Rosie's No Nonsense Advice Thread.

I was hoping Rosie would make you do a bum wiggle.

Edit: This was in response to Rosie's advice for Pepper

Oi!

All you bastards better do a bum wiggle or I will bite you all on the bottom.

*DEATHHUG*

Cheers,

Rosie.

Oh it's totally not eczema. They have their natural colour, but the skin is very sensitive. I'll try everything! Mum bought a calendula cream with honey yesterday, and it feels good without being too oily.
Thank you, Queen of Every Good Advice

Thanks Rosie.

James knows how stuck I am. Like I said to Mike, he is my biggest cheerleader and critic. Call me on my shit just as fast as he will support me. Probably good. His biggest advice is for me to get the hell off the internet. Would help.

Right now I have six hours a day to myself, while everyone is gone at school and work. I need to just scrape myself up and start using them properly to make life interesting.

We've had to take so many people in in the past few years, family, since this whole economic crisis. Five adults and four kids, total. The kids came with the adults, obviously. Having a house free and clear makes you the richest family member even when you can barely feed your own family at times, I guess. Things are way better than that now. No one has needed to actually move in in just over a year now. I guess I am afraid to move forward with myself, every time I do the other shoe drops... raining shoes.

Bad logic: If I don't do anything for me nobody will need me to stop doing it to deal with them.

Dear Rosie,

I haven't been able to eat or sleep like my usual erratic self. Is something wrong with me?

Dear Rosie the Wise-one

I have a very good friend, "Tina", that doesn't have much luck with the fellas.

Tina is an attractive and intelligent young lady of 25 and it is not uncommon for her to be confronted by men when she goes out; however, over the years she has never had a long term relationship - which she desperately wants. Unfortunately, she's had a bit of a rough time over the years and all her good friends around her are in stable relationships, which doesn't exactly help.

My other friend, "Mitsy", and I(the three of us have been close since we were 11) think that the problem is that Tina is far too intense in the dating game. If Tina meets a guy, it is not uncommon for her to open her heart to him on the first date, or even take him home. This doesn't always result in sex, though sometimes it has done. Anyway, one thing's for sure, every incident ends in tears and a lot of angst. Every time we see her it turns into a sob story.

For ages we have wanted to tell Tina that she needs to hold back and let things go slow because she's frightening men off. I admit that a lot of the guys she's dated have handled their breakaway badly, but surely she can't be blameless either... as this must be about the 6th time the guy's flaked.

Last night, Mitsy was sick of hearing Tina go on and on about another failed first date, so Mitsy told her it was her fault for offering him to sleep over. Tina today confided that she is really pissed off for Mitsy basically telling her like it is and I'm now in the middle.

I did gently try and tell Tina that letting a guy sleep over on the first date gives mixed messages but I still don't think she gets the hint.

What to do? I don't want to upset Tina but I am really getting fed up of having to humour her behaviour.

Yours truly

Hattie

"Tina" totally sounds like me, minus the "too intense in the dating game". I haven't had a date in a year, and it wasn't even a real one, because that's the ONE time I got screwed over with a pretense relationship until I put out.
So dear Rosie, help us both.

PS: Don't mean to derail your post, Hattie.

Dear Hattie,

Please send all beautiful English girls my way. I'm a catch.

Hugs and kisses,

Miggity

Mate, the last thing she needs is a guy standing her up!

.... just joking

OUCH!

Fella makes one mistake.

Dear I Hate Airports,

What a mess!

What you need to do is leave the past in the past.

Although you love this girl it's obviously just not going to work out. Ever.

But it sounds like you need to have some kind of resolve over the whole thing. Write her a letter/email just to let her know that although you two love each other it's not going to work out and it's not healthy for your well-being to stay in touch with her. Allow her one response, but do not respond back. Leave it at that.

Say goodbye. But be nice, you'll feel better being kind.

Give yourself goals not to drink.

Try not drinking for a weekend. Then a week. Do other stuff other than going to a bar with your mates to get pissed. Go to a movie, have dinner, go tramping or hiking or whatever. Like I said to Pepper, spend time with people that make you feel good, not bring you down.

And, for the love of The Queen of Fucking Everything:
DO NOT GET IN TOUCH WITH HER WHEN YOU ARE PISSED.

Cheers,

Rosie.

Dear Jaz,

You're stressed and anxious about something.

Or, your on drugs.

Either way, just stop it.

Eat a pie and go to bed.

Love,

Rosie.

