BS: I'm a bloody walking country song

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 09 Oct 03 - 04:57 AM

good luck Nathan. Don't forget - you've been through such a lot, so you know how bad things can be, so just keep going til you're out the other side.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: LadyJean
Date: 09 Oct 03 - 01:03 AM

My sister made a nice living for several years dealing with companies like the one that just fired you, I'd suggest taking the S.O.B.s to court. There are such things as honest lawyers. I'm descended directly from four, and closely related to a fifth. (My sister is a loon, she can also be a colossal pain in the earlobe. But she's honest.)
I'm glad your bride came back. If you will check out a thread I posted several months ago, "One Saint in One Thread", you'll see someone else's take on a similar situation.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Amergin
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 10:02 PM

ok...it's official...me and the bride to be ARE back on track. we had a long talk and everything's good there...i just need to find a job where i can be a bit pushy...and push back when i'm pushed... ;) sorry i'm a bit angry about this job thing....

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Bassic
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 05:33 PM

Be assured, my friend, that you are not alone. Many of us have had very similar experiences.

Why do I say this?

Because you need to know that it wont go on for ever, life will turn a corner. Maybe slowly at first but it will. The most important thing is to keep faith in yourself. Down inside are all those fundamental strengths and qualities that have already been mentioned. They are YOU, they havnt gone away, they are just a bit overwhelmed at the moment, but dont doubt that they are still there because they are.

Each of the problems you are facing are genuine ordinary life stuff, they happen from time to time. They are horrible things to happen but we can cope with them............. when they happen one at a time that is!!

Unfortunately they have a habit of coming in waves and we get overwhelmed. We get tossed about in the backwash for a time and struggle to get a breath. Then the wave rolls back and we catch our breath and find a dryer patch of the beach for a while till we dry off.

Then before you know it we are back on the shore line dodging the breakers again, and sometimes doing it for fun!

At least that's how I saw it when it happened to me.

I have just re-read what I have written and it sounds awful "folksy" and simplistic but I suppose if life is a country song then its appropriate. (if anyone wants to turn this post into a country song then that is ok with me but I want a % *Grin*)

Good luck, trust and keep faith in yourself.

G

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 05:29 PM

Well, the thread title doesn't actually say blues, it says "country". Different country, that's all.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Burke
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 05:15 PM

They didn't like your shoes? They couldn't just say wear different ones tomorrow? What kind of work place is that? Sounds like they were looking for a way to fire you. Did you talk to their Human Resources people-someone near the top, not a flunky, before you left?

Why are we getting Celtic music ads in a thread about the blues?

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 04:54 PM

Sounds like you need a Union. That way you can do a bit of pushing back.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Amergin
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 03:48 PM

Thank you everyone...as for the bride to be...well we are talking and so hopefully will be back on track there...

as for the job...i'm looking again...basically what happened there was that I missed a day and was late another day due to my car having problems. I live outside the range of the public transport so I had no way of getting to work...well yesterday i was sitting in the lunch room and i was told by that after three weeks of wearing these black shoes that i was wearing there for three weeks..and then suddenly they decided they were athletic shoes...so they sent me home knowing it would take me 45 minutes to drive to my house and another 45 minutes back...and so I was just over an hour late and they fired me for having 2 attendance points. I'm getting tired of being pushed around by the corporations....I wouldn't mind doing some pushing back.... ;)

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 12:12 PM

Sorry to hear about your troubles, Nathan. I know it doesn't feel like it now, but I have found many times that a crisis is really an opportunity in disguise. This was certainly true for me a few weeks ago. Sometimes life can take the most amazing twists and turns. Watch for clues.

PM me, if you would like to talk some more.

