Where is everybody?: The sequel
Hi Cuppies 👋 It's your old pal, SweetPea here. Bored and lonely as usual. I'm having trouble viewing the "Where is everybody?" thread, so I figured I'd make a new one. I prefer to use the app instead of the website. On the app it stopped showing responses.
So here we are again, ready to turn up on a Monday afternoon (or Tuesday if you live in Australia).
Oh yeah...where is everybody?
@SweetPea321
Welcome back SweetPea.The room is opened on Wednesdays all day so come on in and chat with us>
Chat room? Which one are you talking about? Chat doesn't work very good for me. I'll type the message and press the send button, and it takes forever for the message to post.
Oh...you meant the 35 and over room, didn't you 😊 I didn't eat my Wheaties the other day so I was dumb lol.
Good morning SweetPea! 😊 By my time calculations and Sherlock Holmes analysis you should be back from the bus stop and starting to get bored and hopefully log in for a chat 🤗… I’m definitely needing some vitamin pea today! Need to be distracted from my problems by something I still can actually enjoy and doesn’t make me feel anxious so need to hear your positive peas of wisdom 😅 some of your Pealosophy…Peailosophy… 😫 awww I was hoping pea and philosophy would go better together… it sounded amazing in my head 😂
Good evening (or should I say early morning) to you, sir! It's Friyay here. Also payday (whooo!). I was busy this morning and I have an appointment to see my pea-chiatrist soon. Gotta make sure I'm taking the right crazy pills. Then I gotta venture over to Wally World and ride the self checkout ride. It's not that fun lol.
I like pealosophy. Is that like...
"If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seatie."
Or maybe that's pee-losophy?
I'm not sure, but vitamin pea could be good for the funny bone 🤔 Sometimes anyway 😄
Like the terminator said..."I'll be back."
Awww you always make me feel better ☺️… you are Peafect 😊. You could say you give me such Peace of mind when I’m feeling stuck Peacrastinating unable to break out of my pod.
More like...impeafect lol, but thank you 😊 I'm happy to give you peas of mind. You make me laugh with all of your pea-speak 😄
It reminds me of this inspirational post from the internet-
We are human beans.
Together we will rice ✊
More like- Peafectly, Impeafect!
I love signs like that with misspelled words that makes the meaning funny 😆. I like “We are all human beans”
It’s like the classic tattoo “No Regerts”
I actually kinda want to get one…. Sums up my life 😂
I'm gonna get your name (Insertnamehere) tattooed on me in a secret location 🤫😄
Hahahaha.. now you got me thinking about all your secret locations! 😋🤭😅😛
We'll have to get a room at my secret hideout so I can reveal all of my secrets to you 😉😄
That sounds fun 🤩…. Is your secret hideout at Summerisle by any chance??? I hear it’s lovely this time of year.
It is! I guess now it's my not-so-secret hideout. We may have some party crashers at the naked ritual, AHH!
Pretty sure Vitamin Pea also stops the Scurvy me Matey 🏴 ️ So we are covered medically now for scurvy and funny bones 🦴 so we should be pretty much be sorted for any medical issues we have while sailing the 7 Peas! 😂. Hahahah.
*turns your messages into a drinking game* Every time you say "pea" I have to take a shot...of orange juice, so I won't be malnourished and get scurvy, thanks!
Now I'm thinking of Irish Drinking Songs from Who's Line Is It Anyway?
https://youtu.be/S9msFLJ5UEM
If we're gonna be pirates and sail the 7 peas, we'll have to sing sea shanty. This one is my favorite. My daughter laughs when they say poop 😄
https://youtu.be/ItFqjjLPjcA
I want an Alexa fish! 😄
I think the correct classification for your truism is actually Pea-pee-losophy, it’s an important sub category of Pealosophy
Good morning to you 🌝 I wonder what you're doing right now 🤔 It's 6:35pm here. Today was about a 3 star day. I like to rate my days 1 out of 5 stars, like it's a hotel or restaurant. I took my daughter to the hair salon for a trim and the elder gentleman sitting by me started singing 😄 I'm not sure what the song was but it had alot of doo doo doos in it. I thought, how awesome his life must be to spontaneously burst into song like that 🤔 That was the highlight of my day.
