I Am Discouraged. Anyone else?

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Neesy

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I might add exhausted, having sat a week straight mostly at the computer and TV and not feeling at rest even when I lie down.
Is there anything you can do to be even just a little bit more active? It does make a difference if you could move a bit more and maybe just go for short walk or something similar (swimming?) (Swimming is good if you have joint problems)

I find on weekends sometimes I get a bit sluggish and lazy so I look forward to going back to work and a regular routine. Even if I don't feel like it or I am not in the mood I make myself go to the gym right after my shift is over.

It really does make a big difference in your well being and attitude!
 

CoriSCapnSkip

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Is there anything you can do to be even just a little bit more active? It does make a difference if you could move a bit more and maybe just go for short walk or something similar (swimming?) (Swimming is good if you have joint problems)

I find on weekends sometimes I get a bit sluggish and lazy so I look forward to going back to work and a regular routine. Even if I don't feel like it or I am not in the mood I make myself go to the gym right after my shift is over.

It really does make a big difference in your well being and attitude!

I will try, just haven't had the heart, thanks.
 

Blake

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Is there anything you can do to be even just a little bit more active? It does make a difference if you could move a bit more and maybe just go for short walk or something similar (swimming?) (Swimming is good if you have joint problems)

I find on weekends sometimes I get a bit sluggish and lazy so I look forward to going back to work and a regular routine. Even if I don't feel like it or I am not in the mood I make myself go to the gym right after my shift is over.

It really does make a big difference in your well being and attitude!
Neesy, I think you might be over-doing it a bit much. You work, and then you go straight to the gym? I know fitness can be addictive but I think it would be better if you just went home and maybe just went to the gym every second day after work. Back in the mid-90's, I used to jog 15 kilometers a day. It was good, but I couldn't do it so good now because joints can't heal as fast. I like those documentaries, 'Boxing Greatest's', I got the one on Rocky Marciano, he used to box under the water. Resistance exercise. If I was you, I'd just do a bit of hydrotherapy( power walking in the pool!), also by some of those light weights, like ten pound. I don't understand why everyone had to do to the gym?
 

CoriSCapnSkip

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For many years reading was my best escape but for two big reasons I am almost completely unable to do so now. For one, I get distracted by things I need to do or things which worry me. Two, it just reminds me of how much I suck. Here I spent years reading piles of books, learning correct English, hopefully narrative and storytelling basics, and how to be a fast and accurate typist, and all it gets me is to know that thousands of authors have produced millions of books and I've written just a handful none of which are good enough to be put in print by a major publisher. For the life of me I don't understand how I could have turned out so dumb and stupid. I've only woken up in the last three years to how dire a situation really is, which I always believed I could turn around or make better. It's not that I don't want to read, it's just what's the use? My justification for it was that I was in process of learning to produce my own books, and now I seem unable to realistically justify that. Everyone wants me to be "real" and admit how much I suck. Now, Trump comes along as the cherry on top, running on a platform of, "Everybody sucks but me," and despite committing a well-documented string of crimes and misdemeanors, things that, even had I been unscrupulous enough to do, I'd be skinned alive for (and even a few prominent authors and other entertainers have been prosecuted for sexual assault so it's not just that I'm not rich and famous) PEOPLE BELIEVE HIM AND ELECT HIM PRESIDENT, for running on a platform basically stating undesirables like me suck and should be eliminated. I'm just looking around wondering when checkout time is. That's pretty much the central reason why I'm discouraged. If I can use some of my skills to fight this current menace it won't all have been for naught but I do have to get paid to do so.
 

DiO'Bolic

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For many years reading was my best escape but for two big reasons I am almost completely unable to do so now. For one, I get distracted by things I need to do or things which worry me. Two, it just reminds me of how much I suck. Here I spent years reading piles of books, learning correct English, hopefully narrative and storytelling basics, and how to be a fast and accurate typist, and all it gets me is to know that thousands of authors have produced millions of books and I've written just a handful none of which are good enough to be put in print by a major publisher. For the life of me I don't understand how I could have turned out so dumb and stupid. I've only woken up in the last three years to how dire a situation really is, which I always believed I could turn around or make better. It's not that I don't want to read, it's just what's the use? My justification for it was that I was in process of learning to produce my own books, and now I seem unable to realistically justify that. Everyone wants me to be "real" and admit how much I suck. Now, Trump comes along as the cherry on top, running on a platform of, "Everybody sucks but me," and despite committing a well-documented string of crimes and misdemeanors, things that, even had I been unscrupulous enough to do, I'd be skinned alive for (and even a few prominent authors and other entertainers have been prosecuted for sexual assault so it's not just that I'm not rich and famous) PEOPLE BELIEVE HIM AND ELECT HIM PRESIDENT, for running on a platform basically stating undesirables like me suck and should be eliminated. I'm just looking around wondering when checkout time is. That's pretty much the central reason why I'm discouraged. If I can use some of my skills to fight this current menace it won't all have been for naught but I do have to get paid to do so.
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There you go, being nice again. You are going to completely destroy your bad boy rep if you keep this up!:rolleyes::p
 

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DiO'Bolic

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LOL. On Saturday I was in charge of selling Christmas Trees at my weekend part-time job. The way you tell if the trees are good and healthy is to stomp them on their truck 3-4 times. If only brown needles fall off it is a good tree. If green needles fall off it indicates the tree has gone too long without water, and probably will not last long. I always check every tree because I won’t give a questionable tree to a customer. One time I pounded a tree on my foot. Felt nothing, but later that night I did feel the pain once the drugs started to wear off. Sunday they found out I was on painkillers and moved me inside selling snow blowers, because they didn’t want me handling a chain saw. Hmmm... I been using chain saws for 40 years and can wield one with my eyes closed. Why they had me on Christmas trees to begin with boggles the mind because I’m great at snowblowers (I take the time to show everyone how to operate it from start to finish, and most are first time snowblower users and are afraid, for some reason, to reveal they know nothing about them). I figure they assigned me to outside because I’m the only person that doesn’t complain about working in freezing temps and snow (which we had Saturday evening and Sunday). Sunday they even had me mentoring two people on how to sell snowblowers because all the customers seem to love me (little do they know :devil:), and I get results.
 

GNTLGNT

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LOL. On Saturday I was in charge of selling Christmas Trees at my weekend part-time job. The way you tell if the trees are good and healthy is to stomp them on their truck 3-4 times. If only brown needles fall off it is a good tree. If green needles fall off it indicates the tree has gone too long without water, and probably will not last long. I always check every tree because I won’t give a questionable tree to a customer. One time I pounded a tree on my foot. Felt nothing, but later that night I did feel the pain once the drugs started to wear off. Sunday they found out I was on painkillers and moved me inside selling snow blowers, because they didn’t want me handling a chain saw. Hmmm... I been using chain saws for 40 years and can wield one with my eyes closed. Why they had me on Christmas trees to begin with boggles the mind because I’m great at snowblowers (I take the time to show everyone how to operate it from start to finish, and most are first time snowblower users and are afraid, for some reason, to reveal they know nothing about them). I figure they assigned me to outside because I’m the only person that doesn’t complain about working in freezing temps and snow (which we had Saturday evening and Sunday). Sunday they even had me mentoring two people on how to sell snowblowers because all the customers seem to love me (little do they know :devil:), and I get results.
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....perfect for Marsha!.....