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What is the hardest thing you have had to do this week?

Better yet, in your life...

For me, this week its that I had to tell this girl that I only wanted to be friends with her. I felt bad about it, cuz i know what that feels like.

as far as my life....hmm.. Probably dealing with my grandfathers death when I was like 4, or maybe when I had to choose who to live with when my parents divorced. No one was happy in that situation :(

My dick.






Someone had to say it, could as well be me. *shrug*

My dick.






Someone had to say it, could as well be me who's lying. *shrug*

Truth be told, I was expecting that :)

this week? I had to give up a job I love.

in my life? recovering from drug addiction.

My dick.






Someone had to say it, could as well be me. *shrug*

GODDAMN YOU!

:upyours:

I wanted to say it.. :(

GODDAMN YOU!

:upyours:

I wanted to say it.. :(

http://www.johnberman.com/pics/funny/simpsons_nelson_haha2.jpg

My dick.

Truth be told, I was expecting that :)

But were you expecting it from a woman? ;)

But were you expecting it from a woman? ;)


Ah, got me there :D

Getting out of bed on Monday morning.

I always find midweek much harder. You feel like you've been in the slave-pits forever since the last weekend, but there's still forever to go before the next one...

I need to start running again. I've been recovering from an ACL tear so it's going to be slow going which irritates me.

As far as life goes: Funding my pilot training.

Getting out of bed on Monday morning.

Truth be told, I was expecting that :)You wouldn't be worth your salt as NSer if you hadn't expected that.

GODDAMN YOU!

:upyours:

I wanted to say it.. :(I wouldn't be worth my salt as NSer if I hadn't known that. :)

finishing my sign up papers

Truth be told, I was expecting that :)
Me, too... But:
GODDAMN YOU!

:upyours:

I wanted to say it.. :(
Me, too... But:
But were you expecting it from a woman? ;)
No.
Then again, it's WYTYG.

Hardest thing this week? As always: going on.

P.S.: Woah, a post from the 4-minute-future follows...

What is the hardest thing you have had to do this week?

Better yet, in your life...

For me, this week its that I had to tell this girl that I only wanted to be friends with her. I felt bad about it, cuz i know what that feels like.

as far as my life....hmm.. Probably dealing with my grandfathers death when I was like 4, or maybe when I had to choose who to live with when my parents divorced. No one was happy in that situation :(

Hardest thing this week? Figuring out what else to do with my Spring Break :D

Then again, it's WYTYG.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/images/smilies/custom/doubt.gif

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/images/smilies/custom/doubt.gif
As in: I've learned to expect the unexpected from you and not be surprised. :p (Nu guck nich so!)

As in: I've learned to expect the unexpected from you and not be surprised. :p
Nice save. *pats* (Ich guck wie ich will!)

the hardest thing i'm having to do at the moment in knuckle down and get my dissertation done. it's due in in less than 10 days and i've barely started it, and here i am on nsg. *slaps self repeatedly*

Hardest thing I've had to do this week? Haven't really had to do anything difficult, so I'll have to go with the lame answer of getting out of bed this morning.

Hardest thing I've had to do in my life? Too personal to share on NSG.

Nice save. *pats* (Ich guck wie ich will!)
Are you sure you wanted to touch me there? :D (Jetzt guckste aber!)

Are you sure you wanted to touch me there? :D (Jetzt guckste aber!)

As they say.. expect the unexpected! (Hfddgdf rfdhyu dfsh!)

the hardest thing i'm having to do at the moment in knuckle down and get my dissertation done. it's due in in less than 10 days and i've barely started it, and here i am on nsg. *slaps self repeatedly*
You have been mentioning the dissertation for weeks (months?) now - what kind of "dissertation" is it (you British always confuse me with your usage of the term)? A term paper or a masters thesis?

Are you sure you wanted to touch me there? :D (Jetzt guckste aber!)>.< *guckt weg*

As they say.. expect the unexpected! (Hfddgdf rfdhyu dfsh!)Excellent German!


