{"id":2427,"date":"2009-06-15T21:36:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2009-06-15T21:49:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T19:49:12","slug":"enough-with-the-crying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/2427","title":{"rendered":"Enough With The Crying!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swear, for the last year or so I\u2019ve been a complete crybaby.\u00a0\u00a0 I can\u2019t explain it and I can\u2019t pinpoint when it began, but I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s getting worse and it\u2019s freakin\u2019 embarrassing!<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t misunderstand me, I\u2019m not unhappy.\u00a0 Not unhappy at all, in fact.\u00a0 I know I\u2019ve posted a lot about depression in the past but that\u2019s really not a factor now.\u00a0 I\u2019m happier now than I have been in years, so why the heck am I crying all the damn time?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always been somewhat sensitive.\u00a0 I remember a number of times when my father rolled his eyes at me and my mother as we wiped away our tears in the airport.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, no\u2026 not when we were saying goodbye to each other, but when we were waiting to pick someone up and were sitting watching strangers saying goodbye to each other.\u00a0 He thought we were nuts.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good to be empathetic I suppose, and to be sensitive to what other people are going through, but this is just taking the piss!<\/p>\n<p>I think the first time I really noticed it was when I went to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1000774\/\">Sex and the City<\/a> movie with my friend Penny.\u00a0\u00a0 No lie, I don\u2019t even think we were five minutes into the movie and I was sniffing and getting my tissue out.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the girls in the movie together again, I felt all nostalgic \u2013 and I cried.\u00a0\u00a0 Miranda and Steve had problems \u2013 and I cried.\u00a0 Big and Carrie got engaged \u2013 and I cried.<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t even get into the mess that was me when Charlotte found out she was pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>At one point Penny turned to me and said \u201cWhat the hell is the matter with you?!\u201d, and I had no answer, I had no idea.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not stopped since.\u00a0\u00a0 Happy times \u2013 Cry.\u00a0 Sad times \u2013 Cry.\u00a0 Seriously, it\u2019s out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>The straw that broke the camel\u2019s back was this weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Xander was working on my laptop setting up Windows 7 on it and afterwards I was sitting there as he showed me everything.\u00a0 It went a little like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Xander: So this is this and that is that<br \/>\nMe:\u00a0 But do my buttons still work?<br \/>\nXander: What buttons?<br \/>\nMe: *Poking at buttons*\u00a0 These ones, this one is for my mail, this one is for my browser, this one opens VLC \u2026<br \/>\nXander: Oh, I don\u2019t know, try them and see.<br \/>\nMe: Ok that one works, but why don\u2019t I see my volume bar thing on the screen when I turn it up and down?<br \/>\nXander:\u00a0 I dunno, I guess that doesn\u2019t happen in Windows 7<br \/>\nMe: What do you mean?\u00a0 It should show me how loud the volume is as I change it.<br \/>\nXander: Well, you can hear it.\u00a0 Plus, look you can see it if you hover over the thing here in the corner.<br \/>\nMe: Yeah but then you have to hover over and away, over and away, over and away to see the difference. Not like on screen like before\u2026<br \/>\nXander: *Blink*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2026.. *Silence*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Xander: Are you CRYING?!!<br \/>\nMe: NO!!!!! &#8230; YES!! And I don\u2019t know WHY!! *SobLaugh*<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No really, I didn\u2019t even realize my eyes were tearing up until he told me and I said no at first because I really didn\u2019t think I was.\u00a0 Then when I realized I actually <em>was<\/em> getting teary-eyed without even knowing it, I felt so silly that THAT then made me cry, and laugh, and snort a little I think.<\/p>\n<p>I cry when someone gets voted off a reality TV show.<br \/>\nI cry when someone wins something.<br \/>\nI cry when someone sings really well.<br \/>\nI cry when something really exciting happens to someone.<br \/>\nI cry when someone tells me a sad story about people I don\u2019t even know.<br \/>\nI cry when someone tells me a <em>happy<\/em> story about someone I don\u2019t even know.<br \/>\nI cry when I see a cute puppy.<br \/>\nI cry when\u2026 Oh I dunno, I\u2019m awake?!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sad, I\u2019m really not.\u00a0 I\u2019m not unhappy in the slightest, and it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m crying because things make me sad, I cry at the good things too. \u00a0 I have a great husband, two really awesome dogs, I\u2019ve got a big mosquito net that stops me from being a mosquito buffet at night, and I have some awesome friends.<\/p>\n<p>Why the heck am I crying all the time?<\/p>\n<p>No, I am not pregnant.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t take any drugs.<br \/>\nI am not depressed.<\/p>\n<p>Is there some sort of Cryalotia disease or something nobody has told me about?\u00a0 What is happening to me?\u00a0 Is it early menopause, oh I hope it\u2019s early menopause!\u00a0 If I can\u2019t have babies I want to not have periods too.<\/p>\n<p>Someone, tell me what is happening before I \u2026 cry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear, for the last year or so I\u2019ve been a complete crybaby.\u00a0\u00a0 I can\u2019t explain it and I can\u2019t pinpoint when it began, but I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s getting worse and it\u2019s freakin\u2019 embarrassing! Don\u2019t misunderstand me, I\u2019m not unhappy.\u00a0 Not unhappy at all, in fact.\u00a0 I know I\u2019ve posted a lot about depression &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-man-thats-sad","category-tantrums-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}