Two Years!!!!!!!
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Two Years!!!!!!!
.........2 years since my first SR post.......(12/22/2011)
Hope2be,Anvil,and outtolunch came to my rescue that day
---told me what I needed to hear....and the rest is history.
Since then,this website has been a continuous source of comfort,
information, and even some light hearted fun to break the ice of a
TERRIBLY unfunny subject.
Thanking each and every member who has helped me on my journey
is an impossible task----there is nothing I could do or say that would be
up to it. Each and every one of you know my appreciation and respect is
genuine.
So the next time you or anyone you know starts bitching and whining
about people or life in general......send 'em here.
Tonight, as every night, I will say a prayer for a lost soul who never got
to go home.
Two years (SR); Four in all......well.....crap.......I guess one emoticon for
every SR year is as good a totem as anything!
(I like the waving.....but could ditch the flowers)
(good message, but what's the swinging around the pole crap all about?)
Hope2be,Anvil,and outtolunch came to my rescue that day
---told me what I needed to hear....and the rest is history.
Since then,this website has been a continuous source of comfort,
information, and even some light hearted fun to break the ice of a
TERRIBLY unfunny subject.
Thanking each and every member who has helped me on my journey
is an impossible task----there is nothing I could do or say that would be
up to it. Each and every one of you know my appreciation and respect is
genuine.
So the next time you or anyone you know starts bitching and whining
about people or life in general......send 'em here.
Tonight, as every night, I will say a prayer for a lost soul who never got
to go home.
Two years (SR); Four in all......well.....crap.......I guess one emoticon for
every SR year is as good a totem as anything!
(I like the waving.....but could ditch the flowers) (good message, but what's the swinging around the pole crap all about?)
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: By The Lake
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SR is a better place because you are here, Vale, you give as much as you take here and have managed to make me smile on even a cranky day, more than once.
I am glad you found us, I am proud to walk with you, and I really really wish you would take a darn good look at the smileys here and stop that snivelly whining....
<--- no flowers!!
Love you lots, hope you stick around for another hundred years. <-- I personally like this fella.
I am glad you found us, I am proud to walk with you, and I really really wish you would take a darn good look at the smileys here and stop that snivelly whining....
<--- no flowers!!Love you lots, hope you stick around for another hundred years.
<-- I personally like this fella.
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Somewhere out there
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Vale, while I know your life was made better for coming here, I am sorry you had to come and for what you had to deal with in the aftermath with your addict. You have helped me get through a few very hard situations and as you say about those who have helped you, I cannot thank you enough (nor many others).
I am glad you stuck around to help so many other people in need. You have given back and that is something wonderful.
I wish you much peace, love and joy this Christmas!
I am glad you stuck around to help so many other people in need. You have given back and that is something wonderful.
I wish you much peace, love and joy this Christmas!
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Join Date: Apr 2013
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Vale,
I think you need to look deep inside to see why you are drawn to emoticons that feature flowers and pole dancers and know that we will accept you no matter what. Are you internally replacing the loss of the headless duck with these round yellow heads that have no torsos? What do you think your root causes are for the need to separate heads from bodies, and that your images can never be whole? Can you openly admit that you are powerless over both avatars and emoticons and that your life has become unmanageable?
I think you need to look deep inside to see why you are drawn to emoticons that feature flowers and pole dancers and know that we will accept you no matter what. Are you internally replacing the loss of the headless duck with these round yellow heads that have no torsos? What do you think your root causes are for the need to separate heads from bodies, and that your images can never be whole? Can you openly admit that you are powerless over both avatars and emoticons and that your life has become unmanageable?
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Cynical,
You raise interesting points. I must explore more deeply this
seemingly repetitive theme.....attachment to decapitated poultry.
(but I dunno why I'M taking all the heat........look at that dancing banana
SnoozyQ brought to this party----look at those moves....borderline
obscenity. I've BEEN to Perth/Sydney/Brisbane and I never saw ANYTHING
like THAT----so don't try to pull any of that latitudinally challenged
'it's an Aussie thing' crap on me!)