I should answer Zilam's question already but I don't want to. <.<

*is ignored*

Excellent German!

Well I did study it in school! Or not.
I should answer Zilam's question already but I don't want to. <.<

Then isn't that the hardest thing you've done? Answering his question?

Then isn't that the hardest thing you've done? Answering his question?I haven't. :)

The hardest thing I have had to do in my life is coming to terms with and recover from the traumatic events that led to my PTSD.

The hardest thing I have had to do this week was, well, continuing to come to terms with and recover from the traumatic events that led to my PTSD. This has also been the hardest thing I have had to do pretty much every week for the past two and a half years, and will probably continue to be the hardest thing I have to do for a long time.

Other than that, though, it's been a pretty decent week - I think the hardest thing I had to do was simply the usual "have a conversation with my mother without throttling her." :p

*is ignored*

You're quickly losing your jobs.. :(

And how was your life while quitting teh drugs?






There! Unignored!

I haven't. :)

Then answer my damn TG.

You have been mentioning the dissertation for weeks (months?) now - what kind of "dissertation" is it (you British always confuse me with your usage of the term)? A term paper or a masters thesis?

well it's the final paper i have to submit as part of my degree, and it's worth 40 credits out of 240 (equivalent to two course options). my degree is technically a master's so i guess that makes it a master's thesis equivalent. 12,000 words on gendered space, gendered practices and gender representations in the ancient near east.

Hardest thing this week? None yet...

Over my life? It would be forced to wear hearing aids despite that I hate the damn things and being punished because I won't tolerate extreme discomfort to placate my parents who don't understand what it's like to wear those horrid things. My father only backed off because I moved out and my mother lost any control over me after I decided she is a total bitch.

Honestly, living with a slight hearing loss is not that hard. I can hear quite fine and it hardly makes a difference and a lot of people don't notice or can even tell.

The real hard part was the stupid hearing aid and how my parents tried to make me feel. Like I should be ashamed of who I am unless I wear some stupid fucking piece of machinery in my head.

You're quickly losing your jobs.. :(
after Friday I won't have any.

And how was your life while quitting teh drugs?
sucky, I was really sick from withdrawls. It's sucky after too because everyday I think about how easy it was to be high.

*is ignored*
Probably because some of us have already heard your tale about your addiction involving Crystal Meth.

Probably because some of us have already heard your tale about your addiction involving Crystal Meth.

yeah, I was talking about the other part.

The hardest thing I have had to do in my life is coming to terms with and recover from the traumatic events that led to my PTSD.

The hardest thing I have had to do this week was, well, continuing to come to terms with and recover from the traumatic events that led to my PTSD. This has also been the hardest thing I have had to do pretty much every week for the past two and a half years, and will probably continue to be the hardest thing I have to do for a long time.

Other than that, though, it's been a pretty decent week - I think the hardest thing I had to do was simply the usual "have a conversation with my mother without throttling her." :p
:( That sounds pretty miserable.

after Friday I won't have any.

What? Why?
sucky, I was really sick from withdrawls. It's sucky after too because everyday I think about how easy it was to be high.

Well you beat it!

What? Why?
tired of everything.


Well you beat it!
it's an everyday battle, every day lately it's been a battle.

yeah, I was talking about the other part.

I think I know what you're referring to. I only say it because when you wrote your story down, it was memorable enough for a frequent NSG poster to remember.

Life does throw us some real hard balls some days.

>.>

Oh yeah, NOW I remember what is going to be hard this week...

They say it takes about 21 days for a human to develop a habit, good or bad...

Last week I was told I had to cut foods that are high in potassium out of my diet, so I'm starting this week because I was low on groceries until Saturday and so far it's hard because I hate white bread, I can't have chocolate, I can't eat most fruit, I have to limit my milk intake. I can't eat my favourite cereals because they're high in fibre and fibre has a lot of potassium in it... I can't even eat chocolate any more... but for some reason, according to my dietician, Frosted Flakes are still a viable option...

well it's the final paper i have to submit as part of my degree, and it's worth 40 credits out of 240 (equivalent to two course options). my degree is technically a master's so i guess that makes it a master's thesis equivalent. 12,000 words on gendered space, gendered practices and gender representations in the ancient near east.Wait, how many pages will that be when it's finished, approx.?


