Roll Call!!!

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Roll Call!!!
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Mon, 02-06-2006 - 8:43pm

It's been a while (I think) since we've done one and I know we've got a number of new members, so I figure we're about due.

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Registered: 04-02-2003
In reply to: kcisis
Mon, 02-06-2006 - 8:48pm
Marci; Kansas City, Missouri; 52-single mom of Jen (almost 19), who is about to become a single mom (more or less--her fiance is currently incarcerated) of my 1st grandchild the end of June.
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Registered: 11-18-2003
In reply to: kcisis
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 9:22am

traci - northern va. i'm a single mom of 3 great kids and as of saturday 6 fur-babies. my newest addition is not the german shepard i had hoped to get, but he is a black lab 3 1/2 months old and quite the "puppy". he acclamated quickly and has a particular interest in shoes.......and anything else that is within his range. lol!


my kids keep me pretty busy with oldest dd working, and my other dd and my ds are gearing up for spring ball - softball and baseball. i'm a bus driver by trade and a full time college student as well.


hugs all


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Registered: 03-25-2003
In reply to: kcisis
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 11:46am

Keli, 35...I live in Tallahassee, Florida...I have a dh, a ds, and 1 doggie...Frisky. She likes dh much more than me!

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Registered: 11-22-2003
In reply to: kcisis
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 1:04pm

Sorry I'm a day late. We got our tax return on Friday so this weekend (a 3-day weekend for dh) has been a blur of going shopping and returning things and putting together badly needed new furniture, etc. This is the first semi-quiet day in over a week. Yikes!


Anyway... My screen name is Kristin, which is my real name, but I prefer Aislinn. I'm 24, married almost 5 years, with two kids: 2 yr, 5 mo (Aryc) and 5 mo today (Nate). Nate is teething and won't really sleep, which means Mommy doesn't sleep. Which has been okay since I've been manic. But yesterday I shifted into a depressive state. (Yeah! Quiet mind for the first time in over a month! But then Nate wouldn't sleep and dh had to work so I took him last night. That didn't go so well. But today I'm switching back. I'm an ultra-rapid cycler. I go through about 2-3 cycles a DAY, though sometimes my hypomania lasts for a few days up to a month at a time.) Ahhh... sugar and caffeine! The food of motherhood and mania. Actually, I'm reading this great book about BP. It's Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families, by Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D. Very informative! It covers all aspects of BP, including special concerns for women. I highly recommend looking into it if you want to learn more about BP. I think I have it figured out - I'm BP II and also have cyclothymia. I was diagnosed with cyclothymia 5 years ago, but never knew that it was a version of BP until I started this book. But I meet ALL the symptoms of BP II and hypomania, not true mania. (That's a plus, I think.) I need to talk to my doc about getting on a mood stab as well as my Celexa. It's throwing me for a loop by itself. Okay, this is a long roll call, I guess. But I haven't been here in awhile and wanted to let everybody know how I was doing.


Separate ques: Is anybody on BP meds and Depo? I just started Depo (almost ready for my second shot) and it's going great, but I don't want it to interfere with the BP meds. I will ask my doc, too, but I wanted personal stories if anybody had any they were willing to share.


Thanks, everyone! Take care and I'll be around.

Take care and happy holidays!
~ Kristin (AKA Aislinn)
kristinmmyers@hotmail.com


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Registered: 03-25-2003
In reply to: kcisis
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 1:18pm
susan,44 year old mother of 3 girls....a husband...a very old dog & a black cat.
i'm a stay at home b/c w/ all the things that come up with my children if i had a job i'd be fired by now.
i do sell avon,mostly b/c of my own addiction to the cosmetics & during vacation time i direct drama camp for children.
i swore i'd never do any theater myself ever again(i come from a family of actors...my father is very successful..not in name but in deed)but right now i'm doing probably my last show.after this i'm happy to live vicariously through the children.
i live in brooklyn ny...& my entire family(except my dad who understands me the most)escaped to arizona & i'm terribly jealous!
but now since i finally found the right dr.s i guess i'm stuck here.who wants to go thru the whole searching thing again?????
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Registered: 11-08-2004
In reply to: kcisis
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 3:33pm

I'm Robin from central NC.

