See. That's looking on the bright side of things. Life is what we make it and life is good. :)

I have a lot to do in the new year on working towards self improvement. I need to take better care of myself because I now have diabetes. Not the best in taking care of myself. I work in therapy to heal from a troubled childhood and troubled adulthood..But the key is, I work on those issues. I work hard in college to gain good grades and a more suitable job for what I'm interested in.

I have a nice home that I love..Just bought it over the summer...Working on many home improvements that keep my mind going about all I want to do. I have suffered some huge losses in the past few years..I'm grieving those losses. Even through that, I know I have blessings also..Two of those being my dogs, my brother, my husband when he is good, my new house and a very special friend that I love like my new family.

Continued good health and prosperity to you sixtyplus and all members on the depression board..I wish all of you more inner peace and love to see us through.

Glad you shared your emotional competency with us. I too have had my share of troubles. In reflection I realize that despite my age I am still growing. this is the first year that I acknowledge that I am getting old. On fixed income now I have finally learned how to live on a budget. To cope with loneliness I go to the library about 4 times a week and now read for entertainment at home. It's free and mind expanding. my unreliable car needs repair again, will need to save for 3 months. Going to learn to depend on walking, fortunately I live within a mile of food stores.

What I have to do to survive sometimes trumps my feeling depressed because the little successes of daily life will carry me.

I too have all those little successes daily...it is best to see those than run around with my eyes looking downward and not seeing anything positive in life....

I am giving this new year a good try...I want to reduce my debt ratio....I have a lot of debt out there on credit cards....
I will also have a tax liability this year with my business since I am self employed on SSDI....I do need to come up with the cash but this year I have decided to try doing my own taxes...last year the CPA I had been using since 1999 fired me...I went to HR Block because I did have issues that I did not know where to turn to work thru on taxes...it was very expensive and my cc still has some of that balance on it now today a year almost later....

This time though I think there is nothing in the way of me doing my own taxes....I will surely hope and pray I do not get an audit from the IRS but if I do I had it the way I had it and that is so that I am being honest about every penny I make or spend in my business....

Oh this is a good thread Sixtyplus....hugs and Happy New Year!

This was a good day. I had 4 errands before work and everything ran like clockwork. No lines, and no difficulty with my car starting and the same after work with making a bank deposit and doing some grocery shopping.

Life was good today, except it was a slow business day at work.

But now I am ,home and it is raining. I'll put my groceries away and eat soup and cornbread for supper.

About the only thing that can go wrong now is if the storm knocks out my power.

The power stayed on last night, and it rained all day today. I did not go to church this morning because I was worried about driving in the rain in this old car.

It got pretty boring around here. I did my usual chores and tried to not think about family that seems to have no care for me. They all have lives of their own. I am the only unencumbered one.

I am looking forward to going to work tomorrow.

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this year has been rough on me emotionalty ...so I feel that I have neglected my friends in here ...and specual those who are having a very hard time ....I find I have been doing a lot of hiding .through out my life ...and that I know has to stop .....I need to be who.i I was ment to be ...to the best of my ability ............so I guess that is what I will work on ....take care my friends ...I keep you all n my prayers ...and bill .to ..a story I will shair a later time ....take very good care of your selves ...God bless

It got worse. I could not sleep last night and this morning I don't even want to get dressed, but I know if I don't I will just be feeding that depression animal if I just sit here and dwell on it.

Hope all of you have a great day and good week to end the year. I am certainly going to try.

You can do it, don't give up on yourself! You are strong, and you will conquer this depression, because you won't let it control you. You love yourself right? Well, then you kick that depression arse. All the sudden you start leaping for joy while you make breakfest hehe. Then when the others come into the kitchen, they will be like, what happened to you? And then you can say, well I had a visit from an angel, so now you all get some home cooked love. :D

Ain't no one here to cook for Angel. :) :) :)

My day did not get any better. When I left for work I discovered the road from where I live into town had flood over night and I had to turn around and go the long way, 20 extra miles, to get to work so I did not get to do the errands I wanted to do.

I wanted to do a little bit of shopping after work but when I got there discovered I'd left my purse at home, so that has to be postponed too and I just drove those 20 extra miles back home.
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God surely has a plan is why these things disrupted my plan.

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