Vale,
feeling boxed in by emoticons---and lashing out!
You raise interesting points. I must explore more deeply this
seemingly repetitive theme.....attachment to decapitated poultry.
(but I dunno why I'M taking all the heat........look at that dancing banana
SnoozyQ brought to this party----look at those moves....borderline
obscenity. I've BEEN to Perth/Sydney/Brisbane and I never saw ANYTHING
like THAT----so don't try to pull any of that latitudinally challenged
'it's an Aussie thing' crap on me!)
Vale,
feeling boxed in by emoticons---and lashing out!
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Laughing & crying. Both are part of life----but one is a helluva
lot more fun than the other.......with the notable exception of
laughing until we cry.
There are few good memories about my detour into a world
of horror ........one of the only good ones
we're the times I could get her to laugh even through her tears.
For a moment (but just for a moment).....she was back in a time
before this obscenity began erasing the very fabric of her identity. I
could actually sense her forgetting where she was.
I doubt these moments lasted for 7 seconds in real time. But they
were.....in a very special way.....timeless. Perhaps I may be forgiven
my clumsy efforts to recreate that here---in the smallest measure.
(And thank you SnoozyQ.....that is one hell of a menagerie!)
-it's not really true that more Aussies own a platypus than a dog....
........is it????
lot more fun than the other.......with the notable exception of
laughing until we cry.
There are few good memories about my detour into a world
of horror ........one of the only good ones
we're the times I could get her to laugh even through her tears.
For a moment (but just for a moment).....she was back in a time
before this obscenity began erasing the very fabric of her identity. I
could actually sense her forgetting where she was.
I doubt these moments lasted for 7 seconds in real time. But they
were.....in a very special way.....timeless. Perhaps I may be forgiven
my clumsy efforts to recreate that here---in the smallest measure.
(And thank you SnoozyQ.....that is one hell of a menagerie!)
-it's not really true that more Aussies own a platypus than a dog....
........is it????
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Originally Posted by Ann 
SR is a better place because you are here, Vale, you give as much as you take here and have managed to make me smile on even a cranky day, more than once.
I am glad you found us, I am proud to walk with you, and I really really wish you would take a darn good look at the smileys here and stop that snivelly whining.... <--- no flowers!!
Love you lots, hope you stick around for another hundred years. <-- I personally like this fella.
I am glad you found us, I am proud to walk with you, and I really really wish you would take a darn good look at the smileys here and stop that snivelly whining....
<--- no flowers!!Love you lots, hope you stick around for another hundred years.
<-- I personally like this fella.Stop that sniveling whining?!
Ann, you addressed this to VALE! Sniveling whining is what I DO!
Would you walk into a Der Wienerschnitzel and complain about
all the hot dogs on the menu?!
Reading my work is like a trip to the whine country! A whine
tasting tour, if you will.
WAITER: "And what does lady Ann like on our whine list?
A fine Vale '60?, perhaps."
Ann: "Just a Coca-Cola,please"
(roll of eyes all around,cue consternation soundtrack)
WAITER: "Ms Ann.....ahem.......you DO realize this is a whinery,yes?"
(cue awkward silence)
Vale,
connoisseur of fine whine since 1960.
(but not a fan of fermented grape juice)
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Dear Vale, Excuse me.....I whine just as much or MORE than you do. Maybe it's in our nature?
Seriously, you inspire me, give me hope. This website indeed is for us lost souls, who have lost their loved ones to addiction and desperately need to get them back. The peace and nonjudgmental ways the members teach the newbies and old timers about this disease of addiction, I have learned so much in such a short time.
You are one of those beautiful people with the big hearts willing to walk with me down that road to recovery. Merry Christmas Vale! TF
Seriously, you inspire me, give me hope. This website indeed is for us lost souls, who have lost their loved ones to addiction and desperately need to get them back. The peace and nonjudgmental ways the members teach the newbies and old timers about this disease of addiction, I have learned so much in such a short time.
You are one of those beautiful people with the big hearts willing to walk with me down that road to recovery. Merry Christmas Vale! TF
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