stupid first world problems you're dealing with

Not for you, Hoodie, you're too smart.

  On 2/16/2013 at 2:37 AM, EleminoP said:

Not for you, Hoodie, you're too smart.

this =)

aww, thanks fellas

  On 2/16/2013 at 2:24 AM, LimpyLoo said:

My father's drinking has snowballed into a problem.

If yes, then I know how you feel. That's some fucking tough shit to deal with. Let me know if you need to talk to someone who has gone through the same thing

  On 2/16/2013 at 3:05 AM, Squee said:

 

  On 2/16/2013 at 2:24 AM, LimpyLoo said:

My father's drinking has snowballed into a problem.

Are you being serious?

If yes, then I know how you feel. That's some fucking tough shit to deal with. Let me know if you need to talk to someone who has gone through the same thing

Yes when I post dark stuff in here I'm almost always serious. (Only when I say stuff like "FWP: my left arm just turned into a midget" am I joking)

He calls me every other night and tells me the same things over and over again. He'll tell me a factoid 4 times in a row, just reworded different.

Now, normally I'm down with peoples' chemical vices. But he's prone to depression to begin with and then on top of drinking he takes xanax to cope with his stressful life. It's starting to (appear to) be a problem.

Of course, I might be overly-sensitive cause he's my father...

Anyway, thanks for lending an ear Squee. Much appreciated.

-LL

I don't think you're being overly sensitive, especially since he takes xanax. This is a very dangerous combination. Parental drinking is a hard topic to confront especially with the parent in question.

One of my parents (my step mother) has a drinking problem I've known about for years but I've still never directly confronted her. I don't know how...

I hope everything goes in a good direction for you though...

  On 2/16/2013 at 3:17 AM, StephenG said:

I don't think you're being overly sensitive, especially since he takes xanax. This is a very dangerous combination. Parental drinking is a hard topic to confront especially with the parent in question.

 

One of my parents (my step mother) has a drinking problem I've known about for years but I've still never directly confronted her. I don't know how...

 

I hope everything goes in a good direction for you though...

Thanks.

Yeah, I don't think in a million years I could do anything to change it since if I brought up my concern he'd laugh it off and (like most everything else with him) nothing would change.

That makes it particularly tough for you by the sounds of it. When you have a real concern but it seems like it would be shrugged off. I think this is why I've never confronted my similar issue, I don't feel it would go anywhere.

I wish I could say something that helps. But I guess at the very least, I feel ya...

  On 2/16/2013 at 3:22 AM, StephenG said:

I wish I could say something that helps. But I guess at the very least, I feel ya...

Thanks mate. I'm fine, it's just one of those things where you wish you could help the people around you but you can't.

Also

actual FWP: I'm having trouble getting a satisfactory bassline for a tune. I've been making music with great ease for weeks and now I'm stuck.

this might be my favorite avatar of all time:

which reminds me of a first world problem: i want a cat, but my wife and i have (wisely i think) decided to wait at least a year, since we have a young daughter and another on way.

want. cat.

i no longer have the most posts in this thread :'(

I really want to smoke. But it makes my gums hurt.

Tired of being broke all the friggin' time, even though I'm employed.

Gonna try and sell my .22-calibre rifle this weekend. Would like to sell my laptop as well. I bought it in 2009 though, and isn't really designed to run high-end games at optimal performance. Plus a couple of keys are missing because a certain dog unwittingly popped them off.

  On 2/16/2013 at 5:26 AM, chenGOD said:

I really want to smoke. But it makes my gums hurt.

scurvy?

  On 2/16/2013 at 5:39 AM, ambermonk said:

Plus a couple of keys are missing because a certain dog unwittingly popped them off.

  On 2/16/2013 at 5:41 AM, pattern recognition said:

 

  On 2/16/2013 at 5:39 AM, ambermonk said:

Plus a couple of keys are missing because a certain dog unwittingly popped them off.

lol. Good guess, but it was a different one.

  On 2/16/2013 at 5:41 AM, disparaissant said:

 

  On 2/16/2013 at 5:26 AM, chenGOD said:

I really want to smoke. But it makes my gums hurt.

scurvy?

probably not, i get plenty of lime with my gin and tonic intake.

^^^ legitimate lol

It's my birthday and I slept through half the day.

  On 2/16/2013 at 5:46 PM, umop_apisdn said:

 

It's my birthday and I slept through half the day.

i fail to see the problem here...

I'm 31.

im 38 and would love to sleep half the day.

fwp: my cheap ass phone doesnt have nearly enough internal storage.

I thought you needed less sleep the older you get.....

i ate more pyschedelics than i thought i did (lol)

Well I'm getting 4-6 hours sleep at night, then 1-2 hours nap at some point during the day. So really it amounts to about the same amount of sleep, but much less convenient intervals. I managed to get my nap in at the start of my day this time though, so I should be good to go tonight.

  On 2/15/2013 at 12:53 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I can definitely empathize with the whole partner-not-wanting-to-listen-to-music-with-you thing...

So my girlfriend put on Clark - Turning Dragon today and listened to half of it with me before having a shower. Which "begs the question" (inside watmm joke there): has she been lurking in this thread?