Edit: Nevermind, I asked the internet. About 40, is what the internet says. You'll totally have a TG in a bit.

What is the hardest thing you have had to do this week?

Better yet, in your life...

For me, this week its that I had to tell this girl that I only wanted to be friends with her. I felt bad about it, cuz i know what that feels like.

as far as my life....hmm.. Probably dealing with my grandfathers death when I was like 4, or maybe when I had to choose who to live with when my parents divorced. No one was happy in that situation :(

I don't know. Probably my operation.

I don't know. Probably my operation.

What was your operation for?

:( That sounds pretty miserable.

Well, it could be a lot worse. I mean, I'm not going to try to pretend that my life is particularly fun ("Having PTSD is awesome! I just love waking up in the middle of the night shaking and sobbing from reliving the same horrible moment over and over and over in my dreams! Also the random panic attacks over things everyone else finds easy? Super cool!"), but it's very much better than it was two years ago, and still steadily improving. I'm not exactly doing well yet, but I'm doing okay. :)

This weeks been quote good except I'm not sure whether to tell a mate that a girl he got off with, got off with another guy after he left the party.

In life: Various injusries and some back pains.

this week was quite easy. but just because i keep postponing all the hard stuff.

my life hasn't known a lot of hard things either. i think that, in comparison with other people, i have had a quite easy life up until know. some things weren't as good as the others, but overal i seem to be very lucky.

well it's the final paper i have to submit as part of my degree, and it's worth 40 credits out of 240 (equivalent to two course options). my degree is technically a master's so i guess that makes it a master's thesis equivalent. 12,000 words on gendered space, gendered practices and gender representations in the ancient near east.

Just that? Piffle, I could write that in my sleep...









no I couldn't, stay out of my dreams, your topic both confuses and frightens me, you might be a witch...

GODDAMN YOU!

:upyours:

I wanted to say it.. :(

I did too...

ACT test......brain.......hurt....

What is the hardest thing you have had to do this week?

Better yet, in your life...

Waking up early... It's oh so hard :D

The hardest thing for me this week is writing a lab report. The problem is that I left during the second half of the lab because I didn't feel like doing it. Part of it required finding the unknown pH of an acid and base to use in the calculations and I don't know what they are.

As for my life, there was never anything that was truly difficult. So I'll go with having to right a chemistry research paper on polymerization in 2 days while I had a very high fever.

The hardest thing I've ever had to do was deal with my brothers death. It took years to stop grieving.

Just that? Piffle, I could write that in my sleep...









no I couldn't, stay out of my dreams, your topic both confuses and frightens me, you might be a witch...

lol, it frightens me too. i wish i was a witch, with magic essay pixies at my command. short of that i think i might have to get a doctor declare me insane so i can get an extension. bleh.

A big :fluffle: to everyone in the thread, but an exceptionally big and consoling and up-cheering one for you guys:

The hardest thing I have had to do in my life is coming to terms with and recover from the traumatic events that led to my PTSD.

The hardest thing I have had to do this week was, well, continuing to come to terms with and recover from the traumatic events that led to my PTSD. This has also been the hardest thing I have had to do pretty much every week for the past two and a half years, and will probably continue to be the hardest thing I have to do for a long time.

Other than that, though, it's been a pretty decent week - I think the hardest thing I had to do was simply the usual "have a conversation with my mother without throttling her." :p

tired of everything.


it's an everyday battle, every day lately it's been a battle.

The hardest thing I've ever had to do was deal with my brothers death. It took years to stop grieving.

:fluffle: (<-- exceptionally big and consoling and up-cheering)


And Smunkee - get help. Like, seriously. You've been down (as in wayyyyy down) like this for a while now. If you can't fix it and hubby can't fix it go see someone who can. Now. Okay?

