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  <title>My Life Beyond Normalcy</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:32:01 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tears Want to Fall</title>
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  <description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;I wanna cry. &lt;br /&gt;I really, really do. &lt;br /&gt;Of course, the tears wanna fall when they should not be....like while I&apos;m at work or in the grocery store or some damn thing like that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wanna cry and I can feel it. &lt;br /&gt;I feel so low, so depressed, so down.....like I&apos;m caving in, inside. &lt;br /&gt;I gotta get the flood gates open! &lt;br /&gt;But it&apos;s also way past my bedtime so I guess i gotta take this heartache to bed with me and see if I can get thru dreamland and another day of work tomorrow. &lt;br /&gt;And see what happens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&apos;sigh&apos;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:08:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>It Hurts</title>
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  <description>&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000080&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;This time the pain is not in my vagina nor my vulva.&lt;br /&gt;It is in my heart. &lt;br /&gt;The place where I feel love and emotion and compassion.&lt;br /&gt;A recent breakup is causing the pain. I have a lot of anger regarding it. &lt;br /&gt;I need to get thru that before I can finish grieving over the loss of the man I thought was the one I&apos;d be with for the rest of my life...the man who had me completely fooled into thinking he felt exactly the same way. &lt;br /&gt;And when I say anger, I do mean ANGER. But my true feeling is that I wish him happiness with his new girlfiend (oh how I hate to use that word in this situation).&lt;br /&gt;I only had about a month of grieving, then I jumped right in to other activities (and persons) to occupy my time and body and mind and thirst. &lt;br /&gt;But it&apos;s wearing off and what I really need is coming thru the facade and all the muck of my current pastimes.&lt;br /&gt;I hate him, and I love him. &lt;br /&gt;And I would never, ever, want him back. &lt;br /&gt;That is one thing I know for a fact.&lt;br /&gt;And it&apos;s time for me to get thru this, feel the pain, and get my new life in order. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</description>
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  <lj:music>Never Again - Kelly Clarkson</lj:music>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:22:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Writer&apos;s Block: Giving Thanks</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;I am very thankful for my awesome job, my wonderful mom (&amp;amp; that she lives only about 20 minutes away), my health - in every aspect, even though I am not cured of VVS or IC and am still overweight), my fantastic NVVO friends &amp;amp; what we are doing, my good friends that I still have after several years (some I&apos;ve known over 1/2 my life - and I&apos;m 36 yrs old!!), an excellent therapist, and for living in Portland Oregon.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;:-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Julie&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:27:35 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I&apos;m Home...So Now What?</title>
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  <description>&lt;font color=&quot;#993366&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;So there are days when I want to stay in my apartment and not see anyone. Because lately it seems like I&apos;m always on the go, people are wanting to see me, and I&apos;m driving here and there and everywhere. &lt;br /&gt;Ok so it&apos;s a Sunday nite and I&apos;m home. That&apos;s what I wanted, right? I should be happy, right? So why did I just stuff myself on Wendys dollar menu and crap I have in the house, and now have no motivation to exercise or unpack or organize my apartment? (I just moved to this apartment mid-Sept) &lt;br /&gt;I wanna lie down and nap. And then most likely sleep thru the nite til tomorrow morning - to get up and go to work. Fun. Especially when I&apos;d told my boss I&apos;d come in at 6:30AM instead of my normal (and still-too-early) time of 7AM. Great.&lt;br /&gt;And I&apos;m feeling distressed and lonely and melancholy and lost and disconnected and lifeless and blobby and fat. And frumpy.&lt;br /&gt;And my laptop battery is about to die but I don&apos;t feel like getting outta my chair and going over to the power supply and plugging it in. &lt;br /&gt;I wanna lie down.&lt;br /&gt;I have a bedroom that looks like a tornado hit it. &lt;br /&gt;I haven&apos;t taken a shower today.&lt;br /&gt;I miss my &quot;male friend&quot; but I know it&apos;s only for the companionship and affection.....nothing more. &lt;br /&gt;I love having my own apartment, but it can be dangerous for me. I must be careful not to fall into the mouth of the Beast of Depression....which has trailed me (and sometimes owned me) since I was a pre-teen. &lt;br /&gt;So now I will stop writing and go do something else. Even though no one seems to read these posts, they comfort me. After all, it&apos;s like writing in my diary and I&apos;ve been doing that since I was 8 yrs old!!&lt;br /&gt;heehee.&lt;br /&gt;:-P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Julie&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>People&apos;s Court &amp; My Laptop</title>
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  <description>&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot;&gt;It&apos;s Monday. &lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m watching People&apos;s Court and doing laundry and realizing I&apos;m very hungry and checking email on my laptop. &lt;br /&gt;And I&apos;m sad. &lt;br /&gt;Disillusioned with myself. My Self. &lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m poor these days. I owe money tomorrow that I do not have. &lt;br /&gt;Yet for some reason I&apos;m not flipping out. &lt;br /&gt;But my stomach is flipping. Nerves. Since I was a child, that&apos;s how I&apos;ve reacted to most of life&apos;s events.&lt;br /&gt;Asa a matter of fact, I&apos;m gonna make a tuna sandwich. &lt;br /&gt;And will post more soon. &lt;/font&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:33:49 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;Hi.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m new here.&lt;br /&gt;I will fill out my profile stuff soon.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m gonna go to bed. &lt;br /&gt;I work Mon-Fri at 7am til 3:30. I need like 10 hrs of sleep, seriously, to actually feel awake.&lt;br /&gt;My head is ready to explode from everything floating around in it, and also weighing it down. &lt;br /&gt;I like to blog, write, journal, etc. &lt;br /&gt;I think I&apos;m gonna like this website.&lt;br /&gt;I hope I meet some cool people who have some of the same crappy conditions as I.&lt;br /&gt;:-(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bye for now.&lt;br /&gt;Sorry I don&apos;t have much else to say. I&apos;m tired. And still slightly hung over.&lt;br /&gt;And a lil dehydrated. And in need of a shower/hair-washing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Julie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
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