G'day Vicki,

Wednesday January 22 1997 07:46, Vicki Crawford wrote to Gaelyne Gasson:

 GG>> Quit asking if you're functioning ok, and you'll be
 GG>> functioning just  fine.  ;-)
 VC>
 VC> Okay mum. 

 Eeek.  What a nasty thing to call me.  

 GG>> I was mean today for you.  I ruined someones tea by phoning
 GG>> and telling them their VCR was going to be pretty expensive to
 GG>> fix and suggested they think it over and give us a ring back.
 GG>> Any other day  and I'd feel bad about it, but I guess I just
 GG>> needed to feel mean.  ;-)
 VC>
 VC> It is good to be nasty occasionally.

 It is...  

 BL>>> And the weird part is that no matter what a total selfish
 BL>>> bastard you become, consciously, you discover that most people
 BL>>> are bigger bastards  unconsciously, and even more selfish than
 BL>>> the new you. That's why you  are susceptible to stress... you
 BL>>> let other people do it to you.
 VC>
 GG>> I dunno about this.  I was pretty damn good at getting in a
 GG>> panic over  whether Immigration would let me in or not, and I
 GG>> usually did this to  myself rather than allowing someone else
 GG>> to get me stressed.  IE,  don't psych yourself INTO stress you
 GG>> don't have or think you should  have.
 VC>
 VC> Yep it is easy to go the "doom and gloom and what if's" path.
 VC> Luckily I don't go that route often, some crisis happens that pulls
 VC> me straight out of it.

 Yeah, it works wonders for me too.  But Rod can tell you that I really
 DID do the doom and gloom path heaps of times - like every time they
 made up a new rule that looked like it would exclude me from
 immigrating.

 VC>> Actually I tell a lie, my mother is the thorn in my side at
 VC>> present, I have fixed her little wagon by not ringing her so
 VC>> that she can dump on me, and she is too cheap to ring me STD so
 VC>> for the last 3 weeks I have been away from her snide remarks.
 VC>> And having just moved house in the last week I haven't given
 VC>> her the new phone number either. 
 VC>
 GG>>     
 VC>
 VC> Relented yesterday. My oldest son (who my mother doesn't like
 VC> because he is a boy) got into Uni for 2 degrees and is over the moon
 VC> that he made it and I HAD to ring her and gloat about how wonderful
 VC> her eldest grand-son is. 

Just had to get your digs in, huh?     That's the way to get
your own back.  :-)

Cheers,
Gaelyne

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