Magic essay writing pixies would have been soo cool...I'm getting a net and going back to school!Catch me some, will you?

lol, it frightens me too. i wish i was a witch, with magic essay pixies at my command. short of that i think i might have to get a doctor declare me insane so i can get an extension. bleh.

Magic essay writing pixies would have been soo cool...I'm getting a net and going back to school!

Catch me some, will you?

Natch.

tired of everything.



it's an everyday battle, every day lately it's been a battle.

your job list included being homeschool teacher and chauffeur for your kids. you arent giving those up too are you?

you have been over doing it. its good to cut down to the bare minimum that you have to do to get by. staying sober and keeping care of your family is more important than doing people's taxes.

A 12 hour watch on the SLQ-32 in the middle of the Atlantic. Triple boring, and my usual methods of avoiding boredom(tackling people, causing mischief, playing pranks, making a nuisance of myself and/or playing in mud) are all frowned upon in CDC. :(

The hardest thing I've ever had to do was deal with my brothers death. It took years to stop grieving.

as it said grieving not the same for all, i was over it in week after the pasting of my step dad who been there for me from the age of four
but the week he past it was hard for me

Wait, how many pages will that be when it's finished, approx.?


Edit: Nevermind, I asked the internet. About 40, is what the internet says. You'll totally have a TG in a bit.

thank you :) you have a tg back and i intend to act on what you said :fluffle:

your job list included being homeschool teacher and chauffeur for your kids. you arent giving those up too are you?

you have been over doing it. its good to cut down to the bare minimum that you have to do to get by. staying sober and keeping care of your family is more important than doing people's taxes.

I know.

I am quiting most everything that doesn't directly involve the education of the children, not that they have been neglected or anything, but that I am tired of doing anything else besides.

I know.

I am quiting most everything that doesn't directly involve the education of the children, not that they have been neglected or anything, but that I am tired of doing anything else besides.

its for the best. if you wear yourself out you are no good to anyone.

I know.

I am quiting most everything that doesn't directly involve the education of the children, not that they have been neglected or anything, but that I am tired of doing anything else besides.

:( ::hugs::

thank you :) you have a tg back and i intend to act on what you said :fluffle:Replied!

I know.

I am quiting most everything that doesn't directly involve the education of the children, not that they have been neglected or anything, but that I am tired of doing anything else besides.
You're doing the right thing. It's rather astonishing you kept up your "SuperSmunkee" life for so long - I would have burned out in a month, tops.

And you'll totally still be SuperSmunkee, just less tired and more sane. http://www.smiliemania.de/smilie132/00001606.gif

Three hours of sleep plus three exams in one day...blarg I'm exhausted.

the hardest thing i'm having to do at the moment in knuckle down and get my dissertation done. it's due in in less than 10 days and i've barely started it, and here i am on nsg. *slaps self repeatedly*
If it's any help, it's definitely possible. I did my dissertation in 6 days around this time last year (from being about halfway through the research to finished in 6 days, that is). Ok, so it was only 10000 words, but by that time I was knocking out 2000-word essays in four hours while posting on here at the same time.

You'll get it done no problem.

Hardest thing for me this week is trying to decide if I should leave my girlfriend for someone else. I'm less sure now than I was at the weekend.

In my life, it's been getting rejected by a couple of hundred potential employers in the last eight months without even being given a chance of an interview, even though I know the jobs I'd applied for would hardly even start to stretch my abilities.

What is the hardest thing you have had to do this week?

Better yet, in your life...

For me, this week its that I had to tell this girl that I only wanted to be friends with her. I felt bad about it, cuz i know what that feels like.

as far as my life....hmm.. Probably dealing with my grandfathers death when I was like 4, or maybe when I had to choose who to live with when my parents divorced. No one was happy in that situation :(

i can imagine how impossibly hard that last one would be :-S :(

for me, this weekend i had a hard time working on saturday to get a job finished while my girlfriend was in the office, bored and, at times, crying.

hardest thing in life has probably been living with clinical depression for the last however-many-years its been. finding a purpose has been impossibly hard

My dick.






