tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966368087145658519.post7310222597413448146..comments2024-03-26T08:56:36.646+11:00Comments on Princess Pandora - Queen of Denial: I'm an Overacheiver - Just Shoot MePandora Behrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17582255671962095503noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966368087145658519.post-71055662347240964312012-03-16T04:11:37.159+11:002012-03-16T04:11:37.159+11:00Hi Pand,
I wondered where my soapbox had got to -...Hi Pand,<br /><br />I wondered where my soapbox had got to - now I know :-)<br /><br />Being an overachiever isn't a bad thing - I sometimes wish I was one.<br /><br />BTW Mrs PM and both of my sisters are Leo. I don't really believe in horoscopes but there really IS a similarity between all three of them. All strong driven women with a purpose and a drive to achieve. Maybe there is something in it after all.<br /><br />BTW you can borrow my soapbox any time.<br /><br />:0)<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />PMPlastic Mancunianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01864213919913476168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966368087145658519.post-22401159164753351872012-03-13T23:03:22.759+11:002012-03-13T23:03:22.759+11:00There's been a bit of this self-flaying stuff ...There's been a bit of this self-flaying stuff going about in cyberspace this week.<br /><br />NONE of us were ugly, stupid or overlooked; we just allowed ourselves to feel like that.<br /><br />I said to my twelve year old last night that I can see and understand her feelings of general dorkiness and awkwardness but, as we sit in the car park for a few minutes every morning because we're too early, we watch other kids go by and I'll say, "See, every person who passes us is filled with some kind of dread today and every day, convinced that we're all laughing and judging. What they don't know is that we're too busy worrying about ourselves to give them more than a nanosecond's thought."<br /><br />Those precious few minutes every morning allows us both to reflect on a few things that bother us and as she crosses the road into school and I head back home, we both breathe a little easier.<br /><br />Thank you for sharing, dear Pand. And remember, despite the horrific name of the game (it was also referred to as 'Pull a Pig' or 'Grab a growler') he said that you *weren't* in that league.MedicatedMoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08609190990579743429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966368087145658519.post-15352984575129682932012-03-13T23:00:33.034+11:002012-03-13T23:00:33.034+11:00The beauty of being in yor forties - unfortunately...The beauty of being in yor forties - unfortunately it takes this long to realise and shed some of the crap from our youth.<br />You have well and truly surpassed your past - I admire you for that, that competitive spirit has served you well even if it has meant you have been too hard on yourself on the way to now.<br />As for that Hunt a Grunt game - I'll tell you what that's really about, is insecure boys not believing they can score a girl they like, and so falling back on an "easy" option and pretending to each other they're doing it for laughs. Revolting but revealing.<br />Oh, and there is nothing to criticise about your exercise regimes - it's all good, those people are perhaps a little envious?Jackie Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06322613989851869319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966368087145658519.post-37373476431936021522012-03-13T20:56:23.035+11:002012-03-13T20:56:23.035+11:00Wow, Pandora, what a rant. There's so so much...Wow, Pandora, what a rant. There's so so much here, so much that hurts, alongside all the courage and perseverance you display to keep you going on. <br /><br />It seems to me so many of us women operate at either one of two extremes: either we're beautiful and loved only for that, or we're ugly and despised. There's not much in between.<br /><br />I was part of the ugly and dumb brigade, but I'm beginning to realise now how false that was. <br /><br />If only we did not need to measure ourselves by our appearance, by our performance and by other's perceptions of us. But we do and it goes back a long way to infancy and childhood, no doubt.<br /><br />At least Pandora, you can write - and oh boy can you write - and to me that's a fantastic compensation for all the pain of the past. <br /><br />You can put it into words and others can share it with you along the way.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.com