Showing posts with label whirling thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whirling thoughts. Show all posts

September 24, 2008

Falling Moon


It's been a bad day today.

It started out bad. I overslept. I didn't get to take a shower because I had to get the kids ready for school. I did make it to work on time, I guess that is good.

I feel like I've swallowed the pariah pill at work. For some reason this week, no one is talking to me. Only when I talk first. It's like they are answering me, but not asking me anything. I've pretty much spent the week with my headphones on, doing my work.

So imagine my surprise when I go into my bosses office today, to ask him a simple question. All the sudden he asks me what this email was that I had sent him. I had sent him an email from someone in another department that I didn't know how to answer. He made me feel like a total moron. He wasn't listening to me when I tried to explain why I didn't understand what I was telling him.

Then he looks at me, and out of the blue, say's "Don't take this the wrong way, but is something wrong?" This is not in a concerned way, more like a sarcastic way. He asks me how me and co-worker ex have the phone lines split up, when I told him by the week, he said, well, there are people not being called back, and it seems to be on your week. I sat there thinking, WTF? I mean, just so everyone knows, we work in the fraud department, and the people calling us, for the most part, have been convicted of fraud on the welfare system, not exactly the most truthful bunch.

I was so tired today, and not handling myself well, and of course not thinking on my feet like I usually do, and that combined with suddenly feeling like I did some huge thing because no one wants to talk to me, just really sent me over the edge.

I have called everyone back, and I notate it in accounts. How does he know it is "my" week when he doesn't even know how we have the phones split? HOW??? Of course I didn't think of that until I got back to my desk. It just unnerved me, because he was in a bad mood, and really took it out on me today.

I felt like saying, do you realize I have ALL my work done?? All my phone calls are done. All my files are done, all my email has been answered, I'm down to working on mail returns...for fucks sake.

After this, I sank so far down into it, I ended up crying at my desk because I couldn't bare to get up and walk past people to get to the bathroom. I emailed my friend, and asked her if she could talk, and she was in the middle of a conference call. It just felt like shit.

After I finally left work, I went to do phones at Obama's office. I think I got every mean fucker in this state on the phone. I got cursed at, yelled at, hung up on.

Geezus, this has been one of the worst days I've had in a million fucking years. I feel so beat up, I really just want to fall into my bed and cry for a year. But I can't do that. I've been in a funk all week, but today took the cake.

Hubby called in the middle of all this at work, and when I told him I couldn't talk about it, and I would tell him later, he kept pushing. Finally he got that I didn't want to talk about it at work, but do you think he fucking asked me when I finally got home tonight??? NO...so there I sat, on the couch, feeling like shit, and now he ignores me.

I probably need to go have my depression med's checked, and I know I need to get myself into therapy, but I really think this is me falling apart. Maybe I'm hitting the bottom. Maybe this is it, OC is about to crash and burn. It was all I could do tonight not to pack up a bag and take off for a week, in fact I still haven't ruled it out, vacation days or no.

The one person who did notice, is the person that always notices, Small Son. He was super clingy when I got home, and I could tell he just sensed it. I'm tempted to go get him and put him into bed with me right now, just to snuggle. I'm not going to, because the odds are he will be in later anyway.

I am so homesick for CA. I'm so homesick for my old life. I'm sick of this place right now. I feel cut off, and isolated from everything I've ever known. There is no place to go, and no one to run to, and no one to talk to.

Then the final straw, I looked into the mirror tonight, and realized I look haggard. I look old and haggard.

Peace,

OC

August 11, 2008

Send Your Love

It's a good life…

That's what my mom said to me the other day. Your life looks like the perfect life from the outside looking in. In a lot of ways, she is right. I have a good life. I have a husband who loves me. I have children I adore, and who love me back. I have a job I really like, and I have been blessed with many, many good friends in my lifetime.

The problem is I never seem to get "there." I don't even know where "there" is, except that I'm getting much closer to 50 than I can bare to think about, and I still don't know where "there" is.

I had a dream last night about my best friend coming to visit me with her daughter. I haven't seen her in years, and haven't seen her daughter since she was a baby.

I went to pick them up from the airport, and I instantly recognized her. The feeling of love I feel for her is so intense. In my dream, I'm sure her daughter looked just as she does in real life. I've seen many pictures of this child over the years, and I'd know her in a crowd.

When I picked up my friend, she was walking the wrong way down the moving sidewalk at the airport (my little airport doesn't even have a moving sidewalk) and I was walking the opposite direction talking to her.

I looked around, and saw my grandma coming toward us in a wheel chair. My friend knows and loves my grandma and we were both happy to see her. For some reason, at this moment her daughter wasn't with us, she was picking up the baggage. I don't know why we would let an 8 year old do this by herself, but we did.

Once we passed grandma (that's all we did was pass her on the moving sidewalk and wave), then we went and met up with her daughter. I don't know where my kids were. We were on our way to the fair, to stay in a camper and meet up with my mother who was working at the fair selling cotton candy. We were so happy to see each other, and my mother, as usual got mad because we left her out of the loop.

I know this dream went on and on after this, but I don't remember any more. But it did put me in a reflective place, thinking about my life.

So back to "there", I think we were trying to get "there" together.

I am going to be talking to some people this week, to get some referrals for a few different things to help me move along my process. I'm excited about this, and scared at the same time.

I feel myself wavering quite a bit. My hubby brought me coffee to work today and brought my kids to me this morning so I could kiss them. Sometimes, at moments like this, I wonder what in the heck am I even thinking about? How can I even think about leaving my marriage, my life, and starting over for the 2000th time?

Then my reality slaps me in the face, and I remember why I must keep moving forward.

I guess there is no time limit on me finding my way through this. I will get there when I get there. No one is expecting me at the finish line for now, except myself. I can only move at my own pace.

I know I'm not the only one who has gone through this. I know I'm not the only one going through it right now. Still, it hurts like a knife in my soul. I take solace in music I've never listened to, in friends I've never met, and in things I've never done.

As Sting say's so eloquently in the song "Send Your Love"

Finding the world in the smallness of a grain of sand
And holding infinities in the palm of your hand
And Heaven's realms in the seedlings of this tiny flower
And eternities in the space of a single hour

Send your love into the future
Send your love into the distant dawn

Inside your mind is a relay station
A mission probe into the unknowing
We send a seed to a distant future
Then we can watch the galaxies growing

This ain't no time for doubting your power
This ain't no time for hiding your care
You're climbing down from an ivory tower
You've got a stake in the world we ought to share

You see the stars are moving so slowly
But still the earth is moving so fast
Can't you see the moon is so lonely
She's still trapped in the pain of the past

This is the time of the worlds colliding
This is the time of kingdoms falling
This is the time of the worlds dividing
Time to heed your call

Send your love into the future
Send your precious love into some distant time
And fix that wounded planet with the love of your healing
Send your love
Send your love

There's no religion but sex and music
There's no religion but sound and dancing
There's no religion but line and color
There's no religion but sacred trance

There's no religion but the endless ocean
There's no religion but the moon and stars
There's no religion but time and motion
There's no religion, just tribal scars

Throw a pebble in and watch the ocean
See the ripples vanish in the distance
It's just the same with all the emotions
It's just the same in every instance

There's no religion but the joys of rhythm
There's no religion but the rites of Spring
There's no religion in the path of hate
No prayer but the one I sing

Send your love into the future
Send your precious love into some distant time
And fix that wounded planet with the love of your healing
Send your love
Send your love

There's no religion but sex and music
There's no religion that's right or winning
There's no religion in the path of hatred
Ain't no prayer but the one I'm singing

Send your love
Send your love

Peace,

OC