Sometimes being a packrat pays off.
In my office, most of our files are on the network drive; like a good-news-bad-news joke, everyone can get to them. Which means anyone can move or completely delete files. Our ED was looking for some files and - whoopsie! they're gone! Luckily I - being something of a packrat - had duplicates on my hard drive. I was aboe to send her what she wanted.
Jilli, that is awful. I am so sorry. And sorry you can't have an adult beverage as well.
{{{Jilli}}} I'm sorry. Seriously 2011, back off our Jilli.
Damn, Jilli. I am so very sorry about that. And the not being able to have some absinthe is a total insult to injury. Stupid drug interactions.
Oh Jilli, that seriously sucks. I hope a wonderful opportunity comes knocking very soon.
{{{{{Jilli}}}}} That is just rotten. I am so sorry.
ION, I just had a good but emotionally draining conversation with my mom. It was good, and ended well, but now I'm feeling self-inflicted (by no means mom-inflicted) guilt at having rocked the boat.
(To make a long story short, she accidentally tripped a trigger I didn't even know I had regarding some experiences in the church I had been in for a long time, and I needed to talk to her about it.)
Feeling drained and a bit shaky.
{{Anne}} I hope that the good more than soothes the tough emotions. Peaceful rest wishes.
Thank you, Laura. The draining has to do with the nice little double-whammy that I don't feel I have the right (in general) to speak up, complain, protest, rock the boat, etc. So I spoke up about that after Mom unintentionally shut me down when I needed to vent, and that triggered guilt about speaking up. Argh.
Retro-active~ma for Drew.
Job~ma for Jilli. It just really sucks that you need it again so soon.
Anne, I wish there were magic words that would make those kinds of guilt just evaporate. But since there aren't, the best I can do is wish that the guilt is soon replaced by a sense of pride in the accomplishment of having spoken up for yourself, even though it goes against your conditioning. You do deserve peopled to speak up for you, even if you have to be the one to do it.