How's everyone's mood these days

Zohar · February 13, 2012 11:30AM

Mine can be described as anxious.

JCMhouston · February 13, 2012 12:20PM

Mood is poor, nothing good to buy in the last couple of weeks, no major auctions until CICF, our Chairman has gotten all neurotic since we are filing for an IPO in September in Shanghai and I had to spend $3,000 on a new sewing machine for quilting for my wifes anniversary present (36 years tomorrow). Just think what a nice coin I could have bought with that.

Oh, and last week my wife went out and bought the worlds most expensive Ford Focus. What happend to nice little compact cars for $15k? This thing had a list price over $27k??? I thought I was going to get off cheap when she said she wanted a Focus. Don't misunderstand, it's pretty fancy with touch screens and voice activation for climate/navigation/entertainment systems, power leather seats, power moonroof, and all kinds of other gadgets. But still...it's a Ford Focus!

But lot's of people have it worse than me so I feel pretty fortunate.

marcmoish · February 13, 2012 12:37PM

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Well you brought up the mood issue and anxious thoughts so either go with the above for a spell or just say no!

Zohar · February 13, 2012 12:38PM

wybrit · February 13, 2012 12:45PM

Pretty happy, but still annoyed at the ATS registry decision.

mnemtsas2 · February 13, 2012 12:47PM

The very high Australian dollar has meant my real income has dropped by something around 30-40% in the last 12 months. This has brought my spending on coins almost to a halt. This has left me feeling somewhat frustrated because all of my efforts on my small business are amounting to nothing because of factors completely out of my control.

olmanjon · February 13, 2012 2:35PM

Feeling great! My cancer doctor says I am stable. Stable in my world is greeeeat.

Pokermandude · February 13, 2012 3:05PM

A little bit depressed with a touch of anticipation. My "day job" has been slow, as has my vest coin dealings. On the hobby front, I haven't come across any "OMG I must have" coins in quite a while. But there a big coin show coming up in 3 weeks!

lordmarcovan · February 13, 2012 10:14PM

<< How's everyone's mood these days >>

Was up (manic), then down for about a week (depressive), now heading back up again.

Life with bipolar disorder can be interesting. *sigh*

Fortunately my case is mild and manageable and I've learned to ride the waves without any wild psychotic breaks or scary stuff like some folks get. (I have long been and will remain off the meds unless something gets really awful.)

I mention this by way of explanation, in case some of y'all have noticed how I'll post incessantly, in a flurry of replies and threads, almost monopolizing the forum (that's manic me), and then, suddenly, *poof* - I'm gone, for a week or sometimes even a month or two (there's the depressive me).

That's my dirty little secret, Darksiders. Nothin' some of y'all didn't already guess or know about me.

But my mood is fine presently, and I think I'm in equilibrium for the moment.

TwoKopeiki · February 13, 2012 10:25PM

Good overall. Pretty busy at work and slow in terms of numismatics, but trying to make the best out of my weekend with the gf and outdoor activities like skiing.

WWW · February 14, 2012 6:44AM

OchoReales · February 14, 2012 7:00AM

<< Feeling great! My cancer doctor says I am stable. Stable in my world is greeeeat.

>>

So glad John! My last CT scan showed my numbers down and today's showed stable from the last. Yipee! I've started to write by book on my cancer journey and hope to finish it in the next several months. On the coin front, ask me on Monday

Zohar · February 14, 2012 1:10PM

Gary and olmanjon - I am really happy to hear. Excellent.

worldcoinguy · February 15, 2012 1:49AM

Distracted is the best word for me. I have too many 'irons in the fire' elsewhere right now. I have to be content window shopping and watching the amazing pieces float across this forum.

melvin289 · February 15, 2012 5:17PM

Picked up my meds at the drug store today. Rolled them home in a borrowed super market cart.
Living with cronic pain is not fun but we do what we must do. Not able to buy all the things I would
like but with the economy as it is I guess a lot of us are lucky to buy anything.

The one good thing about our hobby is that we can tone down our costs and still get as much enjoyment.

Ron

coinpictures · February 15, 2012 9:50PM

*harumph*

OchoReales · February 15, 2012 9:54PM

Ron, you are on my prayer list as I know chronic pain myself. My mom used to tell me 'what doesn't kill you. makes you stronger'. Somedays' death seems easier. I know this too. Fight the good fight of faith!

Syracusian · February 16, 2012 6:12AM

<< *harumph* >>

ditto

OchoReales · February 16, 2012 7:04AM

As of today... Reunited, and it feels SO good...

lordmarcovan · February 16, 2012 7:52AM

<< Reunited, and it feels SO good >>

8R, thank you. I had a Bryan Adams song stuck in my head that I'd been unable to exorcise, and now at least you've replaced it with another moldy oldie, which, while not a favorite of mine, is more tolerable than the same tune again and again and again.

D'you ever get a song stuck in your brain and go to sleep and wake up and get in the shower and find it's STILL haunting you, a day or even two or three days later?

Obviously my brain doesn't have a full "reset" mechanism when it goes into sleep mode.

Edit to add links, just so y'all can share my misery.

