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I was spanked similarly and have trauma from other stuff, when I mentioned it to my counselor she made a big ish deal about it. It would have been completely understandable to her if I’d been traumatized from it if I wasn’t already dealing with other stuff. As it is, we still did some processing...

For this I would evaluate if you truly needed 100, that feels like quite a bit. I don’t know about where you are but the large general stores near me (Walmart but others also) will have packs of 20 for less than $5 (not the crappy ones either). With that, you could get away with getting say 60...

Thank you all, I’m thinking things over and will come back to this.

This is incredibly gorgeous!

A therapist I follow on YouTube is doing a deep dive on Baby Reindeer. One of the reasons I follow him is because he does a great job of de-stigmatizing many things. But he made a statement today, “some people are just evil and beyond repair.” For context, he made it clear it’s a tiny minority...

I haven’t updated anything about what I’ve been reading since the beginning of February. Mostly because it’s been erratic, I’ve run into some slumps where there’s several books I started but didn’t finish (they all get a second chance though, eventually), and I’ve been slacking on the challenge...

I was doing so good for quite a while and tonight I’m feeling so much shit. Last night I had a really good time with my nephew and his wife and helped them start getting ready for the baby they have coming. It was wonderful, I took some photos for them, they turned out fine, everything is good...

Unfortunately my good guy wasn’t around in my dream last night. Instead I was an observer watching another man. We were in a parking lot and at first he couldn’t find his wife. Right as he finally does, another car slams into the car she’s in. At first he’s devastated and runs to her screaming...

They keep saying we might but I doubt it. Plus we’ve got a light rain storm which has us pretty cloudy.

I’m just warning ya now- I’d win lol. My house is near a pretty stagnant creek and for some reason mosquitoes are obsessed with me. Which is irritating because they would skip over my grandpa just to eat me.

Charcoal is soooo calming to work with. I don’t have tips per se other than just being okay with getting messy, use your fingers to smudge, and get lost in it. Forget perfection, you can worry about that later. The erasers they have for charcoal work extremely well so don’t be afraid of mistakes.

There’s definitely a few of us

That’s pretty messed up to reduce very real emotions and history to “well it’s just young people not knowing how to critically think”. Here’s some logic- not a single person blamed it on the “patriarchy”, dunno where that came from. And not a single person said they *want* to be killed by...

So that was weird. I just wrote a very long thing on how there might be some merit to the alternative universe idea when it glitched and deleted everything. Let’s try again, but more concise. Basically I’m a kook. I spent too long making the same mistakes my sister does and I finally gave up...

I’m finding it so hard to have appropriate empathy right now. I want to, I want to be there for my sister while she sits in the devastation of her latest break up. But we warned her. Over and over and over and over, everyone did, that this guy was no good. But she dug her heels in and persisted...

Had a little friend this morning

I’m going to put this in my own diary because there’s something that’s really bothering me but I feel like I post it in their diary, it would probably start a fight and I’m just not interested. Especially after that one person earlier in the week. I would choose bear. This was floating around...

I am so sorry.

Ah I’m sorry, the flashbacks of my stepdad shoving himself into me and convincing me it was all my fault definitely don’t qualify me. But for sure, missing out on a job sure does. Nice. Please enlighten me, I have sorely been miseducated during the past several years of therapy.

What you’re feeling is grief, nothing wrong with that. It’s worthy of working with a therapist on. But it’s not PTSD, please don’t lump it in with those of us who have experienced serious life altering, never going to sleep peacefully again trauma.

Between the screaming, slamming doors, punching walls, shoving, slapping, cheating, manipulating the court system, stalking, stranding, financial abuse, probable rape, and spurts of jail time I’m sure there were sweet moments in there somewhere. They had us kids somehow. Sorry, I know that...

My most handsome shadow. Shh! Don’t tell his big brother I said that. 😛

Yesssss! I have ideas on how that could be changed but it wouldn’t be popular with anyone who could actually enact that change. Mostly, I don’t think sitting in congress or any of those posts should be a retirement plan and while someone should have some level of political experience when...

You’re exactly right about the division here, it’s so frustrating and disheartening because that division has worked really, really well.

Did he fail because people are just uninformed or did most of the people actually like the two party winner takes all system?