Awww you made me feel happy waking up to your messages.
I took some anti pea-chotic medication last night that I take to help me sleep when I’m in a bad way… took ages to finally comatose myself… got heaps bothering me at the moment, and I’m at the point of feeling so miss understood by everyone in real life that I’m having to start to push people away and isolate because while I own my own problems… I’ve been desperately trying to communicate how much I’m struggling and trying to reach out for help… but the help becomes a nightmare quickly and I start feeling like I need to isolate to get myself strong again, and I appreciate people trying to help but it’s making things more complicated for me because they don’t listen to what I need and help as they think I need. Then I’m just trying to get myself better and start being accused of being insensitive and uncaring and self absorbed… that really upsets me because even as I’m spiralling and I’m apologising for my mental health problems and trying to explain what I’m going through and experiencing, while saying I’m just unwell at the moment and feel bad that I’m not able to be stronger and manage better and feel awful that I feel the need to isolate but I’m just literally fighting for my life at the moment and people don’t realise that depression and anxiety can be malignant in its nature and people can make it much worse by saying such hurtful things that just reinforces my feelings of being totally miss understood and alone. 😢.
1 star ⭐️ day unfortunately 😢. Actually, the star just reached its critical mass and has collapsed into a black hole 🕳 so I guess I’m giving today a rating of 1 Black Hole
I'm sorry you had a one star/black hole day 😔 Hopefully you're doing better today 🤗
That makes perfect sense! I can so relate!
Sadly it does doesn’t it. Nice to know we are not alone in feeling this way… I hope you feel better soon @charmingHemlock1141
Aww *puts arms around you and your head against my bosom* 🤗 I'm sorry to hear that all is not well in Luketopia 😔 I suffer from depression and anxiety too. I also take an anti pea-chotic med every night and yesterday I asked my pea-chiatrist if I'll have to take it forever and she said, "Most likely" because they tried to decrease it before and I had olfactory hallucinations again. I don't even try to talk to my family and friends about my mental health stuff much anymore as I feel like I'm bothering them or bringing them down. I sort of isolate too, except for having my daughter around. I have workers from the mental health center visit me in my home and one friend, but that's it. I don't feel as social as I used to. It's hard sometimes to get motivated to do life. I feel like there are too many steps to life sometimes, but I push on and get through the days.
Im trying to live my life like--> Don't worry be happy & Fake til you make it!
Awww Sweetpea, I really could use a big hug from someone who is compassionate and truly understands. Your kind messages are like a virtual hug so thank you 🙏 🥰
I totally understand all of that and can totally empathise with you and I’m here for you to talk with anytime… and you are not bringing me down by sharing anything because I totally understand… and I hope we can be a mutually supportive… I have been blessed not to have any hallucinations and take my anti Pea-chotics because I’m a compulsive thinker and I take a low dose of Seroquel (Quetiapine) to help calm me down and make me sleep…
Olfactory Hallucinations! Wow, I think I might get them occasionally. Sometimes I can smell a petrol smell that’s not there, I think you call it gasoline, or it can be like exhaust fumes smell also. Didn’t really think of it as a hallucination. But really reality is just a “hallucination”
in our brains, it’s just the most accurate hallucination of reality from the externally stimuli we sense and put together a picture and narrative in our brains…. It’s not actually objectively what’s out there… it’s just a subjective picture of reality that we construct in our minds from external stimuli.
