I can't find the right place for me to post

[Moonstruck]

I don't know any more where to put a new thread if I make one, or which ones to join in. I always used Anxiety because that is my major condition but that has been relatively under control lately - I feel Depressed today - but I don't qualify for the topics there either. I'm depressed mainly because there doesn't seem a place for me. I love some of the threads and personal thoughts for example in Staying Well, but I can't join in there, because I don't have any tips for Staying Well.

I tend to have almost paranoid thoughts through over-thinking "problems" that I would like to talk over but don't know where to talk them over before they reach the paranoid stage...I want to avoid that. I join in the Social threads saying light hearted jokey things because thats the only place I seem to belong.

I dwell on any problems my adult sons have in various aspects of their life and want to "fix things for them" - our relationship is very loving and close though - they are wonderful to me - so there is no real "problem" with my relationship with them....so I don't seem to belong in the "relationships, family" section either do I?

I worry about them all the time - when I tried to express this on forum I think it was misconstrued that I had "empty nest syndrome" - trying to adapt to my sons' leaving home....No, that's not it...they've been gone for years and years...I am a grandmother.

I liked the Getting to Know You, or is it Me? thread very much - but have been given suggestions how to start my own thread and what section to use etc and get the feeling I'm being steered away from there too.

So I am still confused. I don't feel particularly anxious today, so this shouldn't even be in Anxiety! Do you see my dilemma?

In fact the more I write the more I feel like crying - I don't know where to go next.

[Paw Prints]

Hello Moon,

That's a deal lass.... 

Hugs

Paws

**** Congrats on your award 🏆

[Croix]

Dear Moon~

I've been wondering how your acceptance speech went. I can see you pulling up in the chauffeur driven limmo, highlighted by the flash bulbs, ascending the red carpet then standing in front of all and giving a speech that struck exactly the right note (to great applause).

Sounds pretty good for a bowler.

Incidentally you can be sure we will walk beside you in the bad times as well as the good

Croix (who just realized walruses don't walk, they womp. OK womp along side you)

[Moonstruck]

No Croix....it hasn't been on yet....few days now.  In years past however, I have "pulled up in a chauffeur driven limmo, greeted by crowds with cameras and I think perhaps the carpet we had to walk along was red....partly of it anyway...I didn't look!   Or....maybe it was all for the big star I happened to be with at the time!!  Yeah, he was the drawcard!

Never heard of the word "womp"  and I am a pretty good wordsmith.  That's a stupid word, it cannot possibly pertain to a walrus, let alone anything else.  I shall have to check it out!!

[Doolhof]

Hi Moon,

All the best for the award ceremony and acceptance speech, hope it goes well for you.

Hold your head high and be proud of your achievements. 

[mmMekitty]

Oh, that's tonight! You know you are going to be great!

*

'Womp', I suspect is one of those onomatopoeic words, which sound like the sound the word is trying to imitate. In this instance it may be the sound of a walrus's flipper hitting the icy surface of his iceberg. I thought the flipper might go 'thwack', but what does a cat know? I trust that the walrus knows 'womp' is the word.

Hugziies (just so you'll take some cat hair with you tonight)

mmMekitty

[Croix]

Dear mmMeKitty~

Thank you for your erudite explanation of 'womp' You are quite right (as usual:) In fact your explanation is 'the cat's whiskers'.

It is the sound a walrus makes when traveling on land/ice - not just flippers which do go 'thwack', but the whole (muscular/impressive) body.

Penguins on the other hand toboggan and go '"Wee"-swish', inebriated kiwis go 'Hick'. I've no idea what sound LRK's make - if any. Grandys and DBs just make an awful racket:(

Moon, I'm not sure if you have had your event yet, if so how did it go? If not then Good Luck - though I doubt you will need it.

Croix

[mmMekitty]

Hi Moon, Croix & everyone making noises out there - so much you can't hear me without downloading the full 8hr soundtrack  .... hehehe! My variety of noises is astounding.

Last week, Moon said the ceremony would be in a few days, (I heard 'two' instead of 'few'). Surely by now, you've had your ceremony? It hasn't been postponed, has it?

I keep thinking of you, red carpet & the drawcard ... that's worth a few nerves - excited nerves that make you grin from ear to ear!

[mmMekitty]

& Croix, thank you, now I also have 'twack, womp, twack, womp, twack, womp... & now, thanks to Hard Quiz, I need to find out what it sounds like when a walrus spits to loosen shellfish from the seabed..... it is 'sputz'? If so, how often?

[Croix]

Dear mmMekitty~

Walruses never spit, they are far too cultured. Shellfish are loosened with a silver oyster knife and white linen napkin. The sound is "Yum"

How things Moon?

-C

[Moonstruck]

Hello People....Yes it's been on and I did OK I reckon.   Got lots of kind messages afterwards so I guess I wasn't too bad.  Didn't know so many people seem to actually like me!!   But yeah...got through it fine.  Nervous during the day though.....thank you for understanding