I'm glad to see something from you before waiting a few days!
Depressive tendency and lonliness -- You got that very well. I no longer work outside of the home much and it's very hard to feel like I get a lot of social interaction at home with four little kids.

Yes that makes me very lonely since before the past two years I was accustomed to working full-time and seeing and talking to more people. I also have no immediate family anywhere nearby and that really stinks...as I would LOVE to have grandparents and others around to visit with me and our children besides neighbors that I don't know as well. I truly don't get out too much other than grocery shopping and my work as a Pampered Chef Consultant. My husband has even commented that when I get out that I am much more happy! He's said things about it when I get home from holding a party for a host. Something can definitely be said of seeing people in person rather than only online and on the phone.
You know, as I was scanning the paper and then see it online, the downward trend seems so much more obvious than when I hold the piece of paper in front of me! When I first saw it on the screen I thought to myself "YIKES!! That stinks!!" Yes, I do try to *be* more cheerful than I feel at times. You know, I think it's harder to look at your own handwriting and analyze it because you see what you see every day in yourself and it's hard to really look and realize. I can only think of it as looking in the mirror every day and you get used to what you see and it's hard to realize how different you may look from what others remember of you from a few months before when they haven't seen you everyday. They notice things that you don't notice yourself. I am still amazed at how on paper I don't see the downward slant in my own handwriting near as much as I do when I see it on the screen. I'd swear I had the paper in there wrong...but know I didn't because the signature holds true... and I know I didn't have my paper skewed.
Yep...so much better to have someone else look at my writing than myself. Tell me like it really is instead of me trying to ignore the things that are so easy for me to be 'used to'. I tell my husband and myself that I need to get out more. I know it, yet don't DO it because I guess I don't realize how much I really DO need to get out more. I guess I underestimate my lonliness more than I realized. No fooling an outsider looking in though -- when they have insight from the writing.
Waiting for the rest of your analysis.