And my new misery that OchoReales just provided.

Might as well Rickroll y'all while I'm at it, too, though Rickrolling typically only works with the element of surprise.

icsoccer · February 16, 2012 8:01AM

I was not going to post but saw 2 others with cancer! I wish you both the best!!
I have Carsinoid cancer, so 'my mood' (how I feel) swings a lot.

In coins I am on a high most of the time. Got to review a almost complete collection of shooting talers this week. (missing only 2)
Tried to buy them all... my offer was 'too low'...
Oh well, had fun learning while reviewing the coins (17 were slabbed by PCGS)...on to the next thing...
Got some early copper back from our host that I picked up at a local auction...should have bought the whole auction...great coins / grades.

I believe the economy is starting to turn...I do not want to lead the band...but it 'feels' better (and in real cash transactions I see everyday).
I look forward to CICF as well. I love the bear pic.
Sorry...got carried away...longest post I have made!

lordmarcovan · February 17, 2012 12:19AM

Gaaah.

Woke up this morning, stumbled outta bed, rubbed away the crunchy eye granola (eww), and did a slow zombielike shuffle into the kitchen.

Guess what?

Bryan Adams is back, singing that same freakin' song in my head.

It's getting to be like a scene from that Bill Murray "Groundhog Day" movie.

I reckon this is Day Four, now.

And I never really even liked that song. Eh, well, OK... it's a decent song. But after four days of it ricocheting around in my skull, I'm ready to hit myself in the head with a ballpeen hammer or go get a lobotomy or somethin'. Who'd have thought it had such tenacious, parasitic staying power? Not me.

Part of the problem is that my headphones finally croaked yesterday and we have no speakers attached to this 'puter. Usually the best remedy for a song stuck in your head is to listen to something else. But I can't.

So I'm forced to sit here in silence, hearing a one-track compilation of Bryan Adams' Greatest Hit on continuous auto-replay, again and again and again and again.

I guess I'll have to hop in the truck and go for a little drive, with the radio on full volume.

(Watch that song come on the radio again, haha. Maybe I'd better tune into NPR or a country station.)

lordmarcovan · February 17, 2012 6:46AM

<< I guess I'll have to hop in the truck and go for a little drive, with the radio on full volume.

(Watch that song come on the radio again, haha. Maybe I'd better tune into NPR or a country station.) >>

So I head downtown to run errands. The radio's on NPR, and it's a talk show, so I'm safe from the dreaded Bryan Adams song.

(Besides, it's an old song, so it's not like it's gonna get heavy airplay anyway, right? Now if I could just get it outta my head.)

Lunch, credit union, Wal-Mart (ugh).

Then post office. No line. Sweet. Mail Andres' package from the fossil giveaway, and some other BST stuff.

Back in the truck, get tired of talk so it's time for some tunes.

sssglpmrblahblahlblahssss

(radio envangelist preaching)

ssssslgjgjarblahblahblahssss

(overtwangy country music)

sssggllrblahblahssss

(nauseating pop song)

sssssbllrgflfblahblahssssblahblahssss

Alan Parsons Project. "Eye In The Sky".* Cool. I can hang with that.

Fifteen seconds later Alan Parsons wraps it up and another song comes on.

The first few notes sound vaguely familiar.

Uh-oh. Y'don't suppose...

AAAAAAGH! NOOOOO!

You'll never guess what it was.*

I'm beginning to suspect a cosmic conspiracy at work, here. Maybe if I make a tinfoil hat or wrap my head in duct tape, I'll be safe?

I change channels... quickly.

Too late. It's in there for good now.

ssssblrgblahblahsssssblahblahssss

I end up on George Thorogood & The Destroyers. "Bad To The Bone".* (NanaNanaNA...BbBBbBaaad!)

Not a favorite, either. Thorogood's OK- I'm not a huge fan or anything. But today I am. That song is just catchy enough that it might kick Bryan Adams outta my skull.

After a few more stations, we end up with America's "Horse With No Name".* That one's been written about as being pure agony by many people, but I don't mind it so much. I end the afternoon with a different America tune in my head. I might be all right now.

We'll see what happens after I lie down for my pre-graveyard-shift nap. What voices in my head am I gonna wake up to?

Only the Shadow knows.

Or Bryan Adams, maybe.

Jinx86 · February 17, 2012 12:26PM

Scratter brained I guess. Went to a major show now my ebay store is blowing up and more and more inventory is coming in(ebay part time) plus hours at my regular job are picking up again so 60 hour weeks are back. Oh and sometimes I forget Im in the National Guard.

Syracusian · February 18, 2012 6:26AM

Fifteen seconds later Alan Parsons wraps it up and another song comes on.

The first few notes sound vaguely familiar.

Uh-oh. Y'don't suppose...

AAAAAAGH! NOOOOO!

You'll never guess what it was.*

I'm beginning to suspect a cosmic conspiracy at work, here. Maybe if I make a tinfoil hat or wrap my head in duct tape, I'll be safe?

I change channels... quickly.

