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Somebody's got the snark meter turned way up high.

I do feel sorry for those of you who can't appreciate the most perfect game humanity has designed. You are doomed to live in eternal blackness, crying out...ooh! Tarp coming off!

It wasn't dancing but the room started to "shift" and I got up and walked around to try and ground myself. Then. I started doing yoga. I have NO idea where the courage came to do that but it it happened on its own. It did feel strong in the moment.

That was a couple of months ago, I think. I've had some triggered moments since then and my counselor has asked me if I would like to do some yoga, and I feel like "what?!"
Can't explain that and don't understand it. That was not me.

I gotta show t the sand dance.

I just bought a green house online. . I've never done something that big online before.

Excited and shocked at myself at the same time.

how could i forget about the sand dance?!

Mine and crocus' t both say it really makes their day

Well my session today wiped me out, I'm going to bed. Night couchies!

One of these days I need to find a reason to use that emoji...

Mandarin mixed with Dongxiang.

The Cubs won the World Series!😁

Ya! I can sleep now. That was one hell of a game!

Inconceivable!

I might have said that at the beginning of the season, but this year has already seen a reality TV star nominated for the Presidency and Bob Dylan win the Nobel prize. After those two, Cubs winning the World Series is a distant third.

I take that as a compliment, you know.

And dang it, now I have to look up what is Dongxiang.

Morning couchies! I slept off the therapy hangover and am ready to start the day! Now just 2 days to work and then the weekend again. And I have the shamanic practitioner training again on Saturday which I'm looking way forward to. Gotta hustle to work now. Have a good day / night!

Granite, i hope you can hold onto these moments, because this is your T--kind and sympathetic, and no i don't think you are being stupid or setting yourself up for disappointment. Why would it be a set up? For what? What possible reason could your T calling you and trying to make you feel calmer would be in any way to further harm you?

I think stopdog might approve of the therapist I see. On Tuesday he told me how he'd heard about a T who started crying over something a client told him or her, and my T's reaction included more swearing than I usually hear from him. I am very lucky to have found a T who matches me so well. (I am not questioning the fact that other people might find tears from a T helpful or even healing, of course. It is just not something that would help me, and I like how honest and (sometimes) unfiltered my T is.)

In other news, Barcelona is a wonderful city. If I spoke Spanish I think I could live here.

(I have only skimmed the last few pages because it seems to be mainly sports, but hugs to all that want/need them.)

Tears from my counselor would put me in a really weird place! It would make me feel like I had made him cry and I would have to fix it. That would really be an awkward place.

A whole lot of people that I know are very happy about the Cubs winning the world series. I am happy for them.

Meanwhile, I am trying to decide if I should boot sleepy kitty off my lap so that I can get another cup of coffee. I am having a slow start to my day.

Jealous of sleepy kitty... (husband is allergic).

But...but...but...that's the only stuff worth reading!

Trivia note: do you all realize that the last time the Cubs won the World Series, Finland was the only country in the world that had given women full political rights (to vote and to run for office)?

We've come a long way, baby.

My grampa hadnt even come here yet. But pretty close.

i am leaving for therapy in a few min and we will see how it goes .im going to try and talk to her about how i feel about her strong reactions she has towards my parents . i hope she understands or i can find the right words. i understand they are bad for me but i need to talk about how i feel about it all and how i wish for a good mother and the hope i have and so on with out her overreacting and spending the whole session lecturing me on how i CAN NOT contact the mother .

Hugs, granite. I hope your session will go well.

The fallout from yesterday's ultimatum/termination from the psychiatrist has been building so much today that I'm getting the urge to call No. 1. Somebody stop me, or remind me why this is not a good idea.