Someone had to say it, could as well be me. *shrug*

that makes, like, no sense coming from you.... :P

I dunno... Dealing with death in the family isn't ever easy, but I guess I would say it was dealing with a broken heart. *sigh* Changed my life, it did. Maybe for the worse, maybe for better, I'll never really know. But the hurt is left behind, at least... For the most part.

Who knows, really?

that makes, like, no sense coming from you.... :P
Bah, who needs sense anyway? :p

Hardest thing this week... trying to stay awake on the bus on the ride home today.

Hardest thing ever? Hard to say. I'll go with this one; phoning all my employees individually to tell them that our company was shut down, and that not only did they not have a job to go to on Monday, but that there was no money to pay for their last week of work. That sucked.

This week: Sleeping with no heat (our furnace was broken)
In my life: Probably dealing with my father's death.

Hardest thing this week? Figuring out what else to do with my Spring Break :DOoh ooh give it to me!

This week: writing several essays at silly times because I've put them off for too long (damn end of term feeling)

Life: dealing with my best friend's death aged 10 and onwards; telling another best friend of my feelings for him after several years of hiding it, aged 18

telling another best friend of my feelings for him after several years of hiding it, aged 18Ah, coming out. That's difficult, yes.

Ah, coming out. That's difficult, yes.

Yes I suppose so, it kind of felt like the whole friendship had been a lie based on a feeling that I did not understand at the beginning. Things are better now.

Life: Dad's death. Still adjusting.

This week: Dealing with a girl rejecting me. I can't even feel angry at her about it because she did some really impressive things in the process. (Not revealing more on a public forum.)

Thanks WYTYG. I took it so hard because I never really had a relationship with him and then when things started to actually get good he gets in a car accident and the doctor says he'll never be able to get off life support so my mom had to give them the go-ahead to pull the plug. I felt like I wasted so much time and then when I finally got the chance it was gone again, but for good this time. I was filled with so much regret.

This is such a difficult question to answer, especially after reading all the responses. I thought I'd give it a go, though.

I've not had an easy life, and there are several things that could make the 'hardest thing' list: An abused childhood leading to decades of PTSD, living with my daughter's father after he'd broken up with me and moved in his new lover because I didn't have anywhere else to go, the six month span when I was 13 trying to decide which way was the best way to kill myself, watching one of my ex's brothers shoot up heroin and then try to pierce his girlfriends nipple (is way more traumatic than funny at 16, trust me), deciding to move away from my birth country on the hope that I could find something better, the two children I've lost before their birth, the month between where I heard my mom had a tumor in her utuerus to when I heard the operation went ok, my father telling me that if I wasn't going to follow his 'advice' on my life situations then he didn't want to even hear about my life, etcetera etcetera etcetera

In the last 7 days... Going back to work for the first time after my miscarriage with a mis-repaired (and highly painful) infected tooth and a migraine squeezing my eyeball would pretty much top the list. That day sucked pretty hard, as did the following 4 where I had to go back to work again, and again, and again.... finishing the work week gave a nice feeling of accomplishment though, that and I could take some stronger meds, he he he.

What is the hardest thing you have had to do this week?

Walk home on Tuesday morning whilst still moderately drunk after not having slept the night before. Took about an hour and a half.

I can't really blame anyone else for that, nuts. I was simply too stingy to pay for a taxi. :P

Better yet, in your life...

The period for several years after I moved to Melbourne where I had no friends and was subject to daily torment of both the physical and mental varieties.

Waking my brother up at 5 AM was pretty difficult, but he set his alarm clock to go off loudly so that it would wake me up so that I could come in and wake him up. It was pretty annoying and I lost half an hour of sleep.

