The New Café

[Tinuvielsdreams]

your welcome Katie, Glad to hear it!

Vent away I say...Don't worry Michi I don't think this crowd wants to be anything but supportive.

[Sunshine]

We all need to vent sometimes. It's usually better then holding it in till you end up blowing up at someone at a really bad time. I know I haven't been here real long but everyone here seems really supportive.

[Mr. Snackpants]

Ok so I got a dog when I was 9 or 10. She is about 9 years old now. I basically love it to death. I had a dream two nights ago, a really weird one. There was this weird leech creature attacking my dog. I was trying to protect her but the leech latched on and killed her. I woke up sweating mad and freaking out because I didn't realize it was a dream.

Today I came home with almost everything from my dorm. I have to go back next week for finals, so I am almost done. As my mom and I were getting close to home i told her about the dream. My sister and her dumb friends were at my house when I got there. After I bring in all of my stuff, the first thing i wanted to do was see my dog. My sister let her outside, so I went out back...she wasn't there and the gate was wide open. I started panicing. I hurried to the car, cursing my sister out along the way. Long story short I found her about 2 blocks away 10 long minutes later. When I saw her I blew a 4 way stop and cut a car off going the other way. It was on a hill and my dog was going toward the street and i couldn't watch her get hit. I wasn't in any danger of hitting the other car but they were wondering what the hell I was doing .

Anyways I am really pissed at my sister for not checking the gate. We always check it because sometimes the neighbor kids come in to get their ball of something. My sister has changed a lot this year. She is 8th grade now and is a total dofus...I guess that's how 8th grade girls are. She isn't happy with anyone but her friends now. She's too busy for anyone now and apparently is too busy to check the gate...all she had to do was poke her head out the damn door. I was just scared I was going to find my dog dead on the side of the road after being hit by a car. It freaks me out how I had a dream about this 2 days ago.

I just had to get this off my chest....it has been an awful night

[Kunoichi_Haruko]

I'm sorry you had that happen, Mr. Snackpants. That level of anxiety does nothing good for you. But at least your dog is safe and sound, right? All's well that ends well, I'd say.

[Cascadia]

I am so sorry to hear about your incident with your dog. When I lived in Houston, my dog would always sneak out and wander several blocks. That dog lived to be 16 years old. While I was 9 years old, I was looking outside to the backyard and I found my dog dead. She died of old age...she was an Irish Setter.

Tonight, I took my newer dog, who is 10 years old, to Blockbuster. Here in town, dogs are allowed to some stores. As we were leaving, my dog ran to the middle of the parking lot. I am glad that he stopped when he heard my voice. I do not want to loose him.

[Tinuvielsdreams]

I am sorry too....
I had something very similar happen. My dog was like 11 or so and when I went to college he kept running away .Most of time he found his way back home but one day they just didn't find him. Luckily we didn't find him on the road so I think someone picked him up. He was a cute dog so my thought is he got a new home and I hope it was a nice one.
I am glad you found yours!

[Sunshine]

Originally Posted by Sunshine

We all need to vent sometimes. It's usually better then holding it in till you end up blowing up at someone at a really bad time. I know I haven't been here real long but everyone here seems really supportive.

After getting into a physical fight last night with my sister I am thinking maybe I should learn to take my own advice. ~_~'

[Cure]

OK. So my grandmother has been bed ridden for the past year and a half. She had a brain tumor thing and was pretty messed up. She could still laugh and whatnot, but lost all ability to talk. So last Monday, she went into a coma. The doctors said the only reason she was still breathing is because it seemed like she was waiting for someone to go to talk to her. So the family consensus was to send ME, because it was agreed that she loved me most, for some odd reason. And see, she did raise me for a while, but I just........I dunno how to explain it. I only love her because I have to, you know? I never really knew what to talk to her about when she came over, so I just didn't. She's old and generally unfun so we had nothin' in common.

Anyway, I went to go "speak" to her in her coma, and when I did, I could see her eyes moving around, like in REM. Also, while I looked at her laying in the bed........I felt nothing. All I could think of was how cold and gross her hands felt. So I go home and think nothing of it. Then BAM, she dies the next morning. Was it really that she was waiting for me? I couldn't believe it, but everyone else did. Everyone else was crying at the funeral and whatnot, but I wasn't. I was the only one that could take it. I feel bad......for not feeling bad. Get me? I dunno what to think of myself. Am I just THAT cold?

