It will always be an ever on going war for me, but the answer to your question is over all the many battles...great and small...I have conquered so far in my almost 50 years of life with the life-long disease called depression.

Yes, it was at a Denny's while I was VERY pregnant with my first child which this was close to 19 years ago My Dear Hubby decided that would be a good place for me to rest while he was out running errands, before he came back to me up for some place else we both went to that day. It was a great meal and I had an enjoyable time there. :-) Take care, Juliettecr

It was during the first 5 years of my being married to my hubby of now 22 1/2 years who was away most often through his duty of being and the Navy, that I often sick. However, we were most blessed to have good and most platonic friends, all males, for reasons God only knows about, to be taking care of me while we were able  to give them needs that they needed for themselves such as a temporary shelter in their lives due to whatever problems elsewhere. On one particular night, my sickness got extremely bad...we found out about 5 years of my sickness that I an sickly allergic to ALMOST all dairy food which I inherited in my mid-20s....and one of our friends got pretty concern for me, but he wasn't sure what to do about it. He told me  something, but I couldn't hear nor focus on his words while he was heading out the door. I figure he couldn't deal with it, and I continue crawling my way to my bedroom to lay down in my bed, with the hope I could go to sleep soon. I crawled because I was having a good dizzy spell at the time. It was before I crawled into my bed, that I closed my bedroom door, and I was feeling so feverishly hot from my sickness that I made myself as comfortable as possible which showed much of my skin, but not private parts, while having one hand on my stomach to try to help sooth it, and the other arm up on my forehead in trying to control the spinning of everything in that room. I was getting ready to hit to dreamland when my friend, and another good friend of ours, swiftly walked through the livingroom, open my bedroom door which left me no time to do anything any more embarrassing to them or to me to cover myself up...but this is where the fun began in my eavesdropping of their little conversation which was all about me. I won't go into all the details of what were said that night except for the other friend who the first one brought there stated that there was nothing they could do now, but just to let me sleep it off. The rest of their converstation was like listening to a tennis game going on between each of their own personalities that were bouncing together back and forth on the same exact team with each other. For example: the first two sentences, one from each of them were made out of pure caring friendship tor me; then the next two sentences, one from each of them were made out of their own pure hormones due to them really LIKING what they saw of me as just a woman's beautiful body; then the following next two sentences, with one from each of them came out of pure caring friendship for me; then it went bouncing back with their lustful hormones due to them LIKING the beautiful woman's body that was laying down before them, and etc., etc. etc.. It impress me so much that I was able to keep up my whole act of pretending to be sound a sleep that whole time. :-D LOL! I am estimating that this whole memorable event lasted about 5 - 10 minutes or so. :-) When they left the bedroom with closing the door behind them, I just smile a GREAT BIG smile with a GREAT BIG BLUSH, and I swiftly....but carefully...since my sickness was still strongly effecting me at the time...took a nearby blanket and just about completely wrapped it up over me. :-D LOL! It didn't take me long to get back to sleep after that, then the following morning I was feeling better again, and the friend who originally planned to sleep in the livingroom that night was still there, but not the other one, the first of the two took him home that night, and then he came back to continue his share to take care of me. This was a most enjoyable question to answer...thank you! :-) Juliettecr

Always comfortable.

The one of actor Jon-Erik Hexum. I still have the teen magazine that did an article of his passing. He died in late 20s with a gun that had blank bullets in it which he shot at his head in front of ll on the set as a joke; he seriosly thought that the blank bullets were harmless. It took him about a day or so before he passed away, but before he did, he donated some of his body parts to others who needed them in order to live...or live better lives ie. his heart and his eyes to name two of them. The Doctor let him go after Jon-Erik was brain dead.

Mel Tillis' - 3 CDs set which he has on his web site; it is the only one with a particular song listed on it which i want so badly in my collection. The song is titled: "Who's Julie". :-) Here is a link for it:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exkI9tKITnw  . Take care, Juliettecr

The Summer Arts Festival at the Veteran's Park Amphitheater in Springfield, Ohio. Next year, 2009, will be the 43rd year of them having the Summer Arts Festival. YEAH!!! :-D Take care, Juliettecr

It wouldn't be of any form of religous holiday of any kind, but it would be inspired from the real life St. Nicholas better known as Santa Claus. I have found that MANY of the holidays, especially those of Americans are all about them receiving an over abundance of food and/or lots of gifts where the "SUPPOSE" to meaning of what/how/why the holiday ever came to exist in the first place. These holidays have become WAY too much on commercialism and the "Give me, give me, give me" attitude which seems to be more often the case that this is what people get than the giving to others and/or  having special important thoughts to why the holiday is even celebrated in the first place. So, if I was to come up with a holiday, it would be one that would be basically of the "Gift Of Giving" BUT NOT for what people just simply want every year; BUT instead with the exception to each person who would celebrate in the holiday of receiving just ONE GIFT PERIOD for the celebration weather it be a want and/or need of what the individual may wish for; the rest of it should be focus ONLY for those who are most truly need of things...not toys...not candy...not jewerly....not music...not pets and etc; but things such as clothes...food...whatever they may need for their home (even if this means something which needed repairs in their home)...school supplies...chores that someone is legitmentally unable to do for themselves...transportation to where they NEED to go to, and etc.. The real life St. Nicholas inspired me of this idea because this is what he spent much dedicated his life to do which became a major reason why he became a St. in the first place. I feel our country has become WAY TOO MUCH SELF-CENTER for itself, and I sincerly believe that such a holiday (or holidays) would help balance this one-sidedness perspective out. There is a time for literally everything in this world, which includes thinking about and taking care of your own wants and needs; but  there is also those times when we must focus on other people's GENUINE NEEDS. This is what I mean balance, and I think that such a holiday(s) as "Gift Of Giving" would be a GOOD reminder to folks every of this very important genuine loving way of life toward each other without expecting anything in return from anyone or anything from it. For I know that in return, you'll feel your gift from within for giving with these reasons and these manners as I have just written above in my post. Oh...and yes....just handling out tax-deductable funds/gifts would not be part of the deal; otherwise the giving part has lost the whole purpose which would make it just another meaningless commercialism holiday in our country ie. Christmas, Easter, St. Valentines Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving and etc. for example. I don't celebrate other holidays than these most well-known holidays in our country, so I don't know too much how they are celebrated in all their various different ways, so this is the reason, and the only reason why I didn't mention it in my post. Take care, Juliettecr

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