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WOW ! Art I am soo jealous.

Arizona is quite beautiful!! But there are a lot of very beautiful places on our planet!

Lucy and Ethel
Thelma and Louise
Laverne and Shirley
and
ATAT and Exhankster

Sometime mid-July

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Hi Art! The views are killer! Thank you so much. I like traveling around the world with you guys!
Do you ever look for fossils or anything while you are hiking around?

So beautiful. I have to get up north one of these days. I've been stuck in the Phoenix metro area for far too long...

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Ok I need suggestions, if there are any. Everytime I look at my new neighbour I want smash his face into a wall. I think this a bt of an over-reaction. My T has asked me to look for things I dislike about him. I have only really met him twice but just looking at him from my window when he is in the yard below still get sthe same reaction. When I am physically near him i cant look at him, I have to look past him or at the ground. How am I supposed to isolate what it is that triigers me when i can't go near him???

Art, I love that photo of you. You look so lovely and so happy.

Actually no, I'm usually too busy taking pictures!

Thank you so much! I am my happiest, most me-est self when out hiking!!

I can see that other little girl on the rocks now!

Imo, a visceral reaction like that doesnt happen often but it should be listened to. Where is your ts head? Women usually have a problem that they are TOO polite instead of listening to their instincts. The guy doesnt have to get near you or your kids to prove you right - you have the right to keep your distance NOW.

Does he remind you of anyone you have issues with?

Hmmm...i don't know, never had such a strong reaction to someone i've never really met. Though, when I see my neighbor across the street, I tell her "Eff you, beehottch!!" every time (in my car, alone...obviously). I hate her with all my passion because a few years ago we got a big snow storm, and this was the first time i had to shovel feet of snow off my car. I park on the street, and was shoveling the snow onto the sidewalk.

Little did I know that if you live in the city, you are required to keep your sidewalks clean. I am a tenant in a basement apartment, so I had no clue. Well, out she walks to me and goes "Are you effing crazy? Are you an arsehole?" I was like "Uhh....." and she continued to rant "You are an effing behootch! What were you thinking shoveling the snow on the sidewalk!!" Etc...I mean she went ON for a few minutes, using every expletive possible at me. I didn't know what to say. I stood there and took it. I apologized, saying I didn't know that was a rule, and I'd clear it out.

I was shaking and just focusing on not crying. A few people witnessed it, and looked at me with sympathy...but yeah. It was only a few minutes after she left that I got PISSED. I have hated her ever since. I really don't care if she had a terrible day or is depressed or whatever...you NEVER treat someone like that!

I think thats what my T is trying to get at. But after maybe 6 mins tops of actually interacting with him and not looking at him at all after the first 3 or so seconds I really can't tell.

I do keep my distance and there is no way I am deliberately going near him just for the benefit of my T. I didn't write in the original post but I do think my t is insane for suggesting it.

I am sorry that happened. Hope you can keep avoiding her.

Its fine, though her husband is super nice to me. Weird.

Anyway, if your T (or you) brings this up again, just say that you feel really triggered/bothered by him, and you do not want to go closer to him. She should respect that.

Now I have to decide what role I play/who irritates me less, Lucy or Ethel? Laverne or Shirley? I already know Thelma is way more irritating than Louise. Ergo, I am not Thelma.

I can never remember which is which. I ADORE Geena Davis.

Once i was at a new gym with a coworker and i swear we were lucy and ethel, i even said so!

I think im laverne. You have your booboo kitty staring at you in the bathtub!

Thelma is Geena Davis...lucky you! Louise is Susan Sarandon...speaking of booboo issues.

Eta: being Louise means I get to drive the car into the Grand Canyon!

Yabbut i get to sleep with brad pitt

And get our money stolen! thus we end up driving into the Grand Canyon.

I did it for you!

Eta - i refuse to feel quilty!

Wow, I wish someone would do this for me.

How to take care of a sad person

It's impossible to roll yourself up. Best I can do is a blanket fort.

Ack. Those pictures just raised my anxiety level. Never be rolled in a blanket (exception may be made for when one is literally on fire)- there is nothing that says safe about being trapped in a blanket.