i'm so broke i can;t do anything

“i'm broke and can;t do anything on a saturday evening. I feel like a loser. Any one eles have simalar problems”

“I did last month - it sucked!!!

I was scraping change to buy milk for cereal for a couple of days.”

“yea i'm in college and my girlfriend lives 400 miles away, each way, so all my money goes to vist her. So i'm broke and can;t see her. And she is visting family and can;t talk. so yea i'm bored.”

“Man, ditch the chick and your problems will be solved. I'm in college as well and I can logically assume that there are tons of women at your school. Get one of them instead. Then you'll quickly realize, "why didn't I do this before?" Besides, your girlfriend probably thinks you're being a typical guy 400 miles away having fun with other girls, so she's probably out with other guys cheating on you. It sounds like a harsh thing to say but really, have you ever thought about it? Has the issue of trust ever came up between you? If so then she/you are worried about something and you're probably right. Local chicks are cheaper and it's much nicer to have your g/f with you rather than hours away. Ditch the long distance chick and you're problems will all be solved. You'll have money, a new girlfriend closeby, and no worries.”

“Hey kid, ya got any Hank Williams tunes?”

“yes, me.”

“actually no, we trust each other completely. She is the most amazing person in the world and i wouldn;t want to lose her even if it would be more convenante.”

“awwww”

“yea i miss her lots, she is really special to me, what can i say, i would rater be broke watching dumb old movies with my roommate then not have her”

“Then if you trust her so much and you're willing to be poor for her, why don't you just transfer to where she goes to school. That would make more sense then if you can't leave her.”

“she is in highschool still she will be here in a year”

“I'm so POO, I can't ever afford the R.”

“I'm so broke I can't pay attention.”

“That's "even" not "ever".”

“Man,, you're broke now what till the JFK wannabe gets into the office.”

“not sure i'm that poor yet, but i bet i'll get there”

“High school! Dude, you have no idea what you're getting yourself into. I did the same thing my freshman year of college. Once a girl goes to college it all changes as she gets new friends and wants to go out and have fun all the time and that doesn't always include you. If you think high school girls are bad at making up their minds, college girls are way worse.”

“You are all losers.”

“Although this thread appeared to be about money, once the dust settled it seems to be about a relationship. No problem. However, in order to post it on a backpacking web, you must connect the relationship problem to hiking. Also no problem since all things lead to hiking just as once all roads led to Rome (they were actually hiking paths back then). Not that I'm "dissing" your absentee girl friend, but you need someone local to pick off the ticks. You can hike with guys all day, but a real man just isn't going to explore those remote anatomical areas in order to find and remove your ticks. You need a local, gender appropriate, tick picker. What I suggest is that you create a separate thread soliciting a female tick picker specific to your geographic area. They are out there and you will get more responses then you ever believed. Hungry little trekkies just waiting to get their hands on a man's ...er...ticks. And sometimes, late at night, in the process of mutual tick exploration what happens can only be described as trail magic. Believe me, I've been there.”

“Well, this may be off topic, or er...back on topic,,,, you are reading words of wisdom from the queen of finding things to do, that don't require $$$$$. There are always tons of things you can do that are free esp. on campus and you will meet a circle of friends to ease your mind till you see your girlfriend again”

“I'm not in 100% agreement with Dub, but he is mostly right about things changing when your g/f gets to college, espcially if it's a different one than yours. Pretty soon afterwars, one of you will call the other and give them the ole "just need time apart to think" lie.”

“Well, I hate to get serious about the matter, especially since I still find my "tick picker" option quite appealing, but humor doesn't always work. Therefore, I'll try philosophy. Give yourself 10 minutes to feel sorry for yourself; get right down there and grovel in it, roll in it and rub it in your hair. When the 10 minutes are up start thinking about what you can do to change your reaction to the event (or non event in this case). Ergo the problem isn't the absence of your girlfriend, but your reaction to it. Brainstorm various things you can do to have fun without money. There are millions of them. Hiking, running, lifting weights, reading a book, write a letter to your parents and say thanks (for something...they must have done something to thank them for), clean your bathroom, blah, blah, blah. Take action. Remember, it's never the event but our chosen reaction to the event and we all have the power of choice. It's really that simple, although it seems much more complex when we're stuck in those feelings. Also, hang on to the reality that you're not being disrespectful to your relationship if you choose to not sing the blues all the time. Unless you freely choose to focus on the blues. It's really up to you and whatever choice you make is okay with me.

I still like the tick pickin' thing better.....”

“well she wants to hike the AT with me in a year or two, so i'm planing that and i did get in a 3 hour hike. Then thing with the money is all my friends go to a movie or something and i too broke to go along some of the time they pay for me, which is nice and some times i find the money. Last night was just long and i watched 3 movies on my computer. My roommate watched one with me and we had a pretty good time. So it wasn;t as bad as i thought it would be. So yea i tried to make the best of it”

“then get a part time job. all the time and energy you are spending wishing, hoping, worrying adn complaining could be spent earning the moeny you need for a movie or visit. the job may get in the way of things you want to do with the money it provides, but that is life. once you get out of school and work to provide for yourself and others, it will get in the way more.

two options in life. sit around and talk about things or do something about things.

sometimes you do need to talk about things before you do something about them, but if you want things your way, you need to make them happen, not hope they'll happen.”

“I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY
Performed by: HANK WILLIAMS
Transcribed by Scott Durham 75372.257@compuserve.com

C Em Am C
HEAR THE LONESOME WHIPERWILL
C Em Gm7 C7
HE SOUNDS TOO BLUE TO FLY
F Fm6 C Am
THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN IS WHINING LOW
C G7 C
I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY

C Em Am C
I'VE NEVER SEEN A NIGHT SO LONG
C Em Gm7 C7
WHEN TIME GOES CRAWLING BY
F Fm6 C Am
THE MOON JUST WENT BEHIND A CLOUD
C G7 C
TO HIDE IT'S FACE AND CRY

C Em Am C
DID YOU EVER SEE A ROBIN WEEP
C Em Gm7 C7
WHEN LEAVES BEGIN TO DIE
F Fm6 C Am
THAT MEANS HE'S LOST THE WILL TO LIVE
C G7 C
I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY

C Em Am C
THE SILENCE OF A FALLING STAR
C Em Gm7 C7
LIGHTS UP A PURPLE SKY
F Fm6 C Am
AND AS I WONDER WHERE YOU ARE
C G7 C
I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY

Fm6 xx0111
Gm7 xx3333”

“lol, the chord progression takes the cake. thanks for the laugh marko.”

“The chord symbols got bunched up in the translation!

Hank has a song for every sad situation.”

“Hank was great but he wouldn't have known a happy song if it bit him in the a$$.”

“Oh really???

Jambalaya”

“As soon as I typed that I knew Hank would rise up and smite me. Jambalaya is great. How 'bout I don't think he ever had a bad song?”