If you're addicted to DU, how do you go about taking a break?

[Ladyhawk]

Seriously.

I need to take a break from DU for all the usual reasons, but I think I'm addicted. I don't have news, but a quick scan of LBN or GD will tell me what I need to know.

Also, I don't have any real life friends / family who aren't right-wingers and/or fundies, so I get lonely when I can't bash * with someone who understands the need.

Have you ever needed to take a break only to find you can't? What did you do?

[HEyHEY]

1. Post that you're taking a break....... then don't

Standard procedure

[Ladyhawk]

6. LOL...I think I've already done that a few times. :D n/t

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. Tae a break anyways. Bash * anyways.

[miss_kitty]

3. Get tombstoned

j/k :P

[darkenedhalo]

4. Havent felt the need yet

But then Im brand new here. I have had such a good time just reading and replying here and there I hope I never need a break from DU!

[Ladyhawk]

5. When 8000 posts you reach, feel as fresh you will not.

:P

[WCGreen]

15. Oh so this is one of those not so fresh feeling threads......

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

8. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Ladyhawk]

10. Oh yeah, welcome to DU, too!

It's addicting because DUers are smart, funny and kind. I'm not sure I can extract myself for awhile, but I need to.

[NewJeffCT]

7. I haven't taken a break yet in almost 2 years

I even found ways to post while I was in Beijing, Shanghai & Nanjing, China... went to the local library while in Florida, or in North Carolina on business.

And, I think this is my 9,000th post.

[Ladyhawk]

9. Congratulations to a fellow addict! :D n/t

[Crazy Guggenheim]

12. Congratulations. BTW, I'm on your tail. I might hit 9000 by tonight.

[NewJeffCT]

16. wow, 9000 in less than 6 months?

that is an addict!! I'm at 9,000 after 23 months.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

22. I'm usually working on a client's computer and need the break. I

use a left-handed mouse on theirs and a right-handed on mine .....

:spray:

[catbert836]

11. Eh.

I don't go here enough to get an addiction. I know that in this board that can be considered blasphemy, so please don't send my town's population to burn me! Have them tar and feather me instead.

[Left Is Write]

13. I'm not addicted, but I have taken breaks.

My breaks have ranged from a few days to a few weeks. I just do, and then I come back.

[catmandu57]

14. Usually the computer goes down

and I'm forced out for awhile. As a matter of fact, I have a new cpu that I've been trying to get up and running, I think though that this time I'm going to let the professionals do it.
So, sometime wednesday I'll be going offline until Friday or Saturday, I'm not looking foreword to it, I can tell you that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. Take a break? NEVAH!

I am so freaking addicted that it's not funny.....

I'd have to be on my death bed to leave DU even for a day or two...

I have considered taking a break, but then I realized how much it would hurt....

And so I ended up not taking it.....


:kick:

[I Have A Dream]

28. It must have been really hard for you when you were on your long...

vacation this summer, CP. When you posted that you were going on vacation, I wondered how you would be able to handle it given how much you contribute here.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

31. You have figured me out!

The first few days, before our tour really started...were HELL! I was OK after that, since we were busy...

But I still thought about all of you during that time...and was very glad to get home again.....

VERY observant of you......


:hi:

[arwalden]

18. Get Yourself Banned?

[Fox Mulder]

19. I take a break when my stomach begins to rumble.

There's nothing I hate more than an empty stomach.

[jayctravis]

20. Why take a break?

Latest Breaking News is just as good as or better than anything on MSM...and it pretty much a digest of that anyway. It's like taking a break from your morning coffee and paper.

[caty]

21. I pass out!

:boring:

[whistle]

23. Keep a piss bottle handy.....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. This might work for the males....point and shoot time......

but it would be much harder for the females, IMHO......

:shrug:

[whistle]

30. Women are always expecting special treatment....

:sarcasm:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

32. ROFLMAO!

We certainly do...for


WE ARE GODDESSESS!

And don't you forget it! J/K........ :rofl:

[whistle]

36. Small world, I am a Greek God...Zeus

:puffpiece:

[SarahB]

25. Learn to enjoy your life more.

If your life isn't what you want it to be, take concrete steps to improve it.

DU can be great. There's a lot of smart, funny, interesting people here (heck go meet a few in person), but there's a big world out there waiting to be enjoyed as well. Carpe diem! :)

[Ladyhawk]

26. What is this "life" of which you speak?

:silly:

[I Have A Dream]

29. Can you maybe start working with other local Democrats (even if...

you're not a Democrat) so that you have more real life people who are kindred spirits?

[Ladyhawk]

35. I tried, but the local peace group reminds me of A.N.S.W.E.R.

The anti-war message got diluted by all kinds of other issues. I tried to attend a seminar series called "From Violence to Wholeness" and realized these "Democrats" were just the flip side of the right-wingers I knew. They seemed like dogmatic ideologues, berating me because I like the "violent" Lord of the Rings movies and play first-person shooters on my computer. I ended up feeling just as alone as I do among the right-wingers. I'm just not a good enough pacifist, I guess. :shrug:

The folks who felt the same way I did ended up leaving the peace group. I talked to one of them at the local community college last week. He, too, was frustrated by all the side trips and believed that the peace group should have stuck with trying to end the war in Iraq instead of going off on all these tangents.

[I Have A Dream]

27. Go somewhere where there's no Internet access. n/t

[Parrcrow]

33. go to the gallery and check everyone out

Then come back because you know what we look like.

that's a kinda break.

[Orsino]

34. That "depends"...

Bwahahahahaaaa!

[mvd]

37. I get urges, too

I try to avoid the Lounge when I don't want to post, for one. Also, I temporarily hide threads that are tempting. I'm able to read for a short time, but if I post, sometimes I get hooked.

I'll have to take breaks, but I won't announce any long ones unless I know for sure I'll be gone.