I'm loosing my fucking mind..........

[Billyman]

Can I have a show of hands on who's with me?

[Pianomahnn]

I'm not showing you my hands.

I know exactly where my mind is. Now. . .if I can only remember where that is. :D

[disturbed]

??

[Mudflap]

Getting there.

[MAC]

Loosing your mind?

In two weeks I will be taking an ENTIRE WEEK off work to go see my kid.

I haven't taken a whole week off since christmas break in 8th grade.
Hell, more than 4 days of any one thing constitutes "a life"

did I mention that the boss is out of town and I'm doing my job AND his?
we are having real problems getting jobs out on time
my best vendor is screwing up all my orders
I have machines tore up in every shop but unless I want to work until midnight each night I can't get them fixed right now
there's a lightening storm outside right now and my computer ha sno power protection
two skinny mean dogs showed up at my house last night and ate the cat food so tonight I get to shoot them
we're in that time of year when 1/2 my snakes stop eating whether I want them to or not
I set my brother-in-law up with a DVD burner but his wife's buddies didn't do a very good job with he rlast format and there are some "windows issues" that I am going to have to resolve for him since I sold him the hardware

oh.....and I haven't ha dmuch time to post or write lately

you know, it wasn't so bad until I looked at it like that.

[Barbie]

Mike had a game that night and when he got home, he and his Buddy sat in the garage drinking beers and admiring the neighbourhood. By the time he came in the house to have a shower it was 1am. I was in bed, but not sleeping. (Mainly because I had slept in till 1pm that day.
While Mike was in the shower, I heard a loud vehicle coming down the street. It sounded like it had muffler issues. But it was going really slow and at 1am it was annoying because, well, it was loud. So I got up out of bed and peeked out my blinds to see what the heck was going on.

An older model gray van (late 80's early 90's Astrovan, squared off) was coming around the bed towards on our street. It parked across the street from our neighbours house (who has a street light right there) and a guy in a red sweater got out of the van, but did not let the van door shut. He held it until it was *almost* shut and then, he looked around too often, really suspicious like. You know, like someone who's up to something would do.
The house he parked in front of is a new build and is at lock up stage right now. He walked up the drive way and was still looking around, down the street, up the street and he took a quick glance in the garage which did not have a door yet, and then proceeded to that houses front door. We can't see the front door so I don't know how he got into the house.
He was in there for about 5-10 mins at which time both the bedroom light of that house, and the bathroom light which is downstairs and visible to us, went out at the same time. Mike then started to watch cause he had just come out of the shower.
Not mins later, another guy (gray sweater with hood) was walking down the middle of our street, and Mike asked if that was the guy I was talking about and I said no, the guy was wearing a red sweater. But suddenly, gray sweater boy gets into the van on the passanger side.
Something was DEFINELTY up. Gray sweater boys, gets out of the van again and walks up to one of those big green construction waste bins and takes a look.
Then, he crosses the street (our side of hte street) on the other side of our neighbours house. But we couldn't see what he was up to. He wasn't there long, and then went back into the van.
Red sweater boys comes out of hte house and gets into the drivers side of hte van.
I call the cops.
I tell the Constable on the phone what is going on. Meanwhile, red sweater boy gets out of the van again and HE crosses the street to those houses on the other side of our neighbours.
The Constable tells me she's sending two cruisers and the helicopter.
Red sweater boy, walks back the van and gets back into hte drivers side. They sat there and they must have talked.
Gray sweater boy gets out of the van and now HE goes into the house.
About 5 mins later the cruiser is coming down the street slowly. I tell the Constable on the phone they need to come down abit and around hte corner. She says they can here me so I start directing them towards our house.
At first, they flashed their mounted car light on our house and I said, across the street. It instantly turned and they stopped dead.
Another cruiser was coming up from behind and I said that it needed to get up to that van before it took off.
So it did and all at once all these cops get out of hte car, guns drawn.
Two go to the van and pull out red sweater boy, and the other two cops go on either side of hte house.
Then a cop SUV pulls up (our other neighbour) and they get out.
Gray sweater boy was caught in the back of the house trying to get out the door which was stuck at only about a foot open and he coudln't squeeze through.
They were both arrested and put into cop cars and the van was towed.
Mike and I had to get witness statements.
Turns out they did cut the power like I thought, and they cut the water too because they were going to steal a jacuzzi tub.

Now Mike and I are a little worried about retaliation. They are definetly getting the charge of B&E, but they hadn't actually stolen anything so it's going to be harder to prove that they were going to do it, but our witness statements sure help.
But they were probably construction workers. There was no sign of forced entry so they probably had a construction key.
They will probably lose their jobs. That might give them cause to come after us and our house.
I worry a bit about KRistine.

Mike's brother said that he's sure he saw an older gray van hanging around late one night on the OTHER side of our street (there are three sides, it's kinda a long story and hard to explain) but he saw 3 guys in that van and that was at midnight on thursday.