 

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: kcisis
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 4:28pm
Missy, 31, dh and 3 boys, ages 11, 4 and 2. no pets, live in IL, about 50 miles west of Chicago
 
 
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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: kcisis
Tue, 02-07-2006 - 6:40pm

Not on BP meds and the depo, but wanted to give my two cents about the depo. I used and loved it for over a year, then it just killed my sex drive. Just wanted to warn you. Dh hated it, LOL. I had to go off of it just for that reason. On a good note, after the first shot, I never had a period.

Missy

 
 
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Registered: 12-14-2004
In reply to: kcisis
Wed, 02-08-2006 - 1:44am

Hello all! To reintroduce myself, my name is Emily. People commonly refer to me as Emily, Em, or Miss Emily. You fine folk can call me what ever you want. I generally don't get offended.

FACT! My middle name is Jane, therfore making my entire screen name extremely uncreative.

I am currently 20 years old and I was born and raised in a small community called Sarnia, which is in the southwest corner of Ontario. It's generally not very exciting except for the one weekend during the summer I get to be as manic as I want when we have concerts in the park. Fun times.

I am currently not in anyway taken by a member of the opposite sex. If you know anybody who's interested, you can send him this way. I was at one point though, but that's a long story that is not appropirate for this rather long and intentionally silly post.

I work at a call center where my job was to take calls from dissatified customers of T-Mobile, but I just got a promotion...well, it's not really a promotion in the finanical or status sense of the word...you see, I got transfered to the "offline" department. The good news is I NEVER HAVE TO TAKE ANOTHER CRABBY CALL AGAIN! My stress level will go down ten fold now. The bad news is I got the same shift as before. Oh well. The good still outways the bad.

Although it's been put on hold indefantly, my current inspiraiton in life inbodies itself in the arts and entertainment field. My weapon of choice since I was 14 has been the bass guitar, although I have taught myself a bit of guitar and drums over the past few years. Oh, and I play piano, just don't ask me to read any of the music (it's too confusing) and, although I did get the highest marks in my vocal music class, I really can't sing but I love to pretend I can. (The only reason I got the highest in that class was because my theory and history marks were always through the roof.) I do paint and draw and I swear there's at least two projects in the planning stages. I was in love with the theatre for many, many years, until I feel in love with somebody there and well, it became more than weird. But again, I'm not going to go too in depth with it. This is a rather fun, long post about the lighter side of my life.

But now, high school has long past, the long and short of the theatre story has been told, and I'm left to my private study of my love of art, music and theatre. Music has been fufilled by many trips to the corner hole-in-the-wall CD shop and the renewed interest in classic rock and a rather new fasination with pop music. I am a hardcore Beatlefan and have been one since birth. (None of this "discovering" in my late teens crap. My parents endoured many of late fees renting Yellow Submarine and my complaining when dear old Dad would want to listen to Rubber Soul and I wanted to listen to Revolver...and that was when I was 3.) When it finally dawned on me that there was other music in the world that was pretty good, my music collection started to include such artists as Barenaked Ladies, Our Lady Peace and Great Big Sea. The CD collection has just grown from there.

Theatre wise, I haven't been to a performance in almost a year. I just stick to TV at this point. Lost is a staple, as well as any incaration of Law and Order. Saturday Night Live, Kids in the Hall and Monty Python are also past favourites, but I'm either not home to watch or I can't find them on anywhere.

Oh, and I'm moving to England when I get the money together. I almost forgot that. Shame of me.

So, there's my life in a nutshell. The result of this post is what you get with a cross of frustration with copywrite protection on CDs, Paul McCartney and a good day at work. (God bless, Paul McCartney is my hero, but the man has gotten his fair share of my and my parents money over the years. Records (album and CDs), Beatle memoriblia, CONCERTS...you name it. I'm going to be extremely upset if he starts suing because I had to physically download every song from a CD I just bought and couldn't load to my computer so I can listen to it on my MP3 player.) I hope you enjoyed it and your butt and your eyes didn't get too sore from reading. I do not post very often. When I do, watch out. :p