'Tis the season. by dreamtrove

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'Tis the season.

POSTED BY: DREAMTROVE
UPDATED: Friday, November 12, 2010 08:52
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Sunday, November 7, 2010 7:04 AM

Okay,

I'm tired, cranky, and sick and haven't slept in days, but now I will be at work steady for a while because I have to, so sorry if I was abrasive and ticked people off. If I hadn't gotten sick I woulda just disappeared, but this is me disappearing until the beginning of next year.

I'll try to stop in, but in spite of being down with the flu, I'm burried in work, and this time I have no choice on the schedule. Ten days straight.

god I wish I could just hire someone to be me and take a sleeping pill and wake up when its all over.

I notice that I find myself being a little ornery lately, so I'm going to take a break. It's Christmas buying season and if you're working in retail, it's incredibly taxing and stressful and also uses up lots of time, so I'm going to temporarily disappear and get back to work. I'll see y'all on the flipside.

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Sunday, November 7, 2010 7:56 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Seems folks in retail would be glad to finally get an upswing in some sales....but yeah, busy does fray the nerves some.

Hopefully you'll come out of it all on the other side in good shape, and can enjoy some of the benefits for the effort.

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Sunday, November 7, 2010 9:38 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Glad to hear there might be a cause, as I thought the same and was disheartened by it.

SAD is something many suffer but are unaware of it. In the bipolar community, we try to stay aware of it and when it might come along. The same is true of Spring (which doesn't have a disorder name), which is when we're most likely to experience hypomania or mania.

I'm, ironically, the opposite. I LOVE Winter and glory in when it arrives (like today, when it is raining outside...wheeee!) and I HATE Summer, when everything goes dry and hot.

Nonetheless, it's been shown that extra natural light can help a LOT; you might try it, as part of SAD is often the lessening of sunlight. Good luck.

However, I'm sorry to see you go, both because I respect your voice here and because it probably means you won't read the two threads involving RWA, which I feel might help you understand the concept better. Probably means it'll come up another time, eh, such is life.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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Sunday, November 7, 2010 10:43 AM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Seems folks in retail would be glad to finally get an upswing in some sales...

You've clearly never actually worked in retail. The companies themselves love the upswing. The people doing the actual work want to burn everything to the ground. Some people are really nice when they're doing their shopping, but way more people are total dicks. Multiply that by holidays, and you come home every day wanting to curl up and cry yourself to sleep for a month. (Have I mentioned lately how much I don't miss working in retail?)
I would advise everyone to do the world a favor this month and smile at every cashier they have. Better yet, tell them they're doing a great job. There are some who might not appreciate it, but odds are you will make someone's day.

Just because something can't be explained doesn't mean it becomes yours.

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Sunday, November 7, 2010 11:29 AM

DREAMTROVE

Well, I own the company, but it's still stressful.

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Sunday, November 7, 2010 11:32 AM

FREMDFIRMA

I do that all the time, PR - only one cashier ever gave me a bad reaction from it, was a Dunkin Donuts register operator in Flint, and it was so RARE that I remember it quite clearly even now.

As my purchase moves up the belt, I do a quick scan of the human being operating the register (since the U-scan machines seem to have an almost HAL9000 hatred for me or something) and pull a sort of temporary inclusion of em into my mental "monkeysphere", thus treating them as a fellow human being and working stiff, it's always rather well recieved.

I will say that holiday shopping sucks, and I've seen the worst of it on two occasions, once working the return counter at Toys R Us the day after Xmas for twelve hours straight (including using my little zapgun* on a guy who tried to strangle me!) and having to do such shopping in a crowded mall from a manual wheelchair - which left me a little traumatized and of the FIRM opinion that wheelchairs oughta have some defensive options!

Not a lot of worry now - lack of light doesn't concern me cause I am nocturnal anyway, and I've found that social events of any kind cause me stress... but you know what DOES give me a solid bit of happy-satisfying feeling ?

The notion that the folk at site three can safely celebrate their holiday season, can dream their sweet xmas dreams, without fear or worry, cause somewhere out there is the quite crrrunch, crrrunch of the boots of someone making sure it *IS* safe for them to do so - and that someone is me.

I find that far more satisfying than any social event full of people I don't really understand or even like in a direct kind of way (I honestly prefer not to KNOW the people I watch over) which would just get on my nerves and make me crabby over participating in a society I no longer believe in, much less respect - tho I protect the members of it all the same.

So for ME, happiness is the lonely, cold, silent darkness - and there's a beauty to it that most of you will never see in all your lives, the freshly powdered snow crystals blowing across the lights in an explosion of rainbows, or laying it's gently muffling blanket of white, and the freshly frozen crystals shining back the light like a river of stars to where you almost ache at it's beauty as you walk over it, the scents of vented dryer exhaust as folk finish off their laundry upon retiring to their beds, the sweet, quiet songs of the creatures of the night, the gentle, mournful howl of the wind as it sweeps cleanly over and past us....

There is a wonder to my world that most people never imagine lives just outside their doors, when the world goes quiet and restful, and a peace settles on them in their slumber.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Sunday, November 7, 2010 11:32 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Right on Rose! I do, but then I recognize that's because I'm never in a hurry, my time is my own. People get so frazzled by rushing around trying to buy gifts that their tempers fray and they take it out on whoever is nearby. Notice how nasty they are to other shoppers, and if you saw it, to other drivers, other people looking for parking spaces, cashiers at grocery stores, etc.

