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today my friend explained to me a theory called "pain localization" while he pinched himself hard on the arm. the theory states that if you're feeling pain over a wide area, like an ache (migraine, back ache, broken bone, pulled muscle, etc), and you "localize" the pain by pinpointing it intensely to one area, that your overall suffering decreases and it becomes more bearable because your brain focuses on one instead of many points. i asked him what to do if it was emotional pain.
he told me to shoot my dog.
the door to my house is broken. the knob is loose and the little pointy-outy thingy is stuck in the door frame holey-thingy. I would get a new knob, but I literally can't open the door to unscrew anything. have been seriously considering climbing in and out of a window every day, just so I don't have to use that fucking knob.
my mom called me up, stoned* i think, to ask me if i wanted to go on a bingo-casino-booze weekend with her so we can get shitfaced with my auntie and lose a whole bunch of money. this doesn't put my mom in the best light, but contextually, it was funny as fuck. i'm totally going.
aw look, he's stoned too.
AND i'm thinking of making small hemp bracelets to send around the world as peace gifts. would anyone be interested?
* she has arthritis in her knees and back, had a double hip replacement, needs an ankle replacement, has post traumatic stress disorder, and has lost 87lbs in the last year since my father died. her doctor is practically pushing the stuff just for quality-of-life reasons, and my mom was a huge hippie in the day. she's grooving, but by no means a pothead.