Dear Hattie,

People like Tina will never want to hear advice and honesty from others, she needs to come to the conclusion herself.

When you're talking to her about the situation ask things like "Oh, why do you think he reacted like that?" or "Oh, do you think it was a bit too soon maybe?"
She obviously won't listen to others tell her what is wrong with the situation, but hopefully she'll listen to herself.

It's good that she has long term friends like you and Mitsy, and I'm sure she'll get over her little huff.

There's really nothing you can do for Tina, she has to learn not be so full on. Although, some women never do learn this.

When she's being dramatic over another failed date/relationship don't give her too much sympathy. Just say "Oh dear" and move on.

I do think that sometimes you can sleep with someone on a first date and it can still work out, but it quite often does mean that there's nothing more for the guy to pursue, or sex is all the relationship becomes about, rather than getting to know each other.

Tina is only 25 and there's plenty more time for her to meet "the one". She has to decide if she just wants to have fun and sleep around, or if she wants something serious.
It sounds to me like she's confused about what she really wants. Maybe you could ask her if she has fun sleeping with different guys, or if she'd rather not and just find someone to settle down with.

I don't think friends should be told what they should and shouldn't do with their life, but you can be there to guide her into realising what she's doing and what she really wants.

Cheers,

Rosie.

Dear Irina,

All the Romanian boys are dumb.

You'll meet a nice fella in the UK.

Cheers,

Rosie.

Well i'm pretty pissed off, yes. So any of that will have to wait.

Yeah, wait until you've calmed down then.

Feel better soon.

You don't need that girl. She couldn't wait six damn weeks for you? Six weeks.

After you've loved her all this time.

It's true. She's a silly woman.

And new boyfriend of a couple weeks feelings were somehow important in any way that affected and messed up your time together? Even if that time were only to be spent as friends, your feelings, as a friend and lover of ten years, should have been far more important than anyone elses.

I really hope you can get over this woman and be happy again.

Oh, Rosie. I don't think you have anything in that bag for me.

In this bag?

No, proabably not.

But I could try one of my other bags.

She has a hot air balloon where you can both fly back to Kansas with.

And TWO pairs of ruby slippers!

She knows she fucked up, that's why we haven't spoken. The breakup in 05 was way worse. I'll be fine, my serotonin levels are fucked for now i guess. I'll be great when this is all over though. I've actually felt much stronger after Reno, it's strange. I don't care about stupid shit i used to stress over. I'm just tired of feeling bummed out.

Best way to umm... punch my ticket?

What?

Ya know, death and all that.

Sigh.

Define "best". Most effective? Least painful? Least messy?

Well I've been trying to drink myself to death and I'm just thinking..."quicker" way.

Drink takes many years; the body is really quite resilient, especially at your age. There are myriad quicker ways.

Well I don't trust pills. Guns are too messy. I don't like heights.

Go get fucked by a horse. Let's its penis rip through your guts. Evisceration seems perfect for you.

Yeah I was thinking razor blade too.

Pills are exactly trustworthy. They have been tested and measured and you know precisely what will happen when a certain dosage is taken. Write to any pharmacy in Mexico and request their price for phenobarbitol. Exact dosage you will require depends upon your weight.

Some Opanna's and a pint of whiskey should do the job. Thanks.

If you really wanted to kill yourself, every creative and obscure method available in every room would be the first thing you saw.

A lot of painful emotions in me and I'm going to release them through my throat.

Well, you'll puke real good for sure.

Don't kill yourself dude.

Life sucks, but it gets better.

Think about the poor soul who will have to clean you up. My Grandpa found his little brother after he took a shotgun to the head. He had to live with that for the rest of his life.

I've wanted to kill myself three times in my life. I mean for real. Like I'm going to fucking do it and I even know how. Things got in my way all three times, without me even saying a word to anyone about my plans two of those times. I am seriously glad I didn't do it now a days. That would have sucked.

I'll let you know how it goes.

You are a cunt.

Yes.

A cunt.

I've just had a friend and ex co-worker kill herself.

You think that your death won't matter to anyone? Well, you are a selfish little shit.

What about your family?

Get some psychiatric help and some meds. And stop fucking drinking, you moron.

I just wanna throw this out there, if you're seriously considering suicide please see help. please.

/serious moment

You can even just go to any emergency room and tell them. They won't let you go all night, at the least.

Hooah.

Don't kill yourself, fuckwit.

This thread went there.

Dear Culties,

I'm bummed this thread went there.

Let's all cheer the fuck up.

Cheers,

Rosie.