Jenny

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: open mike
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 02:33 AM

sometimes loss can be turned into opportunity
if you can keep your eyes open for new directions..
in the last couple of years i have lost 2 parents,
a marriage of over 20 years is in dissolution,
and many other changes.
Soemtimes a clean slate offers options
that allow new convictions, and choices.
good luck and hang in there.
where, by the way, are you located..
did not see in profile any thing to
indicate your location.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 10:10 PM

Take care, Nathandarlin' and I hope that you can get some effective help with the anxiety attacks, etc. I know how difficult that can be. When you find yourself, there you'll be and someone special will be, too.:-)

luvya and holding good thoughts for you....kat

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Big Mick
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 09:37 PM

Nathan, I have a couple of years on you. That is only important insofar as I got a couple of extra experiences to draw from. Let me just say this. Who you are.....the real guy that we know around here....comes out very clearly in your posts. You are smart, more importantly, you are intelligent. You have a great heart and quick wit. Take stock of yourself, my friend, and you will see that you have much to offer. There is someone out there that the Universe has in mind for you. You simply haven't found that person yet. But this much I have found to be true. If you keep trying to do the right thing, even in times like these, eventually things work out. In the meantime, look to your friends here for comfort.....and a good kick in the ass to get you up and going again.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: alison
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 09:25 PM

sorry to hear that Amergin......... just know that lots of us are thinking about you and sending you big hugs

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Sorcha
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 07:38 PM

I think we've been here before,,,,,,,,,hang on, 'Gin.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 06:56 PM

Hold on they said, things could be worse.
So I held on, and sure enough, things got worse...

Life gets teejus sometimes.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Amos
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 06:18 PM

Praise the universe that you're reasonably strong and in decent health; you can move ahead. There will be time to breath and time to see things newly.

I promise.


A

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Amergin
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 05:38 PM

I didnt mention that the past few days my anxiety attacks have been coming more and more frequently....like yesterday i kind of freaked out and scratched the shit out of my arm....til it bled...and then some....it hurts like hell now...

but thanks everyone...

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 05:34 PM

Blues in your water? Someone has been putting substances into your beer!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Mark Clark
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 05:30 PM

Country songs are just white people's blues.

They call it stormy Monday, but Tuesday's just as bad (2)
Wednesdays worse, and Thursday's also sad.

People come and ask me, how does a poor man do (2)
Sews patches on his clothes, stuffs newspapers down in his shoes.

I've got blues in my water, got blues all in my tea,
Blues in my water puts blues all in my tea,
I've got blues in my home, Lord they're between my wife and me.

There's only three women I ever loved in my life (2)
My mother, my sister, my sweetheart and my wife. <g>

See, it gets better. Now get your mojo working and you'll soon be as fine as wine in summertime.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Peter T.
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 05:18 PM

"Oh Gertrude, Gertrude, when sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions." (Claudius, in Hamlet). A good Shakespearean quote is, for some weird reason, a comfort.

yours ever,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Mudlark
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 05:18 PM

Hang in there Amergin...sing a lot, if you can, walk a lot if you can, and don't forget to breathe. You still have Mudcat, for what it's worth. We'll be here...

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Chief Chaos
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 05:11 PM

You just have to add a train, a dog and a pick-up truck and you'll have a #1 hit for sure.

Sorry for your troubles.
I'd like to say things will get better but I'm not a fortune teller.
I'm actually not a pessimist, I'm an optimistic pessimist.

I'm positive I'm doomed!


Try to laugh.

Subject: RE: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 05:10 PM

Ah well, as I keep hearing on the radio - drink up - it's 5 'o'clock somewhere!

Take care and just think, how much farther down could you be? None? Well then, it's all uphill now. Mind you, uphill is a struggle. You know we're here to give you a hand.

LTS

Subject: BS: I'm a bloody walking country song
From: Amergin
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 04:53 PM

jesus....some weeks I wonder why I got up at all...

i lost my partner...my future bride is no longer my future bride...we have parted ways...that happened sunday...

this morning i got fired from my job....for attendance issues...beyond my control...

so now me heart is broken...and no money coming in...god what a life.