[Tinuvielsdreams]

That's heavy...All I can say is I have dealt with 3 major deaths in the past 6 years and I handled each one differently.
No one says you have to become hysterical at funerals and if you don't you aren't a bad person.
I had a grandfather who passed that I wasn't that close to but I was at his house a lot and when he passed I felt sad but I don't think I cried. When my grandmother, his wife, passed I was a complete wreck because she was one of my rocks in life.
It's all situation and I would not be harsh on yourself. I think I would feel good I got to sit with her one more time especially if that is what everything really felt she wanted

[Sunshine]

I was very close to my grandpa and I loved him dearly but when he died I wasn't really sad. I don't think I cried once. I don't really know why. I just didn't. I miss him but I still don't really cry because he died. I don't really understand it, but it happens, and you can't really help how you feel.

[Katie]

ooh.

I believe if you can hold out for someone you love....so see them one last time...you will wait. My granpa died when I was 8...he waited for everyone to leave the hospital they say...and died on his own.


My grandma died a couple years ago...it was sad, and made me sad, but I didn't cry or anything. My god father also passed away very recently. He'd been very sick...but I didn't cry about that....I wasn't very close to either of those folks. I loved them in a family way...but we were not close.

HOWEVER. 4 years ago this July my fiance was killed in a motorcycle accident. Everyone thought he was fine til they got to the hospital and the doctors told them he had died en route. That messed me up for along time. LONG time. It took me falling in love (reluctantly at first) last year with someone else to make me understand my life was not gone with him. (VERY happy with my sweetie, BTW ) but up until then I had mourned for 3 years with no desire to do anything but curl up in a ball and die along with him.

I think It really depends on your relationship with the person...how their death affects you

[Mr. Snackpants]

So I have finals this week, the two biggest exams are tomorrow. I have two more after that but they are a joke and require no studying. I trying to study and there is a Luau going on right outside my window. I am on the 2nd floor and the DJ is right under my window, playing the most shity music ever. I am forced to go to the god damn library, this pisses me off I hate the Library.

What happened to the GOD DAMN QUIET HOURS!!??!!

[Kunoichi_Haruko]

*hands Mr. Snackpants a pair of noise-cancelling headphones*

Sounds like you're in need of these, bud. Hope you actually get a chance to study properly-- I hate going to the Library myself; The first two floors are always too loud, and the last two are too darn quiet!

[Mr. Snackpants]

Originally Posted by Kunoichi_Haruko

*hands Mr. Snackpants a pair of noise-cancelling headphones*

Sounds like you're in need of these, bud. Hope you actually get a chance to study properly-- I hate going to the Library myself; The first two floors are always too loud, and the last two are too darn quiet!

I wish I had some of those headphones. I decided the Luau wins, because I refuse to go to the library right now...I'll probably be pulling an all nighter anyways.

[Anarky]

So I've been unemployed for the longest time now. Since October 2005, to be exact. Sure, I worked here and there and had an internship at the newspaper but nothing steady. Of course, nothing steady meant no job interviews. Ever since I've been applying for steady jobs. So then I spotted this job ad in the newspaper that went "Young person wanted for import/export work, must speak english." And yes, it was in English. So I applied, remaining mildly optimistic about the position.

So the phone rang. I have a job interview at 2pm. Today. Needless to say that I am not only psyched but also very, very nervous. Whatever will I wear? Do I need to bring something along? What will they ask? Because I do want that job...

GAH! Best news in months!

[愛]

I usually go with clothes you'd normally wear on a date or something. Not that I'd really know about that, but you know what I mean. You don't need to bring anything. Just lots of suck-up information.

You'll be fine. Just be yourself, and don't show that you're nervous.

[Anarky]

Yeah, I think I'll go with a shortsleeved shirt over a T-shirt and normal shoes. But I'm really excited now. And I'm having a death metal celebration at nine am! I bet my new neighbours love me already.

[Ra]

Haha! Congratulations on the job interview, Anarky! I hope you are accepted for this.

[Kunoichi_Haruko]

Best of luck, Anarky!

[Sewer Bull]

Originally Posted by Anarky

So the phone rang. I have a job interview at 2pm. Today. Needless to say that I am not only psyched but also very, very nervous. Whatever will I wear? Do I need to bring something along? What will they ask? Because I do want that job...

If it's that job you told me about, then just be yourself. In every single aspect of yourself-ness. That should do it in this case.

Good luck.