So, today's my last day at work before taking an almost two-week vacation. It's going to be fun. For four days, I'm going to Lafayette, and I'm taking my laptop, and being the non-fun fuddy duddy I am, I'm going to attempt to use the getting away from home for a bit to actually write. And hopefully get something accomplished ( Read more... )

Which, even though I'm Pagan, is still important to me because I don't get time off work for Yule. And because I have no people to hang out with who celebrate anything other than Christmas, so I usually just consider it a secular holiday and ignore everything else ( Read more... )

How many symptoms does one have to have for it to be a legitimate diagnosis?

From this website (bolded emphasis mine):

Symptoms of PTSD: Re-experiencing the traumatic event

--Intrusive, upsetting memories of the event
--Flashbacks (acting or feeling like the event is happening again)
--Nightmares (either of the event or of other ( Read more... )

This is proof, if I ever doubt it again, that no matter what, I do still love my mother ( Read more... )

So tomorrow is my parents' anniversary, and we're all going out to eat. We were supposed to go immediately after I get off work, but now I have to go directly to the chiropractor's office because I have an appointment. You know. To fix my back and neck. That are terribly misalligned. And HURT LIKE FUCK ( Read more... )

Thus, you get that rare treat: an unlocked post about me and my issues. Usually I keep these posts under filter--not for my protection, but for yours dear FList--but awareness requires... well, awareness. Anyone who is not on the filter but wants to be, let me know. Anyone who IS on the filter who wants off, same thing ( Read more... )

Had some really good advice from the cards recently (thank you, idiomagic!), which has me thinking, which has me wanting to act. Which is always my problem, wanting to act but not wanting to do the research and planning that's necessary to act. Which is basically the advice I got, was to plan and research so I'd be ready when the time comes ( Read more... )

I would very much like to be married one day. Not only because I would very much like to find an equal and best friend I love and who loves me, but because I really, really want to change my last name. I want to get rid of the one I have. I should never have allowed the adoption to go through. I should have kept my biological father's last name ( Read more... )

Funeral was everything I expected, in a bad way. Been gone all day, only got home about half an hour ago. Preacher droned on and on and WOULD NOT SHUT UP about how he was with Jesus and if we were believers we would see him again in Heaven. I have no problems with the "with Jesus" part because, yeah, whatever floats your boat, man. What makes me ( Read more... )

I'm thinking deep thoughts about shit that will likely follow me the rest of my life. And I'm considering making one of my periodic posts about these things. Sex issues, family issues, relationship issues, behavior on my part influenced by all of these ( Read more... )