Monkey's Magical Treehouse of Awesomeness

[Lemon Cheesecake]

true life can be as entertaining or full of drama as the soap opera's and "reality" shows.

[npixelz]

True. But sometimes one needs to escape in the world of such things in order to forget about ones own life for awhile.

[Inspire]

I prefer facing things head on 24/7 to stay strong and overwork myself. It's simply better that way, things have to get done and people have to be dealt with. There's several good reasons that I'm tired or exhausted 24/7 and I'd rather go through those and have an occasional breakdown than leave things alone and lose a lot of progress because I took a little bit of time way. I'd never give up any of my reasons for time to myself, I prefer giving everything and everything I can give away than have it myself.

[galled]

I find that dealing with things head on as you say always ends up saving time and money (if money is involved) in the long run. Being lazy, putting things off or forgetful always costs me more than it's worth.

[Inspire]

Yesssss, that is why I do it, not only to keep myself a good person!!! I'm so glad you understand!!! My family tries to break me away because I'm depressed right now and I'm having bad panic attacks but usually, they give me a lot of stuff to do and I always do it well!!! I watch over the seven other children, I clean the house and do laundry all day, I play with the kids!!! I mean, I'm an all around helper and I love that!!! Yesssss, exactly, I'm seriously so glad you understand!!! My mother and grandmother always puts stuff off, even things like cleaning the kids and I mean, that's just awful, isn't it?!??

[galled]

Yep! I guess I might be OCD or something, but I can't sleep if I have stuff that I should be doing/have done. :/

[Inspire]

I am the exact same and so is my mother sometimes!!! If there is one or a million things to be done, it will be done that day, overwork or not!!! Overwork gets me everywhere so I pretty much refuse to stop it and hate being judged for it, to be honest!!! I'm apparently germophobic, I can't stand unclean places and random things touching me, like a child's stuffed animal. I make myself get over it and live my life though!!!

[galled]

That's a good attitude, well, as long as you know your limitations and don't overextend yourself and cause yourself to not be able to accomplish things! That'd be bad and make things worse.

Oh, 7 kids? That's a lot of responsibility an a lot of work! How old is everyone?

[Inspire]

Yes you are completely right, people usually have to remind me to take a step back and relax, I'm just that kind of person, hahaha. It is but totally worth it!!! I wouldn't trade their smiles, laughs, hugs, and I love yous for anything in the known world, ahhhh!!! Hmmmmm, that's an unusual but great question!!!! Almost 2, 3, 6, 11,12,13, and 15 are the ages!!!

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I like to get things done but I also like to rest.

I've had to look after large groups of kids before, its nice when you can get the older ones helping with the younger ones and when everyone plays a game, does a craft or watches a show it seems they have fun and time passes quickly.

[Inspire]

Resting makes me think I'm being lazy, that's why I hate that sleep is needed... I make myself sleep for a couple hours a night at the most usually but that's all messed up now with me taking naps during the day when my grandmother or parents are home for some more time because of my sickness, I want to be at my best for the kids, you know?? It most definitely is, they do that quite a lot with me, I even get to play with them sometimes and it is most definitely the greatest feeling in the world, seeing their face light up and their real personality come out. Happy children are so glorious.

[npixelz]

I love sleep. When I sleep, I dream, and I'm a teensy bit obsessed with dreams.

[Inspire]

I never dream unless I'm really depressed really. I occasionally have happy dreams but the nightmares always outcome over the good ones. I've had a couple where my family made fun of me like they tend to and things like that as well. I would be too if mine were ever good or mostly good.

[MonkeyGirl18]

Customer: I want a number 1 meal with a hashbrown.
Me: Thank you for telling me the same thing 3 times, what would you like to drink?

[galled]

I typically don't buy drinks, but I recognize that cashiers pretty much always ask if I want a drink when I don't order one. I do understand why, so I'm curious: What is in your estimation the conversion rate of those you ask about drinks?