It's a bad time of the year for an awful lot of us, for one reason or another, unfortunately, when it should be one of the best. Sad but true.

And yes, business owners don't have it all that great either; increased paperwork, employee problems, customer problems, I don't doubt it.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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Sunday, November 7, 2010 11:32 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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Sunday, November 7, 2010 11:33 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Oh, I've done the mall thing, during Christmas.

Convinced me to never do retail again.

"The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal."

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Sunday, November 7, 2010 5:47 PM

DREAMTROVE

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So for ME, happiness is the lonely, cold, silent darkness - and there's a beauty to it that most of you will never see in all your lives, the freshly powdered snow crystals blowing across the lights in an explosion of rainbows, or laying it's gently muffling blanket of white, and the freshly frozen crystals shining back the light like a river of stars to where you almost ache at it's beauty as you walk over it, the scents of vented dryer exhaust as folk finish off their laundry upon retiring to their beds, the sweet, quiet songs of the creatures of the night, the gentle, mournful howl of the wind as it sweeps cleanly over and past us....

There is a wonder to my world that most people never imagine lives just outside their doors, when the world goes quiet and restful, and a peace settles on them in their slumber.

Sorry, I just had to stop and admire a truly beautiful peace of writing. I'm serious of course.

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Sunday, November 7, 2010 7:21 PM

TRAVELER

Christmas is stressful for a lot of people. I can find myself getting caught up in it and have to step back and tell myself there is no hurry. Be kind and give people space. I add "Thank you", when my transaction is complete. If the scanner misfires it is not the clerks fault and it usually only takes a few seconds to get back in the flow. I even stopped kicking vending machines. That is a big step for me. So to all you retail clerks out there; thank you.

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Traveler

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Sunday, November 7, 2010 9:38 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Hey, it's nearly summer here, and Xmas still makes me crazy...but that's to do with family squabbles and the frenzy in the shops rather than the weather.

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Monday, November 8, 2010 9:44 AM

DREAMTROVE

Thanks for keeping this thread alive, it's a constant reminder to me to get my ass back to work. I'm doing inventory at the moment.

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Monday, November 8, 2010 3:53 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Quote:
So for ME, happiness is the lonely, cold, silent darkness - and there's a beauty to it that most of you will never see in all your lives, the freshly powdered snow crystals blowing across the lights in an explosion of rainbows, or laying it's gently muffling blanket of white, and the freshly frozen crystals shining back the light like a river of stars to where you almost ache at it's beauty as you walk over it, the scents of vented dryer exhaust as folk finish off their laundry upon retiring to their beds, the sweet, quiet songs of the creatures of the night, the gentle, mournful howl of the wind as it sweeps cleanly over and past us....

There is a wonder to my world that most people never imagine lives just outside their doors, when the world goes quiet and restful, and a peace settles on them in their slumber.

Sorry, I just had to stop and admire a truly beautiful peace of writing. I'm serious of course.

Seconded. I make it a point to take late-night walks for just such reasons. And I double them up IF it ever happens to snow around here, because it's such a rare and beautiful sight, and it's much prettier at night.

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010 1:09 PM

DREAMTROVE

First snow, all times of day

alas, now I'm down with some terrible bug, and can't get out of bed, and there's inventory to do... and I'm sooo sleepy.

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Thursday, November 11, 2010 3:47 PM

DREAMTROVE

Okay,

I'm tired, cranky, and sick and haven't slept in days, but now I will be at work steady for a while because I have to, so sorry if I was abrasive and ticked people off. If I hadn't gotten sick I woulda just disappeared, but this is me disappearing until the beginning of next year.

I'll try to stop in, but in spite of being down with the flu, I'm burried in work, and this time I have no choice on the schedule. Ten days straight.

god I wish I could just hire someone to be me and take a sleeping pill and wake up when its all over.

Originally

"Seasonal affective disorder"

Signing off.

Happy holidays

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Thursday, November 11, 2010 4:12 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Oh my god, don't do it to me. I'm still in denial about christmas. It isn't for months yet, is it?

My deepest sympathies, working in retail at this/that time of year.

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Friday, November 12, 2010 8:52 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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There is a wonder to my world that most people never imagine lives just outside their doors, when the world goes quiet and restful, and a peace settles on them in their slumber.

The wonder of even the small things in this world is never lost on me...largely I'm sure because I can enjoy it; I don't think I was much aware of when I was racing around trying to squeeze work, responsibilities and a life together.

But even then, I was lucky enough to work a shift that let me get out in the daytime, and I gloried in hiking our beloved Mountain, and have groused the past few years that I keep having to miss Winter and Spring on the Mountain because of injuries. It finally dawned on me that I don't NEED to go to the Mountain (but I haven't given up hope that I will, someday), that there's beauty all around me anyway, and I treasure it daily.

We don't get snow...in fact the few times we have, we run to the window not to miss it (and a few times it's been snowing in the front yard, but not in the back, it's so light); people here go racing up Mt. Tam and come back with snow on their car's roof, just 'cuz...but rain I ADORE, and can never get enough of.

I gotta tell 'ya, every single night, curling up in my Outback bed (and I DO curl up; two huskies on a double bed...), the mere fact of the cold, crisp air I breathe while snuggled warmly under my quilts, the sound of the crickets when they're around, ALWAYS puts me to sleep with a smile on my face. And waking up to the same crisp air, the birds singing, the fog blanketing everything when it's in, I wake up smiling, too. I'm very lucky, and I know it!

Feel better soonest, DT; your voice will be missed.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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