Interesting fact… no person in known medical history that was born without vision and never had the ability to see reality, has ever developed schizophrenia… but unfortunately they are more susceptible to autism spectrum disorders. But there has to be something to this that can make us understand this all better! I really want to understand the link between visual stimulation and schizophrenia. It seems like it’s really important to me to understand why this is and could lead to breakthroughs in our understanding and treatment.
Free hugs from SweetPea! 🤗🤗🤗 My 3rd eye is telling me that you are not only witty and wonderful, but also good looking and there's a long line of ladies waiting to hug you 🤔 *gets in the line* I guess we"ll be hugging by February. I'm number 134,709! 😄
I hope you're ok. I'm ok. It's Sunday here (Borrrrrrring) and I'm looking forward to the school week so I can have some quiet time to myself.
My mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia about two years ago, but I'm pretty sure she's been having hallucinations and delusions since I was a kid. Alot of things didn’t make sense and she was always so paranoid. She's in a nursing home because she had a few falls and can't walk anymore. It makes me sad that we don't live in the same town anymore because I don't get to see her as often and she can't have a phone either because she calls the cops during delusions. I miss my mother so much and wish I could be there for her more 😢 I've also had hallucinations and delusions, but unlike my mother...I take my medicine so it keeps them away. I've tried everything to talk her into taking the meds, but she has the right to refuse 🤷♀️
Awww. Sweetpea, that’s so nice of you to say that, and made my day to wake up to such a nice message this morning, it’s 5:30am here down under I should be sleeping still but had to reply 🥰 …
As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder… in this case it’s the 3rd eye doing all the work and has formed from just a string of text to each other…Shows the power of good communication and mutual understanding, You are an amazing and special woman in my 3rd eye too, with both beautiful Pea and a rocking Pod 🥰 that’s my way of saying beautiful inside and outside 😂😊. I definitely feel a strong connection towards you and genuinely thankful to have met you at a time I really needed someone like you in my life. 🙏
I think you have earned a all expenses paid day at Luketopia- Sweetpea special VIP all access entry weekend pass and lots of “quick ticket” line jumping passes for the cuddle ride so you don’t have to wait in line with the other normal people 😉 🎟 🤗
Good early morning to you, my sweet Kangaroo 🥰 I'm just gonna write love letters to you now 😄 I'm so romantical (it's totally a word!) Your farts smell like roses to all of my noses. Ok I only have one, but together we'll have fun...in Luketopia. I used to have a Nokia...phone. Give a dog a bone. That's all I have for the poem. ~fin
Remember that classic Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder" where everybody looks like a weird pig faced person and the good looking lady thinks she's hideous?
https://youtu.be/4WdtAj8jYMM
Me? I'm a plain Jane, but I know how to entertain and make men feel good about themselves. I'll be on that cuddle ride nonstop, by the way lol.
Hope you're feeling good about life today @Insertnamehere82 You matter!
Good morning SweetPea
Awww you are so sweet 🥹. And funny too 😂. You are an American poet for the ages! A modern Walt Whitman! 😆 Sweet Peawoman
I have been a little better thanks the last 24hrs. Trying to keep my head above water still, I’m getting through a lot of stuff that has snowballed on me and just trying not to be my own worst enemy and support myself through this difficult period rather that beat myself up so to speak.
I’m sure you are Pea-utiful, and we would have lots of fun together… I’m definitely not anything special in the looks department. Hard ti say as it’s completely subjective and I definitely have low self esteem and probably are more attractive than I give myself credit for, so I’m trying to love myself more and be less critical of myself because I’m my own worst enemy and harshest critic and taken me a long time to begin to love myself in a healthy way.
I could definitely benefit from some “entertainment” and “feel good times” in my life 😊
Sometimes it feels like all work and no play in Luketopia and missing the pleasurable stuff in life. The cuddle ride is currently just gathering dust lately sadly 😔.
I did go and get Fish and Chips and eat them at the waterfront yesterday afternoon and go for a walk on the jetty and along the water front for a bit, which was nice once I managed to get myself out.