Ummm hardest thing? Probably a couple, but watching my Mum die in dreadful screaming agony and know that nothing but death could help relieve her and yet wishing she could stay with me. Sitting with my teenage daughter at the hospital as she was waiting to have a termination. Sitting with the same teenage daughter a few weeks later at the same hospital waiting to find out if she was OK after a suicide attempt. Telling my three kids that their Dad doesn't want to see them again, telling my kids that their grandad doesn't want to see them again....shit that sounds like a bunch of hard stuff.

History 584 Final.

What is the hardest thing you have had to do this week?

Better yet, in your life...

For me, this week its that I had to tell this girl that I only wanted to be friends with her. I felt bad about it, cuz i know what that feels like.

as far as my life....hmm.. Probably dealing with my grandfathers death when I was like 4, or maybe when I had to choose who to live with when my parents divorced. No one was happy in that situation :(

I can't say. I mean, I have done certain things that at the time seemed to be the "hardest thing in my life" but as time passed, those things faded into insignificance compared to what came later.

Ummm hardest thing? Probably a couple, but watching my Mum die in dreadful screaming agony and know that nothing but death could help relieve her and yet wishing she could stay with me. Sitting with my teenage daughter at the hospital as she was waiting to have a termination. Sitting with the same teenage daughter a few weeks later at the same hospital waiting to find out if she was OK after a suicide attempt. Telling my three kids that their Dad doesn't want to see them again, telling my kids that their grandad doesn't want to see them again....shit that sounds like a bunch of hard stuff.

Not too hard. Believe me, harder things will come later.

Not too hard. Believe me, harder things will come later.

Aren't we the optimistic one...

Ummm hardest thing? Probably a couple, but watching my Mum die in dreadful screaming agony and know that nothing but death could help relieve her and yet wishing she could stay with me. Sitting with my teenage daughter at the hospital as she was waiting to have a termination. Sitting with the same teenage daughter a few weeks later at the same hospital waiting to find out if she was OK after a suicide attempt. Telling my three kids that their Dad doesn't want to see them again, telling my kids that their grandad doesn't want to see them again....shit that sounds like a bunch of hard stuff.

you are obviously a very strong person. I am sure your daughter is thankful to have a mom like you. :)

You can't really enjoy the good times without knowing how badly life can suck sometimes.

True, but I think Carisbrooke is most likely acutely aware of that.

Aren't we the optimistic one...

You can't really enjoy the good times without knowing how badly life can suck sometimes.

What was your operation for?

My balls. Don't laugh.

Hardest thing in my life so far is probably having to deal with the fact that I might have a debilitating condition that will affect me for life and due to the wonderful healthcare system in the UK I have to wait until the end of this month before even seeing a neurologist to start getting some answers.

Weekly matters kind of pale into insignificance in comparison.

The hardest thing this week was waking up for work yesterday. I can't remember the hardest thing of my life though.

This week is actually really contending for the hardest thing I've done in my life.

This week... lecture my son on why the dog poop needs to be picked up every day (his chore-he's 12) after one of our apartment neighbors complained. I can't count how many times I have had to tell him, "It needs to be picked up every day because a neighbor will complain and we might get evicted, blah, blah..."


My life... deal with finding my father dead. Followed closely by natural labor. No drugs. That kinda sucked.

had to delete it

well it's the final paper i have to submit as part of my degree, and it's worth 40 credits out of 240 (equivalent to two course options). my degree is technically a master's so i guess that makes it a master's thesis equivalent. 12,000 words on gendered space, gendered practices and gender representations in the ancient near east.

Aye, I've got about the same amount to do on the following subject:

"A comparison of the responses to the closure of the first Duma and the Constituent Assembly, taking into account both domestic and international reactions" (about Imperial/Revolutionary Russia).

For May 22nd though, so not quite as bad as yours. I spent 3 hours in the library on Monday trawling through Parliamentary records looking for a response from MPs and the government. Found about 4 quotes, which was disappointing.

/off-topic

Hardest thing in my life: No idea.
Hardest thing in my week: Taking care of my mom cause she's sick and my dad is off at work. Cooking three meals and grocery shopping to be more specific.