So...

That's our excitement.

It was fun.

What did you do?


ps. Awesome that you're going to see your kid Mac

pps. Billy: What's wrong?

[jess]

*Jess raises hand*
This weekend was the second time My ex got Maddy. She cries each time she comes home. She wants her daddy and mommy back together, she wants us to move back to WV. It hurts me to see her so hurt, and it's hard for a 5 year old to understand divorce.
The lawyer is so slow, I filed for divorce 3 months ago and he has yet to be served.
My ex calls me every couple of days claiming to have changed and whining about how much he loves me.

And Billy, you can't lose your mind.. you're the only thing that keeps me sane. :D

[Koliedrus]

I lost my mind when I started giving a shit.

Looks like I'll be around for a while.

[MAC]

I took a drive in the rain storm, fixed a machine, bought some rum and shot those two dogs

now I'm at peace again.

and although I'm not a changed man and my ex will never come back to me I do get to go see my daughter, which makes for nice opportunity....and opportunities are what make memories

[mute]

I lost my mind when I started giving a shit.

I think that's the boat I'm in.

I always think I'll get a break from projects, and assignments on the due date. But on the same day we get another project. I like what I'm going to school for, but I still seem to dislike going and working because I have to. Of course that's how the world works, I'm just coping with it seeing I barely worked the past year before this one.

I go nucking futs because I get an assignment and I want to do start working (hard) on right away. But I can't because I got another assignment I have to work (hard) on before it, because it's due earlier. I know how to manage my time good, but I still can't get that jack-hammer out of my head making the noise 'WORK WORK, DON'T FORGET TO WORK, AND DON'T FORGET THAT ONE EITHER' every time in sledges into my rock of memory.

:eek: :cry: :laugh: :mad: :? :zzz ;)

[Cruise Director]

I started vacation at 6:46 p.m. this evening. Sanity is just a day anda plane ride away.

Viva La Cruise

[jess]

Looks like I'll be around for a while.

:D

[MuffyTheVampyreLayer]

Feh! I lost my mind years ago. It wasn't that useful anyway.

[ms. bing]

other than a brief reprieve sunday night that i was in no mood to enjoy, i have spent the last two weeks or so with my head up the ass of a woman who died 100 years ago...
my professor thinks i should submit this paper to conferences to go present it, the trick is i haven't written it yet...
i have the next two days at home to write it.
i have more research than i need and more thoughts than i can possibly sort through and use...
yhea, i'm right there with ya.
this professor is already talking to me about graduate theses and doctoral work.
i haven't even taken the damned GRE yet.
shit....

[Barbie]

There...Billy, do you feel better?

People all over are losing their minds

Thanks for the reminder.

[Billyman]

Hehe Barbs, imma say a little because for some strange, odd and unforeseen reason, I think you almost care.

In my household, I’m the peace maker, the “since” maker, the “stomach all the BS” and attempt to make something of it without killing people person.

I don’t stress out over things now-a-dayz, just deal with whatever comes to pass so I can burn or at least help burn another bridge. Something’s are more trying than others but still I press on. I’ve done things this way for a fair amount of years and I seem to be able to cope with just about anything. Yet I get aggravated just like everyone else. Hell, I ain’t perfect ya know. I’m probably the most sane insane person I know and sometimes I question which way I’m headed within’ those two.

Although I started this thread out of aggravation, I had anterior motives: I wanted to see what got started.

You yourself Barbs had started a thread about the lack of activity here on THT. And now you have some…….no links, no news, no Bush or Kerry, just a statement and a request and this forum has been poppin’.

Keep ‘em coming guys, I like to read shit about people who have it worse than I do. :p

[Asmodeus]

*raises hands and waves them around then pokes self in the eye* Damn that hurt.

Me going nuts. Have been for a while. never really been sane come to think of it.

I have a job that is driving me nuts. I have no days off, I cover three states for plunger lift, my boss is an ass, my partner is a hipocritical lying sack of shit(ie typical salesman), and I want to go back to skool to get my Masters- which I have absolutely no time for, I am over 360 pounds again cause I have no time to work out.

You know I SERIOUSLY considering going back overseas. I won't be able to work on my Masters but I would have a schedule- be able to work out and have days off- a decent work routine, and out of the oilfield.

Or, do I just quit, go back home, try to find some job, even part time, pass the GRE, get loans and work on the Masters...

OR... pack up, quit, move everything back to the folks, pack my backpack with camping gear, and hit the road hitchhiking and see where I end up. I know several places with a fishing pole, normal camping gear, good supply of matches, etc. I can live quite well for a long time, and no one would know I was there. God that is tempting.

[Barbie]

Hehe Barbs, imma say a little because for some strange, odd and unforeseen reason, I think you almost care.

:p

I care.