I think I have a vague recollection of that Twilight Zone episode. I think I could actually rewatch the series. I loved the Tales from the Crypt series as a kid too. They used to run them together on tv late at night. Good old days before streaming everything and you got what was on the 5 channels or hired a video from Blockbuster! Hahhaha.
Good Evening, Insert lol. Is that what I'm supposed to call you for short? Glad to hear that you're getting out and enjoying nature. I go for bike ride/walks with my daughter even if it's cold outside. Yesterday was quite chilly. It's not good to be inside the house all the time.
I'm sure you are pea-utiful too, handsome rather. I just wanted to say "pea-utiful" lol. Don't have low self esteem. It's a waste of time. There's someone out there for everyone, even if you look like a yeti. There's a Miss Yeti who can't wait to go on the cuddle ride. You are great as you are! Leave the criticizing up to others. And even then...you don't have to listen to others criticize you. Just hit the mute button/walk away.
I used to watch Tales from the Crypt as well. I like that Demon Knight movie too. I watched all of those scary short story shows- Tales from the Darkside, The Ray Bradbury Theatre, The Hitchhiker and Night Gallery. They were so good.
Ahh life before streaming was simple. You got so excited when you heard your song on the radio and Saturday mornings were delightful as a child because that was your time to watch cartoons and going to Blockbuster to hopefully rent a copy of that new movie if it wasn't sold out. I'll still take streaming everything over it, but the days before smartphones were full of a certain freedom. People had to catch you at home if they wanted to contact you.
Anyway...I hope you are feeling better about things and having a relaxing evening 🤗
Halloween is coming 🎃 Have you all been watching scary movies? What's a favorite scary movie of yours? I was thinking of The Wicker Man from the 70s where a police officer goes to this strange place and searches for a missing girl. Have you seen it? There's a funny little part in it where they sing a folk song about the landlord's daughter-
https://youtu.be/9jQ1s0EkYCQ
The Shining is my all time favorite scary movie-
https://youtu.be/LtI0uG6tjew The Bat Scene
https://youtu.be/tmY4k85_XEE The Bar Scene
Yes, I love The Shining! I watched Insidious the other night. It was so-so. The Exorcist has always frightened me.
I've never seen Insidious. The Exorcist is classic as well.
Spider walk scene-
https://youtu.be/MF-LPsCsdr8
I watched so many scary movies as a child. I can't believe my mom allowed it. The one movie that terrified me was called Monkey Shines 1988. It's about a quadriplegic who gets a trained monkey and the monkey turns evil and starts terrorizing people.
😍 she preeetty
it is a 50 year old movie so she would be well into her 70’s now 😧
But seriously how have I not seen this movie before… seems like something I would enjoy from that and reading the synopsis… I think I want to go for a trip to Summerisle Scotland because it seems like they know how to have a good time 😜 😈
Just looked her up… the actress name is Britt Eklund
She is still alive and is now 80yo. Had an interesting life, was married to Peter Sellers and later after they split dated Rod Stewart for a few years then at 42 went sugar momma and married a 22yo guy and had a kid with him. Sadly they didn’t live happily ever after like in the movies and divorced in 1992.
I just looked her up too. She's still pretty as an elder.
Summerisle? More like Sex Island 😄
Heheheheheh. 🤷♂️ I feel much more comfortable booking my vacation and telling people that I’m going to Summerisle. 😋
That's what they do on the island. They're very amorous! People will know what you're up to if you tell them you're going to Summerisle lol.
Hahahaha. I should just own my shame and tell the truth… I go for the pagan rituals and stay for the orgies! 😝
hi sweet pea. nice to meet you. :) thanks for this thread. it literally made my day. <3
Hello @fearlessWriter78 👋 Pleased to meet you! Thank you for reading the thread 🙂
Hi SweetPea and FearlessWriter :)
@charmingHemlock1141 hello :)
Hi @charmingHemlock1141 Howdy doody? (How do you do?)
