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So tired of being afraid

Kalpatru we must have overlapped I didn't see your comment

I used to hate flying so much I had to dose myself with valium before a flight so that I would pass out. I was the one slumped against the window, black hat pulled down over her face and gentle whistling snores trickling out from underneath. Your method sounds expensive!

So tired of being afraid

looked AT. Not up.

Latest fear - my fingers will no longer type what my brain tells them to.

So tired of being afraid

I do feel most of my problems would be banished if someone would just bring me a cup of tea, a hug, and a million euros.

Over and out

So tired of being afraid

Kalpataru (ok no more nickname, will try to remember ) make every day count! At least you work so your colleagues will notice you haven't pitched up ...

So tired of being afraid

Berry

So tired of being afraid

Barry, how very tactful of you not to add the first line of that excellent quote 'I'm an old man' etc - the older my mum got the more worried her and it used to really bug me that she wasted so much quality of life fretting over the may-never-happen . I do refuse to dwell on my fears (this blog notwithstanding) but it bugs me that they even try to affect my serenity and maybe as I get older they won't be dismissed as easily.

Having a real problem to deal with actually helps. Nothing for it but to get on with it and not waste thoughts on but-what-if.

So tired of being afraid

Bloody, that goes back to trying to foresee (and therefore bypass) every risk - because for sure nothing that ever has happened to me was covered by insurance

I'm an insurance agent's dream, though - I'm comprehensively covered for everything they can think up.

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Jac, glad to be of use and if you ever need it and can't find the copy/paste, remember it is Evian spelled backwards. By purest coincidence, I'm sure

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Ms Cork let there be cake. And if not, hope you know how to light a signal fire without matches.

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JJ what did you do when you hurt your knee? Because that's the commonest fear of all for those who live alone - being suddenly crippled and no-one in earshot and yeah dinna fash no alcohol was taken last night I only have one major vice

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JJ oh help I'm sorry

But maybe, just maybe, the next time you are waving round a chainsaw you'll think 'that ruddy Biff and her fears' but you'll be a bit more cautious as a result and walk away intact?

Then I'd feel better!

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Back off, Stretch. You're practically a vegetarian anyway. Go eat hearts of palm, I don't like 'em, all yours.

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Molly, that's one of the things I like about you - you don't like biltong. I have to be careful who I befriend. Imagine finding myself on a desert island with only biltong to eat, and with someone who liked the stuff?

My daughter says that about her husband, anyway. She says it's one of the reasons she married him. When she's managed to score a stash he calls her biltong-breath and won't kiss her, never mind try to steal any of it.

So tired of being afraid

JJ, I sleep downstairs, under an old ceiling supporting a couple of tons of old concrete floor on the next level. A sagging unlevel concrete floor, covered in old quarry tiles (probably another several hundred kilos there), a big enough Spanish spider could probably bring it down with a hearty sneeze.

I may need a drink after thinking about that

So tired of being afraid

Hans that awful cartoon made me laugh out loud, I'm a terrible person

And Molly no, she wouldn't, she's leaner than when you met her and I suspect as tough as old boot leather. Instant biltong, in her own way

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Crest I know that daisies will be pushed up, somewhere along the line. Not even that worried about it, per se. I just don't understand why I have to think about it ahead of time.

So tired of being afraid

Molly, I was hungry when I mumped my way mournfully through the blog. Luckily I found something to eat and the pets remain intact.

So tired of being afraid

Vier, so basically I am coming late to the party in my frettings and others have been worrying for yonks? Hmmmm.

I think I preferred living in innocent ignorance, though.

RE: Service animals

Good grief, people walk without dogs? Why?

I only walk because I have a dog who needs walks, the concept of walking for any other reason is totally alien to me. What a waste of pedestrian energy -

RE: Service animals

Are you saying mine isn't socialized?

