There I was, thinking I was the only one with the winter blues and it turns out lots of people the world over are feeling the same!
I thought some of the recent posts, with those same old questions, requiring the same old answers and then being taken totally off topic, were grating on my nerves more because I've been feeling tetchy and irritable as I've still not fully recovered from my illness last year (I ended up in hospital again yesterday
).
I've refrained from answering many posts over the last few months or so, for fear of being too harsh or snarky with my response, although some people do snarky very well, (not mentioning any names
) I'm afraid I'm not very good at it and it would come across as being nasty, which is the last thing I want to be!
I will say though, that I've enjoyed a lot of the DYK thread and in fact when I was at my lowest ebb, I got a lot of support from members after posting about my illness there. I wouldn't have felt comfortable posting a new thread to tell the forum I'd been so ill, but it felt comfortable doing so there, like a chat with friends over coffee. Also it was/is uplifting to see the random thoughts and feelings of other members that are posted there, the highlights and lowlights of their days, to be happy for them and feel bad with them, and I've probably learned more about the members that post there in the short time that thread has been alive, than I had in the first couple of years of being a member of this forum, so because of all that I'm grateful the thread was started, it's been my form of zoloft if you will
Saying all of that, I'm still looking forward to the more serious cornsnake discussions that I KNOW will start popping up as breeding season really gets going, the trials and tribulations of failed breedings/clutches and the joy of successful breedings/clutches and the new morphs that will WOW us all!
Reading some of the posts in this thread and especially Rich's posts put things more into perspective for me, I really don't know how he manages it all, but am truly grateful for all that he does do, including providing this great forum!!!