I'm okay. Just thinking about things ( Read more... )

It has been said that a good mental exercise to decide how best to approach some situations would be to imagine if you only had a few days left to live or something. Would you do ______ differently if it were one of the last things you ever did ( Read more... )

Most years I post a look back on what's happened and what I learned from it, and I suppose I want to get that over with sooner as opposed to later after this craptastic year. I've been lucky, but even so-- things have been very stressful all across the board except at home.

Overall: This is SO not a "normal" year (though I don't know that we'll ( Read more... )

Today, I had a good thing and a bad thing.

Good thing was that I had a remission day. I had this burst of amazing energy hit me in the afternoon, and I was getting chores done at a record pace, and was restless enough that after Cat went to bed, I was able to dance for an hour and a half non-stop! That's VERY unusual, but it was most welcomed. As ( Read more... )

Overall, since the election for president was decided, my anxiety has lessened and my mood has brightened ( Read more... )

I'm starting to feel less discombobulated, ever so slowly ( Read more... )

One of the sites I check regularly is a prepper site run by a woman (and whose fanbase is largely female). Most prepper sites are too much tanked up testosterone yah-yahs, and that can get tedious after awhile! Women preppers, by contrast, tend to look at the larger picture and include taking care of their families, friends, and neighbors more than ( Read more... )

All my life I've been mystified as to why people can be so scared and/or mean to me. I'm a sensitive, warm person in general. Forthright, but hardly a bitch. Yet I'm treated like one ( Read more... )

As a Type 4, I'm a built-in nonconforming Individualist. The things that matter to most people don't always matter to me, and vice versa.

But there's more to it, as the next article shows:

getpocket.com/explore/item/would-you-stand-up-to-an-oppressive-regime-or-would-you-conform-here-s-the-science

Who Science Says Is Most Likely To Rebel ( Read more... )

Everyone's heard the saying, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely," right ( Read more... )