music (which has happened), then I’m really shattered.
I’ll pass your suggestion on to others.
Being profoundly hearing impaired takes a LOT of fun out of music. I find myself looking up lyrics to Engelbert Humperdinck, or even early Beatles, and then I “sing” the words in my head as I remember the music.
Ooo, or Patsy Cline!
~VOW
And don’t forget that searching within a thread now is a worthless enterprise. There’s a lot I like about this new board. The search function doesn’t even come close to being included in that.
You might feel better by watching this TV movie from 1980:
I’m not bothered by the scrolling. I don’t know why.
I don’t use any other social media.
I can scroll for days on Amazon looking for weird things. I read on the iPad by scrolling not page turning. I have a Nook I do not like reading on it, because of the page flipper.
So maybe that prepared me for scrolling.
@VOW, I hope you feel better soon.