Yep, gotta agree with you. It sucks. My next thought was...did you buy her a card...if so...what did it say? I remember standing for hours in front of the card racks, and being unable to find one that did not contain messages similar to the one from your wife. I couldn't bring myself to give him one of those...to much untruth contained in such words. Of course he noticed too.
Sigh, life becomes so much more complicated when(as Val said) one is "simply keeping it together".
Val - I am trying. But I find it hard to derive satisfaction from "keeping it together". In the sense that keeping it together provides a structure for my son's growth and development - yes. But "keeping it together" as an end to itself? No - that is not satifying. I am struggling to find reasons for continuing.
Sunny - I don't like cards for exactly that reason. Platitudes are empty and gratuitous, and often recognized as such by both the sender and receiver. Like you, I couldn't bring myself to do that this year. So I didn't buy a card - brought home flowers instead, along with champagne.
The ups and downs of academic science, the perpetual puzzle of intimate relationships and my on-the-job training as a father.
Ode to Ian Hunter
I knew I was different. But what did that mean? It never was easy to live with a head. So I kept to the back room and lived there instead. It is here I see pictures and my madness is clear - there is no logic and therefore no fear.
Endurance Crater
Spirit and Opportunity are still sending incredible pictures of Mars. Simply Amazing. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Happy belated anniversary anyway, SD!
There's gotta be some satisfaction somewhere in simply keeping it together, right?
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Yep, gotta agree with you. It sucks.
My next thought was...did you buy her a card...if so...what did it say? I remember standing for hours in front of the card racks, and being unable to find one that did not contain messages similar to the one from your wife. I couldn't bring myself to give him one of those...to much untruth contained in such words. Of course he noticed too.
Sigh, life becomes so much more complicated when(as Val said) one is "simply keeping it together".
Val - I am trying. But I find it hard to derive satisfaction from "keeping it together". In the sense that keeping it together provides a structure for my son's growth and development - yes. But "keeping it together" as an end to itself? No - that is not satifying. I am struggling to find reasons for continuing.
Sunny - I don't like cards for exactly that reason. Platitudes are empty and gratuitous, and often recognized as such by both the sender and receiver. Like you, I couldn't bring myself to do that this year. So I didn't buy a card - brought home flowers instead, along with champagne.
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