Not quite so down, thank you wonderful Gather folks!

Sometimes you think you're alone, the only one on Depression Island, and then nice people, like some of those here in Gather, come along and say nice things, encouraging things and offer some suggestions that may have worked for them and that could work for me.

I have to tell you it makes me feel pretty darn, almost happy.  Ok, that might be a stretch but even with the little guy being sick and having to go to the doctor and the bakery messing up my parents 50th anniversary cake and me having a headache all darn day, my daughter being sick too, having to ask my mother if she could pay for my medicines co-pay, well, in spite of all that, I am not crying.  And that's actually a great accomplishment for me.

I read my positive comments on my "I'm feeling down" post and it made me start to feel better.  I got a great, supportive email from someone in Gather and that made me cry a little but in a sort of nice way.  I stayed in bed and tried my best to get some sleep today and, that helped, other than the darn headache.  And I took my medicines regularly, at the times I'm supposed to, that helped AND I listened to some great music, very fast, cheerful stuff and that helped a whole bunch!!  I've got to dig out my CD player because as cool as my iPod is (won it in a Gather contest couple years ago), I need to listen to some of my great old CD's that I love to sing to.

So I am actually feeling better.  Tomorrow we go celebrate my parents' 50th anniversary, not something I'm totally fond of celebrating because it was pretty bad growing up with them, but they're fairly decent parents now so, I do love them and they want us all together so that's something we can give them that doesn't cost money.  Shannon has all but hocked the family silver (joke, we don't really have anything valuable) to be able to give my parents a gift of a gift card to one of their favorite restaurants, Chili's.  So we aren't even going empty handed to the party.

All in all, so far, not a bad day and it's already half past 6PM, so that's cool.  I even cooked dinner; baked BBQ chicken, zucchini and I made homemade clam chowder.  And it was pretty darn tasty, if I do say so myself!

I want to thank everyone again.  I am sorry about posting a negative post, I hate doing that.  Sometimes I want and/or need to reach out (mostly because I am feeling adrift and sort of lonesome).

I hope you all have had a very good day and have plans for a very great weekend!