Originally Posted By alexbook I have a doctor's appointment at 4:45 this afternoon. If the past is anything to go by, I'll scurry around frantically trying to get my work done early and rush there, only to find that she's double-booked and running behind and I could have taken my time. :-(
Originally Posted By alexbook Could I just surrender now? Admit defeat and stop trying to pretend that I can handle life?
Originally Posted By chickendumpling Gee guys. Sorry to get your hopes up like that but I'm not leaving LP. HA! As if it would be that easy to get rid of me! LOL. I had just had a reeeeeaaalllly bad day and came onto LP to have some fun and see if any of my "playmates" were around and wanting to play but I made the mistake of going into WE. I'm a big girl and no one forced me to click into there! lol. I went in there (though I am forever telling people not too, lol) because 2oony had started about trolls and it was interesting to me because LP is the only on-line community I've ever been in and I don't actually know a lot about trolls and so I was glad to see the article he posted and hear the discussion and just get a little, how you say, edumucation and all. It was interesting and BOY did I learn about trolls/trollish behavior from people who may or may not actually be trolls or whatever! LOL. Anyway, seeing some of the remarks that were posted made me WAY cranky and I got fed up and so I whined out loud in here. So really, I guess it's 2oony's fault that everyone thought I was leaving. LOL! But thanks for all the nice things you guys said about me though. You shore know how to make a chicken feel loved. *hugs* whine? I want to stay here and LP but I gotta go do Mom stuff. bbl. And I will be whining with quincytoo until Friday when she leaves on her trip. And I will empathy whine with the rest of y'all too! LOL! All together now! WAH! LOL.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling (and just for clarification - When I joked above that it was 2oony's fault that everyone thought I was leaving I meant because it was the comments in his thread that made me whine about being "done" and needing a break not him. Nothing 2oony posted in that thread (or anywhere ever) made me cranky. Quite the opposite. Dear Lord! Do I make any sense at all anymore? LOL
Originally Posted By smedley Woo Hoo! Chickie *D* is back!!! My whine? Chickie *D* made me think she was leaving!!!!
Originally Posted By markedward I kind of thought it might be "I am absolutely gone for ever - for at least an hour!" because I've said or thought things like that myself a few hundred times. Not about LP*, but about other stuff. *I've only been in WE twice, once before I knew better and once to see what all the fuss was about. Everywhere else people are super nice to me. Not always to each other, but I always assume (hope) that's play fighting. And because that isn't a whine, and this is the whiny section, I'll whine that ... well I don't have anything to whine about, because our four year old isn't screaming (like he was until fifteen minutes ago), our 2 year old isn't refusing to have anything to do with me (because he is with his other dad), and I think our 8 yo made eye contact with me just now (unlike most of this afternoon). No, wait, maybe I do have something to whine about. Pass the whine.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling I'm whining that today when I logged on to LP everything was marked read. I hate when that happens.
Originally Posted By chickendumpling and markeward posted <<I kind of thought it might be "I am absolutely gone for ever - for at least an hour!" >> Well, since I'm whining I'll go ahead and respond to that. No, that wasn't exactly what I was thinking. I was really mad and really sad at the things I saw posted in that thread. And because of it I had decided to take a break of an indeterminate period of time 'cause I just really didn't need that right then and seeing those posts made me think that LP had taken a "laissez-faire" approach to WE it made me wonder if I really wanted to stay in a community like that. I think admin has an _incredibly_ difficult job and frankly I wouldn't want it. I just personally do not like the "free-for-all" WE feels like to me sometimes. I don't mean "free-for-all" in terms of radically diverse and divergent opinions being argued. I am all about that. Debate is one of the most intellectually stimulating and satisfying things a person can do under the right circumstances, imho. (Unfortunately, imho, WE is not that place. LOL.) I mean "free-for-all" in terms of allowing name calling and saying things just to provoke someone with no fear of accountability or censure. I am not talking about "censorship" and I am no sissy when it comes to arguing. Trust me. I just would like to see a basic Troll policy outlined and enforced so that actual intellectual debate and a free exchange of ideas could occur. I love LP. I think admin has done an amzing job for a long time and they have personally helped me out more than once when I forgot my password or accidentally posted during the bash under the wrong name or posted something and then got too self-conscious about it and asked to retract my post. Me whining here is not a criticism of them personally. This is Doobie and Rebekah's website not mine and I know I am just a penny in the fountain and easily replaced. I just don't like to see mean, intentionally provocative posts and outright ad hominem attacks on other posters on what is otherwise a wonderful, fun, family-friendly site. I was both mad and sad that a few posters are essentially "allowed" to talk to other people that way and that I basically have to write off a whole section of this place. I'm sorry if my whining ramblings here upset or offend anyone. Just my two cents
Originally Posted By chickendumpling I should probably finish my thoughts here. lol. Just got interrupted earlier and so I had to wrap it up abruptly and without saying everything I wanted to. <-- whine. LOL. I love LP. I know I said that already but I really do. This is the first on-line community I have ever belonged to and probably the only one I ever will. When I first started posting here I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. lol. But everyone here, including admin, was so forgiving of my mistakes. And pretty much everyone still is. LPers, which of course includes admin, have been so nice and warm and open and helpful and friendly to me that LP has become a part of my psyche. Man, I sound like a crazy woman. LOL. But my point is that had admin been rigid and forced to red-line me EVERY time I went off-topic or every time I technically violated the "rules" instead of being allowed to exercise a little discretion in those areas, well, LP just wouldn't be LP and I never would have been able to make the friendships I have made and never would have become part of this wonderful Disney-lovin' community that means so much to me. I think the "give" in the rules and the freedom and discretion that admin has is part of what makes this place so great and is one of the reasons I love it so much. Some of the best and most touching and most insightful and most bonding and funniest and most fun on LP have been in the threads that have careened wildly off topic or otherwise "broken" some rule of "netiquette" or "community standards". So I guess what I'm saying is that while I may whine from time to time and even feel the need to take a break from time to time, I still love LP and would be sad to see it become a place where admin was rigid and unforgiving to its community members and stringently enforced the "letter" of the standards and not the "spirit" of LP. I still don't like the stuff I don't like but I do love the freedom admin gives us and I guess the "policy" is you have to take the good with the bad. So, until it changes, I'll just do my best to ignore the bad and hope that others chime in with more good. Honestly, I'm kinda embarrassed that I posted about being frustrated and needing a break. I was just really frazzled that day and I shouldn't have posted then. It was selfish, impulsive and dramatic and I regret it. I hope everyone can forgive me for that and just let's forget the whole thing.
Originally Posted By mele Forgotten. It's incredibly easy to forget things lately. Especially things like my house keys. My sunglasses. My slippers. My car. ;-)
Originally Posted By chickendumpling I do not want to go to this meeting. Sure it *sounds* all important and everything but you know its gonna be put-a-pencil-in-my-eye boring.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove I'm having a stinkin' colonoscopy tomorrow, you silly wimpy LP freaks. I can't believe I have to put up with your petty little whines when I have such an earth-shaking problem. (And no one cares.) I have to go drink that venemous gut-cleansing potion right now. And does anybody want to hold my hand? No. Does anyone want to give me an annual pass for free? No. Does anyone want to have their colon checked? No. So just put that in your whiny-butt crybaby endoscope and smoke it! So there!
Originally Posted By smedley ^ A bit over the top for play pen perhaps? My whine, I got a sticky eye infection.
Originally Posted By smedley That said colonoscopy isn't a nice procedure. I hope it goes as well as possible.
