waiting for the other shoe to drop

[cookiepuss]

Yeah, ya ever feel think things have been going along pretty good for a while and that impending doom can't be far off?

I'm having one of those days. Nothing has ever really been easy (financially) for my boyfriend and I, but we're finally getting financially stable and things are going pretty good. However, I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop because I'm so use to us struggling to get by. I just can't help but think that a job loss or huge financial burden is gonna flop in our laps and send us right back where we started. it's not a good feeling, but I'm just not use to things going our way.


and I hate my PMS cause I feel like crying. it's realy not cool that hormones rule a person's emotions. not fair I tell ya!

So who else is "waiting for the other shoe to drop?" and does anyone know where that saying comes from? I mean it doesn't make alot of sense really. tell me now or I'll sit here and cry.

[kll]

ha! about a month ago, i was thinking, wow - things are going really well and literally two days later, it all went to shit... now, i am back to thinking things are going well and looking over my shoulder because i thought it...

[cookiepuss]

thanks.

yeah I forgot about that whole negativity/self fulfilling prophecy thing. it's true. you can perpetuate bad things just by focusing on the negative.

Honestly, I think I should change my name to chicken little. I worry CONSTANTLY. if there's a worst case senario, I'll think of it. I feel like it's pretty hard to control worry, because the more you tell yourself not to think of something..the more you tend to think of it. MAybe part of it is wanting to be prepared for anything that comes my way, and by imagining every thing that could go wrong I already have a game plan. but really all that happens is spending alot of time on things that never come to furition.

Anyway, not worrying so much is something I'm really struggling with in my life. I wonder how I'll learn to stop?

[ms.peachy]

The expression comes from this: imagine you are lying in bed, just drifting off to sleep. Your upstairs neighbour comes home and is walking around. You hear the footsteps move to directly over where you are and a sound that sound like maybe he's sitting down on his bed. After a second or two, you hear him drop his first shoe after taking it off. And then...what? nothing? You're waiting ot hear the noise you anticipate, because you know it will mean he has taken off his shoes and goen to bed, and now you can go back to sleep undisturbed.

[paul jones]

I'm waiting for my Lotto numbers to make me a multi-millionaire so I can go and fuck lots of women