@Insertnamehere82 that is a really interesting fact about schizophrenia that i didn't know about. my dad had schizophrenia. luckily i don't have it but i do have depression and anxiety. i hope you're feeling better right now. i was feel so anxious earlier because of noise from my neighbor's apartment, happening literally all day long, i was ready to either pull my hair out or lock myself in my room lol or bang a brook against the wall. luckily the people left and it's quiet now and i've been able to calm down. i'm going to be moving a floor above me next month so it will be a better situation for me in so many ways which is good. anyway... too-da-loo!
Literally you are-
Levelling up in life!
Moving up in the world!
😂
Movin' on uuup, To the east side, To a deeeeeluxe apartment in the sky! 🎶
the jefferson's theme song 😂 https://youtu.be/MYcqToQzzGY
That was already going through my head. It wasn’t even on tv in Australia but I know it from popular culture and whenever anything good happens it definitely pops into my head as a celebratory them tune to my realisation that things just got much better 😂. Definitely a song that makes me feel happy and positive when I think of it, or hear it.
bang a broom* lol not a brook. what did help calm me down was i did lock myself in my room, went to the farthest window, did some deep breathing and ended up crying a bit. then i saw a raccoon and was like. oh my a raccoon, how funny. scampering away into the woods. eventually i saw headlights leaving - i thought glorious me, it must be the a-holes leaving, and sure enough it was. hopefully they won't be back tomorrow lol
Hi @fearlessWriter78
Anxiety and depression are my major problems also… I’m managing a little better at the moment thanks… glad to hear you got some peace finally and you had a nice moment with your Raccoon 🦝 friend. I have a barking dog next-door that drive me crazy. Hopefully they are going on a nice long holiday or get seriously lost on the way home or something 🤣.
So considering that you have a random raccoon saying hello… I’m assuming you are in Nth America? I guess you could have a geographically confused raccoon… but I do believe they are native to Nth America.
@Insertnamehere82 the noises from my neighbor's apartment were actually people coming and going all day long, in and out every few minutes. there are two sets of doors, but of course the idiots didn't prop any door open. so bang bang bang, doors opening and closing all day long. and then they were rustling around in cupboards inside the kitchen, etc. happened yesterday too. only thing i can think of is she's moving. she doesn't seem to be in there today. if so, yahoo, it should be quiet in the coming days lol and hopefully your neighbor will take a good vacation too. :D barking dogs are so annoying. i love doggos but i love my peace and quiet.
the raccoon was nice he didn't say hi though i just saw the back of him scampering away. first one i've seen since i've lived here. i moved into this apartment this year. so far i've seen chipmunks (or chippymunks as i like to call them), bunnies, squirrels and tons of birds of course. there's a forest surrounding the apartments.
yes, i'm in north america, in the north east US. i think you said here you live in Australia?
I love dogs too and have one but this dog constantly goes crazy and their owners don’t stop them often enough so it’s just unpleasant and makes my dog anxious so I don’t blame the dog but the owners really. I love dogs more than or equal too humans.
Yes I’m an Australian, I live on the east coast right on the bay and actually live on a Peninsula so it’s kinda like an island but easy access to the mainland with a connecting roads and a long bridge also for easier and quicker access to the city but and has everything you need on the peninsula so I really don’t leave often these days.
i almost love dogs more than humans too lol i also despise irresponsible pet owners.
wow sounds lovely. i would love to live closer to the beach some day. right now i can visit the beach, i'm not too far from the coast- at least an hours drive.
I’m about 700meters 🤔 (weird America non metric system conversion time) okay, that’s 765yards or 0.4miles from the water 🏝 so I’m about a 7 to 10min walk away and 1min drive.
