While standing at the counter to get food, I discovered that this hip pain feels better standing. As long as I take baby steps and don't bend or twist at the waist, everything feels okay. I'm now typing this list at the bar above the kitchen counter. Less pain makes me want to sleep, though . . . crap. Okay, cold pack tucked into waist of shorts, ( Read more... )

Things that I have noticed ( Read more... )

Since Tumblr now has it's own [occupy] tag, I think maybe we need an LJ comm. But I may be too busy to start one. If anyone else wants to help but can't protest in person, you are welcome to lend your internet-fu to the cause.
( On to the Newsmedia links roundup! )

I got up too late today to go to garage sales looking for old button boxes, so instead I'll just rant about something that our education system needs: a class in life skills. There are a lot of policy reasons why it will be hard to do this, and i understand that teachers mostly will not want to give students information that will undermine their ( Read more... )

I have weather veins.
They are especially sensitive
to dust storms and hurricanes.
When I am nervous my teeth chatter
like a wheelbarrow collecting rain.
I am rusty when I talk.
It’s the storm in me. - - Andrea Gibson ( Read more... )

Once you have learned to edit out behaviors that are actively threatening, controlling, or distancing, you can work toward building a sense of shared purpose. This union is the basis of therapeutic rapport. To better illustrate things to say and do, I'm going to translate common things therapists say into their component pieces ( Read more... )

One of the most important lessons I have learned is that 'just being myself' sets people on edge. Left to my own devices, I stare, make eye contact too long, and use body postures that have more to do with what's going on in my head than what I am trying to communicate. Just being yourself sounds simple, and if your actions were occurring in a ( Read more... )

You all must hate charity, the way you're always talking about not wanting people's charity or to be a charity case. You hate asking for things, hate feeling like you owe gratitude to anybody ( Read more... )

I like the new autumn colors navigation bar. I love color, which is maybe odd for someone who intermittently wears black and gray for weeks. I'm not sure why that is - habit, I guess ( Read more... )

Shamelessly swiped from gryphynshadow, mostly because I gave up on trying to figure out what I was good at last time before I got to ten. Some of these are stolen from other people's lists, because I'm a pirate like that ( Read more... )