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A blog about living life in a depressed state everyday... |
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Welcome to my life. I am a pretty ordinary person. I have a home which I am currently sharing with my daughter and her small family IE kid and boyfriend. I work the night shift at a tape factory which means when I am not at work my favorite hobby is sleeping. I am single and hardly date which means not at all. I have a cat, Harley Quinn and a dog, Moose. Though I am single I have been in a lifelong relationship with depression. There have been times when I have willed myself out of bed, and others when I could not even do that. Several years ago I lost my mother and both sisters to different forms of cancer all within a year of each other, one of them dying on Christmas Eve. This did nothing to help my depression and actually was a catalyst in picking up an old addiction that I had laid to rest for nearly two years. The beloved fight with the bottle. Not drinking near as much as I used to but drinking more than I need to. I am the head of my family because all the adults are dead. This means that the kids are running the candy store seeing that those of us who are still here have never really grown up enough to be responsible to head anything. However I am the oldest living relative so that makes me the head. Where as my Mom and sisters would handle things I just try to keep everybody calm and out of jail. For the most part we all do our own thing but we still rely on each other emotionally, that makes us close. I have never been married because I believe men cannot handle my mood swings, well the ones I have known anyway. Yes, I have had my share of relationships, one dysfunctional relationship right after the other. The last one lasted a little over 6 years. It was inevitable it would end for he was just as crazy as me. As I mentioned before I have a child, a daughter who I believe is just as depressed as I am. I say that because she acts exactly like me. She can also be quite the moody little dickens. She and her boyfriend live here with me along with her little girl. Her boyfriend is a good guy. He has a twin brother and both of them have aspirations of being actors. You can scoff and laugh but for living in a little Podunk town like this they have managed to get acting gigs. Yes they are extras but they are getting bigger parts all the time. Cannot go in to any details about their last endeavor, but the casting director asked them to come and film a few days. I know it's not a big part but it is a speaking part and it is something. Like I said, very impressive considering where we live which is right in the middle of anywhere America. I have four nieces and two nephews who will make appearances from time to time in this blog. Unlike most cousins and aunties we all grew up together, because my parents had me late in life when my two sisters were half grown, I am a year and a half older than my oldest niece. This was something I used to hold over her head with great pride when we were younger. I find myself nowadays not mentioning it so much seeing as how I keep getting closer and closer to fifty. My oldest niece and middle niece live here where I do. My other two nieces live in Florida. They are my oldest sister, Janey's kids. I also have two n'er do well nephews who live in Tennessee. They are the sons of middle sister Dana. I don't see them as much as I like but they both live lives of such turmoil, chaos, and drama I find the less I know about what is going on the better. Each of my nieces and nephews have children. They range in ages from 29-7. Some of their children have children making me and 3 of my nieces grandmothers. So why do I feel the need to make this blog. I don't know except that writing has always been cathartic for me. It is a way to let off steam and express myself. A means by which I calm down. My biggest problem with writing is trying to figure out how to wrap something up so I can move on to the next idea. So here it is. My blog, Depressed. |
| Don't know what is wrong with me looks like I am back to sleeping all the time again. Had this problem a couple of months ago. I just can't seem to wake up. I need another doctor, told him about this problem in February and he didn't seem to listen. Now it has been two days and I have been in bed the better part of both of them. IDK what is wrong I just feel drained of energy and cannot seem to stop sleeping. Maybe the night shift is finally getting to me. Maybe I need the rest. I have been going full steam for a few weeks now, haven't really had much "down time." Hoping the depression is not creeping back up on me. I don't really feel down just really really drained. |
