I guess I'm doing something right... but I could use your help.

MiddleFingerMom

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Wed Jan-26-11 07:48 PM
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I guess I'm doing something right... but I could use your help.

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BTW, the last two days have been very, very bad for me -- probably contributed to
my posting. Not my health (although part of it was somewhat related), but I'm usually
invulnerable to the slings-and-arrows crap. No details needed, but it's been a LEETLE
overwhelming. I'm dealing with it/I hope that it's passing (no, I'm NOT constipated).
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Number 1 (and a BIG Number 1) -- thank you all very much for your kind words. I know
that a few of you respond on a regular basis, but the lack of overall views and replies
conveyed the message to me that I was losing/had lost whatever ability I had had to
help you spray your monitors.
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I've said this before. I learned the incredible value of laughter when I had a comedy/novelty
radio show. During the show, people would call in and tell me how much the show allowed
them to do some serious decompression (long week, Sunday dinner just over at the 'rents,
figuring out the bills (it was a Sunday night show), etc. Not OFTEN, but 2-3 times a year,
that call would be from someone with a terminal illness (or their primary caregiver). We'd
talk for a while about the (ironically) seemingly INterminable weight of their situation on
their backs sometimes 24/7 -- and how, sometimes... listening to my show (which was as
fast and funny and seamless and needing of some focus on THEIR parts as I could make it)
would give them total escape for up to the hour that it was on. They were... elsewhere for
a little while.
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I was very proud of that. I was very humbled by that. It was an incredible joy and an
enormous responsibility.
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My own health, financial situation, abilities, etc now?
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Diminished.
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GREATLY diminished.
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But, as I've also written before, I'm not the type to sit around and say, "Those were the
days, my friends." I'm the type to try to do what I can with what I got.
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Thus, my posts. I do them for all sorts of reasons (I often question the existence of PURE
altruism). It's fun. It occupies my time productively. It gives me online social contact of
sorts. It's gratifying. It takes many hours of work, but it's what I consider my REAL job.
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But, from what some of you have written in the past, it also HELPS people, much in the
same way that radio show did.
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That helps ME get out of MYself. That "greatly diminished" bullshit (real though it is).
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It lets me know that I still have some value. As have your recent posts (in an ENORMOUS
way) encouraging me to continue.
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As to replying to my posts, here's where I'm going to ask again for YOUR help.
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You don't have to actually REPLY (me just saying :rofl: or :thumbsup: makes ME uncomfortable,
too -- unless it's a REALLY impressively funny or insightful post by someone else). But, since
The Lounge has no rec function -- a "kick" IS a rec... and it doesn't take many. With one rec,
views often double ("what kinda rise did he get outta somebody" or "this one MAY be worth
seeing"). Two, three, FOUR kicks (or replies) and it's often "off to the races".
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So, a simple kick now and then -- when you see it drop to the bottom half of the page -- will
greatly help me "spread the good word" in what I kinda consider my ministry.
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Rah, rah, ree -- kick it in the knee.
Rah, rah, rass -- kick it in the OTHER knee.
(How long has it been since you've heard THAT?)
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Bless you.
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:rofl:
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Sorry... "ministry" and "bless you". {snort}
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Thanks again -- very VERY much -- for your encouragement and YOUR therapeutic actions
towards and for me..
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Amd remember, if and when you open one of my posts and think, "Oh... I sure didn't need to
see THAT"... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... you asked for it. It's no longer MY responsibility.
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:rofl::rofl::rofl::thumbsup::rofl::rofl::rofl
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