Sadly I don’t get down there much as I should because of my anxiety, it’s difficult to get through that and just go… but when I do I always enjoy it and say I’ll go more… then the reality sets in again and it’s the same challenge of needing to break through the wall of anxiety holding me back constantly. It is exhausting constantly having to push through it and it doesn’t seem to get any easier but you just have to keep trying I guess. 🤷♂️ 20 plus years of trying and counting 😅
@Insertnamehere82 "the grandkids moving in with grandma ." omg 😂 what a dreadful thought. i don't think that's the case though. luckily they didn't stay long here today and it's been quiet. i'm able to relaaaaax! :D don't tell your neighbors but i was secretly thinking today, wouldn't it be great if my neighbor and your neighbors got together and moved to some island far away? 😂
regarding the anxiety you describe, is it that your anxiety gets in the way of doing activities for pure enjoyment, because while you're doing stuff for pleasure you're anxious worrying about all the other stuff you have to do (like a to do list)? is that correct? just want to make sure i understand :) if that's the case i can definitely relate to that.
that's a great idea 💡 - noise cancelling headphones. i think with my depression and anxiety sometimes i have a hard time problem solving. i didn't even think of that!
Hahahah, I hope you had a peaceful day and have ordered some noise canceling headphones 🎧. I’m glad my suggestion was helpful it makes me feel happy to know I helped in even a small way 😊
I think our neighbours would be a great match! but it seems the universe likes to balance itself out and put noisy inconsiderate people next to the quiet and considerate people 🤷♂️ Must be the whole opposites attract thing going on.
I am pretty much anxious doing most things, so I focus all my energy fighting the anxiety to do the things that I need to do to keep the ball rolling and not coming to a complete stop.. so I do that “survival” stuff and neglect doing anything “enjoyable” because it’s not a survival need it’s a added pleasure, which is hard to enjoy anyhow, because of the anxiety, so it gets put in the too hard basket in favour of the basic responsibilities which must be done to survive otherwise everything snowballs, and I get overwhelmed and start really struggling, and have to dig myself out of a deeper hole and is something I try and desperately avoid getting to these days.
I hope that makes sense. 🤦♂️ 😅
yeees everything snowballs for me too. i spent hours sunday just going through all the junk on my computer and organizing everything 😅 and still didn't even finish it all lol i do feel a lot better getting most of it done though. lately i have felt in a hole digging myself out but i got motivated sunday, because i'm feeling pretty good health wise (my health can change on a moments notice, i've learned lol) so i'm kind of telling myself ok you're feeling good, GET STUFF DONE lol yes i kind of yell at myself a bit. but it's a daily struggle.
@SweetPea321 Hi Pea! Thank you so much for the thread! I'm happy to be here personally. What's beautiful with our community is that for every person that is not available, there's always someone there! Support and positivity never ends. Thank you for the thread and the post!
Welcome to the thread @calmDew1576 I'm happy to be here too. This is a great community. Thank you to 7cups for existing!
@SweetPea321
Ahhh sorry I haven’t been on forums for a little while. I am struggling bad lately, how is everyone doing? I hope u all are safe and warm lots of higgles, swifty.
Hey @Swiftygirl13 👋 I am safe...for now! Sometimes I like to play a little game where I pretend there's a killer after me and see how fast I can get my door unlocked and get inside 😅
Seriously though...sorry you've been struggling 😔 You're gonna be ok. We are are here for you, Swifty. 🤗
@SweetPea321
Lmaooooo I do that when I turn the light off and have to bolt to my bed...
These days I have been getting the nurses to turn off the light lmao because I cant get to bed fast enough lol.
I hope you are doing okay @Swiftygirl13
Sounds like you have been having a hard time lately but are in a safe place now anyhow if the nice nurses are turning your lights out for you. But I hope you have a good recovery while you are in care and I’m always sending you positive thoughts and hoping you are doing okay and safe. 😊
@Insertnamehere82
Thankyouuu, I have been struggling and no good news for a while, but hopefully soon
I'm still scared of the dark. I have 3 nightlights. 2 plugin ones and my moon light.