| I surely have been neglecting my blog. However it is not because I have been in a funk, usually I write more when I am in a funk. The weather has been nice and I have been enjoying spending time on the front porch and in the yard. I have already cut the grass twice with my new lawn mower that my neighbor and co-worker gave me, we had a good Easter with my grand kid and of course I have been working, still in a factory, still at night. Hadn't been on the site for awhile and a majority of my email had to do with updating my blog, so here it is. I have been feeling better, less depressed more alive and dare I say more happy? Last month when my taxes finally came back I bought myself some new underwear. I know this might sound silly but I actually felt better about myself when I bought them. I don't know why but I guess because I always wait until they are falling apart before I will buy any new ones. The point being I didn't really need them but I bought them anyway, for me. I also got my hair cut and love my new cut. It is short, easy to manage and style. I actually spend more time styling it then I did my long hair. I have over the last year lost about 30 pounds and am feeling better about myself, I feel as though I was hiding in my hair and fat now I feel like I am emerging. I am feeling more and more like my old self and I actually forgot how much I liked that person. I know these are just little things but they are making positive changes in my attitude toward myself. I am not saying I am through with the depression because if truth be known I was through with it years ago. It just never seems to be through with me, but I take these good days and cherish them. I am not naive enough to think that I am over my depression, I have never had that pleasure in life, but it just does not seem as intense as it has been in the past. I am feeling like a new me is coming out, but in actuality it is really the old me that I have been holding at bay and not letting surface for the past several years. Not exactly the person I was before I lost my family, but a better more improved version of her. This is what God can do to you and for you. He takes you from your darkness and shines His light on you and you become iridescent in His illumination. I suppose a good part of this phoenix in me is due to coming to terms with the deaths of my mother and sisters and deciding to live my life even though they are gone. It is in a way a tribute to them because I know none of them want me to stop living my life just because theirs have come to an end. It is also a necessity for myself because I cannot just stop living. I need to live a full life. Full of love and laughter and fun, and not hinder myself with guilt because they are no longer living theirs. YOLO. You are only here for a short time. I feel as though I owe it to myself to be happy. Not just for the sake of their memories but because I deserve to be. I don't know how long this feeling is going to last but for as long as it does I am going to get as much out of my life as I can. I am really enjoying the new old me. |
| Well last night we survived severe thunderstorms and tornado watches and today it is cold and rainy. This is the screwiest weather. Yesterday afternoon it was sunny and beautiful and warm. My daughter, granddaughter, and I went into the next town to get my granddaughter an Easter dress and shoes, and to get lunch. It was warm enough for shorts and no jackets and when we got home it was so hot in the house I had to turn the air on. Then last night we got hit with some nasty rainy weather and the temperature dropped. It went from one extreme to the next in less than 24 hours. Everything was alright, except for the tornado sirens going off in town. That was a little alarming. And then people started leaving the trailer park, which made me wonder where all the shelters were around here. I tried to google them but all that came up were people who made storm porches and shelters. Not exactly what I was looking for. Anyway within an hour the worst parts of the storm had passed on through leaving a trail of debris and a little damage here and there. We were fortunate in that all we had was a little wind and rain. It just boggles my mind how fast the weather changes and yet I can see a correlation between the changing of the weather and the changing of my moods. Both of them seem to be executed without rhyme or reason. Both of them go from one extreme to the next without hardly any warning . At least the weather has NOAA and Doppler Radar to give us a heads up. My moods seem to change in the blink of an eye sometimes and not even I have any warning. Yesterday I felt well and alive and in joy, today just blah. Not really depressed not really happy just in the grays. I am so tired of sitting around doing nothing, yet when faced with the challenge of getting out of the house, I am at a loss as to where to go and what to do. I can't wait till next month when I have some vacation time coming. What I want to do is get away for a bit. Hopefully I can, but then again even if I have the means it doesn't mean I will. It all has to do with where my mood is. What extreme will I be in? Guess I will just wait and see... |
| Been a while since my last blog. Not much happening but I did get a haircut Monday. Yesterday I took a road trip with my oldest niece to get her son. Today I rearranged my living room. Right now I am watching Supergirl on Netflix. Like I said nothing really going on. |
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