Well of course she isn't. She does quite enjoy going to pavement cafes here. I'd never take her to a flea market, bad enough having to dodge the dogs already there, especially the tiny ones which I am always convinced will be stood on

RE: Service animals

I always feel sorry for dogs dragged into crowded areas, they always look desperately ill at ease

My dog used to look so woebegone tied up outside the supermarket I thought she'd be thrilled to go into Pets At Home but she was a bit of a menace - dragged me from shelf to shelf, had to be carried away from the bunnies on sale, and tried to attack a puppy for getting more attention than she did. She likes going out in the car but only for trips to the beach, she's always tense until we've gone past the vets and the shops so getting more places for her to be awkward and uncomfortable isn't really a priority in her world.

RE: Ladies - Protecting your private digital data

Trouble is it needs to be sealed in plastic or paper to look genuine.

Change your name change your life

Molly please please tell me Annette was a bird-watcher (ie twitcher)?

Change your name change your life

Just renamed you Barrogant very seductive to the right type, mind ...

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Merc, no-one would let it alone, you'd be Lou, Lulu, Weezy, and other variations but I also really like the name Louise. I do know a Mercedes in real life, or I did years ago, and nobody was allowed to shorten or change it in any way

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Molly, wow, now that gives my half-baked theory a nice little twist!

My initials were originally going to be JELL, my mother fortunately realized just in time that a plump baby may not appreciate being gifted with the nickname Jelly

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Abagail, I worked with an Abi who refused to be called Abagail but then maybe that isn't your name I was happy to switch surnames, mine lent itself to lots of silly jokes which most of my teachers had used over the years, oh ha ha. I was sick of it and wouldn't ever go back to it. There's a bloke I'd marry in a heartbeat to get his surname because it works so well with mine but maybe I should be done with name changes.

I don't entirely agree that what people call you doesn't change who you are as a person. Some people identify completely with their birth name and so it isn't an issue. Some - especially when the name has been nailed on for family reasons - will change either to a variation of it, or another nickname altogether, I quoted Buzz Aldrin in a much earlier comment.

Viking, Mimi will get that sorted for you what a great idea. However if you start at minute 4 of this clip (sorry, I couldn't find it on its own) you might rethink -



So Mercedes is your real name too? And, er, do you mind when I say Merc? I really must stop doing that abbreviating thing!

Hans very clever effects in that video, wow!

KN in real life I use the name people introduce themselves by, but I know one guy by his shortened name who in Spain is called by his full name and he's rather liking it. Z is now very good about using his full name, I try to remember, but even his wife still calls him the nickname, which doesn't help!

Change your name change your life

Hans, how odd, I always thought it was the German form of Henry but then I had never really thought about it before. So you're a regular John. and always known as Hans - Hansie?


Wen, she really did ignore that extended microphone, eh? I finally made an assumption

Usha, I know - KN will also know - the shortened form of Ursula is Uschi, which in my head I always spelt Ushi, so I assumed it was a shortening for you too and YAY for the 100th comment name your prize!

I looked at numerology but there are so many different ways of counting, the Chaldean isn't exactly 1=A all the way through the alphabet, it skips about a bit and gave me a surprisingly accurate reading, especially the switching from Elizabeth to Elegsabiff (although Biff has the same value as Elizabeth so ...) the actual 1=A said I was sweet and nice and motherly so yeah that's a crock I named my daughter after someone I admired very much and she turned out very like that person but BOSSY. Then I looked up more about that person I admired and guess what, so was she

Change your name change your life

And you are obviously not going to answer my other question so I shall assume that in real life you are a meek-mannered demure genius in librarian glasses who never says a word out of place, and it is only CS-Molly who strides large and speaks her mind



Heading out

Change your name change your life

Yes, terrible terrible things have been done in the name of religion by the narrow-minded zealots and the opportunists who get the most caught up in it and then force their evil values on those who trusted religion as a whole to look after the community.



Almost makes you hope there IS an afterlife, and an extremely angry personage waiting at the Gates.