Too late. It's in there for good now

There's another way of looking at it:

I think that the cosmic conspiracy is trying to pass you a message (wouldn't know what), but you seem to repeatedly ignore the signs.

re-edited to delete illustration

coinkat · February 18, 2012 8:15AM

I suppose I am more In the Jelly Roll Morton camp

marcmoish · February 18, 2012 9:28AM

Hey Lord of the Hats - thats pretty good writin there ye know..

bidask · February 19, 2012 11:03AM

<< 

<< Feeling great! My cancer doctor says I am stable. Stable in my world is greeeeat.

>>

So glad John! My last CT scan showed my numbers down and today's showed stable from the last. Yipee! I've started to write by book on my cancer journey and hope to finish it in the next several months. On the coin front, ask me on Monday

>>

As a cancer survivor myself I am praying for both of ya and telling you to keep up the hope!

I was told I was cured....its been 8 years since they treated me.......how can my mood be anything but happy and thankful..!

Pokermandude · February 19, 2012 11:21AM

Feeling better today, despite losing out on an extremely nice coin just now. There's definitely a strong market for nice coins. I put in a pretty solid (or so I thought) bid, but was outbid at the last second.

weresteve · February 19, 2012 12:15PM

<< Fifteen seconds later Alan Parsons wraps it up and another song comes on.

The first few notes sound vaguely familiar.

Uh-oh. Y'don't suppose...

AAAAAAGH! NOOOOO!
>>

Sounds like it is time for a good jolt followed by another one and one last shock just to clear your horrible case of the blahs ....

giorgio11 · February 19, 2012 9:38PM

<< Pretty happy, but still annoyed at the ATS registry decision. >>

Couldn't have said it better myself. But, jeez, it was too quiet over there anyway! Kinda like visiting Sleepy Hollow.

giorgio11 · February 19, 2012 9:47PM

<< 

<< I guess I'll have to hop in the truck and go for a little drive, with the radio on full volume.

(Watch that song come on the radio again, haha. Maybe I'd better tune into NPR or a country station.) >>

So I head downtown to run errands. The radio's on NPR, and it's a talk show, so I'm safe from the dreaded Bryan Adams song.

(Besides, it's an old song, so it's not like it's gonna get heavy airplay anyway, right? Now if I could just get it outta my head.)

Lunch, credit union, Wal-Mart (ugh).

Then post office. No line. Sweet. Mail Andres' package from the fossil giveaway, and some other BST stuff.

Back in the truck, get tired of talk so it's time for some tunes.

sssglpmrblahblahlblahssss

(radio envangelist preaching)

ssssslgjgjarblahblahblahssss

(overtwangy country music)

sssggllrblahblahssss

(nauseating pop song)

sssssbllrgflfblahblahssssblahblahssss

Alan Parsons Project. "Eye In The Sky".* Cool. I can hang with that.

Fifteen seconds later Alan Parsons wraps it up and another song comes on.

The first few notes sound vaguely familiar.

Uh-oh. Y'don't suppose...

AAAAAAGH! NOOOOO!

You'll never guess what it was.*

I'm beginning to suspect a cosmic conspiracy at work, here. Maybe if I make a tinfoil hat or wrap my head in duct tape, I'll be safe?

I change channels... quickly.

Too late. It's in there for good now.

ssssblrgblahblahsssssblahblahssss

I end up on George Thorogood & The Destroyers. "Bad To The Bone".* (NanaNanaNA...BbBBbBaaad!)

Not a favorite, either. Thorogood's OK- I'm not a huge fan or anything. But today I am. That song is just catchy enough that it might kick Bryan Adams outta my skull.

After a few more stations, we end up with America's "Horse With No Name".* That one's been written about as being pure agony by many people, but I don't mind it so much. I end the afternoon with a different America tune in my head. I might be all right now.

We'll see what happens after I lie down for my pre-graveyard-shift nap. What voices in my head am I gonna wake up to?

Only the Shadow knows.

Or Bryan Adams, maybe. >>

Being a musician (classical singer), I wake up with what I call earwigs every morning. (No, not little beetles crawling around in my ear, ew, but some tune from Out of Nowhere. Some of them are great, and many are completely obnoxious. "I'm Enery the Eighth I am, Enery the Eighth I am, I am." Or "Yew-w-w-w, light up my life, ...")

Anyway. Mrs. VDB often asks me "So, what's the song of the day?" If something particularly dreadful is afflicting me, I have to get rid of it. Lord M, you might try singing some favorite song of yours, something that you would like to replace the annoying bit. Sometimes I have to do it several times, and sometimes there is a terrible intermediate period where I hear BOTH AT THE SAME TIME, but eventually Favored Song wins out over Annoying Intruder. Try it! It might help.

Regarding coins, things are slow for me, kinda blah. I bought a lot during Jan-early Feb, but my last show was pretty slow. I think it's time to study Schubert's Winterreise (Winter Journey). Definitely not for a down phase.

Good luck!

Best Regards,

George

BillyKingsley · February 20, 2012 8:05AM

A wide variety. Happy, overwhelmed, down, all at once. Very, very little of it relates to this hobby. I did discover that my local shop now stocks ancient coins the first week of the month so that is cool.

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